Where it
was reported.

Every case the archive holds, on the country whose archive holds it. Shade is how many. Pick a zone, an era, an evidence tier or a form, and the map and the list below move together. Every combination has its own address.

Reported cases by country A world map shaded by how many cases the archive holds from each country, with Western Europe brought forward. The same figures are listed in full beneath the map. United States of America: 1 caseMexico: 1 casePeru: 1 caseUkraine: 1 case
Cases1–12–34–78–1516+ 3 of 135 placed · most in one country: 1

Western Europe

0 countries. A case that names two countries is counted under both, so these do not add up to the number of cases.

No case in the archive matches that combination.

What this map is not

It is a map of where the records are, not of where anything happened. France and the United States are dark because both governments preserved their files and published them, and Britain because its National Archives released theirs. A country with no shading has not been quiet; it has been unread, or its archive is closed, or nobody has gone looking yet.

And it is barely a map of forms at all. Of the 52 cases that report an entity, 14 have a record that resolves a body: a face, a head, eyes, hands, proportions. The rest resolve a suit with nothing described inside it, or a silhouette, or nothing whatsoever while a vivid description circulates somewhere else entirely. Filter by The record shows and watch the map empty out. That emptying is the most honest thing on this page.

14 cases are placed in a morphology family. Where that is shown it is the archive reading a recorded description, not the record classifying itself, and the case page says which words it read.

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