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30 Conspiracy Theories That Some People Actually Believe Despite How Ridiculous They Sound
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Despite the vast amount of knowledge we have about our world, there are always some pockets of ignorance. Humans love a good story, but some of us start to create narratives about the unknown that are frankly, fantastical.
Someone asked “What’s the weirdest/craziest conspiracy theory you have heard of?” and netizens shared the most bizarre things someone had told them. We also got in touch with Accomplished-Leg-991 who made the initial post. So prepare your tinfoil hat, make sure you aren’t on a 5G network, and attune your crystals before you scroll through. Be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your own thoughts below.
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#1
Dinosaur bones were placed on earth by Satan to trick people into "abandoning" God.
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#2
Rocks are soft until touched. Dumbest, but still my favorite.
#3
My mother believes that it’s so difficult to get appointments with doctors is because illegal immigrants are taking all the appointments. I laughed until I realized she was serious.
Bored Panda got in touch with the fantastically named Accomplished-Leg-991 who posed the initial question to internet users and they were kind enough to answer some of our questions. Naturally, we were curious to hear why they decided to query the internet about the strangest conspiracy theories people have had the (misfortune) of hearing.
“I was prompted to ask the question after seeing a “conspiracy iceberg” full of dark and also weird conspiracies,” they shared with Bored Panda. Interestingly, the “slippery slope” that gets people into conspiracy theories as true believers seems to also generate interest in the more niche variants.
#4
Truck driver that delivered my flooring gave me this gem: The push for green lawns in the US is by Big Pharma.
The cliff notes version is that to get green grass, you need pesticides, pesticides cause cancer, cancer is good business for drug companies. It was like a 20 minute long rant to get to that conclusion and it was an adventure.
WindySwede 1 year ago
(Slippery) Floors was invented by Big Cast, for you to break bones... /jk
#5
That Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen, and they made the movie Frozen so that when people googled "Walt Disney Frozen" the movie would come up first.
#6
Covid was not a virus, it was actually the result of the Catholic church lacing the world's water supply with King Cobra venom in order to genetically transform the world's populace into snake-human-demon hybrids, thus preventing them from going to heaven. This was all because the scientific name of the King Cobra and a piece of a bishop's miter contain the word "corona". The person who presented this theory apparently had no idea that corona just means crown in latin, he was presumably too busy being contacted by God through fortune cookies he got from a chinese restaurant.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I am sure David Icke is writing a huge boring book on this as we speak
Accomplished-Leg-991’s post ended up going quite viral as many people shared all the outlandish things they have heard, so we wanted to hear their opinion on what attracted folks to the thread. “I think the post got good reach as it is something most people will think about and hold in their heads as absurd or crazy and makes them wanna spill.”
#7
That ADHD havers are actually glitching through different dimensions
#8
I have to say the one about politicians drinking infant blood in the basements of pizza parlors in order to get adrenochrome is a pretty crazy one. Because the only way to get adrenochrome is through vampiric acts since chemistry isn’t a thing
#9
Some nutjobs have convinced themselves that every celebrity is trans. They point out all kinds of physical attributes that "prove it" like "masculine jawline" and "male eyes", or "too small hips that a woman wouldn't be able to birth through, must be a man". One bikini pic of Taylor Swift shows a bit pronounced pubic mound, and the conspiracy nutters never having seen a natural naked woman went "Yup must be a penis" It's called Transvestigation if you're interested.
Lastly, we wanted to hear if Accomplished-Leg-991 themselves had heard any particularly bizarre conspiracy theories in person. “I’ve heard tons of crazy conspiracy theories but clockwork elves, the theory of the Las Vegas shooter, and the dancing plague I love. Plus there are tons more but there are a few,” they shared with Bored Panda.
#10
Traffic barrels are left up for so long because the department of transportation bought too many & has no place to store them
#11
That birds are not real and are actually just surveillance for the government. It's a great eye rolling experience.
Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago
But they aren’t real! And it’s only getting worse. I mean, even the birds we get as pets, like sweet (?) little budgy birds are not what we think. Those teeny eyes see EVERYTHING. At night, when you cover their cage, that’s when the downloading of the surveillance happens, as we sleep.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
I have three budgies in a cage in my living room. If the government wants to spy on me drinking wine and scrolling through BP they can go right ahead
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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago
There's a website devoted to this. I'm convinced it's a parody of conspiracy theories.
Corvus 1 year ago
Bonus: The Corona pandemic was staged to allow government agents to change the birds' batteries :D
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 1 year ago
That is a hilarious addition to the conspiracy theory!
