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Documented events, historical claims and public reports. Event dates and review status are listed separately; unidentified does not mean extraterrestrial.

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⌖ Adams area, Robertson County, Tennessee1817–1821 in the later Bell family tradition

The Bell Witch: a voice retold decades later

An invisible speaker torments children, argues with visitors and allegedly claims responsibility for a farmer’s death.

Insufficient evidence#0219

⌖ Treasurer’s House, YorkFebruary 1953 according to Harry Martindale’s later account

The York cellar: Harry Martindale’s Romans

An apprentice recalled Roman soldiers walking through a cellar wall, visible only from the knees upwards.

Insufficient evidence#0217

⌖ Bolsover Castle, DerbyshireUndated staff accounts

Bolsover: a boy among visitors and a scream at closing time

Castle staff recount footsteps, touches and a little boy supposedly holding visitors’ hands without their noticing him.

Insufficient evidence#0215

⌖ Blickling Hall, NorfolkUndated tradition; an annual return is associated with 19 May

Blickling: Anne Boleyn’s headless carriage

A local legend brings the executed queen back to her family estate in a white dress, carrying her head in a carriage with a headless t…

Insufficient evidence#0213

⌖ Edo in the narrative; no exact incident site establishedThe setting of a literary retelling; no exact episode year established

The Peony Lantern: a sweetheart returning after death

A samurai welcomes a dead woman as living, while his servant sees a very different embrace.

Insufficient evidence#0205

⌖ Tokyo: Kii-no-kuni-zaka as a literary settingAn undated story set in old Tokyo

Mujina on the Akasaka slope: the face that vanished twice

A merchant tries to comfort a weeping woman, flees her featureless face and seeks safety beside a noodle seller.

Insufficient evidence#0203

⌖ Historical Musashi Province; the exact village is not establishedAn undated legend from historical Musashi Province

Yuki-onna: the promise a woodcutter broke at home

A young man survives a snowy night, keeps its secret and years later recognises the visitor in his wife.

Insufficient evidence#0201

⌖ Shimonoseki in Hearn’s narrative; the precise scene is not locatedLegendary time; the musician’s encounter is undated

Hoichi the Earless: a musician before the court of the dead

A blind performer believes he is playing for an aristocratic audience until temple servants discover him among graves.

Insufficient evidence#0199

⌖ Berwick-upon-Tweed; approximate town locationAn undated late-twelfth-century narrative

The Berwick revenant: dogs, night-time fear and a fire

William of Newburgh recounts a buried wealthy man reportedly seen at night amid barking dogs.

Insufficient evidence#0197