Morgellons.org
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Archive · 2002–2026

If your skin will not be quiet, and no one will stay in the room, start here.

This is the old Morgellons Research Foundation record, rewritten in human English and set next to what researchers actually published through 2026 — including the papers that disagree with each other.

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If you are ill

Name the sensations without performing them

Crawling, fibers, sores that will not close, fog, the particular loneliness of being believed at 2 a.m. by no one.

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If you want the story

A mother, a foundation, a closing

2002 to 2012: how Morgellons got a name, a registry, a CDC study, and then a locked door.

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If you want the papers

Two literatures, dated

Pearson 2012 beside Middelveen 2026. Mayo and Cleveland Clinic beside OSU and a bioRxiv preprint. Limits written in the same ink as claims.

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How this site talks

We will not sell you certainty.

Mainstream clinics, as of 2026, still treat Morgellons as a problem of sensory signaling — often filed with delusional infestation. A smaller laboratory line says the filaments are human keratin and collagen, and that infection, frequently Borrelia, is in the room.

A 2025 dermatology review found no randomized treatment trials and asked for shared diagnostic criteria first. That is the honest weather report: unfinished.

The old homepage counted 14,720 registered families. We keep that number as history, not as a live census. The registry closed with the foundation.

A wooden table with a vintage microscope, tied folders, and a desk lamp.
The original MRF asked scientists to look. This reconstruction keeps looking, including at the papers that say there is nothing infectious to find.

What people usually need on the first visit

  • A way to walk into a clinic

    A one-page letter that leads with wounds and function, not a theory of the universe.

    Open the letter

  • A way to live until morning

    Skin, sleep, the urge to pick, and how family can help without having to join a camp.

    Living with it

  • The words aimed at you

    Formication, filament, delusional infestation, unexplained dermopathy — translated without a sneer.

    Glossary

  • The questions asked since 2004

    Fibers, cure, CDC, children, bioterror rumors, and whether this site is the old foundation. It is not.

    FAQ