SOURCES
SOURCES
Every source behind the map, the stories and the registry — the ones we used, the ones we checked and set aside, and the leads not yet read, each with the reason. Where a work is under copyright you see only the passage we relied on and a link to the rest; public-domain books open in full in the Reading Room.
110 OF 1077 SOURCES
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USEDacc. no. THC 0032'
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USEDArtist House Key West, 'History'
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USEDAtlas Obscura
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USEDBBC, 2022 ('On March 29, 1912, it sold at Sotheby's for £405')
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USEDBBC, 2022 (made 1909–1911 for Sotheran's; unsold in Britain, consigned to Gabriel Wells)
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CHECKED — NOT USEDBela Lugosi's mirror (Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum)
Only the museum's own account of the mirror; no independent record of its history found. Same rule as Peggy and Harold in batch 1.
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USEDBlue Sky Boys, Bluebird B-7755 (1937)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDBraxton Democrat, Sept 1952
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USEDBritain Express ('The museum in Bruar opened in 1969')
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USEDBritish Museum collection record EA 22542, registration 1889,0731.1
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USEDBritish Museum museum number 1966,1001.1 (the record page refused a direct read on 2026-10-07)
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LEAD — NOT YET READCastelinho da Rua Apa, São Paulo
A São Paulo house known for a reported haunting. The English Wikipedia search returned only an actor; nothing was read. Needs the Portuguese record before it can be mapped.
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LEAD — NOT YET READCastillo de Piria (Piriápolis)
Francisco Piria, Pittamiglio's mentor in alchemy. Not yet read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READCRIDOVNI — Uruguayan Air Force commission for the reception and investigation of UFO reports
No Wikipedia article in English or Spanish found on 2026-09-30. Needs a primary source before Uruguay's UFO record can be mapped.
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USEDDiocese of Salford, 'Wardley Hall' ('kept in a niche at the side of the main staircase'; 1960 forensic tests)
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USEDDiocese of Salford, 'Wardley Hall' (a relative 'rescued the skull, by night, and guarded it in a secret place in Wardley Hall')
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USEDDock Boggs, Brunswick 132 (1927)
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USEDDread Central (not for sale)
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USEDFrank Proffitt / Frank Warner recording (1938)
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USEDFrederick papers, Nov–Dec 1932
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USEDGrafton Sentinel, June 1964
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USEDGray Barker, 'The Monster and the Saucer', Fate, Jan 1953
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USEDGrayson & Whitter, Victor 1929
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USEDGreenbrier Independent, 1897 trial coverage
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USEDHagerstown Mail, 1909
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USEDHagerty UK
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USEDHagerty UK ('a week before the fatal crash')
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USEDHagerty UK ('from 1957 to 1959, it went on a gruesome tour')
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USEDHeron-Allen's letter, held with the stone at the Natural History Museum (as quoted by National Geographic)
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USEDHistoric Royal Palaces, the Crown Jewels
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USEDHoustonia, September 2019
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USEDInput, 2021
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USEDInput, 2021 (eBay sale Feb 2004, $280)
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USEDInput, 2021 (eBay sale June 2003, $140)
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USEDJ. James, 'On a Roman Ring', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 6 (1881–82)
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USEDJCK, 2006
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USEDJCK, 2006 ('sold for $352,000 on October 11, 2006')
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USEDJeweller Magazine (lot 433, US$352,000)
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USEDJoe Nickell, Skeptical Inquirer, Nov/Dec 2000
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDKentucky Historical Society, 'New Details About the Cursed Chest'
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USEDKey West Art & Historical Society, 'Robert the Doll'
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USEDKey West Art & Historical Society, 'Robert the Doll' ('In 1994 she donated Robert to the Fort East Martello Museum')
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USEDKey West Art & Historical Society, 'Robert the Doll' (house bought 1974; moved six years later)
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USEDKirkus (the Tinneys' purchase, mid-20th century)
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USEDlater retellings ('hit headlines in 2014')
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USEDMental Floss (given to Bagans by Cindy Lee)
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USEDMental Floss (the museum's account)
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USEDMildred Darby, writing as 'Andrew Merry', essays in The Occult Review, 1908–1909, describing her own experiences at Leap Castle
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USEDMilwaukee Sentinel coverage (James B. Nelson), 1988
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USEDMotor Sport Magazine
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USEDMotor Sport Magazine (Raskin: the wreck was bought by Eschrich, not Barris as Barris claimed)
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USEDMuseum of Appalachia, Norris TN — death-crown collection
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USEDNational Geographic
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USEDNational Geographic ('In 1944 Heron-Allen's daughter donated the gem and letter')
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USEDNational Trust Collections, NT 719789
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USEDNational Trust Collections, NT 719789 ('bequeathed to the National Trust in 1956')
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USEDNational Trust Collections, NT 719789 ('discovered around 1785 by a farmer ploughing near Silchester')
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USEDNCpedia, 'Silver, Frances Stewart'
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USEDon display from April 2013 (Wikipedia, Ring of Silvianus)
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USEDOxford Magazine ('acquired by the Pitt Rivers in 1926 and is displayed in the museum with its original, handwritten label')
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USEDPanacea Museum, 'This is the Box' ('they actually didn't come into possession of it until 1957')
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USEDPitt Rivers Museum, 1926.6.1 (collected by Margaret Murray)
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USEDPitt Rivers Museum, accession 1926.6.1
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USEDprovenance disputed (Wikipedia; Skeptical Inquirer)
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USEDPublisher's synopsis of Harris's book (Feb 2017: 'now residing in Zak Bagans Haunted Museum')
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USEDPuzzle Box Horror and other retellings (no primary source)
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USEDQuesnel & District Museum, 'Mandy' ('Mandy came to live with us in 1991')
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USEDRegion Riverina
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USEDRoman Inscriptions of Britain, RIB 306 (find date 'In, or before, 1817'; 'Now at Lydney Park, Glos.')
