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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
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An English-language blogger.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
A pair of chroniclers of the strange, Janet and Colin Bord turn up across the archive as authors and record keepers.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
A Kelowna journalist, researcher and author, Arlene Gaal spent years studying the Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
An encyclopedist of hidden animals.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
A historian of Australian folklore, ghosts and phantom cats.
A Kent researcher with a long reach into the county's strange animals.
A carnivore specialist at the British Museum (Natural History) in London.
Organisations5
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
When Britain's big cat reports needed an expert eye, the authorities often turned to London Zoo.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
Programmes and projects1
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
Places7
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
A small town on the Gave de Pau.
A small Texas town in DeWitt County, between San Antonio and Victoria.
The name turns up in two very different corners of the archive.
A town in Puerto Rico, and the place where the chupacabra was born.
Two very different cases share this name.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
Events1
Between 1764 and 1767, a beast terrorised the mountains of southern France.
Terms8
The Tasmanian tiger.
A creature of the inland rivers and lagoons of south-eastern Australia.
Britain has a long tradition of phantom cats.
The genus of the giant squid.
A deep-sea cephalopod, and a recurring suspect in the archive's sea monster cases.
A British law, and a theory that shadows the big cat reports.
The marsupial lion.
A big cat seen where no big cat should be.