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Image accompanying the Ghost Theory article; content unverified, possibly the clipping or an illustration Scan

Ghost Theory ·from The Twenty-seventh Ward Ghost Hunt (1894)

BROOKLYN GHOST? PSHAW Superintendent Campbell Laid the Spectres Long Ago. TWENTY-SEVENTH WARDERS FOOLED Three Hundred of Them Hunt a Hysterical Female Spook-A Policeman Says It's the Bad Whisky Sold There. The antics of the famous Cock Lane ghost did not create greater excitement in its day than doe…
Arkansas Gazette clipping of 22 April 1897 on the Hooton airship story near Texarkana Scan

from The Hot Springs Airship Encounter (1897)

SAW THE AIR SHIP Conductor Hooton, of the Iron Mountain, Tells of It. MOST AUTHENTIC STORY PRINTED He Ran Across the Aerial Ship in an Open Field Near Human and Talked With the Men Manning It—He Gives a Graphic Description of the Queer Looking Ship—Five Men Were Passengers in It—Mr. Hooton's Stateme…
The Ten Bells pub on Commercial Street, a modern photograph illustrating the blog post. Not the site of the 1897 sighting. Scan

Jack the Ripper Tour ·from The St Botolph's, Aldgate Ghost Crowd (1897) (1897)
The newspaper Kalmar, 5 September 1904, article on Hornsö, part 3 Scan

Scan posted by Jonny Nilsson, Mönsteråsbloggen ·from The Karin Case: the Hornsö Rappings of Karin Nauckhoff (1904)

kalla gängar rundt omkring huset om kvallarna, om morgnarna kunde inga minsklinga spär uptäckas. Det äricke it edt utan i alla nista runamen som builtingarna firekommit. Så länge ljus brunnit, har det varit tyst, men ibland börjat omedelbart et det ljusen silkets, stundh har inträfat, att ljusen slä…
Newspaper clipping labelled '1952 great ape hunt' Scan

from The Battle of Ape Canyon (1924)
Portrait of the medium Arthur Ford Scan

Wikimedia Commons ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
1948 Houdini séance with Walter B. Gibson, Sidney Radner, Bob Lund, Litska Raymond and Chrystal Dunninger Scan

from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
Bess Houdini and Eddie Saint preparing for the 1936 séance Scan

American Hauntings ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
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)
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)
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…
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)
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)
Harry and Bess Houdini Scan

American Hauntings ·from Arthur Ford's "Rosabelle, believe" Houdini séance (1929)
Alex Campbell's gravestone near Fort Augustus. Scan

from Alex Campbell's Borlum Bay sighting, Loch Ness (1933, later dated May 1934) (1933)
Portrait of Alex Campbell. Scan

from Alex Campbell's Borlum Bay sighting, Loch Ness (1933, later dated May 1934) (1933)
Drawing based on Campbell's sketch, from Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Monster, p.126. Scan

Tim Dinsdale, via Roland Watson ·from Alex Campbell's Borlum Bay sighting, Loch Ness (1933, later dated May 1934) (1933)
Alex Campbell (right) with Bernard Heuvelmans. Scan

from Alex Campbell's Borlum Bay sighting, Loch Ness (1933, later dated May 1934) (1933)
The Scotsman, 15 November 1933: the earliest sketch of Campbell's creature. Scan

The Scotsman, via Roland Watson ·from Alex Campbell's Borlum Bay sighting, Loch Ness (1933, later dated May 1934) (1933)
Retrospective clipping, "Mad Gasser part 2" Scan

Botetourt County Memory ·from The Mad Gasser of Botetourt County (1933)

Gasser (Continued from Page 1-B) cap standing at the bedroom window. (Keep in mind that at this point Kearney was unaware of his wife's earlier experience.) "Kearney gave chase, but the 'phantom' easily outran him. The next morning, Mrs. Kearney's lips were burned, her mouth and throat unbearable dr…
Miethe and Belluzzo flying saucer design Scan

The Black Vault Case Files / Roberto Pinotti ·from The Magenta Crash and Mussolini's Gabinetto RS/33 (1933)
Belluzzo Turboproietti design Scan

