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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People15
Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
Project Blue Book's man at the top in the mid 1960s.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
The surname belongs to three different men in this archive.
A deputy sheriff for Marshall County, Minnesota.
A former FBI agent turned television investigator.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
Brooklyn, 17 February 1922.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A Kent researcher with a long reach into the county's strange animals.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Three different men named Thompson appear in the archive.
Two different people carry this name in the archive.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
Organisations8
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
A magazine.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
A newspaper that kept returning to the strange stories of its own region.
Programmes and projects3
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
A Syfy series that put famous footage to the test.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
Places23
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
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 small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
Ohio.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
A small Texas town in DeWitt County, between San Antonio and Victoria.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
Three different places share this name in the archive.
Two towns share this name in the archive.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
Two very different cases share this name.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
A small town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
A small village in Logan County, Illinois.
A volcano in Skamania County, Washington.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A village on the New York shore of Lake Champlain.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
Events1
October 13, 1973.
Terms6
March 1995.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
Arkansas, 1971.
Missouri had its monster first.
Florida's own Bigfoot.
Kangaroos far from home.