Uncanny Atlas

A directory of the unknown.

Famous cases and relatively unknown ones. Have fun exploring the stuff that still has to be explained, and feel free to submit your own.

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Layer 1 of 7

Above the waves

The cases people already know.

  1. Area 51
  2. Aswang
  3. Betty and Barney Hill abduction
  4. Black Shuck at Blythburgh and Bungay
  5. Bob Lazar
  6. Ed and Lorraine Warren
  7. Engkanto and diwata
  8. Examination of Mary Warren
  9. Genderuwo
  10. Ghost Adventures
  11. Ghostwatch, the BBC Halloween broadcast
  12. Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital
  13. Hungry Ghost Festival: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
  14. Ingo Swann's Jupiter session
  15. Jiangshi, the hopping corpse
  16. Kapre
  17. Katie King's farewell sitting
  18. Keramat shrines
  19. Kitsune and Inari
  20. Krasue
  21. Kuchisake-onna, the slit-mouthed woman
  22. Majestic 12
  23. Manananggal
  24. Mary Toft's rabbit births confession
  25. Old Jeffrey, the Epworth Rectory spirit
  26. Pocong
  27. Pontianak (kuntilanak)
  28. Project Blue Book
  29. Rakshasa
  30. Robert the Doll
  31. Santelmo
  32. Skinwalker Ranch
  33. Swedenborg and his predicted death
  34. Teke Teke
  35. The Aghori
  36. The Amityville Horror
  37. The Annabelle doll
  38. The Ariel School UFO
  39. The Conjuring House
  40. The Depok babi ngepet hoax (2021)
  41. The Dybbuk Box
  42. The Enfield poltergeist
  43. The Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers
  44. The Flatwoods monster
  45. The Gettysburg hauntings
  46. The Great Amherst Mystery
  47. The Greenbrier Ghost
  48. The Hands Resist Him
  49. The Heaven's Gate house in Rancho Santa Fe
  50. The Jersey Devil sightings of 1909
  51. The Kecksburg UFO
  52. The Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter
  53. The Kentucky meat shower
  54. The Mongolian death worm
  55. The Mothman sightings at Point Pleasant
  56. The Myrtles Plantation mirror
  57. The Ouija board patent
  58. The Philadelphia Experiment
  59. The Phoenix Lights
  60. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  61. The Rendlesham Forest incident
  62. The Roswell incident
  63. The Sallie House
  64. The Shag Harbour UFO
  65. The Stanley Hotel
  66. The Travis Walton abduction
  67. The Varginha UFO incident
  68. The burning of Bridget Cleary
  69. The dakini
  70. The death of Charles Fort
  71. The death of Edgar Cayce
  72. The death of Hans Bender
  73. The first Salem witchcraft warrants
  74. The yeti
  75. US government UAP file releases (PURSUE)
  76. Yuki-onna, the woman in white
  77. Ouija board
  78. EMF meter
  79. Electronic voice phenomena (EVP)
  80. Spirit box
Layer 2 of 7

Surface

Most people have heard the name.

  1. Agatha Christie vanishes and a medium is consulted
  2. Bela Lugosi's mirror
  3. Bell Witch Cave
  4. Bhangarh Fort
  5. Dokkaebi
  6. Elizabeth the doll
  7. Gumiho
  8. Hanako-san of the toilet
  9. Haunted dolls sold on eBay
  10. Hill House
  11. Jikininki, the corpse-eater
  12. Kenneth Arnold's flying saucers
  13. Kuldhara
  14. Kumari, the living goddess
  15. La Voisin and the Poison Affair
  16. Mr. Procter's house at Willington Mill
  17. Patience Worth's first message
  18. Peggy the Doll
  19. RMS Queen Mary
  20. Roland Doe
  21. Roopkund, the skeleton lake
  22. The 1896 mystery airship wave
  23. The Battle of Los Angeles
  24. The Beast of Bladenboro
  25. The Bothell Hell House
  26. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
  27. The Busby Stoop chair
  28. The Cash-Landrum incident
  29. The Cecil Hotel
  30. The Crying Boy painting
  31. The Devil's Footprints of Devon
  32. The Exorcist house
  33. The Face on Mars press release
  34. The Falcon Lake incident
  35. The Fox Alien Autopsy broadcast
  36. The Fox sisters' confession
  37. The Grafton Monster
  38. The Grave Creek stone
  39. The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
  40. The Hammersmith ghost shooting
  41. The Hessdalen lights
  42. The Highgate Vampire
  43. The Hollywood Sign and Peg Entwistle
  44. The Joyita found adrift
  45. The Livonian Christmas werewolves
  46. The Mattoon gasser
  47. The Maya 2012 doomsday prediction
  48. The Mercy Brown exhumations
  49. The Nimitz Tic Tac UFO
  50. The Okiku doll
  51. The Pascagoula abduction
  52. The Peckham letter on Spring-heeled Jack
  53. The Pendle witches hanged at Lancaster
  54. The Poltergeist curse
  55. The Smurl haunting
  56. The Socorro UFO (Lonnie Zamora)
  57. The U.S. government UAP reports
  58. The Westall UFO
  59. The death of Johann Georg Schröpfer
  60. The death of Stanton Friedman
  61. The demon-fires of Dan-no-ura
  62. The trial of Bridget Bishop
  63. Tikbalang
  64. Vetala
  65. Waverly Hills Sanatorium
  66. Winchester Mystery House
  67. Instrumental transcommunication (ITC)
  68. Ovilus
  69. Polaroid photography
  70. Structured light sensor (SLS) camera
  71. Full-spectrum and UV photography
Layer 3 of 7

