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Conspiracy theories through history
Every mystery belongs to its moment. Follow the record from antiquity to the present: 529 case files across 12 eras, each with the claim, the evidence on every side, and where it lands today.
Before 1800
36 filesAntiquity to the Enlightenment: myths, relics, secret societies, and the oldest mysteries still argued over today.
Atlantis · Newgrange solstice alignment · The Sea Peoples · Baalbek megaliths · …
The 1800s
49 filesThe 19th century: spiritualism, hoaxes, vanished ships, and the frauds and folklore of a rapidly modernising world.
The Snallygaster · The bunyip · The Ouija board · The Wampus Cat · …
1900 to 1939
39 filesThe early 20th century: world wars, new technologies, and the assassinations and cover-ups of the modern age's first decades.
Mokele-mbembe · Tesla's free energy · Robert the Doll · Flannan Isles lighthouse · …
The 1940s
25 filesWar, the bomb, and the dawn of the flying-saucer age: Roswell, secret programs, and the roots of the Cold War.
Secret Antarctica · Eastern State Penitentiary hauntings · Costa Rica stone spheres · Battle of Los Angeles · …
The 1950s
35 filesThe Cold War hardens: mind-control programs, UFO flaps, and the covert operations later confirmed by the record.
The Florida Skunk Ape · The Maryland Goatman · Water fluoridation · Ed and Lorraine Warren · …
The 1960s
54 filesAssassinations, the space race, and the decade whose unanswered questions still drive the largest conspiracy theories.
Pope Lick Monster · Honey Island Swamp Monster · The Dendera light · New World Order · …
The 1970s
66 filesWatergate, the Church Committee, and a wave of proven government secrets that made institutional distrust mainstream.
The suppressed cancer cure · Beast of Exmoor · The Isdal Woman · Mark of the Beast · …
The 1980s
41 filesCovert wars, satanic panics, and the tabloid-era mysteries that spread faster than anyone could check them.
The Satanic Panic · The Cash–Landrum Incident · Aspartame and cancer · Pete Rose bet on baseball · …
The 1990s
57 filesThe X-Files decade: black helicopters, new-world-order fears, and the last mysteries before the web changed everything.
Kryptos · The Brosno Dragon · The Deep State · Denver Airport · …
The 2000s
39 filesPost-9/11 suspicion, the surveillance state, and the theories that moved from message boards into the mainstream.
The Ningen · Tartaria · CERN portals · The Nazi Bell · …
The 2010s
38 filesSocial-media conspiracies, mass-shooting denialism, and the viral misinformation era coming into full force.
BlackRock and Vanguard · FIFA bribery scandal · Gobekli Tepe lost civilization · Raw milk cover-up · …
The 2020s
50 filesPandemic, AI, and elections: the newest and fastest-moving conspiracy theories, updated as the stories break.
Gates vaccine microchip · CBDC control · 'Turbo cancer' · Ozempic depopulation panic · …