Contact Monkey and ElfSend a lead.

An encounter, a document, a claim you keep seeing and want traced to its source, or an error in one of our files. If it holds a question, we want to hear it.

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Before you send
  • Give dates, places and names wherever you can.
  • Tell us where you first came across the claim.
  • Paste links to anything that backs it up.

    After you press send

    What happens next

    1. 01

      Read

      Every message is read. Not every one gets a reply, but every one is weighed.

    2. 02

      Weighed

      If it holds a question the archive has not answered, it goes on the list of leads.

    3. 03

      Traced

      Leads are followed back to their earliest record before anything is written.

    4. 04

      Filed

      When a lead becomes a case file, or a correction changes one, it goes live with its sources named.

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