Browse Conspiracy Theories

The cluster of unexplained chronic symptoms affecting ~25-32% of 1990-91 Gulf War veterans, and the decades-long VA resistance to acknowledging it as a distinct service-connected condition.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 collection of theories around convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 death in federal custody (officially ruled suicide) and the identity of powerful associates implicated in his trafficking network.

CIA program from the 1950s onward to cultivate relationships with American journalists and influence media coverage, particularly during the Cold War. Partially confirmed through Church Committee findings and documentary research.

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.