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.
- 1840Damascus Affair (1840)Hoaxes & Pop Culture
Under diplomatic pressure, Muhammad Ali orders the surviving prisoners released. The order frees the men who lived through the torture, but it stops short of declaring them innocent, leaving the slander formally unanswered even as the captivity ends.
- 1995Alien autopsy filmHoaxes & Pop Culture
The Fox network airs "Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?", hosted by actor Jonathan Frakes. It draws large ratings and is rebroadcast, carrying the footage to a mass American audience and cementing it as a worldwide phenomenon.
Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.