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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People20
An astronomer, and for years the Air Force's own scientific consultant.
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
Bill Chalker is a Sydney researcher whose name runs through many of Australia's best-known cases.
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
An English-language blogger.
A Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
A forestry foreman for the Livingston Development Corporation.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
Organisations3
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
Programmes and projects2
A television series that kept returning to old mysteries.
An ITV series, and a doorway to a national audience for strange local stories.
Places10
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
A small town in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland, home to about 6,000 people.
Ohio.
A town in New Mexico.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
A market town in Northumberland, and the setting for two of the archive's strangest stories.
A small village in Logan County, Illinois.
Craft and objects1
A jump jet that can hover.
Terms6
A creature said to live in the waters of Loch Ness.
Two words that became a punchline.
A giant bird.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
Missouri had its monster first.
A horse's head.