Some of my favorite conspiracy theories involve aliens, zombies, clones, and alternate dimensions! What about yours?
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When Disney released their animated movie based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of The Ice Queen, they named it "Frozen" to redirect online searches away from information about Walt Disney himself being cryogenically frozen.
That Donald Trump actually has a functional brain.
Biggest myth, they've x-rayed his skull with a drone and there's nothing there.
Favourite? Not sure how one could have a single favourite, they're nearly all so laughable, but I do particularly like any of them that would involve thousands of people "in the know" and/or multiple governments to be acting together to conceal something, like area 51 or the faked moon landings. Or indeed "Sept 11th was faked" where literally millions of people witnessed the events they're claiming were not real.
Here's the thing. https://www.popsci.com/how-many-minions-can-you-have-before-your-conspiracy-fails/
The rich/elite of the world are all in league to hide how much wealth they have to avoid taxation.
Oh wait...
Panama Papers kinda changed this one from "conspiracy theory" to "actual conspiracy".
1. Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's son. The resemblance is crazy.
2. Chip companies make their bags loud on purpose. So you have to share. So you have to buy more.
If you live with only one soft can-opener, you don't have to share much.
Someone once told me they didn't believe in gravity... Just try to get your heads round that...
so s**t just goes downwards towards the earth because... it wants to? because it is actually flying? what then?
the goverment k!lled marylin monroe
No, I think she just got tired of having an A-grade brain in a bimbo's life.
Okay, here is another one that I like: There are people who claim that the state of Montana doesn't exist. Anyone claiming to be from Montana or to have visited Montana is lying and in on the conspiracy. What we think of as Montana is really just extensions of North and South Dakota (whose existence is also dubious at best). This ranks up there with the "Birds are actually fake, government spying drones" in the conspiracy books.
I've got a local one from my area: The Gosford Glyphs(though it has made it onto the internet, so let me know if you've heard of them) . There are a bunch of "hieroglyphs" carved into the sandstone out in the bush up the road from my house. People actually believe ancient Egyptians sailed their reed boat all the way from Egypt around the midfle east, India, China, Philippines, Indonesia half of Australia and finally landed 70km north of Sydney. Furthermore a National Parks ranger caught a guy in the 60s carving them. If you look at them there are dogs with bones, penis, and other silly ones. They even got an egyptologist to decipher the hieroglyphics and it was determined that they're gibberish and poorly executed. In saying that they do look cool and it's a nice walk out to them. You go past the Grandmother Tree which is probably the biggest redgum left on the Coast
Aliens are real and you cannot tell me otherwise :)
I agree. The universe is way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way too big for us to be the only planet that can support life. Plus, scientists have already discovered exo planets that look a lot like Earth. They even have plant life on them. Nothing at all could convince me there aren't animals there
That one where the CIA disposed the democratically elected leader because fruit companies were lost land...oh, that happened (Guatemala, PBSUCCESS) How about, The one where the CIA tried to use LSD for mind control. No wait, that's a thing too. (MKULTRA). Okay, then when the CIA trafficked crack cocaine from Nicaragua and Columbia for distribution in low income urban areas and...oh, no. that's a real thing too. (Allegedly. the Contras, U.S. backed right-wing rebel groups in both countries, definitely trafficked drugs, but the CIA lead probe found no link between the CIA and drug trafficking. Okay we have a winner)
I don't want to live on this planet any more.
The gender of the Great A'Tuin is unknown. I believe that Rincewind and Twoflower solved it.
It's my favorite because it's so ludicrous. The One Electron theory states that there is only one electron in the entire universe. It travels so fast that it goes backward in time, therefore being able to exist everywhere at once. The best part: technically, we can't disprove it, due to the unobservable nature of electrons and shaky understanding of space-time.
My neighbor believes in several like the jewish lightening that caused wildfires. She has bought a generator and all kinds of wilderness items in case Snake Pliskin pushes the button. I'm just amazed she fit all that in a 2 bedroom apt. Seriously if its the end, I"d rather go with it than survive it.
A friend once told me that if she were near a nuclear bombing (like what was done to Japan), she'd get a bottle of Jack Daniels and drive toward the mushroom cloud. I'd ride with her.
Personally, I'm a fan of the Polybius arcade game conspiracy. If you're not familiar, the legend goes that some shady, Men In Black government entity set up cabinets of a mind controlling/altering game called Polybius. It appeared over night in some arcades in Portland, Oregon. The cabinet was jet black, save for the name of the title in block letters on the marquee. Players would report having seizures, mental breakdowns, insomnia, hallucinations, you name it! After a few months it disappeared from the arcades, with all arcade owners and workers swearing it never existed.
The government helps spread conspiracy theories so that when real information does get out, it's just labeled a conspiracy theory and disregarded.
Well the Gubberman certainly did this in Australia against my people. Except when the government does it it's called propaganda
I don’t believe in this one but I think it’s super funny and that’s why it’s my favorite (also the fact it’s been disproven). The lock Ness monster. It was disproven to be just a piece of driftwood. (I did punctuation and grammar go away grammarly people)
Probably, we’re living in a computer simulation. If it’s true, then the being who’s controlling me, isn’t the best with tech/gaming
I love to think the "1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning" was an actual giant LSD test conducted by the CIA. I don't believe it 100% but it wouldn't surprise me.
The existence of Lemuria. An advanced island civilisation like Atlantis which, like Atlantis was swallowed by the sea. It definitely existed because psychics and seers in the late 1800's communicated with the souls of High Priests who once ruled the Nation.
For me conspiracies are about (a) explanatory mechanism (b) payoff (c) number of people required to carry out. Hence: If there's no payoff, I reject the conspiracy. If the explanatory mechanism is too far-fetched or requires too many co-conspirators, again, I reject it. So let's take two to show how it works. (1) Princess Di was unalived by her mother-in-law due to having an affair with Dodi. (a) Car accident involving 1 bad driver and a few paparazzi. (b) Payoff: ends embarrassment. (c) Number of people required (same as a). Result: seems plausible. Now let's try a different one. Covid was a weapon and intended so we can get chip injections. Requirements: (a) A bioweapon is manufactured and distributed without killing manufacturers. (b) What, that vax manufactuerers make money? or that bill gates gets to track us? for what??? (c) Several million health and telecoms workers and their respective employers. Result: ridiculous.
Every now and then, I'll pause around anti-vaxers and tell them I'm getting an update to my chip. ;)
People who believe in conspiracy theories think they're smarter than everyone else, even cats!
Of course cats are smarter, look how much they're trained their humans to do.
God is actually the equivalent of a college student in another dimension and has the entire universe in a beaker as a science project.
And he is about to fail because his project is considered sloppy?
We are in the matrix
Like WTF no we aren’t
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The illuminati
Who are they? Illuminati signs and symbols are everywhere, even in Beyonce performances, but what is real and what is a conspiracy? There are theories of a secretive power elite seeking global domination have long held a place in the modern imagination.
The world series is rigged. The Boston Red Sox won after the Boston bombing. There are other instances of different teams winning the same year as local tragedies.
Wouldn't surprise me honestly. Professional sports (at least the commercialized/famous ones) are a joke.
I don't think I'll ever understand how some people can continue to believe in so many wild and oft times bizarre things. I believe a lot of things. I am always open to learning the facts of what I may or not believe. My mind is not set in cement. It's really sad that so many young people, old people, all people, have closed their minds.
It's crazy because people believe things that, if they were true, there would be TONS of evidence by now. Like the Loch Ness monster, if it were true, there's no way it wouldn't have been photographed to death, studied, etc, for example.
My favorite, and Im gonna get downvoted for this but I think its hilarious. Its the story that Bill Hicks became tired of being a comedian so he faked his death. Only to reappear a few years later as Alex Jones, the king of conspiracy theories.
If you cant see the humor in that theory, there is no hope for you.
Never heard of Bill Hicks (who died almost 30 years ago-Wikipedia, so why should I?). Heard about the Jones creep, though. I see no humor in that. But fewer people understand my sense of humor than I wish, so there's that. Edit: my biggest beef with this is "If you cant see the humor in that theory, there is no hope for you". Even then I don't see the humor.
