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Stories812 · page 39

Spring-heeled Jack in William Henry Street, Everton, Liverpool (1904)

September 1904 · William Henry Street, Everton, Liverpool

Paranormal · Creature · 29 sources

16Thinly documented

The USS Supply "Remarkable Meteors"

February 28, 1904 · Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles WSW of San Francisco (36°20′ N, 127°36′ W)

International waters

UAP · Formation · 16 sources

22Thinly documented

The Tiger of Sabrodt (Tiger von Sabrodt)

February 27, 1904 · Sabrodt (Zabrod), Elsterheide, and Revier Tschelln near Tzschelln, Upper Lusatia, Saxony

Cryptid · Creature · 27 sources · 1 photos

36Partially documented

Captain White and the Falmouth tug Triton: the 100-ft sea serpent off the Longships (1903)

September 1903 · About 15 miles off Longships Lighthouse, Land's End, Cornwall

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

15Thinly documented

Mike King's Hairy Man near Campbell River, Vancouver Island (c. 1901)

c. 1901 · Backcountry near Campbell River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

15Thinly documented

The Arowhana kumi: a giant lizard on W. D. Lysnar's station

September 1898 · Arowhana station, inland from Gisborne, Tairāwhiti/East Coast, North Island

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

16Thinly documented

The Plumstead Ghost Riot: St James's Church, Plumstead, near Woolwich, 1897

c. 1897 · St James's Church and schools, Burrage Road, Plumstead, near Woolwich, London

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 12 sources

17Thinly documented

The St Botolph's, Aldgate Ghost Crowd (1897)

August 16, 1897 · Churchyard of St Botolph's Church, Aldgate, City of London

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 8 sources

7Thinly documented

The Gowrow: William Miller's Posse and the Searcy County Monster

c. 1897 · Blanco, Calf Creek Township, Searcy County, Arkansas

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

18Thinly documented

The St. Augustine Monster (Octopus giganteus), Anastasia Island, 1896

November 30, 1896 · Anastasia Island, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources · 1 photos

44Partially documented

Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897

November 17, 1896 · Sacramento, California, then Northern California, the Midwest and Texas

UAP · Cigar · 45 sources

41Partially documented

The Tilly-sur-Seulles apparitions: the Virgin over M. Lepetit's field (1896)

March 18, 1896 · M. Lepetit's field opposite the girls' school, Tilly-sur-Seulles, Calvados, Normandy

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources

28Thinly documented

The SS Umfuli Sea Serpent

December 4, 1893 · Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa, south of the Canary Islands (about 21°40′N, 17°30′W)

International waters

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources

16Thinly documented

The Hodag of Rhinelander

October 1893 · Rhinelander, Wisconsin

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

17Thinly documented

The Combermere Abbey ghost photograph (Sybell Corbet's library exposure)

c. 1891 · The Library, Combermere Abbey, near Burleydam, Cheshire, England

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 19 sources · 4 photos

26Thinly documented

Norman Collie and the Big Grey Man (Am Fear Liath Mòr) of Ben Macdui

1891 · Summit of Ben Macdui, Cairngorms, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources

17Thinly documented

The Tombstone Thunderbird: the Winged Monster of the Huachuca Desert

April 20, 1890 · Huachuca Desert, between the Whetstone and Huachuca mountains, Cochise County, Arizona Territory

Cryptid · Creature · 27 sources

17Thinly documented

Captain James C. Kerr and the steamer U.S. Grant: the first Flathead Lake Monster sighting

1889 · Flathead Lake, on the steamboat run between Polson Bay and Selish, Montana

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources

25Thinly documented

Laurence Waddell's 'hairy wild men' footprints in northeast Sikkim

1889 · Northeast Sikkim, India

Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources

32Partially documented

The Hutchins Ringdocus, Montana's Shunka Warak'in (Madison Valley, 1886)

1886 · Hutchins ranch (now part of the Sun Ranch), Madison Valley, near Ennis, Montana

Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources · 6 photos

38Partially documented

Names22 · see all

Jeff Meldrum Person · 15 stories
Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher.
Eric Shipton Person · 14 stories
A British mountaineer whose name runs through the Yeti record.
Yeti Term · 14 stories
The archive uses Yeti for the snowman of the Himalaya, which Western climbers have reported for a century.
René Dahinden Person · 12 stories
A Canadian Sasquatch investigator, René Dahinden turns up across decades of the archive's Bigfoot cases.
Lake Champlain Place · 10 stories
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
Ogopogo Term · 10 stories
Okanagan Lake runs long and narrow through the interior of British Columbia.
abominable snowman Term · 8 stories
A name born on the slopes of Everest.
Champ Term · 7 stories
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
Cuero Place · 5 stories
A small Texas town in DeWitt County, between San Antonio and Victoria.
Malcolm Smith Person · 5 stories
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
Quarouble Place · 5 stories
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
Desmond Leslie Person · 4 stories
George Adamski's co-author on Flying Saucers Have Landed.

Documents497 · see all

Photo Analysis of UFO Photography FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1967-01-05· 6 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 1 …Also included in the photographic package were five photographs of the alleged exposure station and surrounding vicinity. These photographs (attachment…
- p. 2 …These photographs along with the measurement sketches and investigation report provided a means of obtaining an approximate photographic scale. This…
Photo Analysis of UFO Photography FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1967-02-17· 6 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 1 …Also included in the photographic package were five photographs of the alleged exposure station and surrounding vicinity. These photographs (attachment…
- p. 2 …These photographs along with the measurement sketches and investigation report provided a means of obtaining an approximate photographic scale. This…
Brazilian Navy General Staff report (12 pages) Report

Estado-Maior da Armada via NICAP· 12 pages· 9 pages mention it
- p. 3 That, after having taken the above-mentioned photographs, the photographer, in the presence of CC Bacellar and other persons, took…
- p. 10 …photographs were taken and immediately developed, the atmosphere in which this was done and the state of the photographer, as…
Photo Analysis of UFO Photography FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2013-06-26· 3 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 1 …Also included in the photographic package were five photographs of the alleged exposure station and surrounding vicinity. These photographs (attachment…
- p. 2 …Photo Analysis of UFO Photography photographs (attachments 6, 7 and 8). These photographs along with the measurement sketches and investigation…
Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects 10 June-15 July 1954 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1954-08-03· 4 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 1 …THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION SOURCE As indicated ## SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 10 JUNE-15 JULY 1954 UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS PHOTOGRAPHED…
- p. 2 …According to informed circles, a round object which appears on the photographs is not the moon or a cloud. One…
Reported Photography of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1958-09-03· 3 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …During the course of his photographic experiments in the last three months he managed, it is reported to me, to…
- p. 2 …During the course of his photographic experiments in the last three months he managed, it is reported to me, to…

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Videos5

Fairies Photographed! The Cameo Camera and the Case of the Cottingley Fairies

From The Cottingley Fairies: Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths photograph fairies at Cottingley Beck

Aliens & UFOs: The 1987 Ilkley Moor Alien, involving an alien photographed by a policeman

From The Ilkley Moor Alien Photograph (Philip Spencer)

What else is up there? #blackknightsatellite

From The "Black Knight" object photographed on STS-88

STS-88 spacewalk footage

From The "Black Knight" object photographed on STS-88

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From The "Black Knight" object photographed on STS-88