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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
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A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A University of Arizona atmospheric physicist, James E.
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
A British psychical researcher of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Harry Price turns up across the archive's hauntings.
Jason Colavito is a writer whose voice turns up when old legends need checking.
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
Benjamin Radford, a sceptic, investigated several of the archive's best-known cryptid cases.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
An English-language blogger.
Ted Phillips studied physical trace cases.
A sceptic of the Cercle Zététique, Éric Maillot spent decades looking for ordinary answers to France's strangest cases.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
A Spanish journalist and author, his name runs through some of the best-known cases of the Spanish-speaking world.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
Author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, Daniel C.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
Prof.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
A psychical researcher, and research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
British ufologist Jenny Randles investigated for BUFORA through the 1970s.
Three different men named Anderson turn up in the archive.
In this archive the name belongs mostly to Hans Bender, a parapsychologist working from the IGPP, his institute in Freiburg.
An astronomer whose name surfaces on the sceptical side of several cases.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
Nandor Fodor was research officer at the International Institute for Psychical Research, described as its chief ghost hunter.
A magician and sceptic, James Randi appears in the archive as a voice of doubt.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
A sceptical author, Trevor H.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases.
A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has spent years putting military UAP footage in front of the public, usually working alongside reporter George Knapp.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
A psychical researcher, and a name that surfaces where the Society for Psychical Research went looking for the unexplained.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
Daniel Loxton, a skeptic writer and editor of Junior Skeptic, went back to old monster stories to find out what really happened.
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
A former rodeo rider and amateur boxer from Yakima, Washington.
An encyclopedist of the strange, Rosemary Ellen Guiley turns up wherever old cases get retold.
Summer, 1977.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
A ghost hunter known as "the Spectre Inspector." Andrew Green wrote Our Haunted Kingdom (1973), and his accounts surface across several British hauntings.
Anthony Bragalia is a researcher whose name turns up where old cases get reopened.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
Dave Chorley was a watercolour painter from the Southampton area.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
January 1992.
Assistant to J.
João Martins was a reporter for O Cruzeiro, the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro, and he turns up in three Brazilian cases.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A French cryptozoologist with a habit of taking the strange cases seriously.
A Kent researcher with a long reach into the county's strange animals.
A British investigator who appears across three decades of cases in the archive.
A researcher who looked for the source of French sightings on the television screen.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
Boulder, Colorado.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
A historian and anthropologist, William A.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Maj.
19 November 2024.
Organisations26
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
A British group that goes looking for the creatures others only glimpse.
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
Australia's civil aviation authority turns up again and again in the archive's sightings, usually as the office that checked the skies and found nothing there.
In London, specimens from strange cases kept ending up in the same place.
A catalogue of ghost reports.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A sensational national weekly.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
China's state news agency appears again and again in the archive's Chinese cases.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
An air traffic control centre, and the voice on the other end of the radio for crews who saw something they could not name.
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in this archive where photographs needed expert eyes.
Harry Price ran it from South Kensington.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
A news wire.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
Programmes and projects5
A History series that went looking for answers.
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
Places19
A creek in the Six Rivers National Forest of far northern California.
A small Texas town in DeWitt County, between San Antonio and Victoria.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
A town in seacoast New Hampshire, with Pease Air Force Base nearby at Portsmouth.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Washington, D.C.
A hamlet in the municipality of Sprimont, about 15 km south-east of Liège.
About 21 km north of Porto Alegre sits a Brazilian Air Force base with two names.
On the Nullarbor Plain, flat and treeless, Cook sat at the 569-mile mark of the Trans-Australian Railway.
A Warmian village, known today as Gietrzwałd.
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
A volcano in Skamania County, Washington.
A city in Lorraine, in eastern France.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
Craft and objects2
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
Events4
London, 1762.
May 20, 1967.
Tunguska serves the archive as a yardstick for impacts from space.
Every September, the town of Van Meter, Iowa, remembers its strangest visitor.
Terms9
Flying stones.
Cetorhinus maximus.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
In this archive, sleep paralysis comes up as a sceptical explanation for abduction stories.
Two words that became a punchline.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
In the field, a mothership is a large craft that seems to carry or command smaller ones.
A time of state persecution for Catholics in Prussia.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.