Browse Conspiracy Theories

Claims popularized by the film Died Suddenly that vaccines caused mass unexplained deaths and fibrous clots.

The false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and was therefore ineligible for the presidency.

Claims that the Smithsonian hid giant human skeletons to suppress alternative history.

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

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

Claims that HIV does not cause AIDS or that antiretroviral therapy is the real cause of AIDS.

Claims that wildfires are caused by directed-energy weapons rather than weather, fuel, power lines, arson, or climate conditions.

Claims that a hidden planet is approaching Earth and repeatedly predicted to cause apocalypse.

Claims that mummified remains promoted from Peru are non-human alien bodies.

Claims that autism is caused by disproven exposures and can be cured by unproven or dangerous treatments.

Claims that FEMA maintains secret detention camps for political dissidents or mass internment.

Claims that the Jade Helm 15 military exercise was preparation for martial law or hostile takeover of US states.

Claims that Bill and Hillary Clinton arranged suspicious deaths of political associates and witnesses.

Claims that secret medical beds can cure severe disease but are hidden by elites or awaiting disclosure.

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

The claim that 5G cellular technology causes harm to human health — cancer, COVID-19 infection, or population control — popularized during COVID-19 pandemic and amplified by social media.

Wirecard AG, a German fintech (payments processing) once valued at €24B, collapsed in June 2020 after admitting that €1.9B in reported assets "probably did not exist." Multi-year accounting fraud involving forged trust accounts in the Philippines and Singapore.

The documented large-scale pharmaceutical cover-up of opioid addiction risk by Purdue Pharma (OxyContin), Insys (Subsys), Mallinckrodt, and related firms — contributing to over 700,000 US opioid-related deaths since 1999.

The documented, decades-long effort by fossil-fuel companies (ExxonMobil, Shell, Koch Industries) and associated think tanks to deliberately manufacture doubt about climate science — well-documented through internal documents, industry memos, and legal discovery.

The April 2016 leak of 11.5 million documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed an international network of offshore shell companies used by politicians, celebrities, and criminals for tax evasion, money laundering, and concealing ownership.

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 1950s-60s marketing of thalidomide (sedative, anti-nausea for pregnant women) by Chemie Grünenthal (Germany), Distillers (UK), and Richardson-Merrell (US) despite internal knowledge of risks, resulting in ~10,000 birth defects worldwide and a major documented corporate cover-up.

The claim, promoted by Soviet KGB disinformation Operation Denver/INFEKTION (1983-1987) and subsequent circulation, that HIV/AIDS was created by the US CIA or US Army Fort Detrick biological weapons program.

The July 17, 2014 destruction of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 (Boeing 777) over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people. The Dutch Safety Board investigation and Joint Investigation Team (JIT) concluded the aircraft was shot down by a Russian-owned Buk surface-to-air missile system from a field in Russian-separatist-controlled Donbas.