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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People30
A sceptic.
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
From 1991 to 1994, Nick Pope ran the Ministry of Defence's small UFO desk.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
A clairvoyant and medium with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Lorraine Warren worked alongside Ed Warren on some of the archive's best known hauntings.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
An author who gathers the strange encounters of others into books.
Nandor Fodor was research officer at the International Institute for Psychical Research, described as its chief ghost hunter.
A physicist, drawn into one of the field's most contested paper trails.
January 1934.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
The night of 19 February 1838.
A 34-year-old metalworker at the Ateliers du Nord de la France steelworks at Blanc-Misseron, Marius Dewilde lived with his wife at level crossing No.
A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
Húlvio Brant Aleixo led CICOANI, the civilian investigation centre he founded in Belo Horizonte.
A reporter and author, Linda Godfrey brought Wisconsin's werewolf sightings into print.
An investigator from the north west of England, Peter Hough later co-founded NARO.
A South Tyrolean mountaineer, and the sole witness to one of the archive's best known Yeti encounters.
A French journalist and author whose name runs through two of the country's notable cases.
A Brazilian researcher and archivist who digs up the paper trail.
Three different men named Thompson appear in the archive.
Pier Fortunato Zanfretta was 26.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Organisations11
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
A British group that goes looking for the creatures others only glimpse.
The Royal Australian Air Force runs through decades of the archive's Australian cases.
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
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.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
In these stories, the U.S.
Programmes and projects5
A television series that kept returning to the strangest nights in the archive.
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
A late-night radio programme, broadcast from Pahrump, Nevada, on more than 300 stations under Art Bell.
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.
Places19
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
Lakenheath was an RAF base in Suffolk used by the United States Air Force in the summer of 1956.
Great Falls, Montana.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
A district of East London, and the setting for two very different Victorian mysteries.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
Two places in the archive share this name.
An air base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base turns up again and again in the archive's New Mexico cases.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
A town near Caracas, and the place where Venezuela's 1954 run of hairy dwarf reports began.
A town in the hills above Genoa, on unlit mountain roads iced by freezing rime fog.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
Craft and objects1
Columbus's flagship on his first voyage west.
Events4
A town in Texas, and the starting point of a restless month.
1961.
24 July 1948.
1988.
Terms8
A phantom with a name.
A great serpent of the sea, reported by sailors and naturalists for centuries.
A crowd, a rumour, and often no ghost at all.
A Swahili spirit, a shetani, whose name joins popo, bat, and bawa, wing.
A term for a wolf-like creature that walks on two legs.
Florida's own Bigfoot.
Muhnochwa.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.