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.
73 OF 1077 SOURCES
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LEAD — NOT YET READ'Spirit mirror' used by 16th-century occultist John Dee came from the Aztec Empire
Live Science
On the 2021 Antiquity study (Pachuca obsidian); the page did not load in full.
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LEAD — NOT YET READApparitions and Thought-Transference
Podmore · 1894 · Project Gutenberg #56489
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the SPR's own sceptic on apparitions — the nearest available to Phantasms of the Living
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LEAD — NOT YET READArqueología de la Cueva de los Tayos
Pedro Porras · Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador · 1978
The archaeology of the cave after the 1976 expedition. Cited by the Wikipedia article; not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READBearslayer (Lāčplēsis)
Pumpurs · 1888; Eng. tr. · Project Gutenberg #17445
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Latvia's national epic. CHECK the translation's licence at ingest — it is a modern translation Gutenberg hosts by permission
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LEAD — NOT YET READBlackfoot Lodge Tales
Grinnell · 1892 · Project Gutenberg #11547
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 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.
OTHER · CHECKED 2026-09-30
LEAD — NOT YET READCastillo de Piria (Piriápolis)
Francisco Piria, Pittamiglio's mentor in alchemy. Not yet read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READClan Donnachaidh Museum — points of interest
Clan Donnachaidh Society
The clan's account of the 1715 crack before Sheriffmuir; redirected, not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READContes et Légendes de Belgique
Collectif d'auteurs · 2010
Cited by the French article on Berthe de La Roche (ISBN 2-930359-08-0). Not read.
OTHER · CHECKED 2026-09-30
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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LEAD — NOT YET READCurious Myths of the Middle Ages
Baring-Gould · 1866 · Project Gutenberg #36127
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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LEAD — NOT YET READDe heks van Limbricht
Susan Smit · 2021
Historical novel on Entgen Luijten, cited by the Dutch article. A novel; for the record use the court archive. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READDe Nuce Maga Beneventana
Pietro Piperno · 1639
The 17th-century source for the walnut-tree legend and its map of possible sites. Public domain; look for a scan. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READDead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Donnie Eichar · 2013
The infrasound (Kármán vortex) hypothesis; cited by Wikipedia. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READDemonologia; or, Natural Knowledge Revealed
Forsyth · 1827 · Project Gutenberg #72476
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). a Georgian exposé of superstition, A to Z
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LEAD — NOT YET READDeutsches Sagenbuch
Ludwig Bechstein · 1852
Bechstein's own text of the Wijnendale legend; public domain. Read it and check the Reading Room.
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LEAD — NOT YET READEl Cementerio Central: Bogotá, la vida urbana y la muerte
Oscar Iván Calvo Isaza · Tercer Milenio Ediciones · 1998 · ISBN 9789586017473
If the Central Cemetery's traditions (Leo Kopp and others) are ever to be mapped, this is where to look. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READFinnish Legends for English Children
Eivind · 1893 · Project Gutenberg #24948
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the Kalevala legends retold, chapter by chapter
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LEAD — NOT YET READFrauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (6th ed.)
Kenneth L. Feder · Oxford University Press · 2008
Standard account of the ancient-astronaut claims, Nazca included. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READGhostly Phenomena
O'Donnell · 1910 · Project Gutenberg #40823
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). O'Donnell's typology of hauntings
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LEAD — NOT YET READGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
Hearn · 1894 · Project Gutenberg #8130
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). joins the two Hearns already shelved
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LEAD — NOT YET READGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series
Hearn · 1894 · Project Gutenberg #8133
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). ditto
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LEAD — NOT YET READGrandes culturas indígenas de América
Javier Ocampo López · Plaza & Janes Editores Colombia · 2007 · ISBN 9789581403684
The bibliography behind the Muisca legends of the falls. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READHertfordshire Archives and Local Studies — the Great Bed of Ware (Herts Memories)
Said in search results to describe the bed as long believed haunted; the page refused a direct read (403) on 2026-10-07.
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LEAD — NOT YET READHigher Farmhouse (list entry 1296177)
Historic England
403 Forbidden on 2026-09-29; the listing may confirm the building's date.
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LEAD — NOT YET READHistory of the Panacea Trust
Panacea Charitable Trust
Could not be fetched on 2026-09-29 (blocked); read it before any change to the box's entry.
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LEAD — NOT YET READIn Search of Zerzura
Orde Wingate · The Geographical Journal · 1934
Vol. 83, No. 4, pp. 281–308, DOI 10.2307/1786487. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READIsis Unveiled
Blavatsky · 1877 · Project Gutenberg #68705
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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LEAD — NOT YET READItalian Popular Tales
Crane · 1885 · Project Gutenberg #23634
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the Italian folk-tale collection in English
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LEAD — NOT YET READKalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland
Crawford (tr.) · 1888 · Project Gutenberg #5186
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Finland's national epic; the folk-belief behind Tuonela, the land of the dead
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LEAD — NOT YET READLa maledizione di Ca' Dario. Scia di sangue dietro il palazzo di Venezia
Mario Lollo · Il Gazzettino · 1993-07
The article that first assembled the 'curse', cited by the Italian article. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READLa Vièrge de l'Egypte. L'incroyable apparition de Marie à des millions d'Egyptiens
François Brune · 2004
Cited as further reading for Assiut. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READLee-penny
Dictionaries of the Scots Language (Scottish National Dictionary)
Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READLegends of the House of the Cretan Woman
R. G. Gayer-Anderson · American University in Cairo Press · 2001
Gayer-Anderson's own collection of the house's legends. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READLetters of Pliny
Pliny the Younger · c. 100 AD · Project Gutenberg #2811
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Letter 7.27: Athenodorus and the haunted house in Athens — the oldest detailed haunted-house account
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LEAD — NOT YET READLife, Land and Water in Ancient Peru
Paul Kosok · Long Island University Press · 1965
Kosok's own account of the lines. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READLos Brujos de Chiloé: Documentos de un Proceso Judicial
Matías Galleguillos · Ed. Tacitas · 2018
The 1880 court documents; cited by Spanish Wikipedia. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READLost on the Titanic: The Story of the Great Omar
Encyclopedia Titanica (store listing)
Book-length account; not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READMarkawasi: Peru's Inexplicable Stone Forest
Kathy Doore · 2008
The Marcahuasi claims, if the site is ever reconsidered. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READMechanisms of slab avalanche release and impact in the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959
Johan Gaume, Alexander M. Puzrin · Communications Earth & Environment · 2021
The 2021 simulation paper; summarised via Wikipedia. Read the paper itself before quoting it.