Shallows

Known to anyone who has read a little.

  1. Anna Baker's wedding dress
  2. Anne Boleyn's ghost
  3. Aokigahara forest
  4. Baleroy Mansion
  5. Bobby Mackey's Music World
  6. Borley Rectory
  7. Eastern State Penitentiary
  8. Ed Gein's cauldron
  9. Foo fighters
  10. Hasshaku-sama
  11. Hitobashira, the human pillar
  12. Hungry Ghost Month in Singapore and Malaysia
  13. Inunaki Pass and the Inunaki Village legend
  14. Isobel Gowdie's first confession
  15. Jack Kevorkian's Volkswagen van
  16. James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder
  17. La Corriveau
  18. Letta Me Out
  19. Lord Brougham's vision in the bath
  20. Mae Nak Phra Khanong
  21. Mangkukulam
  22. Men in Black
  23. Museum of Shadows
  24. Old Alton Bridge (Goatman's Bridge)
  25. Portefaix and the Beast of Gévaudan
  26. Shambhala
  27. The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO flap
  28. The Anguished Man
  29. The Aurora, Texas airship crash
  30. The Bélmez faces
  31. The Cardiff Giant confession
  32. The Carl Higdon encounter
  33. The Cocoanut Grove fire and its ghost stories
  34. The Count of St Germain's death record
  35. The Devil's Rocking Chair
  36. The Ghost of Kyiv
  37. The Gold of Tolosa
  38. The Island of the Dolls
  39. The Kelso B-25 crash
  40. The Lubbock Lights
  41. The Mantell UFO incident
  42. The Monkey Man of Delhi
  43. The Moran gang garage shooting, Chicago
  44. The Tehran UFO incident of 1976
  45. The Tower of London ghosts
  46. The War of the Worlds broadcast
  47. The Wem farm disturbances
  48. The Wizard of Oz curse
  49. The Wow! signal
  50. The death of Blackbeard at Ocracoke
  51. The death of Daniel Dunglas Home
  52. The death of Eusapia Palladino
  53. The disappearance of the USS Cyclops
  54. The examination of Rebecca Nurse
  55. The first Hudson Valley boomerang sighting
  56. The ghost of Sergeant Davies
  57. The mujina of Kii-no-kuni-zaka
  58. The penanggalan
  59. The radiant boy by the bedside
  60. Tomino's Hell
  61. Tsuchinoko
  62. Ötzi the Iceman
Layer 4 of 7

Twilight

Footnotes in the older books.

