Browse UFO case files, paranormal reports, historical texts and research dossiers. These are accounts and leads for investigation—not proof of an extraordinary explanation.
To combine details, compare matches and investigate connections across the collection, create an account and search Anomaly Graph.
Not sure where to begin? Our research guides explain how to follow sources, compare accounts and turn matches into a useful investigation.
13,749 published records with substantive text · Page 193 of 287
Archaeological work at Birka and its harbor during the 1970s and 1980s examined one of Scandinavia's major Viking Age trading settlements, including waterfront structures, boat-related finds, craft production, and long-distance exchange. The site provides a co
Read record →Lists of seven prominent angels occur across Jewish, Christian and Islamic textual environments, although the names and functions differ by source. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel are familiar from some Jewish and Christian traditions, while Islamic works
Read record →A chance discovery in 1966 brought Ban Chiang’s painted pottery and burial deposits to archaeological attention, followed by investigations and excavations during the late 1960s. The site became famous for claims that bronze technology and complex settlement a
Read record →Mexican astronomer José Bonilla reported observing and photographing numerous dark objects crossing the solar disk at the Zacatecas Observatory in 1883. The observations were published in the astronomical press and later became a recurring item in UFO literatu
Read record →Credonia Mwerinde and Joseph Kibwetere led a Catholic-derived movement that preached imminent apocalyptic transformation and strict preparation for the end. On 17 March 2000, a fire at the movement’s church in Kanungu killed many members; subsequent investigat
Read record →Queensland newspapers published reports during 1918 of unfamiliar aircraft or suspected enemy machines, contributing to Australia’s wartime mystery-aeroplane narratives. Queensland’s long coastline and dispersed settlements make the reports potentially relevan
Read record →Brazil’s National Anti-Drug Council issued Resolution No. 1 in 2010, reaffirming a regulatory framework for religious use of ayahuasca and describing conditions concerning ritual practice, organization, safeguarding, and diversion. The measure is a useful comp
Read record →A. J. N. Tremearne's Hausa Superstitions and Customs records beliefs about dreams, signs, prophecy, magic, spirits and everyday protective practices. It offers numerous small-scale leads for comparing how anticipated events are remembered and how ambiguous coi
Read record →James Cook’s third voyage encountered Hawai‘i during a period when heiau temples, priestly specialists, and kapu restrictions were active components of chiefly authority. His journals and expedition narratives describe temple spaces, offerings, images, funerar
Read record →A 1566 Basel broadsheet reports dark and blood-red spheres appearing around the sun, with an accompanying illustration. UFO writers sometimes describe it as a fleet encounter, whereas historians of early modern print culture examine it as a religiously charged
Read record →Prato, near Florence, is linked in Italian UFO histories to reports during the October 1954 wave, including accounts of luminous objects and unusual fibrous material sometimes called “angel hair.” The lead matters because it permits comparison of a localized c
Read record →Henri A. Junod’s ethnography records Tsonga social life, religious concepts, and oral traditions, including accounts involving the sky, rain, thunder, lightning, and ancestral or supernatural agencies. It is useful for comparing how luminous and atmospheric ph
Read record →French-language newspapers and regional UFO publications reported occasional unidentified-light accounts from New Caledonia during the late twentieth century. Such material could support comparison with French official or civilian investigation practices, mari
Read record →Phi pop is a Thai and Lao-region tradition concerning a predatory spirit believed in some communities to afflict or consume people, sometimes through a human carrier or suspected witch. Accounts connect it with illness, social accusation, exorcistic rites, exp
Read record →Fell’s Cave is a foundational southern South American site associated with fishtail projectile points, extinct fauna, hearths, and early hunter-gatherer occupations. Although the original excavations predate this period, publications and reassessments during t
Read record →The Antikythera Mechanism is a heavily corroded geared device recovered from a Roman-period shipwreck in 1901 and increasingly reconstructed through radiography, tomography, and inscription studies. It appears to have modeled calendrical and astronomical cycle
Read record →The Kaimanawa Wall, a regularly jointed stone structure near Lake Taupō, became the focus of claims that a pre-Māori civilization or unknown builders had constructed it. Although not a creature report, it entered alternative-history and cryptid-adjacent discus
Read record →Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, was remembered by followers as receiving revelations concerning the second coming, communal discipline, celibacy, and the spiritual status of women. Shaker testimonies, church records, and later histories preserve a developing
Read record →Modern ethnographic and translated materials on Mbya Guaraní traditions discuss sacred journeys, ancestral beings, the search for an ideal or imperishable land and movement between human and nonhuman domains. This is a useful lead for comparing boundary-crossi
Read record →Gertrude Caton-Thompson led a major 1929 investigation of Great Zimbabwe, using stratigraphic excavation and architectural analysis to support an indigenous African origin for the site. Her work remains a specific, verifiable milestone in debates over chronolo
Read record →The Apocalypse of the Virgin presents Mary as receiving or witnessing revelations about the fate of souls, punishments, judgment, and intercession. Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, and other traditions preserve related but not identical forms, making the work
Read record →Benjamin Franklin’s writings and correspondence on atmospheric electricity, including the famous kite experiment later associated with 1752, document early attempts to investigate lightning and luminous electrical effects in North America. This is a comparison
Read record →The 1991 discovery of Ötzi generated continuing investigations during this period, including improved radiography, DNA work, forensic reconstruction and studies of his clothing, tools, diet and injuries. The case matters because a seemingly mysterious frozen d