The Black Vault Case Files / Roberto Pinotti ·from The Magenta Crash and Mussolini's Gabinetto RS/33 (1933)
El Noticiero, 12 Oct 1972, special Pilar festival edition revisiting the case Scan

Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza archive ·from The Duende de Zaragoza: the voice in the kitchen stove (1934) (1934)

UN FANTASMA QUE MANTUVO EN VILO A LA CIUDAD DURANTE VARIOS DIAS FUE LA PREOCUPACION DE VECINOS, PERIODISTAS Y AUTORIDADES Zaragoza ha despertado envuelta en chales de lana y abrigos de fieltro... Hace bastante frío este jueves, 24 de noviembre de 1934. El cierzo sopla despeinando los engomados cabel…
Image labelled "carn_roo" on Cryptomundo's Shuker and Coleman post; probably a carnivorous kangaroo illustration, not an event photograph Scan

from The South Pittsburg Killer Kangaroo (1934)
Image labelled "20_killer" on Cryptomundo's Shuker and Coleman post; probably a modern illustration, not an event photograph Scan

from The South Pittsburg Killer Kangaroo (1934)
Archival portrait labelled as photographer Garland D. "Frony" Fronabarger, circa 1967. Not an event photograph; URL reconstructed from a relative path and unverified. Scan

from The Cape Girardeau Crash Before Roswell (Rev. William Huffman) (1941)
Baltimore Sun, 2 January 1945, AP story from a US night fighter base in France. Scan

Baltimore Sun / Associated Press, via Patrick Gross ·from Foo Fighters of World War II (1944)

Great Balls Of Fire! Nazis Throw Them At Our Planes A U.S. Night Fighter Base, France, Jan. 1 (P)—The Nazls have thrown something new into the night skies over Germany—the weird mysterious "foo-fighter," balls of fire which race alongside the wings of American Beaufighters flying intruder missions o…
Newspaper clipping about the witch of Scrapfaggot Green (issue not identified) Scan

from The Great Leighs Witch Stone Poltergeist (Scrapfaggot Green), 1944 (1944)

This is an amazing story reported yesterday from the heart of rural England, 1944. Can YOU believe it? QUEER things are happening in the remote Essex village of Great Leighs, strange things that seem to defy any normal explanation. Along its straggling lanes and among its scattered cottages, the vil…
Roswell Daily Record, Apr 7, 1953: Apodaca arrests an armed man on a bus Scan

from The Trinity UFO Crash Claim (1945)

Convict with Knife Takes over NM Bus SOCORRO (AP) A paroled Arizona convict, free only four days, held 25 passengers of a New Mexico bus in a grip of terror early today for more than an hour. Knife in hand, he stalked the aisle of the north-bound vehicle, mouthing curses and obscenities, threatening…
A cartoon by artist Jane Hafling on the front page of the Oct. 28, 1946 Anchorage Daily Times. Scan

Jane Hafling, Anchorage Daily Times, 28 Oct. 1946 ·from The Anchor Point "lizard-like monster": a beached carcass hailed as a dinosaur and identified as a killer whale (1946) (1946)

HERE'S A CORNERSTONE SON, FOR FUTURE ALASKANS LIKE YOU TO BUILD ON! Z.O. LOUISSAC FOUNDATION FOR A BETTER ANCHORAGE SURVEY LISTS 'GRIPES' OF NEW RESIDENTS HOW DO I LIKE ANCHORING? HIGHWAY STREETS TO STREETS TO LIVERIES HOUSING SHORTAGE TOO MANY RECREATION REGISTRATION NO STREET SIGNS TOURNAMENT TODA…
Roswell Daily Record front page, July 8, 1947 Scan

Roswell Daily Record ·from Roswell Incident (1947)

Roswell Daily Record Movies as Usual Levees broke and flood waters rolled into the town of Grand Tower, ill. but while the manager of this movie theater sweeps out the water that has entered the lobby, these youngsters are standing in line for tickets for the night's performance. (AP Wirephoto). Som…
Lake Orbell, site of the 1948 rediscovery Scan

