[CHEEZMO™]

Gang stalking.

[Az987]

The illuminati is run by aliens who killed John Lenon because he found out Paul McCartney was a fake.

Guy at Exxon told me.

[Kusagari]

David Bowie is really the leader of a league of super villains.

[VALIS]

The idea JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald under his own accord always seemed extremely flimsy to me. I don't know which one of the alternate theories is true, but there's way too much decent extraneous evidence to believe that, even if you can't put every single piece of the puzzle together.

If I had to guess at one, though, it was a covert action planned and carried out by a small number of members of different government agencies: military, CIA, secret service, etc. With a lot of these agencies in a Cold War frenzy at the time, they thought his relatively peace-seeking ideas in regards to the USSR and Vietnam could be disastrous.

[beelzebozo]

i wish there were a "david foster wallace faked own death" conspiracy i could desperately buy into.

[Dishwalla]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...iracy_theories

Another conspiracy theory related to advertising is that The Coca-Cola Company intentionally changed to an inferior formula with New Coke with the intent of driving up demand for their classic product, later reintroducing it for their financial gain.

I agree with this one.

Similarly, the DTV conversion. Not the one listed in that article, but the one where the whole transition was a way to force newer technology on people, making them go out and buy new TV sets and other equipment.

[FairyD]

Lizard men.
Simulation theory

[Eric Walton]

i wish there were a "david foster wallace faked own death" conspiracy i could desperately buy into.

:(

[Eschaton]

Area 51

.

They're so damn sketchy about it.

[B.K.]

The moon landing being faked.

[aaaaaa]

Something weird went on with the JFK assassination, although it's hard to say exactly what happened.

The White House having foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor might be possible.

[Xero]

Most sane people do not buy into conspiracy theories.

While Obviously the vast majority are crazy theories, conspiracy theories have been right quite a few times in the past, so I wouldn't immediately lump believers in with insane people.
http://conspiraciesthatweretrue.blog...cies-from.html
Honestly this is the result of a half ass google search, so I'm not personally verifying all of these.

[jchap]

Alien visitation is the only one that all of the observed physics in the history of mankind deems impossible. I'll go with grassy knoll.

[Kusagari]

What exactly are people even meaning when they say aliens?

There's a billion different alien conspiracy theories.

[Kad5]

That the United States CIA's first operation was a 1953 coup d'etat called Operation Ajax against Iran's democratic government in favor of a dictatorship by the shah.

[Shambles]

9/11.

WTC 7 utterly imploding from a bit of debris. Yeah, ok.

[Alligatorjandro]

jfk

[BocoDragon]

That the United States CIA's first operation was a 1953 coup d'etat called Operation Ajax against Iran's democratic government in favor of a dictatorship by the shah.

That's pretty much official knowlege at this point, yeah?

And the CIA did that in many nations too... Guatemala, Pinochet in Chile, etc.

[goomba]

It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75% of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory. It raises a lot of questions.

the official story of 9/11.

[Dishwalla]

9/11. WTC 7 utterly imploding from a bit of debris. Yeah, ok.

What about the fires that went unfought for 8 plus hours inside the building? I think if any building was on fire for that long with out anything to even try and put it out it would collapse. Add to that the fuel of all the office supplies and paper and whatnot, as well as I'm sure quite a bit of combustible material from the two towers, it's no mystery why WTC 7 fell.

[SMT]

the official story of 9/11.

Yeah, what was a certain secret service agency filming the Twin Towers 2 hours before the incident while clapping and dancing?

I'd like to add the Illuminati, and Canada being run by whoever runs the United-States.
Free Masons, and the other ones, what are they called the sword menders, forgers?

[Count Dookkake]

THEY LIVE

[KarmaCow]

If the 9/11 thread is any indication, this thread is going to get very dumb or locked soon.

[GrumpyAlien]

Multiple gunmen during the JFK hit.

Yeah, that's the one I subscribe to. Not saying I know with any certainty though. But I do have my doubts. Shit, almost makes me want to watch JFK again.

To be honest I used to believe in a lot of crazy shit for a while. Right after 9/11 I was absorbed into that whole conspiracy thing along with a bunch of my friends. But the world wasn't making sense to me at the time so I wanted whatever answers I could get. Pity those answers were mostly coming from raving loons like Alex Jones and the like. Glad I dropped that shit years ago lol.

[goomba]

I'd like to add the illuminati, and Canada being run by whoever runs the United-States.

What ? I'm saying the official story has the best odds (compared to any other conspiracy theories of being true)

Don't turn this into a 9/11 conspiracy thread, there is a dedicated thread for that.

[RevySubterfuge]

Substances released into the water per "mind control!"

Who knows--is the real question.

[SMT]

What ? I'm saying the official story has the best odds (compared to any other conspiracy theories of being true) Don't turn this into a 9/11 conspiracy thread, there is a dedicated thread for that.

I agree with you. :)

[MC Safety]

Another conspiracy theory related to advertising is that The Coca-Cola Company intentionally changed to an inferior formula with New Coke with the intent of driving up demand for their classic product, later reintroducing it for their financial gain. I agree with this one.

As I understand it, New Coke was just a huge blunder. You never want to engender enmity among a loyal fan base, and that's exactly what Coca-Cola did.

