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Sourced using AI1997–2009 · Vindija Cave, Hrvatsko Zagorje
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1896 · Chicago, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI9th century · Britain
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016, exact date to verify · Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Sacramento, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · Havana, Cuba
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s · Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Shanghai
Read record →Sourced using AI1820 · Greenland Sea and Arctic waters
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Victoria, British Columbia
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · Chongqing
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1973–1989 · United States scholarly controversy
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 · Springfield, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AIsecond century CE account of an earlier tradition · Sparta, Laconia
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly–August 1952 · Columbus, Ohio
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Shenzhen and Guangdong
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 onward · Appalachia, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Salt Lake City, Utah
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Singapore
Read record →Sourced using AI1770 · Botany Bay, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration oral and textual tradition; written documentation especially 19th–20th centuries · Yorubaland, especially Nigeria and Benin
Read record →Sourced using AI2021 · Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 · Amarillo, Texas, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 1996 · Varginha, Minas Gerais
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Czechoslovakia, multiple locations
Read record →Sourced using AI1884–1887 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · Alajuela/San José metropolitan area
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional; documented in nineteenth- and twentieth-century ethnography · Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · McMurdo region, Antarctica
Read record →Sourced using AI5 February 1597 · Nagasaki, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI2003–2005 · Metepec, Estado de México
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Israel
Read record →Sourced using AIHearn’s Japanese ghost writings published 1890s; site memory continued through 1900–1946 · Matsue, Shimane Prefecture
Read record →Sourced using AIMid-20th-century ghost reports and tourism folklore · Callao
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2004 · Edinburgh, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 (month uncertain) · Alpine Rhine Valley near Austria–Switzerland border
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Francistown, Botswana
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Salvador, Bahia
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Morocco, especially urban and coastal reporting areas
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Lajas, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1890s field collection; major publication later · Wisconsin and surrounding Great Lakes region
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Swedish airspace, route to be verified
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Nepal Himalaya
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Bratislava Airport and surrounding airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Cologne/Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
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