That the Earth is flat and that all the images of a round Earth are faked by NASA. This also requires that all of America's mortal enemies (Russia, China et al) are involved in this deception and remain fully committed to it.
I think you've captured the issue with most conspiracy theories: the conspiracy. All of them assume a large number of people and organisations can all agree to maintain a secret for decades or even centuries or millennia and it's never leaked. Regardless of the nature of the theory, the most outlandish part is that all of these people actually get along enough to maintain a deception of that scale (and that they would even want to..... Seriously, what would you gain from pretending the earth is round if it's not?)
That the world is secretly turning upside down…
C’mon, you know it… the seasons are slipping… they start later each year…
Surely the governments of the world can no longer hide that the earth is tilting on it’s access and very soon Aussies everywhere will no longer be able to sing about “The Land Down Under” 😜
Some people think that Australia is a hoax and that the animals there are animatronics.
Birds aren’t real
I find this one particularly intriguing because we have texts and images referencing birds going back to the most ancient humans, so to posit that they're all drones or robots is ludicrous. Although, I suppose, they were probably planted on earth millennia ago by aliens or lizard people. Silly me
These are my favorite “not conspiracy theories”, because they are true.
1. Epstein didn’t kill himself.
2. Lee Harvey Oswald did not work alone.
3. The Clinton body count.
Q: What's the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth? A: About six months.
Mikey blew himself up with pop-rocks and coke (guess my generation).
I know, I know. It's more of an urban legend, but kids viewed it as a conspiracy against Life
Paul McCartney is dead and the one we see right now is a "clone"
What difference would it make though? And why would anyone bother with this exercise, since no-one outside old people in Anglo countries remotely care who paul is?
We are unknowingly the pawns of aliens who have lost their home. Technology advanced so much in the last 100 years or so, because aliens came to earth and taught us how to make all of technological advances we have made. But it was not a gift. Everything we have done for the last hundred years has introduced the amount of carbon into the atmosphere that otherwise would have taken centuries. This has created climate change which will result in global warming of a few degrees by the end of this century. If we stopped pumping carbon into the atmosphere today, it will still happen, as we are now trying to limit the increase with the knowledge we can't reverse what's already been done. To us this is a byproduct of technology. But for the aliens, it has been the goal. Our planet is one they could live on and colonize, except to be ideal for them, it just needed to be a little bit warmer. We have unknowingly been terraforming our own planet for these aliens to take it
away from us. This is not something I have read or have been told. It is an idea that came to me out of nowhere, which actually makes me tend to believe it is true.
Um, we are definitely in a sitcom, and yes I'm one of the main characters. the things that happen to me man.....they can't be explained. my pinterest boards explain it better than I do tbh but there are too many trippy things happening for me to NOT be some character in a tv show!
Oh no. EVERYONE, SHE FIGURED IT OUT! Abandon plot no.938 immediately and re-arrange the random characters!
That supposedly Anne Hathaway, and her husband might be a reincarnation of William Shakespeare and his wife. Supposedly Shakespeare said something to his wife during his dying days amongst the lines of "I will love you in the next life". So there's the theory that our present Hathaway, as well as her husband William may be reincarnations of the ye olde couple. I may not believe it, but I think it's kind of sweet.
Everything was created last Thursday, all your memories feelings, friends and family were all created last Thursday.
People always say that history just repeats its self. In some ways… yes. Consider pandemics.
1720s: the e Black Death
1820s: Childera Attack
1920s: Spanish flu
2020s: coronavirus
Every 100-ish years a different pandemic happens. Evolution? Coincidence? Plan?
For those who are wondering: Black Death, 1346-1353. "Childera" should actually be Cholera, 1817-1824. Spanish flu began in 1918; and Covid-19 was so named because it was identified in 2019. None actually began in the decade beginning with a 2.
