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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People15
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 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.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
Constance Whyte wrote More Than a Legend, published in 1957, and spent years following up on the Loch Ness Monster.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
A naval officer and author, Rupert T.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
January 1934.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
A worker at the British Aluminium Company's works at Foyers, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness.
Organisations5
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
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.
Places5
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, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.
Events1
April 1934.
Terms3
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".