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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People24
An Australian researcher who kept returning to the country's strangest cases, and often to their ordinary explanations.
A sceptic who writes in SUNlite, Tim Printy has offered his own readings of several classic cases.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
A cataloguer of the strange autumn of 1973.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
A New Zealand-born journalist, active in the Society for Psychical Research.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
Three different men share this surname in the archive.
A ghost writer whose books carried older haunting stories into the twentieth century.
An author whose books gather the strange from many corners.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A Greek photographer and geologist, born in St Petersburg.
A showman, and twice a figure on the edges of the strange.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
An investigator from the north west of England, Peter Hough later co-founded NARO.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
A lawyer from Varginha, he investigated for CEVAPPA.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
Organisations8
A catalogue of ghost reports.
A podcast.
An Italian sceptics' group, CICAP turns up again and again when a strange case needs a second look.
A sensational national weekly.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
A British army regiment.
A rationalist organisation in India, it appears in the archive through one recurring figure.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
Programmes and projects3
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 ghost-hunting television programme that came back again and again to the archive's haunted places.
Places11
Woomera is a rocket and guided weapons range in the South Australian outback, run by the Long Range Weapons Establishment.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
The name turns up in two very different corners of the archive.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
An Anglican mission on Goodenough Bay, in the Territory of Papua.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
A small Cheshire town.
A market town in Northumberland, and the setting for two of the archive's strangest stories.
Three places share this name across the archive.
Mount Etna is the volcano on the island of Sicily, and it figures in two very different cases.
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
Events3
October 11, 1973.
A ghost photograph from Raynham Hall, and a benchmark for the genre.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
Terms7
The archive uses Yeti for the snowman of the Himalaya, which Western climbers have reported for a century.
A superior mirage.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.