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
"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."
"There is only one yawn on earth and it constantly travels from person to person…"
"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.
"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."
"That there are people rich enough to disappear. There must be some billionaires we've never heard of."
"Disney's frozen is only titled like that so when you Google "Disney frozen" the movie comes up instead of conspiracy theories."
"Adam Sandler makes movies as an excuse to go on vacation with some friends."
"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
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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."
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.
"The "coup attempt" in Turkey was faked in order for Erdogan to consolidate his power and purge the opposition."
"Planned obsolescence everywhere in the industry. If everyone stopped replacing their cars and smartphones, imagine the."
"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.
"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.
"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.
"The CIA killed Marilyn Monroe because Kennedy had been disclosing classified information to her."
"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."
"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."
"The CIA first gave black communities drugs in the 70s as an experiment."
"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
"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.
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
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.
"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...Whose father owned an emerald mine, let's not forget. He didn't get rich by being clever. He's basically a nepo baby.
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.
or his mother is trying to use her son to open a portal to hell on mars.
I believe this is true, except instead of Martian he's a turd, and his home is a toilet
I like this theory. Allows we South Africans to properly deny him. Abominable individual!
Why are all of these robot/alien jjokes always made about autistic people when they are disliked? "Don't be a d*ck to autistic people, but if you don't like them then actions or appearance caused by their disability are fair game" is not a good thing.
"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.
"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/
"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."
"New Coke was a cover for switching to high fructose corn syrup."
"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.
"Snapchat selfie filters get sent and stored to the NSA for facial recognition."
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.
"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."
"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."
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.
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.
"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."
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.
"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/
"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.
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.
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."
"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.
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'.
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.
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.
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."
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?
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 :)
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
"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.
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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