Category: Symbolism

• Microsoft Wingdings Code

  A software-era conspiracy theory claiming that Microsoft’s Wingdings font concealed intentional ideological messages, most famously when the letters “NYC” were said to produce a skull-and-crossbones, a Star of David, and a thumbs-up symbol. In its strongest form, the theory argued that this was not a random glyph mapping but a deliberate anti-Semitic or coded internal message left by developers during the 1992 release period.

• The Denver Airport Murals (1995)

  A major airport-conspiracy theory claiming that the murals installed at Denver International Airport on its opening in 1995 were not simply public art about war, peace, and environmental devastation, but prophetic or programmatic images of plague, depopulation, mass conflict, and the rise of a New World Order. The murals’ imagery of masked figures, burning cities, dead animals, and eventual reconciliation made them especially vulnerable to apocalyptic reinterpretation.

• The Peace Symbol as Anti-Christian

  A cultural-symbol theory claiming that the modern peace sign was not an anti-nuclear design but a disguised anti-Christian emblem: a broken cross, a “crow’s foot,” or a symbol of despair later adopted by occult and countercultural forces. The theory became common in parts of the 1960s backlash against antiwar and youth movements, especially among religious critics who saw the symbol as a hidden attack on Christian civilization.