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.
- 2011The Solway Firth SpacemanUnexplained Phenomena
Jim Templeton dies, having maintained to the end that the figure was real, that he did not stage or alter the photograph, and that he never saw anyone standing behind his daughter.
- 2012Arafat polonium deathUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
Arafat's tomb in Ramallah is opened and a Palestinian forensic investigator removes roughly twenty specimens from the remains. Samples are divided among Swiss, Russian, and French teams, and the body is reinterred the same day.
- 2020Fakhrizadeh assassinationGovernment & Intelligence
Fakhrizadeh is killed on a road in Absard, east of Tehran, while traveling by car with his wife. Iranian state media report an ambush; his wife, seated beside him, is unharmed. Iran's leadership immediately vows revenge and points at Israel.
Drawn from 1,959 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.