Decade File · 1690s 16 cases on file
Decade File
The 1690s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 16 documented paranormal cases during the 1690s. The earliest dates to 1690 and the most recent to 1699, a span of 9 years.
Reporting during the 1690s is led by the possession case, with 7 possession cases, 5 hauntings and 2 unexplained events on file. Of these, 8 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 · 1690s
- 1690 Haunting The Ghosts of Uppark House South Harting, West Sussex, England
- 1691 Possession The Gansfort Possession Arnhem, Netherlands
- 1692 Haunting Ballachulish Hotel: Ghosts of the Glencoe Massacre Ballachulish, Glencoe, Scotland
- 1692 Possession The Salem Witch Trials Salem Village, Massachusetts, USA
- 1692 Other The Hollow Earth Earth (Theoretical)
- 1692 Possession The Possession of Mercy Short Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 1692 Possession The Salem Witch Trials Afflictions Salem, Massachusetts, USA
- 1692 Possession The Afflicted Girls of Salem Salem Village, Massachusetts, USA
- 1692 Possession The Salem Witch Trial Possessions Salem Village, Massachusetts, USA
- 1692 Other The Salem Witch Trials: History, Victims, and Legacy Salem, Massachusetts, USA
- 1695 Poltergeist The Rerrick Parish Poltergeist (Mackie Poltergeist) Rerrick, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- 1696 Possession The Bargarran Witch Trial Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- 1697 Haunting St Paul's Cathedral Ludgate Hill, London, England
- 1699 Apparition The Ghost of Captain Kidd Gardiner's Island, New York, USA
- 1699 Haunting The Ghosts of Castle Howard Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England
- 1699 Haunting Surgeons' Hall Museums Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom