The world is full of whack jobs. In fact, many of them work right here, at Manolith. As crazy as we are though, nothing beats the theories that make up some of the world’s best conspiracies. From lizard people to JFK to fake moon landings, here are the best of the best that the crazy folks who reside on the internet and in basements around the world would have you believe. In no particular order.
1. JFK Assassination
C’mon, do you really think Lee Harvey Oswald worked all by himself on this one? Back and to the left. Back and to the left. There’s no way Oswald was proficient enough to make the kind of shots they claimed he did with that rifle. No, Kennedy was eliminated by the CIA because he gave away Cuba and wanted to do the same with Vietnam, then started a wave of firings after the Bay of Pigs, which included CIA director Allen Dulles, who was on the Warren Commission. That’s the general consensus, anyway.
2. Hollow Earth
Somewhere deep below us lives a race of beings knows as Agarthians, a race first discovered by Admiral Byrd in 1947 after an expedition to the North Pole. It is said that there are only two openings to the hollow earth, one at the North pole and one at the South pole, and that the U.S. Navy knows of both, but are keeping the information Top Secret. It should also be noted that Byrd was an employee of the Navy when he made two flights into the hollow earth. I wonder if there’s a Dunkin’ Donuts down there?
3. 9/11
Was September 11, 2001 a false flag operation designed to get the U.S. into Iraq? According to many, yes. There’s just too many contradictions when it comes to the ‘evidence’ that 9/11 was carried out solely by a group of terrorists that could barely fly single engine Cessna planes, let alone passenger jets. No remains discovered at the Pentagon or in Pennsylvania, and no black boxes were ever discovered either. How about the reports of bombs going off below the Twin Towers? Building 7 was reported as collapsing by the BBC when clearly it was still standing right behind one of their reporters. What gives, Uncle Sam?
4. The Bilderberg Group
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If every single NFL owner met behind closed doors for a weekend and then emerged, refusing to talk about what was discussed, the media would have a field day. Yet, when 120 of the world’s most powerful individuals meet in secret every year, no one says a word. Not only are they breaking the law by defying the Logan Act, but it has been said the group chooses presidents, starts and ends wars, and is in control of the world’s economy, media and government. New World Order? You tell me.
5. Fake Moon Landing
NASA didn’t really go to the moon, based on this theory. Nope, during the height of the space race they lost the first battle to the Russians so they decided to fake a moon landing to appease the American people. Misplaced cross-hairs in photographs, missing transcripts and blueprints from the Apollo mission, misplaced shadows, the absence of stars, and wind blowing the U.S. flag around make up this one, but there is no wind in space, people. Some believe we’ve never been to the moon, and with the cuts Obama just made, it doesn’t look like we’ll be going there anytime soon either.
6. Shape-shifting Lizards Run the World
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At least, according to onetime BBC sports reporter David Icke and his band of followers, they do. Everyone from George W. Bush and the British Royals are really a race of alien beings who came here long ago to colonize the planet. Now they hold some of the highest positions in government, and are controlling everything you do and see in the media. Don’t believe it? Fine, you go offer the former president a plate of flies and see what happens.
7. Free Energy
There’s no way that all we need are oil and gas to run the world. There have been many forms of free energy around for decades, but the corporations that rule oil and gas are snuffing them out, for fear of lost profits. Nikola Tesla was probably the first known victim of this massive cover up. When he discovered it was possible to provide free energy to the world at little cost to the consumer, he was whacked by the FBI.
8. Roswell
On July 8, 1947, a UFO crashed in Rosewell, New Mexico, and ever since then the government has been denying it ever happened. By rewriting documents and airbrushing photographs, the Army and NASA has made most believe aliens don’t even exist. Of course, we all know that’s not true, and that there are E.T.s out there. Some have even landed on earth. Area 51, anyone?
9. The Philadelphia Experiment
In 1943 the U.S. Navy conducted an experiment on the USS Eldridge at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, to see if they could render the massive structure invisible. What they ended up doing was tearing a hole in space and time, sending some members of the crew into the future. When the ship rematerialized, there were people stuck in solid steel that could not be freed, and had to be killed. Of course, the Navy denies the experiment ever took place. Surprise, surprise.
10. U.S. Military Caused Indian Ocean Tsunami
Using electromagnetic pulse waves from HAARP, the U.S. government were actually the one’s who caused all the death and destruction brought on by the tsunami. Whether it was in the interest of oil and gas, or just a test to see what effects it would have on the earth — which did include a shift in the North Pole, a change in the rotation of the planet and even a change in the earth’s shape. They’ll never admit to it, of course, but many theorists are looking to Haiti now and wondering what the purpose of that test was.
11. Manufactured Diseases
Everything from AIDS and cancer, to H1N1 and the common cold are under the gun with this one. It’s said the government manufactures these things, then charges the pharmaceutical companies to come up with treatment drugs for them, thus making people a whole lot of money off the suffering of others. Yes, there is a cure for cancer. They just don’t want you to have it because it would cost them too much money.
12. Chemtrails
You know those long trails you see behind jets in the sky? What do you think those are? I’ll tell you: weather modifiers. Yup, the U.S. government has been deep in weather modification for decades, trying to control the earth’s weather in order to further its interests. Just look at Hurricane Katrina. You really think that was a natural disaster? Please, it was an experiment gone wrong on U.S. soil. That’s the theory at least, and they’re sticking to it.
