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"Every entry in this archive begins the same way: someone saw something, heard something, or felt something they couldn't explain — and wrote it down before they could talk themselves out of it."
<span class="vault-eyebrow">THE EERIE FILES ARCHIVE</span>
 
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Welcome to The Vault
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The Vault is the research archive of [[The EERIE Files]], documenting the unexplained, the unusual, and the mysteries that continue to capture human imagination.
Welcome to '''The Vault''', the working archive of [https://eeriefiles.com The EERIE Files]. What you'll find here isn't ghost stories for their own sake — it's the paper trail behind them: witness statements, site histories, investigation notes, and the research that's been done (or hasn't) to explain them.
 
From hauntings and UFO sightings to cryptids, psychic phenomena, folklore, research, and the media surrounding these subjects, every entry is structured, sourced, and assessed.
 
The Vault does not exist to simply prove or disprove claims. Instead, it documents reported experiences, historical records, investigations, evidence, and the people who have explored the unknown.
 
Whether you are a believer, sceptic, researcher, or simply fascinated by strange stories — welcome to the archive.
 
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== Explore The Archive ==
 
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|title=Ghosts &amp; Hauntings
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|desc=Reported hauntings, apparitions, poltergeists, and locations with unexplained histories.
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|title=UFOs &amp; Sightings
|link=Category:UFOs and Sightings
|desc=Close encounters, sightings, investigations, and unexplained aerial phenomena.
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{{PortalCard
'''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}''' cases are currently filed. Read carefully. Some of them are still open.
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|title=Cryptids &amp; Folklore
|link=Category:Cryptids and Folklore
|desc=Legendary creatures, mysterious animals, folklore, and creatures reported beyond science.
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== Featured Case ==
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|title=Psychic Phenomena
|link=Category:Psychic and Tarot
|desc=ESP, mediums, intuition, tarot, and claims of unusual abilities.
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<div class="vault-feature-label">Case No. 0001 &middot; Currently Under Investigation</div>
|title=Parapsychology
<div class="vault-feature-title">[[Pluckley]]</div>
|link=Category:Parapsychology
|desc=Research, experiments, theories, and attempts to study unexplained phenomena.
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Britain's Guinness World Record holder for most haunted village, with twelve distinct ghosts packed into a village you could walk end to end in twenty minutes. Fright Corner, the Red Lady of St Nicholas, and the Screaming Woods all sit within a few hundred yards of each other — a concentration of hauntings no other single location in the country can match.
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|title=Books &amp; Publications
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|desc=Important books, authors, journals, and publications connected to the paranormal.
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{{PortalCard
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|title=People
|link=Category:People
|desc=Researchers, investigators, witnesses, authors, and notable figures.
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{{PortalCard
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|title=Locations
|link=Category:Locations
|desc=Places connected to legends, investigations, sightings, and unusual events.
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How much of it holds up? [[Pluckley|Read the full case file and evidence assessment &rarr;]]
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== Browse by Classification ==


== Vault Classification System ==
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<span class="vault-eyebrow">ARCHIVE STRUCTURE</span>
 
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Every File Has A Classification
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The Vault uses a structured archive system. Different types of information require different approaches — a reported haunting is documented differently from a researcher, a location, or a book.
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<div class="vault-card-title">Cases</div>
<div class="vault-card-description">Specific reported incidents — sightings, hauntings, encounters — documented start to finish.</div>]]</div>


Each entry follows a consistent format while maintaining the same principles of documentation, research, and assessment.
<div class="vault-card">[[:Category:Locations|<span class="vault-card-icon">&#128205;</span>
<div class="vault-card-title">Locations</div>
<div class="vault-card-description">The places themselves, and what's said to linger there.</div>]]</div>


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<div class="vault-card">[[:Category:Entities|<span class="vault-card-icon">&#128123;</span>
<div class="vault-card-title">Entities</div>
<div class="vault-card-description">Cryptids, apparitions, and the beings that keep getting reported.</div>]]</div>


<div class="vault-card">[[:Category:Phenomena|<span class="vault-card-icon">&#10024;</span>
<div class="vault-card-title">Phenomena</div>
<div class="vault-card-description">The recurring shapes reports take, across cases and centuries.</div>]]</div>


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<div class="vault-card">[[:Category:Research|<span class="vault-card-icon">&#128300;</span>
<div class="vault-card-title">Research</div>
<div class="vault-card-description">The studies, laboratories, and disciplines trying to test any of this.</div>]]</div>


