The sourced record on contested topics
What is established, what is disputed, what is debunked - every claim with its evidence and confidence. We present the record; you decide.
- How much of Dracula comes from Vlad the Impaler?B17 established2 disputed3 debunked2 unresolved
- What killed the Ice Age megafauna?A16 established4 disputed3 debunked1 unresolved
- Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?B16 established3 disputed4 debunked1 unresolved
- What did Tyrannosaurus rex really look like?A15 established5 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- How did the Black Death actually spread?A16 established5 disputed1 debunked2 unresolved
- How much panic did the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast really cause?A16 established5 disputed2 debunked1 unresolved
- What really happened to Kitty Genovese?A16 established2 disputed4 debunked2 unresolved
- What happened at Roswell in 1947?A17 established2 disputed3 debunked2 unresolved
- What did people in the Middle Ages actually drink?A19 established2 disputed1 debunked2 unresolved
- Who cut off Van Gogh's ear, and how much of it?A16 established4 disputed1 debunked3 unresolved
- How long did people really live in the Middle Ages?A19 established2 disputed2 debunked1 unresolved
- How clean were people in the Middle Ages?A110 established1 disputed2 debunked1 unresolved
- What caused the Classic Maya collapse?A17 established3 disputed1 debunked3 unresolved
- What colours were ancient Greek statues?A18 established3 disputed1 debunked2 unresolved
- Where did the idea that 'Ring a Ring o' Roses' is about the plague come from?B17 established3 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- What happened to the Franklin expedition?A17 established2 disputed2 debunked3 unresolved
- What really happened to the Great Sphinx's nose?A110 established1 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- What actually destroyed the Library of Alexandria?B17 established3 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- What caused the Late Bronze Age collapse?A15 established5 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- What killed Mozart?A16 established4 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- How much of Dunkirk was really civilians in little ships?B18 established1 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- The 'Right of the First Night' (Droit du Seigneur): Did It Exist?C18 established2 disputed3 debunked1 unresolved
- The Iron Maiden Was Never a Medieval Torture DeviceB18 established2 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- The Medieval Chastity Belt Was Mostly a Victorian FakeB15 established2 disputed5 debunked2 unresolved