The Record
Timeline
Every story in the Tribune, arranged by when it began.
14th Century
- 1307–presentThe Knights Templar Treasure: The Order's Lost Riches Unproven
15th Century
- 1400s–presentThe Voynich Manuscript: The Book Nobody Can Read Unproven
16th Century
- 1587–presentThe Lost Colony of Roanoke: 'CROATOAN' and the Missing Settlers Unproven
17th Century
- 1692–presentHollow Earth: Worlds Beneath Our Feet Debunked
18th Century
- 1776–presentThe Illuminati: From Bavarian Club to Global Myth Unproven
19th Century
- 19th century–presentFlat Earth Debunked
- 1832–presentSkull and Bones: Yale's Secret Society and Its Legends Unproven
- 1850s–presentDid Shakespeare Really Write Shakespeare? Unproven
- 1872–presentThe Mary Celeste: The Ghost Ship Found Adrift Unproven
- 1878–presentBohemian Grove: The Elite Summer Camp in the California Redwoods Unproven
- 1899–presentThe Black Knight Satellite Debunked
The 1910s
- 1915Was the Lusitania Set Up to Be Sunk? Unproven
The 1920s
- 1924–1940The Phoebus Cartel: The Real Lightbulb Conspiracy Confirmed
The 1930s
- 1932–1972Tuskegee Syphilis Study Confirmed
- 1933–1935The Business Plot: A General's Testimony About a Fascist Coup Partly True
- 1934–1994The Loch Ness 'Surgeon's Photo': A Toy Submarine Debunked
- 1937–presentThe Hindenburg Disaster: Sabotage or Accident? Unproven
The 1940s
- 1940s–1975Project SHAMROCK: The NSA's Decades of Reading Americans' Telegrams Confirmed
- 1940s–presentThe Kennedy Curse Debunked
- 1941Did Roosevelt Know About Pearl Harbor in Advance? Unproven
- 1943; true identity revealed 1997Operation Mincemeat: The Dead Man Who Fooled Hitler Confirmed
- 1943 (alleged)The Philadelphia Experiment Debunked
- Rumors from 1945; revived online in the 2010sDid Hitler Escape to Argentina? Debunked
- 1945–1959Operation Paperclip Confirmed
- 1945–1947The Plutonium Injections: Hospital Patients Used in Secret Experiments Confirmed
- 1945–1948; documented from the 1980sUnit 731: The War Criminals the U.S. Chose Not to Prosecute Confirmed
- 1946–1947Operation Highjump: Did Admiral Byrd Battle a Nazi Base in Antarctica? Debunked
- 1947–presentRoswell Incident Debunked
- 1948–c.1950Operation Bloodstone: Recruiting Nazi Collaborators for the Cold War Partly True
The 1950s
- 1950s–presentFluoride in the Water as Mind Control Debunked
- 1950s–1990Operation Gladio: NATO's Secret 'Stay-Behind' Armies Partly True
- 1950s–1960sOperation Midnight Climax: The CIA's San Francisco Safe House Confirmed
- 1950s–1970sOperation Mockingbird Partly True
- 1950Operation Sea-Spray: The Germ Test Over San Francisco Confirmed
- 1951–1959Operation Washtub: Alaska's Secret Stay-Behind Agents Confirmed
- 1952–presentProject Blue Book & UFO Cover-ups Unproven
- 1953Operation Ajax: The 1953 Coup in Iran Confirmed
- 1953–1973Project MKUltra Confirmed
- 1953–1950sProject Sunshine: The Secret Search for Strontium-90 in Human Bones Confirmed
- 1954–presentThe Bilderberg Meetings: Off-the-Record Talks Among the Powerful Unproven
- 1954–2005The Lavon Affair: Israel's Failed False-Flag Bombings in Egypt Confirmed
- 1955–presentArea 51 Unproven
- 1956–1971COINTELPRO Confirmed
- 1957–present'Eat Popcorn, Drink Coke': The Subliminal Advertising Hoax Debunked
- 1958–presentBigfoot and the Patterson–Gimlin Film Unproven
- 1959–1967; details revealed in the 1990sProject Iceworm: The Nuclear Missile Base Planned Under Greenland's Ice Confirmed
- 1959–presentThe Dyatlov Pass Incident Unproven
The 1960s
- 1960s–presentThe Lost Cosmonauts Unproven
- 1961–1962Operation Mongoose: The Secret War on Castro Confirmed
- 17–18 September 1961; UN inquiry ongoingThe Death of Dag Hammarskjöld: Accident or Attack? Unproven
- 1962Operation Northwoods Confirmed
- 1962–1974Project 112 and SHAD: Chemical and Biological Tests on U.S. Troops Confirmed
- 1962–1985The Death of Marilyn Monroe: Suicide, Accident, or Murder? Unproven
- 1963–presentJFK Assassination Unproven