{{CaseCard
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<div class="vault-card-description">Societies and groups dedicated to investigation and research.</div>]]</div>
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|excerpt=Reported events, sightings, encounters, investigations, and unexplained incidents.
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{{CaseCard
<div class="vault-card">[[:Category:Investigators|<span class="vault-card-icon">&#128374;</span>
|title=Profile Files
<div class="vault-card-title">Investigators</div>
|link=Category:Profiles
<div class="vault-card-description">The people who went looking, and what they found — or didn't.</div>]]</div>
|category=PEOPLE &amp; ORGANISATIONS
|excerpt=Researchers, investigators, witnesses, authors, and organisations connected to the unexplained.
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|title=Location Files
<div class="vault-card-title">Historical Events</div>
|link=Category:Locations
<div class="vault-card-description">Real-world events tangled up with mystery and speculation.</div>]]</div>
|category=PLACES
|excerpt=Buildings, sites, regions, and locations connected with legends and investigations.
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{{CaseCard
<div class="vault-card">[[:Category:Popular Culture|<span class="vault-card-icon">&#127909;</span>
|title=Research Files
<div class="vault-card-title">Popular Culture</div>
|link=Category:Research
<div class="vault-card-description">Books, films, television, and the stories built on top of all this.</div>]]</div>
|category=SCIENCE &amp; THEORY
|excerpt=Experiments, theories, phenomena, and attempts to investigate unexplained claims.
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{{CaseCard
<div class="vault-card">[[:Category:People|<span class="vault-card-icon">&#128373;</span>
|title=Work Files
<div class="vault-card-title">People</div>
|link=Category:Works
<div class="vault-card-description">Every person connected to the archive — investigators, practitioners, witnesses, and more.</div>]]</div>
|category=MEDIA &amp; PUBLICATIONS
|excerpt=Books, films, television programmes, and publications connected to paranormal subjects.
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== Notable Cases ==
== Archive Overview ==
 
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== Featured Case Files ==


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|title=Bigfoot
|link=Bigfoot
|category=Cryptid Case File
|excerpt=One of the world's most famous cryptids, examined through folklore, sightings, investigations, and evidence assessment.
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|title=Enfield Poltergeist
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|link=Enfield Poltergeist
|category=Haunting Case File
|category=Haunting
|excerpt=One of Britain's most investigated modern poltergeist cases, studied by journalists and paranormal researchers.
|excerpt=One of Britain's most extensively documented poltergeist cases, investigated for over a year by the Society for Psychical Research.
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|title=Pluckley
|title=Society for Psychical Research
|link=Pluckley
|link=Society for Psychical Research
|category=Location File
|category=Organisation
|excerpt=A village famous for ghost stories, folklore traditions, and claims of being Britain's most haunted village.
|excerpt=The world's oldest psychical research organisation, founded in 1882 to investigate claims of paranormal phenomena scientifically.
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{{CaseCard
|title=Alex Birch UFO Sighting
|link=Alex Birch UFO Sighting
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|excerpt=A famous photograph that became one of Britain's most debated UFO images.
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== Featured Research Files ==
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|title=Extrasensory Perception
|title=Extrasensory Perception
|link=Extrasensory Perception
|link=Extrasensory Perception
|category=Research File
|category=Phenomenon
|excerpt=The study of information allegedly received beyond the recognised physical senses.
|excerpt=The study of alleged information received beyond the known senses — telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition among its most-tested claims.
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{{CaseCard
|title=Society for Psychical Research
|link=Society for Psychical Research
|category=Organisation File
|excerpt=Founded in 1882, one of the world's oldest organisations dedicated to investigating paranormal claims.
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{{CaseCard
|title=Ganzfeld Experiment
|link=Ganzfeld Experiment
|category=Research File
|excerpt=A controlled experimental method used in research into alleged psychic perception.
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== Field Notes ==
== Featured Works ==
 
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{{CaseCard
|title=Extra-Sensory Perception (book)
|link=Extra-Sensory Perception (book)
|category=Book File
|excerpt=A significant publication exploring research into extrasensory perception and parapsychology.
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{{CaseCard
|title=Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America
|link=Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America
|category=Book File
|excerpt=Loren Coleman's examination of Bigfoot reports, history, folklore, and cultural impact.
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== Recently Filed ==
 
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== Did You Know? ==
 
{{DidYouKnow
|Kent has one of the highest numbers of recorded UFO sightings of any UK county?
|The Enfield Poltergeist was investigated by members of the Society for Psychical Research?
|Bigfoot reports have existed for centuries through folklore and modern sightings?
|The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 to investigate unusual phenomena?
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== How The Vault Works ==


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<div class="vault-notice-header">Did You Know</div>
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ARCHIVE PRINCIPLE
* Kent has the second-highest number of official UFO sightings of any UK county, behind only London.
* The ghost story at Reculver Towers was later linked to an actual archaeological find beneath the ruins.
* Pluckley's "Screaming Woods" get their name from decades of reports of disembodied screams heard by visitors.
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Document. Investigate. Assess.
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<div class="vault-notice-header">A Note on Method</div>
<div class="vault-notice-title">Document First. Interpret Second.</div>
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Every entry aims to separate what was reported, what evidence exists, what investigations have occurred, and what explanations have been proposed. The archive does not ask readers to believe or dismiss automatically — it asks them to investigate.
The Vault aims to present information objectively. Entries separate historical fact, reported claims, witness testimony, research evidence, and interpretation.
 
