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The ones who knew too much. Ranked — with dossiers and competing theories.
A US Army biological-warfare scientist falls from a 13th-floor New York hotel window in 1953 — nine days after the CIA secretly dosed him with LSD.
“The LSD-dosing and the cover-up are on the record. The shove out the window is not — yet.”
The "supergun" engineer building a 1,000mm cannon for Saddam Hussein is shot five times at his Brussels door in 1990. Nothing was stolen.
“Not a mystery — an assassination. Only the trigger finger stays anonymous.”
A UK weapons inspector who disputed the Iraq-WMD dossier is found dead in the woods days after being named as the source (2003).
“Ruled a suicide. The doubt was buried with him, and keeps clawing back up.”
The inventor of the diesel engine vanishes overnight from a Channel steamer in 1913, on the eve of war.
“Walked to his cabin and into legend. Financial ruin explains it; the timing refuses to.”
Modern, open, and genuinely strange — the files still being written.
People vanish in national parks and forests with the same eerie fingerprints — found in already-searched areas, missing shoes, near boulders and water, search dogs unable to track.
“The eeriest pattern is how reliably ordinary tragedy starts to rhyme once you map it.”
Vanished without a trace — people, ships, expeditions.
Every case weighed by our own plausibility. Argue with the verdict — that is the point.
The FBI illegal campaign from 1956 to 1971 to surveil, infiltrate, and discredit civil-rights and antiwar groups.
“The government wrote the documents so you did not have to.”
A 1962 Joint Chiefs plan to stage fake attacks on Americans and blame Cuba — to justify a war.
Opened by operatives in the field.
A Cold-War animal-disease lab — once tied to a Paperclip ex-Nazi virologist — sits in eyeshot of Lyme, Connecticut.
“The lab is real, the ex-Nazi is real, the geography is perfect — and the bacterium has an alibi from the Stone Age.”
An American merchant brigantine is found adrift in 1872 — seaworthy, provisioned, crew gone, one lifeboat missing.
“Real and unresolved — though a panicked lifeboat explains more than a sea monster.”
“The receipts are real. The body count, thankfully, is zero — Kennedy said no.”