Disputed
The War of the Worlds broadcast
On 30 October 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre aired a radio drama about a Martian invasion of New Jersey, followed by long-running reports of panic.
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Hoax, proven
The Worcester airship of 1909
On the night of 22 December 1909, thousands of people in Worcester, Massachusetts, reported seeing an airship. The sightings followed inventor Wallace Tillinghast's claim to have built a fast aeroplane.
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Documented
The abandoned brig Resolven
HMS Mallard, a Royal Navy ship, found the brig Resolven abandoned off Newfoundland in August 1884, her lifeboat gone and her crew never seen again.
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Disputed
The death of Charles Fort
Charles Fort, the American writer who collected reports of anomalous phenomena, died on 3 May 1932 in the Bronx, New York, hours after entering the Royal Hospital.
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Documented
The examination of Martha Carrier
Judges examined Martha Carrier on 31 May 1692 over a witchcraft accusation in Salem Village. This was a preliminary hearing, and the accusing girls fell to the floor when she entered, according to Wikipedia.
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Documented
The examination of Rebecca Nurse
On 24 March 1692, Rebecca Nurse, aged seventy, was examined on a charge of witchcraft in the Salem Village meeting house before a crowd.
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Claimed sighting
The first Hudson Valley boomerang sighting
A former policeman from New York City, living in Kent, said that just before midnight on 31 December 1982 a huge V-shaped craft passed low over his house.
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Documented
The first Salem witchcraft warrants
On 29 February 1692, warrants were issued in Salem Village for Good, Osborne and Tituba, after a complaint of suspected witchcraft. The complaint named four people of the village as harmed: Elizabeth Hubert, Anna Putnam, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Parris.
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Claimed sighting
The haunted Annabelle film set
The director and a producer of the film Annabelle, shot in 2014, said that strange things happened on set in a Los Angeles apartment building. The director told The Hollywood Reporter at the film's after-party.
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