Category File
Hidden Knowledge
12 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The Necronomicon "Real Book" TheoryThe Necronomicon "Real Book" theory holds that H.P. Lovecraft’s references to the Necronomicon and the entities surrounding it were not purely fictional inventions, but disguised disclosures of an actual occult text, hidden tradition, or ancient-gods network operating beneath modern society. The theory grew from the vivid pseudo-scholarly detail Lovecraft gave the book, the way later writers repeated and expanded its references, and the appearance of spurious printed "Necronomicons" that blurred the line between invention and artifact. In stronger versions, Lovecraft is treated as a fiction writer only on the surface, while in reality serving as a transmitter of forbidden information about an old order of cosmic powers and their surviving earthly custodians. This made the Necronomicon one of the most famous fictional books ever reclassified by believers as secret nonfiction.
- The Gemstone FileA sprawling underground conspiracy document cycle attributed to Bruce Porter Roberts, organized around a master narrative linking Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes, the Kennedy family, the CIA, Mafia networks, Watergate figures, and a hidden ruling structure operating across American and global politics from the 1930s onward.
- Dodleston MessagesA British time-slip and haunting mystery centered on a BBC Micro computer in a sixteenth-century cottage at Dodleston, where messages allegedly appeared from a man named Lukas living in the 1540s, producing one of the most unusual cross-time communication stories in modern paranormal literature.
- Mel's HoleA legendary bottomless pit said to exist near Ellensburg, Washington, first brought to wide attention through Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM in 1997 and later expanded into a full anomaly narrative involving resurrection, black projects, secret land seizure, and reality-distorting properties.
- The Voynich ManuscriptA fifteenth-century illustrated codex written in an unknown script, filled with strange plants, astronomical diagrams, bathing women, foldout maps, and dense text that has resisted stable reading for generations, making it one of the most studied hidden-text mysteries in the world.
- Cicada 3301A series of ultra-complex cryptographic recruitment puzzles first posted online in 2012 under the name “3301,” combining steganography, encryption, dead drops, phone messages, GPS coordinates, Tor, occult and literary references, and a secrecy culture that made it one of the most studied mysteries of the internet age.
- The ChronovisorAn alleged secret device created by Benedictine priest Pellegrino Ernetti and a team of scientists that could recover and display images and sounds from the past, later linked to the Vatican, hidden archives, the crucifixion of Christ, and the possibility that time itself can be technologically observed.
- Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Found in the Grand CanyonA hidden-history legend centered on a 1909 Arizona newspaper report claiming that a Smithsonian-linked expedition discovered a vast man-made cavern in the Grand Canyon containing mummies, hieroglyphs, statues, weapons, and relics of Egyptian or “Oriental” origin.
- The Phantom Time HypothesisA radical chronological theory claiming that nearly three centuries of the Early Middle Ages never occurred, and that European history contains an inserted “phantom” period created through falsified chronology, forged records, and retroactive political mythmaking.
- I, Pet Goat IIA 2012 symbolic animated short film by Heliofant that has become one of the most studied pieces of conspiracy-era visual media, with viewers reading it as a coded map of global power, ritual politics, collapse, spiritual transformation, and a series of later real-world events.
- The Count of Saint GermainA mysterious eighteenth-century nobleman, alchemist, diplomat, and occult figure whose uncertain origins and legendary longevity transformed him from a historical adventurer into one of the most enduring immortals of esoteric and conspiracy tradition.
- Emerald Tablets of ThothA modern esoteric text presented as the lost wisdom of Thoth the Atlantean, said by believers to preserve ancient knowledge on Atlantis, immortality, vibration, cosmic law, and the hidden structure of reality.