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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People28
A cataloguer of humanoid encounters.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
A newspaperman turned Sasquatch researcher from British Columbia.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
A Canadian Sasquatch investigator, René Dahinden turns up across decades of the archive's Bigfoot cases.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
Juan José Benítez, better known as J.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
John Green owned the Agassiz-Harrison Advance and spent some 60 years chasing the Sasquatch.
A Spanish journalist and author, his name runs through some of the best-known cases of the Spanish-speaking world.
An anthropologist at Washington State University, Grover Krantz turns up again and again in the Sasquatch record.
An investigator with Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Isabel Davis went to Kentucky in 1956.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
Prof.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
A ghost hunter known as "the Spectre Inspector." Andrew Green wrote Our Haunted Kingdom (1973), and his accounts surface across several British hauntings.
A researcher and author.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
A zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
John Greenewald Jr.
A showman, and twice a figure on the edges of the strange.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
Organisations6
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
A society devoted to cryptozoology, it reported, investigated and published.
When a strange photograph needed a verdict, the film often went to Kodak.
A wire service.
Programmes and projects1
Spain's Cuarto Milenio is a programme presented by Iker Jiménez.
Places15
A creek in the Six Rivers National Forest of far northern California.
Two places share this name in the archive.
Ohio.
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
A small town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
A name that turns up in two hemispheres.
An air base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base turns up again and again in the archive's New Mexico cases.
An atomic installation in New Mexico, and a recurring point on the map of the early sightings.
Sydney's airport at Mascot had a tower, an airfield and radar screens that kept turning up in the archive's Australian cases.
Three different buildings share this name in the archive.
Events3
A ghost photograph from Raynham Hall, and a benchmark for the genre.
1978.
Melbourne, Australia.
Terms5
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
The word comes from the Salish se'sxac, meaning "wild men." In the archive it names a large, hairy, man-like creature of the forests.
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.
Arkansas, 1971.
A film creature serves as the yardstick for lake monsters.