Anja Kohler ·from Rediscovery of the takahē, Murchison Mountains, Fiordland (1948) (1948)
Otago Daily Times front page, 22 November 1948: "Bird believed extinct found near Te Anau" Scan

© Otago Daily Times ·from Rediscovery of the takahē, Murchison Mountains, Fiordland (1948) (1948)

BIRD BELIEVED EXTINCT FOUND NEAR TE ANAU P.A. P.A. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 21. Generally believed to have been extinct, the notornis, a flightless bird of the swamp hen type, was seen and photographed in the Te Anau district during the week-end by a party led by Dr G. B. Orbell. The notornis was last see…
1998 reunion at Lake Orbell with Geoffrey Orbell, Sheila Orbell, Neil McCrostie, Rex and Joan Watson Scan

Orbell family collection ·from Rediscovery of the takahē, Murchison Mountains, Fiordland (1948) (1948)
Dr R. Falla holding a takahē chick, with Dr G. B. Orbell, Takahē Valley, 1949 follow-up expedition Scan

Daryl Eason | DOC ·from Rediscovery of the takahē, Murchison Mountains, Fiordland (1948) (1948)
Dr Geoffrey Orbell (right) and Dominion Museum director Dr Robert Falla Scan

from Rediscovery of the takahē, Murchison Mountains, Fiordland (1948) (1948)
Martin Shough, NARCAP Radar Catalogue, p. 4 Scan

Martin Shough / NARCAP ·from The Fukuoka F-61 Black Widow Radar-Visual Intercept (1948)

NARCAPTR - 6 Date of Report: 12-02 visible canopy, wings, power section or tail assembly - is consistent with a target of very much smaller radar cross-section than the F-61 of any maneuver, making it a very much more magnified target even than the "intermittently" detected F-61. Of six AI contacts …
Page from a Bigfoot chronology listing the 1949 Thorntown 'gorilla' entry, citing an INS report of 17 July 1949 Scan

from The Thorntown Gorilla and the Four-Posse Search (1949)

1948 / Nr Mobile, AL / 5 boys / Saw 1l-ft Bigfoot in swamp / STAAU p.214. c.1948 / Harrison Mills, BC / Henry Charlie / Indian on bicycle chased by Bigfoot, which kept up with him for over a mile / Witness to JG, noted TSP p.14. c.1948 / Mad Lake nr Leavenworth, WA / Clarence M. Foster / Saw thin, b…
Farmington Daily Times, 22 February 1950: "Scientists Tracked Flying Saucer Over New Mexico". Scan

Farmington Daily Times, via The Living Sky ·from The Farmington Saucer Armada (1950)

Scientists Tracked Flying Saucer Over N.M. Navy Man Tells Of Tracking This newspaper has been granted permission to reprint an art clea appearing in the book "How Scientists tracked a Flying Saucer." The article is written by Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, U. S. Navy. The article deals with an occu…
Image from Patrick Gross's Bellefontaine case page; content not verified Scan

from Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept (1952)
Scan of Donald Keyhoe's TRUE magazine article, December 1952 Scan

from Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept (1952)
Le Bien Public clipping of 16 July 1952 reporting flying saucers in the sky over Morocco Scan

Le Bien Public, 16 July 1952, via Patrick Gross ·from The Asni and Oukaïmeden Sighting and the Moroccan Saucer Cluster of July 1952 (1952)

Des soucoupes volantes dans le ciel du Maroc? Rabat. 15 juillet. — On a agglé- nier soir l' apparition, en quain- entro differences, de soucoupes volantes. Un groupe de jeunesse sportifs se reposent à Ouakamedon station de sports d'hiver situes dans le Haut Aïle: a 35 Km mètre des lacs, de deux chal…
Le Provençal, 27 August 1977, anniversary article by Gérard Le Maout Scan

Le Provençal, via Patrick Gross ·from The Marignane Airport Landing (Gabriel Gachignard) (1952)

