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Jure Grando, the štrigon of Kringa
1672 · Kringa (Krinck), Tinjan municipality, Istria
Croatia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
28Thinly documented
The Possession of Elizabeth Knapp
October 30, 1671 · Rev. Samuel Willard's household, Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources
25Thinly documented
The 1665 Air Battle of Stralsund and the Dark Disc over St. Nicholas Church
April 8, 1665 · Off the Gellen and over St. Nicholas Church, Stralsund, Swedish Pomerania (now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Germany
UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources
21Thinly documented
Our Lady of Laus: the apparitions to Benoîte Rencurel (1664 to 1718)
May 1664 · Le Laus, Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, Hautes-Alpes
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 31 sources
19Thinly documented
The Robozero Wonder: a fireball over a Russian lake
August 15, 1663 · Lake Robozero, Robozero volost, Beloozero uezd (today Belozersky District, Vologda Oblast)
Russia
UAP · Sphere · 29 sources
19Thinly documented
The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662)
1662 · John Mompesson's house, North Tedworth (now Tidworth), Wiltshire
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 23 sources
32Partially documented
The Devil of Glenluce: the poltergeist in weaver Gilbert Campbell's house, Glenluce, 1654
October 1654 · House of the weaver Gilbert Campbell, Glenluce (Old Luce parish), Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 21 sources
27Thinly documented
Our Lady of Coromoto: the apparition to the Cospes chief near Guanare
September 8, 1652 · Coromoto ravine near Guanare, Portuguesa state (traditional site at Monte de los Negros, National Sanctuary)
Venezuela
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources
34Partially documented
The Beast of the Gâtinais (la Bête du Gâtinais)
August 17, 1652 · Gâtinais villages around Champcueil, Moigny and Videlles, between the Forest of Fontainebleau and the Hurepoix woods (Essonne / Seine-et-Marne)
France
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
21Thinly documented
The Querrien Apparitions: Jeanne Courtel and the Lady in White (Notre-Dame de Toute-Aide)
August 15, 1652 · Champ des Fontenelles, hamlet of Querrien, La Prénessaye, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
22Thinly documented
The Ghost Ship of New Haven: the Great Shippe apparition, 1647
c. 1647 · New Haven Harbor, New Haven Colony (now New Haven, Connecticut)
United States
Paranormal · Other · 22 sources
24Thinly documented
The Portadown Bridge Apparition: the Woman in the River Bann
c. 1643 · Portadown bridge, River Bann, Portadown, County Armagh
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
37Partially documented
The Phantom Battle of Edgehill and King Charles I's Commission
December 1642 · Edgehill battlefield, between Edge Hill, Radway and Kineton, Warwickshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 32 sources
36Partially documented
The Louviers Possessions: Madeleine Bavent and the Possessed Nuns of Louviers
1642 · Convent of the Hospitaller Sisters of Saint-Louis and Sainte-Élisabeth, Louviers, Eure, Normandy
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 28 sources
33Partially documented
The Kevelaer apparition: Hendrick Busman's voice and Mechel Schrouse's vision of a lighted shrine, 1641 to 1642
December 1641 · Hagelkreuz on the Kevelaerer Heide, now the Gnadenkapelle, Kapellenplatz, Kevelaer (vision at the Busmans' house, apparently in Geldern)
Germany
Paranormal · Orb / light · 23 sources
29Thinly documented
James Everell's "great light" over the Muddy River, Massachusetts Bay Colony (1638/39)
c. 1639 · Muddy River, Massachusetts Bay Colony (today Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts)
United States
UAP · Other · 20 sources
16Thinly documented
Old Mother Leakey: the Minehead ghost and the Privy Council inquiry
1636 · Alexander Leakey's house, Minehead, Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 20 sources
30Partially documented
The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier
September 22, 1632 · Ursuline convent, Loudun, Poitou
France
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 77 sources
43Partially documented
The Bête du Cinglais: the man-eater of the Forest of Cinglais, Normandy, 1632-1633
c. 1632 · Forêt de Cinglais, near Boulon, between Caen and Falaise, Calvados, Normandy
France
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
13Thinly documented
The Lady in Blue: the Jumano delegation at Isleta and Sor María de Ágreda
July 1629 · San Antonio de Isleta friary, Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico (visits reported in Jumano country to the east)
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 26 sources
35Partially documented

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