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PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDProject Alpha: Magicians Inside a Psychic LaboratoryIn 1983, James Randi described how two magicians had secretly posed as psychic laboratory subjects.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSEpstein Flight Logs and the "Lolita Express"The logs list aircraft, routes, and names. A line is a travel entry, not a finding that the passenger was a client.
ALT HISTORYDoggerland: The Drowned Mesolithic North SeaThe North Sea was called empty water. Seismic rivers and flint say it was a Mesolithic coast, not Atlantis.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDBenítez vs the Anomalía School: Competing Spanish UFO EpistemologiesBenítez calls Spain's Air Force UFO release a fraud; Anomalía researchers call the same files a rational reading.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPCR Cycle Threshold Arguments and WHO Information NoticesWHO told labs to watch Ct, IFUs, and prevalence. Adherents read a casedemic. Contested/L2 holds both readings.
FANDOM AND CELEBRITIESJames Alefantis, Comet Art, and Symbol-Mapping ClaimsPublic Comet murals and posts were mapped into trafficking codes. The artist denies it..
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Klerksdorp SpheresKlerksdorp spheres: machined balls in 3-billion-year-old rock, or concretions? Mineralogy weighs in.
ESPIONAGEWho Gets the Pieces: The 1962–1964 Space Fragment PapersBelievers say space-fragment rules hid a recovery program; the 1962–64 papers show agencies fighting over the debris.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Walker Spy Ring and the Navy Crypto CollapseWalker’s ring sold Navy crypto keying to Moscow for years. Pelton sold Ivy Bells—sibling wound, not the same sale.
ALT HISTORYNewark Earthworks and Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes (UNESCO 2023)UNESCO 2023 Hopewell + Octagon lease politics: ceremonial geometry, not lost-race golf-course overlay.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSeveso Dioxin Disaster (10 July 1976)On 10 July 1976 an ICMESA runaway dumped TCDD over Seveso and remade EU accident law.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLehman Brothers Repo 105Valukas: Repo 105 dressed the balance sheet at quarter-end—an accounting disguise, not a footnote.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSUBS Cross-Border Tax Evasion DPA (2009)UBS paid $780M under a 2009 deferred prosecution—Statement of Facts, not a jury conviction and not an exoneration.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYExxon Climate Research and DenialExxon's scientists warned bosses in 1977 that fossil fuels would warm the planet, then Exxon sold the public doubt.
HISTORICAL EVENTSCongo Uranium and the Manhattan PipelineSengier parked Congolese ore on Staten Island. Nichols bought it. DOE: ~two-thirds of Manhattan's uranium.
SURVEILLANCEThe AT&T Hemisphere ProgramHemisphere let agencies search AT&T call records on admin subpoenas. OIG and Senate ask if that fits the Constitution.
ESPIONAGEThe Zinoviev LetterCAB 27/254 could not authenticate the 1924 letter; FCO historian Bennett's 1999 Note treats forgery as the best reading.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSKa-Nefer-Nefer Mask: St. Louis Art Museum vs U.S. ForfeitureKa-Nefer-Nefer at SLAM: forfeiture failed on procedure—provenance care continues; not tabloid heist fact.
FINANCE & BANKINGThe Panama PapersThe 2016 Panama Papers dump from Mossack Fonseca mapped offshore shells the powerful preferred to keep nameless.
ALT HISTORYLiangzhu: A 5,000-Year-Old Hydraulic CivilizationLiangzhu WH List 1592 hydraulic city—documented Yangtze Neolithic dams, not lost-race diffusion.