The 1700s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 29 documented paranormal cases during the 1700s. The earliest dates to 1700 and the most recent to 1709, a span of 9 years.
Reporting during the 1700s is led by the haunting, with 16 hauntings, 5 cryptid encounters and 4 unexplained events 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.
Featured · 1700s
The Boto Encantado of the Amazon
Amazon Basin, Brazil, Peru, and Colombia
The pink river dolphin of the Amazon basin is, in regional folklore, a shapeshifter said to emerge from the water as a charming young man in white, seducing women at riverside festivals before vanishing back to the depths.
La Jara Inquisition Encounter
Ciudad Real, Spain
In 1703, a street vendor in La Jara, Spain reported seeing a luminous sphere descend from the sky. He was brought before the Holy Inquisition for questioning about his sighting. This may be one of the earliest documented UFO reports investigated by authorities.
Archive · 1700s
- 1700 Apparition The A1 Great North Road: Phantom Highwaymen of Britain's Oldest Highway London to Edinburgh, England and Scotland
- 1700 Haunting The A82: Scotland's Most Haunted Road Loch Ness, Scottish Highlands
- 1700 Cryptid Albatwitch Pennsylvania, USA
- 1700 Cryptid Altamaha-ha: Georgia's River Monster Altamaha River, Georgia, USA
- 1700 Haunting Blakeney - Smugglers and Phantom Vessels Blakeney, Norfolk, England
- 1700 Apparition Boo Hag South Carolina, USA
- 1700 Cryptid The Boto Encantado of the Amazon Amazon Basin, Brazil, Peru, and Colombia
- 1700 Cryptid The Wild Man of St. Leonard's Forest St. Leonard's Forest, West Sussex, England
- 1700 Other The Devil's Tramping Ground Chatham County, North Carolina, USA
- 1700 Haunting The Ghosts of Goodwood House Goodwood, West Sussex, England
- 1700 Haunting The Ghosts of The Elms, Rottingdean Rottingdean, East Sussex, England
- 1700 Haunting Inveraray - The Phantom Pipers of Argyll Inveraray, Argyll, Scotland
- 1700 Haunting The Old Nag's Head Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
- 1700 Other Ball Lightning: The Floating Fire Mystery Worldwide
- 1700 Other The Fairy Tree of Poynings Poynings, West Sussex, England
- 1700 Other The Smugglers' Ghosts of Rottingdean Rottingdean, East Sussex, England
- 1700 Haunting Port Isaac Smuggler Hauntings Port Isaac, Cornwall, England
- 1700 Haunting Robin Hood's Bay: England's Most Haunted Smuggling Village Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, England
- 1700 Cryptid Rougarou Louisiana, USA
- 1700 Haunting The Ship Wandsworth, London, England
- 1700 Apparition Soucouyant Caribbean
- 1702 Haunting Busby's Stoop Chair Thirsk, England
- 1703 Haunting Eddystone Lighthouse Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
- 1703 UFO La Jara Inquisition Encounter Ciudad Real, Spain
- 1705 Haunting Blenheim Palace: Churchill's Ancestral Spirits Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
- 1705 Haunting The Drovers Inn: Phantom Highlanders and the Girl in White Inverarnan, Loch Lomond, Scotland
- 1705 Haunting Her Majesty's Theatre: The Phantom of the Opera House Haymarket, Westminster, London, England
- 1708 Haunting Bluecoat School, Liverpool: The Charity Children Liverpool, England
- 1709 Haunting Ironbridge Gorge Industrial Heritage Site Ironbridge, Shropshire, England