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The Abbeygate Street Ghost, Galway: 2000 Gather for a Woman at the Window
c. 1890 · Abbeygate Street, opposite the sacristy of the Pro Cathedral of St Nicholas, Galway
Ireland
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources
10Thinly documented
Selina Lovell's Moha-moha at Sandy Cape
June 8, 1890 · Sandy Cape, Great Sandy Island (K'gari / Fraser Island), Queensland
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
18Thinly 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
Laurence Waddell's 'hairy wild men' footprints in northeast Sikkim
1889 · Northeast Sikkim, India
India
Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources
32Partially documented
The Castelpetroso apparitions of Our Lady of Sorrows
March 22, 1888 · Cesa tra Santi, Monte Patalecchia, Castelpetroso, Isernia, Molise
Italy
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
24Thinly documented
The ghost of Frederick Federici, Princess Theatre, Melbourne
March 3, 1888 · Princess Theatre, Spring Street, Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
23Thinly documented
The Lake Koshkonong sea serpent: A. I. Sherman and Charles Bartlett's rowboat chase (1887)
November 1887 · Northeast bay, Lake Koshkonong, near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
18Thinly 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 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
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 Dundy County "Celestial Visitor" Hoax
June 6, 1884 · The ranges about 35 miles northwest of Benkelman, Dundy County, Nebraska (story location)
United States
UAP · Cylinder · 17 sources
17Thinly documented
The Miamisburg Cemetery Ghost: a Woman in White Fired On by an Armed Crowd
March 1884 · Village Cemetery (later Library Park, now Veterans Memorial Park), Central Avenue and Fifth Street, Miamisburg, Ohio
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 12 sources
21Thinly documented
The Brungle Creek Bunyip Carcass (1883)
c. 1883 · Brungle Creek, near Tumut, New South Wales
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
21Thinly documented
Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney's Lake Champlain Water Serpent (Champ), 1883
1883 · New York (west) shore of Lake Champlain, Clinton County, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
17Thinly documented
The Crosswick Monster, Warren County, Ohio (1882)
May 1882 · Crosswick (Crosswicks), Wayne Township, Warren County, Ohio, about one mile north of Waynesville
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
21Thinly 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
"An Aerial Mystery": The Winged Man over Coney Island
c. 1880 · Coney Island, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
12Thinly 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

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The Tedworth Drummer: Haunting or Hoax?
From The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662)
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The Cock Lane Ghost: A Haunting Hoax in 18th Century London
From The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee
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18th century London's most famous hoax: The Cock Lane Poltergeist
From The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee
Video1917
De Loys' Ape: A Eugenics Inspired Hoax?
From De Loys's Ape (Ameranthropoides loysi), Tarra River, Venezuela
Video1921
Today in History, Sept. 16: 'Monster of Walgren Lake' hoax hits Nebraska newspaper
From The Walgren Lake Monster: Alkali Lake, Hay Springs, Nebraska
Video1933
Is This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
From Cadborosaurus: The Langley and Kemp Sightings off Victoria, 1932 and 1933
Video1934
Monstrum: Is This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
From Jorda: the 25-foot 'infant' Cadborosaurus of Jordan River
Video1934
From Myth to Hoax | Episode 38: The Surgeon's Photo, Robert Wilson
From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

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