Folklore
Anna Baker's wedding dress
A ghost story attached to the Baker Mansion, a museum of the Blair County Historical Society, about a wedding dress that Anna Baker is said to have bought for a marriage her father stopped.
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Disputed
Arne Cheyenne Johnson's possession defence
The 1981 killing of Alan Bono in Brookfield, Connecticut, and the murder trial in which Arne Cheyenne Johnson's lawyer tried to argue demonic possession.
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Claimed sighting
Betty and Barney Hill abduction
Betty and Barney Hill, a couple from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, said aliens abducted them in the White Mountains in September 1961. The New York Times credits their story with a national fixation on alien abduction.
Someone Who Was ThereObscurity 1 of 7
Claimed sighting
Colonel Shaw's encounter near Lodi
The Stockton Evening Mail of 27 November 1896 printed Colonel H. G. Shaw's first-person account of meeting three tall, slender beings on a road near Lodi, California. Guinness World Records says writers broadly regard it as the first published account of its kind.
Someone Who Was ThereObscurity 7 of 7
Disputed
Franklin's lost expedition
The 1845 Franklin Expedition went looking for the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic, and CBC News says close to 130 sailors died. Inuit accounts, recorded by John Rae in 1854 and later by Charles Francis Hall, describe what became of some of the men.
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Claimed sighting
Hindu statues drinking milk, 1995
In September 1995 worshippers reported that statues of Hindu deities took offerings of milk, first at a temple in New Delhi and then in temples around the world.
Something SeenObscurity 6 of 7
Disputed
Houdini's Margery sitting
On 23 July 1924, Harry Houdini and a Scientific American party attended a séance with the medium known as Margery at 10 Lime Street, Boston.
Someone Who Was ThereObscurity 5 of 7
Folklore
James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder
The Porsche 550 Spyder in which the actor James Dean died, and the curse story that grew around its wreck, which Dean archivist Warren Beath traces to the car customiser George Barris.
Something Left BehindObscurity 3 of 7
Claimed sighting
Kenneth Arnold's flying saucers
On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold said he saw nine shining objects race past him close to Mount Rainier, Washington. His report gave the world the phrase "flying saucer".
Someone Who Was ThereObscurity 2 of 7
Folklore
Major André's hanging and his ghost
The officer John André was executed as a spy by hanging at Tappan, New York, on 2 October 1780. A legend says his horse's hoofbeats are heard on the road where he was seized.
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Folklore
Mary Gallagher of Griffintown
Mary Gallagher was killed by decapitation in Griffintown, Montreal, on 27 June 1879. Local folklore says her ghost comes back every seventh year to look for her head.
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Folklore
Old Alton Bridge (Goatman's Bridge)
A bridge near Denton that locals call Goatman's Bridge, tied by local legend to a half-man, half-goat figure and to stories about a Black goat farmer.
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Folklore
Samantha Houston and Love Letters
Historians have found no evidence for the story of Samantha Houston, a girl said to have died at the Driskill hotel in Austin, Texas, Austin Monthly reports. A painting there, Love Letters, is said to be haunted by her.
Somewhere You Can GoObscurity 5 of 7