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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People18
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
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British ufologist Jenny Randles investigated for BUFORA through the 1970s.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
A writer for the Pine Barrens Institute.
A psychical researcher, and research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
A British journalist and former travel writer.
Nandor Fodor was research officer at the International Institute for Psychical Research, described as its chief ghost hunter.
Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jon Downes turns up again and again where Britain's strange animals are hunted.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
A ghost hunter known as "the Spectre Inspector." Andrew Green wrote Our Haunted Kingdom (1973), and his accounts surface across several British hauntings.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
Brooklyn, 17 February 1922.
Ross Coulthart is a journalist and commentator with NewsNation.
Organisations11
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
Three cases in the archive pass through the Smithsonian.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
A French newspaper based in Épinal, La Liberté de l'Est carried strange stories from near and far.
A catalogue of Marian apparitions, Miracle Hunter appears in the archive as a reference point for status and scale.
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.
NewsNation is a news outlet that kept returning to the archive's stranger stories.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
Programmes and projects3
A History series that went looking for answers.
A ghost-hunting television programme that came back again and again to the archive's haunted places.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
Places5
A whaling station on the north coast of Graham Island, in what is now Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
A district of East London, and the setting for two very different Victorian mysteries.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.
Events2
London, 1803 and 1804.
London, 1762.
Terms3
Australia's answer to Bigfoot.
A sitting to reach the dead.
An Animal Planet series about the hunt for Bigfoot, it reaches across three cases in this archive.