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Contents Acknowledgments, Introduction, Alabama, 1870: Rain Mystery, 1882: Falling Perch, 1888-1889: Ghost Breaks Up Marriage, 1889: Scaring the Horse, 1897: Snake from Toe, 1900: Flying Cross, 1900: Shot by a Light, 1910: Rain without Explanation, Alaska, 1889 and After: City in the Mist, 1890: The Last Mammoth, Arizona, 1900: The Ghost Fires Back, Arkansas, 1890: Merry Spirit, 1894: The Bells Toll, California, 1851: Raining the Unimaginable, 1859: Apparition at the Forecastle Door, 1860: "The Shape of a Huge Man," 1868: Giant Snake on the Road, 1879: A Rain of Water Lizards, 1882: Attacked by an Enormous Snake, 1882: Flying Train, Flying Reptile, 1882: Ghost in a Circle, 1883: "A Large Mass of Glowing Matter," 1885: Drumming in the Night, 1885: Crickets from Clouds, 1886: Big Shower of Little Frogs, 1886: Ashes and Cinders, 1886: Fireboy, 1888: Ball of Fire Too Closely Encountered, 1888 and Beyond: Phantom Giant, 1890: Raining Crabs, 1890: Serpent of Land and Water, 1891: "What Is It?," 1891: "This Unknown Creature," 1891: Enigmas, 1891: "A Gigantic Lizard," 1891: Boiling Water Falling, 1892: Mounted Phantoms, 1893: Astronomical Oddity, 1896: Airships Sailing and Stolen, 1897: Airship Again, 1897: Fast-Moving Light, 1897: Vampire Attacks, 1898: The Night before Last I Had the Strangest Dream, 1905: Screaming Sky, 1909: Mystery Ship over the Imperial Valley, 1912: Mysterious Ocean Thing, Colorado, 1892: Massive Space Rock, 1895: Luminous Snow, 1897: Light in the Spring Night, 1897: "Genuine Flying Machine," Connecticut, 1855: "A Brilliant Red Ball of Fire," 1867: South Canaan Serpent, 1882: Anomalous Ocean Disturbance, 1882: Comet Or ... ?, 1886: Gnome, 1886: Phantom Passenger, 1886: "Huge Sea Serpent," 1888: "As Though by a Gigantic Plow," 1892: Musical Thunder, 1906: Strange Flying Machine, 1908: Groton Poltergeist, 1911: Worms in a Snowstorm, Delaware, 1904: Anomalous Cloud, Florida, 1840s and After: Phantom Volcano, 1878: "Dumfounded at Seeing Such a Monster," 1881: "A Monster Unlike Anything Ever Seen or Heard of Before," 1887: "As High as a Good Sized Man," 1890: Mermaid on the Line, 1894: Gulf Lights, 1895: "A Wicked Looking Head," 1899: Snake in the Air, Georgia, 1875: Lightning Figures, 1880: "Wonders of a Meteor," 1881: Ghost Machine, Phantom Engineer, 1881: Fiery Whirlwind, 1882: "Supernatural Monster," 1882: "A Very Large Dog with a Lamp Perched upon Its Head," 1883: A Snake Where No Snake Should Have Been, 1883: Invisible Rappers, 1883: "Aerial Cyclone on the Wing," 1884: "Mysterious Luminary," 1886: A Spook in the Air, 1888: Angels, Cross in the Sky, and a Day of Terror, 1888: Subterranean Mystery Heat, 1889: "Like a Terrible Cyclone," 1889: Hellhound on Their Trail, 1889: "A Woman Dressed in White and of Giant Size," 1890: Perpetual Rain, 1891: Snake-Headed Fish, 1892: Fireballs All Around, 1892: The Train Passed Over Her, 1892: The Moon Vanishes, 1893: Mysterious Dog-Killer, 1893: Invisible Rock-Thrower, 1894: Barking Monster, 1895: "The Most Loathsome-Looking Animal That Ever Inhabited This Earth," 1895: