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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People11
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
In this archive the name belongs mostly to Hans Bender, a parapsychologist working from the IGPP, his institute in Freiburg.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
A writer and investigator of poltergeists, Guy Lyon Playfair turns up across three cases in the archive.
A magician and sceptic, James Randi appears in the archive as a voice of doubt.
A psychologist, and a recurring sceptical voice in the archive's ghost cases.
A barrister and chairman of the Ghost Club, Alan Murdie turns up in the archive as a patient reader of old files.
Three different men named Stevens turn up in the archive, each at the centre of a strange case.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
Organisations2
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
An English-language journal of psychical research.
Programmes and projects1
A BBC1 programme that kept turning up where the strange stories were.
Places5
Two places share this name in the archive.
A name shared by two places in this archive, an English city and a Pennsylvania town.
A clergy house, and a touchstone.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
A Canadian city with a long thread through the archive's haunted cases.
Events1
A benchmark case.
Terms2
Flying stones.
A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive.