Category: Industrial Conspiracies

• The "Henry Ford" Peace Ship Plot

  This theory claimed that Henry Ford’s 1915 Peace Ship mission was not a naïve or idealistic antiwar intervention, but a covert effort to negotiate the foundations of a private industrial order above governments. The actual Peace Ship expedition was a real and widely publicized attempt by Ford to bring peace activists to Europe and encourage negotiations among neutral and belligerent powers. The conspiracy version transforms that mission into a private diplomacy project aimed at creating an “industrial empire” managed by business rather than states.

• The "Krakatoa" Weapon

  This theory claimed that the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was not entirely natural, but was triggered by a secret undersea industrial experiment, often described in later retellings as mining, blasting, or other large-scale interference beneath the Sunda Strait. The idea attaches itself to the fact that Krakatoa became one of the first truly global telegraphic catastrophes, generating worldwide reports, sensational speculation, and technological awe. In conspiracy form, the eruption becomes an early man-made geophysical disaster.