Balls of Lightning Fire, 1897: A Gentle Shower from Nowhere, 1902: Goat Ghost, 1910: Elusive Illumination, Idaho, 1894: Shower of Salt, Illinois, 1859: Apparition's Cold Glare, 1867: "A Vast Monster, Part Fish and Part Serpent," 1869: Millions of Somethings, 1870: Artifact from a Lost Civilization?, 1870: "Immensely Awful Sky Battle," 1882: Fire-Breathing Phantom, 1883: Lake Monster in Distress, 1883: Lights, Sounds, Grisly Scene, 1883: Green Frogs in the Falling Rain, 1883-1884: Lake Michigan Monster, 1886: Mirage Train, 1888: Phantom Train Wreck, Ghostly Trainmen, 1890: Neither Venus Nor Meteor, 1890: "The Bridge Is Burned!," 1891: Balls of Fire in the Street, 1892: Collision?, 1893: Suicide Reenacted, 1893: "Mounted on a Magnificent Horse," 1894: Ball-Lightning Destruction, 1896: Colored Snow, 1896: Giant Reptile, 1897: Airship over Chicago, 1897: Airship Wrench, 1897: Verses concerning "That Airship," 1900-1935: The Universe according to Zion, 1902: Ghostly Woman in Black, 1902: Well-Dressed Phantom Female, 1907: Watseka Wonder, 1909: Ghost with Fiery Eyes, 1910: Airship or Balloon?, Indiana, 1839: Wild Child, 1870: Rock Attacks, 1870: "The Spirit of a Beautiful Little Girl," 1871: Through the Looking Glass, 1879: Chased by a Dragon, 1881: Phantom Boat, 1883: Ghost in the Railroad Yard, 1883: Hairy Female Biped, 1884: "A Sudden Burst of Ruddy Light," 1886: Figures in the Night, 1887: Ghostly Giant, 1888: Flying Fish, 1890: Fainting the Dead Away, Circa 1890: Cry from the Sky, 1891: Immense Rattler, 1891: A Shroud with Fins, 1892: Phantom Prankster, 1892: Strange Snow, 1892: "White Robed Visions Walking," 1892: Serpent of Horse-Shoe Pond, 1892: Serpent of Big Swan Pond, 1893 and Before: On the Banks of the Wabash, and Elsewhere, 1893: Snake of Fire, Ropes of Ice, 1894: Omen in the Oats, 1894: Disappearing in Mid Air, 1894: Shower of Frogs, 1894: Mud Mermaids, 1894: Fifer's Music from Beyond, 1895 and Before: A Huge Reptile, 1895: Ghost Spurns Cop, 1895: "A Legion of Impalpable Forms," 1896: Masonic Temple in the Sky, 1897: Airship over Indiana, 1897: The Medium and the Airship, 1897: Airship over Vincennes, 1897: "A Strange Animal Which Resembles a Man," 1897-1898: Ghost in a Fedora, 1903: The Not-So-Real Airship Passes, 1903: A Team of Ghost Horses, 1904-1905: Swaying Lights on the Line, 1906: Airship Landing, 1913: Light in the River, 1927 and Before: Legend into Life, Iowa, 1864: "In the Habiliments of the Tomb," 1864: Odd Luminous Phenomena in the Heavens, 1867: "Chivalric Ghost," 1874: Poltergeist at the Paint Station, 1875: Trotting Ghost, 1880: Captured Serpent Alleged, 1883: "A Literal Shower of Birds," 1884: Wild and Hairy Woman, 1885: Bizarre Haunting, 1895: "Spectral Lantern," 1897: Airships over Western Iowa, 1897: Airships over Eastern Iowa, 1897: Scaring the Horses, 1899: "Lady in Black," 1901: Coal House Ghost, 1907: Ghost in a Mine Shaft, Kansas, 1875: Flying Serpent Preserved, 1882: Shower of Pebbles, 1882: Rainbow Cloud, 1882: "An Etching on the Darkness," 1886: Ghost of an Injured Child, 1887: Ghost of the Narrows, 1891: Personal Precipitation, 1892: