Favorite Conspiracy Theories?

[tirtefaa]

Sept 20, 2022 18:49:58 GMT -5 Alexander The So-so said:

To name a wrestling one: I’ve always found “the Montreal Screwjob was a work” really compelling.

If we really truly want to be technical about it, it was...just Bret wasn't in on the finish.

[BlackoutCreature]

Alternative 3.

Apparently the Nazi's secretly landed on the Moon in the 1940's, and the US and Soviet Union/Russia have been running joint missions to Mars since the 1960's to terraform it so our world's elite can evacuate to it after the Earth suffers an imminent environmental catastrophe that leaves it uninhabitable.

Total garbage, but imaginative garbage.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Sept 20, 2022 19:15:33 GMT -5 BlackoutCreature said:

Alternative 3.

Apparently the Nazi's secretly landed on the Moon in the 1940's, and the US and Soviet Union/Russia have been running joint missions to Mars since the 1960's to terraform it so our world's elite can evacuate to it after the Earth suffers an imminent environmental catastrophe that leaves it uninhabitable.

Total garbage, but imaginative garbage.

You mean the 1977 April Fools documentary?

[BlackoutCreature]

Sept 20, 2022 19:22:13 GMT -5 El Pollo Guerrera said:

Sept 20, 2022 19:15:33 GMT -5 BlackoutCreature said:

Alternative 3.

Apparently the Nazi's secretly landed on the Moon in the 1940's, and the US and Soviet Union/Russia have been running joint missions to Mars since the 1960's to terraform it so our world's elite can evacuate to it after the Earth suffers an imminent environmental catastrophe that leaves it uninhabitable.

Total garbage, but imaginative garbage.

You mean the 1977 April Fools documentary?

Apparently enough people have latched onto that TV special as actually based on a true story that it has actually morphed into a legit conspiracy theory (well as legit as a conspiracy theory can be) in a lot of circles.

[Natural Born Farmer]

That the Men In Black actually existed as a counter-intelligence wing of the Air Force.

Planes being planes you have to test new ones in the sky, and every now and then someone spots one no matter how remote the site.

They go to the newspaper and start blabbing about what they've seen, possible someone reads it and realizes what this person has actually seen, and maybe brings it to the attention of another nation.

That same person goes back with a follow up story about two weirdos in black showing up to intimidate him, now they seem a lot less credible.

[chrom]

Sept 20, 2022 16:22:53 GMT -5 XIII said:

Jeffrey Epstein was murdered to keep him from talking. There’s waaaaay too much there for it to have been a simple suicide. Who did it we’ll probably never know, but he was definitely taken out.


Michael Jordan getting busted for gambling on games and that’s why his weird sojourn into minor league baseball began.

It was his Dad who got busted.

For Epstein, you mean to tell me that the guards at his cell decided to go take a walk, the camera monitor went out and those watching it fell asleep at the desk, all at the same time?

[thegatewaydrug]

A new one cropped up that just tickled me: The MCs from Los Angeles Hip-Hop sextet Jurassic 5 - Chali 2na, Akil the MC, Zaakir aka Soup and Marc 7 - are all actually other rappers who are believed to be dead.

Akil is allegedly Tupac and Soup is a now-skinny Biggie. The other two are members of Tupac's former group The Outlawz. They wanted to escape the limelight, but still record and perform in the same exact job field.

The problem is that the J5 supergroup formed in 1994-95 after years of performing separately as the Unity Committee and Rebels of Rhythm. None of the supposed death faker rappers were killed until 1996.

I once tried to add some fuel to the fire by tongue-in-cheek suggesting that fellow group member, DJ Cut Chemist, must be Kurt Cobain.

[GodzillaIsMyMonster]

Sept 20, 2022 19:30:47 GMT -5 Natural Born Farmer said:

That the Men In Black actually existed as a counter-intelligence wing of the Air Force.

Planes being planes you have to test new ones in the sky, and every now and then someone spots one no matter how remote the site.

They go to the newspaper and start blabbing about what they've seen, possible someone reads it and realizes what this person has actually seen, and maybe brings it to the attention of another nation.

That same person goes back with a follow up story about two weirdos in black showing up to intimidate him, now they seem a lot less credible.

The MIB has always seemed legit to me.

[Push Val Venis was wrong]

I love everything Bigfoot. The more wacky the better.

[James Fabiano]

Paul is Dead.

Courtney killed Kurt.

Taylor/Kanye was a work.

