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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People158
Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
Edward J.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
A cataloguer of humanoid encounters.
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
A witness to the summer flying saucer wave of 1947, in Douglas, Arizona, Coral Lorenzen went on to found APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
Aimé Michel was a French writer and ufologist.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
June 24, 1947.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
Bill Chalker is a Sydney researcher whose name runs through many of Australia's best-known cases.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A detective constable with the British Transport Police.
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A compiler of day-by-day UFO chronologies, built on the UFOCAT database.
An Australian researcher of yowies, poltergeists and strange beasts, Paul Cropper often worked alongside Tony Healy.
Scott Corrales is a writer and translator whose name comes up again and again in Latin American cases.
A researcher of yowies, tigers, yetis and poltergeists, Tony Healy often worked alongside Paul Cropper, his co-author on Out of the Shadows.
Juan José Benítez, better known as J.
A sceptic of the Cercle Zététique, Éric Maillot spent decades looking for ordinary answers to France's strangest cases.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
A sceptic of the Loch Ness legend.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
A pen name, and a patient one.
Spanish broadcaster and author, best known in these cases as the face of Cuarto Milenio.
A Spanish journalist and author, his name runs through some of the best-known cases of the Spanish-speaking world.
James W.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
A NASA scientist who later studied encounters between aircraft and UFOs.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
A cataloguer of the strange autumn of 1973.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
Gordon D.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
Prof.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
A Navy F/A-18F pilot with VFA-11, the Red Rippers, flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
A journalist for Open Minds, also styled Openminds.tv and OpenMinds.
An Argentine researcher who heads CEFORA and directs the UFO Museum in Victoria, Entre Ríos.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
Charles Gould was the author of Mythical Monsters, published in 1886.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
A researcher and case historian, Curt Collins returns to old flaps and checks them against the original sources.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
An anthropologist at Washington State University, Grover Krantz turns up again and again in the Sasquatch record.
Dr.
A parapsychologist from Freiburg, Hans Bender directed the IGPP and was called to some of Germany's strangest disturbances.
As director of the FBI, J.
Jim Lorenzen co-founded APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, and worked its cases alongside Coral Lorenzen.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
A psychologist, and a recurring sceptical voice in the archive's ghost cases.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A barrister and chairman of the Ghost Club, Alan Murdie turns up in the archive as a patient reader of old files.
Spring 1933.
Three different men named Anderson turn up in the archive.
A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led.
A New Zealand-born journalist, active in the Society for Psychical Research.
January 1934.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has spent years putting military UAP footage in front of the public, usually working alongside reporter George Knapp.
Mike Dash is a researcher and writer whose work runs through the archive's Spring-heeled Jack cases.
Lt.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
The night of 19 February 1838.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A former West Midlands police detective.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
Luis Elizondo, an ex-Pentagon intelligence officer, was named in 2017 as the head of AATIP.
A cataloguer of cars that stopped in the presence of the unknown.
The surname belongs to three different men in this archive.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
R.
Leonard H.
A reviewer for the Society for Psychical Research, Tom Ruffles returns to old cases with a careful eye.
A deputy sheriff for Marshall County, Minnesota.
A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
A Malaysian UFO researcher, Ahmad Jamaludin catalogued many of his country's strangest reports.
He spoke for Project Blue Book, from the Air Force press desk.
A psychologist and reserve Brazilian Air Force aviator-officer.
Anthony Bragalia is a researcher whose name turns up where old cases get reopened.
A researcher and author.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
A New England minister, and the archive's most persistent chronicler of the colonial uncanny.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
Daniel Otis was a journalist with VICE World News who went back to Canadian sighting records in 2021.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
A zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
Frank Borman was Command Pilot of Gemini 7 and an officer of the US Air Force.
A young pilot.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
Linda Godfrey was the writer who put the Beast of Bray Road on the map.
Two different men share this surname in the archive.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
A worker at the British Aluminium Company's works at Foyers, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
Húlvio Brant Aleixo led CICOANI, the civilian investigation centre he founded in Belo Horizonte.
January 1992.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
Assistant to J.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
A ufologist from Duncan, British Columbia.
Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jon Downes turns up again and again where Britain's strange animals are hunted.
João Martins was a reporter for O Cruzeiro, the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro, and he turns up in three Brazilian cases.
Tasmania had its own record keeper.
A reporter and author, Linda Godfrey brought Wisconsin's werewolf sightings into print.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
Micah Hanks is a journalist at The Debrief who turns up as a commentator on several cases.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
A writer on the yeti.
A physician in Rio de Janeiro.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
A carnivore specialist at the British Museum (Natural History) in London.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
March 1967.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
An illustrator with a recurring role in Italian sightings.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
A historian and anthropologist, William A.
A Russian ufologist with the Russian Geographical Society, Mikhail Gershtein turns up in Soviet cases as the researcher who checked the details.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Maj.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations122
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
The Mutual UFO Network sent its investigators into some of the field's best known cases.
A British body of investigators.
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
The Pentagon's UAP office.
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
France's national space agency.
A British group that goes looking for the creatures others only glimpse.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
A London newspaper, and for more than a century a recurring stage for strange reports.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
This is Canada's defence department.
Revista UFO is a Brazilian publication that turns up again and again in the country's major cases.
Across more than a century of strange reports, the American Society for Psychical Research sent its people to look.
The Arquivo Nacional is Brazil's national archive.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
Australia's civil aviation authority turns up again and again in the archive's sightings, usually as the office that checked the skies and found nothing there.
A catalogue of ghost reports.
ATIC was where Air Force UFO reports ended up being analysed.
Brazil's military aviators turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
A British illustrated weekly, and a recurring stage for sea serpents.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A podcast.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
A national newspaper that keeps turning up when a strange story breaks out of the local press.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
A sensational national weekly.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
Strategic Air Command ran America's nuclear bombers and missiles, and several of the archive's most unsettling base incidents took place under its watch.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
A society devoted to cryptozoology, it reported, investigated and published.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
A British journal.
A wire service.
A wire service.
China's state news agency appears again and again in the archive's Chinese cases.
Paris.
An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
Several newspapers carry this name, and the archive meets them in different cities and centuries.
A London newspaper that turns up again and again in the city's stranger stories.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
Civilian volunteers.
The printed record of the Society for Psychical Research.
When a strange photograph needed a verdict, the film often went to Kodak.
A French newspaper based in Épinal, La Liberté de l'Est carried strange stories from near and far.
When Britain's big cat reports needed an expert eye, the authorities often turned to London Zoo.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
In 1973, UFO reports in Australia went to the Royal Australian Air Force.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
The Air Weather Service was a US Air Force weather unit, and early sighting reports were sent to it to check the balloon question.
An air traffic control centre, and the voice on the other end of the radio for crews who saw something they could not name.
An English-language journal of psychical research.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
A British publisher of web features, Discovery UK turns up in this archive as a late voice on old cases.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.
Someone was always listening.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
India's space organisation appears in the archive as a scientific voice on strange things in the sky.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
A French daily newspaper, Le Méridional carried several foreign sighting reports to its readers.
A website that retells strange encounters, and in 2018 it turned to South Africa.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
NATO is the Western military alliance.
The National UFO Reporting Center collects sighting reports from the public, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
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 London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
The Office of Naval Intelligence turns up in the paper trail of several naval sightings.
A Russian newspaper, Pravda turns up across the archive as the place where strange accounts went public.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
One police file.
A news wire.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
Malcolm Robinson founded this Scottish investigation group.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, known as TUFOIC, has looked into the island's sightings since at least 1969.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
A newspaper by name, The Star turns up in the archive's press trail across more than a century.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
In these stories, the U.S.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
A newspaper of the Rio Grande Valley, and a recurring voice in its strangest bird stories.
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.
A newspaper that kept returning to the strange stories of its own region.
Roadside markers are its trade.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
Programmes and projects19
October 1966.
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
Project Sign was the Air Force programme that gathered flying saucer reports in 1948.
Spain's Cuarto Milenio is a programme presented by Iker Jiménez.
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
Police Reporting UFO Sightings.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
A French report from 1999, and a recurring reference point in the archive.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Peter Rogerson compiled it.
