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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People24
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
Brett Holman is a historian who writes the Airminded blog.
A historian at the University of Caen.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
A sceptic of the Cercle Zététique, Éric Maillot spent decades looking for ordinary answers to France's strangest cases.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
A researcher and case historian, Curt Collins returns to old flaps and checks them against the original sources.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
Gordon D.
A former intelligence officer turned whistleblower.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
A sociologist and folklorist, Michel Meurger looked less at the beasts than at the people who saw them.
A lawyer and a ufologist.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
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.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
A sceptic and author, Melvin Harris turns up in the debates that followed several famous cases.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
The name belongs to two witnesses in this archive, decades apart.
A Brazilian researcher and archivist who digs up the paper trail.
Organisations10
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
Canada's coin maker became an unlikely keeper of the country's UFO history.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
Paris.
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.
Peru's military air arm appears across five decades of the archive.
A news wire.
Places18
A small town on the Gave de Pau.
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
A Massachusetts town whose witch trials of 1692 cast a long shadow over the archive.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
An air force base in the Florida Panhandle, and a name that keeps surfacing in the archive.
A town on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
The name carries two meanings in this archive.
A small village in Logan County, Illinois.
A beach on the coast north of Boston, Massachusetts.
A small town in the province of Namur, home to about 2,000 people.
A New Zealand city, and a quiet anchor for three very different stories.
A Warmian village, known today as Gietrzwałd.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
An Indiana steel town, Gary appears twice in the archive.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
Events2
A French town.
Kentucky, 1955.
Terms8
Magonia began as a land in the clouds.
A giant bird.
1919.
Arkansas, 1971.
A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive.
A time of state persecution for Catholics in Prussia.
In the bog country of Connemara, locals had a name for what some said lived in the small, dark loughs.
Muhnochwa.