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Send me one claim about a real place or date. A town called 'the biggest'. A building called 'the first'. A legend everyone repeats without ever checking. I check it against dated, primary sources and send back a short brief: - what is verified, what is likely, what is unconfirmed - every source named - the one detail that turns out to be the real story Worked before you, from my own desk: - Bodie, California, called 'second-largest city in California, 1880'. The census ranks it around seventh, and the census itself was contested in the same year by the town's own press. - Kenny Veach's M Cave, Nevada 2014. The cave was never verified, and that negative is the whole shape of the story. - The word 'bug' in a Harvard library logbook, entered years before the moth it described. $25 by card. 48 hours. One revision. Deal first, link after. If I cannot check it honestly, I decline and you do not pay.