Hylton Castle
‘Every castle, tower, or manor-house, has its visionary inhabitants’, says Robert Surtees in 1820, and goes on to tell of perhaps the most famous in…
Hurworth
W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, writing in 1854, says that a spirit known by the name of Hob Hedeless (Headless) haunted the road between Hurworth and…
Glowrowram
In a green lane called Petty Lane at Glowrowram, near Chester-le-Street, used to be seen the ghost of a woman. When approached, the figure would…
Glassensikes, Darlington
According to W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, writing in 1854, the name ‘Glassensikes’ referred to ‘certain closes’ watered by a small stream of this name flowing…
Darlington
W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, in his history of the parish of Darlington (1854), speaks of ‘the unearthly tread of Lady Jarratt who still inhabits the…
Congo Peacock
Sometimes, groundbreaking animal discoveries aren’t made in the wild—but within the quiet halls of museums. One such case unfolded in 1913, when the New York…
Clark, Eugenie
Eugenie Clark serves on the board of directors of the International Society of Cryptozoology. A famous diver and scientist, she has explored the underwater world…
Clark, Ramona
CLARK, RAMONA (1932 – 1997) Ramona Clark was one of the earliest investigators of accounts in the southern U.S. of unknown hairy anthropoids called the…
Clark, James Alexander
CLARK. JAMES ALEXANDER (1960-1989) Jim Clark, one of British Columbia's foremost cryptozoological researchers, amassed perhaps the largest collection of sighting reports and papers on a…
Bille, Matthew A.
Matthew A. Bille with a rare Cuban ground iguana. (Tricia Childers) Editor of Exotic Zoology, Matthew A. Bille is also the author of Rumors of…