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“Chicago”

Stories43 · page 3

Pro early

The Belden Avenue 'Gang of Ghosts': Dr W. C. Rowe's Haunted House, Chicago

July 1889 · Belden Avenue, North Side, Chicago, Illinois

United States

Paranormal · Other · 12 sources

24Thinly documented

Pro early

Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent

June 22, 1883 · Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

25Thinly documented

Our Lady of Good Help: the apparitions to Adele Brise at Champion, Wisconsin (1859)

October 1859 · Robinsonville (now Champion), Town of Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin

United States

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 33 sources

21Thinly documented

Names10

Chicago Tribune Organisation · 10 stories
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
Roy P. Mackal Person · 9 stories
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
Mackal Person · 6 stories
Prof.
Lake Michigan Place · 5 stories
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
Fate Organisation · 4 stories
A magazine.
Joseph Laycock Person · 4 stories
A religious studies scholar at Texas State University.
Dale Kaczmarek Person · 3 stories
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
flying saucers Term · 3 stories
A term born in 1947.
pareidolia Term · 3 stories
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.
phantom kangaroo Term · 3 stories
Kangaroos far from home.

Documents206 · see all

Support (Deleted) from (Deleted) (Discusses Davidson's Articles and Pag E 13-V FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1958-01-05· 2 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …DID NOT X NOT ASK DAVIDSON TO KEEP SECRET THE CHICAGO CIA X CIA LOCATION, BUT ADVISED DAVIDSON NOT TO…
- p. 2 …DID NOT X NOT ASK DAVIDSON TO KEEP SECRET THE CHICAGO CIA X CIA LOCATION, BUT ADVISED DAVIDSON NOT TO…
Support (Deleted) from (Deleted) (Discusses Davidson's Articles and Page 13-VISIT to the CIA Office in Chicago) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1958-01-31· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …DID NOT X NOT ASK DAVIDSON TO KEEP SECRET THE CHICAGO CIA X CIA LOCATION, BUT ADVISED DAVIDSON NOT TO…
Correspondence Relating to UFO Sightings, 1967, 1974 Official release

Federal Bureau of Investigation· 1974-10-10· 5 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 2 # Memorandum CHICAGO (840) SAC. LEONARD TREVIRANUS UFO SIGHTING - MISCELLANEOUS TOM MITCHELL, 7825 South Colfax, Chicago (375-9258) telephonically advised the…
- p. 3 …2 Arlington, Virginia 22204 WASHINGTON, DC AM 2 OCT 1974 Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation Chicago, Illinois
Radio Code Recording - Case (Deleted) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1955-02-04· 2 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …They have recently used these Chicago radio operators who also claim to have recorded such messages so if you find…
- p. 2 …They have recently used True First Chicago has radio operators who also claim to have recorded such messages so if…
Federal Aviation Administration: 237UAP00488 Official release

Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration.· 2023· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …CHICAGO, IL/UFO-UAP ACTIVITY/1930C/CHICAGO ARTCC ADVISED JORDANIAN 264, B788, ORD - AMMAN, JORDAN (OJAI), REPORTED 2 BRIGHT WHITE…
Untitled (Contact with Leon Davidson Was Person-To-Person, He Is Doing an Arti FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1957-11-05· 2 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …HE WAS IN CHICAGO FOR A SCIENTIFIC MEETING. DAVIDSON EXPLAINED THAT HE IS DOING AN ARTICLE FOR A SPACE MAGAZINE…
- p. 2 …HE WAS IN CHICAGO FOR A SCIENTIFIC MEETING. DAVIDSON EXPLAINED THAT HE IS DOING AN ARTICLE FOR A SPACE MAGAZINE…