Mud Fall, 1894: War in the Heavens, 1896: Unknown Aerial Object, 1897: Monstrous Reptilian Creature:, 1897: Railroad-Bridge Specter, 1899: Picture in a Horse's Eye, 1919: Multiple Balls of Light, Kentucky, 1857: "Dreadful Reptile," 1866: "Some Demoniacal Personage," 1868: Centaur on the Road, 1876: The Kentucky Phenomenon, 1879: Child Flying, 1880: Leaper and Flyer, 1886: Scenes from a Haunted House, 1893: Light in Winter, 1893: Colored Discs, 1896: Pink Creature, 1897: "A Huge Oblong Shape," Louisiana, 1890: Dancing Star, 1891: "Strange Feathered Monster," 1892: Shrieks, Laughter, and Screams in the Night, 1897: "A Machine of Unique Invention," Maine, 1854: "The Appearance of a Miniature Human Being," 1870: "By Some Unknown Power," 1882: Path of an Immense Serpent, 1885: Captured Sea Creature, 1891: "Emanating from Some Heavenly Body," 1896: Haunted Town, Maryland, 1860: Light upon the Rail, 1874: Spewing Ball Lightning, 1879: "A Substance ... That Looked Like Snow," 1879: Anomalous Illumination, 1881: His Soul Goes Marching through the Clouds, 1882 and Before: A Monster Crossing the Road, 1883: Yellow Rain, 1883: Red, White, and Blue Lights, 1883: The Red, White, and Blue, 1884: Suddenly, Hordes of Crickets, 1885: Ball Lightning on the Track, 1889: Luminous Cylinder, 1889: Silent Spook, 1894: Creature with No Head, 1894: Strange Stars, 1895: Market House Spook, 1898: Phantom Woman Minus Head, 1901: 500 Frogs, 1915: "Luminous Ball of Large Proportions," Massachusetts, 1837: "Monster ... from Nowhere," 1841: Sky Squid, 1849: Sea Serpent More Than 100 Feet Long, 1850: Black Rainbow, 1855: This Train Is Bound for Plymouth, 1864: The Blob, Circa 1869: Specter Crew, 1870: Red Light, Invisible Train, 1875: Carrying the Serpent, 1883: "Hydra-Headed Monster," 1885: "Bright Line of Light," 1886: Bug-Eyed, 1887: Frogs from Rain, 1892: Oceanquake and Luminosity, 1893: Floating Hand, 1894: Ghost in a Boat, 1900: Like a Horse Shoe with Arms, 1909: Zigzagging Light, Michigan, 1868: Light as Bright as Day, 1870: "Monster Resembling a Snake," 1878: Ghost in the Woodpile, 1884: Walled Lake Reptile, 1884: Fall of Chalk, 1884: "Rainstorm of Stones," 1885: Cemetery Light, 1892: "Singular Whirring Noise," 1894: Superior Serpent, 1895: Swamp Fire, 1897: Lights on the Water, 1897: Space Giant, Minnesota, 1872: "My Body Lies Buried," 1872: "Awful Apparition of the Dead Man," 1875: "Some Monster as Yet New to Naturalists," 1881: Strange Flying Phenomenon, 1883 and Before: Shooting at the Serpent, 1887: "Countless Millions of Bugs," 1889: Dirty Snow, 1892: Miracles at St. Michael's, 1897: Martians over Minnesota, 1897: Insect Shower, 1898 and After: Rune Stone, Late 1800s and After: Old Oscar, Mississippi, 1876: Mystery Platform, 1877: Mississippi Monster, 1878: Rumors of a Monster, 1889: Giant Snake, Gold Coin, 1896 and Before: Otherworldly Goat, Missouri, 1873: Rocks and Gravel, 1874: Talking Specter on a White Horse, 1877: The Dragon and the Bull, 1878: Shower of Fish, Lizards, and Leeches, 1883: Exploding Ball of Fire, 1887: "A White and Airy Object," 1887: "Ghostly Cable Train," 1890: "Pink