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João Teixeira de Faria, known as João de Deus, developed the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola healing center in Goiás during the later twentieth century. He claimed to work through spiritual entities and became associated with surgeries, cures, trance, and ritual
Read record →The Vetala Panchavimshati, known in vernacular forms as Baital Pachisi, is a cycle in which King Vikramaditya repeatedly encounters and carries a vetala, a corpse-associated supernatural being who tells riddling stories. The work survives through Sanskrit and
Read record →Malawian preacher Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary faced South African fraud, money-laundering, and contravention-of-immigration allegations before leaving South Africa for Malawi in 2020. Bushiri’s Enlightened Christian Gathering presented him as a prophet
Read record →The Hereford Mappa Mundi, created around 1300, depicts a Christian world geography populated by biblical, classical, historical, and monstrous peoples. Its marginal and distant-region imagery includes figures derived from inherited marvel literature, making th
Read record →Santo Daime, founded earlier by Raimundo Irineu Serra, expanded through Brazilian communities during the 1970s and 1980s under leaders including Sebastião Mota de Melo. Ritual use of ayahuasca was interpreted within a Christian, Indigenous, and esoteric framew
Read record →The Calaveras Skull, presented in 1866 as evidence that humans lived in California alongside ancient fauna, remained influential in public discussions of human antiquity into the first half of the twentieth century. Geological and anthropological assessments i
Read record →In the Description of Greece, Pausanias discusses Spartan traditions concerning Orestes and the location or recovery of his remains, including the cultural importance of the hero’s tomb and associated ritual memory. The material is valuable for comparing haunt
Read record →The Perron family reported apparitions, odors, physical disturbances and other phenomena at the Arnold Estate after moving there in 1971. Ed and Lorraine Warren became associated with the account, which was later popularized through Andrea Perron’s memoirs and
Read record →The proclamation of the Brazilian Republic in 1889 created a new legal and ideological environment for religious minorities, including organized Spiritists. Late nineteenth-century Spiritist journals and associations discussed secularization, religious liberty
Read record →The María Lionza tradition expanded into a nationally visible Venezuelan religious movement in the mid-twentieth century, combining indigenous, African, Catholic and spiritist elements. Ritual specialists at Sorte reportedly entered trance, embodied spirits an
Read record →Joel Robbins’s Becoming Sinners examines Urapmin Christianity, including conversion, confession, moral contradiction and expectations concerning salvation and Christian transformation. It is a useful comparative lead for apocalyptic-journey research because lo
Read record →Nyabingi refers to a spirit or spirit-medium tradition with a complex history in Rwanda and southwestern Uganda. During the mid-twentieth century, colonial officials, Christian missionaries and local communities interpreted Nyabingi practices variously as poss
Read record →Jain epistemology describes progressively refined forms of knowledge, including avadhi jñāna, or clairvoyant knowledge of material things, and manaḥparyāya jñāna, knowledge of the mental states of others. Kevala jñāna represents perfected omniscience attained
Read record →A series of articles in the New York Sun claimed that astronomer Sir John Herschel had observed life, architecture, and lunar animals through a powerful telescope. The story is an important precursor to later sensational accounts of extraterrestrial observatio
Read record →The Enfield poltergeist concerned alleged voices, knocking, furniture movement, and apparent levitation in the Hodgson family home. Journalists, police, neighbors, and psychical researchers, including Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair, recorded or investiga
Read record →The Amaravati stupa was a major Buddhist monument in the lower Krishna valley, known through archaeological remains, sculptural fragments, inscriptions, and drawings or collections made after its partial dismantling. It is useful for comparing monument scale,
Read record →Lawang Sewu, a former Dutch railway administration complex, became one of Indonesia’s most prominent haunted sites in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century popular culture. Reports mention apparitions, voices, lights and an underground space as
Read record →Xavier Mertz became critically ill during the return journey with Douglas Mawson after the loss of the sledging team’s supplies and companion Belgrave Ninnis. The episode is relevant to altered consciousness because later accounts discuss delirium, behavioral
Read record →The Bacardi complex in Puerto Rico has been associated in some local and workplace stories with apparitions, unusual sounds, and a lingering presence connected to the factory’s long industrial history. Such accounts are potentially useful for comparing hauntin
Read record →Monte Verde is a late-Pleistocene archaeological site investigated intensively by Tom Dillehay and colleagues from the 1970s onward. Reports described preserved wooden structures, lithic artifacts, plant remains, and other evidence suggesting human presence ea
Read record →Aït Benhaddou is a fortified earthen settlement and UNESCO World Heritage site repeatedly used as a film location. Travel writing occasionally describes its empty lanes, desert setting, and ruined architecture as haunted or inhabited by jinn, usually without n
Read record →Nok terracotta figures became internationally prominent through museum exhibitions and the art market, while archaeological research sought to establish their chronology, production contexts and relationship to early ironworking in Nigeria. Many objects lacked
Read record →The Malleus Maleficarum discusses demonological claims involving sexual assault, nocturnal visitation and bodily oppression, including incubus and succubus motifs inherited from earlier Christian sources. It matters for comparing sleep-related sensed presence,
Read record →After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, residents and taxi drivers in northeastern Japan reportedly described encounters with apparently deceased passengers, figures near inundated neighborhoods, and other yūrei-like experiences. The material matters for compar
