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Alan Godfrey at Todmorden, 1980: the road sketch, the missing time and the later recollections — Burnley Road / Todmorden area, West Yorkshire, England

Alexis Didier in Brighton and Hastings: blindfold cards, hidden objects and Edwin Lee’s 1849 sittings — Brighton, Hove and Hastings, Sussex, England

Alfred Burtoo, 1983: the fisherman, the canal-side craft and the visitors who sent him home — Basingstoke Canal, North Town area, Aldershot, Hampshire, England

Alitalia over Kent, 1991: the missile-shaped object and the military enquiries — Lydd area, Kent, England

Anna Eva Fay in Crookes’s laboratory: the electrical test, the bell and the disputed letter — Camden area, London, England

Aston Clinton, 1962: Ronald Wildman’s roadside disc and the car that lost power — Aston Clinton area, Buckinghamshire, England

Aveley, 1974: the Avis family, the green mist and the missing journey — Aveley and the Havering–Thurrock road corridor, England

Ballechin House: the 1897 haunting journal and the Perthshire investigation — Ballechin, near Grandtully, Perthshire, Scotland

Ballygally Castle: Isabella Shaw, the Ghost Room and the Antrim coast’s enduring haunting — Ballygally, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Bargarran and Paisley, 1696–1697: Christian Shaw’s affliction, the witnesses and the witch-trial narrative — Bargarran / Erskine and Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Ben Macdhui’s Big Grey Man: Collie’s footsteps, Kellas’s figure and the original club report — Ben Macdui / Ben Macdhui, Cairngorms, Scotland

Berry Pomeroy Castle: Sir Walter Farquhar’s staircase apparition and the history of the ruins — Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon, England

Berwyn Mountains, 1974: the tremor, the lights and the mountainside sighting — Berwyn Mountains, north Wales

Bexleyheath, 1955: the street encounter remembered by Margaret Fry and Rodney Maynard — King Harold’s Way area, Bexleyheath, southeast London, England

Birmingham, 2008: the police helicopter, the circling lights and the extensive Airprox enquiry — Sandwell Valley / northwestern Birmingham airspace, England

Bisham Abbey’s Lady Hoby: the washing hands, the blotted books and Elizabeth Russell’s memorial — Bisham Abbey and All Saints’ Church, Berkshire, England

Black Shuck, 1577: the Suffolk storm, the church deaths and the original pamphlet — Bungay and Blythburgh, Suffolk, England

Blenkinsopp Castle’s White Lady: the gold chest, the frightened boy and the sealed passage — Blenkinsopp Castle, near Greenhead, Northumberland, England

Bolling Hall’s White Lady: ‘Pity poor Bradford’ and the Civil War ghost story — Bolling Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England

Bonnybridge and the Falkirk Triangle: the 1990s sighting wave and the surviving reports — Bonnybridge and the wider Falkirk district, central Scotland

Borley Rectory: the household reports, wall writings and Harry Price archive — Borley, Essex, England

Brixham, 1967: the coastguards’ cone-shaped object and the aircraft that approached it — Brixham and Berry Head observation area, Devon, England

Broad Haven: the 1977 school UFO reports and the surviving drawings — Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire

Broadlands, 1955: Frederick Briggs’s account and Lord Mountbatten’s walk through the snow — Broadlands estate, near Romsey, Hampshire, England

Burton Agnes Hall: Anne Griffith’s skull and the promise her sisters could not forget — Burton Agnes Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Caerphilly Mountain, 1909: the showman, the landed airship and the scattered papers — Caerphilly Mountain, south Wales

Calverley Old Hall: Walter’s headless ride, a minister’s bed and the bell at one o’clock — Calverley Old Hall, Calverley, West Yorkshire, England

Calvine UFO photograph: the 1990 sighting and the surviving print — Calvine, Perth and Kinross

Cantre’r Gwaelod: Mererid’s well, Seithennin’s watch and the bells beneath Cardigan Bay — Borth and the Dyfi coast, Cardigan Bay, Wales

Castlewellan’s fairy forts: music, thorn bushes and Elizabeth Andrews’s underground fieldwork — Castlewellan and the nearby Maghera / Mourne area, County Down, Northern Ireland

Charlton, 1963: the crater, the meteorite claim and the official investigation — Charlton, Donhead St Mary, near Shaftesbury, Wiltshire, England

Chillingham Castle: the White Pantry Ghost, the Blue Boy and a century of haunting accounts — Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, England

