Carter Roy

Claims of witches, Nazis,

and another search for hidden alien faces.

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You might have read about the psychic search for the Ark of the Covenant recently.

In 2025, it was all over social media, and the stories still get shared today.

The timing is a little curious.

The search took place in 1988, and the files were declassified in 2000.

Nobody knows exactly why this one event reentered the zeitgeist 25 years later.

Just chalk it up to more unexplained forces, I guess.

But it's not hard to understand why these once top secret files continue to fascinate.

And it's not just because of all the fun drawings and 80s clip art.

No, it's because they tell the story of a lost treasure of sorts, a tiny covert government op and alleged psychic powers to boot.

It's like a Dan Brown novel met up with an X-Files episode, only it's nonfiction.

This

actually happened, not all that long ago, on December 5th, 1988.