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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People21
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
Loren E.
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
A sceptic inside the Society for Psychical Research.
Scott Corrales is a writer and translator whose name comes up again and again in Latin American cases.
A pen name, and a patient one.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
In September 1964, at Glassboro, David Halperin was 16.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
A psychologist, and a recurring sceptical voice in the archive's ghost cases.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
A former West Midlands police detective.
Summer, 1977.
A former FBI agent turned television investigator.
A zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
A South Tyrolean mountaineer, and the sole witness to one of the archive's best known Yeti encounters.
A leader of the Kosmopoisk group, Vadim Chernobrov appears in the archive as a field investigator who followed old Russian mysteries to their source.
A psychologist who read flying saucers as symbols as much as sightings.
A scholar and folklorist who looked at flying ships through the lens of story.
A researcher who looked for the source of French sightings on the television screen.
Organisations10
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
France's national space agency.
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A film outfit built on local legends.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
Again and again, the first call went to the gendarmerie.
One police file.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
Programmes and projects10
A television series that kept returning to the strangest nights in the archive.
A History series that went looking for answers.
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
A television series that kept returning to old mysteries.
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
An ITV series, and a doorway to a national audience for strange local stories.
A Syfy series that put famous footage to the test.
A television series.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
A Fox television series hosted by Tim White, Sightings brought several of the archive's cases to a wide audience.
Places9
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
An air force base in the Florida Panhandle, and a name that keeps surfacing in the archive.
A district of East London, and the setting for two very different Victorian mysteries.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
An air base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base turns up again and again in the archive's New Mexico cases.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Events3
A benchmark case.
A Texas name that keeps turning up in the company of other mysteries.
Valensole is a high plateau in Provence, in the lavender country of what was then the Basses-Alpes.
Terms6
Nessie is the name the archive gives the Loch Ness Monster, and it has become a template for lake monsters worldwide.
In this archive, sleep paralysis comes up as a sceptical explanation for abduction stories.
A television series.
A book.
Britain has a long tradition of phantom cats.
An Animal Planet series about the hunt for Bigfoot, it reaches across three cases in this archive.