Decade File · 1740s 16 cases on file
Decade File
The 1740s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 16 documented paranormal cases during the 1740s. The earliest dates to 1740 and the most recent to 1749, a span of 9 years.
Reporting during the 1740s is led by the haunting, with 9 hauntings, 3 apparition reports and 3 possession cases on file. Of these, 7 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 · 1740s
- 1740 Haunting Dudleytown: Connecticut's Village of the Damned Cornwall, Connecticut, USA
- 1740 Haunting The Dudleytown Curse Cornwall, Connecticut, USA
- 1740 Haunting The Royal London Hospital - Elephant Man Ghost Whitechapel, London, England
- 1741 Cryptid Steller's Sea Ape Shumagin Islands, Alaska, USA
- 1744 Haunting York Theatre Royal: The Grey Lady of the Pit St Leonard's Place, York, North Yorkshire, England
- 1746 Apparition The Ghosts of Culloden Culloden Moor, Inverness-shire, Scotland
- 1746 Haunting Culloden Battlefield Inverness, Scotland
- 1746 Haunting Kennington Common: The Jacobite Execution Ground Kennington, London, England
- 1748 Apparition The Phantom Ship Lady Lovibond Goodwin Sands, Kent, England
- 1748 Apparition The Lady Lovibond Goodwin Sands, English Channel
- 1748 Haunting Hell Fire Caves West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
- 1748 Haunting The Hellfire Caves - Temple of Debauchery West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
- 1748 Haunting Levant Mine Trewellard, Cornwall, England
- 1749 Possession The Vienna Convent Possessions Vienna, Austria
- 1749 Possession The Würzburg Convent Possessions Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
- 1749 Possession The Würzburg Convent Possession Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany