Fancy and superstitious facts recorded by notable historical figures.

1. The visions of René Descartes

The seventeenth-century French philosopher, physicist and mathematician, creator of analytic geometry, wrote that his great ideas originated in visions and dreams in which they were revealed. He noted that the analytic geometry was totally structured in his mind after three visions of flashing lights and thunder.

2. The Deke Slayton UFO

The pilot of combat, astronaut and later director of the NASA, Deke Slayton, was doing in 1951 a test flight, when an object appeared to him that described like a UFO. Slayton reported that the plate-shaped vehicle stopped and then accelerated to disappear. He wanted to follow but I can not because his humble plane was not so fast.

Charlie Chaplin's Human Frog

When he was still a young theater actor, the icon of the cinema toured Wales, staying in a miner's house. The host invited him to see a being with a huge head and without legs, but with ten large and thick fingers that protruded from the bottom. The figure jumped like a frog towards Chaplin, staying at the height of his head and the actor went out in terror.

4. The Flying Dutchman by Jorge V

According to legend, the Flying Dutchman is a ghostly sailboat that was doomed to roam the oceans after its Dutch captain made a pact with the devil. Seafarers say they watch him from time to time and the Prince of Wales, future King George V, claimed to have seen him in 1881, aboard the frigate HMS Inconstant.

5. The two faces of Abraham Lincoln

Ward Hill Lamon, confidant and bodyguard of the American president, told in his book Memories of Abraham Lincoln that this entrusted a chilling experience. The night he was elected president, Lincoln saw in the mirror of his room two images of his face. In one he appeared healthy and lively and in the other he had a ghostly pallor.

6. The Spirits of William Lyon Mackenzie King

Mackenzie King was Canada's prime minister for 20 years between the 1920s and 1940s and left detailed handwritten records of his experiences and conversations with the spirits. He liked to look for inspiration by looking at dead faces, tea leaves and the shapes that the shaving cream formed on his face.

7. The gremlins of Charles Lindbergh

A gremlin is a perverse mythological creature of the English culture, something similar to the Hispanic elves, whose origin is situated in Century XV. The English pilots of the Second World War complained that the gremlins damaged their planes. Charles Lindbergh appears to have also been attacked by malevolent beings, as reported in his book The Spirit of St. Louis.

Did you imagine these celebrated personalities reporting such bizarre things?