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LEAD — NOT YET READMighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Fillmore · 1922 · Project Gutenberg #38112
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Finnish folk tales
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LEAD — NOT YET READModern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals
Lawson · 1910 · Project Gutenberg #66116
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the vrykolakas (Greek revenant), Nereids, the evil eye — the standard study
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LEAD — NOT YET READMuseo Etnografico Galluras
Lonely Planet
Seen in search results only (the accabadora as a midwife who ended the suffering of the dying); not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READMysteries of the Tayos Caves: The Lost Civilizations Where the Andes Meet the Amazon
Alex Chionetti · 2019 · ISBN 9781591433569
Cited by the Wikipedia article; not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READMysterious Psychic Forces
Flammarion · 1907 · Project Gutenberg #39279
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the astronomer's séance investigations, Eusapia Palladino
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LEAD — NOT YET READO Caso Varginha
Ubirajara Rodrigues · 2001
The main ufological investigation of the case, in Portuguese. Cited by the Wikipedia article; not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READPlötzlich war die Frau weg, fort, einfach nicht mehr da
Volksstimme · 2001-01-25
Linked from the Belchen Tunnel article. Not read; read before quoting.
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LEAD — NOT YET READPolish Fairy Tales
Gliński · 1920 · Project Gutenberg #36668
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the nearest neighbour to the Baltic run; Lithuanian folklore in English was not found
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LEAD — NOT YET READRaymond; or, Life and Death
Lodge · 1916 · Project Gutenberg #51086
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the physicist's sittings for his son killed in 1915 — the most famous WWI mediumship case
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LEAD — NOT YET READReyes sobre la tierra: brujería y chamanismo en una cultura insular. Chiloé entre los siglos XVIII y XX
Gonzalo Rojas Flores · 2002
Full study of the trial; cited by Spanish Wikipedia. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READRoman Antiquities at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire
William Hiley Bathurst · Longmans, Green, and Co. · 1879
The estate's own publication of the finds; not read (cited by Wikipedia).
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LEAD — NOT YET READRoman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome
Busk · 1877 · Project Gutenberg #48771
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Roman ghost and devil legends tied to real streets and churches
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LEAD — NOT YET READSagen aus Liechtenstein
Otto Seger · 1966
Liechtenstein's saga collection, cited by the German article. The next source for Liechtenstein. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READSchloss Bernstein im Burgenland. Fragmente aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
W. Erwemweig (Anton von Gyömörey) · 1927
The witness accounts Illig used in 1929, cited by the German article. Not read.
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.
OTHER · CHECKED 2026-10-01
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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LEAD — NOT YET READStranger Than Science
Frank Edwards · 1959
Named by Mike Dash as the origin of the car's 'curse'. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Algonquin Legends of New England
Leland · 1884 · Project Gutenberg #6803
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Fairy Mythology
Keightley · 1828 · Project Gutenberg #41006
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru: Documentation, Analysis, and Interpretation
Karsten Lambers · Lindensoft Verlag · 2006 · ISBN 9783929290325
Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Gold of the Gods
Erich von Däniken · Bantam Books · 1974 · ISBN 9780553109689
The book that popularised the Tayos 'metal library'. Cited by the Wikipedia article; not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Golden Asse
Apuleius · 2nd c.; Adlington tr. 1566 · Project Gutenberg #1666
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Thessalian witchcraft as the ancient world told it. A novel — shelve as literature, say so
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Golden Bough
Frazer · 1890 · Project Gutenberg #3623
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country
Kirby · 1895 · Project Gutenberg #19438
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Estonia: the Kalevipoeg epic and Estonian legends — the only English Estonian folklore source found
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Law of Psychic Phenomena
Hudson · 1893 · Project Gutenberg #54665
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the 1890s psychological explanation of mediumship and hypnosis
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Lee Penny
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland · 1923
The 1923 paper on the Penny; not read in full for this batch.
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Los Tayos Expedition
John Frankland · Caving International no. 1 · 1978
The expedition's own account. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Problems of Psychical Research
Carrington · 1914 · Project Gutenberg #23660
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the field's methods and fraud tests, by its best-known investigator
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Varieties of Religious Experience
James · 1902 · Project Gutenberg #621
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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LEAD — NOT YET READTwenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter
O'Donnell · 1916 · Project Gutenberg #50775
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). a working ghost-hunter's casebook; pairs with the four O'Donnells shelved
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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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LEAD — NOT YET READWitchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland
Maxwell Wood · 1911 · Project Gutenberg #43966
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Galloway and Dumfries witch trials and hauntings — local and citable
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LEAD — NOT YET READПривидение в Инженерном замке (The Ghost in the Engineers' Castle)
Nikolai Leskov
Leskov's story that demystifies the ghost; cited by Russian Wikipedia. Not yet read.