Conspiracy Map: 22 Maps of Secret Bases and Unsolved Mysteries

Search MapIndex for conspiracy and 215 maps come back, unsolved mysteries finds 174, and their makers take their theories seriously enough to give them map symbols. One sorts 1,403 alleged underground bases into tunnels, hives and inner-earth access points; another files each secret base under “Purpose” or “Claim” depending on whether anyone has confirmed it. Next to them sit the paper trails: a spraying trial over Wiltshire in 1960, sampled point by point, and the digs on Oak Island dated from 1804 to 1996.

Rabbit Hole Map: Giants, Hell Gates and Hidden Bases

In 1870, says the first pin, men digging for an oil derrick in Pennsylvania found an 18-foot skeleton with a helmet and a 9-foot sword. It opens a layer of more than 150 “giant” finds, each dated and sourced to an old newspaper, the Memphis Daily Appeal or the Daily Kennebec Journal, from a burial ground of about twenty skeletons dug up by Wabash College students near Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1892 to a 33-foot “Nephilim” dug up near Nanacamilpa in Mexico in 1919. The other eight layers of this map of 1,165 places cover the rest of the rabbit hole. One gathers the gates to the underworld, from Pluto’s Gate at Hierapolis to the pit in the Roman Forum and Houska Castle north of Prague, whose chapel was said to be built over a hole to hell; Mammoth Cave is filed as an entrance to the hollow earth, and at the North Pole the maker notes that “Google Maps will not give me a pin on the north pole, so I made one up”. The bases layer is careful in its own way: Cheyenne Mountain and Raven Rock get a “Purpose”, Dulce and Denver International Airport only a “Claim”.

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Unsolved Mysteries Map: 1,053 Strange Cases Worldwide

In 1855, after a heavy snowfall in Devon, a trail of thousands of hoof prints, four by three inches each, ran for 40 to 100 miles over walls and roofs. The Devil’s Footprints are one of 1,053 pins on a single layer that reads like an almanac of the unexplained: the Bloop, an ultra-low-frequency sound picked up by NOAA in 1997; the Hessdalen lights in Norway; Overtoun Bridge in Scotland, from which dogs are said to jump; the Toynbee Tiles set into roads from Kansas City to Nigeria; and Lake Conibas, a vast lake with an island of “Beautiful Castles and Prairies” that Cornelius van Wytfliet and the cartographers after him drew into northern Manitoba. Some entries are a link, others a story told in the maker’s own words, and the darkest cases carry a “(disturbing)” in their title as a warning.

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1,053913 points, 48 lines, 92 areas

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Underground Bases Map: 1,403 Alleged D.U.M.B.s

D.U.M.B. stands for deep underground military base, and this map finds one under almost every American city, from the “Lake Superior DUMB” to Festus, Missouri, and then under Greenland, Okinawa, the Falklands and the open Pacific. Its 1,403 objects span well over a hundred countries and come with a whole symbology: tunnel lines drawn between the bases, a “Submarine Tunnel System” off the coasts of Mexico and Florida, “Inner Earth Access Points” scattered across the southern oceans, sightings of ultraviolet lights, and a layer of “Sun Icon - Hives” where people logged what they saw in the sky (“Orange Sun” in Sanford, Maine; “Smell, Fog, No Sun” in Ellenboro, North Carolina). Lines between Washington, Fairbanks and Honolulu are marked “DUMB Portal Line?”, question mark included.

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1,4031,239 points, 164 lines

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Porton Down Map: The 1960 Salisbury Spraying Trial

In August 1960 an aircraft, a Valetta or a Hastings, flew a 100-mile arc about 40 miles from Salisbury and released zinc cadmium sulphide at a rate of one pound per mile. The particles were the size of a real biological warfare agent, between one and five microns, small enough, the notes say, to reach the deepest part of the lungs. This map reconstructs the trial from Porton Down’s side: 22 points along the aircraft’s track, 38 rural and 17 urban sampling stations. Each rural station was run by a member of Porton staff with a drum impactor drawing 20 litres of air a minute, a device Porton itself knew to be inefficient, while some urban stations, where heavy pollution was expected, were to get Millipore filters instead.

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Tartaria Map: The Lost Empire and the Doors to Agartha

The Capitol in Washington, St Basil’s in Moscow and the Opéra Garnier in Paris share a layer here, “Les Secrets de Tartaria”, for the theory that a lost empire built the world’s domes and neoclassical palaces before history forgot it; the Opéra is filed for being “too perfect”, St Petersburg for its buried “mud flood” facades. A second starred layer lists the entrances to Agartha, the world inside the earth: both poles, the Cueva de los Tayos in Ecuador, the Pic de Bugarach in the Aude, Mammoth Cave and Uluru. The rest of this French and English map of 284 places, made by Marie_Elise, ranges wider, with haunted castles, abandoned towns, anomaly zones and Siberia’s Lake Labynkyr, said to hold a Nessie of its own.

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Atlantis Map: 125 Places Someone Placed It

Olaus Rudbeck put Atlantis in Uppsala in 1675, Jean Sylvain Bailly on Svalbard in 1779, the explorer Percy Fawcett in Brazil in 1925, and someone in 2005 in Tamil Nadu. This map pins every proposal it could find, 125 of them, each labelled with the people who made it and the year. Some places collect a crowd: Sicily, the North Sea’s Dogger Bank, Santorini (Jacques Cousteau among its backers, 1991), and the Black Sea’s Snake Island, argued for from 1923 to 2006. Others belong to a single believer: the Great Sole Bank in the Celtic Sea, Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone, the Caspian island that Russian military missions went looking for in 1723.

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Area 51 Map: Gates, Hangars and the Mountain View

Building #131 at Groom Lake is annotated “No one is really certain what purpose this building currently serves.” Its neighbours on this map of 213 places are named with numbers too, from Hangar 2 and the “Red Hat” storage to #170, “Sam’s Place”, with a gymnasium and swimming pool. Outside the fence, the map shows how people watch: the Black Mailbox, the Main Gate where “Cammo Dudes” drive the hill trails, Freedom Ridge and White Sides Mountain, both popular viewpoints until they were closed to the public in 1995, and the strenuous hike up Tikaboo Peak, 26 miles from the base and the closest legal view. The weather stations around the base get a skeptical note: one has a broken wind vane, so why does it carry a high-definition Canon security camera?

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Czech Conspiracy Map: Pyramids, Ghosts and Energy Stones

The hills at Dunajovice in Moravia are pyramids, the map deadpans, and “that German farmers built them is supposedly a conspiracy lie.” Its 215 places, in 14 layers from ancient civilisations and prophecies to healers and energy spots, catalogue Czech lore in the voice of a skeptic who enjoys it. At Klokočí there is a boot print five metres up a rock, with soles “like astronauts on the Moon”; the stone rows at Nečemice, which some call UFO launch ramps, have since been rooted up by pigs; a ghost at the Maxi hotel was seen by one woman only, who happened to be a psychic. The best story is true: at Černé jezero, the Czechoslovak secret police staged a find of Nazi archives, Operation Neptun, and treasure hunters still believe more lies on the lake’s bottom.

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Dyatlov Pass Map: The Route, the Search and the Tent

“Today’s the third cold night on the shore of the Auspiya River. The stove does a great job.” The hikers’ own diary lines sit on each campsite of their route through the Northern Urals in January 1959, from the truck ride out of Vizhay to the last camp below Kholat Syakhl. The 86 places of this map follow the search that spring group by group, with the names of every searcher, and give the Mansi names of the mountains their meaning: the kholat in Kholat Syakhl means meager, lacking game, dead; Hoy Ekva means “Women not allowed”. A layer of new developments records the arguments still running: a dead cedar whose last ring formed in 1958, the prosecutors’ tent site 116 metres north of the one researchers agree on, and a “Swiss avalanche” spot that excited Swiss researchers more than the Russians.

