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The Guide to Conspiracy Theories

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July 11, 2025

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Conspiracy theories are ripe lore for uncertain times, narratives that stitch random static into a hidden design, insisting nothing is accidental and someone is always pulling the strings. Ari Aster’s Eddington (landing July 18, 2025) lights that fuse in a sun-scorched New-Mexico town: the sheriff trusts short-wave numbers stations over his deputies, the mayor crowdsources bunker blueprints on Telegram, and every dust-storm rumor ricochets into panic. The film asks a simple question: when speculation feels safer than the truth, who gets to write reality?

Enter our Guide to Conspiracy Theories, presented in partnership with A24.** Lunge into community-curated rabbit holes: from the “Titanic swap” insurance ruse and corn-syrup mind-control claims to Vatican horror-propaganda whispers and Avril-body-double lore. Each recc breaks down the anatomy of a conspiracy—motive, method, myth—so you can spot the patterns (or pareidolia) before the credits roll.

Please spiral responsibly.

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MOUNTAINS ARE ANCIENT GIANT TREES

This is a flat earth spin-off so there’s a severe lack of any coherent theory, I found it while trying to understand why they think the globe is a lie (never found out) For the record I don’t believe this at all but I think it’s nice. I like when things look like other things.

@soft

Jul 9, 2025

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I’VE SEEN A UFO

I was out deep, deep in the woods with friends last summer. It was daytime and we were all sitting around the unlit fire pit, chatting. My eyes wandered to the sky where I saw something darting very quickly from one point to another, probably 12 feet above us. The longer I stared, the more I realized a bird isn’t frantic like that and can’t pull off what looked like impossibly tight curves. I don’t even think drones can pull off maneuvers like that. By the time I tried to get anyone else‘s attention about 15 seconds went by, and my friends couldn’t track my finger in the sky, and then it was just gone. All my friends thought I was kidding. I still don’t have an explanation!

@persimmons

Jun 9, 2025

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the titanic didnt sink

it was her twin sister the olympia. she was already totaled so they sent her pretending it was the titanic, sank it on purpose, got a huge insurance payout and didn’t have to pay to fix an old boat.
to me it’s a fairly harmless theory to 100% believe and stand my ground on

@rodeoshrimp

May 20, 2024

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GIANT BLUE HORSE AT DENVER AIRPORT BEING EVIL

Some say it’s a nod to the four horsemen of the apocalypse .. I say it’s a blue horse!

@lindseyliebs

STAFF

Jul 9, 2025

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This is the End of history

This is the end of history. We are, all of us, collectively hurdling toward a new reality and this current reality is evil. It is purely capitalistic. It is anti community, it is anti-human, it is pure and cold and evil and we have to change this NOW before we program the AI with this. Our image of ourselves is being replicated and doubled and fabricated and fed back to us. We have to remember ourselves

@vernonjeffersonpeak

Jul 10, 2025

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The catholic church funds horror movies

Idk I have no basis but you ever watch like a possession movie or something and think huh this almost seems like propaganda?
Like the nun and the nun 2 and the popes exorcist

@pissbowling

May 15, 2024

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PAUL IS DEAD

i've definitely heard crazier but like being 10-11 and seeing my first paul is dead conspiracy video had me rattled to the fucking core at the time. i was like how did i never notice

@Frankenstein

Jul 9, 2025

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SPRAYING THE LAWN FOR BUGS MAKES THE GRASS TASTE BETTER

they say it gives us cancer because they’re scared humans will eat all the grass away.

@camron

Jul 9, 2025

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missing ingredient theory

This is an Ethan original: Grocery stores will sometimes intentionally withhold products from their shelves, to force customers to buy new (inferior) products.
My third eye was opened the other day when I went to buy a classic glass bottle of Frank's red hot buffalo sauce, but was forced to buy the new plastic squeeze bottle version instead. Literally who asked for this. Stop making me ingest microplastics!!!

@ethansawyer

May 22, 2024

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Flat earth

just kidding. but I do believe the usda and big sugar are obliterating the average american’s chance at a long and healthy life

@natashaa

May 20, 2024

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dolphins are aliens

and everything else that pd187 says https://pd187.neocities.org/cetacean_intelligence

@953

Jul 9, 2025

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Avril Lavigne was replaced by a body double in 2003

It just gets crazier with time

@squista

May 15, 2024

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nothing is a coincidence

This is a solid belief of mine. these last few months, I’ve had owls filter in and out of my life in strange ways.
It started a few months ago when my cousin told me she had a nightmare with an owl in it.
A different friend, a month or two later, sent me a video of a barn owl she saw on a walk.
two weeks ago, I saw an owl in person for the first time. I was on a walk with my dog, and it flapped by out of nowhere. i didn’t have my phone on me, and i didn’t plan on going in this specific direction on my walk. We stared at each other. Once I started going WHOOO WHOOO, the link broke and we went our separate ways.
a few days later, was telling a friend about this synchronicity of owlz during a stoner walk near a creek. It was dark, and I decided to dip my toes in the water (as I am a mermaid for any body of water)
as I was watching my step among the slick coldness of the water and the invisible pebbles in the dark, my friend let out a soft scream- gasp. above me, an owl had flown by. she said it ’had been too fat to have been anything else’ and i fully believe her.
Owls are interesting. They aren’t my primary bird of hyperfixation (big on eagles and crows in my universe) but I feel deeply connected to the universe and its movements, whenever these sorts of repetitions enter my life.
I always read into it. I don’t care, I love making something’s out of someone else’s nothings.

