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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People25
A British mountaineer whose name runs through the Yeti record.
Ted Phillips studied physical trace cases.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
A cryptid writer and artist, Rob Morphy kept old cases alive on Cryptopia.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
An astronomer whose name surfaces on the sceptical side of several cases.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
John G.
British statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and later Prime Minister.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
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 forestry foreman for the Livingston Development Corporation.
Leonard H.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jon Downes turns up again and again where Britain's strange animals are hunted.
A writer on the yeti.
A South Tyrolean mountaineer, and the sole witness to one of the archive's best known Yeti encounters.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
Columbus, Ohio.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
Organisations14
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
In London, specimens from strange cases kept ending up in the same place.
A French ufology magazine, and a steady presence in the archive's French cases.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters.
Civilian volunteers.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
An Iowa newspaper.
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
One police file.
Malcolm Robinson founded this Scottish investigation group.
Programmes and projects2
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
Places12
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
Washington, D.C.
A town in Staffordshire in 1971, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall since 1974.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
Edgehill.
Two places in the archive share this name.
A town in Kent, on the English coast above Romney Marsh, with Army firing ranges beneath a busy flight path.
A town in the hills above Genoa, on unlit mountain roads iced by freezing rime fog.
Events1
Terms9
Missing time is a term of the field for a gap in a witness's memory after an encounter.
The archive uses Yeti for the snowman of the Himalaya, which Western climbers have reported for a century.
A shapeless carcass on a beach.
Two words that became a punchline.
A press name for a big cat that would not go away.
A television series.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
Britain has a long tradition of phantom cats.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.