Dancing Spirits (1973, Nympsfield, Gloucestershire)

A teenager standing on this hill looked down into a clearing in the woodland to see women in period costume. They appeared to be wearing very tall cone hats and dancing. The women vanished without warning. The lack of information given on this report doesn’t necessarily that it is a fakery, but it also makes it incredibly difficult to trace back to its original source and properly research. This article is acting as a sort of placemarker, so that I can come back to it later when I (or maybe an intrepid reader of this blog) finds the source, or at the very least another reference to the story outside of paranormaldatabase.
Source: http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/index.php

Big-Eyes (1950s, Goudhurst, Kent)

During the mid-1950s, writer Joan Forman had spent time teaching at the school in the Kentish village of Goodhurst (possibly a misspelling of Goudhurst). One early morning during the summer holidays, when few others were there, she had awoken from sleep in her room, alone within the school building’s oldest section, and was shocked to see a grotesque creature crouching on the floor to the left of her bed, glowing slightly in the darkness and gazing at her with what she considered to be an unblinking stare of outright evil and obscenity. It was about the size of a large cat or corgi dog, but its most striking feature were its huge eyes, which she likened to those of a nocturnal lemur. She lay there, rendered immobile by its seemingly mocking, revolting stare for some time, before, with the onset of dawn, it slowly faded away, and the intense coldness that until then had filled the room vanished with it. Years later, she learned that her successor at the school also witnessed this entity, but in a different bedroom.
This entity’s manifestation could have been a result of sleep paralysis, but doubt is cast on this theory by the fact that another witness had seen the creature. The bizarre animal bears some slight resemblance to the North American legend of Tailypo.
Source: http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk
Image Credit: Katherine Coville

Deva (June 1922, Lake District, Cumbria)

While visiting the Lake District, Cumbria, in June 1922, theosophist Geoffrey Hodson (who witnessed numerous other entities, some of which he illustrated, as shown above) claimed to have witnessed an astonishing being that he believed to have been a deva or nature spirit. According to his description of what he had seen, it was an enormous bat-like entity, brilliant crimson in colour with a human face and burning piercing eyes that fixed themselves upon him as its wings stretched out over the mountainside, before sinking into the hillside and disappearing. It later reappeared before him, but now in much smaller form, this time standing a ‘mere’ 3-4 m high.
Source: http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-top-ten-paranormal-beasts-in.html
Image Credit: Geoffrey Hodson

Man-Tiger (1702-1714, England)

A curious creature was exhibited in England during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). It was referred to as a ‘Man-Tiger’ by those that saw it. From below the head it was described as manlike, implying that the head itself was like that of a tiger. Its hinder parts were hairy, and it would drink ale from a glass as well as sometimes engaging in bouts with a quarterstaff. Could this have been a man with Hypertrichosis? The above picture is of Stephan Bibrowsky (also known as the Lion-Faced Man) who suffered from the aforementioned genetic disorder.
Source: ‘The Mystery and Lore of Monsters’ by CJS Thompson.
Image Credit: Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Merbeing (November 1737, Coast of Exeter, Devon, England)

Fishermen on the shore caught a four-foot-tall humanoid, with duck-like feet and a tail protruding from its back. It tried to escape but was killed when the fishermen beat it with sticks (like humans apparently do whenever they encounter something weird). Another fish-man was caught a few months later in the same area, though this one was described with more seal-like qualities. There are actually a surprisingly large amount of merbeing sightings that were reported in 1737 - and so maybe they were following some kind of a migratory pattern?
Source: 'Humanoid Encounters' by Albert Rosales
Image Credit: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3370709&partId=1&subject=16589&page=2

Apparition (January 3rd, 2008, Warnham, England)

After watching a late-night film on the TV, the witness (who was supposedly involved in other cases) retired to bed after 12:30 am. She soon fell asleep but was then woken up by a strange dragging sound outside of her block of flats. She listened, trying to decipher the sound, and eventually turned on her side to free her right ear in an attempt to hear better. This didn't work, and she decided to climb out of bed to observe the source of the sound through the window on her left. As she opened her  eyes, however, she saw a strange apparition on the left-hand corner of the foot of her bed. It resembled a glowing young lady wearing a bright white shiny gown. The apparition stood there - looking at the witness with what she could only describe as 'pure and clear' eyes. A silvery glow emanated from its very essence and extended to a few inches around it, but was confined to its body and didn't light up the room. No communication took place between the entity and the witness, neither telepathic nor verbal, and so the witness expressed that she was confused as to what was happening. As they looked at each other, the witness could still hear the strange sound that had woken her up, and thought that the two must be connected. This event lasted for about 30-60 seconds, and then the being simply vanished. The witness lay in bed for a couple of minutes after this, trying to comprehend what had just happened. She decided to finally see what was happening outside, and so sheleft her bed to see that a can of Coca Cola had been blown about on the tarred road outside, and the noise ceased when the can hit a curb. After this, the witness went back to sleep. This case could have been an apparitional entity of some kind, but it seems more likely that it was a hypnagogic hallucination.
Source: ‘Your True Tales’ May 2008