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.
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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.
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Claimed sighting
The Tehran UFO incident of 1976
Early on 19 September 1976, people in Tehran reported a bright light overhead, and Iranian Air Force F-4 jets were sent up to intercept it.
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Claimed sighting
The Tower of London ghosts
Ghost reports from the Tower of London, centred on the Jewel House, where the Keeper of the Crown Jewels described an apparition in 1817 and a sentry is said to have died after seeing a bear-like figure.
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Hoax, proven
The Vrillon TV broadcast interruption
On 26 November 1977 a voice calling itself Vrillon, speaking for a group it named the Ashtar Galactic Command, replaced the sound of a Southern Television broadcast in parts of southern England. The person responsible was never identified.
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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.
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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.
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Disputed
The burning of Jacques de Molay
Jacques de Molay, final Grand Master of the Templar order, was burnt in Paris on 18 March 1314. A curse on the king is said to have come from his pyre.
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Folklore
The burning of Lady Glamis
Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis, died by burning for treason on Castle Hill, Edinburgh, on 17 July 1537. A ghost tradition at Glamis Castle links her name to a Black Lady.
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Disputed
The death of Daniel Dunglas Home
Medium Daniel Dunglas Home died at Auteuil, France, on 21 June 1886, aged 53, after years of tuberculosis.
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Documented
The death of Edmund Gurney
Edmund Gurney, psychical researcher and co-author of Phantasms of the Living, was found to have died at the Albion Hotel in Brighton on 23 June 1888, after taking too much chloroform.
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Disputed
The death of Johann Georg Schröpfer
Johann Georg Schröpfer, a Leipzig ghost-raiser, was found dead on 8 October 1774 after a gunshot was heard during a walk with associates. He was buried the same day in the hospital's burial ground for suicides.
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Disputed
The death of Margaret Hogan
Margaret Hogan, an 89-year-old widow living alone on Prussia Street in Dublin, was found dead after a fire in her house on 28 March 1970.
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Disputed
The death of the medium Rudi Schneider
Rudi Schneider, a medium tested by investigators decades earlier, died suddenly at Weyer on 28 April 1957. By then he worked as a mechanic.
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Documented
The execution of Anna Göldi
Anna Göldi, a Swiss housemaid, was beheaded at Glarus on 13 June 1782 after a conviction for bewitching her employer's daughter. Glarus cleared her name in 2008.
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Disputed
The execution of John Fian
John Fian, a schoolmaster accused in the North Berwick witch case, was tortured, strangled and burned on Castlehill in Edinburgh on 27 January 1591.
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Disputed
The execution of Louis Gaufridi
Louis Gaufridi, a Provence priest accused of bewitching a nun, was executed at Aix-en-Provence on 30 April 1611 after confessing under torture to sorcery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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