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RELIGIONThe Dead Sea Scrolls Publication ControversiesCave 4 monopoly vs Huntington 1991 photos + IAA/Tov access. Documented publication fight.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDCol. Howard McCoy and Projects SIGN and GRUDGEBelievers see Colonel Howard McCoy as a keeper of SIGN's secrets; his released personnel file is silent on UFOs.
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.
ALT SCIENCEMandela EffectFiona Broome says strangers' identical memories may reflect other realities; psychologists study them as false memories.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSKlaus Fuchs and Atomic EspionageVenona found Fuchs first. MI5 locked the confession. Old Bailey made it prosecutable without the source.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Manises Incident (11 November 1979)On 11 November 1979 a commercial flight diverted to Manises; the official file and witness claims still disagree.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSGunung PadangNatawidjaja and Hancock call the Gunung Padang retraction suppression. The journal says the dated soil was not man-made.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWells Fargo Fake AccountsAccounts and products customers did not request were opened so Wells Fargo’s cross-sell numbers held.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSHobby Lobby, Cuneiform Tablets, and the Museum of the Bible ScandalsPurchases were treated as a lawful private buy. Forfeiture papers alleged false customs labels and an illegal import.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Kharsag EpicsKharsag: an Anunna settlement in clay, or O'Brien's supplements to a 1918 translation called tentative?
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDPatterson–Gimlin: The Disputed Man-in-a-Suit AccountA retired bottler said he wore the figure filmed at Bluff Creek; Gimlin's lawyer denied a costume was involved.
RELIGIONNicaea: The Secret Bible-Selection ClaimNicaea's surviving decisions do not record the secret Bible-selection operation attributed to the council of 325.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBorobudur Restoration Politics: UNESCO’s Mega-Conservation ProjectUNESCO Borobudur mega-restoration (1970s–80s) + WH List 592—documented conservation politics.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSpirit Cooking: Abramović, the Podestas, and Ritual ReadingsMoMA holds Spirit Cooking; WikiLeaks holds a Podesta dinner email. Ritual baptism refused.
ALT HISTORYMust Farm: Britain's Bronze Age Wet-Preservation SettlementMust Farm Late Bronze Age pile-dwelling: CAU/HE wet preservation—documented, not British Atlantis.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Fishbowl / Starfish PrimeStarfish Prime: planned EMP test. Paper trail: Hawaii damage, dead satellites.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBenin Bronzes Repatriation: 1897 Loot to 2022 Transfer Agreements1897 was a punitive sack, not a gift. Berlin and the Horniman transferred pieces in 2022. Not all are home.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe 1991 Gulf War Oil Well FiresEPA interagency monitoring and DoD GulfLINK reports document the sabotage burn—and the contested smoke-risk ledger.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWTC 7, Free-Fall Claims, and the NIST NCSTAR 1-9 Critique SpineNIST cites fire for WTC 7—and a free-fall stage. Adherents read demolition. Both doors stay open.
FINANCE & BANKINGBretton Woods Exit and the Nixon ShockCamp David closed the gold window on purpose—FRUS shows managed exit, not accidental panic.