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A viral conspiracy theory alleging that a massive police response at Bayside Marketplace in January 2024 was a cover-up for the appearance of 8-to-10-foot-tall "shadow beings" or extraterrestrials.

The oldest layer of this is a genuine fourth-century library dug up in Egypt in 1945. The newest is a self-published book from 2008. The theory reads both the same way, and most of the argument turns on whether that is legitimate.

The Hollywood Blacklist Double Cross theory claims that at least some of the artists publicly ruined by the post-1947 blacklist were not only suppressed but quietly diverted into covert cultural, intelligence, translation, or propaganda roles. Instead of treating the blacklist as straightforward exclusion, the theory reframes it as a sorting mechanism through which certain politically useful people disappeared from public credits and reemerged inside hidden state work.

This theory was a twentieth-century revival of older flat-earth cosmology in which the world was imagined as a disk bounded by a ring of ice. In revivalist form, the Antarctic became not a continent at the bottom of a globe but the perimeter wall of the world, sometimes said to be inaccessible because states or navies guarded it. In the 1930s, flat-earth preaching and anti-scientific religious broadcasting kept disk-world ideas in circulation, especially in the orbit of Wilbur Glenn Voliva. Later military activity in Antarctica, particularly postwar U.S. Navy operations, was folded back into the older ice-wall map and used as proof that the boundary was being patrolled.

A legendary bottomless pit said to exist near Ellensburg, Washington, first brought to wide attention through Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM in 1997 and later expanded into a full anomaly narrative involving resurrection, black projects, secret land seizure, and reality-distorting properties.

This developing conspiracy theory argues that repeated unauthorized drone flights over or near U.S. military installations are not isolated hobbyist incidents but part of a larger pattern of surveillance, probing, or controlled testing involving sensitive American defense sites. The modern form of the theory accelerated after the December 2023 incursions over Joint Base Langley-Eustis, which senior Defense Department officials later described as a watershed event for homeland installation security. Since then, lawmakers, defense officials, and recent reporting have continued to describe drone incursions as a growing national-security problem, while public attribution in several high-profile cases remains unresolved.

The 1947 crash of an unidentified object near Roswell, New Mexico, and the subsequent secrecy surrounding Area 51 in Nevada have become the foundation of modern UFO conspiracy theories alleging government recovery and concealment of extraterrestrial technology and beings.

The NASA and the Biblical Giant theory claims that lunar missions uncovered the preserved body of a giant humanoid identified in some retellings as a Nephilim. According to the theory, photographs, samples, and astronaut accounts were classified because the discovery would have linked modern space exploration to biblical prehistory and to forbidden evidence of ancient nonhuman-human hybrid beings.

Alternative theories regarding the 1988 bombing of a Boeing 747, suggesting the official blame on Libya was a cover for Iranian or Syrian involvement.

The SpaceX Secret Mars Colony theory claims that SpaceX and Elon Musk have already sent people, cargo, or the first members of a breakaway civilization to Mars outside the public record. In this theory, public Mars plans, Starship testing, and high-visibility launch campaigns are treated as cover, theater, or partial disclosure for a colony that already exists in secret.

A modern Antarctic theory claiming that environmental-protection rules and treaty language are being used as cover for a joint military blockade around a newly discovered temperate landmass or “continent beyond the ice.” In this framework, peaceful-use and environmental restrictions are reinterpreted as perimeter control for something far more strategically significant than ordinary polar science.

A four-month District Attorney review in 1982 found no credible evidence of murder and said so in twenty-nine pages. It also acknowledged discrepancies it could not resolve — and the tissue samples that would have settled the central question had already vanished.

This theory claimed that Joseph Stalin did not survive into the mature phase of his dictatorship and that the figure who ruled the Soviet Union after the early 1930s was actually a body double or succession of doubles. In one of its most common versions, the “real Stalin” is said to have died around 1932 and been replaced by a harsher and less restrained impersonator. The theory drew on real features of Stalinist politics and security culture: the regime’s secrecy, the difficulty of verifying the leader’s movements, differing public impressions of Stalin’s voice and appearance, and later reports that Soviet leaders may indeed have used doubles for security purposes. The stronger claim—that Stalin died in 1932 and that everything afterward was the work of a substitute—belongs to rumor and retrospective speculation rather than accepted Soviet political history.

This theory held that Asian migrants, merchants, and rising Asian states were not simply entering Western societies through ordinary migration or trade, but were part of a larger civilizational threat aimed at overwhelming white nations from within and without. In late nineteenth-century Europe, North America, and the Pacific world, the idea fused labor anxiety, racial pseudoscience, imperial rivalry, and fears of demographic replacement into a single conspiracy framework. The historical record clearly shows that “Yellow Peril” language became a widespread political myth in the late 1800s and helped justify exclusion laws, anti-immigrant violence, and alarmist invasion fantasies. What remains unproven is the central conspiratorial claim that Asian immigrants were part of any coordinated campaign to dismantle Western civilization.

