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Conspiracy theories are still alive and well in the year of our lord 2024. 54% Americans, for example, believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not definitely or probably did not act alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
But there are some conspiracy theories so silly that it's hard to believe anyone would think they're true. One person recently asked online, "What’s the most absurd conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard?" And people had all sorts of answers, from the moon being a hologram to JFK's head just bursting open on its own. So don't hesitate and scroll away for some conspiracy entertainment!
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#1
That a reality TV game show clown, who committed sexual assault and ran a fraudulent charity and a fraudulent university, and ripped off blue collar contractors, had a presidential election "stolen" from him.
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#2
There is an underground group of billionaires controlling the world
Buddy, there's already an above ground group of billionaires controlling the world.
#3
The profits will trickle down.
#4
Last year when the Chinese lunar rover saw that strange square rock out in the distance, I heard some people claim that it was the stage they used to fake the moon landings. On the moon…
Yeah, it turned out to be just a rock.
Manana Man 3 months ago
So the easiest way to fake the moon landing is to go to the moon? Wait a second...
#5
Flat earthers. I don't think they actually believe, I think they are all just trolling us.
The Phantom Stranger 3 months ago
Best argument I've ever heard to refute this nonsense: If the world were flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
#6
The Covid lockdowns were there to replace the birds with bird-like drones.
Manana Man 3 months ago
And the purpose of the bird-like drones is to be caught by cats and brought into your house so they can see what you look like from your kitchen floor.
#7
Pizzagate. Never would have thought that anyone would fall for it. But damn, right wingers are stupid.
#8
Back in the 1920s Al Smith ran for president. It was notable because he was the first candidate to run who was Catholic. During that time a picture of him during the opening of the Holland Tunnel in New York made the rounds in newspapers around the country.
So what did anti-Catholic nutjobs believe? They believed that he was going to build a tunnel from New York to the Vatican in order to take direct orders from the Pope. Not a metaphorical tunnel where the pope would have his ears, but a *literal* tunnel that one could walk or presumably take a train or something to have direct communication with the pope. An actual tunnel from New York, under the Atlantic, to mainland Europe, all the way to Rome.
Dumbass, absurd conspiracy theories are nothing new.
CanadianDimes 3 months ago
Well they would have too but were thwarted by the mid Atlantic ridge. It’s only recently we’ve developed the technology to tunnel beneath it, so you’ve got to watch out for future Catholic presidents
#9
The 100% female, Chinese army, who have never been nerfed by blue light, that are biding their time in underground bunkers in the mountains of China.
According to my neighbor, the one child policy was introduced as a way for China to secretly build up an army of specially trained soldiers. There was never a mass killing of baby girls. They were all sent to underground facilities where they would spend their entire lives being trained in combat and espionage. They will only reveal themselves when China decides to attack the US mainland.
Also! China adds the harmful blue light to the electronics they ship around the world in order to cripple the military might of other countries by wreaking havoc on their sleep cycles. Prolonged sleep deprivation in a large population can cause widespread mental illness and behavioral problems that will follow any service person into their military career. China doesn't give their lady-soldiers any electronics with blue light, so they stay in perfect sync with their circadian rhythm and avoid the mental illnesses and behavioral problems that currently affect much of today's youth.
When I asked why China only wanted women super soldiers, he said that the final stage in their plan for world domination was forced repopulation (because obviously the war would tank the US population) with Chinese genes. By having each female soldier get pregnant with a surviving US man's child, those children would have dual citizenship, and if enough US citizens had Chinese citizenship then they would control the US no matter what the end result of the war was.
Gotta love crazy neighbors 🤪
Edit: My inbox is full of people telling me this is all fetish stuff, but I truly believe my neighbor is too scared to be horny. Unless he's rocking a fear-ection along with his tin foil hat, this is all just crazy doing as crazy does.
#10
Finland Isn’t Real.
A high school kid made it up as a joke, and a whole lot of people took him seriously.
Lisa Kathrin 3 months ago
I'm currently in Finland, can confirm we're just floating in a boundless void
#11
Nearly all celebrities are transgender. "Transvestigators" pore over pictures and videos of famous people, pointing out how "she has a strong jawline" or "he has feminine body language". Apparently, the whole world is controlled by a secret trans cult, and if you want to become famous, you need to transition.
#12
That a plucky group of oil executives and politicians are the only thing that stands between us and the ravages of evil climate scientists.
geezeronthehill 3 months ago
We used to be told that the oil executives were suppressing the "one hundred miles per gallon carburetor '. Turns out they knew about the affect of carbon dioxide on the climate and spent a boatload of money fighting the science.
#13
I'm swinging between two.
CT-A: Western dairy manufacturers put pigs milk in cheese to prevent Muslims from going to heaven after they die. This is absurd because pigs are super hard to milk; their milk isn't a whole lot per pig; it lasts hours, not days; and their milk tastes like hot tar smells.