Eyes and Yellow Wings," 1890: Paralyzed by Electrical Terror, 1890: Fatal Electrical Anomaly, 1891: Eaten by a Giant Snake?, 1897: Airship Landing, 1911: Spotted Snake with Wings, Montana, 1867: Unknown Animal, 1886: A Fatal Case of Venomous Snake, 1901: "Huge Star Fish" Overhead, 1915: "A Huge Black Mass" Overhead, Nebraska, 1889: "Ghost like Object," 1897: Raining Airships, 1920s: Alkali Lake Monster, Nevada, 1868: "Beautiful Celestial Phenomenon," 1877: Turbaned Ghost, 1879: Mystery of the Wahhoo, 1879: Nature of the Beast, 1882: Green Storm, 1882-1883: Footprints in Stone, 1886: After the Rain, 1888: Fish and Frogs from the Sky, 1892: Ghost of the Red Barn, 1894: "Mysterious Visitor with a Fanlike Tail," 1896: Airship Inventor, 1907: Sky Ship, New Hampshire, 1882: Vanishing Star, 1894: Merbeings, 1909: Nocturnal Lights, New Jersey, 1873: No-Show Ghost, 1879: Attacked by Ball Lightning, 1885: Red Suspenders, No Head, 1885: Whizzing, Fast Giant Ghost, 1886: "Strange-Looking Object, Clad in Black," 1886: "The Spirit ... Was Wide Awake," 1886: "Instantaneous Photography by Lightning," 1887: Apparition with a Gashed Throat, 1889: Ball and Stars, 1891: Hoop-Snake, 1892: Mysterious Balloon, 1894: The Apparition on Eagle Rock, 1896: Shrieking Ghost, 1897: "Strange Meteor," 1897: "In the Clouds," 1899: "A Bloody, Mangled Wraith," 1901: Spirit or Joker, 1905: A Lantern from the Sky, 1909: Club-Haunting Ghost, 1911: Canal Serpent, New Mexico, 1880: On the China-New Mexico-New York Line, New York, 1822: Mystery Light, 1828: Grasshopper on Her Back, 1840: Between the Earth and the Moon, 1842: Extraordinary Aerolite with Bizarre Effects, 1843: "Nearly as Large as the Moon Itself," 1843: Fantastic Mirage, 1852: Mysterious Sound, 1855: Big Serpent in a Small Pond, 1858: Unmeteorlike "Meteor," 1860: Snake from on High, 1866: "Minotaur, Man, Beast, or Demon," 1868 and After: Giant, 1874: Blood from Nowhere, 1875: Balls of Fire in Church, 1878: Snow Worms, 1878: Spirit Fire, 1880: Sailing on Bat's Wings, 1882: Visions of Mary, 1883: Interplanetary Sword, 1883: Lights along the Track, 1885: Mountain Light, 1886: A Soap-Bubble Sky, 1886: "A Marine Monster 100 Feet Long," 1886: Ghostly Boatman, 1891: Fallen with the Snow?, 1891: Enigmatic Fog, 1891: Unparalleled Storm, 1891: "A Ball of Liquid Fire," 1892: Lightning in a Ball, 1894: A Living Cloud, 1895: Toads from Clouds, 1896: "A Wild Unearthly Shriek of Laughter," 1896: Asylum Phantom, 1896: Floating across the Road, 1896: Angel Overhead, 1897: Lawless Airship, 1897: "Marvel of the Skies," 1897: Leaping Ghost, 1898: "A Perfect Cross," 1907: Missing Body, North Carolina, 1806: Ghost Riders, 1850: A Shower of Flesh and Blood, 1860: Illuminated Mystery Objects, 1874: Giants in the Earth, 1876: Flesh Fall, 1880: "The Shape of a Huge Spotted Serpent," 1882: "Comet"-Spooked Horses, 1882: Woman or Creature?, 1884: A Rectangle of Fallen Flesh, 1888: Underground Turbulence, 1890 and Before: Specter in the Spring, 1897: "Great Sheet of Flame," 1897: "A Brilliant Floating Mass," 1897: Fall of Unknown Material, 1900: Black Cloud, Black Rain, 1900: