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Pro early
Arthur Marrin's Hairy Man on the Road to Captains Flat
October 1893 · Road between Braidwood and Captains Flat, New South Wales
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
25Thinly documented
Pro early
The HMS Caroline "Chinese Lanterns" off Quelpart (Jeju)
February 24, 1893 · At sea, sixteen to seventeen miles south of Quelpart (Jeju Island), North China Sea
South Korea
UAP · Orb / light · 19 sources
24Thinly documented
Pro early
The schooner Madaline and the Lake Erie sea serpent
c. 1892 · Open Lake Erie, on the Buffalo, New York to Toledo, Ohio run
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
16Thinly documented
Pro early
The St Boswells Roadside Apparition: the Scott Sisters' Man in Black
May 7, 1892 · Country road near Lessudden House, St Boswells (Lessudden), Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources
19Thinly documented
Pro early
The Mercy Brown Vampire Exhumation
March 17, 1892 · Chestnut Hill Cemetery, 467 Ten Rod Road, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island
United States
Paranormal · Other · 39 sources
27Thinly documented
Pro early
The Figure in the Lane at Pitsea Rectory (the Rev. H. Hasted case)
March 16, 1892 · The lane behind Pitsea Rectory, Pitsea, Essex
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 15 sources
20Thinly documented
Pro early
The Waterford Ghost: the poltergeist that followed an emergency man's family from Carriglea to Ballybricken
February 1892 · Carriglea, Faithlegg, and Costello's Lane, Ballybricken, Waterford, County Waterford
Ireland
Paranormal · Other · 9 sources
23Thinly documented
Pro early
The Combermere Abbey ghost photograph (Sybell Corbet's library exposure)
c. 1891 · The Library, Combermere Abbey, near Burleydam, Cheshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources · 4 photos
18Thinly documented
The Crawfordsville Monster
September 5, 1891 · Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
26Thinly documented
Pro early
The Crawfordsville Sky Monster
September 5, 1891 · Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana
United States
UAP · Creature · 31 sources
23Thinly documented
Norman Collie and the Big Grey Man (Am Fear Liath Mòr) of Ben Macdui
1891 · Summit of Ben Macdui, Cairngorms, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources
17Thinly documented
Pro early
The Abbeygate Street Ghost, Galway: 2000 Gather for a Woman at the Window
c. 1890 · Abbeygate Street, opposite the sacristy of the Pro Cathedral of St Nicholas, Galway
Ireland
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources
10Thinly documented
Selina Lovell's Moha-moha at Sandy Cape
June 8, 1890 · Sandy Cape, Great Sandy Island (K'gari / Fraser Island), Queensland
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
18Thinly documented
The Tombstone Thunderbird: the Winged Monster of the Huachuca Desert
April 20, 1890 · Huachuca Desert, between the Whetstone and Huachuca mountains, Cochise County, Arizona Territory
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 27 sources
17Thinly documented
Pro early
The Euroa bunyip and the Melbourne Zoo monster hunt, Wylonemby swamp
February 1890 · Wylonemby swamp, about fourteen miles from Euroa, north-east Victoria
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
20Thinly documented
The Dagg poltergeist, "the ghost that talked", Clarendon Township, Quebec (1889)
September 15, 1889 · George Dagg's farm, seven miles from Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec
Canada
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
23Thinly documented
Pro early
The Belden Avenue 'Gang of Ghosts': Dr W. C. Rowe's Haunted House, Chicago
July 1889 · Belden Avenue, North Side, Chicago, Illinois
United States
Paranormal · Other · 12 sources
24Thinly documented
Pro early
The Plaistow Ghost Crowds
May 1889 · Upper Road, beside the East London Cemetery, Plaistow, West Ham, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 13 sources
22Thinly documented
Captain James C. Kerr and the steamer U.S. Grant: the first Flathead Lake Monster sighting
1889 · Flathead Lake, on the steamboat run between Polson Bay and Selish, Montana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
25Thinly documented
Pro early
Laurence Waddell's 'hairy wild men' footprints in northeast Sikkim
1889 · Northeast Sikkim, India
India
Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources
32Partially documented

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