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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.

  1. 1829
    Eastern 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.

  2. 1981
    Monster 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.

  3. 2024
    OpenAI 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.

  4. 2025
    Louvre 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.