Decade File · 1760s 13 cases on file
Decade File

The 1760s · paranormal events

The Spooky Valley archive holds 13 documented paranormal cases during the 1760s. The earliest dates to 1760 and the most recent to 1768, a span of 8 years.

Reporting during the 1760s is led by the haunting, with 5 hauntings, 5 cryptid encounters and 2 unexplained events on file. Of these, 10 are verified against primary-source documentation. Every entry below records what was reported and the sources behind it, rather than asserting a conclusion.

5 Haunting 5 Cryptid 2 Other 1 Poltergeist
Selected Cases

Featured · 1760s

Empty wooden chair outside a stone cottage in evening light
Other 1768

The Vanishing of Owen Parfitt

Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England

An elderly, paralysed former sailor was carried to a chair outside his sister's cottage in Shepton Mallet for a summer afternoon. When his sister returned from the kitchen minutes later he was gone, and despite searches by the entire town no trace of him was ever found.
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Archive · 1760s