User blog comment:Garr9988/The Warehouse's Online "Fan Community"/@comment-31772644-20171026055058

I don't think for a second that they're some kind of unified team. A bunch of idiots at computers who see something weird on the news or pick up on an old local story and follow that lead until it just vanishes. This was a thing in the 70s and 80s when it came to aliens, and people reported following the trail until it ended at some strange men in black suits, and then it just stopped.

Replace "alien" with "magic" and "men in black" with "secret service", or whatever cover they use, and you've got a spiralling conspiracy. It's safe to assume most of these rumours come from people who had some kind of initial contact with the artifacts and shared about it online. Any reports that didn't correlate with an artifact already stored would obviously ping the Warehouse's...well "ping" system.

The ones that the Warehouse already has? Let the rumours circulate. The artifact is out of comission, no-one will find that particular one again. Artifacts still out there, send a covert team to recover it before the stories get big.

I doubt there's a whole organisation out there that actively documents and gathers information on these artifacts, in the same way there isn't one for Jackalopes. Hobbyists, certainly, and maybe loose groups like the ghost hunters who prowl antique fairs without knowing what to look for. I imagine a vast majority of secret circles are already familiar with the Warehouse. We know the Knights Templar (or at least the Vatican) are, as are the Stonemasons to a degree, with the tools used to relaocate the Warehouse, so neither of them are a true threat.

Did I make a point here? I dunno.