Chingle Hall: the monks, the window photograph and the investigation logs — Goosnargh / Whittingham area, near Preston, Lancashire, England

Church Stowe, 1978: Elsie Oakensen’s journey, the flashing lights and the missing quarter-hour — Church Stowe and the A5, Northamptonshire, England

Clegg Hall’s boggarts: the stolen inheritance, two restless children and a monk’s wordplay — Clegg Hall area, near Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England

Cock Lane, 1762: Scratching Fanny, Samuel Johnson and the London ghost inquiry — Cock Lane, Smithfield, London, England

Combermere Abbey: the library photograph and the earlier child apparition — Combermere Abbey, near Burleydam, Cheshire, England

Conisholme, 2009: the broken turbine, the reported lights and the engineering investigation — Conisholme / Fen Farm wind park, Lincolnshire, England

Coniston, 1954: Stephen Darbishire’s photographs and the story behind the saucer — Coniston and Little Arrow area, Cumbria, England

Cononley, 1978: Tony Dodd, Alan Dale and the silent object above the patrol car — Cononley area, near Skipton, North Yorkshire, England

Corby Castle’s Radiant Boy: the 1803 bedroom account and the manuscript behind it — Corby Castle area, Great Corby, Cumbria, England

Cortachy Castle’s drummer: the Airlie family warning and the nineteenth-century accounts — Cortachy Castle, Angus, Scotland

Cosford and Shawbury, 1993: the night lights, RAF reports and the missing hour — RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire

Craig y Dinas: the hazel staff, the warning bell and the warriors waiting beneath the rock — Craig y Dinas / Dinas Rock, Pontneddfechan, Wales

Craigluscar, 1994: the reservoir photographs, the witness statement and the MoD paper trail — Craigluscar Reservoir area, near Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Creslow Manor: the rustling silk, the locked room and the guest who searched the chimney — Creslow village area, Buckinghamshire, England

Crookes and D. D. Home, 1871: the accordion cage and the moving balance — William Crookes’s London home laboratory, Camden, England

Cumnor’s Amy Robsart: the staircase death, the literary murder and the pond that would not freeze — Cumnor, Oxfordshire, England

D. D. Home at Ashley Place: the reported London levitation of 1868 — Ashley Place, Westminster, London, England

Derrygonnelly, 1877: William Barrett, the Knockmore cottage and the answering knocks — Derrygonnelly and Knockmore, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

Devon’s Flying Cross: the police pursuit of October 1967 — Holsworthy–Hatherleigh–Okehampton area, Devon

Dinas Emrys: the falling fortress, the buried dragons and the boy who answered the king — Dinas Emrys, near Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales

Dobb Park Lodge: the speaking black dog, the burning glass and the unopened treasure — Dobb Park Lodge area, Washburn Valley, North Yorkshire, England

Donald Ban and the Bocan: the flying harrow, the spoiled butter and the last walk through Glenspean — Mounessie / Glenspean area, Highland, Scotland

Dunluce Castle: Mave Roe, the swept chamber and the later lovers’ tragedy — Dunluce Castle, near Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Dunvegan’s Fairy Flag: the silken relic, the fairy bride and the last unused wish — Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Dunwich: phantom bells, a lost medieval town and the churches beneath the sea — Dunwich, Suffolk

Edgehill’s phantom battle: the Christmas apparitions and the Civil War pamphlet — Edgehill and the Kineton battlefield area, Warwickshire, England

Eileen Garrett and R101: the London sitting, the shorthand record and the engineer’s annotations — London, England

Enfield Poltergeist: the house, the voices and the recordings — Enfield, north London

Eusapia Palladino at Cambridge, 1895: the held hands, the disputed controls and the argument afterwards — Cambridge, England

Farnborough, 1950: Stan Hubbard’s disc sightings and the first British UFO inquiry — Royal Aircraft Establishment area, Farnborough, Hampshire, England

Felicity of Cannich, 1980: the captured puma, the Highland witnesses and the unanswered origin — Cannich / Tomich / Strathglass area, Highland, Scotland

Fife, 1996: the lights, three journeys and the Newton of Falkland encounter — Newton of Falkland and the Freuchie area, Fife, Scotland

Flannan Isles: the three keepers and the empty lighthouse — Eilean Mòr, Flannan Isles, Outer Hebrides

Florence Cook and Katie King: Crookes’s London laboratory, the lamps and the photographs — Camden and other London séance rooms, England

