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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People28
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
Gordon D.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
Prof.
A writer whose retellings carry older cases to new readers.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator with a taste for natural explanations.
A cryptid writer and artist, Rob Morphy kept old cases alive on Cryptopia.
A sceptical author, Trevor H.
A Navy commander and the lead pilot in the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter of 2004.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
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.
The surname belongs to three different men in this archive.
A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
Dave Chorley was a watercolour painter from the Southampton area.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
A scholar and folklorist who looked at flying ships through the lens of story.
A South Tyrolean mountaineer, and the sole witness to one of the archive's best known Yeti encounters.
Gordon D.
Organisations10
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
An Italian sceptics' group, CICAP turns up again and again when a strange case needs a second look.
A magazine.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
A website that retells strange encounters, and in 2018 it turned to South Africa.
A New York newspaper that turns up again and again in the archive's cases, sometimes as a megaphone and once as a closed door.
In these stories, the U.S.
Programmes and projects5
October 1966.
A History series that went looking for answers.
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Places28
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
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.
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
A gorge near Mount St.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
The name carries two meanings in this archive.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
Long and narrow, Okanagan Lake runs through the interior of British Columbia.
A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
A village on the New York shore of Lake Champlain.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
A Florida city on the bay, with Anastasia Island just across the water.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
Craft and objects1
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
Events1
A small commune in the Var, in south-eastern France.
Terms7
A creature said to live in the waters of Loch Ness.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.
A term born in 1947.
In the bog country of Connemara, locals had a name for what some said lived in the small, dark loughs.
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.