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Stories13

The Kolkata Shape-Shifting Light Filmed by Farhan Akhtar

October 29, 2007 · East Kolkata, near the E.M. Bypass, West Bengal

UAP · Other · 18 sources

18Thinly documented

The Gordon Holmes Loch Ness video

May 26, 2007 · Layby on the A82, near Drumnadrochit, Loch Ness, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

22Thinly documented

Our Lady of Coogee: the Virgin Mary on the Dolphins Point fence

December 2002 · Dolphins Point, North Coogee, Coogee Beach, Sydney, New South Wales

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources · 4 photos

36Partially documented

The New Jersey Turnpike Lights: Carteret, 2001

July 15, 2001 · Arthur Kill, off Carteret, New Jersey (seen from the New Jersey Turnpike)

UAP · Formation · 24 sources

36Partially documented

Campbellton triangles over Sugarloaf Mountain

November 1989 · Sugarloaf Mountain, Campbellton, Restigouche County, New Brunswick

UAP · Triangle · 20 sources

13Thinly documented

Emley Moor TV mast police sighting, West Yorkshire

November 2, 1986 · Emley Moor transmitting station, near Huddersfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire

UAP · Cylinder · 12 sources

22Thinly documented

The Longdendale Lights (Devil's Bonfires), Bleaklow and the Woodhead Pass

c. 1982 · Bleak House, Woodhead, Longdendale valley, Dark Peak, Derbyshire

UAP · Orb / light · 15 sources

24Thinly documented

The Blueberry Hill Disc: Camp Delaware Hikers near Winsted, Connecticut

July 28, 1976 · Blueberry Hill (Blueberry Mountain), about three miles southwest of Winsted, Connecticut

UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources

16Thinly documented

Charles Wetzel's "Riverside Monster"

November 8, 1958 · North Main Street crossing of the Santa Ana River, Riverside, California

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

23Thinly documented

The Gourock Sea Serpent: Charles Rankin's 27-Foot Carcass on the Clyde

June 1942 · Shore near McInroy's Point, Ashton, Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

29Thinly documented

The Deepdale Monster ("Scapasaurus"), Holm, Orkney

December 25, 1941 · Shore off Deepdale Farm, Holm, East Mainland, Orkney, on Scapa Flow

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources · 1 photos

38Partially documented

The Vienna Workshop Poltergeist: Job Zimmerl's Smithy at Lerchenfelder Straße 158

July 1906 · Job Zimmerl's smithy, Lerchenfelder Straße 158, Vienna

Paranormal · Other · 7 sources

30Partially documented

Mrs Guppy's "transit" to 61 Lamb's Conduit Street

June 3, 1871 · 61 Lamb's Conduit Street, Holborn, London

Paranormal · Other · 21 sources

20Thinly documented

Names11

Brett Holman Person · 9 stories
Brett Holman is a historian who writes the Airminded blog.
Holman Person · 3 stories
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Cryptomundo Organisation · 13 stories
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
Clas Svahn Person · 8 stories
A Swedish investigator who spent years testing the country's most famous cases.
Daniel Loxton Person · 7 stories
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
Dick Raynor Person · 6 stories
A Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
Museum of Hoaxes Organisation · 6 stories
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
UFO-Sverige Organisation · 5 stories
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
Alex Boese Person · 4 stories
Alex Boese writes for the Museum of Hoaxes, and his name surfaces whenever a Loch Ness image is put to the test.
plesiosaur Term · 4 stories
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.
Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 Term · 3 stories
A British law, and a theory that shadows the big cat reports.

Documents51 · see all

Scientists Debate the Question of UFO's FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2003-10-16· 8 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 4 …On the face of it, it sounds much like the reasoning of Sherlock Holmes, who said on several occasions, "It…
- p. 8 …I can reasonably claim, applying the criterion of Sherlock Holmes, that we have not excluded all of the impossibles. I…
/specialCollection/nwcda1/20/KORPONAY, MIKLOS/KORPONAY, MIKLOS_0016.pdf FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 8 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 6 …rnforr o ston IS holm, develotee on these former contecti -4-
65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 005 Official release

Federal Bureau of Investigation· 209 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 5 …Nease___ Miss Holmes___ Miss Gandy___ ## REMARKS When informed of Mr. Hoover's and Mr. Ladd's absence from their office…
- p. 7 …Nease___ Miss Holmes___ Miss Gandy___ ## REMARKS When informed that Mr. Hoover was not in his office, Mr. Cuneo asked to…
FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 5 Document

Department of War· 209 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 5 …Nease___ Miss Holmes___ Miss Gandy___ ## REMARKS When informed of Mr. Hoover's and Mr. Ladd's absence from their office…
- p. 7 …Nease___ Miss Holmes___ Miss Gandy___ ## REMARKS When informed that Mr. Hoover was not in his office, Mr. Cuneo asked to…
FBI files on the Socorro UFO landing Document

FBI via The Black Vault· 32 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 9 …Room _' Holmes __ Gandy ___ MAIL ROOM
Fioa Case Logs- April- June 2019 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2019-06-01· 19 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 8 …25/2019 F-2019-01472 INFO ON FREDERICK C. HOLMES 4/29/2019 F-2019-01476 RECORDS ON DAVID BUCKLEY…

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Videos18 · see all

The FULL Story of SPIRITUALISM: The Fox Sisters, Houdini & Sherlock Holmes

From The Hydesville Rappings ("Mr. Splitfoot")

The Photos That Fooled Sherlock Holmes, The Cottingley Fairies

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

Encounter in the Forest: The Ängelholm UFO Memorial Story

From The Ängelholm Landing (Gösta Carlsson)

Vårt Skåne: och UFO-Sverige besöker UFO-monumentet i Ängelholm

From The Ängelholm Landing (Gösta Carlsson)

UFO MONUMENT Ängelholm, Sweden May 27 2018

From The Ängelholm Landing (Gösta Carlsson)

20260426 UFO Expo i Ängelholm

From The Ängelholm Landing (Gösta Carlsson)

Clas Svahn on the Ängelholm case

From The Ängelholm Landing (Gösta Carlsson)

Motorhome travel vlog at the Ängelholm UFO monument

From The Ängelholm Landing (Gösta Carlsson)

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