Gatwick flights, 1991: a passenger report, a cockpit near miss and the search for a balloon — Flights to and from Gatwick Airport, southeast England

Gaydon, 1957: the Meteor pilot, the six lights and the American intelligence cable — Gaydon area, Warwickshire, England

Gelert of Beddgelert: the faithful hound, the empty cradle and the making of a memorial — Gelert’s Grave, Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales

Gill Hall and the Beresford apparition: the black ribbon, the death pact and the family manuscript — Gill Hall estate area, near Dromore, County Down, Northern Ireland

Gladys Leonard’s book tests: the nineteenth volume, the missing spaces and Sidgwick’s 1921 report — London sittings and British sitters’ home libraries, England

Glamis Castle: the Grey Lady, the secret chamber and the Victorian ghost stories — Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland

Glasgow, 2012: the A320 crew, the blue-and-yellow object and Airprox 2012166 — Baillieston area, east of Glasgow, Scotland

Glasgow-bound flight, 1996: the descending lights and the RAF activity checks — Airspace northwest of Glasgow Airport, Scotland

Hainault Forest, 1977: the police encounter, the damaged gorse and the two investigators’ findings — Hainault Forest Country Park, London Borough of Redbridge, England

Hampton Court’s ghosts: Catherine Howard, Sybil Penn and the residents who told the stories — Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, England

Hanbury, 1968: the Milakovic family, the figures in the dome and the house investigators could not find — Hanbury area, Staffordshire, England

Helen Duncan at Portsmouth: the séance raid, the 1944 trial and the argument within Spiritualism — Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; trial at the Old Bailey, London

Henry Slade in London, 1876: the slates, the daylight sittings and the Bow Street prosecution — Bedford Place / Bloomsbury, London, England

Heysham, 1967: the single photograph, the unprinted frame and the camera-setting debate — Heysham, Lancashire, England

Hinton Ampner: Mary Ricketts, Captain Jervis and the noises in the old house — Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England

Hook, 1967: the stalled Transit, the dark object and the engineer’s roadside checks — Hook area, Hampshire, England

Howden Moor, 1997: the air-crash search, the sonic booms and the military records — Howden Reservoir and the moors west of Sheffield, Derbyshire–South Yorkshire, England

Ilkley Moor, 1987: the figure photograph, missing time and the investigators’ reports — Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire, England

Islandmagee, 1711: the haunting reports and the witch trials — Islandmagee, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Knockmany: Oonagh, Fin M’Coul and the giant defeated at the cradle — Knockmany Hill, near Augher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Lakenheath–Bentwaters, 1956: the radar tracks, white lights and Venom interception — RAF Lakenheath and RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, England

Leonora Piper in England: the Liverpool sittings, Uncle Jerry and the objects test — Liverpool, with further sittings in Cambridge and London

Little Rissington, 1952: three objects above the clouds and the RAF record that survived — RAF Little Rissington area, Gloucestershire, England

Littlecote’s haunted chamber: the blindfolded midwife, the cut curtain and the Darrell legend — Littlecote House, Wiltshire, near Hungerford, England

Livingston, 1979: Robert Taylor’s Dechmont Woods encounter, the ground marks and the trousers — Dechmont Law and Dechmont Woods, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland

Llanerchymedd, 1978: the Anglesey lights, field figures and early investigation — Llanerchymedd, Isle of Anglesey, Wales

Llangorse Lake: the singing birds, the lake wife and a royal island beneath the stories — Llangorse Lake / Llyn Syfaddan, Powys

Llanilar, 1983: the metal fragments, the recovery and the later laboratory debate — Llanilar area, Ceredigion, west Wales

Llyn Barfog: Arthur’s horse, the captured afanc and the fairy cow called home — Llyn Barfog, near Aberdyfi, Gwynedd, Wales

Llyn Cwm Llwch: the fairy garden, the stolen flower and the guardian in the red coat — Llyn Cwm Llwch, Bannau Brycheiniog, Powys, Wales

Llyn Llech Owain: the forgotten well-cover, the galloping horse and three different Owens — Llyn Llech Owain, Gorslas, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Llyn Tegid’s drowned town: the forgotten well, the warning bird and the harper’s escape — Llyn Tegid, Bala, Gwynedd, Wales

Loch Ness: from the 1933 reports to the search archives — Loch Ness, Highlands

Lord Lyttelton’s warning: the bird, the woman and the three days before his death — Pitt Place, Epsom, Surrey, with London and Dartford accounts, England

