Disputed

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.

A spirit the Wesleys called Old Jeffrey disturbed Samuel Wesley's rectory at Epworth, mostly in December 1716 and the spring of 1717.

After a violent thunderstorm on 17 August 1887, a round lump of iron about two inches across turned up in a Brixton garden. The chemist who tested it could not match it to meteorites.

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.

In 1838 A. B. Tomlinson dug into the big mound he owned at Grave Creek, West Virginia, and said he found a small oval stone inscribed with alphabetic characters.

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.

In March 1876 flakes of what looked like beef fell from a clear sky near Olympian Springs, Bath County, Kentucky, over a strip of ground about 100 yards long.

A stone of plainly artificial shape was said to have fallen at Naples in November 1885. Two professors treated it as unexplained; Nature's correspondent took it for a shoemaker's lapstone of Vesuvian lava.

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.

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.

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.