DICTIONARY ENTRY010 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE
Haunted
Primary indexed name: haunted.
PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES541.27% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONVictoria4 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1872–2026accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE1018.5% geographically mapped
“Haunted” functions here as a recurring printed descriptor rather than one stable named figure. The matched records most often sit within the “Retellings and Adaptations” archive category, with the “Spirit-Person Narratives” category also present; ordinary, literary, and supernatural uses may coexist, so the entry should not be read as a single sighting tradition. The accepted archive contains 54 records from 1872–2026. The largest coded regional group is Victoria (4), and the largest source group is Project Gutenberg (21). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.
OCCURRENCE TIMELINE
records by decade1870sPEAK 162020s
REGIONAL FIELD
11 region-coded records20.4%of this figure's records include a coded region
- 01Victoria436.4%
- 02New South Wales327.3%
- 03South Australia218.2%
- 04Western Australia218.2%
SOURCE CONCENTRATION
6 organisations38.9%held by the leading source
- 01Project Gutenberg21
- 02Project Gutenberg Australia11
- 03Internet Archive8
- 04Australian Broadcasting Corporation7
- 05Open Library Search API6
SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS
6 OF 54- 01haunted in Adelaide Arcade history2026 / South Australia
- 02Tiwi Islands prepare for Cyclone Fina2025 / New South Wales
- 03Tiwi Islands prepare for Cyclone Fina2025 / New South Wales
- 04Australia's most haunted house goes up for sale2025
- 05Perth tradies turned paranormal hunters2017 / Western Australia
- 06Haunted Creek2011