Official Record Anomaly
Investigations into stark contradictions buried deep inside the official paperwork. When separate government agencies issue totally incompatible accounts, or when a report’s own data actively undercuts its final conclusion, we step in. We trace the paperwork back to the exact moment the official record stops holding together.
The Flannan Isles Forgery – A Case File on the Pulp Hoax Machine
The most famous evidence from the Flannan Isles mystery, a terrified logbook, was a lie, invented in 1929 for a pulp magazine. We investigate the economics of sensation and the industrial process of myth-making that turned historical fact into profitable fiction.
Labour Party Policy Pipeline – The Fabian Society Timeline Conflict
Labour presents its 2023 policy platform as a grassroots achievement. The documentary record reveals that the flagship National Care Service architecture was inserted late from an externally funded think-tank blueprint.
The Flannan Isles – A Rogue Wave, a Bad Poem, and a Century of Fiction
Everyone knows the story of the Flannan Isles keepers who vanished leaving an untouched meal. The official 1900 report tells a different story: one of a clean kitchen, a catastrophic wave, and a century of myth-making.
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?
The Compromised Witness – Re-evaluating the Yuba County Five
A single, shifting account steered the Yuba County Five narrative. This piece tests that testimony against the physical record, explains the official handling errors, and sets out what documents and tests are still needed.
The Yuba County Five – A Case Reclassified
For forty years, the disappearance of the Yuba County Five was a tragic accident. But a recently released official memo reclassifies the case as a homicide, revealing authorities now believe the men were victims of foul play.
Fermi Paradox to Proxmire – The Origins of the 1981 NASA SETI Shutdown
How did a 1950 canteen conversation lead to the 1981 defunding of NASA SETI? This investigation traces the bureaucratic breakdown and record conflicts that silenced America's search for extraterrestrial life.
From Operation Condor to Pegasus – A History of Latin American Surveillance
This investigation tracks the evolution of state surveillance in Latin America. From 1970s cryptographic hardware to modern digital spyware, we examine how systemic blindness and data siloing repeatedly bypassed legal oversight.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area: An Analysis of Land Use and Exclusion Policies
A 2026 Tanzanian presidential commission on Ngorongoro reused the 2019 ministry's growth rate and extinction list. The 2022 national census shows different figures. One official signed both reports.
Why the MoD Refused to Release 2024 Military Animal Euthanasia Data
The MoD released 2023 military animal euthanasia figures in February 2025, then refused the identical 2024 request in May 2025 on cost grounds. Two separate record systems went unmentioned.