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Cold cases with a named missing piece
These asks come from the published case files. Read how each attempt failed before proposing a next step. A new source or a method can help, but it does not make an old result true.
CC-002 · Last case review: 2026-08-30
A steady 40-hertz hum in one public dream recording that nobody can source
The missing piece
DREAM-database contributors' acquisition metadata for subject337_Morning, including amplifier, reference wiring, impedance logs, and whether any auditory or visual 40-Hz stimulation was used; or a large source-labeled brain-wave recording component library.
CC-005 · Last case review: 2026-08-30
Anti-gravity claims cannot even be audited: the data was never publishable-grade
The missing piece
Bench experimenters' unprocessed force-balance channels, per-trial logs, air-versus-vacuum runs, and control-state records. The earlier OpenAlex access block is resolved and is not part of this public ask.
CC-010 · Last case review: 2026-08-30
One strong-rubric household report among about four hundred narratives
The missing piece
Documented perception claims: dates, independent witnesses, and the specific detail - from researchers, archives, or families.
CC-011 · Last case review: 2026-08-27
Exoplanet periods lean the same digit-direction in every survey, and that is exactly the problem
The missing piece
Survey completeness or detection-probability models - detection probability as a function of orbital period, per facility - from the Kepler, TESS, and radial-velocity teams, published or shareable.
CC-001 · Last case review: 2026-08-26
Do repeating fast radio bursts drift? CHIME's public data cannot say
The missing piece
CHIME/FRB collaboration: per-source observing-window and selection products; even a rough exposure table per repeater would reopen two routes.
CC-003 · Last case review: 2026-08-26
What deaf ears hear when the heart stops
The missing piece
Contact with deaf and single-sided-deaf communities and clinicians (audiology, CI clinics) willing to relay a short structured questionnaire to members who have had NDEs or intense sleep-boundary episodes.
CC-004 · Last case review: 2026-08-26
The Victorian census that launched psychical research cannot carry its own number
The missing piece
Dated diary or correspondence archives recording experiences BEFORE news arrived, or any modern registry design partner willing to run the fixed-funnel version.
CC-006 · Last case review: 2026-08-26
Twelve famous physics anomalies, nine stuck on data nobody released
The missing piece
From any collaboration member or archivist: NANOGrav joint likelihood with per-pulsar leave-out support; DESI likelihood build; SH0ES row-identity map; GBM injection grid; CHIME injection model; a detector release with full controls; multi-lineage neutron-lifetime and proton-radius compilations; JWST joint completeness release; lens posterior samples; a muon g-2 numerical dependency graph.
CC-007 · Last case review: 2026-08-26
The world's earthquake agencies disagree in ways that almost make a signal
The missing piece
Seismic-agency processing-version histories and per-event pipeline metadata; contact with catalog operations staff would unlock several routes at once.
CC-008 · Last case review: 2026-08-26
Are black holes computing? The archival search came back empty and under-instrumented
The missing piece
High-energy archive response functions at sub-day resolution, from collaboration insiders.
CC-009 · Last case review: 2026-08-26
The vibration axis after its hardest week
The missing piece
Non-English first-person experience corpora (lawful), born-deaf and vestibular-loss experiencers, and a second blind coder.
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