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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People25
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
A sceptic inside the Society for Psychical Research.
An Australian researcher of yowies, poltergeists and strange beasts, Paul Cropper often worked alongside Tony Healy.
A researcher of yowies, tigers, yetis and poltergeists, Tony Healy often worked alongside Paul Cropper, his co-author on Out of the Shadows.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
In this archive the name belongs mostly to Hans Bender, a parapsychologist working from the IGPP, his institute in Freiburg.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
A parapsychologist from Freiburg, Hans Bender directed the IGPP and was called to some of Germany's strangest disturbances.
A magician and sceptic, James Randi appears in the archive as a voice of doubt.
A psychologist, and a recurring sceptical voice in the archive's ghost cases.
An author of Irish ghost lore.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
A barrister and chairman of the Ghost Club, Alan Murdie turns up in the archive as a patient reader of old files.
A physical medium from Naples.
A writer and investigator of poltergeists, Guy Lyon Playfair turns up across three cases in the archive.
An encyclopedist of the strange, Rosemary Ellen Guiley turns up wherever old cases get retold.
Three different men named Stevens turn up in the archive, each at the centre of a strange case.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
A parapsychologist of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, J.
Columbus, Ohio.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
Organisations7
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
Poltergeist cases kept bringing investigators from the Psychical Research Foundation to troubled homes.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
The printed record of the Society for Psychical Research.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
An English-language journal of psychical research.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
Programmes and projects2
An ITV series, and a doorway to a national audience for strange local stories.
A BBC1 programme that kept turning up where the strange stories were.
Places8
A name shared by two places in this archive, an English city and a Pennsylvania town.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
A clergy house, and a touchstone.
A small Cheshire town.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
A Canadian city with a long thread through the archive's haunted cases.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
Events2
A benchmark case.
Rosenheim is a poltergeist case.
Terms4
Flying stones.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.
A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive.