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On 6 June 2006, some expectant parents tried to avoid a birth on 6-6-06 because 666 is called the beast's number. Press reports described some deliveries being postponed.

On 12 August 1883 the astronomer Bonilla reported hundreds of small objects crossing the Sun and photographed them over two days.

Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, died on 13 February 1542. A story about her running down a gallery at Hampton Court Palace gave the Haunted Gallery its name, and visitors and staff there report chills and sightings.

Three witnesses reported that the medium Daniel Dunglas Home floated out of one window and into another above a street on 16 December 1868. Later writers said he crossed a ledge between balconies.

A 2017 ghost story that Adam Ellis, then at BuzzFeed, told on Twitter as a true account of a dead child haunting his apartment. It went viral and became a 2023 film.

King Edward VII died on 6 May 1910, while Halley's Comet was in the sky. Some people at the time read the death as the comet's doing.