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Chemtrail Map: 1,303 Photos of the Sky, 2005 to 2011

A Flickr account named chemtrailkook uploaded satellite images of the Pacific coast, Texas and Florida on 28 March 2011, the oldest from March 2005, and each became a pin here. The map gathers 1,303 photos and videos that someone, somewhere, tagged with chemtrail or contrail: daily albums from Lleida in Catalonia, Italian shots of “scie chimiche”, a man in Missouri who watched “the same two planes going back and forth”, and video series titled “What Are they Spraying?”. The tag also caught the other side. Plane spotters in Calgary geotagged their contrails with flight numbers and altitudes, Cathay Pacific Cargo at 34,000 feet, a British Airways 747 at 40,000, so both readings of the same white lines share one map.

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Ancient Aliens Map: 168 Pyramids and Out-of-Place Artefacts

“Did a spaceship land near Cluj-Napoca in grey prehistory and lose a landing foot?” asks the entry for the aluminium wedge of Aiud, one of the out-of-place artefacts on this map by the German site palaeoseti.de. Its 168 places run from the Bosnian “pyramids”, each named (Sun, Moon, Love, Dragon), to Puma Punku, the Dendera “lamp” and the Kensington Runestone, many with a Wikimedia photo and its credit. The site asks rather than asserts: Glozel appears as “early culture or hoax”, and the Nuremberg “UFOs” of 1561 and a round object seen over the Saarland in 1528, with an arm holding a sword, make up a small layer of old sightings.

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Bermuda Triangle Map: Disappearances and Their Routes

The collier USS Cyclops vanished in 1918 with a full load of manganese ore and one engine out, the largest non-combat loss of life in the US Navy’s history, and this map draws her route home from the Caribbean. Each of its incidents gets a line for the path and a point for the place: Flight 19’s training flight of 1945, the British South American Airways sister planes Star Tiger and Star Ariel, lost a year apart, the Marine Sulphur Queen with its cargo of molten sulphur. The notes keep the legend honest. The two KC-135 tankers of 1963 collided, they say, and only the Bermuda Triangle version adds a second crash site 160 miles away; the yacht Connemara IV, found adrift with no crew, had simply dragged her moorings and gone to sea.

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Russian Alt-History Map: Hyperborea and the Tsar Bath

A 48-tonne granite bowl near St Petersburg, cut from one piece, two metres high and more than five across, is here as the “Tsar Bath” whose purpose no one can explain. The 379 places of this Russian map come from the alternative-history site Kramola and its readers: the stone “Chandar map” of Bashkiria, said to be made by a technology unknown to science; pyramids at Nakhodka, on the Kola Peninsula and on Lake Ladoga, where stone mounds are laid out like the constellation Canis Major; the approximate centre of Hyperborea, out in the Arctic. Two pins in New York show how far the idea travels: the rocks of Brighton Beach, in which an enthusiast saw the faces of Russian gods, and Central Park’s steps, “made by 3D cutting”.

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Skeptic's Map of Washington, DC: Legends Checked on Foot

Washington has no J Street, and the story that Pierre L’Enfant left it out to spite Chief Justice John Jay is pinned where it would run, marked “Urban legend (false)”. A local skeptics’ group drew these 128 places for walking tours in 2013 and 2014, and checks one story after another. The horses of equestrian statues do not tell how their riders died; the Washington Monument’s change of colour is no flood mark; the “satanic pentagram” in the street plan gets a link to its debunking. The radar UFOs over National Airport in July 1952 were temperature inversions, and the “MJ-12” memo found in the National Records Center was by all indications a forgery. It also marks where Houdini escaped from a straitjacket 100 feet above the street in 1916, and the Capitol, where a congressman’s speech “for Buncombe” in 1820 gave the language bunkum, and so debunk.

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Lost Treasure Map: Nazi Gold, Sunken Cities and Megalodons

Before leaving Corregidor in 1942, says one of these entries, General MacArthur discussed with President Quezon what to do with the Philippines’ gold, and “MacArthur’s Trash” is filed as sunken treasure. This Fortean database of 94 places tags each mystery by kind: Nazi gold (the Amber Room, Rauff’s gold off Corsica, forged banknotes sunk in an Austrian lake), sunken cities (Atlit-Yam off Haifa, where weevils still sit in the grain stores, Yonaguni, the Bimini Road), lost cities and out-of-place artefacts. Four pins off Australia and in the Pacific are megalodon sightings, the last of them sonar contacts reported in 1978, and Batista’s gold comes with treasure hunters called HammerHead, Fiberglass Bob and Caucasian Tim.