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Sondra Lorino 1 year ago
It's a great eyerolling experiment, really. This "conspiracy theory" was started as a joke to prove you could make some people believe anything.
Richard Rice 1 year ago
So my cat, when he at my finch, was actually working for an anti-government Malitia?
WonderWoman 1 year ago (edited)
......so if birds are surveillance for govt, what does is mean when the 'birds' c r a p all over your car?
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
That you've been targeted for probing, stay vigilant.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
That's a joke. The guy who created Bird Aren't Real will gladly confirm it.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
This always was, and still is, a satirical mocking of conspiracy theories. Akin to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (May you be touched by Its Noodly Appendage. R'Amen)
parmadillo 1 year ago
Omg!! Conspiracies were invented by public health officials, so our eyes would get more exercise when we roll them?
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 1 year ago
They were the lizard people as babies. 🦎👶
Load More Replies... WindySwede 1 year ago
He started it. Hear his TED talk: https://youtu.be/3VEkzweBJPM?si=jvZy3rZ_L6HWYz4G
Donna Gettings Apperson 1 year ago
I heard this about bees from a person with paranoid schizophrenia. He truly believed.
Paloma Vita 1 year ago
I thought that one was a joke... some people really believe that? (and off I go to the interwebs...)
DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight 1 year ago
At first I laughed at this....but the more I think about it, the more I wonder "what if?" Reading about conspiracy theories is too terrifying *clicks out*
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 1 year ago
Does that include bald eagles? What is happening when birds eat other birds? Are flightless birds like chickens or penguins real? Did roosters get their cameras mixed up with alarm clocks causing them to wake people up in the morning?
Joe Publique 1 year ago
This actually originated as a joke to highlight the stupidity of most conspiracy theories, then people actually started believing it...
Chelsea McKee 1 year ago (edited)
I remember thinking this, while I didn't agree it was a fun thought. ✨but what if?✨
#12
You social security number indicates which bank you were sold to at birth.
Taff Thomas 1 year ago
Elvick, who had founded the redemption movement in the United States; the redemption movement notably promoted the strawman theory, which is based on the assertion that state legislative authority only extends to an individual's legal person, and not to their natural person.[13] Warman claimed that whereas in the United States, an individual's Social Security Number was used to attach this "strawman" to a natural person, in Canada, this was done using a birth certificate.[16] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land_movement
#13
The "5g waves emitted by the Emergency Broadcast test activate the Covid vaccine microchips and turn people into zombies/give them Marburg" one is definitely one of the weirdest I've ever heard
Rocket Surgeon 1 year ago
My wife and I still joke that we're so glad we got vaccinated because we get so much better reception on our phones now.
#14
Had a co worker that fully believes the government controls the weather so celebrities can have nice weddings
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago (edited)
Everyone knows that Pudge the fish controls the weather, as long as he gets his sandwiches.
#15
Mountains are all the stumps of ancient fossilized enormous trees.
I'm absolutely *obsessed* with this theory. It's connected to flat earth, but flat earth isn't a requirement for this theory nor do most flat earthers believe it.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
I absolutely love utterly bonkers conspiracy theories that don't hurt anyone, and this is one of them 😁
#16
The earth is flat and everyone person has their own sun like the sun you see and the one I see is completely different
Bored something 1 year ago
Well, it must be what is causing global warming. Every time someone is born another sun pops into existence.
#17
A very strange conspiracy theory I've heard about is the story of the "Lizardpeople" or "reptilians". According to this theory, high-ranking political leaders and celebrities are actually hidden humanoid reptilians who control the world. They are supposed to be able to change their form and aim to manipulate humanity. It sounds like the script of a science fiction movie, but there are people who really believe it. Well, sometimes people's imagination knows no bounds!
#18
That Finland doesn’t exist
#19
That the great fire of London was actually started by a rat spontaneously combusting.
Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago
The Great Fire of London never happened. It's a lie designed to sell us house insurance.
#20
Chemtrails have got to be up there.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Psst...have you noticed that we didn't have chemtrails until there were jet aircraft? There's got to be a connection. /s
#21
My friend and his dad are big Conspiracy theorists. They listened to Alex Jones every day and believed him too. A couple of years ago it was on the news that some Navy Seals and the PD Swat were going to do a joint training exercise. Those 2 were convinced that it was all a ruse and that they were going to try and take over the city. So that day they didn't open their business and stayed home and armed themselves with every weapon they had and waited for an "attack"
#22
Dollar general stores are run by the government to get information about UFOs
Kaycee Friend 1 year ago
There is definitely a conspiracy at Dollar General, just maybe not that one
#23
Met a dude at the gym that believed that the CIA had built tunnels throughout the Earth's core, connecting all the major cities. Was some kind of global takeover scheme.
