Secret CIA files claim Ark of the Covenant does exist and they know its location

The Ark of the Covenant, the container for the tablets that Moses was given by God which contained the Ten Commandments, may have been found by the CIA back in 1988.

Take this one with a gargantuan mountain of salt, because as far as we know the Ark of the Covenant has not been found.

The Ark went missing in 587 BC when Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonians, famous for their hanging gardens among other things, and to this day the question of where it ended up has never been definitively answered.

If you believe Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark then it was taken by 'top men' and stored away in a warehouse, but the true place it ended up has been an enduring mystery.

The Ark was claimed to have special powers, apparently stopping a river from flowing so the Israelites could cross it and aiding them in battle, while inflicting disease upon the Philistines when they captured it to the point that it was returned.

Apparently, they've got eyes on the Ark of the Covenant in 1988 (CIA)

Some declassified CIA documents from 2000 claim that they got one of their operatives to see the Ark, claiming it was 'located somewhere in the Middle East' and describing it as 'hidden underground' somewhere 'dark and wet'.

This person claimed that the Ark did have powers and that trying to break it open would result in being 'destroyed by the container's protectors', though perhaps they just watched Raiders of the Lost Ark for those details.

The CIA document claims that the Ark's location was found as part of 'Project Sun Streak', and was found by one of their 'remote viewers'.

This is where the hope that the Ark of the Covenant was found starts to fall apart a bit, as Project Sun Streak used operatives who it was thought might have psychic abilities.

They were used as 'remote viewers', where someone uses their mind to view something their body was not looking at.

One of these operatives claimed that he was able to remotely view a past civilisation on Mars with the power of his mind, but the CIA later closed down the project having found that 'no discernible benefit had been established'.

Bear in mind this 'locating' was done by a psychic (Science Museum/SSPL/Getty Images)

So this purported claim of the CIA finding the location of the Ark of the Covenant appears to rest on a psychic viewing taken a few years before the CIA decided that their attempts to use psychics had resulted in nothing useful.

As such, it's highly unlikely that the actual location of the Ark of the Covenant has actually been found.

While the remote viewer sketched out some illustrations of what the area looked like and the appearance of the Ark, quite a lot of it tallied with existing depictions of the Ark.