Voronoff performed his first monkey-gland transplant on 12 June 1920 and kept a private ape farm on the Riviera to supply the operations. The grafts were sealed in scar tissue within weeks and never functioned — which is not what the conspiracy version says went wrong.

Within UFO and exopolitical literature, President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s alleged February 1954 meeting with extraterrestrials is presented as one of the foundational moments of secret modern contact between world governments and non-human intelligences. The theory centers on Eisenhower’s unexplained nighttime absence during a Palm Springs trip, the official dental explanation issued afterward, witness and insider-style accounts placing him at Muroc or Edwards Air Force Base, Gerald Light’s 1954 letter describing a restricted-base encounter, and later claims that further negotiations occurred at Holloman, opening the door to covert diplomacy, technology exchange, and a hidden extraterrestrial policy structure.

The Nazi Bell entered the record in 2000, in a Polish book, sourced to interrogation transcripts the author says he was allowed to read but not copy. The officer who supposedly gave them had been executed in 1952.

The Fifth Column in the Suburbs was a late-1930s and early wartime panic that ordinary domestic workers, tradesmen, shopkeepers, and especially food handlers of German background might form an unseen internal enemy. In one of its more vivid rumor forms, German bakers were said to be poisoning American bread as part of a fifth-column campaign to soften or panic suburban communities from within. The historical basis for the broader panic is strong: by the late 1930s the term “fifth column” had become widely used for internal subversion, and fear of Nazi sympathizers in the United States spread through politics, media, and popular suspicion. The bread-poisoning version turned that broad fear into an intimate domestic nightmare centered on the daily loaf.

The mysterious 1959 death of nine hikers in the Soviet Ural Mountains, often attributed to secret military testing.

This theory claimed that the transistor was not the result of Bell Labs semiconductor research, but technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell incident and quietly released into civilian industry. In its strongest form, the theory argued that the leap from vacuum tubes to solid-state electronics was too abrupt to be explained by ordinary human research and therefore must have come from extraterrestrial hardware or concepts. The documented record strongly supports Bell Labs’ research trajectory and the successful demonstration of the first transistor in December 1947. It does not support a Roswell-to-Bell-Labs transfer of alien materials or designs.

ABC killed a 20/20 segment on this in 1985 and its own anchors protested, which is the closest thing to suppression in the whole story. The man whose tapes are supposed to prove it wrote a Hollywood tell-all in 1974 and did not mention Monroe once.

The Illuminati conspiracy theory posits that a secret society of elites controls world events from behind the scenes, manipulating governments, financial systems, media, and culture to advance a hidde

This theory claims that the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 ended American financial independence by placing the nation under the indirect control of foreign banking interests, most commonly personified by the Rothschild family. The theory draws on real controversies about who should control currency, credit, and reserves, but it expands those debates into a claim that a foreign banking network effectively captured the American state.

The Necronomicon "Real Book" theory holds that H.P. Lovecraft’s references to the Necronomicon and the entities surrounding it were not purely fictional inventions, but disguised disclosures of an actual occult text, hidden tradition, or ancient-gods network operating beneath modern society. The theory grew from the vivid pseudo-scholarly detail Lovecraft gave the book, the way later writers repeated and expanded its references, and the appearance of spurious printed "Necronomicons" that blurred the line between invention and artifact. In stronger versions, Lovecraft is treated as a fiction writer only on the surface, while in reality serving as a transmitter of forbidden information about an old order of cosmic powers and their surviving earthly custodians. This made the Necronomicon one of the most famous fictional books ever reclassified by believers as secret nonfiction.

The Bermuda Triangle Disappearances theory centers on a region of the western North Atlantic commonly described as stretching between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, where ships and aircraft are said to have vanished under strange or unexplained circumstances. In conspiratorial and mystery-oriented interpretations, the pattern of disappearances points to more than bad weather or navigational error. The Triangle has been linked to magnetic anomalies, time distortions, Atlantis, extraterrestrial intervention, underwater structures, dimensional portals, methane eruptions, rogue waves, and secret military activity. Over time, a mix of real tragedies, disputed case histories, sensational retellings, and unresolved losses transformed the Bermuda Triangle into one of the most enduring modern mystery zones.

A Cold War-era and postwar theory claiming that flying saucers were operating from a hidden Antarctic sanctuary connected to Nazi survival networks, alien technology, or a subterranean opening beneath the South Pole. The theory fuses real German Antarctic exploration, U.S. naval operations after World War II, and later hollow-earth and ufology motifs into a single polar-origin narrative.

