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Sourced using AIAugust 3, 1965 · Near Santa Ana, California
Read record →Sourced using AIEdo period before 1868 · Satsuma domain, Kyushu, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Fairbanks, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI19th Dynasty, approximately 1290–1279 BCE; later cult continuity · Abydos, Upper Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1976 · Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1957–1961 · Panama City, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 (exact date requires verification) · George Town or Penang Island
Read record →Sourced using AILate nineteenth-century origins and transmission · Northeastern Morocco
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Ettington Park Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 commemorative and oral accounts · KwaZulu-Natal
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Bandung, West Java
Read record →Sourced using AI2014–2015, reported publicly 2023 onward · Off the eastern United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s documentation · Northern Nigeria and neighboring Sahelian regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 recollections and later compilations · Mwinilunga and the Jiوند? region, northwestern Zambia
Read record →Sourced using AIScottish and Northern Isles tradition; ballads documented from the nineteenth century · Orkney, Shetland and northern Scottish coastal communities
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1990 · Birmingham, Alabama
Read record →Sourced using AI1972–1976 · Durban, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1958–1959 · New Haven, Connecticut
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture
Read record →Sourced using AI17th century; principal work published 1670 · Ágreda, Castile
Read record →Sourced using AI1961–1981; later reports within scope · San Damiano, Piacenza, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Grand Junction, Colorado
Read record →Sourced using AIInscription 3rd century BCE; documented by nineteenth-century archaeology · Dhauli, Odisha
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 (exact date requires verification) · Maastricht/Limburg, Netherlands
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Yantai, Shandong
Read record →Sourced using AI8–10 March 2014 · South China Sea / Gulf of Thailand
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 (month uncertain) · Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1981 · Sri Lanka; locality uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Prague
Read record →Sourced using AI1956–1969 · Teppe Hasanlu, West Azerbaijan
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Fez
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Odense, Denmark
Read record →Sourced using AIHebrew Bible; late antique rabbinic midrash and medieval Jewish commentary · Primordial sea and eschatological imagination
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 folklore and popular-culture treatments · Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Basel
Read record →Sourced using AIQur’anic verse early seventh century CE; narrative elaboration in later hadith · Mecca in Islamic tradition
Read record →Sourced using AIlate nineteenth century · Near Bulawayo, Matabeleland
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique Jewish mystical tradition, commonly dated around the fifth to seventh centuries CE; earlier layers debated · Rabbinic mystical textual milieu in Palestine and Babylonia
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · Rawalpindi, Punjab
Read record →Sourced using AI1967–1971 · Flagstaff and Coconino County, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AICompiled over the second and first millennia BCE · Mesopotamia, especially Babylon and Assyria
Read record →Sourced using AI1976 · Pacific Ocean, reported during deployment
Read record →Sourced using AILate 12th-century Old French romance · Arthurian Britain and an otherworldly or liminal realm associated with Meleagant
Read record →Sourced using AI8th–10th centuries · Dunhuang, Gansu, China
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Uberaba, Minas Gerais
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s–1930s · Rif Mountains, Morocco
Read record →Sourced using AI921–922 · Volga Bulgaria
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