The archive, day by day
On this day in conspiracies
The dated turning points behind the case files: assassinations, crashes, leaks, votes, and the moments a theory was born, each drawn straight from a file's sourced timeline. We only place an entry on a day the record actually names.
- 1950Bennington TriangleUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
Paul Jepson, an 8-year-old boy, disappears from a truck at the Bennington town dump where his mother works. Bloodhounds follow his scent to a highway crossroads, where the trail abruptly ends.
- 1968Tlatelolco massacreGovernment & Intelligence
Ten days after the massacre, Mexico City opens the Summer Olympics on schedule. The Games proceed as the government intended, and the killings recede from official acknowledgment for years.
- 1969Paul is deadHoaxes & Pop Culture
A caller tells Detroit DJ Russ Gibb, on WKNR-FM, to play 'Revolution 9' backward. Gibb does it on air, hears 'turn me on, dead man,' and the phone lines light up for the rest of the show.
- 2004Arafat polonium deathUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
Arafat, confined by an Israeli siege to his Muqata compound in Ramallah, is taken acutely ill with severe vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhoea. His condition deteriorates over the following days as doctors struggle to diagnose him.
Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.