Although X-Files told us that we should want to believe in UFOs and conspiracy theories, some of them are so ridiculous and common sense-defying that we just cannot bring ourselves to trust the tiniest bit of them. As luck would have it, you’re just about to see for yourself what we are rambling about here. This is our glorious list of conspiracy theories - from believable, to hilarious, to plain outrageous, these stories will either make you laugh or want to dig deeper.
Of course, this list just wouldn’t do without some of the most popular conspiracy theories, like the one about the iceberg, JFK, or mister Dillinger’s death. However, if you’re somewhat of a connoisseur of these tall tales, you’re also bound to find some new stories here that were shared on Reddit by people from all walks of life. And if you’re here purely for entertainment, there are also some pretty funny conspiracy theories that will amuse you in their absurdity. Yet, who knows, it might just be that the crazy conspiracy theories are, in fact, the ones that are real…
Now, before we burst from anticipation to read these famous conspiracy theories, we should all probably just scroll down below and check them out, shall we? Once you are done reading them (and there are loads to read through - great material for a cold winter’s evening!), vote for the conspiracy theory that made you doubt your own beliefs or made you laugh until your tummy started hurting. And after that, share this article with your friends!
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"Our politicians want us divided against each other to keep us from turning on them."
This isn't a conspiracy theory, this is in many ways the truth. All governments, in every country, try to keep control of their people. In some of them it's extreme, in others is more subtle. I'm not saying it isn't possible to make a change, and that democracy failed everywhere, but that in a lot of places where democracy is supposed to be still a thing, in reality people have little to no power to change something, and governments are actively working to keep the situation in that way
Read Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics, or even just the Wikipage summary for it.....His goal of dividing societies and creating chaos is frightening.
Load More Replies...This is true….not conspiracy or paranoid or extremis thought….this is absolutely true. 3 proofs…. 1) “Divide and conquer is a basic military strategy”. 2) Another common war tactic is to create diversions to keep group busy focusing on perceived threats whilst you advance. They absolutely want us to argue and be in conflict over usually really stupid s**t, while they pass laws that benefit the wealthy and themselves. ‘Masks’ is about the purest example of this…and we fell for it. 3) Just like most religions, as long as history as been recorded…fear is the most common way to control others. The last thing a corrupt gvt wants people to do is unite. I’m American, so only speaking for my experience as such.
Divide et impera - this is known and used for ages. How come anyone thinks this is conspiracy theory when this was applied many times and is still being applied
It is true. And it is much easier in "democracies" with only two Parties to take care of. Add one, two, or more political Parties to the mix and you get someone to sneak in their back and topple them over...
The world is divided in one way or another, through just about everything
It does seem that way, lately. Us lower class people have a lot more in common, than we have differences. My poor neighborhood is a hodgepodge of different races and cultures. We work at the same places. Our kids go to the same schools. People are hanging out, or dating, or babysitting each other's kids. Just because some of the wealthy people, in their gated communities, never interact with anyone who's different than them, unless they're working for them, doesn't mean that's how the rest of us live. That's the world most politicians are from, however. Hell, most politicians are actually related to each other. Almost all the presidents, democrat and republican, including Obama, can be traced back to the same pilgrims, and have been marrying back and forth ever since.Betcha didn't know that. Sometimes, I can't tell if they're purposely trying to create issues to divide us, or they're just that out of touch with reality. But, it makes sense that they'd be protecting their own interests.
This is exactly how hitler had his nazi party set up, keep them fighting each other so they don't try to take him down
"Modern art that sells for millions is a way for criminals to launder money. I refuse to believe someone paid over 100k for a banana duck taped to a wall. Someone is using that grift to launder their drug money or something."
Not a conspiracy theory at all. This is 100% true.
Load More Replies...I read that as banana duck and now I can’t escape that image.
Same. And google did not disappoint me banana-duc...d2b11d.jpg
It's also a tax dodge for the rich. Rich person pays artist 25k to slap something together. Art appraiser contact of rich person values art at x million dollars. Rich person donates art to gallery, gets huge tax deduction.
All art is a good way to shift wealth from one country to another without much red tape.
There is actually money loundring done by selling books. Find a non-fiction e-book in Amazon that has a tzillion pages, but no reputable publisher, cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars and it has only sold maybe two copies? That's for money loundring. No-one has ever read, or will ever read, that book.
it may have happened occasionally, but is not how art is sold and purchased.
"There is only one yawn on earth and it constantly travels from person to person…"
I yawned reading this so It can't be true. Am I the only one who yawns if yawning is even mentioned?
I yawned when reading it, and yawned again when reading your comment.
Load More Replies...Haha one time I yawned while driving my car and at the same time I noticed the lady in the car behind me was watching me in the side mirror and then she yawned. I always wondered how far down the line it got and now I know it just kept on keeping on
I've heard that psychopaths can't catch yawns because they aren't capable of empathizing with the yawner.
"Celebrities aren't actually giving their kids absurd names, they just aren't publicizing their legal names."
I thought this is an obvious thing. Or at least I hope it is because I wouldn't want to walk around my whole life being named Storm, North, Apple or Bear Blue. Those weird names get the most attention from the media and they don't have to public the real names.
I work with a lot of celebs and the names they publicize, are the kids' real legal names. I've worked with celebs who have never revealed their kids' names and the kids have even crazier names that the ones you hear about. If someone doesn't want their child's name out there they just don't release it. No one is using fake names for a child.
This one makes no sense to me. Most places in the USA birth records and names are a matter of public record. Paparazzi hound famous people regardless of name. Many examples of weirdly named kids who either stayed weirdly named or had to legally change their name because it was their legal name. Moon Unit Zappa and her brother Dweezil are examples who did not change their names. EDIT: Also, giving your child a bizarre name (whether or not it is legal) just about guarantees more scrutiny / news articles. Boring names would do more to keep a child's life private - to the extent name would matter at all.
"The woman's clothing industry is a conspiracy. Winter cardigans are intentionally thin so they have to buy more to layer them, no pockets so they have to buy bags."
It extends to little girls' clothes as well. Baby clothes and tiny shirts with unicorns and hearts on them are made with noticeably thinner material and flimsier stitching than the same shirts with dinosaurs and rockets on them.
That's because girls play with dolls, not in the mud! (very big /s here, f*ck those gender stereotypes)
Load More Replies...I don't think it's working because it just makes me stop buying their clothes.
The pocket thing is true, it is because the first brands to ever make female trousers were the same that made handbags so they had little to no interest in making functional pockets. The other brands copied this particularity and here we are
Whelp, cardigans come in multiple thickness…some of which are meant to be worn in summer months.
Don’t know about the cardigan one, but the pockets thing could definitely be true.
Women's clothing in general is a huge scam based on forcing consumerism and women keep accepting it by buying into the new fashions. The fashion industry does not tell men they need a new wardrobe every season and by the way you should feel horribly embarrassed to be seen this fall wearing last fall's outfits. And almost all of the "new" stuff is just recycled from a decade you don't remember. My best friend and I are old. A little 'game' we play is observing women's clothes and picking the decades. Like, "Oh, I see they are using 60s colors mixed with 80s styles" or whatever. Narrow belts/ties - wide belts ties. Lime greens and oranges or pastels. Flare leg straight leg, minis, maxis, etc - ITS ALL BEEN DONE. Wear what you are comfortable in and tell the clothing industry to F off. As a man my wardrobe may be more boring but I can wear something until it wears out / doesn't fit.
as a women, even if my clothing had substantial pockets, i wouldn't want to put what's currently in my purse, into my pockets. it would be too uncomfortable and definitely not practical
Almost everybody is out to rip you off any way they can. There are decent businesses, but the big ones, meaning corporations, are scum.
Layering thinner layers is always better, and warmer, than one thick layer. Layers provide more warmth per gram of fabric so are more convenient, less weight to drag you down. Layers trap in the heat, and when you get too hot you can easily remove a layer without freezing.
The no pocket thing is not a conspiracy, its a response to sales. The companies that manufacture dresses and pants rarely make accessories. Look up the top 20 selling pants on Amazon. Lee jeans is the only one that has pockets. Amazon Essentials has a pair of jeggings on the list and is the only one to also make purses. The rest are all pocketless and their makers don't sell accessories. Western fashion has pushed that a woman's figure needs to have smooth lines and the bulge of pockets breaks that flow. Women can choose to buy items with pockets but ones without sell more.
Sorry but even when actively searching Amazon for women clothes WITH pockets, more than half of the results shown are WITHOUT. Absolutely frustrating, but still better than going to a store to find only one model has pockets that are worth to be called so. Not to mention the disgraceful habit to sew fake pockets on clothes, wich easily could have been functional.
Load More Replies..."That there are people rich enough to disappear. There must be some billionaires we've never heard of."
Not really a conspiracy, i am sure many billionaires would actively seek to be anonymous
And then there are the "rich" who gladney show off their "richness"...
Load More Replies...There are many (I think) and not all billionaires. I live in WA state. Some relatives lived on one of the islands for years. Smallish community, people know each other. There are a surprising number of rich / famous people living on that island to have some privacy. They get along because the locals respect it and let them be "just another person" when they come into the local grocery or are living their lives. Movie stars, an astronaut, one of Oprah's houses, some rich CEOs and so on. From time to time I heard great stories that started with "guess who walked into the store today?"
Only the stupid and narcissistic billionaires live publicly. You’ve never heard of the smart ones and they live their very nice lives away from the hoi polloi.
"Disney's frozen is only titled like that so when you Google "Disney frozen" the movie comes up instead of conspiracy theories."
It's related to cryogenically frozen Walt Disney. Are they selling tickets yet for the unveiling of unalive Disney!??
Load More Replies...Yes, but this one DOES have some true roots. The Disney company was VERY aware of the theories, and they did not like them. Especially the part that Walt's head was still somewhere under Magic Kingdom. So, the name Frozen was very strategic, as with many other Disney attractions, movies, and merchandise.
Walt Disney is cryogenically frozen. At some time they will be charging ludicrous amounts for tickets to watch him melt!
