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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People26
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
A Loch Ness researcher and blogger, Roland Watson returns again and again to the classic cases.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
Constance Whyte wrote More Than a Legend, published in 1957, and spent years following up on the Loch Ness Monster.
A pair of chroniclers of the strange, Janet and Colin Bord turn up across the archive as authors and record keepers.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
A sceptic of the Loch Ness legend.
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 Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
A naval officer and author, Rupert T.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
Spring 1933.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
Alex Boese writes for the Museum of Hoaxes, and his name surfaces whenever a Loch Ness image is put to the test.
January 1934.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
A worker at the British Aluminium Company's works at Foyers, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness.
An author whose book became a reference point for Loch Ness land sightings.
Three different men named Peter Davies appear in the archive's cases.
Organisations11
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
In London, specimens from strange cases kept ending up in the same place.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
Its members reached well beyond Loch Ness.
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in this archive where photographs needed expert eyes.
A New York newspaper that turns up again and again in the archive's cases, sometimes as a megaphone and once as a closed door.
Places7
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.
Events1
April 1934.
Terms4
A creature said to live in the waters of Loch Ness.
Nessie is the name the archive gives the Loch Ness Monster, and it has become a template for lake monsters worldwide.
Cornish for "sea giant".
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.