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A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
London, 1803 and 1804.
A British illustrated weekly, and a recurring stage for sea serpents.
When Britain's big cat reports needed an expert eye, the authorities often turned to London Zoo.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
A London newspaper that turns up again and again in the city's stranger stories.
A district of East London, and the setting for two very different Victorian mysteries.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
A town area in Seine-et-Marne, about 70 km east of Paris.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
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