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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People19
A sceptical voice, writing again and again in the Skeptical Inquirer.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
A cryptid writer and artist, Rob Morphy kept old cases alive on Cryptopia.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
A writer for the Pine Barrens Institute.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
Daniel Loxton, a skeptic writer and editor of Junior Skeptic, went back to old monster stories to find out what really happened.
An investigator with the Italian sceptics' group CICAP, Massimo Polidoro turns up wherever a mystery needs a second look.
Organisations8
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
China's state news agency appears again and again in the archive's Chinese cases.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
Portland, Maine.
A Wisconsin research voice on lake monsters and Bigfoot.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
Roadside markers are its trade.
Programmes and projects2
A television series that kept returning to old mysteries.
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
Places4
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
Mansfield appears in the archive as a landmark for two Ohio-area stories.
Terms6
A creature said to live in the waters of Loch Ness.
Nessie is the name the archive gives the Loch Ness Monster, and it has become a template for lake monsters worldwide.
Okanagan Lake runs long and narrow through the interior of British Columbia.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
A film creature serves as the yardstick for lake monsters.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.