Conspiracy Theories and Hoaxes

Area 51 is a nickname for a military base that is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive military airfield. The base’s primary purpose is to support development [...]

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October Surprise conspiracy was an alleged plot to influence the 1980 US presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. 52 Americans were being held hostage in Iran since November 4, 1979. Reagan won the election and on his inauguration (20 mins after his inaugural address) the Islamic Republic of Iran released the hostages. Had [...]

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The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged naval military experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sometime around October 28, 1943, in which the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible (i.e. cloaked) to human observers for a brief period of time. That is also referred to sometimes as “Project [...]

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The concept of black helicopters became popular in the United States militia movement, and in associated political circles, in the 1990s as an alleged symbol and warning sign of a conspiratorial military takeover of part or all of the United States. Rumors would circulate that, for instance, the United Nations patrolled the US with black [...]

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a plagiarism, literary forgery, and hoax with a complex publication history. It appeared in print in the Russian empire (in Russian) as early as 1903. The tract was published in Znamya, a newspaper owned by Pavel Krushevan, as a serialized set of articles. It appeared again in [...]

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Whether the conspiracy was possible or if there was a motive for faking the landings, is a big part of the moon hoax. Many conspiracy debunkers say that there was no reason for the US to fake the moon landings. This is false, as at the time America was publicly losing the space race, as [...]

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Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public water supply to reduce tooth decay. Although almost all major health and dental organizations support water fluoridation, or have found no association with adverse effects, efforts to introduce water fluoridation meet considerable opposition whenever it is proposed. Since fluoridation’s inception in the 1950s, opponents [...]

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The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also known as 7/7, were a series of coordinated suicide attacks on London’s public transport system during the morning rush hour. The bombings were carried out by three Muslim Pakistani British men and one British citizen of Jamaican descent who had converted to Islam, all of whom were motivated [...]

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In October 1969, a rumour began circling that Paul McCartney, one of The Beatles, died in a car crash in late 1966 and was replaced by a lookalike. Proponents of the theory, which is commonly referred to as the Paul is dead hoax, cite “clues” in the form of peculiar album covers, possible symbolism in [...]

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