Howling and Prowling, 1904: Sailing Snakes, 1908: Ghosts in Jail, 1913 and Beyond: Brown Mountain Lights, North Dakota, 1885: "Hurled from Some Planetary Wreck," 1899: Ships in an Atmospheric Ocean, Ohio, 1826: Worlds within the World, 1832: Fall of Slimy Material, 1837: Graveyard of Little People, 1859: Spirits, 1859: Image of a Rattlesnake, 1873: Headless Ghost, Phantom Fires, 1877: Rural Poltergeist, 1880: Supernatural Flames, 1881: "One of the Most Disagreeable Spooks on Record," 1881: Fear of a Serpent, 1883: Misogynist Phantom, 1884: Assaulting a Ghost, 1884: Lights, Moans, Figures, 1884: Square White Light, 1884: "Not a Pleasant Looking Customer," 1884: Light amid the Snow, 1885: Haunted by Fireball, 1887: Woman in White on the Track, 1887: "A Tall, White Object," 1887: "Monster Reptile," 1887: Hazards of Drinking from a Spring, 1888: Warning by a Headless Ghost, 1888: Rain of Stones and Broken Pottery, 1888: Circle of Fire, 1888: "Men of Gigantic Stature," 1889: Unexplained Illumination, 1889: Snails Falling, 1889: Giant Snake Ate Giant Man, 1889-1890: The Conductor Returns, Late 1800s: Flying Entity, Black Dog, 1890 and Before: Big Snake of Upper Sandusky, 1890: Swallowed a Frog, 1891: Figures in the Glass, 1891: Headless Horse Horror, 1892: Mystery Mist, 1893: "A Frightful Object in White," 1894: Pale Rider, 1894: Late-Night Visitant, 1894: "Spirits of the Air," 1894: Lights in the Snow, 1895: Sign of the Cross, 1895: Finger-Pointing Cloud, 1895: "Rather Peculiar Ghost Actions," 1895: Lights and Heavy Bodies Falling, 1897: Dangerous Visitor, 1897: Crazy about the Airship, 1897: Log-Throwing Snake, 1898: Over Lake Erie, 1898: Bullet Strikes Ghost, 1899: Skeleton of "Dazzling Brightness," 1902: Prowling Ghost, 1902: "Dressed Entirely in Black," 1905: Haunting Lights, 1905: "Blue Bells," 1906: Bolt out of the Blue, 1908: Nerve-Wracking Ghost, 1908: "Awful Thing" in a Long Black Cape, 1908: A Sign from Above, 1909: Luminous Enigma, 1909: "The Coils of a Huge Snake," 1909: Church Phantom, 1909: Flying Bucket, 1910: Light on the Lake, 1911: Unexplained Red Light, 1911: Out of the Sky, Oklahoma, 1912: Raining Toads, Oregon, 1870: In the Mines, 1896: Airship Madness, 1896: "Immense Ball of Fire Flying through Space," Pennsylvania, 1849: Caterpillars in the Snow, 1857: "A Sulphurous Mass," 1864: "A Beautiful White Rose," 1867: Poltergeist Speaks, 1869: "It Seemed to Inspire Terror," 1872: Phantom in the Coal, 1873 and After: Haunted Railway, 1879: Brimstone Snow, 1880s: Giant in a Vault, 1881: Vision or Hallucination?, 1883: A Ghost, Madness, and Death, 1884: Headless Man with Lantern, 1885: "The Head in One of Its Hands," 1885: "A Woman, Spectral in Appearance," 1885: Phantom Freight, 1885: Ghost on the Heights, 1886: Frog in Coal, 1886: Slimed, 1887: "Monster Air Snake," 1889: Spectral Driver, Horses Breathing Fire, 1889: Apparitional Black Dog, Late 1800s: Otherworldly Reptile, 1890: Ball of Fire, 1890: Ghostly Procession, 1892: "Black Ghost," 1892: A Monster with Heart-Shaped Scales, 1895: Insect-Black Snow, 1897: Flying Cigar, 1897: "Swung by an Unseen Hand," 1902: Cross on the Moon, 1903: Raining Frogs, 1906: Winged Water Serpent, 1907: Unidentified Flying Object, 1907: "Volumes of Flames from Its Mouth," 1908: Apparitional Ball of Fire, 1908: "The Ghost Answers the Telephone," 1911: "A Black Snake between 12 and 15 Feet Long," Rhode Island, 1887-1888: Entity and Anomalous Light, 1888: "As Big Around as a Barrel," 1896: Ghost "as Big as an Elephant," South Carolina, 1886: Falling Stones, 1892: Alligator Man, 1897: Sky Serpent, 1901: "Swimming between the Rows," South Dakota, 1897: "Queer Lights Floating in the Air," 1903: "Some Gaseous Matter in the Air," Tennessee, 1841: Blood and Flesh from a Red Cloud, 1853: Strange Lights in the Night, 1869: Pillar of Fire, 1876: Pygmy Skeletons, 1877: A Rain of Somethings, 1880: Into Thin Air, 1891: Fishes with the Snow, 1891: Yellow Substance, 1907: "More Like Angels Than Mortals," 1908: Headless-Ghost Omen, Texas, 1873: A Dragon in the Clouds, 1877: "Aerial Fireworks," 1878: Falling Leaves, 1880s: Misty Ghost across the Track, 1885: A Plague of Frogs, 1887: Strange Storm, 1888: "This Weird Visitor from the Great Unknown," 1897: The Landing at Beaumont, 1897: The Beaumont Airship, 1899: Dellschau and the Aeros, 1908: Man in a Mirror, 1908: "Not Less Than 200 Feet Long," 1909: Paluxy Tracks, 1913: Death of a Little Green Man, Utah, 1868 and Beyond: Monster Mammals, 1873: Monster in Pursuit, 1894: A "Uniform Hat" Cloud, 1894: Serpent Comes to Eden, Vermont, 1907: Fiery Torpedo, Virginia, 1853: Cod Fall, 1856: Black Bugs on White Snow, 1856: Invisible Train, 1862: Sounds of Silence, 1863: Cloud Rolls and Mystery Soldiers, 1863: "Beautiful Effects of Light and Electricity," 1868: The Minotaur of Prince William County, 1869: Poltergeist Goes on Trial, 1870: Vision of a "Horrid Beast," 1871: Buchanan Poltergeist, 1882: Virginia Midland Phantom, 1882: Strange Meteors, 1887: Civil War Phantom, 1889: Rocks Fall, 1895: Falling, Sparkling Stones, 1904: Fall of Leaves, 1905: "An Ordinary Snake Attached to a Strange Looking Bird," 1909: "An Automobile without Wheels," Washington, 1871: Rain from the Clear Heavens, 1892: Ghostly Headlight, 1893: "Marine Monster," 1893: "Hateful Object," 1893: It Came from Beneath the Sea, 1897: "Countries of Spiritual Beings," 1911: Face at the Window, West Virginia, 1878: "White Horse Swimming," 1884: A Murdered Man Tells His Story, 1893: Monster on the Ohio, 1895: Peculiar Light, 1896: Mystery Monster Bird, Early 1900s: Birdman, 1908: Unexplained Brilliant Light, Wisconsin, 1853: Unknown Water Animal, 1860: "Wonderful Freak of Nature," 1867: Man Beast, 1881: "A Cloud of Smoke and Flame," 1882: "A Big Thing Out There," 1883 and After: Lake Serpents, 1886: Dark Day, 1888: The Supernatural on Trial, 1889: Lake's Sea Lion, 1890 and Before: "Ten Feet High and Six or Seven Inches in Diameter," 1895: Nocturnal Enigma, 1896: Kite or Airship?, 1897: "Terrific Aerial Monster," 1897: Airship over Milwaukee, Wyoming, 1890 and After: Whispers, 1896: Raining Clay, Index,
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Ghosts -- United States.
Curiosities and wonders -- United States.