Load More Replies...Again? Come on all they said was lol! Stop down voting without a valid.reason! Only down vote if.what they said was bad!
Load More Replies...Except it's very easy to still find 'Walt's Frozen Body results', so the theory clearly doesn't work. Plus Frozen had its beginnings as a Snow Queen adaptation when Walt was alive, it sat dormant for years, was revived, then was put away again, & revived into what today is Frozen. It's far fetched to think an idea that was Walt's to begin with was 'created' to hide his demise.
They could've changed the name of the movie numerous times. The name is often one of the things in movies and productions that can be completely different from when it started. This is just a theory thread, though, so it doesn't exactly have to be logical to see the logic in it.
Load More Replies...Not gonna lie, it took me a minute to figure out what this one meant lol
Frozen is brilliant marketing technique. Open any search system and start "frozen foods"
"Adam Sandler makes movies as an excuse to go on vacation with some friends."
Isn't that why everyone makes movies? To go on vacation in the Tunisian desert (Star Wars), Death Valley (Spartacus), the NYC subways (Midnight Cowboy), and in massive rooms covered in green paint (all of Marvel) I know I'd love to visit all of those places!
Yeah he did on one of the late night shows. I think the first one he really enjoyed, and then the next one he was like "...couldn't we set this in Hawaii?"
Load More Replies...I feel like he doesn’t need an excuse. He can just do it. Lol. However, he very clearly liked to work in tropical places so he can make money and still have fun at the same time. Also why he hires his friends repeatedly.
Of course he can go on vacation whenever he wants, making a movie while on vacation means the studio pays for it. Plus he and all his friends make some money on it.
Load More Replies...Going off the quality of his films I'd say this is true. Also if you could why wouldn't you, sounds like a sweet setup to me
This isn't conspiracy - it's well known. And the reason even more respected actors will participate in his films is that he makes his sets a fun and welcoming place. You can go on location and live alone in a Romanian hotel room for 4 rainy months and just maybe win an award, or you can take your family to Hawaii to do a film with Adam Sandler where there's childcare, cookouts, parties, and nice people.
He doesn’t need to make movies to go on vacation. He is a millionaire. He doesn‘t need to make an excuse to go on vacation. I myself LOVE Adam Sandler!!! I have always been a huge fan. We aren’t far apart in age so my young adult self watched him faithfully on SNL.
"Yuri Gagarin was not the first man in space, just the first man to live through it."
Even that may depend on your definition of space and some of the early hot air balloonist
"space" is commonly defined as above 100km, no way you'll get a hot air balloon that high. (Just had to look it up, the highest manned hot air balloon reached an altitude of 21027 m in 2005)
Load More Replies...No, but I believe at the height of the "our ideology is better than yours" pissing competition if the yanks were tracking a rocket of a cosmonaut who didn't survive they'd have publicised it.
Load More Replies...This one's pretty much debunked though, because you can't really hide something that goes into space, circles the globe and transmits radio. When they launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, the whole world tracked it and that also happened with the four flights of the Korabl-Sputnik series designed to test all the technology before Gagarin's flight - after the first one used pre-recorded messages to test the communication suites which caused speculation in Italian papers that the Soviets had sent up a human and lost him, the Soviets then changed to recordings of a choir on next missions to make it clear the capsules had no human occupants - they did however carry dogs, mice, rats, plants and in one case a human like dummy named "Ivan Ivanovich" who had a paper reading "макет" (dummy) in front of it's face under the visor, just in clear up any misunderstandings.
I always thought the Moon landings might have been recorded and replayed later on. The US would have been very cautious about the astronauts dying up there with the whole world watvching.
I thought the bigger risk was that the astronauts could have been stranded on the moon if the LEM was unable to take-off from the lunar surface.
Load More Replies...Ok no, the moon landing was real and all the guys lived and talked about it for 40 years.
I don't believe this one because people were able to see his capsule with the naked eye for 108 minutes. There wasn't all the space debris and thousands of satellites like there is now so any fast moving bright blip of light was obvious.
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov, first man in space (born March 16, 1927, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. —died April 24, 1967, Kazakhstan), Soviet cosmonaut, the first man known to have died during a space mission. Upon his return the parachute failed to deploy and he was incinerated down to nothing but a charred lump.
"Facebook and Google are monitoring everything you type, post, and say. There are so many stories of people talking about, say cats, and getting ads for cat food within an hour. They never searched for cats or cat food then or in the past, just said the word a few times. "Reply All" did a podcast episode debunking this theory, but all it boiled down to was an email from Facebook stating they didn't do this."
I recently went out with a friend and we talked about a specific movie. I googled it to look up some actor and than closed the tap. The next day I turn on my work pc that isn't connected to my private smartphone. I open amazon.com (logged in with the company account, not my personal one) to order some office stuff and BOOM amazon.com offers me a blue ray of this exact movie I was talking about - coincidence? I don't think so.
Probably not coincidence, no. The algorithm probably knows that your work account and your personal account are the same person.
Load More Replies...Not conspiracy, fact. I purchase only one thing on the internet and every site i visit has ads for just this one thing for me...books.
It's also terrifying how advertisers can determine things about you from seemingly unrelated facts. Like that story of how Target realised a girl was pregnant because she purchased unscented lotion and zinc supplements and then sent flyers for baby basinets to her house... where she still lived with her parents because she was 16. And that was how she wound up having a very uncomfortable conversation. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
Load More Replies...This is 1000% true, and it’s happened to me in a way that obliterates all doubt. A few weeks ago, my wife and I were reading through prompt cards and breaking apart word magnets for a new game we have. We were reading the funniest ones aloud and ended up with two phrases we repeated A LOT as default hilarious prompt fills. They were “sexy lady strategy” and “poop.” I had my phone face-down charging on the night stand and never even picked it up to look at notifications while we were doing this, but the next day, ALL OF MY FACEBOOK ADS were for laxative pills and battery-powered adult toys.
I get ads and suggestions on topics I've only talked about, never googled it nor talking about on my phone/ computer
Yeah, but you don't need to search stuff yourself - the algorithm knows who you're friends with, when you're nearby them, etc. so your ads are often connected to their searches, purchase history, etc. It's not from speech.
Load More Replies...That these devices are listening all the time has been disproven, and easily so. Lot's of people have put packet sniffers and other detection tools on their devices to look for data being continuously sent out and it's just not happening. But, these sites do put cookies on your system and track every site you go to. And, they'll track everything you type into their sites (but not other sites). The will also read incoming/outgoing email from Gmail (for google) and Instagram (for facebook). The idea that there are many stories of people talking about something and then ads just show up... they did search for them, or someone emailed them something about it, or they fit a particular demographic that gets this sent their way. And, when this happens and coincides with something they recently said, they remember it and turn it into a "google is listening" story. But, they don't remember the many many many more ads that have nothing to do with what they said.
It's similar to when you buy a new car and then it seems like way more people are driving that make/model than there were before.
Load More Replies...I was talking to a friend who visited from Canada, so I obviously spoke English to her (I am not a native English speaker). All of a sudden, Google Maps gave directions in English without me having changed any language settings. It stopped when I was only talking in my mother tongue again.
My partner uses my real name and everyone else knows me as Will. Once when using my partners phone it referred to me by my real name...that freaked us out.
Once, I took my mine and my mother's respective cell phones, went to the garage, put them in her car, came back inside, went to her bedroom which is the furthermost one from the garage and said "okay, we're going to test something. Here in a bit I'm going to retrieve our phones and when they're in our presence, we're going to talk about riverdancing (I chose the most off the wall thing I could think of at the moment) and we'll see what pops up in my Google news app, your Facebook etc etc" Needless to say, my experiment worked.
You should've documented it! When newspapers and magazines write articles trying to prove this, they can never get it to work. Never worked for me either.
Load More Replies..."During Hurricane Katrina, the Murphy Oil refinery in St. Bernard parish, just outside of New Orleans, had a container rupture and leak oil on a lot of the surrounding neighborhood, including my grandparent's and aunt/uncle's houses. After the cleaning up the land was deemed uninhabitable and the oil company was able to purchase all the land for very, very cheap. Many people that were affected and in the area believe that the oil company did it on purpose, and I tend to believe them."
There's a similar theory about all the forest fires in California - that they are somehow perfectly aligned with a planned high-speed train route. Who knows.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This actually happened. ...sincerely, St. Bernard Parish resident
Former popular East area districts of Paris saw an amazing number of building set on fire in the 70's/80's then rebuilt with modern ones that former inhabitants could not afford nor rent anymore, then sent to the surburbs
I was in St. Bernard after Katrina and we were told not to do push-ups on the bare ground because of contamination.
"Starbucks trains its employees to spell names wrong on coffee cups to get pictures of their brand on social media."
That's a fact, I think. I recently went to starbucks and said my name is Kate. This is a short form of my real name so pretty easy right? What was written on my cup? CASSIDY! It wasn't busy or loud so there's no way she just misheard me. She did this on purpose 100% because no one is that incompetent.
I think you're underestimating the potential incompetence of most people 😋
Load More Replies...I work at a Starbucks and I feel terrible every time I spell someone's name wrong. I always ask how to spell it. I also make sure that the sticker that says what the drink is, is on the opposite side of the logo to make pictures that ppl like to post easier.
Honestly never experienced this or heard of it happening to anyone 🤷🏼♀️
That is because your name has traditional spelling. Ch or k. Y or i. Stal or stle. Yn or ine. All variants for parts of traditional names that start ch or k
Load More Replies...I don't know if it's true or not but here, if you have a membership card, it doesn't apply. All our drinks, snacks, etc. have a sticker on it with my husband's first name on them and it's actually written correctly even though it's a completely French name in an English environment. It comes from his card. They don't ask for his name.
How about when Helen Hunt went to Starbucks and she went to give them her name and they told her they got it. When he coffee came they had written "Jodie", thinking her Jodie Foster. She went online and Starbucks came back with an apology and said they hoped the coffee was, "as good as it gets".
I can say for a fact this is NOT TRUE!! It is most certainly not part of training and we can't spell every name correctly, if I told any one and I mean any one my first name not one person will either pronounce or spell it right. This is too funny!
