Decade File · 1640s 25 cases on file
Decade File
The 1640s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 25 documented paranormal cases during the 1640s. The earliest dates to 1641 and the most recent to 1649, a span of 8 years.
Reporting during the 1640s is led by the haunting, with 10 hauntings, 8 apparition reports and 5 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.
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Archive · 1640s
- 1641 Apparition The Flying Dutchman: The Legendary Ghost Ship Cape of Good Hope, South Africa / Worldwide
- 1641 Apparition The Flying Dutchman Cape of Good Hope and Global Waters
- 1642 Apparition The A272 Sussex Phantom Cavalier: Fleeing a Battle Lost Four Centuries Ago Sussex, England
- 1642 Apparition Phantom Battles in the Sky Worldwide
- 1642 Apparition The Phantom Army of Edge Hill Edge Hill, Warwickshire, England
- 1642 Apparition B4632 Chipping Campden Phantom Army Near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England
- 1642 Haunting Battle of Edgehill Battlefield Edge Hill, Warwickshire, England
- 1642 Haunting Forty Hall: Where Civil War Soldiers Still March Across the Grounds Forty Hall, Enfield, London, England
- 1642 Haunting Powick Bridge Civil War Ghosts Powick, Worcestershire, England
- 1643 Possession The Louviers Possessions Louviers, France
- 1643 Possession The Possessions of Louviers Louviers, France
- 1643 Possession The Louviers Convent Possession Louviers, Normandy, France
- 1644 Haunting Battle of Marston Moor: The Largest Civil War Battle Long Marston, North Yorkshire, England
- 1644 Other Matthew Hopkins: The Witch Finder General East Anglia, England
- 1644 Haunting Ye Olde Starre Inne York, North Yorkshire, England
- 1644 Haunting Restormel Castle - The Phantom Soldiers Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England
- 1645 Poltergeist The Drummer of Cortachy Castle Cortachy, Angus, Scotland
- 1645 Haunting Edinburgh's Underground City Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1645 Haunting Mary King's Close: Edinburgh's Buried Plague Street Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1645 Haunting Battle of Naseby: The Ghosts of Civil War Naseby, Northamptonshire, England
- 1647 Apparition The Phantom Ship of New Haven New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- 1647 Possession The Hamstead Marshall Possession Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire, England
- 1649 Haunting The A361 Burford Levellers: Ghosts of the Revolution's Betrayed Near Burford, Oxfordshire, England
- 1649 Apparition The White Lady of Kinsale Charles Fort, Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland
- 1649 Possession The Hammelburg Possession Hammelburg, Bavaria, Germany