Browse Conspiracy Theories

On September 11, 1973, Chilean President Salvador Allende died as military forces bombed the presidential palace and seized power, installing General Augusto Pinochet. Declassified CIA, State Department, and Nixon White House records confirm that the United States actively sought to destabilise Allende's government through covert operations (Track I and Track II), economic pressure, and military contacts. The CIA's own documents describe authorisation from President Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. The verdict is confirmed: US covert involvement is a documented historical fact, not speculation.

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.

Jeffrey Epstein operated a documented criminal network involving the sexual abuse of dozens of minors over many years. In 2008, then-US Attorney Alexander Acosta negotiated a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) that shielded Epstein and unnamed co-conspirators from federal charges, in what a federal judge later ruled violated victims' rights laws. The Miami Herald's 2018 "Perversion of Justice" investigation, by Julie K. Brown, documented systematic obstruction and the NPA's unusual terms. Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2021 on federal trafficking charges. The claim that investigations into broader networks of powerful associates have been suppressed is partially documented — specific obstruction is confirmed; the full extent of prosecutorial suppression and the identity of all beneficiaries of the NPA remain disputed and partially unresolved.

Two related conspiracy framings are commonly applied to "antifa" — a recent rhetorical "cult of antifa" framing, and the older claim that antifa is a centrally coordinated terror organisation. Both fit poorly with the documented reality of decentralised local antifascist affinity groups, no central leadership, no unified funding source, and no formal membership. Local affinity groups (Rose City Antifa, NYC Anti-Fascist Action) and specific protest violence are documented in court records; the larger "central cabal" and "high-control cult" claims are not. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in September 2020 that antifa is "an ideology, not an organisation."

AROPL is a small new religious movement led by Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq, who claims succession to Ahmed Al-Hassan, who himself claimed in the early 2000s to be the Mahdi (the prophesied figure in Islamic eschatology). Multiple ex-members and journalists have documented cult-like high-control dynamics, leader-devotion, financial extraction, and serious allegations against named figures in the leadership. AROPL denies the allegations and continues to operate openly. The movement is unrelated to and frequently confused with the mainstream Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, an established religious community founded in 1889 with no connection to AROPL.

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.

A claim, amplified heavily by QAnon from 2017 onward, that global elites harvest a compound called adrenochrome from the blood of frightened children and consume it as a psychoactive drug or life-extension substance. Adrenochrome is a real, commercially available compound (oxidised adrenaline) with no credible evidence of psychoactive properties or significant physiological effect at any plausible dose. The claim recycles antisemitic blood-libel tropes with a modern pseudo-scientific veneer.

Claims that an area of the North Atlantic bounded roughly by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico experiences an anomalous rate of ship and aircraft disappearances attributable to supernatural forces, extraterrestrials, or unknown natural phenomena. Lloyd's of London (1975) found no anomalous loss rate in the region, and researcher Larry Kusche demonstrated that many celebrated disappearances were misreported, occurred outside the claimed boundaries, or never happened.

In September–November 2001, letters laced with weapons-grade anthrax spores were mailed to news outlets and US senators, killing five people and infecting seventeen others. The FBI's Amerithrax investigation ultimately focused on Bruce E. Ivins, a USAMRIID scientist who died by suicide in 2008 before charges were filed. A 2011 National Academy of Sciences review found the FBI's scientific case "not as definitive as portrayed."

Claims that school vaccine policies are illegal experiments, depopulation tools, or proof of hidden medical control.

Claims that seed oils are a hidden toxin and that detox products or strict elimination protocols cure broad disease categories.

Claims about commercial data brokers collecting, selling, or exposing location data in ways that enable surveillance.

Claims that clinics, regulators, or pharmaceutical companies suppress alternative cancer cures.

Claims that private equity ownership degrades hospital care, sometimes inflated into total health-system control narratives.

Claims that smart meters caused or intentionally triggered major wildfires.

Claims that U.S.-backed Ukrainian laboratories were creating bioweapons, used in geopolitical disinformation.

Claims that contraception, vaccines, or reproductive medicine are covert fertility-control programs.

Claims that conflict footage is AI-generated, staged, or misattributed, sometimes used to deny casualties or assign false blame.

Claims that the April 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting was staged or allowed to happen for political advantage.

Claims that Artemis II mission photos, videos, or broadcasts prove the lunar flyby was staged or AI-generated.

Claims that vaccinated people shed harmful spike proteins or mRNA in ways that sicken nearby unvaccinated people.

Claims that ballots are routinely destroyed, dumped, or manufactured to alter election outcomes.

Claims that large-scale noncitizen voting changes U.S. election outcomes.

Claims that COVID vaccination causes sudden aggressive cancers at population scale.