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.
- 1966MothmanCryptids & Monsters
The Point Pleasant Register runs 'Couples See Man-Sized Bird ... Creature ... Something,' and the Athens Messenger's Mary Hyre files 'Winged, Red-Eyed Thing Chases Point Pleasant Couples Across Countryside.' A Register editor coins the nickname 'Mothman.'
- 2020Data-broker surveillance loopholeGovernment & Intelligence
Motherboard (Vice) reports that the US military, including Special Operations Command, purchased location data harvested from ordinary apps, among them the popular Muslim Pro prayer app, via brokers such as X-Mode and Babel Street's Locate X. The app cuts ties with its data partner after the story.
Drawn from 1,951 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.