Decade File · 1580s 18 cases on file
Decade File
The 1580s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 18 documented paranormal cases during the 1580s. The earliest dates to 1580 and the most recent to 1589, a span of 9 years.
Reporting during the 1580s is led by the haunting, with 8 hauntings, 4 unexplained events and 4 possession cases on file. Of these, 11 are verified against primary-source documentation. Every entry below records what was reported and the sources behind it, rather than asserting a conclusion.
All Cases
Archive · 1580s
- 1580 Cryptid The Golem of Prague Prague, Czech Republic
- 1580 Haunting Harvington Hall Harvington, Worcestershire, England
- 1580 Haunting Longleat House: The Corridors of Betrayal Warminster, Wiltshire, England
- 1580 Haunting Red Lodge Bristol, England
- 1580 Haunting Scone Palace: Ghosts Near the Stone of Destiny Perth, Scotland
- 1581 Other John Dee and the Enochian Angels Mortlake, London, England
- 1583 Haunting Edinburgh University: The Burke and Hare Anatomy Ghosts Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1584 Possession The Possession of Jeanne Fery Mons, Belgium
- 1585 Haunting The Spaniards Inn: Highwayman's Haunt on Hampstead Heath Hampstead, London, England
- 1586 Possession The John Darrell Exorcism Controversy Various locations, England
- 1587 Haunting Burghley House Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
- 1587 Apparition Ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots Multiple locations, UK
- 1587 Other The Lost Colony of Roanoke Roanoke Island, North Carolina, USA
- 1587 Other Roanoke Colony Roanoke Island, North Carolina, USA
- 1587 Other Lost Colony of Roanoke Roanoke Island, North Carolina, USA
- 1588 Haunting Land's End Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
- 1589 Possession The Vilvoorde Possession Vilvoorde, Belgium
- 1589 Possession The Werewolf of Bedburg Bedburg, Germany