1848 · paranormal events

6 catalogued cases recorded in 1848.

3 Haunting 2 Other 1 Cryptid

Selected Cases

Featured · 1848

Calm ocean horizon with ship silhouette and dark serpentine wake

Cryptid 1848

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.

All Cases

Archive · 1848

1848 Haunting Denbigh Asylum - The North Wales Hospital Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales
1848 Haunting Denbigh Asylum: The North Wales Hospital Denbigh, North Wales
1848 Other Fox Sisters Hydesville, New York
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 Other The Fox Sisters and Birth of Spiritualism Hydesville, New York, USA