Decade File · 1860s 51 cases on file
Decade File
The 1860s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 51 documented paranormal cases during the 1860s. The earliest dates to 1860 and the most recent to 1869, a span of 9 years.
Reporting during the 1860s is led by the haunting, with 34 hauntings, 10 apparition reports and 2 cryptid encounters on file. Of these, 31 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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- 1860 Haunting Big Pit: The Ghosts That Never Left the Mine Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales
- 1860 Haunting Big Pit: The Ghosts of Welsh Coal Blaenavon, South Wales
- 1860 Haunting The Brighton Sewers - Victorian Tunnel Ghosts Brighton, England
- 1860 Cryptid Ogopogo Lake Monster Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada
- 1860 Poltergeist The Stans Poltergeist Stans, Nidwalden, Switzerland
- 1861 Apparition The Clayton Tunnel Railway Disaster Ghosts Clayton Tunnel, South Downs, Sussex, England
- 1861 Haunting Clayton Tunnel Clayton, West Sussex, England
- 1862 Other Ghost Club of London Founded London, England, UK
- 1862 Apparition Antietam Battlefield Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA
- 1862 Haunting Antietam Battlefield Ghosts Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA
- 1862 Poltergeist The Joller Family Poltergeist (Stans) Stans, Nidwalden, Switzerland
- 1862 Apparition The Phantom Soldiers of Antietam Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA
- 1862 Haunting Stones River Battlefield Tennessee, USA
- 1863 Haunting Gettysburg Battlefield Hauntings Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1863 Apparition The Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1863 Apparition The Phantom Armies of Gettysburg Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1863 Haunting Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England Borley, Essex, England
- 1863 Apparition Chickamauga Battlefield Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
- 1863 Haunting Chickamauga Battlefield Ghosts Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
- 1863 Haunting Gettysburg Battlefield Ghosts Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1863 Haunting The Ghosts of Gettysburg Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1863 Haunting Gettysburg Civil War Spirits Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1863 Haunting Devil's Den at Gettysburg Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1863 Haunting Gettysburg Civil War Ghosts Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1863 Haunting London Underground: The Haunted Tube London, England
- 1863 Haunting Gettysburg Ghosts: America's Most Haunted Battlefield Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1863 Haunting Vicksburg Battlefield Mississippi, USA
- 1864 Haunting Clifton Suspension Bridge - The Suicide Bridge Bristol, England
- 1864 Haunting Bachelor's Grove Cemetery Midlothian, Illinois, USA
- 1864 Haunting The Ghosts of Newhaven Fort Newhaven, East Sussex, England
- 1864 Haunting Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Weston, West Virginia, USA
- 1864 Haunting Hot Lake Hotel La Grande, Oregon, USA
- 1864 Possession The Weston Asylum Possession Weston, West Virginia, USA
- 1864 Haunting Weston State Hospital Weston, West Virginia, USA
- 1864 Haunting Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: America's Most Haunted Asylum Weston, West Virginia, USA
- 1865 Apparition The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln White House, Washington D.C., USA
- 1865 Apparition Lincoln's Phantom Funeral Train Chicago & Alton Railroad line, Illinois, USA
- 1865 Apparition Lincoln's Funeral Train Ghost Albany, New York to Springfield, Illinois, USA
- 1865 Haunting Ford's Theatre Washington, D.C., USA
- 1865 Haunting White House Lincoln Ghost Washington, D.C., USA
- 1865 Haunting The Langham Hotel London, England
- 1865 Apparition Lincoln's Ghost Train New York to Illinois, USA
- 1865 Haunting Nottingham Theatre Royal: The Grey Lady's Domain Theatre Square, Nottingham, England
- 1866 Other The Joplin Spook Light Near Joplin, Missouri, USA
- 1866 Haunting National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- 1867 Haunting Aradale Mental Hospital Ararat, Victoria, Australia
- 1867 Cryptid Giglioli's Whale Pacific Ocean near Chile
- 1867 Haunting Theatre Royal Glasgow: The Phantom Piper Hope Street, Glasgow, Scotland
- 1867 Haunting The Sallie House: Kansas's Portal to Terror Atchison, Kansas, USA
- 1869 Haunting The Cutty Sark - Greenwich's Phantom Clipper Crew Greenwich, London, England
- 1869 Haunting The Viaduct Tavern: Newgate's Last Prison Cells and the Ghosts They Hold City of London, England