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The Shoemaker of Breslau: a suicide's ghost torments a Silesian town
September 20, 1591 · Breslau (Wrocław), Silesia; possibly Strzegom (Striegau)
Poland
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 18 sources
22Thinly documented
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The Witches of Warboys: the Throckmorton Children's Fits
November 1589 · Throckmorton manor house, Warboys, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 24 sources
30Partially documented
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The Renewal of the Chiquinquirá Painting
December 26, 1586 · Santana family oratory, Chiquinquirá, near Tunja, Boyacá
Colombia
Paranormal · Other · 24 sources
27Thinly documented
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The finding of the Kazan icon (Our Lady of Kazan)
July 8, 1579 · Kazan posad (trading quarter), site of the later Kazan Bogoroditsky Monastery
Russia
Paranormal · Other · 27 sources
16Thinly documented
Black Shuck at Bungay and Blythburgh
August 4, 1577 · St Mary's Church, Bungay and Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh, Suffolk, England
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 27 sources
24Thinly documented
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Black Shuck at Bungay and Blythburgh: the "Straunge and Terrible Wunder" of 1577
August 4, 1577 · St Mary's Church, Bungay, and Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh, Suffolk, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 31 sources
35Partially documented
The 1566 Celestial Phenomenon over Basel (the Basel Broadsheet)
August 7, 1566 · Münsterplatz, Basel
Switzerland
UAP · Sphere · 28 sources
14Thinly documented
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The Miracle of Laon: the public exorcisms of Nicole Obry (1565 to 1566)
November 1565 · Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Laon (onset at Vervins, Picardy)
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
33Partially documented
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The Ipupiara of São Vicente
1564 · São Vicente, Captaincy of São Vicente, São Paulo coast
Brazil
Cryptid · Creature · 29 sources
29Thinly documented
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The Sea Monk of the Øresund
c. 1546 · The Øresund strait, off Malmö (then Danish Skåne)
Sweden
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
16Thinly documented
Our Lady of Guadalupe: the apparitions to Juan Diego and the tilma image at Tepeyac
December 9, 1531 · Tepeyac hill, Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City
Mexico
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 98 sources
39Partially documented
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The Spirit of Sister Alix de Télieux and the Exorcism of Antoinette de Grolée, Lyon
1526 · Abbey of Saint-Pierre (Saint-Pierre-les-Nonnains), Place des Terreaux, Lyon
France
Paranormal · Other · 2 sources
15Thinly documented
Christopher Columbus's three mermaids off Hispaniola
January 8, 1493 · Approach to the Río del Oro (Yaque del Norte), near Monte Cristi, north coast of Hispaniola
Dominican Republic
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
19Thinly documented
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The Columbus Light: A Wax Candle on the Horizon Before Landfall (1492)
October 11, 1492 · Atlantic Ocean, aboard the Santa María, east of Guanahani (traditionally San Salvador, Bahamas)
Bahamas
UAP · Orb / light · 23 sources
18Thinly documented
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The Byland Abbey Silver Disc of 1290, a Schoolboy Hoax
c. 1290 · Byland Abbey, Byland with Wass, North Yorkshire
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 12 sources
14Thinly documented
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The ship in the sky over Redbourn, seen by the monks of St Albans (1254)
January 1, 1254 · Cell of St Amphibalus, Redbourn, near St Albans, Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
UAP · Other · 15 sources
16Thinly documented
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The Flaming Torch over St Albans (1239)
July 24, 1239 · St Albans Abbey, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
United Kingdom
UAP · Other · 10 sources
11Thinly documented
The Wild Man (Merman) of Orford, Suffolk
c. 1167 · Orford Castle and the sea off Orford, Suffolk, England
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources
14Thinly documented
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The Peterborough Wild Hunt
February 6, 1127 · Peterborough Abbey deer-park and the woods to Stamford, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 22 sources
16Thinly documented
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The army of saints at the Battle of Antioch
June 28, 1098 · Plain outside Antioch (Antakya), Hatay Province
Turkey
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 22 sources
20Thinly documented

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