THE CASE FILES
Famous paranormal cases
The sightings, hauntings and encounters that defined the unexplained. Each case file covers what happened, the evidence, and what skeptics say, so you can decide for yourself.
UFOs & UAP
The Roswell Incident
📍 Roswell, New Mexico, USA
In July 1947 the US Army announced it had recovered a “flying disc” near Roswell, then said a day later it was a weather balloon. Decades later it became the world’s most famous UFO case.
Read the case file →Kenneth Arnold’s “Flying Saucers”
📍 Mount Rainier, Washington, USA
A private pilot saw nine shining objects racing past Mount Rainier. His description gave the world the phrase “flying saucer” and started the modern UFO era.
Read the case file →The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
📍 White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA
A couple driving home through New Hampshire saw a light follow their car, then arrived home two hours late. Under hypnosis they described being taken aboard a craft: the first widely publicised alien abduction.
Read the case file →The Westall UFO Encounter
📍 Clayton South, Melbourne, Australia
Around 200 students and teachers at a Melbourne school watched a silvery object descend into a nearby field and then fly away. Australia’s biggest mass sighting.
Read the case file →The Rendlesham Forest Incident
📍 Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England
US Air Force personnel at two RAF bases reported strange lights and a landed craft in the forest over several nights. Often called “Britain’s Roswell”.
Read the case file →The Belgian UFO Wave
📍 Eupen, Belgium
Over several months thousands of people in Belgium, including police officers, reported large, silent triangular craft with bright lights. The air force scrambled F-16s to chase one.
Read the case file →The Phoenix Lights
📍 Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Thousands of people across Arizona watched a vast V-shaped formation of lights glide overhead, then a row of hovering orbs. One of the most-witnessed UFO events ever.
Read the case file →The USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” Encounter
📍 Pacific Ocean, off Southern California
US Navy fighter pilots chased a white, wingless object shaped like a Tic Tac that out-manoeuvred their jets. The Pentagon later released the video as “unidentified aerial phenomena”.
Read the case file →Ghosts & hauntings
The Bell Witch
📍 Adams, Tennessee, USA
A farming family in Tennessee was tormented by an invisible spirit that knocked, spoke, and is said to have poisoned the father. America’s most famous ghost story.
Read the case file →Borley Rectory
📍 Borley, Essex, England
Once called “the most haunted house in England”, this Victorian rectory was said to be haunted by a ghostly nun, a phantom coach and writing that appeared on the walls.
Read the case file →The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
📍 Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England
One of the most famous ghost photographs ever taken shows a translucent figure descending a staircase in a Norfolk stately home.
Read the case file →The Amityville Horror
📍 Amityville, New York, USA
A family fled their Long Island house after 28 days, claiming it was possessed. The bestselling book and film made it famous; many involved later called it a hoax.
Read the case file →The Enfield Poltergeist
📍 Enfield, London, England
A single mother and her children in a north London council house reported knocking, flying objects and a growling voice. Investigators spent two years there; the case inspired The Conjuring 2.
Read the case file →Cryptids
The Jersey Devil
📍 Pine Barrens, New Jersey, USA
A winged, hoofed creature said to haunt New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. In one week in 1909, sightings and strange tracks caused panic across the Delaware Valley.
Read the case file →The Loch Ness Monster
📍 Loch Ness, Scotland
Sightings of a large creature in Scotland’s largest loch by volume began in earnest in 1933. Nessie has survived a famous hoax photo, sonar sweeps and a DNA survey of the water.
Read the case file →The Flatwoods Monster
📍 Flatwoods, West Virginia, USA
After a fiery object crashed onto a hillside, a group of locals came face to face with a towering, glowing figure with a spade-shaped head.
Read the case file →The Mothman of Point Pleasant
📍 Point Pleasant, West Virginia, USA
Two young couples reported a huge grey winged figure with glowing red eyes near an old munitions site. Dozens more sightings followed, ending with a tragic bridge collapse.
Read the case file →The Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot Film
📍 Bluff Creek, California, USA
About a minute of 16mm film shows a large, hairy figure striding across a creek bed and turning to look at the camera. Still the most famous and most debated Bigfoot evidence.
Read the case file →Unexplained sounds
The Taos Hum
📍 Taos, New Mexico, USA
A low droning sound that only a small share of residents can hear. Scientists investigated in the 1990s and couldn’t find a source.
Read the case file →The Bloop
📍 Southern Pacific Ocean
An extremely loud, ultra-low-frequency underwater sound was picked up by hydrophones thousands of kilometres apart, fuelling theories of a giant sea creature.
Read the case file →The Windsor Hum
📍 Windsor, Ontario, Canada
For years a rumbling low-frequency hum rattled windows in Windsor, Ontario. Investigators traced it across the river to an industrial island in Michigan.
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