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Barbadian revivalist and Spiritual Baptist practices, including healing, spirit possession, prophetic prayer, and distinctive congregational ceremonies, were recorded and sometimes criticized by colonial and established-church authorities during the early twen
Read record →Franz Boas’s large ethnographic work records Bering Strait Inuit and Yupik stories, ritual specialists, souls, animal-persons and other intermediary or dangerous beings within a maritime Arctic setting. It is useful for comparison because it places unusual enc
Read record →Teao and Hue are regularly named in accounts of the first major Mamaia controversy in Tahiti. They reportedly claimed special religious authority and challenged the legitimacy of recently established Protestant institutions, drawing on biblical and indigenous
Read record →Vyālas, commonly called yāḷis in South Indian art history, are leonine or elephantine composite creatures carved on pillars, gateways and temple structures. Important examples occur at sites such as Chola, Vijayanagara and Nayaka monuments. This is a verifiabl
Read record →Mariam Baouardy, a Palestinian Carmelite nun, was canonized by Pope Francis in 2015 after a process that included reported visions, ecstasies, levitation-like episodes, stigmata, and attributed healings. The relevant evidence consists of religious biographies,
Read record →Folklore studies and popular collections in the period continued to discuss the huldra and related hidden-people traditions alongside Scandinavian explanations of unusual lights, fires, and wilderness sounds. The huldra is primarily a forest or mountain being
Read record →The University of Pennsylvania’s Seybert Commission investigated mediums, séances, and alleged spiritual manifestations in the 1880s, publishing its findings in 1887. The commission’s report criticized prominent practices and expressed skepticism toward the ev
Read record →This lead refers to accounts from personnel associated with the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier group who described unusual aerial objects during operations in or near the Persian Gulf. The reports have been discussed in later interviews and UAP compilations ra
Read record →The colossal Bronze Age eruption of Thera produced volcanic deposits, tsunami risks, and major environmental effects in the Aegean. Because Plato’s Atlantis includes destruction by water and fire, writers have proposed that Thera or the Minoan world supplied a
Read record →The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn emerged in Britain in the late 1880s, with figures including William Wynn Westcott, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, and William Robert Woodman. Its rituals synthesized ceremonial magic, Kabbalah, astrology, tarot, Enochi
Read record →Later documentaries and books about the 1967 Shag Harbour unidentified-object incident sometimes connect the event with underwater-creature or nonhuman interpretations. The relevant post-2010 lead is the documentary and witness-recollection record, not a new c
Read record →Ramon Pané’s account of Taíno religious traditions, written in the 1490s, is one of the earliest European records of Indigenous Caribbean cosmology. It includes transformations, spirits, and mythic beings that can be compared with later winged-creature traditi
Read record →The 2000 Hessdalen field work is a specific retrieval target within the longer-running Norwegian investigation. Reports and project materials describe observations made during organized monitoring, with attempts to correlate visual events with instrumental rea
Read record →The Mothman episode began with reported encounters near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966, followed by press coverage, UFO claims, and later association with the Silver Bridge collapse of December 1967. John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies helped establish
Read record →On 13 March 1997, residents across Arizona reported lights or formations, while videos captured a separate or possibly related sequence near Phoenix. The episode is valuable for comparing eyewitness geography, videotape analysis, military activity, weather, fl
Read record →The Testament of Solomon depicts Solomon receiving a ring, commanding demons and learning their names, functions and vulnerabilities while constructing the Temple. The surviving work is generally treated as a late antique or medieval composite rather than a hi
Read record →Students and staff at Westall High School and Westall Primary School reportedly watched an unusual object descend or hover near a grassed area adjoining the schools. The incident became a major Australian UFO case through later witness interviews, documentarie
Read record →The Sumerian King List presents rulers and dynasties before and after a great flood, assigning impossibly long reigns to antediluvian kings and more plausible but still ideological durations to later rulers. Copies differ, and the composition appears to combin
Read record →Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Macrina describes the illness and death of his sister, including her final prayers, visionary language, and the family’s interpretation of her dying consciousness. The text is important for comparison because it combines a deathbed a
Read record →During Egypt's post-revolutionary political climate, reports circulated that Islamist figures or campaigns sought to remove or alter the Great Sphinx and other pharaonic monuments because they were pagan or satanic. The precise speakers, statements, and instit
Read record →Napier’s 1931 earthquake and the deaths associated with it produced later stories of apparitions, voices, and uncanny experiences around surviving or rebuilt structures. Reports documented between 1947 and 1969 could be compared with wartime and disaster haunt
Read record →Lake Ichkeul, a protected Tunisian wetland, has appeared in occasional discussions of unusually large animals or unexplained movements in the lake. The site is relevant because seasonal water exchange, abundant birds, reeds, fish, and restricted visibility pro
Read record →Inkanyamba is a being in southern African traditions, particularly associated in popular descriptions with a large serpent, water, storms, and mountainous or waterfall landscapes. Contemporary accounts often connect it with Howick Falls or other KwaZulu-Natal
Read record →Edward S. Morse’s 1877 investigation of the Omori shell mound is often treated as a foundational moment in Japanese archaeology. The excavation documented shell deposits, animal remains, artifacts and human activity, helping establish scientific approaches to
