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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People69
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
Jason Colavito is a writer whose voice turns up when old legends need checking.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A Loch Ness researcher and blogger, Roland Watson returns again and again to the classic cases.
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
Constance Whyte wrote More Than a Legend, published in 1957, and spent years following up on the Loch Ness Monster.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
In this archive the name belongs mostly to Hans Bender, a parapsychologist working from the IGPP, his institute in Freiburg.
In September 1964, at Glassboro, David Halperin was 16.
A parapsychologist from Freiburg, Hans Bender directed the IGPP and was called to some of Germany's strangest disturbances.
Spanish broadcaster and author, best known in these cases as the face of Cuarto Milenio.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A sceptic of the Loch Ness legend.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
James W.
Prof.
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
A Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
George Van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector for Douglas, Hughes and Lockheed.
John Green owned the Agassiz-Harrison Advance and spent some 60 years chasing the Sasquatch.
A pope whose name runs through the archive's Marian apparition cases.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
A parapsychologist who went where the objects moved.
Spring 1933.
Allan Hendry was chief investigator for the Center for UFO Studies, and he wrote The UFO Handbook.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator with a taste for natural explanations.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
A magician and sceptic, James Randi appears in the archive as a voice of doubt.
An Argentine ufologist with a habit of pushing back.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
Parapsychologist William G.
A physicist, drawn into one of the field's most contested paper trails.
A retired Air Force colonel, Wendelle Stevens turns up again and again in the archive's contact and crash stories.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A British journalist and former travel writer.
A physical medium from Naples.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
The night of 19 February 1838.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
An author whose retellings tended to enlarge the cases he touched.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
Dave Chorley was a watercolour painter from the Southampton area.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
Brooklyn, 17 February 1922.
An investigator with Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Isabel Davis went to Kentucky in 1956.
January 1992.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
Marc D'Antonio worked as a photo and video analyst for MUFON, and the Jerusalem case names him its Chief Photo/Video Analyst.
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.
A pope appears at the edges of three Marian cases in the archive.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
Two different men share this surname in the archive.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
A lawyer from Varginha, he investigated for CEVAPPA.
Organisations34
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
A skeptic forum.
J.
Kew is home to the files.
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
France's national space agency.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
This is Canada's defence department.
A French ufology magazine, and a steady presence in the archive's French cases.
In London, specimens from strange cases kept ending up in the same place.
Revista UFO is a Brazilian publication that turns up again and again in the country's major cases.
ATIC was where Air Force UFO reports ended up being analysed.
A podcast.
Paris.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A parapsychology institute in Freiburg, and the home base of Hans Bender.
Several of the archive's photographic cases ended up in this journal's pages.
A film outfit built on local legends.
A British journal.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
In 1973, UFO reports in Australia went to the Royal Australian Air Force.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
An air traffic control centre, and the voice on the other end of the radio for crews who saw something they could not name.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
Again and again, the first call went to the gendarmerie.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked under this name.
Roadside markers are its trade.
India's space organisation appears in the archive as a scientific voice on strange things in the sky.
A newspaper of the Rio Grande Valley, and a recurring voice in its strangest bird stories.
Programmes and projects4
HUMCAT was a catalogue of humanoid encounters.
A late-night radio programme, broadcast from Pahrump, Nevada, on more than 300 stations under Art Bell.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
Places40
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
Hall Road, Borley, north Essex.
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
A small Texas town in DeWitt County, between San Antonio and Victoria.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
A vast Florida swamp sits behind three very different stories in the archive.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
A French département east of Paris.
A small town in the province of Namur, home to about 2,000 people.
About 21 km north of Porto Alegre sits a Brazilian Air Force base with two names.
A town area in Seine-et-Marne, about 70 km east of Paris.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
Two very different cases share this name.
A small Cheshire town.
A market town in Northumberland, and the setting for two of the archive's strangest stories.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A village near Verviers, in Belgium, now part of the town itself.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
A town in Espírito Santo, Brazil, that turns up at the end of two abduction stories.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
A volcano in Skamania County, Washington.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
Craft and objects2
Columbus's flagship on his first voyage west.
November 3, 1957.
Events11
London, 1803 and 1804.
Between 1764 and 1767, a beast terrorised the mountains of southern France.
Bluff Creek, 1967.
Rosenheim is a poltergeist case.
A French town.
June 21, 1947.
September 1952.
Garabandal appears in this archive as a reference point.
Sunday, 23 February 1975.
Valensole is a high plateau in Provence, in the lavender country of what was then the Basses-Alpes.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
Terms22
The planet Venus was the explanation sceptics offered again and again.
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
March 1995.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
A superior mirage.
Silent.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.
The name means "short person".
The genus of the giant squid.
An upright, wolf-like creature.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.
A deep-sea cephalopod, and a recurring suspect in the archive's sea monster cases.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
A name, and a creature, that the lower Rio Grande Valley gave to its flying monster.
An Animal Planet series about the hunt for Bigfoot, it reaches across three cases in this archive.
A big cat seen where no big cat should be.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
Muhnochwa.