Gothic.Black · Paranormal Files

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Documentation archive — ratings measure evidence volume, not truth.

113 published50 regions259 evidence & media

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Villisca Axe Murder House

Active · Rating A · Villisca, Iowa · 9 June 1912

Sometime after midnight on 10 June 1912, eight people were killed with an axe as they slept in a house at 508 East Second Street in Villisca, Iowa. They were Josiah B. Moore, 43, h…

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Fouke Monster

Historic · Rating C · Fouke, Arkansas · 1 May 1971

On the night of 1 May 1971, Bobby Ford, 25, told authorities that a hairy, manlike animal had grabbed him at a rented house on U.S. 71 near Fouke, in Miller County, Arkansas. He pu…

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Beast of Bray Road

Historic · Rating C · Near Elkhorn, Wisconsin · 29 December 1991

On 29 December 1991, The Week, a Walworth County newspaper, printed two accounts of a wolfish animal on Bray Road, outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Lorianne Endrizzi, then unnamed, said…

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Brown Mountain Lights

Active · Rating B · Brown Mountain, North Carolina · 13 September 1913

Lights over Brown Mountain, a long ridge north of Morganton in Burke County, North Carolina, are a standing local report. The first known newspaper account is the Charlotte Daily O…

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Marfa Lights

Active · Rating B · Marfa, Texas

Lights over Mitchell Flat, south of U.S. 90 east of Marfa, Texas, are a standing local report. The town’s telling starts in 1883, when cowhand Robert Reed Ellison is said to have t…

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Travis Walton Incident

Historic · Rating B · Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona · 5 November 1975

On the evening of 5 November 1975, Travis Walton, 22, disappeared from a woodcutting crew in the Turkey Springs area of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, near Heber, Arizona.…

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Cash-Landrum Incident

Historic · Rating B · Near Huffman, Texas · 29 December 1980

On the night of 29 December 1980, Betty Cash was driving Vickie Landrum and Landrum’s seven-year-old grandson, Colby, home to Dayton, Texas, after dinner in New Caney. On Farm to M…

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Falcon Lake Incident

Historic · Rating B · Manitoba, Canada · 20 May 1967

On the afternoon of 20 May 1967, Stefan Michalak of Winnipeg flagged down an RCMP cruiser on the highway at Falcon Beach, Manitoba. He told Constable G. A. Solotki that about noon,…

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Roswell Incident

Historic · Rating A · Roswell, New Mexico · 8 July 1947

On 8 July 1947, Roswell Army Air Field announced that the 509th Bomb Group had recovered a flying disc from a ranch northwest of town. The same afternoon, Eighth Air Force headquar…

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Flatwoods Monster

Historic · Rating C · Flatwoods, West Virginia · 12 September 1952

On the evening of 12 September 1952, boys in Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia, saw a bright object cross the sky and thought it had come down on the Fisher farm. Kathleen M…

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Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

Historic · Rating C · Near Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky · 21 August 1955

Around 11 p.m. on 21 August 1955, two carloads of adults and children pulled up at the Hopkinsville police station. One car had Pennsylvania plates. They said they had been fightin…

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Betty and Barney Hill Encounter

Historic · Rating C · White Mountains, New Hampshire · 19 September 1961

On the night of 19–20 September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, were driving home on U.S. Route 3 from a trip to Niagara Falls. South of Colebrook they wa…