Hidden Agendas
Evidence of covert operations, concealed motives, or undisclosed plans. We examine cases where the stated purpose doesn’t match the actual agenda, looking for patterns that reveal what organisations were really trying to achieve behind closed doors.
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 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.
Which Law is the Ministry Breaking? The MoD’s Impossible Position on Animal Deaths
In 2023, the Ministry of Defence detailed every military animal death. For 2024, after a public incident, they refused, claiming it was too expensive. But UK law requires them to keep accessible records. The MoD is either being dishonest about the cost or breaking the law.
How the EU’s Animal Welfare Laws Became Optional
The EU's landmark animal welfare laws look impressive, but the reality is a systemic failure. This investigation reveals how a slow, toothless enforcement process allows member states to find it cheaper to break the law than to follow it.
The Hessdalen Lights – Why Norwegian Science Ignores Its Own Mystery
For forty years, unexplained lights have appeared in Norway's Hessdalen valley, recorded by radar and studied internationally. Yet Norwegian science largely ignores the phenomenon.
The Sustained Attention Paradox – The Vigilance Trap
For 75 years, we've known human attention fails after 30 minutes. Yet industries demand hours of perfect vigilance, then blame 'human error' when people inevitably miss critical signals.
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.
Cicada 3301 – The Puzzle No Agency Will Claim
Between 2012 and 2014, someone ran a global cryptographic treasure hunt that stumped codebreakers, left intelligence agencies silent, and has never been explained. All we have left are the puzzles, the gaps in the record, and a trail that vanishes every time you get close.
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.