Browse Conspiracy Theories

In August 1953, the CIA (Operation Ajax) and British MI6 (Operation Boot) orchestrated the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restored Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to full power. The CIA acknowledged its role in a 2013 declassified internal history. The coup followed Mossadegh's nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and is widely regarded as a foundational event in modern Iranian-US relations, contributing to the conditions that produced the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Claims that the US government or USGS is concealing evidence of an imminent Yellowstone supervolcano eruption that would devastate North America, or that seismic and geothermal data are being misrepresented to prevent public panic. The USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) publishes its monitoring data in real time. The current probability of a large-scale Yellowstone eruption in any given year is approximately 1 in 730,000.

Claims that governments run hidden breakaway space fleets or off-world bases.

Tracker for claims about official UAP historical reports and what they do or do not establish.

A media-provenance page tracing alien-autopsy film and image claims.

Claims that an advanced Tartarian civilization was erased and that mud floods buried old-world architecture.

Claims that Coca-Cola intentionally launched New Coke to revive demand for classic Coke or switch sweeteners.

Claims that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a lookalike.

Claims that Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was abducted, defected, or killed rather than drowning.

Claims that centuries of recorded history were fabricated or chronologies are radically shorter than accepted.

The claim that the Knights Templar — officially dissolved in 1312 by Pope Clement V after the arrests of October 13, 1307 — secretly survived through successor organizations including the Freemasons, the Priory of Sion, and modern Templar orders.

The 1943 FBI seizure of Nikola Tesla's papers and belongings from his New York hotel room within hours of his death. The seizure is well-documented; what was taken, what was sensitive, and whether technology was subsequently suppressed remains partly contested.

A private organization founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller to foster dialogue between North America, Europe, and Japan. Frequently cited alongside Bilderberg and Council on Foreign Relations as evidence of shadow world governance.

Claims that Freemasonry — a 300-year-old fraternal organization — exercises secret control over governments, the Catholic Church, and world finance through esoteric initiation rituals and networks.

The claim, based on a 1984 packet of allegedly leaked documents, that President Truman in 1947 established a secret committee (Majestic 12 or MJ-12) of 12 scientists and military officers to study recovered UFO craft from Roswell.

A secret senior society at Yale University, founded 1832. Claims of Bush-family/CIA pipelines, elite control of US foreign policy, and occult initiation rituals are partially supported by documented facts and partially fabricated.

Claims that Denver International Airport (opened 1995) houses an underground New World Order bunker, hosts occult murals, and that its dedication capstone contains coded Freemason messages.

Claims that a secret US military base at Camp Hero in Montauk, New York ran experiments on time travel, mind control, teleportation, and contact with extraterrestrials from 1971 to 1983.

An annual summer retreat held at a 2,700-acre private campground in California's redwoods since 1878, attended by business executives, politicians, and cultural figures. Centered on the "Cremation of Care" ritual — an allegorical pageant involving a 40-foot owl effigy.

An annual private conference of ~130 political leaders, corporate executives, academics, and media figures that meets behind closed doors. Founded 1954, often alleged to be a shadow world government coordinating global policy.

The 1997 death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a Paris car crash has spawned decades of conspiracy theories alleging assassination by British intelligence, the Royal Family, or other state actors — most forcefully championed by Mohamed Al-Fayed, father of Dodi Fayed who died in the same crash.

The 1947 crash of a high-altitude Project Mogul balloon near Roswell, New Mexico that was briefly described by the US Army as a recovered "flying disc" before being reclassified as a weather balloon — and later, in 1994, as a classified Soviet nuclear-test surveillance balloon.

The theory that the Federal Reserve System is a private institution controlled by banking elites that manipulates the money supply, interest rates, and economic cycles for the benefit of the wealthy at the expense of ordinary citizens.

The theory that the white trails left by aircraft in the sky are not ordinary water vapor contrails, but deliberate chemical or biological agents sprayed for purposes ranging from weather control to population management.