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Stories8

The Headless Woman at the Buckingham Crossroads

c. 1898 · Crossroads with a hand-post, about six miles from Buckingham, Buckinghamshire

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources

11Thinly documented

The Plumstead Ghost Riot: St James's Church, Plumstead, near Woolwich, 1897

c. 1897 · St James's Church and schools, Burrage Road, Plumstead, near Woolwich, London

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 12 sources

17Thinly documented

The Hackney Ghost Hunt, St John-at-Hackney Churchyard (1895)

August 20, 1895 · St John's Churchyard Gardens (churchyard of St John-at-Hackney), Lower Clapton Road / Mare Street, Hackney, London

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 15 sources

14Thinly documented

The Garstang Ghost

September 1881 · A lonely lane near Garstang, Lancashire, England

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 6 sources

8Thinly 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

Spring-heeled Jack shot at by a mob at Newport Arch, Lincoln (1877)

c. 1877 · Newport Arch, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 20 sources

16Thinly documented

Spring-heeled Jack at the Aldershot Sentry Posts

March 1877 · Aldershot Camp (North Camp and South Camp), Aldershot, Hampshire, England

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Creature · 24 sources

23Thinly documented

The Peckham Ghost scare: a leaping white figure in south London, 1872

November 10, 1872 · Peckham and Dulwich, south London

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 13 sources

20Thinly documented

Names2

Illustrated Police News Organisation · 6 stories
A sensational national weekly.
Findmypast Organisation · 3 stories
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.

Documents39 · see all

UFO Desk: Closed (press release) Document

The National Archives· 2013-06-21· 4 pages

…Follow the press office on Twitter @TNApressofficer and for general news @UkNatArchives.
UFO files reveal behind the scenes of the UFO desk Document

The National Archives· 3 pages

…UFO sighting by a Police Officer at Chelsea Football club The files are available to download for free…
/specialCollection/nwcda7/167/SANITZER, JOHANN VOL. 1/SANITZER, JOHANN VOL. 1_0014.pdf FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 47 pages

…When the Subject enter-. ed the }laic.), he took a special police training during the first two Years…
House Armed Services Committee hearing on UFOs, April 5, 1966 Hearing transcript

Internet Archive· 1966-04-05· 37 pages

…The location of the observation Was the New Hampshire area, in and around the town of Exeter. Time…
AFR 80-17/OCAMA-TAFB Sup Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO): 37294296 Official release

· 6 pages

…of the responsibility for preparing an OCAMA supplement. WILLIAM S. COREY, Major, USAF Chief, Security Police Division Cy…
Sky Canada Project report (PDF) Report

Office of the Chief Science Advisor, Government of Canada· 2025· 30 pages

…Also, law enforcement agencies such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), and…

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