@harmanzworldd

Aug 17, 2024

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that justin trudeau is fidel castro's son

bc the trudeau's were swingers and in an “undisclosed“ island 9 months before justin’s birth and look pretty chummy with castro and WHY DID THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DENY IT IF IT ISNT TRUE

@mdoinurmom

May 19, 2024

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Edgar degas was jack the ripper

TikTok user @/schirrgenius lays it all out but basically their timelines are very in sync and Degas notoriously had a voyeuristic, disrespectful relationship with women. It would make sense that Degas, a sculptor and painter, would want to dissect women. It’s a very interesting theory

@cordialratlord

May 19, 2024

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EVERYTHING BECOMES A CRAB

I read this Aeon essay called “Homo Crustaceous” that discussed a study of different lineages of crabs that all eventually evolved into the crab, which sparked internet memes. The article makes a pretty good argument that crabs are more similar to humans than we believe. https://aeon.co/essays/are-humans-destined-to-evolve-into-crabs

@awful_albatross

Jul 9, 2025

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ronald reagan is the reason we have so much high fructose corn syrup in (processed) american foods

i know a lot of facts and most of the ones i know about the US government make me feel like i’m wearing a tin hat. this is one of them. (though in some ways it doesn’t surprise me because reagan was literally supervillain level evil) in the graph below, the reason the HFCS line (red) makes that little jump over refined sugar (blue) in the early 80s is because of laws Reagan signed

@marxinista

Sep 6, 2024

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https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders explains most everything

Wonder why developers get everything they want? Realtors association of America is the #2 lobbying organization in the US. Why do pharmas get away with so much? #3 is Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America. #1 is Chamber of Commerce so business holds the biggest seat at the table. Dunno if this is considered conspiracy theory or conspiracy fact.

@megabyte

May 20, 2024

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JFKS HEAD JUST DID THAT

and the cia had to cover it up

@cl0e

Jul 9, 2025

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JONBENÉT RAMSEY NEVER EXISTED

You’ve heard the outlandish theory that JonBenét never died and went on to become Katy Perry, but you probably haven’t heard this one…
Now, this man is clearly unhinged and seems to believe that many people who have been the subject of extensive media coverage simply did not exist, which boggles the mind to imagine the level of far-reaching coordination and collusion this would require. In any case, the theory outlined in this thread is that JonBenét was the first computer generated deepfake image of a person disseminated to the public, and was created by John Ramsey‘s company Access Graphics.
I personally have my own theories about JonBenét but that is something to discuss at a later time…

@taterhole

Jul 9, 2025

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NATE DOGG FAKED HIS OWN DEATH (?)

when i was 13 nate dogg died and somehow i heard a rumor that he faked his death to avoid taxes. now that i am older i know that this holds no basis in reality whatsoever, and i'm honestly astonished that somebody was able to come up with that. do they think he's hiding out with tupac, recording g-funk hits we'll never hear on an island somewhere? who knows.

@26girls

Jul 9, 2025

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that the mars rover footage is all actually from devon island

this whole group of theories that space isn't real or whatever is all baffling to me, even if it isn't as crazy as some of the others in this thread. like WHY would scientists across the world lie about these things not being real? you can get your own telescope and look at these planets with your own eyes !! why would you rather believe in a conspiracy that has no backing than marvel at the wonders of space??? I loveeee space, I loveeeeeee Mars Rover footage

@soulful_old_man_sunshine

Jul 9, 2025

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FLAT EARTH

i know it’s become a serious concern / total joke but if you really get into it, it’s so wild. can’t believe no one has mentioned it. some of the ‘supporting evidence’ is suspiciously interesting, but it would really undo everything if true and isn’t personally provable. i flirt with conspiracy theories heavily and am entertained by them but Flat Earth remains the wildest.
here are some other faves:
multi-verse / parallel universes / Mandela effect, jesus was a mushroom, past life regression therapy discoveries (reincarnation), giants existing, reptilians/ aliens, hollow moon, advanced ancient civilizations (current fave: look into younger-dryas, 500+ cultural folktales / myths about the worldwide flood, and derinkuyu caves, gobekli tepi… lots of docuseries about this concept that advanced civilizations existed before a cataclysm and that archeologists societies are hiding and denying evidence)

@bootybutt

Jul 10, 2025

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INFLATABLE CHICKEN

I swear my local gas station chain has one inflatable chicken that they just rotate from store to store.

@schmunkulus

Jul 10, 2025

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lyme disease is an escaped military bioweapon

look into Plum Island Animal Disease Center ...

@tyler

STAFF

Jul 10, 2025

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