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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People17
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
June 24, 1947.
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
An Argentine researcher who heads CEFORA and directs the UFO Museum in Victoria, Entre Ríos.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
John G.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
Mike Dash is a researcher and writer whose work runs through the archive's Spring-heeled Jack cases.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Organisations6
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost 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.
Farnborough.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
Places12
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
Flat and treeless.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
Edgehill.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A town in Idaho's Magic Valley, Twin Falls sat at the centre of the 1947 flying disc wave.
Two different places share this name in the archive.
Events2
Terms4
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
A film creature serves as the yardstick for lake monsters.