The Klein Institute of the Unknown

Overview
The Klein Institute of the Unknown is a research institute created by Jules Klein and her colleagues in 2012 to study the Unknown. Jules Klein was born in Port Lucas, Washington in 1992 and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 18.

Purpose
The Klein Institute of the Unknown was meant to catalogue and to help protect people from that which is unknown, following their doctrine of: "If we know, they know", the Klein Institute protects ordinary people from accidentally discovering that which is unknown. This is particularly prominent in The Case of Jonathon Baker.

Founding
As Jules Klein and her compatriots uncovered more and more of the world that lies behind, they realized that they were not only outnumbered but also faced with a problem none of their subjects ever would be: where would they record all that they found, and where would they call home while studying these anomalies?

Jules knew that an organization was the best way to ensure that all they learned would be preserved forever. So, she brought together some funds, along with good faith and credit from a bank, and created the Klein Institute of the Unknown in Los Angeles, California. It was then that she began work on her book, Insanity's Plea, published in 2015, when she was twenty-three.

The initial members of the Klein Institute of the Unknown include Cassidy Williams, Brian Nimble, and Sydney McCath, each contributed $6,000, and the loan from the bank totalled $1.2 million - to be paid over the course of thirty years, though the institute brought in more money than originally expected and so that cost was paid in full in 2017. The institute was headquartered in an old but well furbished building in west Los Angeles, where it remains today, totalling 15,650 square feet.

Eventually, the Klein Institute would be joined by Matthew Klein, Jules' fiancée and husband.

Important Cases
The Case of Jonathon Baker

The Furnace

Shadowy Dissent