My friend works at Starbucks in netherlands. She said they do it on purpose. In addition it happens so often. My name is Rob and even that gets misspelled sometimes like Gob... the f**k its not even a name (i think, sorry to all the gobs out there)
Load More Replies...Wow that’s hilarious. Never was trained that when I worked there and I never trained anyone in the decade that I was there. It is just hard to hear with all those machines (and headset if you have a drive-thru) and on top of that I have an auditory processing disorder where noise becomes jumbled and I don’t quite hear what someone says. If you’re worried spell your name clearly, loud enough to be heard by everyone in the store, and have the barista spell it back. Personally, I was always embarrassed and did my best to spell someone’s name correctly, the first time. Jeez
My favorite one of those was when a guy told them his name was Marc with a "C". Then he showed a pic of the cup with "Cark" written on it XD
This theory relies on the belief that any publicity is good publicity even when it is bad. Denny's gets mentioned every time someone talks about how s****y their coffee is but I wouldn't call that a win for Denny's. From what I've seen on local social media, Starbucks are often mentioned in the context of, "Coffee place (name) is better than Starbucks".
But as soon as people are outside somewhere in a new place looking for a coffee shop they immediately recognize the name and logo. Maybe blabla is better but you at least always know the quality of a chain brand
Load More Replies..."Toothpaste and shampoo commercials show using way too much of the stuff. You need a pea-sized bit of toothpaste but the ads always show it covering the entire brush and then some."
Same with Alka seltzer tablets. You really only need one, but they package them by twos along with the whole "Plop, Plop, fizz, fizz" jingle as a way to double their sales.
One already fills a normal size glass with tons of bubbles...sometimes I might only use half.
Load More Replies...the tubes of toothpaste typically tell you to only use a pea sized amount.
Same with dishwasher packs and laundry detergent packs and liquid.... they say two to three packs when absolutely one will suffice.
LOL laughed at this for years. Tried to teach my grandkids. My favorite is when they not only use a full 'row' of toothpaste, they double back over and make it two rows deep. That's four or five times as much toothpaste as you need. Sort of similar for laundry detergent. YMMV if you have hard water but I use a fraction of what is shown on commercials and my clothes come out fine.
During the '80s and the '90s, America became convinced that here was an underground network of Satanists working to kidnap and torture children. While none of it was real, the theories destroyed many lives and livelihoods.
Yes, it's just people that say they're Christians but are really just terrible people that are making a bad name
Load More Replies...Even worse, there was at least one case connected to the satanic panic where they used hypnotic regression, and ended up planting false memories in the kids
"The end justifies the means"? If someone thinks that way is because they see them as better humans as someone else?
Load More Replies...Yeah, go down the Adrenochrome rabbit hole. About kids being taken for the extraction of this product.
The Satanic Panic. Thanks to that and the "war on drugs," the troubled teen industry makes millions torturing teenagers.
The Memphis 3 comes to mind. I think Stranger Things based the character Eddie Munson off of them.
The Memphis three murders happened not too far from me in the 90s. Cool documentary done on them with Metallica as the soundtrack.
Load More Replies...And that’s the same goddamn conspiracy those crazy f***s are using today. Saying all dems sexually assault kids and eat babies. Freaking Christian Right.
"The "coup attempt" in Turkey was faked in order for Erdogan to consolidate his power and purge the opposition."
It has been proven knew about the coup and let it happen but was prepared enough to crush it and then use the coup to his complete advantage (calling everyone who criticizes him a terrorist, disolving human rights, enabling a semi-dictatorship of his with no legal counterbalance anymore, ...).
Many military experts think this, because the coup was done in the most incompetent way possible, and the govt had the right response ready in hours to counter it. It seemed too staged, but Erdogan was able to sack any officers of high rank not loyal to him, none of the soldiers involved in it were punished. And now no one can oust him as a dictator like the Turkish military has done in the past
A great classic of authoritarism and dictatorship in need of settlement
He used it like Hitler the Reichstagsbrand (arson of the German parliament in 1933) to get rid of opponents and critics.
"Planned obsolescence everywhere in the industry. If everyone stopped replacing their cars and smartphones, imagine the."
A statement about a conspiracy can also be a proven fact. Example: "Abaham Lincoln was assassinated by a conspiracy led by John Wilkes Booth." is both a statement about a conspiracy and a proven fact.
Load More Replies...It was cutoff on BP for some reason. OP said: "the sh!tstorm"
Load More Replies...Too many sheeple keep this alive by thinking they have to have the latest and greatest as soon as it comes out. My still reliable vehicle is a 2002. My $200 fully unlocked G Power phone has most of the features of a $1,000+ phone and lasts for years. I have kitchen appliances older than my grandchildren, and one of them is 18. I don't live in a mud hut and wear burlap. I just take care of things and don't buy into fads.
As a computer nerd, this is true. I had to install linux on my old laptop becuase windows 7 is out of date
I've been driving the same car since 2005. CLARKSEPT-...c82c30.jpg
Entropy is more likely, completely unavoidable with an atmosphere and atoms butting up against each other constantly. Planned obsolescence does happen in industry for sure but not because obsolescence wouldn't be there anyway, it just means they make things breakdown by using inferior materials so it happens faster than it would otherwise.
You basically just gave the text book definition of planned obsolescence.
Load More Replies..."I believe that there are people richer than the people we know as the richest people in the world."
I see no reason why I'd want to advertise wealth if I was wealthy, beyond certain improvements in quality of life which can be pretty obvious for people to observe. But beyond that, you're just inviting scrutiny and ill intent from people.
At any rate, the Forbes list is wrong because it only counts legal wealth.
The Forbes list is wrong because only attention-seekers submit their information to qualify for the list to begin with.
Load More Replies...I believe there are people richer than the people that are richer than the richest. Some say wealthier and wealthiest
Even for the richest people we know in the world, the numbers are estimates based on disclosures of who owns which stocks. I.e. shareholder lists will tell you this. But, they may have more/less other assets than have been estimated for. We don't have any real data on those that get rich in other ways though. Example: Russian oligarchs. You can tell they're incredibly wealthy, but exactly how much is just a guess.
In this instance we are talking monetary wealth. If you are interested the Better Life Index has multiple measures of what a human needs to be happy. It rates the countries of the world on things like safety, access to services, education, health I recommend checking it out, it's quite interesting. Spoiler: Norway win pretty well everything
Load More Replies..."Mattress firm is some sort of giant money laundering scheme. They are everywhere and always empty. I remember seeing 4 mattress firms all on each corner of an intersection once, there is no way there is such a demand for mattresses."
I have said this for years. We have about 12 mattress stores within a 6 block radius where I live. I believe that they are drug fronts and use the mattresses for bringing the drugs in and when they occasionally sell a non-loaded mattress, they use the business to launder money.
Sadly the matress I just bought doesn't seem to contain any money (or drugs).
That's cuz you didn't know the secret handshake
Load More Replies...Must be a US thing, we don't have so many here. What we do have is countless hair/ nail/brow salons. Take up les space for your daily money laundering I suppose.
Also used for human trafficking. A lot of those who work there aren't legally in the country.
Load More Replies...I have a similar theory with barber shops, there are loads near me, always fully booked, but always look empty when going past. With the same people hanging around them
Yes! There’s one on my street always surrounded by BMWs and Mercedes Benzes!
Load More Replies...Disagree. Virtually everyone sleeps on one. I think the scam is in the high prices. Another example is jewelry stores. It's changed now but used to be THE prime intersection in my local mall had all four corner stores as jewelry stores. Not crowded. Not everyone needs jewelry. But due to high mark ups they could all survive based on $$ not quantity. These days my mall is failing. I recently noticed 3 of the 4 jewelry stores are empty now. If they were just fronts for money laundering they could still be there.
BUT people only buy them probably every ten years or so. Plus people are more saying that the odd part is how many are clustered close together, e.g. multiple on the same block
Load More Replies...I think this of off licenses (convenience stores) in London. With real estate prices here, there’s no way they can sustain themselves on sales alone. (Also the American candy stores on Oxford street but we all know those are money laundering fronts.)
It's not mattress stores in the UK but American candy stores, they are overpriced, secretive, hardly ever open and filling up city centres. Law is on to them now.
"That laundry detergent companies suggest using more detergent per load than necessary in order to force people into buying more often."
Well, joke's on them, I just dump in too much and don't pay attention to the bottle anyway.
I've worked in the dry cleaning industry. You never need as much detergent as they say. So this is true from that perspective. As for being a 'conspiracy', I don't know '
Make up companies pay "influencers" to use way too much make up in their paid posts so people will use the product faster.
I remember a video I saw on YT and the lady, a professional cleaner, was using a full cup of Oxy-Clean everywhere, and I only used 1 Tbsp. for the same stuff she was doing and I did pointed it out that that video was a paid marketing event because of this. Even on the package, it doesn't say to use that much.
Load More Replies...I've noticed that what they used to class as a load was a full load, now they class a load is a half load. So they can remove detergent from the packaging and still claim it does X amount of loads
The caps on detergent bottles are intentionally designed to be difficult to read and interpret so people will use too much detergent and buy more often.
The caps are so much bigger than they need to be. Many people just fill the oversized cap to the top. There are lines showing what's necessary for a regular load, but they're hard to see.
Load More Replies..."The CIA killed Marilyn Monroe because Kennedy had been disclosing classified information to her."
I think that poor woman had mental health and prescription pill problems and accidentally died. Sometimes things are just an accident or a way to numb the pain a persons feeling.
During her autopsy, not a single trace of medication was found in her stomach. Conveniently that report ended up lost. Also, Bobby Kennedy and Perter Lawford were seen outside her house that night. They were meant to be in San Francisco.
Load More Replies...I just think the fact she was having an affair with both brothers was enough. She probably threatened to expose that with maybe solid evidence ( tape recordings?) of their sordid liaisons. I really don't think JFK would have been discussing issues of national security with her. No offence to Marilyn Monroe but she wasn't his chief of staff y'know?
