Year File · 1881 4 cases on file
Year File

1881 · paranormal events

4 catalogued cases recorded in 1881.

3 Haunting 1 Apparition
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Featured · 1881

Phosphorescent sailing ship silhouette glowing on dark predawn ocean
Apparition 1881

HMS Bacchante and the Flying Dutchman Sighting

Off the Cape of Good Hope, South Atlantic

The future King George V and thirteen members of the crew of HMS Bacchante recorded in the ship's log a phosphorescent sailing vessel passing across their bow before vanishing into clear weather, in what remains the most prominent eyewitness account of the legendary Flying Dutchman.
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Archive · 1881