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Millions of pages of declassified government documents prised out by freedom of information requests, free to browse.
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The Black Vault sits in Mysteries & Riddles under Learn, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Logic mysteries, cipher tools, unsolved cases and ARG-shaped sites that never quite explain themselves. Deduction as entertainment.
Yes. The Black Vault is free to use and needs no account.
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Yes. The Black Vault works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Profiles of thousands of American cold case disappearances, written and maintained by one person for decades.
A volunteer register of unidentified remains and missing people, matched by amateurs who keep on succeeding.
A crime you solve by writing database queries, and easily the least painful SQL tutorial ever built.
The community record of Cicada 3301, the recruitment puzzle whose final book has still never been deciphered.
One large red button and a clear instruction not to press it. It gets increasingly personal about the fact that you keep pressing it.
Sweet wrappers collected and annotated for decades, arranged by how well the graphic design has survived contact with the present.
One cat looking at a monitor showing a cat looking at a monitor, several thousand cats deep and still accepting submissions.
Every possible page of text that could ever exist, already written, sitting at a findable address.
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