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The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann named the mound Troy. Which layer is Homer's city, Troy II or a later one, stays unsettled.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDComet Ping Pong: The Restaurant at the CenterThe fight is a claimed trafficking basement at Comet Ping Pong versus the restaurant’s denial and the police record.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Fox Sisters: Rappings, Confession and RecantationThe Fox record preserves two reversals: an exposure of spirit rappings, then a repudiation of that exposure.
ESPIONAGEProject Genetrix: Balloon Reconnaissance over the Bloc (1956)Genetrix lofted camera balloons in early 1956—FRUS records the Soviet protest and Eisenhower’s kill.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Lydian Hoard: Met–Turkey Repatriation (1993)Treated as a legitimate purchase, the Lydian tomb goods came from looted Uşak tumuli and returned to Turkey in 1993.
FINANCE & BANKINGSavings and Loan CrisisInsolvent thrifts stayed open while bad assets were papered over. The cleanup priced the delay, not a secret plot.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSMorgantina Silver: Met–Italy Return to AidoneThe Met called the purchase good faith. The digging record says otherwise. The silver is at Aidone.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSanta Susana Field LaboratorySRE cladding melt, two-month AEC venting, unfinished Area IV consent orders—DOE paperwork vs “contained” PR.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe USS Liberty Incident (1967) and NSA TranscriptsIsraeli forces hit USS Liberty in 1967. NSA FOIA’d the transcripts—without closing deliberate vs mistake.
ALT SCIENCEMandela EffectFiona Broome says strangers' identical memories may reflect other realities; psychologists study them as false memories.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Nephilim of GenesisSitchin read Nephilim as Anunnaki who came from heaven. Rashi, Numbers 13 and Sumerian tablets read it otherwise.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Baltic Sea AnomalySonar pinged a roughly 200-foot disc on the Baltic floor. Adherents still map it as a crashed craft.
ALT SCIENCEThe Baghdad BatteryParthian jars + König’s galvanic claim exist. Ancient electroplating-as-fact stays contested.
ALT HISTORYMonte Verde and the Fight Over America's First PeoplesClovis-first denied a pre-Clovis Americas. The 1997 visit accepted one Monte Verde layer, not a first date.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSMichael Milken / Drexel Burnham Junk-Bond ScandalDrexel pleaded; Milken pleaded to six felonies. Contested clearance keeps court verbs—and blocks afterlife sermons.
ESPIONAGEAllende, ITT, and Chile 1973Church Committee files show ITT intrigue and U.S. covert pressure around Allende before the 1973 coup.
BIBLEThe Genetic Paradox of the Ghost PopulationGeneticists keep finding ghost population DNA in humans. Adherents read it as a missing advanced race.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Piri Reis Map1513 Topkapı portolan is MoW heritage. Ice-free Antarctica/Atlantis captions stay contested.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Amazon Rainforest is a Man-Made ArtifactAmazon dark earth and earthworks keep feeding claims the rainforest was a managed landscape, not virgin wild.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRocky Flats: FBI Raid and Grand Jury SecrecyRockwell was paid an award fee for environmental control. The 6 June 1989 raid said the plant was not under it.