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ALT SCIENCEMandela EffectFiona Broome says strangers' identical memories may reflect other realities; psychologists study them as false memories.
ALT HISTORYSeahenge (Holme I): The Timber Circle Exposed by the TideSeahenge was lifted from the tide to save the wood, not left to the sea. What the circle was for is still not settled.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Pentagon PapersEllsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers and showed successive administrations had lied about Vietnam for years.
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.
ALT SCIENCEGlobe-Debunk Photo Arguments: Blue Marble, Composites, and Perspective CasesEarth pictures are called composites or perspective tricks, because an agency that needed a globe would publish one.
HISTORICAL EVENTSUnited Fruit and Guatemala 1954CIA's PBSUCCESS toppled Guatemala's Arbenz in 1954 while United Fruit's land fight sat in the background.
ALT HISTORYPersepolis Fortification Archive: Oriental Institute Tablets and Rubin v. IranRubin tried to break up the loaned Persepolis tablets to pay a judgment. The Supreme Court left the archive immune.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSUSS Scorpion (SSN-589) Disappearance ControversiesCourt said certain cause unascertainable. Acoustic critics fight the explosion language. Soviet-attack stays contested.
The Tower of Babel and the Enmerkar TabletIs a Sumerian spell an older Tower of Babel? Translators split on whether it looks back or forward.
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.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Glozel Affair: French Archaeology’s Media Fraud WarGlozel Affair: French press/court fraud war—documented historiography, not Atlantis-in-Auvergne.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSGunung PadangNatawidjaja and Hancock call the Gunung Padang retraction suppression. The journal says the dated soil was not man-made.
ALT HISTORYDenisovanDenisovan DNA proved a third human lineage. Ancient-astronaut writers still fold it into giant legends.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGoldsboro Broken Arrow (24 January 1961)B-52 breakup near Goldsboro dropped two Mk 39s. Officials said safe. Sandia: one switch stopped catastrophe.
HISTORICAL EVENTSLoch Ness: The Surgeon’s Photograph and the Deception AccountThe 1934 surgeon's photograph became evidence for Nessie before later accounts described a coordinated deception.
HEALTH & MEDICINEDuPont C8 and the PFAS Cover TrailDuPont’s C8 file became EPA’s record TSCA penalty—and a cover-trail about what reached the Agency when.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYThe Sugar Industry's CHD PlaybookSRF paid for a 1967 NEJM CHD review that buried sucrose. The sponsor line stayed off the page.
ALT HISTORYRongorongo: Easter Island's Undeciphered ScriptHevesy tied rongorongo to the Indus script in 1932. Ferrara's 2024 wood dates point to an island invention instead.
ESPIONAGELockheed A-12 Oxcart and BLACK SHIELDCIA's A-12 flew BLACK SHIELD from Kadena—29 missions—then yielded to the SR-71 path. Histories are declassified.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSCrystal Skulls: Tool Marks Behind the Ancient-Origin StoriesA quartz skull donated to the Smithsonian in 1992 set off an investigation into its supposed ancient origins.