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  Fred Beck, one of the five prospectors Scan

  from The Battle of Ape Canyon (1924)
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  Location map of the Ape Canyon area Scan

  from The Battle of Ape Canyon (1924)
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  Book or magazine cover reproducing the photo (identity unconfirmed) Scan

  from The SS Watertown Phantom Faces (1924)

  FATE TRUE STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND THE UNKNOWN AMERICAN EXPRESS LOST YEARS OF JESUS GREAT SKY PROCESSION OF 1913 THE DUTCH PUT PSI TO WORK DOWSING IN SWAMPSCORE, MASS. GHOSTS THAT PURSUED A Ship 22 CURSED PISTOL BALDON Piercing Manuscript TAPED VOICES OF THE DEAD! Chuck Smith, Amanda Irwin PICTURE…

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  Screenshot of Joe Nickell's correspondence analysing the photo Scan

  Joe Nickell ·from The SS Watertown Phantom Faces (1924)
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  The tanker SS Watertown Scan

  from The SS Watertown Phantom Faces (1924)
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  The SS Watertown Scan

  from The SS Watertown Phantom Faces (1924)
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  Painting of Trunko fighting killer whales (artwork, not a photograph) Scan

  Bill Asmussen ·from Trunko, the Margate "polar bear" sea monster (1924)
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  Modern Margate Beach Scan

  T866 ·from Trunko, the Margate "polar bear" sea monster (1924)
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  Photograph of Eleonore Zugun used by The Lineup Scan

  from Eleonore Zugun, the Talpa Poltergeist (1925)
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  Eleonore Zugun (right) with Countess Wassilko Scan

  Psi Encyclopedia (SPR) ·from Eleonore Zugun, the Talpa Poltergeist (1925)
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  EVZ article header image Scan

  EVZ ·from Eleonore Zugun, the Talpa Poltergeist (1925)
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  Portrait of Eleonore Zugun Scan

  Psi Encyclopedia (SPR), probably from the Harry Price archive ·from Eleonore Zugun, the Talpa Poltergeist (1925)
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  Portrait of Countess Zoe Wassilko-Serecki Scan

  Psi Encyclopedia (SPR) ·from Eleonore Zugun, the Talpa Poltergeist (1925)
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  James Chaffin grave stone Scan

  Digital Davie ·from The Chaffin will case: a dead father's apparition reveals a hidden will (1925)
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  Tombstone of James Chaffin and his wife Scan

  Davie County Public Library (via Strange Company) ·from The Chaffin will case: a dead father's apparition reveals a hidden will (1925)
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  Header image from A Singular Fortean's 2017 post on the 1925 Bacon's Neck case. Scan

  A Singular Fortean (no credit given) ·from The Hopping Beast Shot at Bacon's Neck, Greenwich Township (1925) (1925)
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  Captioned as a Baird's beaked whale specimen; unclear whether the carcass or the museum skull. Scan

  from The Moore's Beach Sea Monster Carcass, Santa Cruz (1925) (1925)
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  Front view of the Moore's Beach Berardius skull at the California Academy of Sciences. Scan

  California Academy of Sciences (Ray Bandar / Jack Bumbacher) ·from The Moore's Beach Sea Monster Carcass, Santa Cruz (1925) (1925)
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  Side view of the Moore's Beach Berardius skull at the California Academy of Sciences. Scan

  California Academy of Sciences (Ray Bandar / Jack Bumbacher) ·from The Moore's Beach Sea Monster Carcass, Santa Cruz (1925) (1925)
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  Comparison: a beaked whale at Santa Cruz in 1920. Scan

  Andrew P. Hill Jr., via Calisphere ·from The Moore's Beach Sea Monster Carcass, Santa Cruz (1925) (1925)
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  Comparison: a different Berardius head on Ocean Beach, San Francisco, with a man. Scan

  from The Moore's Beach Sea Monster Carcass, Santa Cruz (1925) (1925)
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  Dovercourt House, formerly the Sovereign Hall, on Dovercourt Road today Scan

  ACO Toronto ·from Toronto Morality Squad seizes a "materialised spirit" at Rev. Arthur Hildreth's séance, Sovereign Hall, Dovercourt Road, Toronto (1925) (1925)
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  The spirit of Dovercourt Road (Toronto Daily Star) Scan

  Toronto Daily Star, via Adam Bunch ·from Toronto Morality Squad seizes a "materialised spirit" at Rev. Arthur Hildreth's séance, Sovereign Hall, Dovercourt Road, Toronto (1925) (1925)
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  Officer Sam Wilson of the Morality Squad Scan

  City of Toronto Archives ·from Toronto Morality Squad seizes a "materialised spirit" at Rev. Arthur Hildreth's séance, Sovereign Hall, Dovercourt Road, Toronto (1925) (1925)
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  Modern illustration of Ogopogo. Does not depict the 1926 event. Scan

  from Thirty carloads watch Naitaka off Okanagan Mission (1926)
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  N. Roerich with Shambala thanka. Mongolia. 1927 Scan

