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PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Fox Sisters: Rappings, Confession and RecantationThe Fox record preserves two reversals: an exposure of spirit rappings, then a repudiation of that exposure.
ALT HISTORYModern Flat Earth: From Zetetic Astronomy to the YouTube RevivalZetetic astronomy told readers not to trust a theory they had not tested, and the video revival has not ended the fight.
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.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESPaul is DeadA 1969 rumor said Paul McCartney had died and been replaced; press doors print the claim and print denials.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWells Fargo Fake AccountsAccounts and products customers did not request were opened so Wells Fargo’s cross-sell numbers held.
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.
HEALTH & MEDICINEThe Bhopal Gas DisasterManagement supplied no usable warning about the gas that left tank 610 on the night of 2-3 December 1984.
SURVEILLANCEHTLINGUALHTLINGUAL was the CIA mail-opening program that photographed Americans' letters for years.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSProject MINARET: The NSA Watch-List ProgramChurch Committee and declassified NSA histories document MINARET—a 1967–1973 watch-list SIGINT program..
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSCum-Ex Dividend Tax FraudBundestag, Bonn/BGH, and ESMA: multiple reclaim of tax never paid—organized fraud, not a quirky trade.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Zircon Affair: GCHQ's Secret Satellite vs ParliamentBBC killed a Zircon spy-satellite film. Injunctions and Official Secrets raids followed. Parliament fought the gag.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Dreyfus Affair ForgeriesFrench military justice met a handwriting error with forgeries—until cassation broke the seal.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLooking Glass: SAC's Airborne Nuclear Command PostSAC kept a nuclear command post airborne for 29 years. Looking Glass mirrored Offutt—then handed off to Navy E-6Bs.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Protocols of the Learned Elders of ZionThe Protocols were passed off as genuine minutes; the 1921 Times showed a plagiarism and called them a forgery.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation MincemeatIn 1943 Britain floated a corpse with fake invasion plans. Operation Mincemeat worked better than fiction.
PLANETARY ANOMALIES3I ATLASAbraham Loeb and coauthors asked if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is alien technology; telescopes measure a comet.
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.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSDerinkuyu Underground CityAncient-alien writers say Derinkuyu is far older than admitted. UNESCO dates it to Byzantine refuge from Arab raids.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPre-9/11 Put Options and Insider-Trading ClaimsAirline puts spiked before 9/11; adherents read foreknowledge, while the Commission and SEC found no tie to the attacks.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSGunung PadangNatawidjaja and Hancock call the Gunung Padang retraction suppression. The journal says the dated soil was not man-made.