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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People13
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
A British mountaineer whose name runs through the Yeti record.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
Prof.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
A Harvard astronomer.
A professional mountaineer, author and one of the finest mountain photographers of his day.
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 zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
1921.
A Greek photographer and geologist, born in St Petersburg.
Organisations7
A British group that goes looking for the creatures others only glimpse.
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.
Kosmopoisk was the Russian research group led by Vadim Chernobrov, and its name turns up wherever the country's strangest cases left physical traces.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
A Russian newspaper, Pravda turns up across the archive as the place where strange accounts went public.
A learned society of explorers and surveyors, its name runs quietly through some of the archive's strangest expedition stories.
Places3
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
A town in Puerto Rico, and the place where the chupacabra was born.
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
Events1
Every September, the town of Van Meter, Iowa, remembers its strangest visitor.
Terms2
A creature of the inland rivers and lagoons of south-eastern Australia.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.