I think she was his chief of STAFF. Or maybe chief of stiff?
Load More Replies...Every President seems to go home with documents that are not expected to ever leave the White House...
I only think that that woman was desperatly sad and assignated to his role of stupid bimbo. She was deeper than that and very smart in fact, a very good poetess ( knew recently about that on a France Culture podcast)
From my reading and documentary research on her; she was insecure about her lack of formal education but was a voracious reader and diligent autodidact. That she's a poet too is amazing, I must find that podcast.
Load More Replies...Why would JFK tell Monroe classified information? How would it interest her (assuming she had the background to understand it)? Do we think that Bill Clinton was blurting out state secrets while Monica Lewinski was exercising her talents?
Both Kennedys talked about nuclear weapons with her during the height of The Cold War. Apparently, her home had multiple bugs.
Load More Replies...I tend to believe the lesser discussed theory that it was mafia hit against his father Joe Sr. It has many elements of a mafia job. He was accused more than once of having ties….mobs were instrumental in getting his sons elected… but once in office, promises were broken.
Probably false. (I had not heard this one). The weird thing to consider is the basic concept is totally feasible based on other shady stuff the US government had done that has been documented / declassified / admitted. I had a coworker who was part of a class action suit from when the US Navy "volunteered" some sailors to help test / be subjected to nasty chemical warfare chemicals. And I read up on it and it was a real thing the government acknowledged.
Watch the documentary it tells you all you need to know and pretty much the same thing.
"The government had a hand in creating and/or popularizing some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories in order to make questioning the official story seem inherently crazy by association."
There is some truth to this. Honestly. Everyone thinks about "Area 51" without considering that there are 50 other numbered 'areas' out there that the military controls.
Area 43, for example, is where they conduct secret pizza research.
Load More Replies...well, yes. Also people think this is exactly where flat Earth theory spawned from. To discredit ALL conspiracies
Given known historical "spin" this isn't so far fetched. British night bombers hitting targets better because they ate a bunch of carrots for example. Not a conspiracy but still a falsehood told to cover up truth. Edit: I suppose it technically was a conspiracy due to multiple people had to be involved.
ABSOLUTELY!!! More precisely, the mainstream media frequently adds irrelevant details which, when disproven, are used to discredit the actual conspiracy theory. For instance: there is no basement where child sex slaves were kept in the Comet Pizza conspiracy. That was never part of the conspiracy, which was based on the bizarre e-mails sent in the Clinton campaign e-mails. It's also a common tactic of sexual abusers to commit bizarre acts so that the victims seem crazy; for instance, when Cardinal Bernardin (allegedly) raped his victims, he (allegedly) included Satanic rituals so that the complaints against him would seem like insane anti-Catholic bigotry.
This is especially true around 911 and JFK. The truth they are hiding is their complete and utter incompetence to prevent these tragedies occurring.
That's fact it's the disinformation misinformation tactic used by them and all the narcissists of the world
Baldrillard (french philosopher) would agree. Check out his writings on Watergate. More about ethics, but totally applies.
"That Sprite changing their bottle from green to clear doesn't actually help the environment, they are just doing it cuz their green bottles in the water are immediately recognized."
It's because clear plastic is much more easily recycled.
Load More Replies...This is the first I ever heard this reasoning. I just assumed it was a branding thing. It could be that the dye in the bottle had made them slightly worse for the environment. Just seeing a green bottle wouldn't tell me its Sprite though. It could be 7-Up, Mountain Dew, Fresca... what tells me it's sprite is the label, and that's still on the bottle so this conspiracy sound bogus to me.
However I believe these other drinks are far less popular, especially outside of the US. Thus while it COULD be other bottles, peoples' first guess would be sprite. Additionally, Mountain Dew bottles are a much brighter shade of green, and both them and 7 up bottles have a different shape to sprite bottles.
Load More Replies...Clear bottles are more easily recycled. Unless there is a polythene sleeve for the branding. In which case they are effectively unrecyclable
I've noticed a lot of branding/packaging that's clear, white or plain to seem like a more pure product
Recycling helps the environment, no matter what colour the bottle, so what's the issue? If they're recycled, they're not in the water....
Clear plastic more likely to get recycled. Worst color for recyclers is black. I do not believe the stated "conspiracy" has any basis in fact but in generic terms, clear and white are easier to make into other products due to keeping color options open.
Load More Replies..."The CIA first gave black communities drugs in the 70s as an experiment."
Although more likely to fund black ops than as an experiment
Load More Replies...To the people saying this was proven... it wasn't. The CIA was never shown to have personally given drugs to anyone. Not only that but this conspiracy took place in the 80's not the 70's. By the time people suspected the CIA was involved in the drug trade, the drug had already infected black communities. What was more clearly shown by subsequent investigations is that the CIA knew people they were working with were also trafficking drugs and didn't care. It seems, but was not proven, that orders from the top that were muddled (perhaps purposely) causing confusion for the agent on the ground on what to do about the drug trafficking. TLDR The timelines don't matchup for this particular conspiracy in the post. It wasn't proven the CIA actually assisted with the drug trade.
Wouldn’t be surprised. European settlers gave Native Americans hard liquor. English gave the Chinese opium. It’s not uncommon.
Plus we gave Indians blankets with smallpox. On purpose. So they would die. Jesus Christ.
Load More Replies...It is possible that syphilis went the other way. It existed in the western hemisphere long before it was reported in Europe.
Load More Replies...It wasn't an experiment. They were importing cocaine to fund the side they wanted to win in the some south american revolt.
"Lip balm makes your lips dependent on lip balm. Just seems the more you use it the more you need to use it. Not sure if that's an actual conspiracy but that's the best I can come up with on a Monday morning."
You can develop an addiction to lip balm, but it's more likely to be a behavioral addiction (like addiction to gambling or shopping) rather than a chemical addiction. Alternately, you may be irritating your lips by licking them immediately after apply lip balm or using lip balm with ingredients that may irritate your skin or even cause an allergic reaction, such as eucalyptus or salicylic acid. https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/lip-balm-addiction
I used to use Blistex, until I found out it had an ingredient which actually *does* dry your lips out in the long run. These days I use pure lanolin instead.
Me too. I also use it for minor scrapes. My dermatologist's instructions for biopsy stitches was to use Vaseline and NOT antibacterial cream. I felt vindicated.😊
Load More Replies...Same applies for eye drops, shampoo conditioner and other things I’m sure. Use the drops enough, your body stops producing its own because it’s not needed. Your hair gets oily in a day, stop washing it with shampoo everyday, the oil production changes.
Same with lotion....using something like this teaches your body not to take care of the problem itself
I'm freaking addicted to the stuff. Could see it might be true with certain brands, namely the cheaper stuff. When I buy hand mixed oil based balms they work way better.
"Pope John Paul I was assassinated for trying to uncover corruption in the Vatican Bank. He's the only Pope whose body was cremated and I believe it was done to hide the evidence of being poisoned."
He was very old and sick. One can say that he was assassinated to make room for the next one but not for the corruption. There’s a theory that Pope Benedict retired because he didn’t feel strong enough to fight said corruption.
That would be weird since Benedict was in the protection of paedophile priests up to his neck. What sort of corruption would he draw the line at?
Load More Replies...I agree that Pope John Paul I was assassinated. "After he became pope, he had set six plans down which would dictate his pontificate: To renew the church through the policies implemented by Vatican II. To revise canon law. To promote church unity. To promote dialogue and fight corruption. To encourage world peace and social justice". His social reforms quickly led to his death.
Watch Vatican Girl on Netflix for more conspiracy theory. Tbh I think they hide a lot!
The Catholic church has some pretty hefty issues with how their priests and children interact... and they've never killed anyone over it because they can simply get away with it. If that's "acceptable", I can't imagine any other level of corruption that their followers wouldn't rationalize away.
I thought Catholics were not allowed to cremate their dead so this seems possible.
The Catholic Church changed that rule back in 1963, more than a decate before John Paul I died.
Load More Replies...Anyone else expecting the latest one to get bumped off too. People are not going to like his views on the LGBQ+ community.
I thought the same he’s been ther a while already
Load More Replies...Even if you haven't heard about Centralia, Pennsylvania, you have probably still heard about Centralia, Pennsylvania. It's the most infamous ghost town in probably whole world because of its underground fires burning there indefinitely since 1962. Although the origin of the fires is known, it still didn't deter people from coming up with their own juicy explanations.
It started as a controlled fire at a nearby rubbish dump that wasn't properly contained and spread to the coal mines under the town. Pictures of smoke coming from every hole in the ground are eerie. There's a fire that's been burning under the Jharia coal fields in India for even longer! https://strangesounds.org/2020/02/jharia-underground-fire-death-disease-videos-pictures.html
There is also one in, I think, Turkmenistan that was started in the early 1970s. Still going.
Load More Replies...That’s really weird but awesome. Although I do wonder how the air quality is there, and if there are any long-term health impacts?
I've been there a few times, and you'd never know it's still on fire underground. The whole place is basically just covered in trash.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, but some think there is more to the story. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped out onto his balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and was shot. The civil rights leader died at the Memphis Hospital at 39 years old. The killer, James Earl Ray, was caught and pleaded guilty a year later. However, many people, including King's own children, do not believe Ray acted alone.
I think it likely. Politics was a murky business back then and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the CIA had a hand in it.
FBI. J Edgar Hoover hated Kennedys, MLK, etal. My money's on his boys.
Load More Replies...Murderous white supremist groups were even more prevalent and deadly in 1968 than they are now.
Buncha chickenshits wouldn't have had the gall to act alone. Sorry to insult the feces of fowl by comparison tho.
Load More Replies...The CIA had a keen interest in him, they tried to blackmail him and even sent him a letter to try and convince him to commit suict
Here's my conspiracy.. pleaded is a Mandela effect. Why have the word pled? Joe pled guilty to the charges. Joe pleaded guilty to the charges Pleaded is not a freaking word!
This is one where I do believe he was bumped off by the government/wealthy white folks. Civil rights look like it was actually starting to make some head way. After he died it all went down hill.
