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Sourced using AILong-duration Tonga tradition; twentieth-century documentation intensified during Kariba Dam construction · Zambezi Valley, especially Tonga communities near Lake Kariba
Read record →Sourced using AI1883 · Off the coast of Brazil, during the voyage of HMS Valhalla
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 · Santa Coloma de Cervelló, Catalonia, Spain
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 1878 · Denison, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AILong regional tradition; documented in nineteenth- and twentieth-century folklore · French and Swiss Alps
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Shanghai, China
Read record →Sourced using AIUsually attributed to the first millennium CE, though exact construction dates are debated · Nazca region, Ica, Peru
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Curitiba, Paraná
Read record →Sourced using AI1181 · China and Japan, with East Asian court-astronomy records
Read record →Sourced using AI1797 · Tahiti, Society Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Fajardo, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Denmark, multiple localities
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Dutch Limburg and the eastern border
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Dominican Republic, especially Santo Domingo area
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean
Read record →Sourced using AISecond- and first-millennium BCE textual tradition · Mesopotamia
Read record →Sourced using AIPhotograph published 1934; hoax confession 1994 · Loch Ness, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Guyana; transnational religious comparison
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s travel-writing circulation · Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Nadi and the western side of Viti Levu
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · Cáceres province, Extremadura
Read record →Sourced using AI1914 · Sarajevo and Bosnia
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s · Sikkim Himalaya
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 829–830 · Dinas Emrys, Gwynedd, Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Sintra, Lisbon District
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Tripoli
Read record →Sourced using AI1657 and 1662 publications · France; fictional lunar and solar settings
Read record →Sourced using AI2011 onward · Worldwide clinical and hospice reports
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Michigan
Read record →Sourced using AI1997–1998 · Belgium, especially Wallonia and Brussels area
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 9600–8000 BCE · Şanlıurfa Province, southeastern Anatolia
Read record →Sourced using AIIndigenous traditions; European reports from the 19th century and a major modern wave after 1970 · Queensland and eastern Australia, including the Gold Coast hinterland
Read record →Sourced using AI1722 and late eighteenth-century contact · Samoa
Read record →Sourced using AI2006 · Charlotte, North Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · São José dos Campos, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Brooklyn, New York
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 2015 · Off the southeastern United States coast
Read record →Sourced using AIColonial-era building; ghost tradition attached over an extended period · Bogotá
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Brisbane and other Australian research centres
Read record →Sourced using AIDecember 1976 · North Atlantic, near Nantucket Shoals
Read record →Sourced using AI26–28 December 1980 · RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 (month to verify) · Siem Reap, Cambodia
Read record →Sourced using AIPublicly documented across the later twentieth century, especially 1960s–1990s · Puttaparthi and other Sathya Sai Baba centers, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Geneva-Cointrin Airport and nearby airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s–2020s · Tampa, Florida, United States
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