Decade File · 1500s 32 cases on file
Decade File

The 1500s · paranormal events

The Spooky Valley archive holds 32 documented paranormal cases during the 1500s. The earliest dates to 1500 and the most recent to 1508, a span of 8 years.

Reporting during the 1500s is led by the haunting, with 13 hauntings, 10 apparition reports and 7 cryptid encounters on file. Of these, 13 are verified against primary-source documentation. Every entry below records what was reported and the sources behind it, rather than asserting a conclusion.

13 Haunting 10 Apparition 7 Cryptid 2 Other
Selected Cases

Featured · 1500s

Pale humanoid silhouette in a dim Appalachian forest understory
Cryptid 1500

Moon-Eyed People of Fort Mountain

Chatsworth, Georgia, USA

Cherokee oral tradition recorded by John Sevier and others describes a small, pale, nocturnal people who built stone walls in the southern Appalachians and were displaced before European contact.
An older man in dark woolen clothing seated before a ritual offering on highland grass.
Other 1500

Yatiri Encounters of the Bolivian Altiplano

Aymara altiplano, Bolivia and Peru

Aymara yatiris of the Bolivian altiplano are ritual specialists who treat the land as a population of conscious places, and their reported encounters with the achachilas and the dead form a continuous record of Andean paranormal practice.
All Cases

Archive · 1500s