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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People20
A ufology cataloguer and archivist, Patrick Gross compiled case sources online and gave many of them a verdict.
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
Loren E.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
Robert E.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A pen name, and a patient one.
Brett Holman is a historian who writes the Airminded blog.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
The night of 19 February 1838.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Pier Fortunato Zanfretta was 26.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
A young pilot.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
Organisations5
A skeptic forum.
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
A book of records turns up at the edges of three very different cases.
Programmes and projects1
A ghost-hunting television programme that came back again and again to the archive's haunted places.
Places5
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
Craft and objects1
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
Events1
London, 1762.
Terms6
The planet Venus was the explanation sceptics offered again and again.
A phantom with a name.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
A British law, and a theory that shadows the big cat reports.
An Animal Planet series about the hunt for Bigfoot, it reaches across three cases in this archive.