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Saint Columba and the Beast of the River Ness
c. 565 · River Ness, province of the Picts, near present-day Inverness, Highland, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 36 sources
21Thinly documented
Pro early
Our Lady of Walsingham: Richeldis de Faverches's vision and the building of the Holy House
c. 1061 · Little Walsingham (Walsingham Parva), North Norfolk, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 34 sources
26Thinly documented
Pro early
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
Pro early
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
Pro early
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
Pro early
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
Pro early
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
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
Pro early
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
Pro early
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
Pro early
The North Aston poltergeist: strange and wonderful accidents at Master George Lee's house (1591)
November 19, 1591 · House of Master George Lee, North Aston, Oxfordshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 15 sources
25Thinly documented
Pro early
The Seven in Lancashire: the Cleworth Hall Possessions
February 1595 · Cleworth Hall, Tyldesley, Lancashire
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources
36Partially documented
Pro early
Thomas Darling, the "Boy of Burton" possession
February 1596 · Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire (Winsell Wood, Stapenhill)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 17 sources
33Partially documented
Pro early
The possession of Mary Glover and the trial of Elizabeth Jackson
April 1602 · Thames Street, City of London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 25 sources
33Partially documented
Pro early
The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620
1620 · Bilson (modern Bilston), Staffordshire; examined at Eccleshall Castle
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 21 sources
21Thinly documented
Pro early
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 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
Pro early
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
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 Mowing-Devil: Strange News out of Hartford-shire (1678)
c. 1678 · Hertfordshire ("Hartford-shire"), England; no parish or farm named, map pin at Hertford is symbolic
United Kingdom
UAP · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
20Thinly documented
Pro early
The Coltheart Haunting of Mary King's Close
c. 1680 · Mary King's Close, Old Town, Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
19Thinly documented
Pro early
The Demon of Spreyton
c. 1682 · Spreyton, Devon (house of Philip Furze), with episodes on the road from Totnes and at Crediton
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
29Thinly documented
Pro early
Crossford Boat phantom armies on the River Clyde (1686)
June 1686 · Crossford Boat and the Mains, River Clyde, near Lanark, Carluke parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
16Thinly documented
The Ringcroft of Stocking Poltergeist: Andrew Mackie's Farm, Rerrick, 1695
February 1695 · Ring-Croft of Stocking, Rerrick parish, near Auchencairn, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Galloway
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 18 sources
26Thinly documented
Pro early
The Bargarran Impostor: the possession of Christian Shaw and the Paisley witch trial
August 22, 1696 · Bargarran House, Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 29 sources
31Partially documented
Pro early
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Canterbury 1705
September 8, 1705 · Mrs. Bargrave's house facing the beast-market, Canterbury, Kent
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 13 sources
18Thinly documented
Pro early
The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House
September 1710 · Knowehead House, Kilcoan More, Islandmagee, County Antrim
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 30 sources
37Partially documented
The Epworth Rectory Poltergeist, "Old Jeffrey" (1716-1717)
December 1, 1716 · Epworth Rectory (now Epworth Old Rectory), Epworth, Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 30 sources
28Thinly documented
Pro early
The Beaminster Apparitions: John Daniel Returns to His School Desk
June 22, 1728 · St Mary's Church, Beaminster, Dorset
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
32Partially documented
Pro early
The Souther Fell spectral army
c. 1745 · Souther Fell, near Mungrisdale, Cumbria (historically Cumberland), England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
25Thinly documented
Pro early
The Lamb Inn poltergeist: the Giles sisters of Bristol, 1761 to 1762
c. 1761 · The Lamb inn, West Street, Old Market, outside Lawford's Gate, Bristol
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 25 sources
27Thinly documented
The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee
January 1762 · Cock Lane, Smithfield, City of London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 40 sources
22Thinly documented
Pro early
The Hinton Ampner Haunting: Mary Ricketts' Narrative
1765 · Old manor house, Hinton Ampner, near New Alresford, Hampshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 28 sources
27Thinly documented
Pro early
The Blairgowrie "Pyramid of Fire", River Isla and River Ericht, Perthshire, 1767
September 1767 · River Isla near Coupar Angus to the River Ericht above Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
UAP · Other · 16 sources
23Thinly documented
Pro early
The Stockwell Ghost (Stockwell poltergeist)
January 6, 1772 · Stockwell village and Rush Common near Brixton Causeway, parish of Lambeth, Surrey (now London Borough of Lambeth)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 22 sources
23Thinly documented
Pro early
The Ghost of Lord Lyttelton: The Three-Day Warning and the Apparition at Dartford
November 27, 1779 · Pitt Place, Epsom, Surrey (death) and the Dartford powder mills, Kent (apparition)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
15Thinly documented
Pro early
The Grianal Mermaid of Tiree
c. 1795 · Grianal (Greenhill), Tràigh Ghrianal, west Tiree, Inner Hebrides, Argyll
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources
23Thinly documented
Pro early
The Canna Mermaid Testimonies
c. 1803 · Canna and the sea between Canna and Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
17Thinly documented
The Hammersmith Ghost panic and the shooting of Thomas Millwood, 1804
January 3, 1804 · Black Lion Lane at Beavor Lane, Hammersmith, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 22 sources
19Thinly documented
The Stronsay Beast carcass and the Orkney sworn statements
September 25, 1808 · Rothiesholm Head, Stronsay, Orkney, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
34Partially documented