Folklore
Jikininki, the corpse-eater
A shapeless thing comes in the night and eats a corpse and its offerings, while Musō, keeping watch beside them, can neither move nor speak.
Something ToldObscurity 2 of 6
Claimed sighting
Lord Brougham's vision in the bath
From his bath, Henry Brougham saw his friend G--- sitting calmly on a chair. He wrote the whole thing down at once, dated 19 December.
Someone Who Was ThereObscurity 3 of 6
Disputed
Mr. Procter's house at Willington Mill
At Joseph Procter's house by Willington Mill, glasses rose off the table with no visible cause, and a Dr. Drury who sat up there fainted at the sight of a female apparition.
Somewhere You Can GoObscurity 2 of 6
Disputed
Old Jeffrey, the Epworth Rectory spirit
A spirit the Wesleys called Old Jeffrey disturbed Samuel Wesley's rectory at Epworth, mostly in December 1716 and the spring of 1717.
Somewhere You Can GoObscurity 1 of 6
Folklore
Sonjō and the weeping woman of Akanuma
In a dream, a weeping woman stands at Sonjō's pillow and asks why he killed her husband. They were happy together at Akanuma, she tells him.
Something ToldObscurity 4 of 6
Disputed
The Chinese seals of Ireland
J. Huband Smith described to the Royal Irish Academy a set of Chinese seals found in Ireland, all alike, each a cube with a seated animal on top.
Something Left BehindObscurity 4 of 6
Disputed
The Great Amherst Mystery
Knocks, thunder-like bangs and flying bedclothes centred on Esther Cox, 18, and her family's house. Walter Hubbell's account dates the start to late August 1878.
Someone Who Was ThereObscurity 1 of 6
Claimed sighting
The Griefswald body crossing the sun
Postmaster Ziegler and several others watched a body take about an hour to cross the face of the sun. Dr. Brendel of Griefswald, Pomerania, sent in their report.
Something SeenObscurity 5 of 6
Claimed sighting
The Kattenau luminous bodies
Half an hour before sunrise on 22 March 1880, a great many bright points of light rose over Kattenau, Germany, and crossed the sky east to west in a narrow band.
Something SeenObscurity 5 of 6
Disputed
The Syderstone Parsonage knockings
Knocking in the dead of night at Syderstone Parsonage, home of the Rev. Mr. Stewart, grew so violent over six weeks that one servant left in terror.
Somewhere You Can GoObscurity 4 of 6
Disputed
The Tarbes worked stone disk
A small disk of shaped stone fell at Tarbes, France, on 20 June 1887. The French Academy's examiners found it was gypsum and had without doubt been worked.
Something Left BehindObscurity 5 of 6
Disputed
The Wem farm disturbances
At the Woods, a farm near Wem in Shropshire, in November 1883, a pan of eggs leapt off the fire, crockery smashed and clothes caught fire.
Somewhere You Can GoObscurity 3 of 6
Claimed sighting
The Youghal mirage of an unknown city
For more than an hour in June 1801, a mirage of a city nobody could name hung over Youghal, County Cork. Mirages of walled towns had been seen there in 1796 and 1797.
Something SeenObscurity 5 of 6
Folklore
The demon-fires of Dan-no-ura
On dark nights pale lights drift over the beach and the sea at Dan-no-ura, and the fishermen call them demon-fires. When the wind rises, a noise like battle comes off the water.
Somewhere You Can GoObscurity 2 of 6
Claimed sighting
The flying napkins of Hahn and Kern
With the lights burning, Hahn, Kern and an inspector named Knetsch watched two napkins float up to the ceiling and knives and forks fly across the room.
Someone Who Was ThereObscurity 4 of 6
Claimed sighting
The ghost of Sergeant Davies
Macpherson, staying in a shepherds' summer hut, said the ghost of Sergeant Davies, killed at Braemar in 1749, pressed him to bury its bones and named two Highlanders as its killers. The two men were tried for the murder.
Someone Who Was ThereObscurity 3 of 6
Folklore
The manglalabas in the widow's house
Three days after a father's death, a manglalabas starts coming to his family's house at night. It throws stones, breaks the water-jars and pinches the widow, and the family decide to leave.
Something ToldObscurity 5 of 6
Claimed sighting
The spindle-shaped body on the sun
A long, spindle-shaped body sat on the face of the sun and crept slowly across it, staying in view until it reached the edge on 7 September.
Something SeenObscurity 5 of 6
Claimed sighting
The yellow light in the Weinsberg prison
In 1835 Madame Mayer spent a night in a cell of the Weinsberg prison and, about midnight, saw a yellow light drift in, felt a cool draught and smelled decay.
Someone Who Was ThereObscurity 4 of 6
Folklore
Yuki-onna, the woman in white
Two men caught by a snowstorm shelter in a mountain hut. A woman in white breathes on old Mosaku until he freezes, then tells Minokichi she had meant to do the same to him.
Something ToldObscurity 1 of 6