#24
That owning chickens are the gateway drug to believing conspiracy theories
Cjay 1 year ago
Partially related interlude: chickens are f**king cruel. It’s starts at the top: the pride of every flock is the rooster. He’s the protector and depending on how long he’s been rooster, often father of most of the flock. The rooster is a terrible caricature of the modern man; all he does is sleep, eat, steal food, rape the hens, and watch football (give it take that last one). But there’s no safety in hens either. They will dismember a rival, claw off her face, and literally kill her and SOMETIMES JER CHICKS AS WELL. They also chose a ‘scapegoat’ who they will blame and subsequently abuse if anything goes wrong. My family used to have chickens, we had three entirely separate flocks , and they were all evil creatures .
#25
Flat Earth.
Just . . . everything about it.
#26
Conspiracy 58. Basically, a conspiracy that the World Cup from 1958 never happened in Sweden as it was broadcast and it was a CIA psy-op. The conspiracy is documented in a movie *Conspiracy 58,* which makes a very compelling case - until at the every end of the credits, were it claims to be a work of fiction (but the text only in Swedish). People legitimately believe this theory now.
WindySwede 1 year ago
I saw that on TV, had no reference to it but saw the end credits after luckily!
#27
Recently TikTok kept giving bizarre suggestions where people trying to prove Ice Wall in Antarctica that Earth is bigger and something is hiding behind ice wall in Antarctica…. Wth
WindySwede 1 year ago (edited)
Been around long time, and every time they try to prove a stationary flat earth, with a dome. They [accidentally] proves the earth to be a spinning ball. Then deleting that video soon after.
#28
There’s a whole podcast with hundreds of episodes dedicated to this subject. Worth a listen. One of the wildest ones is that Charlemagne’s grandson moved the calendar forward ~300 years and thus the dark ages never happened.
ADHORTATOR 1 year ago (edited)
And this worked all over the world, even in countries he wans't aware of?
#29
We're all infected by parasites that feed on our stress hormones reseased by negative emotions like guilt, sadness, anger, fear, and so on. They control our minds and, thereby, us to an extent. The only way to combat them is by being aware and questioning if your thoughts and actions are truly your own thoughts and actions.
Cyber Returns 1 year ago
I always question my thoughts. Most of the time they don't make the slightest bit of sense
#30
The uss Philadelphia experiment and the us army soldier who claimed he was in an interdimensional waiting room as a greeter for eternity until he was suddenly transported back onto the ship. People claimed it was a cloaking device gone wrong and left mena bodies trapped within the steel of the boat upon reentry. I never looked into it but read about it in a book that had the name like "Nothing in this book is true but it's exactly the way things are" or something similar. Always thought it was the wildest conspiracy theory ever when I was a stoned teenager reading it.
What do you think ?
marianne eliza 1 year ago
I've smoked for 45 years and it never made me into a nutso.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Because the illuminati put forth these conspiracy theories to hide behind.
Load More Replies... WonderWoman 1 year ago
Critical thinking skills are so seriously lacking coupled with disinformation being thrust at people it is no wonder some of the more gullible people succumb to conspiracy theories.
Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
I must say fellow Pandas your responses were better than the theories 😁👏
BookFanatic 1 year ago
Last night a library patron accused us of selling her information to the Illuminati. What was the basis for this fact? Earlier in the week the public computer she was using had the volume set at 50. Yesterday it happened to be set at 63. That 13 point different obviously proves her point. 13 is evil, Illuminati are evil. (sigh)
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I got an illuminati eye tattoo specifically to intimidate idiots.
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago
They forgot a very serious one that killed over 100k of our citizens: that AIDS does not get caused by the HI virus. Our president Mbeki believed this one.
PopscotchM 1 year ago
Some people are aliens from mars that have come to steal our teeth to power their time machine!1!!1!! (if you get it, you are one of my favourite people on this site.)
Jerry Mathers 1 year ago
Here is one. When trump was president, he sold state secrets about Israel's defenses (and Egypts enemies), which he delivered in 2016/17. Egypt did a purge and, when trump lost the election, the Saudi's dumped 2b into Kushner's hedge fund. All his visits to foreign dictators were actually meeting where trump was selling National security secrets to N. Korea, Russia, etc.. In 2020, he sent Kushner to deliver these. The problem was Kushner couldn't get a clearance, so Trump told the NSA to "give him access", which they did. Kushner took a briefcase of documents and delivered them to the Middle East, but nobody knows what he took. The reason Trump wouldn't give back the his documents was that he intended to sell those. We know he did have state secrets. Hamas did pierce Israel's Iron Curtain using documents that Trump/ Kushner provided. The sad part is all of this is believable. Trump is dumb enough to sell out the US. True or not, it's time to spread right wing conspiracies :-) lol
Chez 1 year ago
I work with someone who says that Bill and Melinda Gates created AIDS to control the African population. I thought she was joking for a solid 5 minutes before realizing she was not. She also thinks the Covid pandemic was fake and used to control the world's populations. She has more conspiracy theories but I just cannot listen with a straight face and so now I avoid her.