  International Centre of the Roerichs museum ·from Nicholas Roerich's Caravan and the Shining Oval over the Kukunor District (1927)
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  Expedition participants K. Ryabinin, Y. Roerich, L. and I. Bogdanovs, with H. Roerich in the foreground, 1927 Scan

  International Centre of the Roerichs museum ·from Nicholas Roerich's Caravan and the Shining Oval over the Kukunor District (1927)
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  Portrait of Nicholas Roerich, leader of the Central Asian Expedition Scan

  via Michael M. Hughes ·from The Nicholas Roerich Expedition Sighting, Kukunor District, 1927 (1927)
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  Generic trapper header image; not Muchalat Harry. Scan

  from Muchalat Harry carried off by a Sasquatch (Conuma River, Vancouver Island, 1928) (1928)
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  Patterson-Gimlin film still (1967), an unrelated event used as illustration. Scan

  Roger Patterson ·from Muchalat Harry carried off by a Sasquatch (Conuma River, Vancouver Island, 1928) (1928)
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  Coastal scene, apparently Kyuquot on Vancouver Island, north of the case area. Place only. Scan

  from Muchalat Harry carried off by a Sasquatch (Conuma River, Vancouver Island, 1928) (1928)
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  Vancouver Island coastal scenery, illustrative only. Scan

  from Muchalat Harry carried off by a Sasquatch (Conuma River, Vancouver Island, 1928) (1928)
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  British Columbia rainforest, illustrative only; not Muchalat Harry. Scan

  from Muchalat Harry carried off by a Sasquatch (Conuma River, Vancouver Island, 1928) (1928)
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  Charles Deas, The Trapper and his Family (c.1840-67), unrelated artwork used as illustration. Scan

  Charles Deas, via Wikimedia Commons ·from Muchalat Harry carried off by a Sasquatch (Conuma River, Vancouver Island, 1928) (1928)
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  St. Joseph Catholic Church, Earling, Iowa, as it stands today Scan

  from The Earling Exorcism of Anna Ecklund (Emma Schmidt) (1928)
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  St. Joseph Catholic Church, Earling, Iowa, as it stands today Scan

  from The Earling Exorcism of Anna Ecklund (Emma Schmidt) (1928)
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  Thumbnail of the archive.org copy of Herbert Thurston's Ghosts and Poltergeists Scan

  Internet Archive ·from The Poona Poltergeist: Damodar Bapat and the Ketkar household, 1928 to 1930 (1928)
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  Bess Houdini holding hands with Dr. Edward Saint at a later séance; Saint holds handcuffs whose combination only Houdini knew Scan

  Bettmann / Getty Images ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
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  Harry and Bess Houdini Scan

  American Hauntings ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
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  The copy of Bess Houdini's statement that Francis R. Fast sent to Dr. and Mrs. Crandon Scan

  Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection, courtesy Anna Thurlow; published by John Cox, Wild About Harry ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)

  To D. P. 100th G. Anderson From: Jacques P. fast. NEW YORK CITY JAN.9TH,1929. REGARDLESS OF ANY STATE- MENTS MADE TO THE CONTRARY, I WISH TO DECLARE THAT THE MESSAGE, IN ITS ENTIRETY, AND IN THE AGREED UPON SEQUENCE, GIVEN TO ME BY ARTHUR FORD, IS THE CORRECT MESSAGE PRE- ARRANGED DETWEEN MR. HOUDIN…

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  Time-exposure photo of the 1936 final Houdini séance on a Hollywood hotel roof Scan

  Bettmann / Getty Images ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
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  Photostat of the statement Bess Houdini signed on 9 January 1929 affirming Ford's message Scan

  Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection, courtesy Anna Thurlow; published by John Cox, Wild About Harry ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
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  Bess Houdini and Eddie Saint preparing for the 1936 séance Scan

  American Hauntings ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
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  Context only: Houdini's double-exposure "Lincoln ghost" demonstration photo, not of this case Scan

  Bettmann / Getty Images ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
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  Portrait of the medium Arthur Ford Scan

  Wikimedia Commons ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
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  Campo e Campanile San Boldo Scan

  Alloggi Barbaria ·from The Casa delle pietre: the stone-throwing poltergeist of Campo San Boldo, Venice (1929)
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  Screenshot, probably an aerial map of the house's location Scan

  from The Casa delle pietre: the stone-throwing poltergeist of Campo San Boldo, Venice (1929)
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  Campo San Boldo Venezia Scan

  from The Casa delle pietre: the stone-throwing poltergeist of Campo San Boldo, Venice (1929)
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  Modern photo of Campo San Boldo Scan

  from The Casa delle pietre: the stone-throwing poltergeist of Campo San Boldo, Venice (1929)
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  Vera da pozzo in Campo San Boldo Scan

  Alloggi Barbaria ·from The Casa delle pietre: the stone-throwing poltergeist of Campo San Boldo, Venice (1929)