Every unproven case

A congressional committee called a conspiracy probable, but its key acoustic evidence was later disputed and no second gunman has ever been identified.

Spencer and Raytheon's microwave patent are documented, but the melting candy bar rests on later retellings, and even its flavor is disputed.

Bénédictus did patent laminated glass in 1909, but the dropped-flask origin is a repeated anecdote without a clear primary source.

Artifacts show people dug and worked on the island, but no evidence has ever shown a buried treasure in the Money Pit.

The baggage train disaster is recorded by chroniclers, but whether a significant royal treasure was really lost in it is uncertain.

Lustig's counterfeiting conviction and Alcatraz term are documented, but the Eiffel Tower sale rests mostly on a single investigator's memoir.

Parker's convictions and life sentence are documented; the famous tally of repeated bridge sales comes from later press accounts, not contemporary records.

Witnesses were sincere, but no physical evidence exists, and a large bird such as a sandhill crane fits the descriptions.

No body, bones or confirmed DNA has ever been found, and the very name came from footprints a family says were faked.

The best evidence is anonymous photos that were never verified; no body or physical specimen has been found.

The case rests on a few brief night sightings with no physical evidence; a misidentified animal such as a young moose is the leading explanation.

The only physical evidence is footprint casts of unknown origin, including three-toed prints that fit no known primate; the rest is anecdote.

No specimen exists, the famous Champlain sighting is a modern invention, and the best photo likely shows a floating log.

Witness accounts lack any physical evidence, and misidentified dogs, wolves or bears seen at night explain the reports.

Plummer was hanged without trial on evidence from his accusers; historians remain divided on whether he led any outlaw gang.

Claims of 10,000 residents are not supported; local papers and historians put the peak at roughly 3,500 to 5,000.

The 1900 discovery is documented, but the tale that prospectors mistook copper ore for grazing grass comes from conflicting later accounts.

The glowing orb rests on secondhand stories, and even contemporaries credited a natural light, not a ghost.

The three tongues origin is a plausible theory, but no record confirms how Terlingua got its name.

Animal falls are documented, and waterspouts are the likely cause, but no one has directly observed the lift-and-drop process.

The confrontation is documented in U.S. Navy logs, but claims that a nuclear torpedo nearly fired rest on disputed recollections.

Soviet alert measures and U.S. reviews are documented, but historians still dispute whether Moscow truly feared an imminent attack.

The doll and its history are real, but the haunting rests entirely on anecdotes and coincidences that no one has ever documented or tested.

The doll's story comes only from the original owners and the Warrens; the 2025 death that revived the legend had a documented medical cause.

The only radiocarbon test dated the linen to 1260 to 1390; critics dispute the sample, but no test has supported a first-century date.

The agate cup is plausibly old enough, but nothing documents its whereabouts before the Middle Ages, so a link to the Last Supper cannot be tested.

Trier's robe cannot be dated, and the Argenteuil tests pointed to the early Middle Ages; no claimant has been shown to date from the 1st century.

The relic's long documented veneration is not in doubt, but its physical origin has never been independently tested.

Its Ottoman custody since 1517 is well documented; the earlier links rest on tradition and have not been examined scientifically.

No outsider has been permitted to examine the object in Aksum, so there is no physical evidence to evaluate either way.

One fragment dates to the right century, a promising result, but no test can yet tie any of these bones to Nicholas himself.

Herod and his burial at Herodium are well attested, but whether this structure is his tomb remains debated among Israeli archaeologists.