Major Weir’s West Bow: the black staff, the fiery coach and the calf at the bedside — West Bow / Old Town area, Edinburgh, Scotland

Manchester Flight 5061, 1995: the wedge-shaped object and the unresolved airmiss report — Southern Pennines, southeast of Manchester Airport, England

Mary Butters at Carnmoney, 1807: the bewitched cow, the sealed kitchen and the inquest — Carnmoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Mary King’s Close: the Coltheart apparitions, Annie’s doll and Edinburgh’s hidden rooms — Mary King’s Close and Allan’s Close, Edinburgh, Scotland

Mary Toft of Godalming, 1726: the rabbit-birth affair, the doctors and the surviving depositions — Godalming, Surrey, England; later examination in London

Milton Torres and the 1957 Manston scramble: the radar lock, the firing order and the second pilot — RAF Manston area, Kent, England; reported interception over East Anglia and the North Sea

Moigne Downs, 1967: Angus Brooks and the silent, changing cross — Moigne Downs and Ringstead area, Dorset, England

Mosborough, 1962: Alex Birch’s five saucers, the Whitehall visit and the changing photograph story — Mosborough, near Sheffield, England; then within Derbyshire

Mrs Veal at Canterbury, 1705: the visiting friend, the silk gown and the news from Dover — Canterbury city area, Kent, England

Nannau’s haunted oak: Hywel Sele, Owain Glyndŵr and the tree that outlived the legend — Nannau estate, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales

Nelson, 1977: Brian Grimshaw’s car-stop encounter and the investigators’ taped interviews — Nelson area, Lancashire, England

Newlands Corner, 1967: the white object watched across the Surrey fields — Newlands Corner and the Albury landscape, Surrey, England

Newstead Abbey: the Goblin Friar, Nanny Smith’s footsteps and Byron’s haunted rooms — Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England

Noel Paton’s mother’s dream: the family gallery, scarlet fever and the letter of 1847 — Dunfermline area, Fife, Scotland

Old Jeffrey: the Epworth Rectory haunting of 1716–1717 — Epworth Old Rectory, North Lincolnshire, England

Pearlin Jean of Allanbank: the rustling silk, the orchard encounter and the portrait — Allanbank estate, near Allanton, Scottish Borders, Scotland

Pentyrch, 2016: the pyramid lights, military activity and the surviving records — Pentyrch and the wider Llantrisant area, South Wales

Portsmouth and Wartling, 1950: the Meteor pilot, the fast radar response and the ten-minute gap — Portsmouth area and Wartling radar station, southern England

Powis Castle’s hidden box: the travelling spinner and the gentleman in gold lace — Powis Castle, Welshpool, Powys, Wales

RAF Topcliffe, 1952: the aircrew, the falling-leaf object and the surviving report — RAF Topcliffe area, North Yorkshire, England

Ramhurst Manor, 1857: the Children family, the speaking figures and Robert Dale Owen’s inquiry — Leigh area, near Sevenoaks, Kent, England

Ranton, 1954: Jessie Roestenburg, the hovering disc and its two occupants — Ranton area, Staffordshire, England

Rathlin’s Bruce and the spider: the island refuge, the cave and a story of trying again — Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Raynham Hall’s Brown Lady: the corridor story and the 1936 staircase photograph — Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England

Rendlesham Forest: lights beyond the airbase — Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk

Rerrick, 1695: Andrew Mackie’s household, the flying stones and Telfair’s nightly record — Rerrick parish, near Auchencairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Ripperston Farm, 1977: the Coombs family, the figure at the window and the Stack Rocks account — Little Haven area, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Robert Kirk of Aberfoyle: the fairy hill, the missed rescue and The Secret Commonwealth — Aberfoyle and the nearby fairy-hill tradition, Stirling, Scotland

Rowley Regis, 1979: Jean Hingley, the rainbow-winged visitors and the mince pies — Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England

Salandin’s Southend encounter, 1954: three objects, a Meteor fighter and the missed camera opportunity — Southend and Thames Estuary area, Essex, England

Samlesbury Hall: Lady Dorothy, the forbidden marriage and the White Lady tradition — Samlesbury Hall, Lancashire, England

Sandown Sam, 1973: the children, the hut and the strange figure by the bridge — Lake and Sandown area, Isle of Wight, England

Sarah Jacob, the Welsh fasting girl: the visitors, the two watches and the 1870 trial — Llanfihangel-ar-Arth parish / Pencader area, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Scoriton, 1965: Ernest Bryant, Yamski and the investigation that changed direction — Scorriton, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England

