Systems Failure
Organisational collapse, catastrophic infrastructure breakdown, or process disintegration. We examine cases where complex systems fail spectacularly, where safety mechanisms break down, and where institutional structures crumble under pressure or design flaws.
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 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.
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.
The Credibility Paradox – Who Decides What’s True?
A respected doctor's fraud destroys vaccine trust. Anonymous sources expose presidential cover-ups. We investigated why our credibility filters fail catastrophically, who really decides what's true, and why it's about to get much worse.
The Ethical Event Horizon – Where Moral Maps Dissolve
When every choice results in harm, is it still possible to act ethically? This deep dive explores the boundary where morality collapses into paradox.
The Expertise Trap – Why Confident Error Beats Cautious Expertise
Our investigation into the Expertise Trap examines why those who know the least often sound the most certain, while genuine experts hedge their words. We trace the psychological roots of this paradox and its high-stakes consequences in the real world.
The Silent Twins – A System’s Fatal Failure
Two silent teenagers committed arson and received an indefinite sentence to Broadmoor. On the day of their transfer eleven years later, one died. The official verdict was natural causes. Her twin sister called it the fulfilment of a pact.