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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People15
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A zoologist.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A naturalist with a sceptic's eye for sea monsters.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
Charles Gould was the author of Mythical Monsters, published in 1886.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
A writer for the Pine Barrens Institute.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
A showman, and twice a figure on the edges of the strange.
Organisations14
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
A London newspaper, and for more than a century a recurring stage for strange reports.
A British illustrated weekly, and a recurring stage for sea serpents.
A society devoted to cryptozoology, it reported, investigated and published.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
A British journal.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
A local Cornish newspaper.
A scientific journal that kept turning up in strange cases.
A Wisconsin research voice on lake monsters and Bigfoot.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
Roadside markers are its trade.
Places6
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
A town on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
A beach on the coast north of Boston, Massachusetts.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
Craft and objects1
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
Terms6
Cetorhinus maximus.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
A great serpent of the sea, reported by sailors and naturalists for centuries.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
Cornish for "sea giant".
A horse's head.