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Roi Mata’s Domain is a chiefly landscape on Efate associated with the traditions of Roi Mata, a powerful figure whose death and burial are connected in oral histories with Eretoka Island. The site’s archaeological evidence and continuing ni-Vanuatu interpretat
Read record →Survivor diaries from Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition describe prayer, worship, hymn singing and religious interpretation during shipwreck, sea-ice drift and open-boat travel. The episode is relevant to intermediary-being research because extr
Read record →The Antikythera wreck contained sculptures, luxury goods, coins, glass, and the famous geared mechanism, providing evidence for a complex Mediterranean transport episode rather than an isolated technological artifact. It can be compared with studies of route s
Read record →Alfred Russel Wallace’s writings on the Malay Archipelago include detailed encounters with orangutans and discussions of local reports about forest-dwelling beings. They are valuable as a comparison case because a real, unfamiliar great ape was initially embed
Read record →Contemporary Indian clinical writing and ethnography discuss kundalini-related sensations, visions, changes in identity and episodes interpreted as spiritual awakening. The material can be compared with possession, meditation-induced psychosis, panic, dissocia
Read record →The June 2018 eruption of Volcán de Fuego caused major loss of life and displacement, followed by narratives about warning signs, dreams, prophetic knowledge, institutional neglect and sacred relationships with volcanoes. The case can support comparison betwee
Read record →The Ancient Ram Inn, a medieval building in Gloucestershire, became prominent in late twentieth-century British haunting literature through reports associated with its former proprietor, John Humphries, and visiting investigators. Accounts describe apparitions
Read record →Gregory of Tours’ Histories and related works contain accounts of visions, revenants, miraculous signs, disturbed graves, and encounters with the dead within a Christian historiographical framework. Specific episodes, including stories connected with named cle
Read record →Matthew Paris’s Chronica Majora and related St Albans materials contain narratives of apparitions and revenants connected with monastic life, death, and posthumous warning. A St Albans monk or religious figure appearing after death is a useful lead for examini
Read record →Diego Durán’s chronicle recounts Mexica history, religious traditions, portents, and the Spanish conquest, including narratives of unusual signs preceding political upheaval. These passages are relevant to comparison because later UFO writers sometimes recast
Read record →AI-recalled discovery lead; source quality 5 and corroboration 0. South African paranormal websites and discussion groups have collected reports of unusually large owls, sometimes presenting them as unknown flying creatures. The material is useful for comparin
Read record →Ron Morehead and colleagues said they recorded unusual vocalizations during repeated nighttime encounters at a hunting camp in California’s Sierra Nevada. The recordings, later marketed as the Sierra Sounds, were interpreted by proponents as language-like comm
Read record →Visayan traditions recorded in nineteenth-century Spanish-era sources include tamawo or related forest-dwelling beings, sometimes described as humanlike, powerful or dangerous. The lead matters because it allows comparison of “wild person” motifs without assum
Read record →The Min Min lights are a longstanding Australian tradition of strange lights seen around remote roads, camps, and stock routes, especially in Queensland’s Channel Country. Reports continued during the requested period, while explanations have included distant
Read record →A group of residents near Flatwoods reported seeing a bright object descend, then described a tall figure at the site after investigating with a local youth and others. The account became known as the Flatwoods Monster story, with illustrations and later retel
Read record →Residents of Mattoon reported a nocturnal intruder allegedly releasing a sweet-smelling gas into homes, producing symptoms and intense local fear. The episode was investigated as a possible criminal or environmental event, while later historians have discussed
Read record →Āryabhaṭa’s Āryabhaṭīya presents mathematical astronomy, including explanations of eclipses and apparent celestial motion. It is relevant to UAP comparison not because it records an encounter, but because it demonstrates a South Asian tradition of replacing al
Read record →Diego Durán’s Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de Tierra Firme describes Mexica history, festivals, deities, sacrifice, temples, and funerary ideas, including different postmortem destinations associated with manner of death. The material can be
Read record →Orang Pendek is a name used for reports of a short, humanlike forest inhabitant in Sumatra, particularly around Kerinci Seblat and the Kerinci valley. Accounts come from local communities, colonial-era observers, travelers, and modern cryptozoological investig
Read record →Butter lamps are a major luminous devotional motif in Tibetan Buddhist practice, used in temples, household observance, and pilgrimage contexts. Documentation during the stated period records offerings, merit-making, festival use, and changing conditions of re
Read record →Ibn Sīnā’s psychology, especially discussions connected with the soul, imagination, sleep, and dreaming, offers a major medieval framework for altered consciousness. It is valuable for comparing naturalistic, philosophical, and religious explanations of extrao
Read record →Terracotta heads and figures associated with the Nok culture came to scholarly attention after finds from tin-mining areas in the late 1920s. Bernard Fagg’s collecting, recording, and research in the 1930s and 1940s helped establish the importance of the mater
Read record →Pinnacle Point cave sites preserve Middle Stone Age occupations, including evidence for pigment processing, stone-tool production, shellfish exploitation, and use of coastal resources. Researchers have used the sequence to examine how early Homo sapiens respon
Read record →Wellington’s Old Government Buildings, one of the world’s largest wooden office structures, has accumulated stories of footsteps, apparitions, and unexplained sensations among workers and visitors. The site is useful for comparing bureaucratic workplaces with
Read record →Early twentieth-century Arctic ethnographies, especially Rasmussen’s Greenlandic and Canadian publications, record star lore in which celestial figures, ancestral beings and culturally personified heavenly bodies are connected with travel and seasonal knowledg
Read record →Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert’s Harvard Psilocybin Project investigated subjective effects, personality change, religious experience, and possible behavioral outcomes of psilocybin. Related work included the Concord Prison Experiment, which explored recidiv
Read record →Ira and William Davenport presented spirit-cabinet performances in which musical instruments and allegedly bound mediums appeared to move under supernatural control. Their tours generated disputes among spiritualists, magicians, journalists, and investigators,
Read record →Post-2010 publications and interviews by Colm Kelleher and George Knapp discuss alleged investigations at Skinwalker Ranch, including reports of humanoid figures, portals, anomalous animals, and close approaches to witnesses. The named authors and ranch provid
Read record →The Prester John tradition described a powerful Christian ruler beyond the Islamic world, first associated in European writing with Asia and later increasingly identified with Ethiopia. It matters because it tracks how medieval reports, missionary hopes, crusa
Read record →The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex written in an undeciphered script, with botanical, astronomical, biological, and pharmaceutical-looking sections. Its vellum dates to the early fifteenth century, although its author, language, purpose, and transm
Read record →Edward Shortland’s Traditions and Superstitions of the New-Zealanders, published in 1856, examines Māori origin stories, atua, tapu, dreams, omens, ritual specialists, and customary practices. The title itself reflects the Victorian tendency to classify indige
Read record →John Roscoe's The Baganda records religious specialists, spirit possession, divination, dreams, omens and healing practices in early twentieth-century Buganda. The book is useful for comparing altered-state reports with social roles, initiation, diagnosis and
Read record →Edward William Lane’s 1836 ethnography includes descriptions of Egyptian magicians, charm sellers, diviners, amulets, spirit beliefs, and performances presented as supernatural or deceptive. It is valuable for comparing nineteenth-century European observation
Read record →Brahmagiri had been excavated before Indian independence, but its findings continued to shape post-1947 debates over South Indian Iron Age chronology, megalithic burials and the relationship between local traditions and wider peninsular networks. The site incl
Read record →This 2008 edited volume gathers essays on Indian approaches to mind, self, perception, cognition, meditation and consciousness. It is relevant as a map of indigenous conceptual frameworks that can be compared with Western parapsychology and altered-state resea
Read record →Maramataka, Māori systems of lunar and seasonal knowledge, has received renewed attention in environmental management, fisheries, education, and cultural revitalization. Some contemporary presentations connect lunar phases with human energy, planting, fishing,
Read record →Ochre Coloured Pottery sites and associated copper hoards were repeatedly reassessed in Indian archaeology during the period. The finds matter for comparing settlement mobility, metallurgy, regional interaction, and proposed links between late third- and early
Read record →Brazilian social networks have repeatedly circulated claims that fires, crimes or missing-person cases resulted from satanic rituals, often attaching unrelated photographs and videos to local events. The 2019 period provides identifiable material for examining
Read record →Nineteenth-century Korean records and foreign travel accounts describe mudang conducting kut rituals involving drumming, invocation, healing and claims of divine or ancestral presence. These sources can support comparison of culturally organized trance, perfor
Read record →The Kelly Cahill case is an Australian alleged close encounter and missing-time narrative that continued to circulate in books, interviews and documentaries after 2010. It may matter for comparison with sleep paralysis, memory reconstruction, hypnosis, trauma
Read record →Diane Bell’s Daughters of the Dreaming documents women’s lives, ritual knowledge, land relationships and religious traditions among Aboriginal communities in central Australia. It is relevant to consciousness comparison because it shows how experiences describ
Read record →During and after the 1955–1956 expedition, Thor Heyerdahl and collaborators investigated how Rapa Nui communities might have quarried, moved, and erected moai. The demonstrations were intended to show that relatively simple technologies could account for monum
Read record →UFO literature records recurring reports from southern Africa during the 1960s, when military aviation, space launches, satellites, and atmospheric phenomena generated worldwide observation waves. Namibian and South African reports may be useful for comparing
Read record →The Old Melbourne Gaol is a named former prison and museum associated with reports of apparitions, footsteps, voices, and sensations attributed in popular accounts to prisoners or executions, including Ned Kelly-related lore. It provides a useful comparison wi
Read record →The Nechung Oracle is the officially recognized Tibetan state oracle associated with the Dalai Lama’s government-in-exile. The oracle’s ritual trance, costume, possession language, calendrical consultations, and public ceremonies provide a highly identifiable
Read record →The Lesser Key of Solomon, or Lemegeton, is an early modern compilation conventionally divided into sections including the Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina, and Ars Almadel. It catalogs spirits, seals, ritual procedures, planetary beings, and angel
Read record →Former detention facilities on Green Island, especially sites associated with Taiwan’s White Terror period, have appeared in tourism narratives and visitor accounts involving voices, figures and oppressive atmospheres. The lead is important because haunting cl
Read record →Scott’s Last Expedition publishes Robert Falcon Scott’s journals and associated expedition material from the 1910–1913 Terra Nova expedition, ending with the deaths of Scott and his polar party. The source is a major example of a documented Antarctic catastrop
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