Archive Tampering
Evidence of the deliberate destruction, alteration, or heavy redaction of official records. We investigate incidents of systematic record destruction, the deliberate alteration of historical documents, and cases where heavy redaction is used to conceal critical information.
The Abbess’s Code – Testing Hildegard’s ‘lingua ignota’
Hildegard of Bingen left a 1,011-word ‘unknown language’ and a distinct alphabet. We test what survives: glossary, hymn and letterforms. Does it scale beyond a naming list, and what do the numbers say?
Condor’s Ghost – How a Cold War Assassination Program Was Rebranded
On September 16, 1976, the U.S. State Department was ordered to "take no further action" on a warning against Condor's assassination plots. Five days later, a car bomb exploded on Embassy Row. This wasn't an intelligence failure.
The Derveni Papyrus – Europe’s Oldest Book and Its 44-Year Secret
Europe's oldest book, a philosophical text arguing for a single god, was found in a warrior's tomb. Kept secret by academics for 44 years, its contents challenge our understanding of ancient Greek religion, science, and ritual.
The Copper Scroll – A Treasure Too Dangerous to Find?
Found in 1952, the Copper Scroll lists 64 locations hiding tons of gold and silver. The official translator called it folklore; the scholar who believed it was real found his career ruined. This is the story of a deliberately avoided truth.
The Serengeti Investigation – The Truth About Africa’s Most Famous Wilderness
Declassified British colonial files reveal the Serengeti's "pristine wilderness" was manufactured through systematic dispossession. The world's most famous park began as an elite hunting estate, built on 64 years of legal warfare against indigenous peoples.
The Bennington Triangle – When Missing Records Create Missing People
The legend of the Bennington Triangle was not born from paranormal events, but from something far more mundane - institutional failure. Our investigation reveals how five unsolved disappearances were shaped by botched investigations, missing records, and a myth created 40 years later.
The Silence of Scholars – Why Academia Won’t Touch Ethiopia’s Ark Claim
Ethiopia claims to guard the biblical Ark of the Covenant in Axum. Western academia's response? Complete silence. We investigate the institutional biases and hidden reasons behind this archaeological cold shoulder.
The Archive That Isn’t There – Investigating the Gaps in KGB History
One side burned their archives on the way out the door. The other side blacks out entire pages of what remains. When everyone is hiding the same kind of secrets, from the same period of time, it pays to ask why.
The Invisible Architects – Cold War Ops They Erased
Some of the Cold War’s smartest players weren’t superpowers. They were small nations running psychological ops, outmanoeuvring the giants, and vanishing their tracks. Here's how they did it.
An Unseen Threat – The Strange Death of Psychedelic Science
From CIA experiments to institutional censorship, this investigation tracks how ego dissolution went from medical breakthrough to taboo, and why it's still avoided in today's psychedelic revival.