Joe Publique 1 year ago
Over 40 years of taking money away from education has created two generations of semi-literate adults who lack critical thinking skills, do not know how to evaluate evidence/sources, and cannot understand the difference between opinions and facts. It's no coincidence that many of these people subscribe to a particular political/ideological agenda, or that people with a college/university education are far less likely to subscribe to such theories.
3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 1 year ago
I have an Uncle who believes Antarctica is actually a giant snake
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
The biggest conspiracy theory we know is beyond ridiculous. It says that soft can-openers think they're in charge. How ridiculous can you get?
jdtimid123 1 year ago
Thought for sure I was gonna see the one about how the world ended in 2012 and everyone just got put on a different earth in an alternate universe somehow. Not gonna lie, they made a lot of sense when I was looking it up 😅
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Some of these are conspiracies which have managed to spread. Some of these are the delusions of people suffering from schizophrenia.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
I've smoked for 45 years and it never made me into a nutso.
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Because the illuminati put forth these conspiracy theories to hide behind.
Load More Replies... WonderWoman 1 year ago
Critical thinking skills are so seriously lacking coupled with disinformation being thrust at people it is no wonder some of the more gullible people succumb to conspiracy theories.
Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
I must say fellow Pandas your responses were better than the theories 😁👏
BookFanatic 1 year ago
Last night a library patron accused us of selling her information to the Illuminati. What was the basis for this fact? Earlier in the week the public computer she was using had the volume set at 50. Yesterday it happened to be set at 63. That 13 point different obviously proves her point. 13 is evil, Illuminati are evil. (sigh)
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I got an illuminati eye tattoo specifically to intimidate idiots.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
They forgot a very serious one that killed over 100k of our citizens: that AIDS does not get caused by the HI virus. Our president Mbeki believed this one.
PopscotchM 1 year ago
Some people are aliens from mars that have come to steal our teeth to power their time machine!1!!1!! (if you get it, you are one of my favourite people on this site.)
Jerry Mathers 1 year ago
Here is one. When trump was president, he sold state secrets about Israel's defenses (and Egypts enemies), which he delivered in 2016/17. Egypt did a purge and, when trump lost the election, the Saudi's dumped 2b into Kushner's hedge fund. All his visits to foreign dictators were actually meeting where trump was selling National security secrets to N. Korea, Russia, etc.. In 2020, he sent Kushner to deliver these. The problem was Kushner couldn't get a clearance, so Trump told the NSA to "give him access", which they did. Kushner took a briefcase of documents and delivered them to the Middle East, but nobody knows what he took. The reason Trump wouldn't give back the his documents was that he intended to sell those. We know he did have state secrets. Hamas did pierce Israel's Iron Curtain using documents that Trump/ Kushner provided. The sad part is all of this is believable. Trump is dumb enough to sell out the US. True or not, it's time to spread right wing conspiracies :-) lol
Chez 1 year ago
I work with someone who says that Bill and Melinda Gates created AIDS to control the African population. I thought she was joking for a solid 5 minutes before realizing she was not. She also thinks the Covid pandemic was fake and used to control the world's populations. She has more conspiracy theories but I just cannot listen with a straight face and so now I avoid her.
Joe Publique 1 year ago
Over 40 years of taking money away from education has created two generations of semi-literate adults who lack critical thinking skills, do not know how to evaluate evidence/sources, and cannot understand the difference between opinions and facts. It's no coincidence that many of these people subscribe to a particular political/ideological agenda, or that people with a college/university education are far less likely to subscribe to such theories.
3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 1 year ago
I have an Uncle who believes Antarctica is actually a giant snake
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
The biggest conspiracy theory we know is beyond ridiculous. It says that soft can-openers think they're in charge. How ridiculous can you get?
jdtimid123 1 year ago
Thought for sure I was gonna see the one about how the world ended in 2012 and everyone just got put on a different earth in an alternate universe somehow. Not gonna lie, they made a lot of sense when I was looking it up 😅
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Some of these are conspiracies which have managed to spread. Some of these are the delusions of people suffering from schizophrenia.
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