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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People15
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
John G.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
A bulldozer operator from Salyer, California.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Organisations14
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Fortean Times is a magazine.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
A London newspaper, and for more than a century a recurring stage for strange reports.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
Portland, Maine.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
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.
Farnborough.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
Programmes and projects3
January 1953.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Places5
A creek in the Six Rivers National Forest of far northern California.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
Two different places share this name in the archive.
Events2
London, 1762.
1988.
Terms8
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
A giant bird.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
A film creature serves as the yardstick for lake monsters.
Muhnochwa.