A ghost-hunting television programme that came back again and again to the archive's haunted places.
A BBC1 programme that kept turning up where the strange stories were.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
A classified program from 1947.
A Navy-led effort to examine unidentified aerial phenomena.
Places91
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
A small town in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland, home to about 6,000 people.
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
Ohio.
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
A district of Cairo.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
Great Falls, Montana.
A town in Oregon, and the name attached to one of the most debated photo cases in the archive.
A mountain in Washington, and the backdrop to the sighting that began the modern saucer era.
A mountain in Albania, and the setting of one of the country's best known UFO cases.
Flat and treeless.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
A town in New Mexico.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
A gorge near Mount St.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
A rural shire in the South West of Western Australia.
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
An air force base in the Florida Panhandle, and a name that keeps surfacing in the archive.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
Loring appears in the archive as one of the bases touched by the intrusions of autumn 1975.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
A French département east of Paris.
Washington, D.C.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
A hamlet in the municipality of Sprimont, about 15 km south-east of Liège.
A small town in the province of Namur, home to about 2,000 people.
An Anglican mission on Goodenough Bay, in the Territory of Papua.
A New Zealand city, and a quiet anchor for three very different stories.
A town area in Seine-et-Marne, about 70 km east of Paris.
Two places share the name.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
Two very different cases share this name.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
A small Cheshire town.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
A market town in Northumberland, and the setting for two of the archive's strangest stories.
Kapustin Yar was set up by decree on 13 May 1946.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
Three places share this name across the archive.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
An air force base on the edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
An air base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base turns up again and again in the archive's New Mexico cases.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
A small village in Logan County, Illinois.
An atomic installation in New Mexico, and a recurring point on the map of the early sightings.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
A town in Kent, on the English coast above Romney Marsh, with Army firing ranges beneath a busy flight path.
A small dairy-farming town on the southern Atherton Tablelands, about 98 km south-west of Cairns.
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
A volcano in Skamania County, Washington.
A beach on the coast north of Boston, Massachusetts.
A city in Lorraine, in eastern France.
A town in the Mackay hinterland of central Queensland, in grazing country.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
A town near Caracas, and the place where Venezuela's 1954 run of hairy dwarf reports began.
A village on the New York shore of Lake Champlain.
A naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
A town in Ceará's Sertão Central, in north-eastern Brazil, about 170 km from Fortaleza.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
An RAF station in north Wales, on the island of Anglesey.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
An island of the Canaries, and a recurring landmark at sea.
A town in Idaho's Magic Valley, Twin Falls sat at the centre of the 1947 flying disc wave.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Craft and objects2
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
November 3, 1957.
Events14
A field near Fátima called the Cova da Iria.
A town in Texas, and the starting point of a restless month.
October 11, 1973.
1961.
London, 1762.
Late November 1989.
24 July 1948.
September 1952.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
1978.
Kentucky, 1955.
July 1876.
A phantom beast of South Australia.
Melbourne, Australia.
Terms47
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
The archive uses Yeti for the snowman of the Himalaya, which Western climbers have reported for a century.
The word comes from the Salish se'sxac, meaning "wild men." In the archive it names a large, hairy, man-like creature of the forests.
March 1995.
A great serpent of the sea, reported by sailors and naturalists for centuries.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
The Tasmanian tiger.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Two words that became a punchline.
Cornish for "sea giant".
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.
Australia's answer to Bigfoot.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
A press name for a big cat that would not go away.
A television series.
A creature of the inland rivers and lagoons of south-eastern Australia.
A crowd, a rumour, and often no ghost at all.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
Arkansas, 1971.
February 26, 1946.
1919.
Silent.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
Central Scotland, the early 1990s.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.
SpaceX's internet satellites.
A term for a wolf-like creature that walks on two legs.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
The name means "short person".
Florida's own Bigfoot.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
A British law, and a theory that shadows the big cat reports.
A time of state persecution for Catholics in Prussia.
Missouri had its monster first.
A term born in 1947.
In the bog country of Connemara, locals had a name for what some said lived in the small, dark loughs.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
A horse's head.
A big cat seen where no big cat should be.
Kangaroos far from home.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.
Straight lines on a map.