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Another Night at the Archive
You take the night shift at a dingy city archive and search through old files for clues to bizarre, unexplained events.…
Beirut Port Explosion
Forensic Architecture reconstructs the 2020 Beirut port explosion with a detailed 3D model of the warehouse, tracing how…
Bellingcat Open Source Challenge
Over a hundred open-source investigation puzzles from Bellingcat, from beginner to expert, where you geolocate photos, d…
Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
Bellingcat's free, curated toolkit of open-source investigation tools, sorted by maps and satellites, geolocation, image…
Dieselgate, But for Trains
The story of hackers reverse engineering Polish trains that mysteriously locked up after third-party repairs, revealing…
Discovering Wikipedia Edits by Institutions
A project write-up on uncovering Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies, and government agencies, explaining ho…
Everyone Knows Your Location
A hands-on investigation into how leaked in-app ad data can pinpoint a person's home and routine, told by someone who tr…
Exposing the Invisible: The Kit
A free illustrated handbook on how to investigate like a pro: fact-checking, digging through archives, tracing companies…
Hacking the Scammers
A security researcher traces a USPS text-message scam that fooled his wife, then breaks into the scammers' operation and…
List of OSINT Exercises
A list of free open-source intelligence challenges, such as geolocation and verification puzzles, each with its own page…
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup
The opening chapter of Erin Kissane's meticulously researched series on how Facebook became entangled in Myanmar's crisi…
OSINT Framework
An interactive tree-style directory of free open-source intelligence tools and resources, organised by what you want to…
Pursuit Magazine
An online magazine written by and for professional investigators and the spy-curious, with articles on investigative cra…
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Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery
An investigation into a strange antenna tower outside Chicago that turns out to be part of a shortwave radio network bui…
Stone House Orphanage
A short horror game made for the Two-Minute Horror Jam: as a lone reporter you investigate the disappearance of two chil…
The Fed Says This Is a Cube of $1M
A blogger counts the bills in the Federal Reserve's famous cube of one million dollars and finds the official figure is…
The Other Sean Byrne Doesn't Exist
An investigation into how a fictitious employee of an Irish aircraft-parts company ended up on a US government restricte…
The Water Century
An interactive investigation into why the UK keeps running dry, explaining how almost all of Earth's water is salty, fro…
Type Help
A puzzle-mystery game in the vein of Return of the Obra Dinn and Her Story, where you dig through the files on an old co…
Underunderstood
A podcast that tracks down answers the internet does not have yet, like the origin of a strange sticker or forgotten jin…
What's Noka Worth?
A legendary piece of food investigation that dissects a luxury chocolate brand selling at hundreds of dollars a pound an…
Where is Starlingdive?
Unmask a vanished 2008 college radio DJ by digging through a message board, sealed conduct files, and a coded mixtape to…
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