Read record →Ganzfeld studies placed a receiver in uniform sensory-reduction conditions while a sender attempted to transmit a target image or film. Charles Honorton and colleagues reported above-chance results, while C. E. M. Hansel and others identified possible methodol
Read record →A Sociedad Espírita Central de la República Mexicana is reported in accounts of organized Mexican Spiritism during the late nineteenth century. If confirmed in directories, newspapers, or statutes, it would provide a useful case of attempts to coordinate local
Read record →A widely repeated Indian UFO report places an unusual aerial observation at Chicalim in Goa in 2001. Accounts circulated through Indian newspapers, UFO organizations and later online summaries, sometimes associating the observation with several witnesses or an
Read record →George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff established an Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at the Prieuré near Fontainebleau after relocating from Tiflis and Constantinople to Western Europe. Its demanding exercises, work practices, sacred dances, and teaching
Read record →Willem ten Rhijne’s 1686 Schediasma de Promontorio Bonae Spei includes an early European description of Cape populations, illness concepts, healing, and ritual specialists. It is a promising source for investigating historical representations of altered consci
Read record →The Lubbock Lake Landmark sequence, including the La Sena component, has been used to discuss late-Pleistocene landscapes, megafaunal remains, and possible human activity on the southern Plains. It is a useful comparison lead because the chronology depends on
Read record →During the Syrian conflict, Israel repeatedly announced that its forces had intercepted or fired on unidentified aerial objects approaching Israeli airspace. Public reports include objects described at different times as drones, UAVs, balloons, or unexplained
Read record →Bahla, an Omani oasis town associated with its fort and ancient walls, is widely linked in travel writing and local folklore with djinn, sorcery, and supernatural construction stories. Modern heritage coverage often presents these narratives alongside archaeol
Read record →A group of Arabic Hermetic writings known under titles such as Kitāb al-Asbāb discusses causal relationships among celestial bodies, terrestrial substances, images, and ritual actions. These works are relevant to comparison because they articulate a premodern
Read record →The return of Halley’s Comet in 1985–1986 produced extensive public observation, media coverage, and reports of unusual lights across the Southern Hemisphere. Some UFO organizations and newspapers discussed comet-related sightings alongside unrelated aerial re
Read record →The destroyer USS Kidd and other Navy ships reported repeated encounters with unidentified aerial objects during exercises off California in July 2019. The events became part of UAP discussions after later investigative reporting, with some accounts suggesting
Read record →Crew members aboard a Safe Air freight aircraft reported unusual lights near Kaikōura in late 1978, with television footage and radar discussion contributing to sustained public interest. The case is useful for comparison because it combines pilot testimony, v
Read record →Aido-Hwedo is a major serpent figure in Fon religious cosmology, commonly associated in later summaries with the rainbow, the support or shaping of the world, and the deity Mawu-Lisa. Accounts derive from oral traditions, religious practice, and ethnographic o
Read record →The Mount Tarawera eruption generated explosions, incandescent ejecta, ash clouds, lightning-like activity, and extensive eyewitness testimony around Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty. It is relevant as a controlled historical comparison for reports of luminous ob
Read record →Charles Francis Hall’s accounts of his Arctic expeditions discuss Inuit traditions concerning the Tornit or Tunit, often translated as powerful or ancient “wild people” associated with earlier inhabitants and remote places. The material is important for compar
Read record →Robert Hamill Nassau’s The Fetish Folk of West Africa draws heavily on decades of Presbyterian missionary work in the Lower Congo and Gabon, much of it undertaken in the nineteenth century. It discusses nkisi objects, ritual experts, illness, witchcraft accusa
Read record →João Barbosa Rodrigues’s Amazonian writings are frequently invoked in discussions of the mapinguary and related forest-monster traditions. The lead is useful because it may preserve a historical interface between botanical exploration, Indigenous testimony and
Read record →Charles Montagu Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta, published in 1888, records Bedouin customs, oral traditions, ruins, dangers, and beliefs concerning jinn and other unseen beings. The book is a major identifiable source for nineteenth-century Arabian spirit
Read record →AI-recalled discovery lead; source quality 5 and corroboration 0. Visitors and online commentators have occasionally described large unidentified shapes or winged animals near Victoria Falls. The location is valuable for comparison because mist, spray, ravines
Read record →Jean de Léry’s Histoire d’un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil describes Tupinambá social life, warfare, ritual, cosmology, and ideas concerning spirits and the fate of the dead. The account is useful for comparing South American boundary concepts with Europea
Read record →The tokoloshe, also spelled tikoloshe, is a widely documented Southern African folkloric being that appeared in late-apartheid-era news, religious commentary and popular explanations of frightening events. Some accounts treated reported sightings as encounters
Read record →Hafgufa is a named marine being appearing in Icelandic textual and folkloric tradition, with nineteenth-century collectors preserving accounts that portray it as an enormous creature or uncanny phenomenon at sea. It is relevant to comparison because later writ
Read record →Douglas Mawson’s The Home of the Blizzard recounts the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, including the deaths of Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz and Mawson’s celebrated solo return. The book became a foundational Antarctic survival narrative and of
Read record →The SS Baychimo, abandoned in the western Arctic in 1931 and reportedly sighted drifting for decades, remains a prominent “ghost ship” tradition. Later search proposals, documentaries and online investigations after 2010 revisit whether the vessel survived in
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