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Stories125 · page 7

Captain Crum's Bulwagga Bay sighting, the earliest printed Champ report

July 22, 1819 · Bulwagga Bay, Port Henry, Town of Moriah, Essex County, New York, Lake Champlain

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

13Thinly documented

The Ellisburg Wild Man of the Woods

August 30, 1818 · Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

13Thinly documented

The Wynyard apparition (Sydney, Cape Breton, 1785)

October 15, 1785 · Officers' quarters, barracks of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 26 sources

23Thinly documented

The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee

January 1762 · Cock Lane, Smithfield, City of London

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 40 sources

22Thinly documented

The Byland Abbey Silver Disc of 1290, a Schoolboy Hoax

c. 1290 · Byland Abbey, Byland with Wass, North Yorkshire

UAP · Disc / saucer · 12 sources

14Thinly documented

Names26 · see all

The New York Times Organisation · 5 stories
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
New York Times Organisation · 3 stories
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.
Ted Bloecher Person · 14 stories
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
Cadborosaurus Term · 13 stories
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
Charles Lear Person · 12 stories
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
Leslie Kean Person · 12 stories
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
Caddy Term · 9 stories
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
Lake Champlain Place · 9 stories
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
Cock Lane ghost Event · 7 stories
London, 1762.
Champ Term · 6 stories
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
Sheffield Place · 6 stories
Sheffield sits near the South Yorkshire saucer photographs.
Budd Hopkins Person · 5 stories
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.

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FBI file on Daniel Fry Document

Internet Archive· 9 pages· 6 pages mention it
- p. 2 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM TO DIRECTOR, FBI (65-67011) DATE: 3/13/63 FROM : SAC, NEW YORK (65-18777) (P)
- p. 7 …New York Re New York letter to Director, dated March 13, 1963. and New York airtel to Director, dated March…
UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969) Document

Government Attic· 419 pages· 191 pages mention it
- p. 22 …Published also in American edition (New York, Citadel Press, 1956). Goodwin, Harold. The science book of space travel. New York…
- p. 377 …New York, Doubleday & Co., 1957. 187 p. Science-fiction detective mystery. Earth has come under the domination of un- derpopulated…
Untitled (Believe Established Agency Channels for Film Ufo-Fact or Fanc Y) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1967-03-01· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 102325Z CITE CONTACTS NEW YORK 7866 CONTACTS WASHINGTON RE CASE AND CONTACTS/WASHINGTON 75335, BELIEVE ESTABLISHED AGENCY IN NEW YORK…
Untitled (Believe Established Agency Channels for Film Ufo-Fact or Fancy) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1967-04-10· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 ## --- !02325Z CITE CONTACTS/NEW YORK 7866 CONTACTS WASHINGTON RE CASE AND CONTACTS/WASHINGTON 75335, BELIEVE ESTABLISHED AGENCY CHANNELS IN NEW…
NY Post 12-06-19 (FOIA 20-F-1098) FOIA release

Office of the Secretary of Defense· 2019-12-06· 14 pages· 10 pages mention it
- p. 1 STEVEN GREENSTREET Senior Manager, Video Production and Series Development 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY 10036 WORK MOBILE…
- p. 3 …Re: Non-DoD Source New York Post request - AATIP comments All active links contained in this email were disabled. Please…
FBI file on United Nuclear, release 3 Document

FBI via The Black Vault· 2023-11· 70 pages· 19 pages mention it
- p. 48 …Andrew’s Plaza New York, New York 1D007 Telephone:
- p. 59 …New York Re: 279B-NY-300743-GJ, 10/24/2008 the New York Office will transfer the captioned investigation to…

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Videos26 · see all

Bigfoot Sightings in Western New York: Steuben County

From The Wild Man of Woodhull: 200 Men Hunt a Shrieking Figure Through the Steuben County Woods

Roerich Museum in New York. Shambhala

From The Nicholas Roerich Expedition Sighting, Kukunor District, 1927

Haunted By The Ghost Roman Soldiers of York!

From The Roman Soldiers in the Cellar of Treasurer's House, York (Harry Martindale, 1953)

Did an Air Force-UAP Encounter Accidentally Kill 4 in New York?

From Walesville F-94C Crash During an Unknown-Aircraft Intercept

The Herrmann Poltergeist of Seaford, New York

From The Seaford Poltergeist ("Popper"), Herrmann House, Long Island, 1958

Hunting ghosts at New York City's Morris-Jumel Mansion

From Eliza Jumel's ghost on the balcony of the Morris-Jumel Mansion

Did a UFO cause the Northeast Blackout of 1965 in New York City?

From Northeast Blackout UFO Sightings, Clay Substation and Syracuse (1965)

1966, Yorkshire Britain's Most Violent Poltergeist The Pritchard Family Horror

From The Black Monk of Pontefract: the Pritchard family poltergeist "Fred"

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