The 1560s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 20 documented paranormal cases during the 1560s. The earliest dates to 1560 and the most recent to 1568, a span of 8 years.
Reporting during the 1560s is led by the haunting, with 8 hauntings, 4 UFO sightings and 3 possession cases 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.
Featured · 1560s
Sightings of the Curupira
Amazon Basin, Brazil
Across five centuries the indigenous and rural communities of the Brazilian interior have reported encounters with the Curupira, a small backward-footed forest guardian first described by Jesuit chroniclers in 1560 and still reported today.
Nuremberg Sky Battle 1561
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Thousands of Nuremberg citizens witnessed a mass aerial display of spheres, cylinders, crosses, and a black spear. Hans Glaser's woodcut preserved this 16th-century mystery for posterity.
Basel Celestial Phenomenon
Basel, Switzerland
Citizens of Basel witnessed black spheres appearing in the sky and moving toward the sun. Like the Nuremberg event, it was documented in a contemporary woodcut.
Basel Switzerland Spheres
Basel, Switzerland
Five years after Nuremberg, Basel residents witnessed black and red spheres in conflict across the sky. A contemporary broadsheet preserved this companion event to the 1561 phenomenon.
The 1566 Basel Celestial Phenomenon
Basel, Switzerland
Citizens witnessed black spheres filling the sky and moving toward the sun in a mass sighting similar to Nuremberg.
Archive · 1560s
- 1560 Haunting Chatsworth House: The Duchess's Eternal Garden Bakewell, Derbyshire, England
- 1560 Cryptid Sightings of the Curupira Amazon Basin, Brazil
- 1560 Haunting Westminster School: Where Royal Ghosts Walk the Monastic Corridors Westminster, London, England
- 1561 UFO Nuremberg Sky Battle 1561 Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
- 1561 Poltergeist Greyfriars Kirkyard & Mackenzie Poltergeist Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1562 Poltergeist Greyfriars Kirkyard Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1562 Haunting The Greyfriars Kirkyard Haunting Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1562 Haunting The Ghosts of Loseley House Guildford, Surrey, England
- 1563 Haunting Craigmillar Castle: The Phantom Queen and the Murder Plot Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1565 Apparition Hoghton Tower: The Green Lady Hoghton Tower, Preston, Lancashire, England
- 1565 Possession The Possession of Nicole Aubrey Laon, France
- 1565 Haunting St. Augustine Florida, United States
- 1566 UFO Basel Celestial Phenomenon Basel, Switzerland
- 1566 UFO Basel Switzerland Spheres Basel, Switzerland
- 1566 Possession The Possession of Nicole Obry Laon, France
- 1566 Possession The Luranç Possession Laon, France
- 1566 UFO The 1566 Basel Celestial Phenomenon Basel, Switzerland
- 1567 Haunting Borthwick Castle: The Ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots North Middleton, Midlothian, Scotland
- 1567 Haunting Rugby School: The Spectral Monks Rugby, Warwickshire, England
- 1568 Apparition Samlesbury Hall: The White Lady Dorothy Samlesbury Hall, Preston, Lancashire, England