Read record →The life of Rose of Lima includes reported visions, raptures, bodily mortification and spiritual encounters described by confessors, relatives and later hagiographers. Her canonization processes provide a documentary route for studying how witnesses and eccles
Read record →Reformador began in the nineteenth century and became a major Brazilian Spiritist periodical associated with the Federação Espírita Brasileira. Its early issues can be used to trace debates about Kardecist orthodoxy, mediumistic practice, healing, Catholic cri
Read record →Shennongjia remained the principal Chinese setting for yeren reports during this period, with local witnesses, field searches and continuing media coverage. Accounts typically concern a reddish or dark, humanlike figure in remote forest, but physical evidence
Read record →Roseman and colleagues compared resting-state functional connectivity after psilocybin and MDMA, focusing on communication between normally distinct brain networks. The comparison is useful because the drugs can produce overlapping changes in mood or social ex
Read record →The Vimana-vatthu, a Pali Buddhist collection describing heavenly mansions and their inhabitants, became increasingly accessible to English-language readers through nineteenth-century Pali scholarship and translation. Its vimānas are religiously and karmically
Read record →The late nineteenth-century mystery-airship story circulated through Spanish, Caribbean, and transatlantic newspaper networks, making the Caribbean an important intermediary rather than merely a site of local sightings. This lead invites comparison of translat
Read record →Kamakhya Temple on Nilachal Hill is a Shakta pilgrimage center whose ritual significance is tied to the goddess, fertility and the annual Ambubachi Mela, when the temple symbolically marks the goddess’s menstruation and temporarily closes before reopening. The
Read record →The Maison des Esclaves on Gorée Island is a preserved eighteenth-century slave-trading site frequently described in visitor writing as haunted or emotionally charged. Stories may involve footsteps, voices or a sensed presence, but the best-known status of the
Read record →Gulf Breeze resident Ed Walters reported repeated encounters with a luminous object and supplied photographs that received extensive local and national attention. The case became a major late-1980s American UFO controversy because investigators examined image
Read record →The União do Vegetal is a Brazilian religion founded by José Gabriel da Costa that uses hoasca, an ayahuasca preparation, in structured ceremonies. Researchers have examined members’ psychological profiles, mental health, cognition, and long-term ritual partic
Read record →In 2015 the Islamic State publicized the destruction of the ancient Assyrian site of Nimrud, including reliefs and monumental remains. The case matters for examining how ancient protective figures, royal ritual imagery, and modern claims about idolatry or magi
Read record →Berry Pomeroy Castle is associated with several ghost traditions, including a White Lady and narratives concerning Margaret Pomeroy, imprisonment and family violence. The ruined medieval and early modern site has encouraged romantic historical reconstruction,
Read record →The Jesus Seminar, founded in 1985 under the Westar Institute, brought scholars together to debate which sayings attributed to Jesus were historically plausible. Although not an apocalyptic journey account, it is a useful North American comparison case for dis
Read record →The Nimitz episode concerns U.S. Navy personnel who reported unusual radar contacts and an apparent white, oblong object during training operations off Southern California in November 2004. The later-publicized FLIR video and pilot testimony made it a central
Read record →The Nag Hammadi codices, discovered in Upper Egypt in 1945, became increasingly accessible through scholarly editions and translations during the 1970s and 1980s. Their Gnostic cosmologies, revelatory dialogues, and ritual language strongly influenced modern o
Read record →Cahokia was the largest known pre-Columbian urban and ceremonial centre north of Mexico, with monumental platform mounds, plazas, neighborhoods, craft production, and evidence of long-distance exchange. Its scale has sometimes been misrepresented by pseudoarch
Read record →A family in Enfield reported that an unusual creature attacked or frightened them near their home in April 1973. Descriptions commonly involved a short, large-eyed, three-legged or otherwise anomalous animal, although retellings differ. Sheriff’s involvement,
Read record →Ji Yun’s Yuewei caotang biji records stories and reflections concerning spirits, dreams, possession, strange animals and moralized supernatural encounters. Its continuing nineteenth-century circulation makes it useful for comparing Chinese accounts of altered
Read record →Hobart’s Theatre Royal has been associated with ghost stories involving performers, backstage activity and historical figures connected with the building. The tradition appeared in Tasmanian heritage writing, newspaper features and ghost-tour culture during th
Read record →The Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in the 1880s, provided a forum where scientific, anthropological, spiritualist, and psychical questions could intersect. Proceedings and presidential addresses may contain discussions of spir
Read record →Late-twentieth-century Jungian and esoteric publications continued to interpret alchemical operations—calcination, dissolution, conjunction, and the creation of the philosopher’s stone—as symbolic accounts of psychic transformation. Although the texts are not
Read record →From 2005, Semir Osmanagić promoted Visočica and nearby hills as artificial pyramids built by an ancient European civilization. Excavation, geological observation and professional archaeological criticism generally interpreted the formations as natural hills w
Read record →Sabah has recurring reports and media references to a hairy, humanlike forest creature, sometimes folded into the wider Malaysian Bigfoot or orang mawas discussion. The lead is relevant because Bornean forest traditions, orangutan knowledge and expedition narr
Read record →Silas Tertius Rand collected and translated Mi’kmaq, historically Micmac, narratives and language materials, including traditions associated with Glooscap, animals, fire, and the shaping of the world. His work provides a nineteenth-century documentary lead for
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