My favourite, for personal reasons, is that all quiz shows are fixed. In earlier times, many undoubtedly were, as depicted in the film Quiz Show - and even in the UK, I remember seeing the Hughie Green vehicle Sky's the Limit, where a contestant came on and said "I'll take the thirty pounds now" before they'd even been asked a question (for younger readers - it was a bit like Millionaire, in that the prize rose after each question, with an option to stick or continue. It was shown live, hence the lack of edit). However, having been on three shows, and won one, it's fun to correct people who "know" they're fixed, when in fact I actually "know" that they're not - certainly not any of the ones I've been on.
Any conspiracy theories about snakes. They're funny as heck.
One that makes me laugh pretty hard: my mom is deadass convinced that if you get the Covid vaccine, your e going straight to hell without trial
But that's great news! If we can isolate the hell-causing ingredient in the Covid vaccine, we should be able to create an antidote to hell!
On 9/11 at the exact moment of the WTC atrocities, the air force were having a training drill for that exact scenario, thus slowing down the response as it wasn't clear what was real.
On 7/7 at the exact moment of the London Bombings, the anti-terror squad were having a training drill for that exact scenario, thus slowing down the response as it wasn't clear what was real. (http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/july-7-terror-rehearsal.html#drivetime)
If it works once...
I'm hoping urban legends count here. (if not then probably the theory of polybius)
The story of La Llorona (search it up).
The moon is hollow. It is an alien space craft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Moon
No! I refuse to believe that! The Moon is made of cheese. Blue cheese. And one day I'll fly there and eat the whole thing because I love blue cheese. 🤤
I accidentally started my own conspiracy theory when I wrote a story claiming that the famous 1945 Roswell, New Mexico incident was just a government fabrication to hide the fact that the actual aliens had landed in rural Maine in 1932. Some people who read it thought I was being serious (at least about the government faking Roswell).
Really? This wikipedia article and the linked article from 1947 does not mention a Mr Bennett at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident ...which suggests that if you did start this rumour, it means you are currently about 96 years old, since you'd have needed to be about 20 when you wrote the original article...
Jon probably got rid of Lyman in Garfield
Story time: I met a guy in college (fall 2013/spring 2014) who directed me to several conspiracy sites, which I checked out. some were....crazy, some were interesting. one I never got a chance to check out until the summer. it turns out there is this guy who has predicted multiple economy falls over the last 50 years. (He predicted the '08 fall.) He was predicting a massive change on a global scale somewhere around the fall of 2019, or the spring of 2020. he couldn't put an exact date on it, but something big was coming. Being in 2014 I figured those years were so far away how could he really know? fall of 2019 I was joking with a friend how I shouldn't have bought a new phone knowing the conspiracy theory I did, due to it being so close, and possibly needing extra money in my account. Then in march 2020, the lockdown hit, and I lost my job. I've never wanted a "conspiracy theory" to be wrong in my whole life. My best friend still doesn't believe me when I tell her to beware of certain "conspiracy" related ideas, but now I'm wondering, if that one came true, what else is "just a crazy conspiracy theory" is true as well???!!!
Economics are driven by governments. There has to be booms and busts to keep the population in line.
Not sure if someone said this already but my dad’s side of the fan believe the weather is influenced by the government and they choose bad weather for those who don’t pay taxes. I’m not really sure where this came from, but it’s funny. Some of these theories are just… whoa. What stuff are you ON?
Not sure if it’s much if a conspiracy theory, but lavender town syndrome. It’s basically that the original version of the lavender town theme was extremely distressing, and caused suicides. It was changed for the American release. It can be considered more of a creepy-pasta, but there are certainly people who actually believe it.
that the 1969 moon landing was faked-
there's no wind in space, why is the flag flying? and there should be stars in the background, but it's all black. someone please explain
The flag isn't flying, there's a rod holding it up. Duh. Ever walked out in a major city and counted the stars? No, you can't see them, because there's too much light. Same as on the moon - the Earth's albedo is incredibly bright, plus light from the sun is unfiltered by any atmosphere.
that we are in a dome i mean go do math stuff they say it takes a while to get to the moon and ISS but it should only take a few hours and they are "really far away" but again via math they should be super close to us, oh and just go look at the weather out here
Anyone who refuses to use capital letters and punctuation can not be taken seriously.
