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Stories15

Tom Pickles' "Bownessie" photograph, Windermere (2011)

February 11, 2011 · Windermere, near Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, Lake District

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources · 1 photos

18Thinly documented

Our Lady of the Underpass: the salt stain Virgin of the Kennedy Expressway, Chicago (2005)

April 10, 2005 · Fullerton Avenue underpass beneath the Kennedy Expressway (I-90/I-94), northwest side of Chicago, Illinois

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources

34Partially documented

The Humpty Doo Poltergeist, 90 McMinns Drive

January 1998 · 90 McMinns Drive, Humpty Doo, Northern Territory

Paranormal · Other · 19 sources · 9 photos

42Partially documented

The Cabo Rojo Incident: F-14 Jets Vanish Near a Giant Triangle

December 28, 1988 · Betances, Cabo Rojo, near Sierra Bermeja and Laguna Cartagena, Puerto Rico

UAP · Triangle · 30 sources

21Thinly documented

The Luther "Dogman" cabin attack

July 1987 · Near Luther, Lake County, Michigan

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

35Partially documented

Broad Haven School Sighting and the Dyfed Triangle

February 4, 1977 · Broad Haven Primary School, Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire (then Dyfed), Wales

UAP · Cigar · 31 sources

33Partially documented

Berkshire UFO Incident (Labor Day 1969)

September 1, 1969 · Old Covered Bridge, Sheffield, and Lake Mansfield, Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts

UAP · Being / humanoid · 40 sources

19Thinly documented

The Lytchett Minster Splitting Cigar: Lance Druce, Brian George and Two Police Officers (1967)

October 1967 · St Peter's Finger, Dorchester Road (A35), Lytchett Minster, Dorset, England

UAP · Cigar · 13 sources

22Thinly documented

Orly Airport Radar and Air France DC-3 Sighting

February 17, 1956 · Orly Airport, Paris

UAP · Unknown · 22 sources

45Partially documented

The Glencairn Beach Flying Dutchman: a phantom ship before a crowd of bathers (1939)

March 1939 · Glencairn Beach, False Bay, near Simon's Town, Cape Peninsula

Paranormal · Other · 18 sources

23Thinly documented

The Grottendieck stone-fall, Sumatra 1903

September 1903 · Oil-company camp in the Sumatran jungle, Dutch East Indies (probably the Palembang region)

Paranormal · Other · 15 sources

19Thinly documented

The Man-Monkey of Bridge 39

January 21, 1879 · Bridge 39 (High Bridge), Shropshire Union Canal, Norbury, Staffordshire, England

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

8Thinly documented

The Great Amherst Mystery: The Esther Cox Poltergeist

September 4, 1878 · Teed cottage, Princess Street, Amherst, Nova Scotia

Paranormal · Other · 23 sources

27Thinly documented

The Beast of Veyreau: a child-killing beast on the Causse Noir

c. 1799 · Veyreau, Causse Noir, Aveyron (Rouergue)

Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources

11Thinly documented

The Airship of Clonmacnoise

c. 749 · Clonmacnoise monastery, on the River Shannon south of Athlone, County Offaly

UAP · Other · 24 sources

17Thinly documented

Names3

Arthur Conan Doyle Person · 16 stories
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
Cotton Mather Person · 5 stories
A New England minister, and the archive's most persistent chronicler of the colonial uncanny.
News of the World Organisation · 4 stories
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.

Documents7 · see all

NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files Document

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive· 2010-12· 445 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 9 …different from the other object." "It passed us in uncanny silence. The most remarkable fact was the absence of any…
- p. 126 …bigger than usual on an aircraft. "It passed us in uncanny silence. The most remarkable fact was the absence of…
[01/16/1999-12/21/1999]: 42-t-26444787-20080359F-001-002-2013 Official release

· 30 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 12 …Drafted in 1997, Future War prophetically described the events at Columbine High with uncanny accuracy. Other events are coming to…
Symposium on unidentified flying objects: hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, second session, July 29, 1968. Hearing transcript

U.S. House of Representatives· 1968-07-29· 256 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 12 …The public in general may be unsophisticated in scientific matters, but they have an uncanny way of distinguishing between an…
FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 03 FOIA release

Federal Bureau of Investigation· 111 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 8 …The scanned image seemed to have a very uncanny memory and recalled where the mail service in for the Post…
65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 002 Official release

Federal Bureau of Investigation· 194 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 175 …The Superintendent of Mails seemed to have a very uncanny memory and recalled where the mail ooming in for Ranki…
MOD file DEFE 24/2032/1 Document

The Black Vault· 492 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 58 …Seeing a sky dog is a rather uncanny sort of phenomenon. You cannot focus on it properly; it does not…

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Videos1

Utsuro-Bune: The Hollow Ship Revisited (Uncanny Japan ep. 193)

From The Utsuro-bune (Hollow Ship) of Hitachi, 1803