Edgelands Research Institute

About the Edgelands Research Institute

The Edgelands Research Institute (ERI) is an independent, privately operated research initiative focused on documenting, analyzing, and understanding anomalous events and patterns that resist easy categorization.

Founded on a commitment to open inquiry, ERI explores the liminal spaces—where folklore meets fieldwork, and where sightings, stories, and sensor data overlap with forgotten history, natural anomalies, and official silence.

We investigate with rigor and humility, combining tools from science, data analysis, and archival research with firsthand field observation.

• Filing and archiving FOIA and GRAMA requests to uncover suppressed or neglected government records
• Collecting and organizing witness accounts, audio evidence, photographs, and geographic data
• Cross-referencing official reports with oral histories, academic research, and anomalous case studies
• Building custom tools for temporal pattern recognition, geospatial correlation, and data synthesis

We operate without sensationalism, but also without dismissal. Our lens remains open to multiple interpretations - scientific, folkloric, psychological, environmental, and more.

If you're a researcher, experiencer, archivist, or simply someone drawn to the margins of the map, we invite you to explore our work and consider contributing to the ongoing investigation.