Interest in the Ark of the Covenant is surging after CIA documents claiming that the agency located the mythical relic using a psychic resurfaced.

The mystical Ark of the Covenant, believed to be lost, may have been found, according to declassified CIA documents. The intelligence agency claims the artifact may have been located by a psychic decades ago in the Middle East as part of its experimental, secret projects in the 1980s.

A two-decades-old document claims the Central Intelligence Agency has found the Ark of the Covenant. However, the CIA's use of supposed psychic abilities to locate sparked mockery online. The search for the Ark of the Covenant was mythologized in the Indiana Jones films.