Pretty sure I read/saw something where the CIA admitted the assasination
If the cia admitted it would this not just be information instead of theory? Then it would be on record somewhere.
Load More Replies..."Elon Musk is actually a Martian who has been exiled to Earth and he's just trying to find his way home."
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I mean have you ever seen this man??
Load More Replies...We, the Mars community, have declined this offer graciously as we find that this human contains to much assholery and egotism for us to handle. Maybe our friends at Saturn would like him
Load More Replies...Elon Musk is actually not a genius and just surrounded himself with genius’s. I think that has become obvious. A man child with daddy issues and way to much money.
"Trader Joe's parking lots are terrible and small to make the store seem like it's always busy."
See, though, that seems like it would have the opposite effect they want- making less people want to go in.
OOOOH! I thought it was just the Trader Joe's closest to me. Didn't realize this was a common thing.
No it's all of them. They always have terrible parking
Load More Replies...Yep, that's a fact. They purposely only have the bare min of spots allowed by local municipal codes.
I would see people stand in line for hours during the pandemic to shop there.
"CSI television shows purposely over play the forensic capabilities of various law enforcement departments to help project an image of total competence."
This is most media depicting police and military performance. In order to gain access to equipment, filming locations, subject matter experts, uniforms, etc., from any sort of organization, filmmakers agree to make those organizations look good. It saves the producers loads of money in exchange for some artistic oversight. One major example of this is Forrest Gump: the platoon Forrest joined was meant portray Project 100,000, in which Robert McNamara drafted 320,000 men who did not meet the minimum qualifications (mental or physical) for military service. In the book, all of Forrest Gump's platoon mates were mentally handicapped. The US Army didn't want to look bad on screen and offered the scriptwriters use of military equipment, uniforms, and soldiers to play extras in exchange for removing problematic parts of the script. https://bigthink.com/the-present/story-behind-mcnamaras-morons/
No they weren't. He was in a standard platoon. And I've read that book many times, so I know all about Sue the male space orangutan, and Raquel Welch's tits.
Load More Replies...These shows are also causing problems in actual prosecutions, since too many jurors believe that the way it is on TV is reality
Almost ironically, the jury expects far more conclusive evidence from forensic techniques and have higher expectations for it.
Load More Replies...In reality, it's making juries expect more evidence from police departments to prove a crime was commited. Good or bad?
0.3 megapixel security camera footage magically reveals minuscule details when a police officer zooms in.
No, they overplay both the abilities and the time it takes (aka super fast DNA tests) to make the show more exciting and fit into an hour time slot. Which is more entertaining? A 1 hour show where they catch the bad guy or a six part mini-series where in the end the evidence is inconclusive and nobody gets resolution?
Goes all the way back to Dragnet, if not earlier. Not a conspiracy. Proven fact.
I won’t even get started about cop shows. So much to say. They suck. And normalize cops walking all over our rights. There that’s short and sweet.
Years back, when CSI shows were new, a real CSI boss was interviewed and asked about how close the shows were to reality. He said something like '40% of it is real, we can do that. About another 30%, we could do, if we only had the budget! And the rest is what we dream about'.
But, as it is actually pretty easy to spot the impossible stuff ... well, it won't deceive anyone having any brains whatsoever, I guess...
Load More Replies...I think they just simplify it for the purpose of clarity and conciseness for the viewer, as well as plot convenience. It's a lot easier to put a fingerprint into a computer and say 'that's our killer' than it is to painstakingly go through all the little bits of evidence and slowly come to a conclusion of the perpetrator(s) identity/identities
"Michael Jackson was chemically castrated as a pre-teen, which is why his singing voice remained so high pitched, and a major contributor to many of his other odd behaviors as an adult."
I think his odd behaviour as an adult was a result of the abuse he received as a child. Children who grow up in the entertainment industry do not come out unscathed. They are put in adult environments and situations that they don't have the mental maturity to deal with.
And as the baby of the family he had to sit and watch his father sexual abuse on his sisters, and the mother even knew but did nothing to determine him. Thats why when they were claiming MJ was a pedophile I didnt believe it BC he seen the trauma and torture of his sisters
Load More Replies...MJ was diagnosed with “Peter Pan Syndrome” which is characterized by a childish immature attitude, and lack of social restraint. It was discussed that his childhood trauma stemming from his fathers abuse of them and involvement in Hollywood from a young age played a huge part in his mental state. He was always described as curious and jovial towards kids, and loved playing games, many of his shows had a ”Make believe” element to them.
…No, he had so many odd behaviors because he grew up in entertainment, subject to conspiracies like this. Child stars are exploited.
If he were 'chemically' castrated, then all he had to do is stop taking the meds - it's not permanent, so he would have to 'want' to.
"New Coke was a cover for switching to high fructose corn syrup."
There actually was no processed cocaine, just ground coca leaf (which contains natural cocaine)
Load More Replies...Problem with this is, Coke started using High Fructose Corn syrup in 1980. New Coke came out in 1985.
The tiny bit of cocaine that was in the original formula was dropped ages ago. Malkarky.
In the UK it's never had high fructose corn syrup - only masses of sugar....
Same in Mexico. That's why some grocery stores carry "Mexican Coke" at a premium, which I happily pay. Used to be Kosher Coke was also sugar but I think HFCS has been declared kosher.
Load More Replies...Changing the design or name with a recipe change is not a conspiracy. And the evils of hfcs was well-known at the time so no need for a cover
It was a sales ploy, new coke was rubbish then they bring back coke classic and sales boomed. It's a CLASSIC scheme to boost sales........I'll show myself out
I believe New Coke was made because Coke was afraid of Pepsi. Pepsi was making huge gains in the market with their "Pepsi challenge" ads. Coke tried to make a new formula that would beat Pepsi in taste tests. I believe it worked in testing, but it all fell apart once it actually hit the market.
"The Colombian government is actively performing criminal activities in all the country in order to remain rich."
It's July 4, 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico. Mac Brazel went out to his sheep pasture only to find unusual objects, like metal sticks, foil pieces, and paper scraps strewn around the area. Not knowing what it was, Brazel called the police and soon enough armored vehicles showed up to pick up the litter. This, of course, sparked some awesome theories about UFOs.
I think it's far more likely that Mac Brazel discovered the aftermath of his sheep having a rave the night before, but the sheep were too embarrassed to admit it.
So you're saying that they were a little... sheepish?
Load More Replies...It was a weather balloon, but the project was classified - hence why the government was evasive about it for a while.
A skyhook balloon, I think it was, which the US was using to spy on their enemies.
Load More Replies...I suspect it was probably the parts of some military technology- like a rocket that exploded in the area. The government and military would definitely send people to remove the evidence for that. No need to assume aliens are involved.
Because there is no way the government might crash an experiment and not want the public to see it. Thus it had to be aliens. Remember those very creative yet largely ineffective balloons Japan used to bomb the USA? At some point those were big secrets as well. Still not made by space aliens.
Can you find me a field that doesn't contain those things???
Project Mogul was a high-altitude weather balloon system. It all fits. Some of the tests had a mannequin in them, so that explains the "bodies" found. There are tales though of a local coroner being asked by the military for child-sized coffins right after the crash and some nurse or someone saw the little alien bodies. I find it interesting that this so-called crash happened within a couple years after we used nukes on other people, like the ETs are making sure we don't annihilate ourselves. Look up Malstom Air Force Base incident to see an example of what I mean.
"Snapchat selfie filters get sent and stored to the NSA for facial recognition."
I don't think they mean what an individual looks like by seeing their photo, more like how do appearances change in general when people age, or have plastic surgery, things like that, like filters can mimic.
Load More Replies...The NSA really doesn't need sent anything. They can access everything on their own, way too easily.
I think the conspiracy is that these apps are voluntarily providing that info to security agencies.
Load More Replies...Fb and linked in are all publicly viewable and most people post a profile pic. They
Load More Replies...I believe they can buy your data just like anyone else, read the fine print people.
er also those "cartoonify" apps. You're probably giving your facial ID to china.
QAnon is a well-known theory that a group of Democrats and elites was attempting to undermine Donald Trump's presidency. QAnon is a baseless conspiracy theory claiming that former President Donald Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of satanic pedophiles and cannibals.
So common that this is a TIL. I heard of the name but nothing more, but this is the only space that I frequent that talks of US politics.
Load More Replies...Not me but there are a lot of people out there who still believe this as truth.
It's a little true...I'm a Democrat and have been attempting to undermine Trump and his presidency since 2015...
Load More Replies...Trump did not need help. My absolutely favorite is the sign/flag that shows this FAT OLD man as Rambo. It shows the unbelievable level of delusion his supporters have.
Because Trump was actively trying to deprive me of my basic human rights. Biden’s not great, in fact I’d say he’s barely mediocre. But he’s still better than Trump, because he doesn’t work with N@zis (people who very much want me dead).
Load More Replies..."Netflix's marketing team releases memes about shows to give off the appearance that everyone is watching the said show. Since people have FOMO they watch the shows to understand the memes until everyone eventually does watch it."
Thanks lol I haven't woken up quite yet this morning and my brain hasn't booted up yet
Load More Replies..."In the United States, gun manufacturers secretly support democratic candidates because whenever they win there’s always a rush to buy up as much ammo/guns as possible."
The NRA is an ad agency, a sales agency, and t hey love mass shootings. "Buy a gun to shoot the mass shooter!" is basically their shtick, and here we are.
There are more than 393 million civilian-owned firearms in the United States, or enough for every man, woman and child to own one and still have 67 million guns left over. Why the hell would you need to buy more, lol.
Are you familiar with the Marine drill chant "This is my rifle, this is my gun, ..."? Well, it's not the rifle that's giving them those feelings of inadequacy.
Load More Replies...We all know that NASA landed astronauts on the moon in 1969, yet, by the 1970s some people were certain that the operation was nothing but a huge hoax.
While I agree with you, skepticism doesn't necessarily mean 'stupid.' We should always question everything we don't fully understand or believe. The people who believe the moon landing was staged just went way too far.
