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.
- 1975The Amityville HorrorUnexplained Phenomena
A Suffolk County jury convicts DeFeo on six counts of second-degree murder after his insanity defense, built around a claim that he heard voices, is rejected; he is sentenced to six consecutive terms of 25 years to life.
- 2013Beirut port explosionGovernment & Intelligence
The Moldovan-flagged cargo ship MV Rhosus, carrying roughly 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate loaded in Batumi, Georgia, and bound for Mozambique, makes an unscheduled stop in Beirut. It never leaves.
- 2016PizzagateSecret Societies & Power
Reddit bans the r/pizzagate community for violating its policy against posting people's personal information, after users circulate the names and images of private individuals.
- 2020Lekki massacre denialGovernment & Intelligence
The army admits before the panel that soldiers deployed to Lekki carried both live and blank ammunition, undercutting the blanks-only line while still denying that live rounds were fired at protesters.
- 2022'Died suddenly'Science, Space & Technology
Stew Peters releases the film Died Suddenly online. It strings together collapse clips, embalmer footage and depopulation rhetoric into a single narrative that mRNA vaccines are causing a concealed die-off. It racks up millions of views within days.
Drawn from 1,959 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.