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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
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
The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End
September 10, 1693 · North End, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources
30Partially documented
The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692)
c. 1692 · Salem Village parsonage, Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 71 sources
44Partially documented
The Goodwin Children's Possession and the Hanging of Goody Glover
1688 · Boston, Massachusetts Bay (Dominion of New England)
United States
Paranormal · Other · 31 sources
30Partially documented
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
Lithobolia: the stone-throwing devil at George Walton's tavern, Great Island, New Hampshire
June 11, 1682 · George Walton's house and tavern, Great Island (New Castle), Province of New Hampshire
United States
Paranormal · Other · 29 sources
26Thinly 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
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
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
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
Our Lady of Good Success: the Virgin asks Abbess Mariana de Jesús Torres for a statue, Quito, 1610
February 2, 1610 · Real Monasterio de la Inmaculada Concepción (upper choir), historic centre, Quito
Ecuador
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 21 sources
19Thinly documented
Richard Whitbourne's Mermaid in St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland
1610 · St. John's Harbour, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources
27Thinly documented
The Aix-en-Provence Possessions and the Burning of Louis Gaufridy
1609 · Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, with exorcisms at the Sainte-Baume sanctuary, Provence
France
Paranormal · Other · 21 sources
31Partially documented
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
Thomas Darling, the "Boy of Burton" possession
February 1596 · Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire (Winsell Wood, Stapenhill)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 17 sources
33Partially documented
The Seven in Lancashire: the Cleworth Hall Possessions
February 1595 · Cleworth Hall, Tyldesley, Lancashire
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources
36Partially documented
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