Load More Replies...and boyyyyyy you should see some of the theories and "proofs" Spend a few days on r/conspiracy
I've met many African ppl who believe this and many other b.s. . Reason being, they have very limited access to proper education and unbiased/ informative media, so all info comes from FB, Insta and YouTube.
From which African country? Please elaborate. I'm African and I don't believe that.
Load More Replies...If NASA faked it they would need to fool everyone including the Soviet Union who was keeping a very close eye on them. Not to mention keeping how many hundred to thousands of people quiet if it was a hoax.
Load More Replies...Budget, and the 'Spade Race' was over? And read 'Vix's' comment below also. Now they many are out for the Helium-3 and as a launch pad for future missions to Mars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWTCzUhjFNI
Load More Replies...Probably no other event in the history of humankind was as ripe for conspiracy theories as the COVID-19 pandemic. From microchip injections, to the origins of the virus, to basically any other aspect of pandemic, great many theories spawned from it.
It’s not that hard. Get the jab. Wear a mask. Respect the THOUSANDS of people dying, and follow common sense guidelines.
Please ignore the trolls below 🙄 Edit: and also don’t engage, it’s not worth it. You can’t fix stupid.
Load More Replies...Is the paranoia is widespread in other countries as it is the US? Because where I live, most of the population believes a covid conspiracy of some sort. And almost nobody has gotten the vaccine.
People are saying that Damar Hamlin, the Bills player who suffered cardiac arrest, actually died and was replaced by a lookalike. He died because of the vaccine. You may think it silly, but I am fully vaxxed and double boosted, and I died and was replaced. SO DON'T TELL ME IT DOESN'T HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Lmao you had be going there for a sec.
Load More Replies...If we had a leader that was decisive and intelligent about it, it wouldn't have been nearly as bad. Any other president, any other, would have handled that better.
People have been making up crazy ish about vaccines since the dawn of their conception. No diff3rent nowadays
"Cosmopolitan and other similar magazines intentionally give out bad advice so their readers won't get in a relationship which makes them keep buying them for advice."
not to mention companies like Weight Watchers... I had a friend on it who said she couldn't eat carrots because they had too much sugar. And then proceed to crack out a weigh watcher branded piece of cake.
Load More Replies...In the 1990s, the Sherman family came forward and spoke to media outlets about years of strange occurrences at their ranch in Ballard, Utah, also known as the Skinwalker Ranch. The father of the family, Terry, told the press that his family had witnessed strange lights and UFOs. That, and many other unexplained occurrences, turned the ranch into a hotbed for various conspiracy theories.
I recommend everyone here watch the show skinwalker ranch. Whether you believe in the theories or not, that show is hilarious
"The government invented "Throwback Thursday" to get people to digitize and post old pics they wouldn't have had access to so that they could improve facial recognition and age progression algorithms."
I do know that Captcha uses crowd-sourcing to get people's help digitising library and newspaper archives. When a page has a smudge or inkblot that isn't recognised by the scanning algorithms, that clump of letters is included in a robot challenge for a website. People figure out what letters are actually written under the smudge, and the library can put it in their searchable digital archive. That's a conspiracy I'm happy to be a part of! https://techcrunch.com/2007/09/16/recaptcha-using-captchas-to-digitize-books/
Facebook was funded by the cia after 9/11 for the information people volunteer
"Walmart's security system is shared with the government because every time they have a nationwide search for someone they post a photo of them leaving a Walmart somewhere."
I was just thinking about this the other day! I'm like "how the f**k do they always have a damn video or still frame from a Walmart security camera within days of searching for someone!" That is bizarre.
But you should just shop at Meijer if you're going to go buy supplies for committing crimes. I never see them have pics from Meijer or Kroger! Lol.
Lime and shovels are so much more affordable at Walmart
Load More Replies...In Salem, New Hampshire, there is a 4,000-year-old archaeological site called Mystery Hill that no one knows how or why was it built. The site comprises chambers, walls, drains, and basins all made out of stone and no explanations.
Just looked at pics, there’s a table thing that is obviously used for draining blood:) https://paradelle.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/americas-stonehenge/
Load More Replies...Vermont's Brunswick Springs has long been a fountain of conspiracy theories (pardon the pun). In fact, Ripley's Believe It Or Not even named the springs the eight wonder of the world, because each of them have completely different minerals despite coming from the very same source.
"Apple got rid of the headphone jack because Square was competing with Apple Pay."
What does that literally have to do with the headphone jack? I think it's either because Samsung was doing it or because they wanted to sell more AirPods
"The NBA draft lottery has been fixed numerous times."
The story of Jimmy Hoffa was full of conspiracy theories - his rise to the title of a president of union, his disappearance in 1975, and his connections with mobsters sure left some unanswered questions.
They are still trying to find his body, they did some digging a few years ago.
Yeah, it was a tv special and they made a big deal about it...Geraldo Rivera and his mustache didn't find anything
Load More Replies...I live in Michigan. There's been several excavations here looking for him over the years.
But seriously, I thought they found his body in a concrete slab.
Load More Replies...Probably the most famous conspiracy theories span from the Area 51, which is an American military installation, 'famous' for experimenting on aliens and their spacecraft. Since the operations there are kept in secrecy, it soon became a fertile ground for various unbelievable theories.
I'm a bit Fox Mulder in that I want to believe but I'm a bit Dana Sculley in that rumours and conjecture aren't enough to convince me. The fact that a military base is secretive and has high security means nothing. ALL military bases are secretive and have high security. Don't forget that I want to believe, but all we are left with are stories from 'witnesses'. I'm not saying that those stories are untrue but without proof, that's all they are, stories. That said, I'm always up for a chat about the 'tictac'.
Safe to say that was debunked. If there was aliens, you know Donnie would've told everyone.
Groom Lake Test Facility (Area 51) just tests the reverse-engineered aircraft. The remoteness of the facility makes it too obvious for housing aliens and their aircraft. Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH is where the aliens and their technology are actually contained. It’s one of, if not the largest AFB in the U.S., making it easy to hide them in plain sight from the unsuspecting public.
Did you know that there's a hidden chamber behind Lincoln's head on Mount Rushmore? It was supposedly made to keep America's prized possessions, but nobody knows the real purpose it was built for.
Wasn't it meant to be a museum, was never finished due to lack of funding, and just became a sort of time capsule vault for American history? https://www.history.com/news/mount-rushmores-secret-chamber
The Georgia Guidestones is a famous monument that is known for its bizarre inscriptions. What's even weirder, is that the monument was paid for by an unknown man, so no one knows who built it or why. Some think the codes are telling the future, while others believe Satanists or the New World Order built the sculpture to promote their evil agenda.
And it was bombed in July of this past year! https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/georgia-guidestones/
"Hey, I don't understand this monument. Let's destroy it." Typical human reaction.
Load More Replies...WAS* a famous monument...... This fails to mention the part people get hooked on about decreasing the population
Although a famous conspiracy theory dating back to 1966 says that Sir Paul McCartney is dead, he's very much alive to this day!
The actual theory was that if you played the White Album backwards, it said "Paul is dead."
That's one part of it. There's loads of other stuff, from the Abbey Road cover symbolism (George is a gravedigger, John is god, Paul is the corpse), to sgt pepper album cover symbolism, other lyrical references etc. I can't remember them all. I think the "Paul is dead" backwards thing is actually John saying "cranberry sauce" - or that might be another thing...
Load More Replies...It all started because Paul isn’t wearing any footwear on the cover of the ‘Abbey Road’ album. And he was out of step with the other three. So people thought he’d been added to the photo.
The Denver International Airport is infamous for conspiracy theories surrounding the facility. One of them concerns the airport's construction budget which went more than $2 billion over the estimate, prompting people to think that the airport has an underground structure used by Illuminati.
Why? Did they build a massive pyramid over it with an eye shape and the words "THE ILLUMANTI MEET HERE" in neon lights?
That's it, Vix. Too much Illuminati denial. You're definitely Illuminati yourself. (now to sit back and wait for the black helicopters...)
Load More Replies...Well, FFS, Have you not seen Blue-cifer? What airport puts a blue demon horse in front of it?!?!
How do you join the Illuminati? Is there an application or interview process? Maybe it's like a scavenger hunt for topless pyramids. Just wondering...It would be a great thing to put on a resume.
I might be wrong but the super secretive hiding-in-the-shadows Illuminati probably don't include their membership of an ancient underground society on their resumes. But as I said, I may be wrong.
Load More Replies...It does have an underground structure, actually. It was a super expensive, sophistication baggage system which never worked and was abandoned. DIA is doing a bunch of construction now and they've put up signs making fun of all the conspiracy theories, they're actually pretty funny!
"David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam did not act alone."
another one people think was a CIA asset and/or MKUltra victim. Same with charles manson
The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex in North Dakota was built during the Cold War to detect incoming missiles. The $500 million building is shaped like an unfinished pyramid, much like the one you can see on the back of the dollar, and has a round circle on each face. The shape of it prompted people to think that the facility was actually linked to Illuminati.
Yeah because that's how they've stayed a secret society for hundreds of years - by erecting great big f**k-off "WE ARE HERE" signs all over the shop.
Flora, Mississippi is the home to probably the most famous UFO sighting so far. See, in 1977 several police officers claim to have seen a strange object floating in the sky, over the top of a forest. This, of course, sparked some intriguing stories.
and the famous scene from Close Encounters of the Third kind where a police car chases a UFO over a cliff :)
I am so done with UFO's. They are all biased and prejudiced. They only appear over U.S. territory, and discriminate against the rest of the world as if it weren't good enough for them. I would have loved seeing UFO's in the skies over Austria where I grew up, but no, "... We do America only!"
On August 15, 1977, an astronomer named Jerry Ehman recorded a radio signal using the Big Ear telescope at the Ohio State University. Ehman wrote "Wow!" on the printout, giving it the name "The Wow! Signal." Becaue the signal have not been heard ever since, it prompted some people to think that it was, in fact, extraterrestrials trying to contact our home planet.