Il y a trente ans les soucoupes volantes En abordant ce dossier » soucouples volantes » (voir Le Provençal » du 26 octobre), si nous 'métemptions guère les connaissances de nos jours, on OVNI par contre c'est avec la plus grande prudence que nous nous sommes engages sur le chemin des extra-terrestre…
France-Soir, 15 September 1954, page 1 Scan

France-Soir, scan via Patrick Gross ·from Marius Dewilde landing at Quarouble (1954)

Les "Martiens" de Quarouble auraient atterri sur la voie ferrée Les inspecteurs de la police de l'air ont relevé des traces de bequilles sur les traverses VALENCIENNES, 14 sept. (dép. « France-soir »). ROIS inspecteurs de la police de l'air sont revenus, hier, à Quarouble (Nord) pour y entendre M. M…
Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire, 14 September 1954 Scan

Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire, scan via Patrick Gross ·from Marius Dewilde landing at Quarouble (1954)

Dans ON A VU LES DEUX PASSAGERS D'UNE SOUCOUPE VOLANTE... LILLE. — Récemment, dans la Somme ou les Pyrenees, des soucoupes volantes ont été vues dans le ciel. M Marius Dewilde, 34 ans, ouvrier des Acieries de Blanc-Liseron, demeurant à Taurouge, dans le Nord, a vu lui, l'autre nuit, vers 22 h. 30, à…
Paris-Presse, 8 October 1954 Scan

Paris-Presse, via Patrick Gross ·from Poncey-sur-l'Ignon Landing Traces, the Fourneret Case (1954) (1954)

Ces trois soucoupes ont valu à Garret Cashman (ci-dessus) de lègers ennuis avec la justice américaine. Il lançait des ballons-sondes qu'il attachait ensemble à un panier. On les a pris pour de « vraies » soucoupes. Garret devra répondre de sa fumisterie. Et de la façon dont il s'est procuré les ball…
Paris-Presse, 9 October 1954 Scan

Paris-Presse, via Patrick Gross ·from Poncey-sur-l'Ignon Landing Traces, the Fourneret Case (1954) (1954)

UNE « CLOCHE VOLANTE » A FAIT FUIR CETTE FEMME AVEC SON BÉBÉ... « J'ai vu la soucoupe, dit Mme Fourneret. On aurait dit une cloche! Elle brillait dans le pre au « Natole ». J'ai si eu que je me suis sauvée avec le petit. » Tout Poncure-Sy coron-Lignon à la soucoupe qui a, l'autreoir, arrêtier dans l…
Le Nouveau Nord Maritime, 13 October 1954 Scan

Le Nouveau Nord Maritime, via Patrick Gross ·from Pournoy-la-Chétive landing: the children's "Martian in a cassock" (1954)

DISQUES, BOULES et CIGARES VOLANTS... ...et même des Martiens } et - Martiennes } Trois boules de feu Riom, 12. — Au couré de la nuit de dimanche à lundi, les gardiens de la paix Roger Thevenin et Albert Daury, du corps urbain de Riom, qui effectuant une ronde, ont aperçu dans le ciel un engin en fo…
Nord-Matin, 12 October 1954 Scan

Nord-Matin, via Patrick Gross ·from Pournoy-la-Chétive landing: the children's "Martian in a cassock" (1954)

DANS LA MOSELLE Trois enfants affirment avoir été interpellés par un "MARTIEN" à bord d'une soucoupe EPUPS samedi, les habitants de la petite commune de Pournoy-La-Châtive, près de Verny (Moselle) sont partagés en deux clans : Ceux quil y croient, ceux qui en rient. Nous voulons parler de la souche …
Le Bien Public, 30 September 1954, page 1 Scan

Le Bien Public, via Patrick Gross ·from René Valéry's 8 mm "Cigar" Film at Savigny (1954)

CARROUSEL DE SOUCOUPES dans le ciel de France Un des engins aurait été filmé Lyon, 29 de septembre. - Dons les belles chats de la Drome et de la Savois, nombreuses personnes affirmant avoir vu, ces derniers jours, avec plus de souplesse, avant la ferme de ces amneses, soit celle de disques. Dans la …