  1. Churel
  2. Himuro Mansion (Fatal Frame)
  3. James Dean and the Little Bastard Porsche
  4. Japan Air Lines Flight 1628
  5. Jenglot
  6. Kappa
  7. Kerala's red rain
  8. Major Weir's trial
  9. Man Proposes, God Disposes
  10. Noppera-bō, the faceless yōkai
  11. Nure-onna
  12. Nyi Roro Kidul
  13. Orang minyak (the oily man)
  14. Poveglia
  15. Preston Castle
  16. Shaniwar Wada
  17. Sigbin
  18. Sonjō and the weeping woman of Akanuma
  19. The Arnold Paole vampire report
  20. The Belgian UFO wave
  21. The Blarney Stone
  22. The Bluff Creek footprints
  23. The Chinese seals of Ireland
  24. The Christmas Tree Ship Rouse Simmons
  25. The Condon Report
  26. The Conjured Chest
  27. The Dead Mother by Edvard Munch
  28. The Defenestration of Prague survival legend
  29. The Demon House of Gary, Indiana
  30. The Devil Baby of Hull-House
  31. The Falkville Metal Man
  32. The Fox family rappings
  33. The German Girl of Pulau Ubin
  34. The Gloucester sea serpent
  35. The Gorman dogfight
  36. The Hellfire Caves
  37. The Indian rope trick
  38. The Kelly Cahill encounter
  39. The KiMo Theatre ghost
  40. The Kinross incident
  41. The Koh-i-Noor diamond
  42. The Levelland UFO sightings
  43. The Moffitt family haunting
  44. The O'Hare Airport UFO sighting
  45. The Patterson-Gimlin film
  46. The Robertson Panel
  47. The Silver Bridge collapse and Mothman
  48. The Stephenville lights
  49. The Sunnyvale Toys "R" Us ghost
  50. The Syderstone Parsonage knockings
  51. The UK MoD UFO files
  52. The Uluru rock curse
  53. The Villas-Boas abduction
  54. The Voronezh park UFO landing
  55. The Vrillon TV broadcast interruption
  56. The White Lady of Balete Drive
  57. The birds of Jatinga
  58. The death of Edmund Gurney
  59. The death of Franz Mesmer
  60. The examination of Martha Carrier
  61. The execution of Anna Göldi
  62. The flying napkins of Hahn and Kern
  63. The ghosts of Bloody Meadow, Tewkesbury
  64. The haunted Annabelle film set
  65. The wreck of the SS Valencia
  66. The yellow light in the Weinsberg prison
  67. Tiyanak
  68. Toyol (tuyul)
  69. Wakwak
  70. Yakshi and Kalliyankattu Neeli
Layer 5 of 7

Midnight

One source, maybe two, and a long gap since.

  1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand's limousine
  2. Arne Cheyenne Johnson's possession defence
  3. Banchō Sarayashiki
  4. Dear David
  5. Drake's Drum
  6. Dwende
  7. Houdini's Margery sitting
  8. I Can't Be a Bride Anymore
  9. John White's return to Roanoke
  10. La Pascualita
  11. Mandy the doll
  12. Manila Film Center
  13. Marius Dewilde at Quarouble
  14. Nongqawuse's prophecy of 18 February 1857
  15. Nuno sa punso
  16. Old Changi Hospital
  17. Petronilla de Meath, burned at Kilkenny
  18. Picou's werewolf by the buckwheat field
  19. Samantha Houston and Love Letters
  20. Schafarik's white object on the moon
  21. Shakchunni
  22. The Armero curse
  23. The Bernardo de Gálvez portrait
  24. The Black Prince's Ruby
  25. The Brixton iron spheroid
  26. The Chiles-Whitted encounter
  27. The Cock Lane ghost trial
  28. The Davenport Brothers riot in Liverpool
  29. The Diplomat Hotel, Baguio
  30. The Emilcin abduction
  31. The Griefswald body crossing the sun
  32. The Kattenau luminous bodies
  33. The Little Girl in Red (Taiwan)
  34. The Manises UFO incident
  35. The Marseilles round body on the sun
  36. The Naga fireballs of the Mekong
  37. The Naples lapstone fall
  38. The Odiyan
  39. The Pictou Harbour yellow fall
  40. The Seaford poltergeist
  41. The Tarbes worked stone disk
  42. The Youghal mirage of an unknown city
  43. The almas
  44. The burning of Lady Glamis
  45. The death of Harry Houdini
  46. The death of the medium Margery
  47. The disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst
  48. The execution of John Fian
  49. The haunted Elsa doll of Houston
  50. The jinn of Feroz Shah Kotla
  51. The loss of Star Ariel
  52. The loss of Star Tiger
  53. The loss of the SS Waratah
  54. The manglalabas in the widow's house
  55. The spindle-shaped body on the sun
  56. Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness film
Layer 6 of 7

Abyss

A line in an old journal, and nothing else.