I have my Dana Scully hat on again, but isn't this like the infinite number of monkeys with their infinite number of typewriters which says that eventually one of the monkeys will reproduce the works of Shakespeare? All those signals flying around the universe, doesn't it make sense that eventually one particular signal will appear to be of intelligent origin? It may be, but also, it may not.
Maybe astronomers should connect answering machines to their radio scopes. "You have reached Earth! Nobody is available to pick up your call. Please leave a message at the sound of the beep.... !"
The conspiracy theory is that seti@home uncovered thousands more Wow! signals but that this information was never released because we don't have the technology to extract any useful information from any of them.
Bigfoot is just notorious for various conspiracy theories, and with over 2,000 'sightings' in Washington state the tales are keeping strong. Some believe it to be a shy loner, others claim it to be related to humans, and some even think that Bigfoot is an extraterrestrial being!
Trans-dimensional beings. That's why he's only ever sighted periodically and why we can't find evidence of them living in our forests. The interdimensional portals only align sometimes, so they pop over, mess with us, and then go back and no one can find evidence. Why do they mess with us? Well, why did we go through a whole thing where people were holding up a blanket and then running to hide from their dogs? Because it's funny and we can! Same thing.
I'm a believer in flat-bigfoot. When he doesn't want you to see him, he just turns to the side.
Load More Replies...Well, I saw it in my mid-teens, summer of '78. It was either Bigfoot or a really tall naked person with a lot of fur all over it's body. It was a toss-up as to which one of us was the most startled. I just backed up slowly, turned and booked it out of there. The other Youth Conservation Corps kids with me were a little farther back on the trail and all they knew was that I literally flew by them and looked like I'd seen a ghost. They chased after me and when we got back to the work crew van, the leader first had to calm me down then try to get a coherent story. They went back up the trail to the clearing and all they could tell was that "something" had gone through the bushes but there was too much ground cover to see any foot prints. Of course I got a lot of teasing the rest of the summer, especially since I'd had a cheap little camera in my work shirt pocket and hadn't even thought about taking pictures. So yeah, Bigfoot existed in 1978 in a forest SE of Olympia, WA.
Wow, love hearing stories like that. Wish I was there to have seen that.
Load More Replies...It doesn't sound that outlandish when you consider mountain gorillas weren't documented until the 20tg century
Some comedian said that the reason all footage of Bigfoot is blurry is because Bigfoot itself is just blurry. LOL
There have been numerous sightings of Big Foot in Eastern Kentucky and Appalachia as well. It is believed that there isn't just one Big Foot, but that Big Foot is an entire species of animal/human hybrids that are all over. They are intelligent enough to stay away from humans. Source: My uncle is a professional Big Foot Hunter (yes, he gets paid by groups to join them in their "hunts," and he makes bank doing it.)
We here in the Pacific Northwest do our best in keeping stories about Bigfoot (aka Sasquatch) on the level of conspiracy theories. Sasquatch populations and their habitat are extremely tenuous and fragile, and one thing they don't need is enhanced research funding and hence greater scrutiny by the science community. So, we have successfully spread hare-brained theories about their trans-dimensionality and/or their extra-spatial origin and got people to actually subscribe to and believe them, and every self respecting anthropologist won't walk anywhere near their home-realm.
Needless to say that everything I wrote above is invented.
Load More Replies...Maybe Neanderthals who survived? Same for Yetis. Cro-Magnon and Neantherdals cohabited untill 20000 BC, wich on History scale is very close to us
All those species lived in the Old World though, and none made it to America.
Load More Replies...Right after Princess Diana's untimely death on August 31, 1997, people started coming up with their own theories concerning the accident. Nobody could believe that she was killed in a freak accident as royal were supposed to die from old age!
A drunk driver who took meds before overspeeding on a narrow curved tunnel with no rails, unfastened seat belt, what could have gone wrong?
The computer reconstruction of the car's track is a fake. Late model mercedes don't fishtail like that. The driver was blinded by a military grade flash weapon. A fake Pitt manoeuvre to the rear bumper took out the car. And "I'm just doing my job" injected Di and Dodi with lethal poison. Rees-Jones had a convenient amnesia and the autopsy was faked.
If you mean mother Theresa you are way off. She was an awful person
Load More Replies...Enoch Lincoln, who was a famous poet and human rights advocate, sparked some controversy way back in 1991. In fact, it was his missing body that led conspirators to theorize on his whereabouts. See, his remains were laid in a crypt in 1829 never to found again!
This is a zoomer conspiracy to make people feel older than they are.
Load More Replies...There's a giant active volcano under Yellowstone in Wyoming, and if it erupts, it could wipe out the US. Naturally, some people think that the US Goverment knows exactly when the eruption will happen, keeping the information in secrecy.
The active volcano part is true, but it’s almost certainly not going to erupt soon, because all of the hot springs, geysers, and thermal vents are constantly alleviating the pressure so it can’t build up enough for a huge eruption. Edit: typo
Ehhhh an uptick in geothermal activity is generally a sign of an eminent eruption. Just geologically eminent could be tomorrow, the next decade, or hundreds of years from now
Load More Replies...they most likely dont, as if they could tell when one volcano will erupt then they would have ways to find out for others. not disclosing it for yellowstone would make sence since giving the public what is essentially a doomsday clock would result in mass hysteria but why not tell us anything about smaller volcanos and when the're due? its highly unlikely that they would have this kind of technology and not make anything public. Instead choosing to let so many people die.
Maybe a century of even longer. Depends on what humans do to the climate.
And Elvis will come back on the top of the biggest geyser with a flamethrower
There are loads of conspiracy theories concerning John Dillinger, especially so about his jail escapes and death. You probably know that Dillinger was the public enemy number one in the 1930s and his trickery made him even more famous. From wooden guns to trick guards and escape jail to alleged operation to become unrecognizable, Dillinger sure has loads or unbelievable stories about him.
For years, people across Minnesota have reported hearing low humming or roaring sounds coming from the sky, and some think the sounds are of some sinister nature. In fact, they are pretty sure the sounds are connected to extraterrestrial beings!
people in Minnesota are just a different breed when it comes to stuff like that - I love it.
"Michael Jordan retired because of gambling. He made a deal with David Stern."
If he has a gambling problem he would have stayed playing to pay for it.
The implication here is that he may have been betting on NBA games, including his own. If was indeed the case, the league would have had a vested interest in allowing him to leave quietly.
Load More Replies...In the mountains of Alaska, you can find the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program which helps scientists study the farthest distances of the atmosphere with over 180 antennas spread over 33 acres of land. However, some people firmly believe that it's, in fact, a mind-control lab!
I believe this to be true. Someone has highjacked my mind to spend all my pay on trivial things every month and save very little. In addition to other poor life choices. I'm one of many unofficial test subjects to see how far humans can last doing meaningless jobs with little reward. I'm starting a resistance movement once I find the chip in my head beaming signals from Alaska. Upvote if you want to join my movement
Some people in Idaho believe the state is subject to government experimentation and that they are being poisoned with chemicals. They believe the government is dropping harmful substances from airplanes at various times throughout the year, with 'chemtrails' serving as their evidence.
Come on. Any substance dropped from that high would dissipate long before it landed in someone.
nope - think agent orange in the Vietnam era. Anything dropped will disperse over a wide area, but dissipate only if it's a chemical that reacts with air to neutralise it. It may be 'weaker' but it depends on the LD50 (how much is a lethal dose) as to whether it will cause harm.
Load More Replies...It is not the government, it is the agriculture. Chemicals in the air is a given in Idaho with the amount of farmland that it has.
This isn't exclusive to Idaho, but I do live in Idaho and can attest to the overwhelming amount of stupid conspiracy theories believed in by a concerning number of people.
I don't know what the purpose of chemtrails is, but it's not condensation from the plane. Chemtrails are laid out in an X and they spread out slowly into a thin cloud. Condensation doesn't do that.
Ong's Hat, New Jersey, might be the one of the internet's earliest conspiracy theories! People have speculated that the ghost town lost its inhabitants from no other cause but interdimensional travel and, well, the theory caught on.
Some conspiracy theories date back over hundred years, just like the story of mysterious lights floating around Brown Mountain in North Carolina. In fact, the lights were first witnessed on September 24, 1913 and have not been explained as of yet.
Not 1913 "...... earliest reports of ghost lights came from Cherokee and Catawba Indians, settlers, and Civil War soldiers" https://www.romanticasheville.com/brown_mountain_lights.htm
"Certain three-letter intelligence organizations might be the reason the Intel and AMD platforms have black-boxes built into motherboards, which can basically execute ANYTHING."
Back in 1969, Johnny Gosch was abducted from des Moines, Iowa, never to be found. Conspirators were quick on this case, claiming that he was forced into a child-sex ring that was operating in Nebraska. Even though his mother, Noreen, received some ominous pictures of a man tied up in a basement, it gave no proof that it was Gosch.
This is a conspiracy theory? It's an unsolved mystery, but conspiracy?
She alleged that he came back to her one night and left after a few hours. And he’s never returned back since then. She said that he had been in some kind of child sex ring that was nationwide.
Truman Capote and Harper Lee were childhood friends growing up back in Alabama. Both of them became prominent writers and some people even claim that Capote wrote Lee's famous novel "To Kill A Mocking Bird."
If Truman Capote had made any significant contribution to "To Kill A Mockingbird", he certainly would have told the entire world.
What sequel? To Kill A Mockingbird is Lee's only novel. A posthumous book, Go, Set A Watchman, is a literary curiosity, being a much earlier draft of the same novel. That you consider it "s**t" compared to the final draft is probably because it was heavily revised to become TKAM.
Load More Replies...Did you know that the Scottish Nessie has a cousin in Flathead Lake, Montana? In 1889, Captain James C. Kerr and his passengers aboard a steamboat reported seeing a huge Nessie in the lake. And, as of 2019, there have been 109 'sightings' of the alien creature. Fancy a swim?
