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On this day in conspiracies
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- 1829Eastern State Penitentiary hauntingsUnexplained Phenomena
Eastern State receives its first prisoner, Charles Williams, a farmer sentenced for theft. He is led in with a hood over his head so he cannot see or be seen by others, the standard method of moving inmates under the Pennsylvania System of solitary confinement.
- 1981Monster of FlorenceUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
Stefano Baldi and Susanna Cambi are shot in near-identical fashion at Calenzano. The pattern is now unmistakable: young couples, parked at night, a .22 Beretta, and post-mortem mutilation of the woman.
- 2024OpenAI whistleblower deathUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
The New York Times publishes an interview in which Balaji, named and on the record, argues that OpenAI violated United States copyright law. He becomes one of the most prominent inside critics of the company during an active wave of copyright litigation against it.
- 2025Louvre heist AI 'CCTV' fakesHoaxes & Pop Culture
France 24’s Truth or Fake publishes a segment walking through the circulating clips and concludes they are AI-generated with OpenAI’s Sora 2, not real footage of the robbery.
Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.