  1. Bukit Timah Monkey Man
  2. Columbus and the three mermaids
  3. Dayan and witch accusations in India
  4. Examination of Cloyce and Proctor
  5. Haridas's forty-day burial
  6. Heron-Allen's Cursed Amethyst
  7. Hindu statues drinking milk, 1995
  8. Jinmenken, the human-faced dog
  9. Leyak
  10. Ma'nene, the Toraja rite for the dead
  11. Magnetic Hill, Ladakh
  12. Maha Sona
  13. Margery Jourdemayne, burned at Smithfield
  14. Maria Makiling of Mount Makiling
  15. Sathorn Unique Tower
  16. Tat Tak School
  17. The 1561 Nuremberg sky broadsheet
  18. The 1910 Halley's Comet panic
  19. The 99-Door Mansion (Caledonia House)
  20. The Barmanou
  21. The Becker family haunting
  22. The Boianai UFO sightings
  23. The Boyington Oak
  24. The Coyne helicopter incident
  25. The Culloden anniversary ghosts
  26. The Davenport Tablets
  27. The Dexter swamp lights
  28. The Great Bed of Ware
  29. The L-8 ghost blimp
  30. The Lakenheath-Bentwaters radar incident
  31. The Lydian Hoard (Karun Treasure)
  32. The Mjosa ghost rocket
  33. The Muhnochwa
  34. The Paisley witches' executions
  35. The Palatine Light of Block Island
  36. The Rain Woman painting
  37. The SS Cotopaxi distress call
  38. The Stockwell ghost
  39. The Stratford knockings
  40. The Stronsay Beast
  41. The Surgeon's Photograph
  42. The UB-85 sea monster claim
  43. The Wanaque Reservoir sightings
  44. The balete tree
  45. The curse of Tutankhamun's tomb
  46. The disappearance of the SS Bannockburn
  47. The execution of Louis Gaufridi
  48. The hanging of Alse Young
  49. Twain and Halley's Comet
  50. UFO Cover-Up? Live!
Layer 7 of 7

The floor

Barely recorded anywhere.