Edit: Yes, the taste is first hand. I asked once as a kid (Farmer relatives.) and I was fed a teaspoon of fresh pigs milk. Milk of magnesia tastes better. Yuck.
CT-B: Nuclear weapons doesn't exist. Self-explanatory.
#14
Contrails in the sky are a chemicals that makes you gay.
Duncan McCann 3 months ago
I must have spent months frolicking through contrails (gaily of course).
#15
JFK and/or JFK Jr are alive and are going to show up in Dealy Plaza to help Trump in his quest to save America.
First off, they're not alive. Even if JFK faked his death he would be like 110 by now. Second off, if they were going to show up it sure as hell wouldn't be in the exact location that Sr's head got blown off. Finally, they were both liberal Democrats, so the last person they would be helping would be Trump.
#16
The moon is a hologram because the real moon was blown up by nukes (possibly by Nazis?) and we would apparently just all go insane if we looked up at the sky and didn’t see a moon so they had to make a fake one.
#17
There's one that's prevalent in the Middle East about Prince William. The theory is that, the Church of England was involved in the death of Princess Diana.
How does this work? Well, the theory is that Diana was about to marry Dodi al Fayed and to do so, would have to become a Muslim. This would mean that Prince William would have to become a Muslim (according to the theory, not according to reality) and then the whole of the UK would be forced to convert to Islam.
It's completely ridiculous, but in some parts of the Middle East it's taken as fact.
#18
That light bulbs don't emits light but are "Dark suckers" instead.
Frank 3 months ago
Of course this one is true: when a lamp is new, it's transparent. When it's old it gets some black spots and finally it becomes black when it's capacity to absorb dark is exhausted. I never heard this as a conspiracy theory, but as a standard joke in physics and engineering. Of course it does not work with LED lights anymore, but the old filament light bulbs (surely the opaque ones) "proved" this, as well as the fluorescent tubes (where the ends gradually gave less and less light). It's twin brother is that machines and electronics work by smoke and when the smoke comes out, they thus stop working. In fact it's more than a joke, but a hint that more than one explanations seems possible and the obvious one might be wrong. Think about "centrifugal force". Or the earth at the center of the universe.
#19
There were no gunmen in Dallas. JFK's head just did that. It's called the "no bullet theory".
#20
Someone mentioned Paul McCartney, but only in passing.
The "Paul is Dead" conspiracy suggests Paul died in 1966 and was replaced with a lookalike/soundalike/write-alike because The Beatles were too famous to shut down, but meanwhile they drop hints into future songs to let 'real fans' know something isn't right.
Aside from it being ridiculous on its face, I will point out all the stuff Paul McCartney has done since 1966 means if he was replaced with a doppleganger, that doppleganger is now much, much more accomplished than Paul ever was, so maybe it's a good thing he was waiting anonymously in the wings to replace one half of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting duo without a hiccough or word of protest from the other Beatles, two of whom would have been only too delighted to get more solo songwriting credit if Paul was no longer able to contribute instead of being the workaholic of the group.
Manana Man 3 months ago
At the time, and for a brief period of time a lot of people believed it. The Beatles made fun of the whole thing.
#21
My grandma told me recently that I shouldn’t be giving my daughter M&Ms after posting a cute video of her enjoying them.
See my grandma turned into a q anoner and shes convinced that the democrats are actually demons and that they are going to activate nano bots in ( M&M )to stop everyones hearts using the 5g network.
She even puts her stuff in a special bag to block signals when she is meeting with her nutjub friends.
So ya, thats all I got for now. I love my grandma and trying to help her see reason.
#22
Skittles and M&Ms were secretly created by Big Pharma to condition kids to the idea of associating pill-shaped candies as delicious, so they are subconsciously predisposed to being addicted to pills as an adult.
#23
Reptiles. A local newspaper went as far as pointing out features you can use to recognize them and according to said features, I am a lizard too.
EDIT: Reptilians! I meant reptilians. Still am a lizard apparently, though.
Jill Rhodry 3 months ago
I dunno - I think a lot of people are ruled by their lizards brains instead of their rational one🤷🏻♀️
#24
That Princess Diana was murdered because she was a descendant of Jesus.
#25
A coworker was convinced that the Covid vaccine was used to “herd the sheep” and kill the “demoncrats”. Everyone who had the vaccine was going to die according to him, so I let him know that if that happened the country would collapse. There wouldn’t be enough people to run water plants, electric plants, etc. he then told me they have people on stand by to replace that idiots who took the vaccine. I asked him where the 200 million people were at that were replacing the 200 million that were gonna die. And he looked at me like I was the idiot.
#27
That people whose blood group has a minus after it, like mine does, aren't descended from the same ape creatures the rest of the world is. That the minus proves our lineage was "introduced" to the gene-pool, instead of evolved.
#29
Avril Lavigne died in 2003 and was replaced by an exact double called Melissa. People in the YouTube comments of her videos analysing her face and movements to determine if it's really her or Melissa, absolutely wild.
Apparently there's a similar one for Paul McCartney.
