Apparitions

Visual manifestations including full-bodied figures, shadow people, phantom encounters, and spectral sightings.

316 Cases

-1028–2025 Span

124 Verified

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Cloaked figure standing at edge of wooded burial ground at dusk

1980

Killing Fields Apparitions, Cambodia

Choeung Ek, Cambodia

Cambodian survivors, monks, and visitors to the former Khmer Rouge execution sites describe lingering apparitions, sourceless weeping, and a heaviness in the air that resists ordinary explanation.

Cloth-bound shrouded figure standing in narrow tropical alley at night

1975

Pocong Street Sightings of Indonesia

Jakarta and Java, Indonesia

Across Indonesia, a distinctive shrouded figure known as the pocong is reported in alleyways, banyan trees, and graveyards, and during the COVID-19 pandemic was even deployed as a pandemic enforcement measure.

Vintage sepia-toned image of a dark train in an empty subway tunnel

1970

The Moscow Metro Phantom Train

Moscow, Russia

Late-shift workers in the Moscow Metro have for half a century reported a black, unscheduled train of older rolling stock that runs the Koltsevaya line in the small hours, carrying passengers no one has ever clearly seen.

Cloaked figure standing in jungle mist near concertina perimeter wire

1967

Long Binh Ghost Battalion Encounters

Long Binh, Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam

U.S. Army personnel stationed at the vast Long Binh logistics complex in southern Vietnam reported, on multiple nights between 1967 and 1972, a column of unidentified soldiers passing through the perimeter wire and disappearing toward the rubber plantations beyond.

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