Decade File · 1850s 43 cases on file
Decade File
The 1850s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 43 documented paranormal cases during the 1850s. The earliest dates to 1850 and the most recent to 1859, a span of 9 years.
Reporting during the 1850s is led by the haunting, with 26 hauntings, 6 unexplained events and 4 poltergeist cases on file. Of these, 17 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 · 1850s
- 1850 Haunting Covent Garden Hotel Covent Garden, London, England
- 1850 Cryptid The Bunyip of Murray Bridge Murray River, South Australia
- 1850 Apparition Mae Nak Phra Khanong Bangkok, Thailand
- 1850 Apparition Phi Tai Hong Spirits of Thailand Bangkok, Thailand
- 1850 Haunting St Nicholas Church, Pluckley - Red Lady Pluckley, Kent, England, United Kingdom
- 1850 Poltergeist The Lewes Poltergeist of 1850 Lewes, East Sussex, England
- 1850 Poltergeist The Petersburg Poltergeist Petersburg, Virginia, USA
- 1850 Poltergeist The Stratford Knockings Stratford, Connecticut, USA
- 1850 Haunting Shanghai Tunnels Portland, Oregon, USA
- 1850 Haunting Stull Cemetery - Gateway to Hell Stull, Kansas, USA
- 1850 Other Stull Cemetery Stull, Kansas, USA
- 1850 Haunting The Volunteer Baker Street, Westminster, Greater London, England
- 1851 Haunting Friern Barnet Friern Barnet, North London, England
- 1851 Other Jophar Vorin: The Man from Laxaria Frankfurt, Germany
- 1851 Poltergeist The Cideville Poltergeist Cideville, Normandy, France
- 1851 Haunting Saltaire Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England
- 1851 Haunting Wandsworth Prison: The Hangman's Ghosts Wandsworth, London, England
- 1852 Haunting HMS Birkenhead - Origin of 'Women and Children First' Danger Point, South Africa (UK Naval Disaster)
- 1852 Haunting Holloway Prison: Ruth Ellis and the Executed Women Holloway, London, England
- 1852 Other Devil's Island: The Haunted Penal Colony French Guiana
- 1852 Haunting Powick Hospital Powick, Worcestershire, England
- 1852 Haunting San Quentin State Prison: California's Most Haunted Lockup San Quentin, California, USA
- 1852 Haunting St John's Hospital Bracebridge Heath, Lincolnshire, England
- 1852 Haunting Victoria and Albert Museum London, England, United Kingdom
- 1852 Possession The Werewolf of Allariz: Manuel Blanco Romasanta Allariz, Galicia, Spain
- 1853 Haunting Killhope Lead Mining Museum Upper Weardale, County Durham, England
- 1853 Haunting Saltaire Mills Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England
- 1853 Haunting Warley Hospital Brentwood, Essex, England
- 1855 Other Devil's Footprints Devon, England
- 1855 Other The Devil's Footprints South Devon, England
- 1856 Haunting Cromarty - The Ghost of Hugh Miller Cromarty, Scottish Highlands
- 1857 Haunting The Whaley House San Diego, California, USA
- 1857 Haunting The Whaley House of San Diego San Diego, California, USA
- 1857 Haunting Miskin Manor Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
- 1857 Possession The Morzine Possession Epidemic Morzine, French Alps
- 1857 Possession The Morzine Possessions Morzine, Haute-Savoie, France
- 1857 Possession The Devils of Morzine Morzine, French Alps
- 1857 Haunting Science Museum London, England, United Kingdom
- 1857 Haunting Whaley House San Diego, California, USA
- 1858 Haunting Woodchester Mansion: The Phantom Workmen Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire, England
- 1859 Haunting The Royal Charter Storm Wreck - 450 Dead and Cursed Gold Moelfre, Anglesey, Wales
- 1859 Other Stull Cemetery: The Devil's Gate Stull, Kansas, USA
- 1859 Haunting Virginia City Nevada, United States