Everything in the atlas

A wooden, child-sized doll that Kerry Walton says he found under a house in Wagga Wagga, Australia, and named Letta Me Out.

A late-Victorian homestead on a hill above Junee, New South Wales, built by Christopher Crawley in the 1880s. The owners say the ghost of Mrs Crawley, the builder's widow, has been seen there many times.

Pele's curse is the story that anyone who takes rocks or other natural items from Pele's island will suffer for it. Every year visitors post such items back to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, blaming them for bad luck.

Port Arthur in Tasmania was a penal station from 1830 to 1877, where over 1000 people died. The authority that runs the historic site offers ghost tours built on stories told since 1870.

Taniwha are supernatural beings in Māori tradition, often guardians of water, whose forms vary between tribal traditions. In 2002 Ngāti Naho's objection on behalf of a taniwha led Transit New Zealand to reroute part of a Waikato highway.

On the evenings of 26 and 27 June 1959, Father William Booth Gill and mission parishioners at Boianai, Papua, reported UFOs and human-like figures. A later study proposes bright planets seen through cloud.

The merchant ship Tuvalu found the Joyita adrift on 10 November 1955 north of Vanua Levu, Fiji, with every passenger and crew member gone.

Lights filmed off Kaikōura, New Zealand, at the end of December 1978 from a newspaper plane carrying a television crew, after earlier sightings from an aircraft that radar also tracked. Officials suggested fishing-boat lights and planets but gave no firm answer.

Kelly Cahill said she saw a hovering craft and beings on a road near Melbourne on the night of 7-8 August 1993. Sources give both dates.

A family said a glowing object lifted their car on the Nullarbor Plain in January 1988. Sources differ on whether the date was 20 or 21 January.

A light reported by people in the Australian outback. Stories about it exist in several Aboriginal cultures, and in 2003 a University of Queensland scientist said he had worked out its cause.

A belief that taking a rock from Uluṟu brings bad luck, which has led many visitors to post pieces back.

Students at two Westall schools in Clayton South, Melbourne, said that on April 6, 1966, a metallic object hovered over them and dropped behind trees. In 2013 the local council approved a flying-saucer playground near the spot.

A being in the stories of several Aboriginal peoples, named in an Aboriginal language of Victoria. It entered settler print in 1845, when the Geelong Advertiser reported a bone said to be a bunyip's.

An ape-like creature that people report seeing in the Australian bush. The name is one of several for a being with roots in Aboriginal oral history.

The last known thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, died at Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo on 7 September 1936. People have reported sightings ever since, none of them confirmed.