Encyclopaedia of Cryptozoology
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The Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained (SITU) was an investigative and archival society, founded by Ivan T. Sanderson on the suggestion of Loren Coleman,[1] as a successor to the Ivan T. Sanderson Foundation. It was dedicated to "the acquisition, investigation and dissemination of information on reports of all tangible items in the fields of chemistry, astronomy, geology, biology and anthropology, that are not readily explained," with a particular focus on cryptozoology.[2]

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The material acquired by the Society was kept in a concrete building on Sanderson's own property. In his later years, it is alleged that a number of people visited him to "look" at the files, only to walk away with them: it was rumoured that "people in station wagons were backing up to the concrete bunker and loading books and files into their vehicles", and by the time of Sanderson's death, the SITU collection was heavily depleted.[2]

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