  1. 81 Chaoyangmen (Chaonei No. 81)
  2. Adze
  3. Aisha Qandisha
  4. Ajina
  5. Al Jazirat Al Hamra
  6. Al-Naddaha (El Naddaha)
  7. Albasty
  8. Aluxes
  9. Ap
  10. Arthur Ford, the medium, dies
  11. Asanbosam (sasabonsam)
  12. Baba Yaga
  13. Births on 6-6-06
  14. Bonilla's objects crossing the Sun
  15. Buda, the Ethiopian evil eye
  16. Bultungin
  17. Casa Matusita
  18. Catherine Howard and the Haunted Gallery
  19. Cheonyeo gwisin, the maiden ghost
  20. Chipekwe
  21. Colonel Shaw's encounter near Lodi
  22. Constable Kettle's airship over Peterborough
  23. Cromwell's death and the Devil's pact
  24. Crowley and the Cairo dictation of 1904
  25. Daniel Dunglas Home's window levitation
  26. Dead Hand (Perimeter)
  27. Div (dev)
  28. Doug and Dave's crop circle confession
  29. Doyle's Albert Hall memorial service
  30. Draugr
  31. Edward VII dies as Halley's Comet blazes
  32. Egede's Greenland sea monster
  33. El Cadejo
  34. El Silbón
  35. El Sombrerón
  36. Francis Ward Monck's Huddersfield séances
  37. Franklin's lost expedition
  38. Gambo, the Gambian sea creature
  39. Ghost stories of the Manassas battlefield
  40. Grootslang
  41. Houdini's underwater coffin test
  42. Hugh Gray's Loch Ness photograph
  43. Impundulu, the lightning bird
  44. Jacko, the Yale ape-boy
  45. Jangsan beom, the Jangsan tiger
  46. Jinn
  47. John Williams's dream of the Perceval shooting
  48. Karakoncolos
  49. Katharina Kepler is cleared of witchcraft
  50. Kongamato
  51. La Llorona
  52. La Sayona
  53. La Siguanaba
  54. Lake Vostok
  55. Lilith
  56. Lincoln's funeral ghost train
  57. Lord Derwentwater's Lights
  58. Major André's hanging and his ghost
  59. Mami Wata
  60. Marichgen Ariaensdr. of Schoonhoven
  61. Mary Gallagher of Griffintown
  62. McDivitt's object over the Pacific
  63. Mi Novia by Juan Luna
  64. Mokele-mbembe
  65. Monte Cristo Homestead
  66. Nahual
  67. Nandi bear
  68. Ninki Nanka
  69. Nostradamus and the 1999 King of Terror
  70. Nyaminyami, the Zambezi river god
  71. Obayifo
  72. Operation Highjump and Base 211
  73. Our Lady of Warraq
  74. Papa Bois
  75. Pele's curse
  76. Peri (parī)
  77. Phi pop
  78. Phi tai hong
  79. Popobawa
  80. Port Arthur
  81. Portrait of Henrietta Nelson
  82. Qallupilluit
  83. Qivittoq
  84. Queen Jane Seymour dies at Hampton Court
  85. Radio Quito's War of the Worlds broadcast
  86. Riri Yaka
  87. Rudolph Valentino's ring
  88. Salem's court of Oyer and Terminer ends
  89. Sarah Ellen Roberts, the Pisco vampire
  90. Shackleton's third man
  91. Storsjöodjuret
  92. Tanganyika laughter epidemic
  93. Taniwha
  94. Tepegöz
  95. The 1913 meteor procession
  96. The 1924 Mars radio silence
  97. The 1994 Michigan UFO wave
  98. The 37 nats of Myanmar
  99. The 5 May 2000 planetary alignment
  100. The BBC spaghetti harvest
  101. The BOAC Stratocruiser sighting
  102. The Baltic Sea anomaly
  103. The Bermuda Triangle
  104. The Big Lake Park fireball
  105. The Bloop
  106. The Brocken goat experiment
  107. The Brown v. Spofford mesmerism trial
  108. The Canterbury Moon sighting
  109. The Carroll A. Deering
  110. The Christmas Eve 1909 airship and Lovecraft's Venus
  111. The Colares UFO wave (Operação Prato)
  112. The Curupira
  113. The Denison saucer report
  114. The Dragon's Triangle (Devil's Sea)
  115. The Dyatlov Pass incident
  116. The Flying Dutchman
  117. The Fofão doll
  118. The Graves Supercomplication
  119. The HMS Daedalus sea serpent
  120. The Hakkoda snow march disaster
  121. The Hillsdale swamp gas sighting
  122. The Inverness Courier Loch Ness report
  123. The Kaikōura lights
  124. The Knowles family Nullarbor encounter
  125. The Kyshtym disaster
  126. The Lagarfljót Worm
  127. The Mande Burung
  128. The Mansi Champ photograph
  129. The Mapinguari
  130. The Marlborough skeleton ship report
  131. The Mary Celeste
  132. The Menehune
  133. The Min Min light
  134. The Moberly-Jourdain Trianon adventure
  135. The Molebka anomalous zone
  136. The Morristown UFO hoax
  137. The Nanjing fireball picture
  138. The Nash-Fortenberry sighting
  139. The Nazca Lines
  140. The Norfolk News airship reports of May 1909
  141. The Norfolk airship witnesses of May 1909
  142. The Octavius ghost ship
  143. The Petrozavodsk phenomenon
  144. The Pombero
  145. The R101 medium sitting
  146. The RB-47 radar encounter
  147. The SS Ourang Medan
  148. The Saci
  149. The Salem Coast Guard UFO photograph
  150. The Skookum cast
  151. The Spicer road sighting
  152. The Tonawanda ghost hoax
  153. The Trauco of Chiloé
  154. The Tunguska event
  155. The Tuniit
  156. The Twining flying discs letter
  157. The U-28 sea creature
  158. The Wem Town Hall fire photograph
  159. The Worcester airship of 1909
  160. The abandoned brig Resolven
  161. The boto encantado
  162. The bunyip
  163. The burning of Grace Pett
  164. The burning of Jacques de Molay
  165. The chupacabra
  166. The death of Arthur Conan Doyle
  167. The death of Margaret Hogan
  168. The death of the medium Rudi Schneider
  169. The domovoi
  170. The first Swedish ghost rocket sightings
  171. The ghul (ghoul)
  172. The hanging of Margaret Jones
  173. The leshy
  174. The lobizón
  175. The luz mala
  176. The night marchers (huakaʻi pō)
  177. The omens before Constantinople fell
  178. The pishtaco
  179. The possessed Xuxa doll
  180. The rumour that Kitchener survived
  181. The rusalka
  182. The soucouyant
  183. The yowie
  184. Thylacine sightings
  185. Tokoloshe
  186. Tom Piccott and the giant squid
  187. Tupilaq
  188. Umm al-Duwais
  189. W. T. Stead and the Titanic
  190. Wadi al-Jinn
  191. Woodward's 1818 sea serpent off Cape Ann
  192. Zhalmauyz Kempir
  193. Zār
  194. Āl (Al), the childbirth spirit

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