The 1840s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 36 documented paranormal cases during the 1840s. The earliest dates to 1840 and the most recent to 1849, a span of 9 years.
Reporting during the 1840s is led by the haunting, with 22 hauntings, 5 unexplained events and 5 possession cases on file. Of these, 19 are verified against primary-source documentation. Every entry below records what was reported and the sources behind it, rather than asserting a conclusion.
Featured · 1840s
Tomb of the Banshee, Penang
George Town, Penang, Malaysia
A weathered Christian gravestone in Penang's old Protestant cemetery is said to mark the resting place of an Irish woman whose keening voice has unsettled visitors and night watchmen for nearly two centuries.
HMS Daedalus Sea Serpent Encounter
South Atlantic Ocean, between St. Helena and Cape of Good Hope
Officers and crew of a Royal Navy frigate observed an enormous serpentine creature passing within yards of the ship for nearly twenty minutes, generating one of the nineteenth century's most carefully documented marine cryptid reports.
Archive · 1840s
- 1840 Haunting The Nonconformist Spirits of Abney Park Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London, England
- 1840 Haunting The Time Slips of Brompton Cemetery Brompton Cemetery, London, England
- 1840 Cryptid Sasquatch of the Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest, USA and Canada
- 1840 Other Curse of Tippecanoe United States
- 1840 Haunting Sorrel-Weed House Savannah, Georgia, USA
- 1840 Possession The Possession of Antoine Gay Auxonne, France
- 1841 Haunting The Ghosts of Hong Kong: Where East Meets the Underworld Hong Kong, China
- 1842 Haunting Craig y Nos Castle Swansea, Wales
- 1842 Possession The Gottliebin Dittus Exorcism Möttlingen, Württemberg, Germany
- 1842 Possession The Blumhardt Battle: Possession of Gottliebin Dittus Mottlingen, Wurttemberg, Germany
- 1842 Haunting Pentonville Prison: The Model Prison's Ghosts Islington, London, England
- 1842 Possession The Possession of Gottliebin Dittus Möttlingen, Württemberg, Germany
- 1842 Possession The Exorcism of Gottliebin Dittus Möttlingen, Germany
- 1842 Haunting Thackray Medical Museum Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- 1843 Haunting SS Great Britain - Phantom Crew of Brunel's Iron Ship Bristol, England
- 1843 Haunting Thames Tunnel Rotherhithe to Wapping, London, England
- 1844 Haunting Reading Gaol: Oscar Wilde's Prison of Despair Reading, Berkshire, England
- 1845 Haunting The Morpeth Arms: The Tunnel to Transportation and the Ghosts Who Never Left Westminster, London, England
- 1845 Apparition Tomb of the Banshee, Penang George Town, Penang, Malaysia
- 1845 Haunting Woodhead Tunnel Longdendale, Peak District, England
- 1846 Haunting Albert Dock: Liverpool's Haunted Gateway to the Empire Liverpool, Merseyside, England
- 1846 Poltergeist Angélique Cottin: The Electric Girl La Perrière, Normandy, France
- 1846 Other The Disappearance of Bermeja Island Gulf of Mexico
- 1846 Other The Donner Party Sierra Nevada, California, USA
- 1846 Haunting Llechwedd Slate Caverns Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
- 1847 Haunting The Victorian Prison Beneath Clerkenwell Clerkenwell House of Detention, London, England
- 1847 Haunting The Coach and Horses Soho, Westminster, Greater London, England
- 1847 Haunting Stirling Old Town Jail: The Executioner's Domain Stirling, Scotland
- 1848 Cryptid HMS Daedalus Sea Serpent Encounter South Atlantic Ocean, between St. Helena and Cape of Good Hope
- 1848 Haunting Hydesville Rappings Hydesville, New York, USA
- 1848 Haunting Denbigh Asylum - The North Wales Hospital Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales
- 1848 Haunting Denbigh Asylum: The North Wales Hospital Denbigh, North Wales
- 1848 Other The Fox Sisters and Birth of Spiritualism Hydesville, New York, USA
- 1848 Other Fox Sisters Hydesville, New York
- 1849 Haunting Emily's Bridge: The Covered Bridge Ghost of Stowe Stowe, Vermont, USA
- 1849 Haunting High Level Bridge Newcastle - Spectral Figures Newcastle upon Tyne, England