Archive of peterfiles.net

Seven pages, captured as served on September 3, 2026 between 01:00 and 01:04 UTC (the evening of September 2 in Los Angeles), from the live site at its host, Vercel. The home page was captured again at 16:32 UTC on September 3 and is byte-identical. On September 4 the domain’s address records were deleted and the host reported the domain attached to no project; this was confirmed at 02:09 UTC on September 5, which is 7:09 pm on September 4 in Los Angeles. The registry entry was kept.

The readable copies below are the captured HTML with scripts, stylesheets, embeds and inline styles removed, images withheld and described in place, and links between the site’s own pages pointed at these copies. Nothing else was changed, and every page shows the SHA-256 of its original bytes in the banner. The untouched files are in the zip at the bottom. These pages are marked not to be indexed: the archive exists so the record can be checked, not so the site can rank.

The seven pages

Page	Original address	Bytes	Words	SHA-256
Home	peterfiles.net/	21,771	560	56eb058496ca193c11414f3827913dc496c13003101bac23aea396f9e6b3211e
The ledger (The Peter Files)	peterfiles.net/the-peter-files	45,223	2,548	6c43624cef7f9481a82cb99afbda1ac8264899e88f1b6378be15c22fad2ad887
Spiegel, Ideal Living and the sect	peterfiles.net/peter-spiegel-ideal-living-jkp	16,667	725	2ecf28fa68f44441c3f8c57f01f52b7b5270156aa3044d3772c5d52f501b7a80
Court record explainer, 03-11-00108-CV	peterfiles.net/records/in-re-peter-spiegel-03-11-00108-cv	13,503	484	ecc136629497c56c0122398ebc8a749fea9049171cdfe7be3f65d99d7b27c816
Updates	peterfiles.net/updates	8,535	309	4bb3c2c374c7cc57f586748973beb1ef8ab0bd64db828480ebbbd478082e5439
Methodology	peterfiles.net/methodology	9,219	390	131ea9a43539546b96711e7c6ffd17d3e5bb40721decdfef45511bfe729fa529
Corrections	peterfiles.net/corrections	8,144	310	a6b1ea6311eddbc779501892c0c7ac523f9b1eb44e5d6586ce4d8a377c808e5a

Images, withheld and listed by hash

Eight image files were served with the pages. None is hosted here. Two are fabricated pictures of a living person, four are photographs belonging to other people or organisations, and two are the site’s own graphics that incorporate one of those photographs. Each is identified below so that anyone holding a copy can confirm it is the same file.

File	Size	Bytes	SHA-256	What it is
peter-spiegel-official.jpg	600×481	168,271	a4244e23618d0e05f3ad5c3d53036c3d8ed0afbd7b3bcdc9f19c71da683f52f1	Headshot of Peter Spiegel, byte-identical to the file on idealliving.com (third-party photograph)
peter-night.jpg	576×1024	89,142	e311494cd526938752383cdadaf43097173f7f043d200088e7356cc5497a6832	Fabricated night portrait of Peter Spiegel in jewelled teeth and a diamond watch, captioned by the site as an editorial composite (synthetic image of a living person)
ideal-living-jkp.webp	1024×1024	66,252	440d583eeb1c8771d117ecc315ffe37679a1813f552a74ee0e5595745185d526	Fabricated handshake between Peter Spiegel and Kripalu Ji Maharaj under an Ideal Living sign, captioned by the site as a fictional composite and not a real meeting (synthetic image of living and deceased persons)
jkp-kripalu-official.png	350×444	65,192	10cf59d7a9eb97e7bd919f940308df0a1f752897fab4e78b1d4ac8f068758392	Seated portrait of Kripalu Ji Maharaj copied from jkp.org.in (third-party photograph)
jkp-landing-official.png	350×450	188,969	d03562a2e1f607f40a6227afda1f1e47da694820b88cac7fb83760cd9a1064d3	Enthroned portrait of Kripalu Ji Maharaj copied from jkp.org.in (third-party photograph)
reckless-ben-video.jpg	1280×720	122,681	eb3dd718314f2e1d1f4032b10803726b01ef82076728c48620a819c4fb50d921	Thumbnail of the Reckless Ben video, a still of Peter Spiegel captioned "leave right now" (third-party image)
peter-files-social-card.png	1200×630	174,976	340793e467abc719d4eb2211924d722345560af945b20eccf47f57047a10e6bd	The site's own social card, "The files are open / Peter Files / Names. Records. Connections.", incorporating the Ideal Living headshot
apple-touch-icon.png	180×180	59,159	213be60ba466373abda2f1588bb29dce85cbff96382ec76bd520545c1883f5ae	The site's icon

The file peter-spiegel-official.jpg is byte-identical to the photograph Ideal Living serves at idealliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Peter.jpg, read on September 2, 2026. SHA-256 of both: a4244e23618d0e05f3ad5c3d53036c3d8ed0afbd7b3bcdc9f19c71da683f52f1.

The untouched capture

peterfiles-net-capture-2026-09-02.zip, 58,026 bytes, SHA-256 ce9f4bdba1d3369ce8362fa28b814c0bc0f444b15612fc5fa972e50a9cd24bcb. It holds 40 files: the seven pages exactly as received, the response headers, the sitemap, robots file and feed probes, the redirect and not-found responses for the addresses the site did not have, the registry (RDAP) and certificate-log records, the September 3 16:32 UTC recapture, and SHA256SUMS.txt, which also lists the withheld images. Image files are not in the zip.

To verify a file on a Mac or Linux machine: shasum -a 256 filename. The result should match the table above.

Provenance

Captures were made with an ordinary HTTP client from the public site; no login, no bypass, nothing the site did not serve to any visitor. The Internet Archive holds its own captures of the site from August 28, 2026 at 19:08 UTC, which any reader can compare against these. The dates and hashes above are also recorded in the report The Peter Files Went Up Fourteen Hours After the First Video.