Cases proven to be hoaxes — how each was built, and how it was exposed. 35 case files in the archive.
From Bill Kaysing's 1976 origin through Bart Sibrel and the Fox 2001 special. Each specific photographic and physical claim examined against independent verification.
The alleged Navy invisibility experiment on the USS Eldridge. Origin: 1955 letters from 'Carlos Allende' to Morris Jessup. Allen's 1980 admission to Moore.
The October 2016 WikiLeaks-derived claim that read child-trafficking codes into restaurant references in the Podesta emails. The December 2016 Comet Ping Pong shooting.
From the October 28, 2017 first 'Q' post on 4chan through the migration to 8chan/8kun, the Watkins attribution, ~5,000 drops, the failed predictions.
Five photographs by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths near Cottingley Beck. Promoted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his 1920 Strand Magazine article.
The April 1934 Daily Mail publication that became the iconic Nessie image. The 1975/1994 Spurling-Wetherell confession revealing the hoax.
The late-1990s internet-origin claim of deliberate atmospheric chemical release by aircraft. The contrails-vs-chemtrails distinction.
The 19th-century Rowbotham lineage; the 20th-century Flat Earth Society; the post-2010 YouTube and social-media revival.
David Icke's framework: inter-dimensional reptilian humanoids controlling political and financial power, named to include the British Royal Family.
The alleged underground joint human-alien facility on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. Paul Bennewitz's 1979 origin claims; the AFOSI Doty disinformation campaign.
The alleged 1947 Truman-established Majestic 12 committee for Roswell UAP issues. Documents surfaced 1984 via anonymous 35mm film.
The April 19, 1897 Dallas Morning News article by S.E. Haydon reporting an airship crashed into a Texas town's windmill.
Megalithic terraced site in West Java, mainstream-dated to ~500 BCE-CE. The 2023 Natawidjaja et al. 'world's oldest pyramid' claim, retracted by the journal in March 2024.
The map once-dated to c. 1440 showing Vinland alongside Europe and Asia. The September 2021 Yale Beinecke formal conclusion: a 20th-century forgery.
The 2012-2018 Alex Jones / Infowars propagation of the crisis actor claim. The harassment of Sandy Hook families. The October 2022 Connecticut and November 2022 Texas defamation verdicts.
Three days before Kenneth Arnold. Harold Dahl's Puget Sound observation of six doughnut-shaped objects; one of the earliest documented Men in Black encounters; the August 1947 fatal B-25 crash carrying USAAF investigators back to California.
Lazar's anonymous 1989 KLAS-TV interviews with George Knapp. S-4, the Sport Model, Element 115, the alleged reverse-engineering work. The credibility issues including missing MIT/Caltech records.
The 1898 farmer-discovered stone with runic inscription claiming a 1362 CE Norse expedition. The 2003-2004 Henrik Williams professional rune-philological analysis. Mainstream consensus: 19th-century hoax.
Semir Osmanagic's claim that hills near Visoko are man-made pyramids older than Egypt's. The geological evidence that Visocica is a natural formation, the European Association of Archaeologists' 'cruel hoax' verdict, and the tourism industry that grew anyway.
The alleged secret experiments in mind control, time travel, and teleportation at Camp Hero on Long Island. The origin in Preston Nichols' 1992 book, the claimed link to the Philadelphia Experiment, the real Cold War radar station, and why the claims are unfalsifiable.
The decades-old claim that an unusual number of Clinton associates died suspiciously. The 1990s origin, how the list is built, why base-rate and selection problems make it statistically meaningless, and its revival around Vince Foster, Seth Rich, and Epstein.
The October 2019 pandemic tabletop exercise by Johns Hopkins, the WEF, and the Gates Foundation. What it simulated, why its timing before COVID-19 fueled foreknowledge conspiracy theories, and the organizers' clarifications.
The World Economic Forum initiative launched June 2020. What the WEF and Klaus Schwab actually proposed, the misattributed 'you'll own nothing' meme, and how the initiative became a global conspiracy theory of authoritarian control.
The influential foreign-policy think tank founded in 1921. Its documented role and Foreign Affairs versus the conspiracy mythology casting it as a secret cabal steering the US toward world government.
The real secret society founded by Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria in 1776 and suppressed by 1785, and the separate modern conspiracy myth of an immortal shadow elite. The historical society, its suppression, and how the name became a catch-all.
The master conspiracy theory of an emerging secret one-world government. Its roots in post-Revolution and antisemitic traditions, George H. W. Bush's 1990 speech, the 1990s militia elaborations, and its evolution into the QAnon era.
The large, silent, triangular craft reported since the 1980s. The overlap with UFO waves, the classified-aircraft and misperception explanations, and the unsupported TR-3B antigravity internet legend.
Admiral Byrd's large 1946-47 US Navy Antarctic expedition. What it actually was — logistics, training, and mapping — versus the conspiracy lore of a secret Nazi base, hollow-earth entrance, or UFO encounter.
From Halley's 1692 hypothesis and Symmes' 1818 polar-openings theory through fiction and modern conspiracy. Why seismology and geophysics definitively show the Earth is solid and layered.
The claims that MK-Ultra never ended but continued covertly — the 'Monarch programming' and satanic-ritual-abuse lore, the 'targeted individuals' movement, and modern neurotech fears. What the record supports and where the claims run out.
The famous story of an entire Inuit village vanishing in 1930 in Canada. The origin in a 1930 newspaper story, the details that grew over time, and the RCMP's conclusion that the event as described did not happen.
The ghost-ship legend of a cargo vessel whose entire crew was supposedly found dead in the late 1940s before the ship exploded. The 1948 newspaper origin, the 1952 US Coast Guard retelling, the absence of the ship from any registry, and why its existence is doubted.
The conspiracy theory of an ancient alien satellite in Earth orbit. The conflation of Tesla signals, long-delayed echoes, 1950s-60s press stories, and the 1998 STS-88 photo of a lost thermal blanket, and why it is a debunked composite.
Secret Nazi bases, hollow-earth entrances, an ice-free ancient civilization, and Operation Highjump as a war against UFOs. The real history behind each claim and why the evidence does not support them.
The claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 US presidential election. The specific allegations, the 60-plus failed lawsuits, the audits and recounts, the officials and courts that rejected them, and why the claims are not supported by evidence.