ABOUT APOCRYPEDIA
An encyclopedia of disputed claims. We hand you the material and the sources. You decide.
WHAT THIS IS
Apocrypedia catalogs controversial and contested topics: conspiracy theories, fringe science, unexplained events. Each file lays out the claim, where it came from, the documented record from every side, and the full sources.
THE STANCE
We render no verdict. Each file splits into folders: a MAINSTREAM folder for the public record and a CONFIDENTIAL folder for the alternative explanations. Both get the same treatment, who proposed it, the reasoning, the evidence cited, the documented response, with citations you can check. The dossier styling is theatrical. The text underneath is neutral.
THE WISDOM OF THE CROWD
Each file carries an informal reader poll recording which explanation readers find most credible. It is reader opinion, labeled a poll, not data, and gameable like any open poll. It is not the position of Apocrypedia.
REQUESTING A FILE
Readers can suggest a topic for the archive. It reaches the archivist directly. Every file is researched and sourced by hand, so a request is a suggestion for the queue and not a commitment.
PRIVACY
No accounts. No tracking. No cookies. The vote endpoint stores aggregate counts only and logs no IP address or any other identifier. We technically cannot know who you are or how you voted. Your browser keeps one flag so a page you already voted on shows you the results instead of the poll again. It records that you voted, not which option you picked, it never leaves your device, and clearing your site data erases it. The same holds for file requests: there is no field to identify yourself with, none is stored, and your browser talks only to this domain. It also means we cannot tell you when a requested file goes up.
KEEPING UP
There is no mailing list, because there is no way to collect an address without breaking everything above. What there is instead: an RSS feed at /feed.xml. Every file, newest first, with its summary and a link to the folder. Nothing ranked, nothing personalized, no algorithm deciding what you see. Your reader fetches that file the same way your browser fetches this page, so subscribing tells us nothing about you.
If you already use a feed reader, this page advertises the feed and your reader should offer it on its own. If you do not, a feed reader is an app that checks a list of sites for you and shows what is new, in order, with no account and no one in the middle. For an archive that asks you to read the sources and decide for yourself, it is the honest way to follow along.