A wartime theory that Japan was breeding plague-infested fleas and other disease-carrying vermin for airborne or submarine-delivered attack on the American West Coast, especially Los Angeles. Although widely treated as rumor during the war, the theory had a significant historical basis in Japanese biological warfare research, Unit 731 plague-flea production, and late-war planning for biological attacks on Southern California.

This theory claimed that the Three Mile Island accident was not a genuine industrial and regulatory failure, but a deliberately triggered crisis designed to destroy public confidence in nuclear power and redirect opinion toward fossil-fuel energy, especially oil. In stronger versions, the accident is portrayed as a controlled sabotage operation or managed failure meant to reshape energy politics in the aftermath of the 1970s energy shocks. The documentary record, however, attributes the accident to a combination of equipment malfunction, design deficiencies, and operator error. The conspiracy grew because the accident’s public impact was enormous, nuclear politics were already highly contested, and the energy sector was deeply entangled with broader struggles over regulation, corporate power, and national policy.

This theory claims that Starlink is not fundamentally a satellite-internet constellation, but an orbital microwave grid that could be activated as a weapon against civilian populations if they revolt or resist. In stronger versions, the satellites are described as a global kill-switch, crowd-control array, or space-based discipline system disguised as communications infrastructure. The documented record confirms that Starlink is a large low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation and that SpaceX also operates Starshield, a government-focused satellite business with national-security applications. The public record does not support the claim that Starlink is an orbital microwave weapon designed to “fry” the population.

This theory held that wasting illnesses in rural New England were caused not simply by disease but by dead family members who continued to drain the living from the grave. In practice, the panic became tightly linked to tuberculosis, then known as consumption, as families watched one relative after another fall ill and sought supernatural explanations for contagious decline. The documented record strongly confirms that vampire exhumations and related rituals occurred in parts of New England during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with the Mercy Brown case of 1892 becoming the best-known example. What remains absent is evidence of literal vampirism; the historical importance of the panic lies in how communities interpreted tuberculosis through a revenant framework and used exhumation as a desperate folk remedy.

A secret order supposedly founded in Jerusalem in 1099, guarding the bloodline of Jesus through grand masters including Leonardo and Newton. It was registered as a French housing-rights association in 1956 by a man the Bibliothèque nationale de France now catalogues as its inventor. The forged evidence is in the national library, filed under the pseudonym its authors used.

A North American integration theory claiming that the U.S. dollar would eventually be replaced by a continental currency called the Amero after a planned or exploited economic collapse. The theory linked recession, trade integration, and fears of a “North American Union” into a single scenario in which financial emergency would be used to erase monetary sovereignty.

In the last year of his life, film producer Aaron Russo said that a Los Angeles attorney calling himself Nicholas Rockefeller had described, before September 11, 2001, a coming era of staged wars and implantable microchips. The account was taped with Alex Jones in January 2007 and released after Russo's death. It rests on his word alone, and later investigations dispute both the man's identity and any link to the Rockefeller family.

A confirmed conspiracy involving Belgian and U.S. intelligence to overthrow and assassinate the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Congo in 1961.

A 9/11-era urban legend claiming that five Israeli nationals arrested in New Jersey on September 11, 2001 were Mossad agents who filmed the attacks and celebrated them in order to document or help shape U.S. entry into a wider Middle Eastern war. The story grew from a real arrest, a real FBI investigation, television reporting on the detainees, and the later absorption of the episode into advance-knowledge and foreign-intelligence conspiracy culture.

This theory held that the government, public-health authorities, or shadow actors intentionally seeded HIV through a specific person and then tracked the epidemic’s spread through his social and sexual network. In popular form, that person became “Patient Zero,” most famously identified as Canadian flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas. The strongest historical record shows a different process: Dugas was not the origin of HIV in North America, and the term “Patient Zero” grew out of a misreading of “Patient O,” where the letter meant “Outside of California” in an epidemiological cluster study. The myth was intensified by media, especially Randy Shilts’s 1987 book And the Band Played On, and by a wider desire to personify the origin of a frightening new epidemic."

A revived conspiracy trope claiming that “smart” laundromats are no longer only convenient self-service businesses but covert crypto-mining sites, money-laundering nodes, or hybrid cash-and-heat operations. In this framework, dryer heat, utility volatility, and app-based machine management create ideal cover for energy-intensive hidden computing.

A series of ultra-complex cryptographic recruitment puzzles first posted online in 2012 under the name “3301,” combining steganography, encryption, dead drops, phone messages, GPS coordinates, Tor, occult and literary references, and a secrecy culture that made it one of the most studied mysteries of the internet age.

