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The Bunloit Big Cat: A Dark Animal at a Loch Ness Home

c. 2011 · Bunloit, north-western shore of Loch Ness, near Drumnadrochit, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

23Thinly documented

The Bolam Lake Beast: the CFZ Expedition Sighting in Northumberland

January 18, 2003 · Bolam Lake Country Park, near Belsay, Northumberland, England

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

14Thinly documented

Doug Bower and Dave Chorley's crop circle confession

September 9, 1991 · Cheesefoot Head (the Punch Bowl), near Winchester, Hampshire; with Ightham, Kent and Warminster, Wiltshire

UAP · Other · 37 sources

18Thinly documented

Loring AFB Incursions and the 1975 Northern Tier Overflights

October 27, 1975 · Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Aroostook County, Maine

UAP · Other · 59 sources

63Well documented

The Mutilation of Snippy the Horse

September 9, 1967 · Harry King ranch, San Luis Valley, near Alamosa, Colorado

UAP · Unknown · 19 sources

41Partially documented

Blue Creek Mountain Bigfoot tracks: the trackway that led to the Patterson-Gimlin film (1967)

August 28, 1967 · Blue Creek Mountain road, Six Rivers National Forest, northern California

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

37Partially documented

Leominster car-stall and paralysis encounter (William and Joan Wallace)

March 8, 1967 · St. Leo's Cemetery, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts

UAP · Egg · 14 sources

18Thinly documented

The Clapham Wood Boomerang Sighting and the Clapham UFO Flap

c. 1967 · Clapham Wood, near Worthing, West Sussex

UAP · Boomerang / V · 22 sources

14Thinly documented

Jerry Crew's Bluff Creek Footprints and the Birth of "Bigfoot"

August 27, 1958 · Bluff Creek Road, Six Rivers National Forest, Humboldt County, California

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources · 1 photos

28Thinly documented

The Coniston Saucer Photograph (Stephen Darbishire)

February 15, 1954 · Little Arrow Farm, Torver, below Coniston Old Man, Lake District (then Lancashire, now Cumbria)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 12 sources · 2 photos

14Thinly documented

Johnnie, the St. Johns River Monster: Buck Dillard's Lake Dexter sighting, 1953

1953 · Lake Dexter, St. Johns River, near Astor, Florida

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

15Thinly documented

The RAF Topcliffe "Perfect Flying Saucer" During Exercise Mainbrace

September 19, 1952 · RAF Topcliffe, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire (approach to RAF Dishforth)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources

33Partially documented

The Moore's Beach Sea Monster Carcass, Santa Cruz (1925)

c. 1925 · Moore's Beach (now Natural Bridges State Beach), Santa Cruz, California

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources · 5 photos

49Partially documented

The Tillinghast Airship: New England's Phantom Searchlight

December 1909 · Worcester, Massachusetts, and towns across New England

UAP · Other · 19 sources

26Thinly documented

The Dagg poltergeist, "the ghost that talked", Clarendon Township, Quebec (1889)

September 15, 1889 · George Dagg's farm, seven miles from Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 39 sources

25Thinly documented

Frederick William Birmingham's Parramatta Park Ark

July 25, 1868 · Parramatta Park, Parramatta, New South Wales

UAP · Other · 19 sources

13Thinly documented

The Ramhurst Manor Haunting: Dame Children at the Door

October 1857 · Ramhurst Manor House, Powder Mill Lane, Leigh, near Tonbridge, Kent

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 22 sources

32Partially documented

Mary Jobson and the Bishopwearmouth (Sunderland) poltergeist

c. 1839 · Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham, England

Paranormal · Other · 21 sources

29Thinly documented

The Deil o' Baldarroch: the Baldarroch farm poltergeist

December 5, 1838 · Baldarroch farm, near Crathes, Banchory-Ternan parish, Aberdeenshire

Paranormal · Other · 20 sources

38Partially 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

Names7

Jeff Meldrum Person · 15 stories
Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher.
Frank Podmore Person · 11 stories
A sceptic inside the Society for Psychical Research.
Podmore Person · 7 stories
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
Museum of Hoaxes Organisation · 6 stories
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
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.
Jerry Crew Person · 3 stories
A bulldozer operator from Salyer, California.
Popular Mechanics Organisation · 3 stories
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.

Documents41 · see all

Untitled (Davidson Wants a Verbatim Translation of the 'Space' Message and the FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1957-11-03· 2 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …YOUR ATTENTION IS CALLED TO LETTER TO DAVIDSON FROM WALLACE W ELWOOD X WALLACE W ELWOOD, CAPTAIN, USAF X USAF…
- p. 2 …YOUR ATTENTION IS CALLED TO LETTER TO DAVIDSON FROM WALLACE W ELWOOD X WALLACE W ELWOOD, CAPTAIN, USAF X USAF…
Untitled (Davidson Wants a Verbatim Translation of the 'Space Message and the Identification of the Transmitter from Which It Came) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1957-12-18· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …YOUR ATTENTION IS CALLED TO METTER TO DAVIDSON FROM WALLACE W ELWOOD X WALLACE W ELWOOD, CAPTAIN, USAF X USAF…
Comments on Letters Dealing with Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1958-03-05· 5 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 2 …This is the basis for the apparent contradictions which arose during the Mike Wallace television interview. This is also the…
- p. 3 …Davidson's letter that Mike Wallace had a copy of the scientific panel report. In addition, the association of CIA…
Comments on Letters Dealing with Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1958-04-04· 4 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …This is the basis for the apparent contradictions which arose during the Mike Wallace television interview. This is also the…
- p. 2 …Davidson's letter that Mike Wallace had a copy of the scientific panel report. In addition, the association of CIA…
nas re1 FOIA release

Office of the Secretary of Defense· 8 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 6 …Dennison, Wallace 0. Fenn, H. Keffer Hartline, E. R. Hilgard, Mark Kec, Francis W. Reschelderier, William W. Rubey, C. D…
- p. 7 …Dennison University of Michigan Wallace 0. Fenn University of Rochester H. Keffer Haneline The Rockefeller University E.R. Hilgard Stanford…
David E. Hanlon Ralph Orcutt Edmund X. Klipa (Possible Contact by the Senate Select Committee Staff) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1975-09-29· 515 pages· 7 pages mention it
- p. 26 …Hoover if she recalled checking on such individuals as Frank Church, Otis Pike, Stokley Carmichael, Ramsey Clark, George Wallace, George…
- p. 30 …PSI) VIA : Chief, Security Analysis Group SUBJECT ; George c. Wallace - Ramsey Clark l. Reference is§made to your verbal request…

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Videos5

Michael Wallace Loring testimony (as linked by Strange New England)

From Loring AFB Incursions and the 1975 Northern Tier Overflights

Bigfoot's Inventor Confessed. It Didn't Matter.

From Jerry Crew's Bluff Creek Footprints and the Birth of "Bigfoot"

Hamilton-Wenham's Times Past: UFOs or Unidentified Flying Objects, with Raymond Fowler (1987)

From Leominster car-stall and paralysis encounter (William and Joan Wallace)

My Loring UFO story 1975

From Loring AFB Incursions and the 1975 Northern Tier Overflights

CBS Chicago Vault: Ghost hunting at Resurrection Cemetery

From Resurrection Mary: the 1976 cemetery-gate incident and the Archer Avenue phantom hitchhiker