The goal is not to tell readers what to believe — but to provide a structured archive where unusual claims can be explored properly.
 
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== The Archive in Numbers ==


== Contribute To The Archive ==
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<div><div class="vault-stat-number">{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}</div><div class="vault-stat-label">Files Archived</div></div>
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<div><div class="vault-stat-number">10</div><div class="vault-stat-label">Classifications</div></div>
 
<div><div class="vault-stat-number">&infin;</div><div class="vault-stat-label">Questions Remain</div></div>
Have a case, location, person, book, or unexplained event that belongs in The Vault?
 
Join the discussion, share information, or help expand the archive.
 
Read the [[Vault:Style Guide|Style Guide]] before creating new entries so pages remain consistent.
 
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== Submit a File ==


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<div class="vault-cta-title">Have a Case That Belongs Here?</div>
The Vault currently contains '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}''' archived entries covering cases, research, people, places, and works connected to the unexplained.
Got a story, a local legend, or a sighting worth archiving? Post it in the Facebook Group and we'll help turn the best member stories into full entries — or start a page yourself if you have an account.


[https://www.facebook.com/groups/1029329346374198 <span class="vault-btn vault-btn-primary">Join the Hunt</span>] [[Vault:Style Guide|<span class="vault-btn vault-btn-secondary">Read the Style Guide</span>]]
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Latest revision as of 21:09, 12 August 2026

THE VAULT @ The EERIE Files
Encounters · Enigmas · Rumours · Ideas · Experiences

"Every entry in this archive begins the same way: someone saw something, heard something, or felt something they couldn't explain — and wrote it down before they could talk themselves out of it."

Welcome to The Vault, the working archive of The EERIE Files. What you'll find here isn't ghost stories for their own sake — it's the paper trail behind them: witness statements, site histories, investigation notes, and the research that's been done (or hasn't) to explain them.

245 cases are currently filed. Read carefully. Some of them are still open.

Case No. 0001 · Currently Under Investigation
Pluckley

Britain's Guinness World Record holder for most haunted village, with twelve distinct ghosts packed into a village you could walk end to end in twenty minutes. Fright Corner, the Red Lady of St Nicholas, and the Screaming Woods all sit within a few hundred yards of each other — a concentration of hauntings no other single location in the country can match.

How much of it holds up? Read the full case file and evidence assessment →

Browse by Classification

📁
Cases
Specific reported incidents — sightings, hauntings, encounters — documented start to finish.
📍
Locations
The places themselves, and what's said to linger there.
👻
Entities
Cryptids, apparitions, and the beings that keep getting reported.
✨
Phenomena
The recurring shapes reports take, across cases and centuries.
🔬
Research
The studies, laboratories, and disciplines trying to test any of this.
🏢
Organisations
Societies and groups dedicated to investigation and research.
🕶
Investigators
The people who went looking, and what they found — or didn't.
📜
Historical Events
Real-world events tangled up with mystery and speculation.
🎥
Popular Culture
Books, films, television, and the stories built on top of all this.
🕵
People
Every person connected to the archive — investigators, practitioners, witnesses, and more.

Notable Cases

Haunting Enfield Poltergeist One of Britain's most extensively documented poltergeist cases, investigated for over a year by the Society for Psychical Research.

Organisation Society for Psychical Research The world's oldest psychical research organisation, founded in 1882 to investigate claims of paranormal phenomena scientifically.

Phenomenon Extrasensory Perception The study of alleged information received beyond the known senses — telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition among its most-tested claims.

Field Notes

Did You Know
  • Kent has the second-highest number of official UFO sightings of any UK county, behind only London.
  • The ghost story at Reculver Towers was later linked to an actual archaeological find beneath the ruins.
  • Pluckley's "Screaming Woods" get their name from decades of reports of disembodied screams heard by visitors.
A Note on Method
Document First. Interpret Second.

Every entry aims to separate what was reported, what evidence exists, what investigations have occurred, and what explanations have been proposed. The archive does not ask readers to believe or dismiss automatically — it asks them to investigate.

The Archive in Numbers

245
Files Archived
10
Classifications
∞
Questions Remain

Submit a File

Have a Case That Belongs Here?

Got a story, a local legend, or a sighting worth archiving? Post it in the Facebook Group and we'll help turn the best member stories into full entries — or start a page yourself if you have an account.

Join the Hunt Read the Style Guide

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