A conspiracy theory alleging that the December 14, 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut was staged with paid actors and fabricated evidence in order to justify sweeping gun-control measures.

A confirmed CIA program running from 1953 to 1973 that conducted illegal experiments on unwitting human subjects to develop mind-control techniques using drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and psychological torture.

Diego Maradona's career and death are wrapped in conspiracy. He claimed his 1994 World Cup doping ban was a deliberate plot to remove him from the game — "they cut my legs off" — and his 2020 death became the subject of a homicide case against the medical staff who treated him, keeping alive suspicions of negligence or worse.

A collection of conspiracy theories alleging that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were either orchestrated or deliberately allowed by elements within the U.S. government to justify wars in the Middle East and expanded domestic surveillance powers.

This theory claimed that the British Admiralty was building false dreadnoughts—sometimes literally wooden or canvas-covered ships—not simply for deception in war but to create the illusion of naval supremacy and intimidate Germany. It drew on two overlapping realities: the 1910 Dreadnought Hoax, which embarrassed the Royal Navy by showing how easily prestige could be staged, and the documented First World War use of dummy capital ships built from merchant hulls fitted with wooden and canvas superstructures. In conspiracy form, temporary deception measures became evidence that British sea power was itself theatrical.

The Cheka in America was the belief that Bolshevik terror methods had already crossed the Atlantic and that Soviet secret-police power was no longer a foreign phenomenon but an active force inside American cities. In its most dramatic form, the theory claimed that the local police in major cities such as Chicago had effectively been replaced, captured, or directed by agents operating as an American version of the Cheka. The theory emerged during the First Red Scare, when fear of Bolshevism frequently blurred distinctions between labor militancy, immigrant radicalism, police weakness, corruption, and revolutionary violence. “Cheka” became less a precise institutional label than a shorthand for hidden terror operating under municipal cover.

This theory claimed that Coca-Cola’s wartime expansion proved the company functioned as a branch of the U.S. government and that its global rise was secured by special treatment such as exemption from sugar rationing. In its strongest form, the theory says Coca-Cola was effectively integrated into U.S. war policy, using military transport, government influence, and rationing privileges to crush rivals and become a worldwide monopoly under patriotic cover. The historical record does support unusually close wartime ties between Coca-Cola and the U.S. military, including preferential sugar access for Army exchange sales, official morale arguments on the company’s behalf, and the construction of dozens of bottling plants near combat zones. It does not support the literal claim that Coca-Cola was a formal branch of the U.S. government.

A Cold War space-race theory claiming that the Soviet Union launched human cosmonauts before or alongside official Vostok-era missions and concealed their deaths. The most famous version centers on Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia, two Italian brothers who said they intercepted radio transmissions from doomed Soviet spaceflights between 1960 and 1963, including distress signals and the voice of a dying female cosmonaut.

This theory holds that Nathan Mayer Rothschild received news of Wellington’s victory at Waterloo before the British government, deliberately spread false rumors of a British defeat, triggered a collapse in British government securities, and then bought the market for pennies before the truth became public. In its strongest form, the story turns Rothschild from a fast and well-connected war financier into the hidden purchaser of Britain itself. The documented record clearly shows that Nathan Rothschild had an exceptionally effective courier and bullion network during the Napoleonic Wars and that he played a major role in British wartime finance. What is not supported is the famous tale that he staged a false-defeat panic and acquired the country through a single stock-exchange trick.

This theory claimed that governments and allied institutions were removing authentic historical records from public circulation and storing them in underground vaults, where the real past could be selectively controlled. In its modern form, the story attached itself to the existence of subterranean archival and records-storage complexes, especially those associated with Iron Mountain and later underground federal records centers. The theory did not rest on a fictional setting; underground storage sites genuinely existed and were advertised as safer, more secure environments for preservation. The conspiratorial leap was to recast preservation as concealment, and records management as a program for burying inconvenient history.

The controversial 2019 death of financier Jeffrey Epstein in federal custody, which many believe was a murder to prevent the exposure of a high-level elite pedophile network.

The FDR Secret Disability Plot held that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s public disability story—paralysis after his 1921 illness—concealed a far more dangerous hidden condition: mental incapacity so severe that an inner circle of advisers, cabinet members, and physicians effectively ruled in his name. In this theory, Roosevelt’s known struggle with paralysis served as a visible explanation that distracted from a darker administrative reality. The historical core is real but different: Roosevelt’s disability was managed carefully in public, later health concerns were serious, and journalists often cooperated in minimizing visual evidence of his limitations. The conspiracy version extended concealment from the body to the mind, turning governance by advisers into governance without a truly functioning president.