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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People15
An optical physicist with the US Navy.
Timothy Good is a British author.
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator with a taste for natural explanations.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A barrister and chairman of the Ghost Club, Alan Murdie turns up in the archive as a patient reader of old files.
A New Zealand-born journalist, active in the Society for Psychical Research.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
Robert Bartholomew is a psychologist and author.
A reviewer for the Society for Psychical Research, Tom Ruffles returns to old cases with a careful eye.
Linda Godfrey was the writer who put the Beast of Bray Road on the map.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Organisations8
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
A New Zealand research group, UFOCUS NZ keeps the record on some of the country's strangest encounters.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in this archive where photographs needed expert eyes.
A scientific journal that kept turning up in strange cases.
Places4
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
A New Zealand city, and a quiet anchor for three very different stories.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
Two places in the archive share this name.
Events2
Rosenheim is a poltergeist case.
1978.
Terms2
Missing time is a term of the field for a gap in a witness's memory after an encounter.
A shapeless carcass on a beach.