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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People13
A folklorist and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke advised The National Archives on the Ministry of Defence UFO files released from 2008 to 2013.
Benjamin Radford, a sceptic, investigated several of the archive's best-known cryptid cases.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
The night of 19 February 1838.
Two different men named Crawford appear in the archive.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
An investigator with Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Isabel Davis went to Kentucky in 1956.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
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Organisations1
Kew is home to the files.
Places3
A name shared by two places in this archive, an English city and a Pennsylvania town.
A name that turns up in two hemispheres.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
Craft and objects1
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
Events2
London, 1762.
A Texas name that keeps turning up in the company of other mysteries.
Terms3
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.