The 1910s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 67 documented paranormal cases during the 1910s. The earliest dates to 1910 and the most recent to 1919, a span of 9 years.
Reporting during the 1910s is led by the haunting, with 21 hauntings, 18 unexplained events and 13 UFO sightings on file. Of these, 32 are verified against primary-source documentation. Every entry below records what was reported and the sources behind it, rather than asserting a conclusion.
Featured · 1910s
1910 UAP Sighting — FBI Files
Unknown location
Early research into aircraft design showed circular surfaces had good non-stalling characteristics, but were abandoned in favor of designs with longer wings to minimize air slip. The author notes that disc-like aircraft could have existed for decades.
Baleroy Mansion
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
A Chestnut Hill estate occupied for decades by collector and self-described psychic George Meade Easby produced one of Philadelphia's most extensively documented haunting cases, anchored by the chair believed to have caused several deaths.
The British Phantom Airship Panic of 1912-1913
United Kingdom
A wave of mysterious airship sightings swept Britain in the months before World War One. Witnesses reported torpedo-shaped craft with powerful searchlights, assumed to be German Zeppelins - but no evidence of German activity was ever found.
The Woking Phantom Airship
Woking, Surrey, England
Mysterious airships caused a pre-WWI panic in Surrey.
Houston, Texas UFO Sighting, 1915 — FBI Files
Houston, Texas
An FBI-recorded report from 1915 details the discovery of a disc-shaped object near Houston, Texas, suspected by the finder to be a military secret.
The Vanishing of the Sandringham Company
Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire
During an attack near Suvla Bay, the 1/5th Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment was said by New Zealand sappers to have advanced into a strange low cloud that lifted off the ridge and drifted away — taking the men with it. The truth, recovered decades later, was both more ordinary and more terrible.
Archive · 1910s
- 1910 UFO 1910 UAP Sighting — FBI Files Unknown location
- 1910 Other The Hairy Hands of Dartmoor Dartmoor, Devon, England
- 1910 Haunting The London Palladium: Haunted Dressing Rooms Argyll Street, Soho, London, England
- 1910 Poltergeist The Kilkenny Poltergeist Kilkenny, Ireland
- 1910 Haunting Waverly Hills Sanatorium Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- 1910 Haunting Waverly Hills Sanatorium: The Hospital of Death Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- 1910 Haunting Waverly Hills Sanatorium - Death Tunnel Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- 1911 Other Baba Vanga Bulgaria
- 1911 Haunting Baleroy Mansion Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1911 Other Blood Falls Antarctica
- 1911 Possession The Ciarán O'Connor Exorcism County Cork, Ireland
- 1912 UFO The British Phantom Airship Panic of 1912-1913 United Kingdom
- 1912 Cryptid The Hastings Sea Serpent Hastings, East Sussex, England
- 1912 Other The Piltdown Man Mystery Piltdown, East Sussex, England
- 1912 Possession The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund Earling, Iowa, USA
- 1912 Haunting Villisca Moore House Villisca, Iowa, USA
- 1912 Haunting The Villisca Axe Murder House Villisca, Iowa, USA
- 1912 Haunting Manchester Opera House: Shadowy Figures in the Wings Quay Street, Manchester, England
- 1912 Poltergeist The Great Gildersleeves Poltergeist Newark, New Jersey, USA
- 1912 Haunting Titanic Connection Sites - Southampton's Phantom Passengers Southampton & Belfast, UK
- 1912 UFO The Woking Phantom Airship Woking, Surrey, England
- 1912 Haunting The Villisca Axe Murders Villisca, Iowa, USA
- 1912 Haunting Villisca Axe Murder House Villisca, Iowa, USA
- 1913 Other Brown Mountain Lights Brown Mountain, North Carolina, USA
- 1913 Apparition Palace Theatre Ghost New York City, New York, USA
- 1913 Haunting Severalls Hospital Colchester, Essex, England
- 1913 Haunting Severalls Hospital: The Essex Asylum Colchester, Essex, England
- 1914 Apparition The Angels of Mons Mons, Belgium
- 1914 Haunting The Haunting of Casa Loma Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 1914 Haunting The French House Soho, Westminster, Greater London, England
- 1915 UFO Houston, Texas UFO Sighting, 1915 — FBI Files Houston, Texas
- 1915 Other The Vanishing of the Sandringham Company Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire
- 1915 Haunting Lusitania Departure Sites - Cobh's Doomed Liner Cobh (Queenstown), County Cork, Ireland
- 1915 Haunting Nocton Hall Nocton, Lincolnshire, England
- 1915 Other The Sailing Stones of Death Valley Death Valley, California, USA
- 1915 Other Sailing Stones Death Valley, California, USA
- 1915 Other Sailing Stones of Death Valley Death Valley, California
- 1915 Cryptid White River Monster Newport, Arkansas, USA
- 1916 UFO Lieutenant Morgan's Aerial Encounter Rochford, Essex, England
- 1916 Poltergeist The Schaffhausen Poltergeist Schaffhausen, Switzerland
- 1916 Haunting Summerwind Mansion: Wisconsin's Most Haunted Estate Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin, USA
- 1917 Apparition Fatima Miracle of the Sun Fátima, Portugal
- 1917 Other The Cottingley Fairies Cottingley, West Yorkshire, England
- 1917 Other Cottingley Fairies Cottingley, Yorkshire, England
- 1917 Cryptid The Grootslang of the Richtersveld Richtersveld, Northern Cape, South Africa
- 1917 Other The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima Fátima, Portugal
- 1917 Haunting Lake Fundudzi: The Sacred Haunting Soutpansberg, Limpopo, South Africa
- 1917 Haunting Nocton Hall Hospital Nocton, Lincolnshire, England
- 1917 Poltergeist The Portsmouth Dockyard Poltergeist Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
- 1917 UFO The Flaming Onions of World War One Western Front, Europe
- 1918 UFO Helendale, California UFO Sighting (December 27, 1918) — FBI Files Helendale, California
- 1918 Other The Axeman of New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- 1918 Cryptid Megalodon Survival Reports Pacific Ocean
- 1918 Cryptid Orang Pendek of Kerinci Kerinci-Seblat National Park, Sumatra
- 1918 Other USS Cyclops: The Navy's Greatest Mystery Bermuda Triangle, Atlantic Ocean
- 1918 Other USS Cyclops Disappearance Bermuda Triangle
- 1919 UFO Chicago, Illinois UFO Sighting (May 20, 1919) — FBI Files Chicago, Illinois
- 1919 UFO Fairfield, Ohio UFO Sighting (June 26, 1919) — USAF Files Fairfield, Ohio
- 1919 UFO Godman AFB, Ft Knox UFO Sighting (7 February 1919) — USAF Files Godman AFB, Ft Knox
- 1919 UFO Nagano Weather Station, Tokyo UFO Sighting (January 25, 1919) — USAF Files Nagano Weather Station, Tokyo
- 1919 UFO Suwa Weather Station, Tokyo UFO Sighting (January 25, 1919) — USAF Files Suwa Weather Station, Tokyo
- 1919 UFO Tida Weather Station, Tokyo UFO Sighting (January 25, 1919) — USAF Files Tida Weather Station, Tokyo
- 1919 Poltergeist Minidoka Poltergeist Minidoka, Idaho, USA
- 1919 Other Charlie No-Face (The Green Man) Western Pennsylvania, USA
- 1919 Other Charlie No-Face (Green Man) Beaver County, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1919 Other Green Man of Pennsylvania Beaver County, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1919 Haunting Scapa Flow Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom