Conspiracies and You (no longer updated)
Aden McClune, Staff Reporter
Many people, whether they realize it or not, believe in some form of conspiracy theory. But why? And what is a conspiracy theory? With new entries every week, Conspiracy Corner will attempt to answer those questions.
Death of Princess Diana
The late Princess Diana, despite her many humanitarian and political efforts, is most widely known for her untimely death in the summer of 1997. Why? Why are the circumstances of her death so hotly debated even now, more than 20 years later? As most know, she was killed in the result of a car crash, with her partner Egyptian filmmaker Dodi Al-Fayed and their driver Henri Paul also killed. Her bodygua...
Tupac, dead or alive
Almost everyone knows that the famous rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in 1996, but many theories are still circulated about the mysterious circumstances of his death. From hiding out in Cuba with his aunt, to a full-scale documentary being made about his life in New Mexico with Navajo natives, seemingly everyone has seen Tupac. Now, his death is warrant for questioning. First of all, his kil...
Yale’s Skull and Bones
Of the many secret societies dotting the Earth, Yale’s Skull and Bones is arguably the most well-known, and most discussed, and with good reason. Founded in 1832, it boasts some very famous and powerful alumni, including former US presidents George W. Bush, as well as his father, George H. W. Bush. Skull and Bones recruits from the male junior population at Yale every spring, on “tap night”. Aspiring members participate in some form of hazing ritual, such as in 2014, with one student dressed in Roman garb only allowed...
Denver International Airport
The Denver International Airport has been the subject of intense scrutiny and conspiracy theories since it’s construction in 1995, and for good reason. Being $2 billion over budget, and having some interestingly shaped runways, it is certainly an interesting complex. During the airport's history, it has been accused of: being a safe haven for neo-Nazis, being constructed by Freemasons, having secret bunk...
William Colby
On April 27, 1996, former CIA director William Colby was found dead in a river bank one-quarter of a mile from his home, with his dinner still on the table. His death was ruled to be “accidental” by the medical examiner, but many theories about what happened exist, including his son’s, Carl Colby. Carly Colby claims, in his documentary “The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA...
Phobos
In 2009, first man on the moon Buzz Aldrin said on C-SPAN regarding the large monolith-like structure on Mars’ moon, Phobos, that "When people find out about that they are going to say, 'Who put that there? Who put that there?'" And he was right! Today, many people question the true origin of the strange rock formation, some claiming aliens, God, or just plain asteroid impact or simple erosion. ...
Ruby Ridge
“Ruby Ridge” is a place right near the Canadian border in northern Idaho which was the site of a grisly incident in August of 1992. Our story begins with a Randy Weaver, a not-so-charming, illegal arms dealing, and white supremacist doomsday prepper living with his wife and three daughters in a cabin he built in the woods near Ruby Ridge in 1983. Randy befriended an ATF informant, and stupidly sold him two illegal (too short) sawed-off shotguns. When We...
Operation Condor
Some people know of Augusto Pincochet, and his military dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands in Chile, but many do not know that he was only a small part in right-wing dictatorships in South America propped up by the U.S. government and the CIA. Operation Condor was a clandestine operation that the United States was forced to declassify after Pinochet was extradited to Spain for his role i...
Operation Mockingbird
Operation Mockingbird was a covert U.S. government operation run by the CIA to implant pro-US propaganda in American media and front organizations. Starting in the 1950s, the CIA began to hire and contract students and people in the media to write false stories, or embellish stories to favor the U.S government. In 1967, it was proven in Ramparts magazine that even the National Student Organizatio...
Area 51
Area 51. Not publicly acknowledged by the US military until 2013, this base in the southwestern United States has been victim for conspiracy theories, some baseless, with some even instigating the famed 2019 ¨raid¨ on the base. What is really housed in this base? Constructed in 1955, it was used (officially) during the Cold War for stealth plane research to get an edge on the Russians, hence the top-secret...
U.S. human experimentation
Between 1946 and 1948, the U.S Department of Health purposely infected over 1,500 people in Guatemala. With permission from the U.S Surgeon General during the time, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr. ,U.S doctors purposely injected inmates, children, hospital and asylum patients, soldiers and other members of the general public without their consent. The study officially ended in 1948, but other senology experi...
Bohemian Grove
Founded in 1872, the Bohemian Club, most commonly referred to as simply “Bohemian Grove” is a private club in the San Francisco area where the rich and powerful meet to do… what they do. What actually occurs in the 2,500-acre plot is highly contested, with very little actual footage, but a few interviews and tapes. Former U.S President Richard Nixon called it in the famous Nixon tapes as the ...
Chemtrails
Most everyone has seen a plane fly before, right? And most people have seen the harmless contrails of ice falling from the edge of wings, due to the humid jet exhaust when it encounters the cold atmosphere. But what if I told you that these so-called ice crystals are actually potentially dangerous chemicals, which are being flown twenty-four hours, seven days a week over your heads? You’d be ske...
Gulf of Tonkin incident
Most Americans know about the Vietnam War, but few actually know how the United States formally found itself involved. After Japanese occupation during the Second World War, France attempted to reassert her control over her colonies in Indochina. In 1954, the last remaining French fort was taken, and colonial rule was over, and the country was split in two, with the communist regime in the North, a...
The Georgia Guidestones
The Georgia Guidestones are four 16 foot tall granite slabs in Elbert County, GA. They were commissioned in 1977 by a “Richard C. Christian” (a pseudonym) who claimed that his organization has been trying to get them built for 20 years. Christian seemed to have an endless amount of money ready to go to fund the expensive project. Secrecy was very important to Christian. In fact, the banke...
The Great Reset
If you’re on Twitter, you’d have noticed the Great Reset trending recently, but what exactly is this “Great Reset”, and is it actually going to happen, and to what extent? The “Great Reset”, slammed as a “baseless conspiracy theory” by The New York Times, is actually a program developed by the World Economic Forum as a plan to “rethink” capitalism. In the wake of the COVID pandemic, ma...
The price of 5G
When you hear the term 5G you probably think of faster internet and cellular speeds. But that could not be all it’s offering. From mind control to literally ripping your DNA apart and giving you cancer, some specialists and part of the general public object to the construction of 5G towers in their home countries. According to mainline studies in Scientific American, cell phone frequencies can...
Operation Northwoods
Ah, the CIA. How benevolent. According to John Krasinski, the CIA is "something we should cherish, and thank every day.” Most know that the United States’ government has some shady dealings and history in the past, and present. I’ve written about Operation Starfish Prime, trying to ignite hydrogen bombs in the upper atmosphere, and Operation Paperclip, where Nazi scientists were brought over to work at NAS...
Flat earth
This one is ridiculous, and probably half the people that “believe” are hopefully just contrarians, or it’s satire. But yes, haven’t you heard? Space is fake and the Earth is flat. Some with PHDs in pseudo-science still live in the Dark ages. But to truly comprehend the scope of Flat Earth “Theory”, you have to see where they’re coming from. Not many people know of “Operation Paperclip”, the top-secret CIA operation ...
New World Order pt. III
Since the dawn of the first empires in Rome, to Hitler and Stalin, there have always been a select few who lusted for control over people, and the world. Why? How are these people created, how do they think, and how are they ultimately defeated, or at least stopped from world domination? To answer these questions effectively, I’m going to split up these entries about the Bilderbergs and the ...
New World Order pt. II
This is part two to the multi-part post about the New World Order. Here, I’ll try to discuss the origins and beginning of both the term “New World Order” and the formation of a secret power cult in the modern era. The most common, and accepted time period for modern plans for a one-world government is the late 18th century, 1773 to be exact. This year, Mayer Amschel Rothschild convened with 12 oth...
New world order
Since the dawn of the first empires in Rome, to Hitler and Stalin, there have always been a select few who lusted for control over people, and the world. Why? How are these people created, how do they think, and how are they ultimately defeated, or at least stopped from world domination? To answer these questions effectively, I’m going to split up these entries about the Bilderbergs and the ...
Human harvesting and DNA splicing
When one thinks of DNA splicing and cross-species scientific abominations, they think of wild science fiction stories like Jurassic Park and the more recent Gemini Man. However, some allege, with credible sources, scientific papers, and news articles claim that human-animal hybrids have been brought to term in laboratories. But why? What’s the aim? Some, including myself, believe that these aliens...
Nazis and the Occult
A simple Google search will find a reader lost in dozens of articles all claiming the same thing. Hitler and the Third Reich’s technological advancements and advantage in the Second World War can be attributed to either extraterrestrial or inter-dimensional intervention. Phew. It is widely known that both Hitler used, and regular soldiers were issued stimulants and other drugs in the latter y...
Project MK Ultra
When someone hears the term “MK Ultra”, they probably think of the classical tin-foil hat wearing, nonsensical, usually unhygienic man or woman that thinks the sun is following them around, and their dog is a CIA informant. But what is Project MK Ultra? To be blunt, it was, and perhaps still is, a government funded project that started in the early 1950s that conducted hundreds of operations, somet...
Paul is dead
This is one of my favorites, and one of the funnier ones. In 1969, rumors spread that Paul McCartney of The Beatles died in a car accident, and was replaced by a lookalike, named William Shears, hence on “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, their 1967 extravaganza release, the intro song mentions a “Billy Shears”, and then it transitions into Ringo’s song, “With A Little Help Fro...
The JFK Assassination
A lot of people have questions left unanswered about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. For some people, it’s a sensitive topic, but I’m going to completely disregard that and start with a Bill Hicks joke: “Before the assassination, some people heard of anti-Castro pigeons hanging out in bars, calling; “coup, coup, coup.” Now that’s out of the way, we can talk brass tacks....
The Moon Landing
As a disclaimer, I think this one is ridiculous. However, if you believe in one conspiracy theory, a general rule of thumb is to keep an open mind. Many people, from many different generations, believe for one reason or another that the 1969 moon landing was fake. But how fake? And what does fake actually mean? In this situation, we will assume the term “fake” in relation to the moon landing is ...
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