13. Protocols of the Elders of Zion
This book, which surfaced in Russia in 1905, is said to be a map for a small group of Jews to target Christians’ morality, finances and health, in a way that would give them the “in” to world domination. Although it has been purported to be a hoax, the book is still in print today. It was even used by the Nazi’s as an excuse to start their genocide of an entire race of people. Who says you can’t learn anything from books?
14. Princess Diana Murdered
She didn’t die in a car accident. Okay, she did, but it was actually from a hit placed on her by the British Royal Family so that she couldn’t marry a Muslim, or have the child she was carrying in her belly. Yeah, that’s right. She was pregnant. Why would they do this? Because they’re nuts.
15. Global Warming Hoax
The earth’s climate is like a rubber band, stretching and stretching until POP! it snaps back into place. That’s the real reason the world is heating up, and it has nothing to do with Al Gore-made theories. We’re going to have another ice age, believe it or not. Just when and how is up to the earth, not man, to decide. Many corporations and especially the government, are making big bucks off the global warming hoax, and it doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. At least not until 2012, anyway.
NOTE: For the record, I subscribe to some, not all of these theories. Even I don’t think lizard people rule the world — yet.
Oh hell yes, most of these are obviously true. Especially the hollow earth thing – how could it not be true. I do wonder, though, how Jim Morrison fits into the Lizard people theory.
Freaky. Some of these are just plain wacky. And those ones make all of them seem ridiculous. Mission accomplished, I guess.
Some of these are far out and others not. What’s the point?
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Props. I LOVE conspiracies… I honestly never knew of the Philadelphia Experiment, however. Others, 9/11 for example, as an eye-witness, the truthers are on to something. Maybe not everything, but definitely something!
Hollow Earth is my favorite, but that goes way back before 1947.
http://www.ourhollowearth.com/SmokyGod.htm
Glad to see I’m not the only one who diggs on conspiracy theories. I’m surprised at the hollow earth theory being the favorite here. J.P. – It could go back as far as Journey to the Center of the Earth, I was just referring to the date as to when the theory became ‘mainstream,’ if you can call any of these that.
Good One! I really believe the ones about Roswell NM, Bilderbergers, JFK, Princess Di, and global warming. Some of the others I’ve never heard of but I’ll look into! Very interesting.
You do know the contrails from airplanes do change the weather patterns due to global dimming, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming for further reading.
You are all idiots. All these conspiracies were planted by the real people behind the scenes to distract you from their perfectly executed conspiracy that no one knows about. Who are they? I don’t know. What is that plan? Beyond me. How are they pulling it off? Haven’t a clue. But that is the point! If there was such a perfect plan, would anyone know about it? Would it make some internet list where everyone could see it? Of course not! And there is no evidence for it because if there was a perfectly executed conspiracy that no one knows about, that is exactly what you would find: no evidence of one! Yeah, sure…the government was behind 9/11—THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK. Open your eyes people!
and 12/21/2012 not even mentioned here??
If people believe in religion then they can believe anything. Religion convinced people there is an invisible man up there watching over you and taking notes.
“everyone knows’ is a catch-phrase for conspiracy theorists. Debunkers use phrases like ‘ scientifically’ and ‘according to research’ and then name the people who do the research. Conspiracy theorists site ‘un-named sources’. interesting..
Very true knapper. They use this terminology to make a class difference of opinions, using there position to stop any form of reason or doubt from the majority. The media is the best tool because the majority of our society believe everything they read or see on the news and the journalists believe everything they see on the news so what do you think they will feed us. Look what happened to Jesus (son of God or not) he got whacked wether your religious or not the bible his real historical book will real people and bloodlin. Anyway the best conspiracy is a fact it shouldn’t even be on here! The presidents and politicians meeting up on the privately owned forest the bohemian grove dressed up in red clothing standing around a giant owl…it’s on camera!!! You don’t have to believe in conspiracys to know that’s a little strange. Look at it this way, if you filmed a sextape its not a conspiring sextape its a sextape if don’t believe in the NWO, illuminati, free mason stuff common sense still tells us that’s wrong. So why don’t people question that or write to there local politicians and see why our supposed leaders would be doing such a weird thing. I would love to hear there response wouldn’t you?????
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I am always astounded by people who think all conspiracy theories are false and ridiculous. There is so much evidence that 9/11 was an inside job, and that most world leaders are working in concert even going so far as all of them throwing up th el diablo hand sign from Ahmadinejad to Putin to Bush to Clinton and Obama you can see their solidarity in the ever present cornu or el diablo hand sign, most stars also flash the sign repeatedly. It is said to signify devil horns and be a long used hand sign used to signify worship of Lucifer. RFID microchips, fluorinated municipal water poisonings, Codex Alimentarius (google all this) Aaron Russo
Hey if you really want evidece here is a list with the most famous conspiracy sites on the world…. they hav proof to have been shut down by the goverment but came back
http://synerchiflow.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/ultimate-list-of-truth-websites/
There is actually a proven cure for breast cancer that hasn’t received any funding, and if it did, even though it would be in abundance, it would be extremely expensive to rip off those in need even more. Just like diamonds. Diamonds are not rare. They hoard them and sell them to you little by little.
Even if some of the theories are wacko, there IS truth in them.