#30
The Joe Rogan hoax that kids were identifying as cats so there were litter boxes set in school hallways.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
As someone pointed out elsewhere, an easy way to prove this is BS is to remind everyone that school janitors have a union.
#32
I don't know where it came from or how wide-spread it was, but when Obama's grandmother died, my batshit aunt and uncle were positive he had her murdered because she was about to spill the beans that he was really born in Kenya.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
One of the most poignant things I ever saw from the Repub's...John McCain telling the woman who questioned if he(Obama) was American. McCain shut her right down....he was a REAL Republican, even though the "Orange God" didn't like him because he was captured. And vet's still fall for his (Trump's) BS.
#34
Michelle Obama was born male and the Obama's children were both born through a surrogate.
#35
That the titanic was switched with its sister ship and wasn’t really sunk.
Manana Man 3 months ago
There were two sister ships: Olympic and Britannic. Britannic hit a mine and also sank. Olympic was scrapped during the Depression in the 30's.
#36
Bill Gates implanting Microchips in people with a covid 19 vaccination.
Multa Nocte 3 months ago
Hi, Bill! Each time I receive a covid vaccination I hope you can see me clearer and clearer.
#37
Lindsey Lohan actually had a twin sister who played the twin in The Parent Trap, but between filming and release, the twin died in a car accident, so they marketed the film to make you think Lindsey played both roles.
The Phantom Stranger 3 months ago
That's ridiculous--everybody knows that it was Haley Mills twin who died in a boating accident during the filming of the original 1961 Parent Trap.
#38
Just the other day in the conspiracy sub
”the vax has killed 17 million people”.
#39
That Microsoft employees were the ones buying up PS5s and causing the console shortage.
Lost Panda 3 months ago
I firmly believe that the new systems are manufactured in low numbers to create a shortage and in turn more hype
#40
Albert Einstein didn't exist and was just a character played by Marilyn Monroe.
What do you think ?
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
That we're being encouraged to run around in a panic over imaginary threats and non-existent enemies in order to keep us from wising up to what we should actually be upset about, so the people in power who are causing most of it get to stay that way. But that's just silly!
Kangaroo 3 months ago
Oh! This is a conspiracy theory I could actually get behind. The conspiracy nuts think they’re the smart ones and we’re all blind sheep, but they’re actually the ones being blinded with useless silly conspiracy theories to distract them from the real issues.
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 3 months ago (edited)
The Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty were built to be antennas for communicating with space aliens. France gave the Statue of Liberty to America because they needed an antenna on each side of the world.
The Phantom Stranger 3 months ago
There was actually an episode of the Ghostbusters cartoon back in the late 80's where Egon discovers that Gustav Eiffel actually designed the Eiffel Tower to act as a giant ghost trap.
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Justin Tyme 3 months ago (edited)
The electronic transistor was reverse engineered from the UFO found near Roswell, New Mexico. The alleged UFO debris was found in July 1947. The first transistor was demonstrated just five months later in December 1947. Interesting coincidence of timing, wasn’t it?
The Phantom Stranger 3 months ago
I once accidentally created a mini-conspiracy theory of my own when I wrote a story in which a CIA agent explains that the Roswell Incident of 1947 was actually just a red herring created by the government to cover up the fact that the real alien crash took place in the Acadia National Forest in 1932. A lot of people who read that story thought that this was an actual, pre-existing conspiracy theory and not something that I'd just made up for the sake of the story.
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Beak Hookage 3 months ago
That we're being encouraged to run around in a panic over imaginary threats and non-existent enemies in order to keep us from wising up to what we should actually be upset about, so the people in power who are causing most of it get to stay that way. But that's just silly!
Kangaroo 3 months ago
Oh! This is a conspiracy theory I could actually get behind. The conspiracy nuts think they’re the smart ones and we’re all blind sheep, but they’re actually the ones being blinded with useless silly conspiracy theories to distract them from the real issues.
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 3 months ago (edited)
The Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty were built to be antennas for communicating with space aliens. France gave the Statue of Liberty to America because they needed an antenna on each side of the world.
The Phantom Stranger 3 months ago
There was actually an episode of the Ghostbusters cartoon back in the late 80's where Egon discovers that Gustav Eiffel actually designed the Eiffel Tower to act as a giant ghost trap.
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 3 months ago (edited)
The electronic transistor was reverse engineered from the UFO found near Roswell, New Mexico. The alleged UFO debris was found in July 1947. The first transistor was demonstrated just five months later in December 1947. Interesting coincidence of timing, wasn’t it?
The Phantom Stranger 3 months ago
I once accidentally created a mini-conspiracy theory of my own when I wrote a story in which a CIA agent explains that the Roswell Incident of 1947 was actually just a red herring created by the government to cover up the fact that the real alien crash took place in the Acadia National Forest in 1932. A lot of people who read that story thought that this was an actual, pre-existing conspiracy theory and not something that I'd just made up for the sake of the story.
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