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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
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Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
A researcher, and a former Army helicopter pilot.
A sceptic.
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
From 1991 to 1994, Nick Pope ran the Ministry of Defence's small UFO desk.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
Jason Colavito is a writer whose voice turns up when old legends need checking.
A Loch Ness researcher and blogger, Roland Watson returns again and again to the classic cases.
A Mexican journalist, TV presenter and ufologist, Jaime Maussan stood behind many of the region's best known cases.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A paranormal investigator and demonologist with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Ed Warren worked alongside Lorraine Warren.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
A NASA scientist who later studied encounters between aircraft and UFOs.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
A Kelowna journalist, researcher and author, Arlene Gaal spent years studying the Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake.
Charles Gould was the author of Mythical Monsters, published in 1886.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
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A researcher with the Center for UFO Studies, Michael Swords turns up across decades of cases.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
Alex Boese writes for the Museum of Hoaxes, and his name surfaces whenever a Loch Ness image is put to the test.
A historian of Australian folklore, ghosts and phantom cats.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
Daniel Loxton, a skeptic writer and editor of Junior Skeptic, went back to old monster stories to find out what really happened.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
Marc D'Antonio worked as a photo and video analyst for MUFON, and the Jerusalem case names him its Chief Photo/Video Analyst.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
The chair of CSICOP, Paul Kurtz was the archive's recurring sceptic.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
Organisations14
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Fortean Times is a magazine.
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
A wire service.
The printed record of the Society for Psychical Research.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
A Wisconsin research voice on lake monsters and Bigfoot.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
In the archive's cryptid cases, the Smithsonian Institution turns up as the scientific authority that monsters are sent to, or that they cannot survive.
Programmes and projects5
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
Peter Rogerson compiled it.
Places5
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
The Mexican capital appears in the archive again and again.
A village near Verviers, in Belgium, now part of the town itself.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
A Canadian city with a long thread through the archive's haunted cases.
Events3
A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
June 21, 1947.
Every September, the town of Van Meter, Iowa, remembers its strangest visitor.
Terms6
Cornish for "sea giant".
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
An upright, wolf-like creature.
Florida's own Bigfoot.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.
A big cat seen where no big cat should be.