Read record →Reports of surviving thylacines continued in Tasmania during the 1990s and 2000s, including alleged photographs, video claims and eyewitness accounts from remote areas. The subject belongs to anomalous-place research because particular landscapes became associ
Read record →The Betty Andreasson case became prominent through Raymond Fowler’s 1979 book The Andreasson Affair, which described alleged encounters with nonhuman entities, missing time and elaborate recovered memories. It is useful for comparing abduction narratives with
Read record →John Garstang directed excavations at Meroë between 1909 and 1914, investigating royal cemeteries, settlement remains, temples, and industrial evidence associated with the Kushite kingdom. The work matters for reconstructing the political economy and cultural
Read record →Ivor H. N. Evans’s Studies in Religion, Folk-lore, and Custom in British North Borneo and the Malay Peninsula contains documentary material on spirits, ritual specialists, omens, and supernatural beliefs. It is a useful lead for investigating Southeast Asian n
Read record →William Crookes’s association with mediumistic investigations, including spirit-photography claims linked to figures such as Florence Cook, generated controversy over whether photographic images represented apparitions or were produced by ordinary means. The m
Read record →Sanxingdui is known for extraordinary bronze heads, masks, trees, ivory, jades, and other objects deposited in ritual pits near the ancient Shu centre. The assemblages differ markedly from traditional central Plains styles, prompting debate about regional iden
Read record →Terma are Buddhist texts and ritual objects understood within Tibetan traditions as concealed by earlier figures and later recovered by tertöns. The tradition provides a clear case for comparing revelation, textual authentication, lineage memory and the produc
Read record →Nageshwar on the Gulf of Kutch became known through investigations of a Harappan coastal settlement with extensive shell-working debris. The site is a useful lead for studying specialized craft production, marine-resource exploitation, exchange networks and th
Read record →Mami Wata is a family of African and African-diasporic water-spirit traditions associated with beauty, wealth, danger, healing, sexuality and spiritual calling. During the 1950s and 1960s, printed images, shrines, healing practices and oral narratives circulat
Read record →George Turner’s Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago, published in 1884, contains narratives concerning Samoan gods, spirits, sacred sites, omens and named places. The text is a strong discovery lead for comparing Pacific traditions about anomalous landscapes with missi
Read record →Frank Worsley’s accounts of the Endurance expedition and the South Georgia crossing offer a second companion perspective on the journey associated with Shackleton’s felt-presence report. Worsley was also the expedition navigator, making his observations releva
Read record →Argentine museum director Clemente Onelli is associated with early twentieth-century efforts to collect information about an alleged large creature in Lake Nahuel Huapi. This is useful as a comparison lead because it shows how an institutional figure, press re
Read record →Fort Namutoni, a former German colonial fort and police post in Etosha, is associated with stories of nocturnal apparitions, military echoes, and unexplained activity. Its isolated setting makes it a useful comparison with other battlefield and garrison haunti
Read record →Port Arthur, the former penal settlement in Tasmania, is associated with ghost tours and alleged apparitions linked to convict life, punishment, death, and the 1996 massacre. The site offers a valuable comparison between documented historical trauma and later
Read record →The Bell Witch tradition centers on the Bell family of Tennessee and alleged disturbances attributed to an entity associated in later retellings with Kate Batts. It matters as a North American case where oral tradition, local history, nineteenth-century print
Read record →Comparative South Asian studies of possession and exorcism examine Muslim jinn, Hindu spirits, Buddhist entities, saints, healers, and institutional responses. The lead is useful for intermediary-being research because it allows comparison of vocabulary, bodil
Read record →The Periplus of Hanno survives in a Greek epitome describing a Carthaginian expedition along the Atlantic coast of Africa, with settlements, animals, smoke, and encounters with peoples. Researchers compare its route descriptions with coastal geography, sailing
Read record →Alice Werner’s Myths and Legends of the Bantu is a comparative collection drawing on published reports about origin narratives, sky beings, fire, celestial bodies, animals, and culture heroes from several African societies. It offers a useful map of motifs and
Read record →Reports and paranormal-programme discussions have occasionally associated Bengaluru’s Central Jail complex, particularly its older institutional spaces, with apparitions, voices or disturbed inmates and staff. The lead is potentially valuable for comparing pri
Read record →The Apocalypse of Baruch is a Jewish or Jewish-Christian response to the destruction of Jerusalem, known principally through Syriac transmission and related fragments or notices in other languages. Ethiopian catalogues and manuscript traditions preserve intere
Read record →The Lemnos Stele is a funerary inscription from Kaminia written in a language generally regarded as related to Etruscan. Its discovery complicated older assumptions that Etruscan was isolated to Italy and raised questions about population movement, maritime co
Read record →William Anderson, surgeon and naturalist on Cook’s second voyage, kept observations of Pacific plants, animals, and peoples, including notes that can help identify unfamiliar birds and flying mammals reported by the expedition. His material is important becaus
Read record →Allied aircrews operating over Italy during 1944 reported strange lights or objects that were later grouped under the term foo fighters. Reports from the Italian theatre are useful because they broaden the phenomenon beyond the better-known northern European a
Read record →The Quimbaya Treasure is a group of finely made gold and tumbaga objects excavated in Colombia and presented to Spain in the late nineteenth century. Some forms have been redescribed in popular literature as technologically anomalous or “airplane-like,” wherea
Read record →Rodolfo Lenz’s work on Chilean popular speech and tales, initiated in the late nineteenth century, preserves narrative materials involving devils, nocturnal apparitions, enchanted lights, fire, and rural legends. It matters for comparison because Lenz recorded
Read record →