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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
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A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
A sceptical voice, writing again and again in the Skeptical Inquirer.
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, turns up again and again in this archive.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
Karl Shuker turns up again and again in the archive's sea monsters and mystery cats.
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A naturalist with a sceptic's eye for sea monsters.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
Constance Whyte wrote More Than a Legend, published in 1957, and spent years following up on the Loch Ness Monster.
A husband and wife of the New England Society for Psychic Research, they turn up again and again in the archive's haunted houses.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
A paranormal investigator and demonologist with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Ed Warren worked alongside Lorraine Warren.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
A writer whose name runs through the archive's strangest tales.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
A clairvoyant and medium with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Lorraine Warren worked alongside Ed Warren on some of the archive's best known hauntings.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
A naval officer and author, Rupert T.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
Charles Gould was the author of Mythical Monsters, published in 1886.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
A cryptid writer and artist, Rob Morphy kept old cases alive on Cryptopia.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
A writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look.
A writer for the Pine Barrens Institute.
January 1934.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
Daniel Loxton, a skeptic writer and editor of Junior Skeptic, went back to old monster stories to find out what really happened.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
An investigator with the Italian sceptics' group CICAP, Massimo Polidoro turns up wherever a mystery needs a second look.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
A sociologist and folklorist, Michel Meurger looked less at the beasts than at the people who saw them.
A Fortean investigator from Ohio, Ron Schaffner turns up across decades of creature cases.
An encyclopedist of the strange, Rosemary Ellen Guiley turns up wherever old cases get retold.
A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
Three different men share this surname in the archive.
A historian of the Chesapeake Bay's own sea monster.
A zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
A worker at the British Aluminium Company's works at Foyers, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness.
An author whose books gather the strange from many corners.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
A Kent researcher with a long reach into the county's strange animals.
An investigator from the north west of England, Peter Hough later co-founded NARO.
A filmmaker drawn to the monsters of small towns.
Three different men named Thompson appear in the archive.
A zoologist at Yale.
Organisations27
A British body of investigators.
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
A podcast.
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
A film outfit built on local legends.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
China's state news agency appears again and again in the archive's Chinese cases.
A magazine.
Portland, Maine.
Based in Oklahoma City, the International UFO Bureau was directed by Hayden C.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
An Iowa newspaper.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
A local Cornish newspaper.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
A scientific journal that kept turning up in strange cases.
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.
A Wisconsin research voice on lake monsters and Bigfoot.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
A news wire.
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.
Roadside markers are its trade.
Programmes and projects4
A television series that kept returning to old mysteries.
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
Places22
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
Three different places share this name in the archive.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
A small town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.
An Indiana steel town, Gary appears twice in the archive.
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
Mansfield appears in the archive as a landmark for two Ohio-area stories.
A French astronomical institution that turns up in three very different chapters of the archive.
A naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A Florida city on the bay, with Anastasia Island just across the water.
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
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A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
April 1934.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
A phantom beast of South Australia.
Every September, the town of Van Meter, Iowa, remembers its strangest visitor.
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A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
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.
A shapeless carcass on a beach.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Okanagan Lake runs long and narrow through the interior of British Columbia.
Cornish for "sea giant".
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
Arkansas, 1971.
The genus of the giant squid.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
An upright, wolf-like creature.
A deep-sea cephalopod, and a recurring suspect in the archive's sea monster cases.
Every so often the sea gives back something nobody can name.
A name, and a creature, that the lower Rio Grande Valley gave to its flying monster.
A film creature serves as the yardstick for lake monsters.
Missouri had its monster first.
A giant octopus, named from a carcass.
In the bog country of Connemara, locals had a name for what some said lived in the small, dark loughs.