In 2011, mysterious clouds formed over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In fact, they looked if they were a hole in the sky. The occurrence, of course, started a few juicy theories of its origins.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110128-triple-hole-punch-clouds-haarp-conspiracy-science-second-coming-ufo
From the picture, it just looks like clouds to me. There's a thin layer of clouds, and it looks like three cold spots dropped down from an air layer above, which made the moisture in the clouds condense into a heavier vapor. Almost but not quite rain that began to fall. The air gets weird over the ocean, especially where it meets the shoreline. A lot of different air layers converge.
In 2012, a 34-acre sinkhole opened up in Bayou Corne, Louisiana, and it's still growing. Although sinkholes aren't unusual, the sheer size (325 feet across and hundreds of feet deep!) of this one sparked interest in conspirators as to its origin and possible purpose.
I think the conspiracy relates not the sinkhole itself, but the reason why the governor is ignoring it and those affected.
Load More Replies...This one's just stupid. If you understand how sinkholes work.. then you'd understand that Louisiana would be a prime place for a sinkhole this large to be a thing. Especially when it's so close to the lake & multiple river channels. Sinkholes happen because of water eroding the land underneath the surface.. most of Louisiana towns are built on waterways & in wetlands. So it's inevitable that this is going to happen. I just bought a home in Louisiana & we actually paid for someone to come out with a ground penetrating radar before we purchased the property & go over the entire property (it's 10+ acres & yes it cost a lot of money. But worth it when you don't want your home swallowed up by a sinkhole since we are on a river & in the swamps) luckily they didn't detect any abnormalities. But you're going to see this alot more as sea levels rise & more water is moving around underground.
The cause, effect and result have all been documented exhaustively, and there is no conspiracy, just bad mining practices.
The fact it happened in La, and it is in a bayou, and it is hundreds of feet deep? Did someone dive it?, 'cause I'm pretty sure it would be full of water.
Remember the Joplin tornado in 2011? The one that hit Joplin, Missouri, with devastating winds reaching 200mph, leveling the city and killing 161 people? Some think that this horrible occurrence was part of a greater mystery...
This is stupid. Incomplete. Yeah. I have one too! There's a greater mystery involved in my goldfish dying suddenly. You figure it out.
In 2015, Rhode Island beachgoers experienced a bizarre blast that knocked them off their beach chairs, even injuring one person. The rumbling heard just before the blast seemed very suspicious to some of the witnesses and conspirators definitely found some food for thought in this happening.
A conspirator is a person engaged in conspiracy, not a conspiracy theorist.
Sonic boom? I can remember Concorde being tested in the Bristol area of the UK, before it became illegal to 'boom' over land - military excepted naturally.
Wytheville, Virginia, was an exceptionally ripe ground for UFO sightings - by 1988, 3,000 reports were filed in! Definitely a rightful source for conspiracy theories.
Virginia: Tons of military bases. Odd t higns happening: Tonso f military bases. Lived in rural Virginia over 20 years now and can safely state: If it's odd, reckon the US military is on maneuvers or trying out an aircraft.
"The mafia is partially the reason why the Twin towers came down as quickly as they did. I can't remember where I found it but essentially when the WTC was being constructed the Mob had control of a bulk of the construction companies involved. A bit of money laundering here, a bit of skimping on the fireproofing there, a bit of money for the inspectors to turn a blind eye, and the WTC was ready to go, of course, no one could plan for a 757 to plow head on full of gas into a structure not fireproofed adequately."
Considering that the WTC was a case study in my Fire Science 101 (early 1990’s, but after the first bombing) class about how they were designed to pancake, which is what they did, I roll my eyes at any conspiracy about them. The whole idea was that they would be demolished some day to make room for more modern buildings. The demolition would be tricky, since they were so close to other buildings.
As a construction worker, this always seemed much more likely than some grand government conspiracy. The corners I've seen cut over the years, I'm shocked that more buildings from that era don't just fall down on their own.
I keep rolling eyes when it comes to the stuff about WTC 7 too. Not only does what happened to it make perfect sense when you see how it was constructed, but a building in (I think) Iran has since collapsed in the same way for the same reasons.
I'm a bit disappointed no one mentioned the Tunguska Impact! A massive explosion in Siberia in 1908, blasting trees for eight hundred square miles. It was probably a meteor impact, but theories abound that it was an underground mine explosion, military equipment tests gone wrong, a spaceship crash landing, a demon uprising, or a secret underground civilisation being destroyed by the Tsar. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska/
There ya go: thats what i came here for!
Load More Replies...Half of these weren't conspiracies; they were either proven fact or someone saying "yeah, a lot of conspiracy theories exist about _____, but I'm not going to describe any of them."
Come on, Nikki. I've seen you on here for ages. You really believe Bored Panda is interested in facts or accuracy??? Nope. Sigh. :/
Load More Replies...My two favorite ones are , 1) Based on mostly ear measurements Walt Disney & Adolph Hitler as well as Kermit Roosevelt & Charles Coughlin were all the same person. Also Roy Disney & Joseph Goebbels were the same man. Also Jimmy Carter is actually JFK & Rosalynn Carter is actually Jackie Kennedy. Among other famous people. and 2) Some mountain ranges, flat top mesas & structures like The Devil’s Tower are actually giant petrified tree stumps from long ago harvested gigantic silicon forests and the trees we have today are the equivalent of bushes and shrubs.
Kermit the frog's last name is roosevelt? TIL
Load More Replies...Not a theory, but fact. My cat spy on me all the time and send reports back to its headquarter. He films me and they store it all in a secret place, so they some day can control every human
Scanning for Titanic bs...none found. Phew, no having to go on an unskippable cutscene about the history of the Titanic and how much bs that theory is this time!
Some have theorized that cell phone and computer biometric data (facial recognition, finger prints, retina scans) were paid for by US law enforcement and intelligence agencies to develop a database of biometric data by encouraging people to volunteer for it. Rumor is, they talked about having people do it as part of getting a driver's license or other official documents (national ID etc), and people balked, so they made it part of social media and passed it off as personal security and ease-of-use.
Here's a true one: Exxon is not chiefly an oil extraction company. They refine imported oil, chiefly from nations with nationalized industry and centralized governments. American domestic oil companies are much less famous, because in a free market, prices commoditize reducing profit. The more Exxon rallies opposition to oil extraction, the more money they make. That's why the funded all those nature programs about how evil mankind is. In fact, I can't say it was deliberate, but the Exxon Valdez disaster was the most profitable thing that ever happened to them. They're not alone: carbon trading was invented by Enron.
Exxon Mobil is about twice the size of any other U.S. oil company... but is only the fourth largest domestic producer of U.S. oil. They produce less than 6% of U.S. oil. In fact, U.S. oil is one of the less consolidated manufacturing industries, with the top 10 firms producing only half of the oil. And that's not counting the companies that dig the wells, manufacture the equipment, etc. (Halliburton, Schlumberger, Nabors, CGG, Baker Hughes, etc)
Load More Replies...Conspiracy theory: BP is a US-controlled entity with carefully curated articles designed to sway the public opinion on controversial topics.
Conspiracy theory; you're a BP agent assigned to make us think that this idea is dumb by saying it's a conspiracy theory
Load More Replies...I'm a bit disappointed no one mentioned the Tunguska Impact! A massive explosion in Siberia in 1908, blasting trees for eight hundred square miles. It was probably a meteor impact, but theories abound that it was an underground mine explosion, military equipment tests gone wrong, a spaceship crash landing, a demon uprising, or a secret underground civilisation being destroyed by the Tsar. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska/
There ya go: thats what i came here for!
Load More Replies...Half of these weren't conspiracies; they were either proven fact or someone saying "yeah, a lot of conspiracy theories exist about _____, but I'm not going to describe any of them."
Come on, Nikki. I've seen you on here for ages. You really believe Bored Panda is interested in facts or accuracy??? Nope. Sigh. :/
Load More Replies...My two favorite ones are , 1) Based on mostly ear measurements Walt Disney & Adolph Hitler as well as Kermit Roosevelt & Charles Coughlin were all the same person. Also Roy Disney & Joseph Goebbels were the same man. Also Jimmy Carter is actually JFK & Rosalynn Carter is actually Jackie Kennedy. Among other famous people. and 2) Some mountain ranges, flat top mesas & structures like The Devil’s Tower are actually giant petrified tree stumps from long ago harvested gigantic silicon forests and the trees we have today are the equivalent of bushes and shrubs.
Kermit the frog's last name is roosevelt? TIL
Load More Replies...Not a theory, but fact. My cat spy on me all the time and send reports back to its headquarter. He films me and they store it all in a secret place, so they some day can control every human
Scanning for Titanic bs...none found. Phew, no having to go on an unskippable cutscene about the history of the Titanic and how much bs that theory is this time!
Some have theorized that cell phone and computer biometric data (facial recognition, finger prints, retina scans) were paid for by US law enforcement and intelligence agencies to develop a database of biometric data by encouraging people to volunteer for it. Rumor is, they talked about having people do it as part of getting a driver's license or other official documents (national ID etc), and people balked, so they made it part of social media and passed it off as personal security and ease-of-use.
Here's a true one: Exxon is not chiefly an oil extraction company. They refine imported oil, chiefly from nations with nationalized industry and centralized governments. American domestic oil companies are much less famous, because in a free market, prices commoditize reducing profit. The more Exxon rallies opposition to oil extraction, the more money they make. That's why the funded all those nature programs about how evil mankind is. In fact, I can't say it was deliberate, but the Exxon Valdez disaster was the most profitable thing that ever happened to them. They're not alone: carbon trading was invented by Enron.
Exxon Mobil is about twice the size of any other U.S. oil company... but is only the fourth largest domestic producer of U.S. oil. They produce less than 6% of U.S. oil. In fact, U.S. oil is one of the less consolidated manufacturing industries, with the top 10 firms producing only half of the oil. And that's not counting the companies that dig the wells, manufacture the equipment, etc. (Halliburton, Schlumberger, Nabors, CGG, Baker Hughes, etc)
Load More Replies...Conspiracy theory: BP is a US-controlled entity with carefully curated articles designed to sway the public opinion on controversial topics.
Conspiracy theory; you're a BP agent assigned to make us think that this idea is dumb by saying it's a conspiracy theory
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