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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 · 39 sources
25Thinly documented
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
The Deerness Mermaid, Newark Bay, Orkney
c. 1887 · Newark Bay, Deerness, East Mainland, Orkney, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
25Thinly documented
The Hutchins Ringdocus, Montana's Shunka Warak'in (Madison Valley, 1886)
1886 · Hutchins ranch (now part of the Sun Ranch), Madison Valley, near Ennis, Montana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources · 6 photos
38Partially documented
The Prospector's Skiff: First Report of the Wallowa Lake Monster
c. 1885 · Wallowa Lake, near Joseph, Oregon
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
2Thinly documented
The Ylöjärvi Poltergeist: Martinin pirut at Efraim Martin's croft
January 12, 1885 · Efraim Martin's croft, Keijärvi village, Ylöjärvi, Pirkanmaa
Finland
Paranormal · Other · 20 sources
24Thinly documented
Jacko, the "British Columbia Gorilla" reportedly captured above Yale
c. 1884 · Near No. 4 tunnel, about twenty miles above Yale, Fraser Canyon, British Columbia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
18Thinly documented
The Shropshire Disturbances: Emma Davies and the Wood's Farm Poltergeist (1883)
October 31, 1883 · Wood's Farm (The Woods), Loppington, near Wem, Shropshire; also Weston Lullingfields and Wem
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 13 sources
33Partially documented
The Sunderland East End ghost panic (the "Great Ghost Hunt of Hendon")
October 29, 1883 · Robinson Terrace and Linden Street, Hendon (East End), Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 11 sources
18Thinly documented
Our Lady of Ta' Pinu: the voice heard by Karmni Grima
June 22, 1883 · Chapel of Ta' Pinu, near Għarb, Gozo
Malta
Paranormal · Other · 19 sources
23Thinly documented
The Cheltenham Ghost: the Woman in Black of Garden Reach (the Morton Case)
June 1882 · Garden Reach (Donore), Pittville Circus Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
19Thinly documented
Henry James McCooey's "Australian Ape" between Batemans Bay and Ulladulla
1882 · Coast between Batemans Bay and Ulladulla, New South Wales south coast
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
17Thinly documented
The Lower Gornal Churchyard Ghost Scare, 1881
c. 1881 · St James the Great churchyard, Church Street, Lower Gornal, Dudley, West Midlands
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
22Thinly documented
The Coker Hill Knocking Ghost
June 1880 · Coker Hill, between East Chinnock and West Coker, near Yeovil, Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 15 sources
18Thinly documented
The Galisteo Junction "Aerial Monster" and the Collector of Curiosities, 1880
March 26, 1880 · Galisteo Junction (now Lamy), Santa Fe County, New Mexico Territory
United States
UAP · Cigar · 22 sources
30Partially documented
Major H. W. J. Senior's sea serpent from the SS City of Baltimore, Gulf of Aden, 1879
January 28, 1879 · Western Gulf of Aden, east-southeast of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait (lat. 12° 28′ N, long. 43° 52′ E)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
19Thinly documented
The haunted Churchill cottage at Knowle St Giles, near Chard (1879)
c. 1879 · Knowle St Giles, near Chard, Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 9 sources
14Thinly documented
The Caney Fork Wonder: a Tennessee "wild man" put on show in Louisville (1878)
October 1878 · Cumberland Mountains near Caney Fork, White and Van Buren Counties, Tennessee; exhibited at the Metropolitan Theater, Louisville, Kentucky
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
29Thinly documented
The Great Amherst Mystery: The Esther Cox Poltergeist
September 4, 1878 · Teed cottage, Princess Street, Amherst, Nova Scotia
Canada
Paranormal · Other · 23 sources
27Thinly documented
The Possessed Women of Verzegnis (le indemoniate), Carnia, 1878-1879
1878 · Verzegnis (hamlet of Chiaicis), Carnia, province of Udine, Friuli
Italy
Paranormal · Other · 29 sources
42Partially documented