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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People9
A researcher behind the scenes.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A writer whose retellings carry older cases to new readers.
An encyclopedist of the strange, Rosemary Ellen Guiley turns up wherever old cases get retold.
Three different men named Stevens turn up in the archive, each at the centre of a strange case.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
Two different people carry this name in the archive.
Organisations9
Three cases in the archive pass through the Smithsonian.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.
A local Cornish newspaper.
A periodical that kept strange English stories alive in print.
A book of records turns up at the edges of three very different cases.
A scientific journal that kept turning up in strange cases.
In the archive's cryptid cases, the Smithsonian Institution turns up as the scientific authority that monsters are sent to, or that they cannot survive.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
Places10
A district of Cairo.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
A Massachusetts town whose witch trials of 1692 cast a long shadow over the archive.
Two very different cases share this name.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
A cathedral city in Hampshire, England, Winchester sits at the edge of two very different cases.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
Events1
July 1876.
Terms5
Silent.
Cornish for "sea giant".
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
A term for a wolf-like creature that walks on two legs.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.