Stargate Project at SRI 1972-1995: 23 Years of CIA-Declassified Remote-Viewing Records
The Stargate Project ran for twenty-three years inside the United States intelligence community, from a 1972 SRI International parapsychology contract to its 1995 closure at Fort Meade, and the bulk of its operational and laboratory record is now declassified, sitting under the CREST reading-room banner at the Central Intelligence Agency. The interesting question is no […]
Tuskegee Syphilis Study 1932-1972: How a Documented Medical Conspiracy Shaped 50 Years of Public Distrust
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is the rare case where the word “conspiracy” survives the documentary test. From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service enrolled 600 Black men in Macon County, Alabama in a non-therapeutic study of untreated late-stage syphilis, withheld penicillin after it became standard care in 1947, and continued the protocol […]
Grey Goo Scenario: From Drexler’s 1986 Engines of Creation to 2024 Nanotechnology Risk Assessments
The grey goo scenario, named in K. Eric Drexler’s 1986 book Engines of Creation Chapter 11, describes a hypothetical extinction-by-self-replicating-nanobot event. By 2004 Drexler himself walked the framing back. By 2024 the working risk surface for advanced nanotech is biotech misuse, AI alignment, and nanomedicine regulation — not runaway molecular machines. Published: 2026-05-18. Last reviewed: […]
Rohonc Codex: Hungary’s 448-Page Untranslated Manuscript and 220 Years of Decipherment Attempts
The Rohonc Codex is a 448-page bound manuscript held by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, written in an unknown script of roughly ten to fifteen recurring signs, illustrated with eighty-seven mixed Christian, Islamic, and pagan scenes, and undeciphered since it entered the public record in 1838. [1][2] Published: 2026-05-18. Last […]
Encephalitis Lethargica 1916-1928: The Sleeping-Sickness Pandemic That Vanished Without Cause
Encephalitis lethargica, the so-called sleeping sickness, swept across at least 64 countries between 1916 and 1928, infected an estimated one million people, killed roughly half of them, and then — without an identified pathogen, without an isolated antibody, without a vaccine — receded into clinical rarity by 1930 and never returned at epidemic scale [1][2]. […]
Becker-Hagens Planetary Grid 1983: Mapping 62 Vertices to Global Anomaly Sites
In 1983, an industrial designer and an anthropologist stood in front of a small archaeology symposium and proposed that the Earth has a hidden lattice. Their names were William S. Becker and Bethe Hagens, and the lattice they drew on the chalkboard had 62 vertices. Published: 2026-05-18. Last reviewed: 2026-05-18. What the Becker-Hagens Planetary Grid […]
Mokele-mbembe Sighting Database 1776-2024: 250 Congo River-Basin Reports Mapped by Region and Decade
A working zoologist looking at the Mokele-mbembe file is looking at two things at once: a folkloric tradition recorded across the Likouala swamp basin for at least two hundred years, and a thin, ambiguous documentary record of expeditions that have not produced a body, a verified track cast, a clean photograph, or an authenticated specimen. […]
Sumerian Cylinder Seal VA 243: Auditing the Ancient Solar System Claim 1976-2024
Cylinder Seal VA 243, a 2.7 cm Akkadian-period stone cylinder catalogued at the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, became famous in 1976 when Zecharia Sitchin claimed its star-and-disc rosette depicted the solar system with an extra planet, “Nibiru.” Assyriologists who read the inscription identify the rosette as a standard divine symbol, not an astronomical map. Published: […]