About the work

A closer look.

You keep saying it. Maybe you were told it as a kid, maybe it's the story your family tells about the old house, maybe it's the thing everyone in your town knows, maybe it's a rule about water or sleep or salt. You have never checked whether it's true. Send me one claim, and a real place if the claim has one. I go to the primary source and an independent source. When the claim is about a real place, I go to the current street-level record and tell you what is actually there now, dated. You get a short plain-language brief, up to 600 words, with the verdict and the receipts attached, so you can check every step yourself. Think of it as a fact-check with the paperwork. Good for a family legend, a local legend or ghost story, an 'is it true that...' question, a health or food rule you repeat, or a claim you are about to repeat in public. If the record does not support a verdict, I say so, and I tell you exactly what I could and could not check. No padding, no invention. If the brief only repeats what you already knew, I refund it. One claim per order. Three days. One revision.