https://www.popularmechanics.com/tec...a3524/4278874/
I presume these scientific investigators and engineers were in on the plot and it wasn't the work of "followers of a cave dweller who had a proclivity for molesting preteen girls" as you so delicately put it. Still what science and fact has to do with undermining your intellectually snobbish mumbo-jumbo is anybody's guess.