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USEDRoud Folk Song Index no. 15
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDRoud Folk Song Index no. 263
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USEDRoyal Holloway art collections highlight page: 'Purchased by Thomas Holloway, 1881
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USEDSean Robinson's account, as retold (Wikipedia, The Anguished Man; horror-press retellings)
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OTHER · CHECKED 2026-09-30
LEAD — NOT YET READSetka / Setka AN — Soviet research programme on anomalous atmospheric phenomena
No Wikipedia article of its own found 2026-09-30; its origin in the Petrozavodsk phenomenon is on that row.
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USEDShah Shuja seen wearing it as a bracelet at Peshawar, 1808 (Elphinstone)
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USEDSmithsonian, 'History of the Hope Diamond'
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LEAD — NOT YET READSOBEPS — Vague OVNI sur la Belgique
The ufology group's own volumes on the wave; cited as further reading. Not read.
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USEDStoneham Studios
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OTHER · CHECKED 2026-10-07
CONSULTEDThe Basano vase (blogs, podcasts and listicles)
Searched again 2026-10-07: no primary source and no known whereabouts; the retellings contradict each other. Entered as basano-vase (LEGEND).
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USEDThe Daily Advertiser, 2018
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USEDThe Drive, June 2021
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USEDthe museum's label ('Obtained in 1915 from an old lady living in Hove, Sussex')
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USEDTreaty of Lahore 1849, Art. III
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LEAD — NOT YET READValley of Death (Yakutia); Sasovo explosions (1991)
No English article found 2026-09-30. Try the Russian record.
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USEDversions in Appalachian folktale collections
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDWare Museum ('acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1931, where it remains')
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USEDWeekend Notes and other accounts ('acquired … in an eBay auction in 2004')
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USEDWest Virginia Division of Culture and History historical marker
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USEDWhitby Museum, 'The Hand of Glory' ('given to Whitby Museum in 1935'; on display in 'Chronicle of Curiosities')
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USEDWikipedia — Wampus cat (and the dialect and newspaper references it cites)
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USEDWikipedia, Burton Agnes Hall (house built 1601–10; the skull legend)
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USEDWikipedia, Clach na Bratach ('currently housed at the Clan Donnachaidh Museum')
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USEDWikipedia, Clan Lockhart ('The Lee Penny is kept in a gold snuffbox which was a gift from Maria Theresa of Austria … to her general Count James Lockhart in 1789')
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USEDWikipedia, Fairy Flag (Thomas Pennant's 1772 account; 'The flag is currently held in Dunvegan Castle')
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USEDWikipedia, Gräf & Stift ('sitting in the museum, unused, since 1914')
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USEDWikipedia, Great Bed of Ware ('Built by the Hertfordshire carpenter Jonas Fosbrooke about 1590 … originally housed in the White Hart Inn')
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USEDWikipedia, Great Bed of Ware ('By the 19th century, the bed had been moved from the White Hart Inn to the Saracen's Head, another Ware inn')
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USEDWikipedia, Great Bed of Ware ('In 1870, William Henry Teale, the owner of the Rye House, acquired the bed and put it to use in a pleasure garden … When interest in the garden waned in the 1920s, the bed was sold')
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USEDWikipedia, Great Bed of Ware ('In 1931, it was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum')
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USEDWikipedia, Holy Lance ('by 1800 that city was also under threat of invasion, so he relocated them again to Passau, Linz, and Vienna … When the French entered Vienna in 1805, the collection was moved again to Hungary, before ultimately returning to Vienna')
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USEDWikipedia, Joanna Southcott
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USEDWikipedia, John Dee ('subsequently owned by Horace Walpole … first attributed to Dee by Walpole')
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USEDWikipedia, John Dee ('The British Museum holds several items once allegedly owned by Dee')
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USEDWikipedia, List of reportedly haunted paintings
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USEDWikipedia, Luck of Edenhall ('first documented, and named as the "Luck of Edenhall", in 1677 in the will of Sir Philip Musgrave')
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USEDWikipedia, Luck of Edenhall ('In 1926, the glass was loaned to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in 1958, it was finally acquired for the nation')
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USEDWikipedia, Ötzi ('Since 1998, Ötzi has been on display at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano')
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USEDWikipedia, Sangorski & Sutcliffe ('sank with the ship and has not been recovered')
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USEDWikipedia, The Crying Boy ('widely distributed from the 1950s onwards')
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USEDWTAJ
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