[Urethra Franklin]

The NBA and the Knicks conspired to fix the 1985 draft lottery in order to get Patrick Ewing to New York to revitalize the market.

There are a number of different theories as to how it was accomplished including freezing an envelope or creasing the corner of the envelope in order for David Stern to know which one to pick.

[Mozenrath]

Sept 20, 2022 19:39:29 GMT -5 chrom said:

Sept 20, 2022 16:22:53 GMT -5 XIII said:

Jeffrey Epstein was murdered to keep him from talking. There’s waaaaay too much there for it to have been a simple suicide. Who did it we’ll probably never know, but he was definitely taken out.


Michael Jordan getting busted for gambling on games and that’s why his weird sojourn into minor league baseball began.

It was his Dad who got busted.

For Epstein, you mean to tell me that the guards at his cell decided to go take a walk, the camera monitor went out and those watching it fell asleep at the desk, all at the same time?

Foul play definitely occurred, though part of me kind of thinks it's as simple as "Epstein wanted to kill himself to not then have to serve a long prison sentence for perhaps the rest of his life, people tied to him/indebted to him pulled some strings so he could kill himself without interference", rather than an assassination.

If it was just about plugging a leak, if they thought he was going to talk, I question why they waited that long, given he'd had chances to name names prior. Maybe they didn't have the opportunity, but given some of the people he was associated with, yeah, they had plenty of chances if it was just him getting murdered. This feels more like with Goering and others killing themselves at the Nuremberg trials rather than being executed.

[DiBiase is Good]

Sept 20, 2022 20:10:04 GMT -5 Push Val Venis was wrong said:

I love everything Bigfoot. The more wacky the better.

The main issue I have with Bigfoot is the supposed location. If such a creature existed (or a variation of it), I doubt it would be in the area around the USA/Canada border.
If it was supposedly somewhere in extreme areas like Siberia or very northern Canada/Greenland then it would far more believable.

[Hit Girl]

Vela Incident

It was most likely a secret Israeli nuclear test on a South African island.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident

[Clash, still not a meter maid]

Sept 20, 2022 20:34:29 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Paul is Dead.

Courtney killed Kurt.

Taylor/Kanye was a work.

I definitely buy that last one. Taylor can’t be taking herself *that* seriously 24/7. Everyone already accepts and knows Ye has no chill.

[Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻]

Sept 20, 2022 16:22:53 GMT -5 XIII said:

Jeffrey Epstein was murdered to keep him from talking. There’s waaaaay too much there for it to have been a simple suicide. Who did it we’ll probably never know, but he was definitely taken out.


Michael Jordan getting busted for gambling on games and that’s why his weird sojourn into minor league baseball began.

You’re way behind the times. Epstein is alive and living on his island. They flew a drone over, really high up, and Epstein was talking to a black guy who works there, saw the drone, got in his car and sped away….

I work with a guy who believes every single conspiracy theory he sees on TikTok.

[Lupin the Third]

Sept 20, 2022 15:59:36 GMT -5 GodzillaIsMyMonster said:

Reading the "myths regarded as facts" thread got me thinking...

What's some of your favorite conspiracy theories?

This doesn't mean you believe them or agree with them. Just ones you find funny, or interesting.

Or maybe you do believe?

For me...

I don't think JFK was killed by just a lone gunman.

Well, duh.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Sept 20, 2022 23:43:32 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 said:

I work with a guy who believes every single conspiracy theory he sees on TikTok.

I think we all know somebody like that. I know a guy whose Twitter feed is just a wasteland of the worst bullshit you've ever heard people make up in your life. Most of it anti-Semitic in the aforementioned "we're blaming the Jews without explicitly saying it's the Jews" way, which just highlights his stupidity, because he's Jewish.

[Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻]

Sept 20, 2022 23:57:12 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Sept 20, 2022 23:43:32 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 said:

I work with a guy who believes every single conspiracy theory he sees on TikTok.

I think we all know somebody like that. I know a guy whose Twitter feed is just a wasteland of the worst bullshit you've ever heard people make up in your life. Most of it anti-Semitic in the aforementioned "we're blaming the Jews without explicitly saying it's the Jews" way, which just highlights his stupidity, because he's Jewish.

Here’s how the crazy the shit this guy says is…the crazy Anti-Semite at work thinks he’s crazy.

[The Unconquered Sun]

That the world is flat and Australia doesn’t exist.
Which of course means Kirk Lazarus was a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude who didn’t exist.