I had always heard -- but never investigated -- the move from Old Coke to New Coke to Old Coke helped to mask the transition sugar-sweetened Coke to high-fructose corn syrup Coke.

[double jump]

the government had something to do with the aids epidemic.

[alr1ght]

Aliens. The Universe is so fucking big.

[Dishwalla]

What about the food processing industry and the pharmaceutical industry being in kahootz with each other? One makes you sick and unhealthy, one "fixes" your ailments.

[Platy]

"Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist of Nirvana was suggested to not to have committed suicide, but was in fact murdered."

I like this one

And also kinda want to believe in the freeenergy ones .... specialy the eletric car and the Tesla one ... but ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...iracy_theories

WOW ! There are some golden ones ... specialy love the ones with more than one

Vril Society Conspiracy which suggests that a secret form of energy, called "Vril", is used and controlled by a secret subterranean society of matriarchal socialist utopian superior beings. The theory also claims that Nazi Germany used this technology to create advanced aircraft (flying saucers).

Secret society, new form of energy and Nazi UFOs ???

The moon landing being faked.

[zerotol]

It's already been mentioned, but ya might want to be careful with the 9/11 stuff.

[joseph1594]

I was going to mention the US involvement in the 1953 Iranian coup, but it was turning into a huge, angry rant. So, aliens I guess.

I don't think that counts as a conspiracy theory when the facts are out in the open showing that there was US involvement in the Iranian coup. It is not like it is censored beyond the US government flat out ignoring it.

Anyways, it depends what you mean by conspiracy. Some people call the idea that corporate control/influence over the American government is a conspiracy theory. If that counts, then it is a conspiracy that I believe is definitely true.

[Like the hat?]

Ancient Aliens always sounds like it makes sense while I'm watching it, even though the feeling vanishes as soon as the credits roll.

[FutureZombie]

Aliens. The Universe is so fucking big.

The conspiracy would be that aliens have actually visited the Earth and it is being covered up. I think it's almost a certainty that aliens exist, but it is almost as certain that they have not visited us yet.

[viciouskillersquirrel]

A group of rich industrialists, headed by US senator Prescott Bush, reached out to General Smedley Butler to recruit a million war veterans in order to stage a military coup against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and in effect turn the US into a fascist dictatorship. They did this because they feared that "that man in the White House" would turn the US into a communist chocolate hellhole.

Bush and a bunch of others got away scott free.

[Jimothy]

That the United States CIA's first operation was a 1953 coup d'etat called Operation Ajax against Iran's democratic government in favor of a dictatorship by the shah.

Not just a theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...'%C3%A9tat

Shit like this needs to be taught in US public schools. Most of the problems in the middle east can be traced back to this coup.

[JasonMCG]

9/11 being an inside job is probably true.
It's been mentioned, but aliens aren't a conspiracy, but rather a belief.

[Riposte]

I don't really look at the world as a place of conspiracy theories, but hidden crimes (maybe "hidden" isn't the right word) are regularly done by governments and those who manipulate them (e.g. corporations). An illuminati would be cool, but it is more like mob bosses if anything.

On 9/11, I think the theories on it are totally dumb (don't need to go into it, but they all fall apart on "execution" alone), but after hearing how completely reluctant Bush was to act on reports of an eminent attack makes me wonder if they wanted to allow a very small attack to happen in order to justify whatever ends. Then again it could just be another case of incompetence. Yeah, I think I'll go with that. Crazy how no one in the media gives him shit for that. Probably off-limits.

[Platy]

Aliens. The Universe is so fucking big.

The problem is that we are talking about CONSPIRACY theorys .... not just "there is a life form outside earth ?".

So if you say aliens you have to choose if it is the Area 51 theory, the inner aliens, the "they are among us", the probe ... the ....

[GrumpyAlien]

Ancient Aliens always sounds like it makes sense while I'm watching it, even though the feeling vanishes as soon as the credits roll.

For real. With all the music and trickery they use to make it sound legit you can't help but think it could be real...even if it's just for a moment. And then you kinda snap out of it when you start to give it any serious thought.

But to it's credit the show did show me some ancient ruins I had never heard of before like those awesome tunnels in Turkey.

[Lulubop]

Alien contact.

[Loxley]

Multiple gunmen during the JFK hit.

Agreed.

Also, aliens. I refuse to believe that in this vast universe, Earth is the only planet that managed to form sustainable life - at least "life" as we define it. I'm not convinced about Area 51 or Roswell, I'm strictly speaking about the universe at large.

[FutureZombie]

but after hearing how completely reluctant Bush was to act on reports of an eminent attack makes me wonder if they wanted to allow a very small attack to happen in order to justify whatever ends.

If that were true, they probably would have placed some WMDs in Iraq so they didn't look like idiots when they found nothing there.

[alphaNoid]

9/11 spill over from the other locked thread I see

[Zabka]

My father claimed there was a painless, quick depilatory lotion for the face that was bought out by Gillette and removed from the market decades ago.

That's pretty much as far out there as he got with conspiracies.

[Phoenix]

Bread makes you fat.

[Dicer]

Area 51 and any other alien cover ups the truth will come out eventually, can't hide things forever....and 9/11

[FutureZombie]

People who think Area 51/alien visitors are real- why do you believe that? Why is there a cover-up?