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Eyes of the Sahara Map: 989 Ground Markings in Niger

Hundreds of crescent-shaped marks lie along the western edge of the Aïr Mountains in Niger, and someone went through the satellite images one by one, labelling each “Left Eye” or “Right Eye” and numbering the photos it came from. The 989 objects of this map follow them from Agadez north past Arlit, with two more layers: “Mystery Circles” and “Direction Circles”, filed as “Special Direction Structures”. The map offers no theory of what they are. It only records where each one is, and there are a great many of them.

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JFK Assassination Map: Dallas, 22 November 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald’s walk from his rooming house to the place where Officer Tippit was shot is drawn as a line and labelled “(assumed)”, like several of his routes on this map of 36 places. It follows President Kennedy from Air Force One’s landing at Carswell on 21 November to his last speech at the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, the motorcade route towards the Trade Mart, and Parkland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm. Dealey Plaza is drawn in detail: the sixth-floor window, Zapruder’s position, the railway control room and the wooden fence on top of the grassy knoll, each a point the theories have argued over since.

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Mysterious World Podcast Map: From Area 51 to Fatima

Ghosts, the Fermi Paradox, time travel and werewolves have no place on earth, so the maker of this map parked them in a row of pins along the 82nd parallel in the Arctic Ocean. Everything else in Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World podcast gets its spot, episode by episode with a YouTube link: Area 51 (episode 4) with Bob Lazar (22) just beside it, the Soviet Doomsday Weapon (12), Denver Airport conspiracies (39), the Bilderberg Group (47), Bohemian Grove (51), the Star Gate programme (102 and 103). Religious mysteries sit next to them, from Fatima to Pope Joan, as in the show.

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Oak Island Money Pit Map: Two Centuries of Digging

The second attempt to reach the treasure beside the Money Pit was dug in 1804, the third in 1850 with a tunnel, the fourth in 1861. This Portuguese map of 28 places dates every trace the hunters left on Oak Island in Nova Scotia: the dam of 1851, the dynamite charges of 1897, the drilled stones and the stone triangle found in 1937, the inscribed stone of 1934, Borehole 10-X and a U-shaped structure in 1971, and circular shapes one to two metres across found on Lot 5 in 1996. Seen together, the pins crowd around one spot, dug over again and again.

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Nordic Mysteries Map: Secret Bases and Ionosphere Radars

The four EISCAT radar stations that study the upper atmosphere, at Tromsø, Longyearbyen, Kiruna and Sodankylä, share this small map with the Hessdalen lights, the Norway Spiral over Tromsø and the Svalbard seed vault. Between them sit the bases: supposed deep underground military bases at Sørreisa, “near Eiscat”, Evje, Stavanger, Mosjøen and Kristiansand’s Baneheia, and one entry the maker files as “Confirmed DUMB”: Muskö in Sweden.

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Voynich Manuscript Map: The Nine Circles in Tuscany

Folio 85v–86r of the Voynich Manuscript is a foldout of nine circles joined by bands that nobody has read, and the maker of this map believes it shows a landscape: the geothermal field around Larderello in Tuscany. The nine circles become nine places, from the Pozzo della Campana at Bagni San Michele to Bagno al Morbo, the Lagoni del Sasso and Sasso Pisano, and the whole folio is laid over the land as a frame, with a legend: red for the main circles, black for roads and text, blue for the direction of flow. Ten objects, one theory.

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Mundane Mysteries Map: 1,086 Everyday Unsolved Cases

The Case of the Missing Socks was opened in Melbourne, the Case of the Cat Zoomies in Edmonton, the Case of the Leaking Washing Machine in St. John’s, Newfoundland. The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries pins 1,086 of them, each with its city and edition, from the original game to the Playdate and Power Hour versions, in 23 countries: the Lopsided Painting, the Opened Kitty Treat Bin, the Unsprouted Seeds, and in Toronto “How the Electricity Gets into the House”. Nobody claims a cover-up here, and none of the cases has a known solution either.

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