Every solved case

Records show the debris came from a secret Project Mogul balloon train; the weather-balloon story was a cover for that, not for aliens.

KRS 436.600 is real and in force, but it bans dyed ducklings outright; the six-animal minimum is a separate rule for undyed young animals.

The 1897 law was real and produced a 1999 conviction, but a 2002 appeals ruling gutted it and Michigan repealed it in 2015.

The Bigfoot ordinance is real and in force, but the famous felony and $10,000 fine were replaced in 1984 with lighter penalties.

Drilling and excavation located Helike's remains under the coastal plain, not the sea, as the city's own geology suggested.

Underwater excavation located the port, and an inscribed stele proved Thonis and Heracleion were one city.

Endurance22 located and filmed the wreck in 2022, about 3,000 meters down near Worsley's recorded position.

The wreck was located in 1988 and identified by recovered artifacts, including its 1853 bell.

Franzén located the hull in 1956, and the ship was raised largely intact in 1961.

Archival research matched the Bear Wreck to the Cotopaxi in 2020, ending a Bermuda Triangle legend.

Ballard and Michel's team located and photographed the wreck in 1985.

Paul Allen's Petrel team found the wreck in 2017, guided by a newly found ship's log.

Sonar located Quest in 2024, and its features matched the ship's plans, according to the expedition team.

Both Franklin ships were located in 2014 and 2016, guided in part by Inuit oral history.

A 1994 investigation, backed by the model maker's confession, showed the photo was a toy submarine fitted with a sculpted head and neck.

GPS-tracked rocks and time-lapse footage published in 2014 showed wind-driven sheets of thin ice push the stones.

The red color is oxidized iron from ancient subglacial brine, not algae; research since the 1960s has confirmed the chemistry.

NOAA matched the Bloop's acoustic signature to icequakes from cracking Antarctic icebergs.

Acoustic tags placed on Antarctic minke whales in 2013 recorded the bio-duck, identifying the species behind it.

Acoustic analysis matched the released recording to a Caribbean cricket's song; the cause of the reported symptoms is a separate question.

The hum was traced toward Zug Island's steel mill and stopped when its blast furnaces shut down in 2020.

NOAA attributes both sounds to large icebergs grounding on the seafloor off Antarctica, a pattern recorded many times since.

Fire officials traced the survivals to fire-resistant hardboard and the fires to ordinary causes; the print was simply everywhere.

Cover subjects are chosen at a peak, so later declines are expected; regression to the mean explains the jinx without magic.

Real and astonishing, but its Greek inscriptions, Greek calendar and Greek astronomy show exactly who built it; nothing about it is impossible for its time.

Spark plug collectors identified it as a 1920s Champion plug wrapped in a rust nodule, not a half-million-year-old geode.

The temple's own inscriptions identify the shapes as a snake god rising from a lotus, part of a creation scene, not electrical equipment.

Microscope studies by the Smithsonian and British Museum found modern rotary-wheel tool marks; the famous skulls are 19th- and 20th-century workshop products.