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The borderless files: optical phenomena, internet-born creatures, entire folkloric families. What circulates everywhere often has no habitat but our screens and our stories.

• Case file Nº092 1899

  Phantom Kangaroo

  Entity / 41.88°N 87.63°W

  Kangaroos sighted far from Australia since 1899 — best explained by escaped or feral wallabies, never by an unknown species.

  Class 4

• Case file Nº097 1994

  Rods

  Aerial / 33.27°N 104.38°W

  'Flying rods' caught on video worldwide turned out to be an optical artefact — motion-blurred insects, reproducible on demand.

  Class 5

• Case file Nº098 2007

  Ningen

  Entity / 65.00°S 145.00°E

  A giant white humanoid of Antarctic seas, born on the 2channel forum in 2007 — an internet cryptid with no identified witness.

  Class 1

• Case file Nº100 1919

  Atmospheric Beasts

  Entity / 34.33°N 116.39°W

  The conjecture that living organisms drift in the upper air, from Fort to Constable — speculation never backed by a specimen.

  Class 1