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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People25
Timothy Good is a British author.
A newspaperman turned Sasquatch researcher from British Columbia.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
John Green owned the Agassiz-Harrison Advance and spent some 60 years chasing the Sasquatch.
Gordon D.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
Spring 1933.
Autumn 1975.
Mike Dash is a researcher and writer whose work runs through the archive's Spring-heeled Jack cases.
A physical medium from Naples.
The night of 19 February 1838.
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
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A reviewer for the Society for Psychical Research, Tom Ruffles returns to old cases with a careful eye.
Frank Borman was Command Pilot of Gemini 7 and an officer of the US Air Force.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
A writer on the yeti.
An author whose retellings tended to enlarge the cases he touched.
Boulder, Colorado.
Gordon D.
Maj.
Organisations12
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
A British body of investigators.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
A sensational national weekly.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
A wire service.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
A British army regiment.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
A newspaper by name, The Star turns up in the archive's press trail across more than a century.
Programmes and projects2
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
Places10
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
A small town on the Gave de Pau.
Lakenheath was an RAF base in Suffolk used by the United States Air Force in the summer of 1956.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
A hamlet in the municipality of Sprimont, about 15 km south-east of Liège.
A Warmian village, known today as Gietrzwałd.
Two very different cases share this name.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
Events1
Late November 1989.
Terms7
A phantom with a name.
A television series.
February 26, 1946.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.
A Swahili spirit, a shetani, whose name joins popo, bat, and bawa, wing.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.