- 1964–1967; disclosed 2001Acoustic Kitty: The CIA's Bugged Cat Confirmed
- 1964Gulf of Tonkin Incident Confirmed
- 1964–presentThe Bermuda Triangle Debunked
- 1966–presentThe Mothman and the Silver Bridge Collapse Debunked
- 1967–1974Operation CHAOS: The CIA's Domestic Files on Antiwar Americans Confirmed
- 1967–1972Operation Popeye: Weather as a Weapon Confirmed
- 1968–1975Project Azorian: The CIA's Secret Raising of a Soviet Submarine Confirmed
- 1968–presentThe Zodiac Killer: An Unsolved Case and Its Many Suspects (Plus One Joke) Unproven
- 1969–presentMoon Landing Hoax Debunked
- 1969Paul Is Dead Debunked
The 1970s
- 1970s–1981Operation Ivy Bells: The Navy's Wiretap on a Soviet Undersea Cable Confirmed
- 1970s–1995Project Stargate: The Pentagon's Psychic Spies Confirmed
- 1971–presentD.B. Cooper: The Hijacker Who Parachuted Into Legend Unproven
- 1972–1974Watergate: The Break-In and the Cover-Up That Ended a Presidency Confirmed
- 1973–1981Operation Snow White: Scientology's Infiltration of the U.S. Government Confirmed
- 1975–1980Operation Condor: The Southern Cone's Cross-Border Repression Network Confirmed
- 1975–1976The Church Committee and the CIA's Poison Dart Gun Partly True
- 1976 book; doomsday dates of 2003, 2012 and laterNibiru: The Doomsday Planet That Keeps Not Arriving Debunked
- 1977–presentElvis Is Alive: The King Who Never Left Debunked
- 1977–presentThe Wow! Signal: A Message from the Stars? Unproven
- 1979–2022The Georgia Guidestones: Granite Commandments from a Mystery Patron Unproven
The 1980s
- 1980–presentRendlesham Forest: Britain's Roswell and the Halt Memo Unproven
- Legend set in 1981; first appeared online in the late 1990sPolybius: The Arcade Game That Never Was Debunked
- 1984–presentMajestic 12: The UFO Documents the FBI Called 'Completely Bogus' Debunked
- 1985–1987Iran-Contra Affair Confirmed
- 1985New Coke: Marketing Blunder or Master Plan? Unproven
- 1987–presentThe Max Headroom Signal Hijacking Unproven
The 1990s
- 1990s–presentHAARP: Weather Weapon or Radio Research? Debunked
- 1990s–presentThe Hum: A Sound Only Some Can Hear Unproven
- 1990–1992The Nayirah Testimony: The Incubator Story That Sold a War Confirmed
- 1990s–presentThe Reptilian Elite: David Icke's Lizard People Debunked
- 1991–presentGulf War Illness and the Khamisiyah Cover-Up Claims Partly True
- 1991–presentThe Phantom Time Hypothesis: Were 300 Years Invented? Debunked
- 1992–presentThe Montauk Project: Time Travel at Camp Hero? Unproven
- 1994–presentProject Blue Beam: The Fake Alien Invasion Unproven
- 1995–presentDenver International Airport: Bunkers, Murals and 'Blucifer' Debunked
- 1995–presentOklahoma City Bombing: The 'Second Bomb' Theory Debunked
- 1996–presentChemtrails Debunked
- 1996–presentIs Tupac Shakur Still Alive? Debunked
- 1996–presentTWA Flight 800: Missile Strike or Fuel Tank Explosion? Debunked
- 1997–2008The Death of Princess Diana: What the Investigations Found Debunked
- 1997The Phoenix Lights Debunked
The 2000s
- 2000–presentDie Glocke and the Nazi Moon Base Debunked
- 2001–present9/11 Was an Inside Job Debunked
- 2003–presentThe Simulation Hypothesis: Are We Living in a Computer Program? Unproven
- 2004–presentThe 'Tic Tac' and the Navy UAP Videos Unproven
- 2009–presentThe Mandela Effect: False Memories or Shifting Realities? Unproven
The 2010s
- 2010s–presentThe Dead Internet Theory Unproven
- 2011–present"Avril Is Dead": The Lookalike Hoax Debunked
- 8 March 2014 to presentMH370: The Airliner That Vanished Unproven
- 2015–presentFinland Doesn't Exist: A Reddit Joke That Spread Debunked
- 2015–presentThe Stanley Kubrick 'Moon Landing Confession' Video Debunked
- First reported by U.S. personnel in Havana, 2016; debate ongoingHavana Syndrome: Secret Weapon or Something Else? Unproven
- 2016–presentTartaria and the 'Mud Flood': The Lost Empire Behind Old Buildings Debunked
- 2017–presentBirds Aren't Real Debunked
Origin Undated
- Origin undatedThe Titanic–Olympic Switch Theory Debunked