Scorrier’s Perceval dream: John Williams, the Commons lobby and a difficult chronology — Scorrier area, Cornwall, England

Sergeant Davies, 1749: the missing patrolman, the bones in the peat and the ghost at the trial — Braemar / Glen Clunie area, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Silky of Black Heddon: the unseen passenger, the stopped horses and the gold in the ceiling — Black Heddon, near Stamfordham, Northumberland, England

Souther Fell’s phantom army: the Lancaster witnesses, the marching ranks and the 1747 account — Souther Fell, near Mungrisdale, Cumbria, England

Spedlins Tower: Porteous, the forgotten prisoner and the Bible on the staircase — Spedlins Tower area, near Lochmaben, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Spraiton, 1682–1683: Francis Fey, the unpaid legacies and the torn clothes — Spreyton parish, Devon, England

Spring-heeled Jack: the 1838 London attacks, blue flames and the growing legend — Bow, Limehouse and the wider London suburbs, England

Springhill’s Olivia: the staircase, the family tragedy and a curator’s account — Springhill House, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

St Athan, 2008: the police helicopter sighting, the headlines and the surviving official trail — St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

St Winefride’s Well: Gwenfrewi’s legend, the healing traditions and Holywell’s surviving shrine — St Winefride’s Chapel and Well, Holywell / Treffynnon, Flintshire, Wales

Stainton Moses in London: the moving dining table, the private circle and the notebooks — Russell Square and the wider London séance circle, England

Stanmore, 1984: the police statements, the coloured lights and the withheld sketch — Stanmore, London Borough of Harrow, England

Stockwell, 1772: the flying crockery, the fleeing household and Ann Robinson — Stockwell and Rush Common, south London, England

The A70 encounter, 1992: the road, the missing time and the later abduction account — A70 near Harperrig Reservoir, southwest of Edinburgh, Scotland

The Ancient Ram Inn: the medieval building, John Humphries and the recorded night vigils — Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England

The Angelystor of Llangernyw: the tailor, the east window and the parish death roll — St Digain’s Church, Llangernyw, Conwy, Wales

The Avon–Sopley encounter, 1967: Karl Farlow’s green object and the changing vehicle-stop story — Avon–Sopley area, New Forest, Hampshire, England

The Beast of Bodmin Moor: the 1995 inquiry, the disputed films and the leopard skull — Bodmin Moor and the surrounding north Cornwall countryside, England

The Belfast Goligher Circle: the recorded knocks, the weighing machine and Crawford’s invisible beam — Belfast, Northern Ireland

The Bettiscombe screaming skull: the Dorset house, the 1883 visit and the disputed identity — Bettiscombe, Marshwood Vale, Dorset, England

The Botathen ghost: Dorothy’s path, the schoolboy and John Ruddle’s 1665 account — Botathan and South Petherwin area, near Launceston, Cornwall, England

The Brahan Seer: the seeing stone, the Seaforth prediction and the Chanonry tradition — Brahan and Chanonry Point, Ross-shire, Scotland

The Cauld Lad of Hylton: the kitchen spirit, Roger Skelton and the 1609 inquest — Hylton Castle, Sunderland, England

The Cheltenham ‘Morton’ haunting: the woman in black, 1882–1889 — Pittville, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

The Cottingley Fairies: five photographs, two cousins and a lasting Yorkshire story — Cottingley, near Bingley, West Yorkshire, England

The Croglin Grange vampire: Captain Fisher’s story, the window and the disputed house — Croglin, Cumbria, historically Cumberland

The Devil of Glenluce: the Campbell household, talking disturbances and the seventeenth-century record — Glenluce area, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

The Devil’s Footprints: Devon’s snow-track mystery of 1855 — Exe estuary and surrounding Devon communities, England

The Drummer of Tedworth: Mompesson’s household, the confiscated drum and Glanvill’s watch — Tidworth, Wiltshire, England

The Egryn Lights: Mary Jones, the Welsh Revival and the witnesses of 1905 — Egryn, between Barmouth and Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales

The Gorbals vampire hunt, 1954: iron teeth, the cemetery search and the argument over comics — Southern Necropolis, Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland

The Green Children of Woolpit: two medieval accounts and the road from St Martin’s Land — Woolpit, Suffolk, England

The Hammersmith Ghost: the white figure, Thomas Millwood and the fatal patrol of 1804 — Black Lion Lane area, Hammersmith, London, England

The Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach: the three blows, the returning cattle and the physicians of Myddfai — Llyn y Fan Fach and Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, Wales

The Lambton Worm: the river battle, the broken vow and the places inside the legend — Worm Hill and the River Wear, Fatfield, Sunderland, England

The Mermaid of Zennor: Mathey Trewella, the church singing and the anchor at her door — St Senara’s Church and the Zennor coast, Cornwall, England

The Nanteos Cup: the healing loans, the Grail tradition and the surviving wooden bowl — Nanteos estate and Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

The Newby church photograph: the hooded figure, the disputed date and the Victorian setting — Skelton-on-Ure and Newby Hall, North Yorkshire, England

The Raymond Lodge sittings: a family photograph, Feda and the ‘Honolulu’ test — Edgbaston, Birmingham, and London séance rooms

The Red Barn dream: Maria Marten, Ann Marten’s account and the discovery at Polstead — Polstead, Suffolk, England

The Sampford Peverell ghost: answering knocks, the Chave household and Colton’s investigation — Sampford Peverell village area, Devon, England

The Scole Experiment: the Norfolk cellar, moving lights and the surviving séance archive — Scole, near Diss, Norfolk, England

The Silpho saucer: the moorland discovery, the copper book and the museum tin — Silpho and the Scarborough area, North Yorkshire, England

The six-saucer hoax of 1967: Farnborough apprentices and a morning of British UFO alarms — Farnborough, Hampshire, and six sites across southern England

The Solway Spaceman, 1964: a family photograph, the marsh and the competing explanations — Burgh Marsh, near Burgh-by-Sands, Cumbria, England

The Stronsay Beast, 1808: the measured carcass, sworn witnesses and the argument over its bones — Rothiesholm Head area, Stronsay, Orkney, Scotland

The Warminster Thing: Christmas noises, the 1965 skywatch wave and the hilltop years — Warminster and surrounding hills, Wiltshire

The Wash, 1996: police lights, the Boston radar plot and an eight-day inquiry — Skegness, Boston and the Wash, Lincolnshire, England

The Wild Man of Orford: the fishermen’s captive, the castle and the escape beneath the nets — Orford Castle, Suffolk, England

Treasurer’s House, York: Harry Martindale and the Roman soldiers — Treasurer’s House, York, North Yorkshire, England

Tregeagle and Dozmary Pool: the leaking shell, the pursuing hounds and Cornwall’s endless tasks — Dozmary Pool, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England

Upper Heyford, 1983: the radar story, the newspaper enquiry and the conflicting replies — Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, with reports from Berkshire, England

Valentine Greatrakes in England, 1666: the healing touch, the witnesses and the pamphlet debate — Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, and the English tour of 1666

Warboys, 1589–1593: the Throckmorton children, the Samuel family and the printed trial narrative — Warboys and Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England

Wardle, 1957: the hillside lights, the hospital witnesses and the Rochdale balloon debate — Wardle, Rochdale, historic Lancashire, England

Wem’s ghost photograph: the 1995 town-hall fire, the negative and the girl on a postcard — Wem, Shropshire, England

West Freugh, 1957: the Scottish radar incident and the Air Ministry papers — West Freugh and the Wigtownshire coast, Scotland

West Malling, 1953: the Vampire crew, the bright object and the balloon explanation — RAF West Malling area, Kent, England

West of Heathrow, 2013: the silver rugby-ball report and Airprox 2013086 — Airspace west of Heathrow, Berkshire, England

Weston Mill, 1981: Denise Bishop’s encounter and the investigation of a mark on her hand — Weston Mill, Plymouth, Devon, England

William Blake on Peckham Rye: the tree of angels and a lifetime of vision — Peckham Rye, London, England

William Lilly and the Great Fire: the 1651 images, the plague and the parliamentary questions — Westminster and the City of London, England

William Schaffner, 1970: the lost Lightning, the empty cockpit and the later UFO transcript — Flamborough Head coastal reference, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Willington Mill: the Tyneside haunting and Dr Drury’s night watch — Willington Quay, North Tyneside, England

Winchester, 1976: Joyce Bowles, Ted Pratt and the stranger beside the Mini — Chilcomb lane area, near Winchester, Hampshire, England

Windsor’s warning to Buckingham: Sir George Villiers, the three visits and the road to 1628 — Windsor Castle area, Berkshire, England

Woodhouselee: the mother in white, the travelling stones and the history behind the revenge tale — Old Woodhouselee area, North Esk valley, Midlothian, Scotland

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