Conspiracy Theories
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Time travel in Times Square? The strange case of Rudolph Fentz
When people go missing, does anyone ever think that they might’ve fallen through time? Of course not, because time travel’s impossible… isn’t it? In 1950, a man in Victorian-era clothes was spotted in Times Square, New York City. Witnesses who saw him said he looked startled and disoriented, like he didn’t know where he was. Read more
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Is that really Mary Magdalene in Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”?
Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, The Last Supper, continues to be hotly debated. Does it really depict Mary Magdalene instead of John the Apostle, thereby subtly revealing the Catholic Church’s biggest and most arduously kept secret? Let’s have a gander at the evidence… Hello all! After a short break, the blog is back, and this Read more
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Who murdered Superman?
We all thought the Man of Steel was impervious to bullets, but in 1959, we were proved wrong. George Reeves, the first man to play Superman on TV in the 1952 series Adventures of Superman, was shot dead in his bedroom. Officially ruled a suicide, Superman’s death remains shrouded in mystery… George Reeves donned Superman’s Read more
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Do the Nazca Lines prove that ancient humans could fly?
The Nazca Lines were discovered by a Peruvian archaeologist in 1927 and have bewildered the world ever since. Some say they reveal a shocking truth: humans were capable of manned flight 1,500 years ago… The Nazca Lines are geoglyphs—aka drawings on the ground—spread across 168 square miles of the Nazca Desert in Peru and consisting Read more
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The Black Knight satellite — are aliens watching us?
A persistent UFO conspiracy theory is that there is an alien satellite in orbit around Earth and it’s been there for 13,000 years. So what is it? What is its purpose? And is it really there? The Black Knight satellite rose to fame in 1998, when an object was photographed from the International Space Station Read more
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Does Watergate reveal that Nixon was involved in JFK’s assassination?
Not all conspiracy theories are bonkers. Watergate is one that actually turned out to be true. But is it possible that Watergate holds the key to another hotly debated conspiracy theory — the assassination of JFK? Watergate is the reason we attach “–gate” to anything remotely scandalous. There was “Piggate” last year, when rumours spread Read more
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Are the British Royal Family really a bunch of alien lizards?
So here we have the wackiest conspiracy theory of all, popularised by ex-Coventry City goalkeeper David Icke: our royal family are descended from a clan of extraterrestrial lizards called the ‘Babylonian Brotherhood’. Today I’m asking, is Mr Icke’s theory really as ludicrous as it sounds? Let’s break this down. The British House of Windsor is Read more
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The dark side of the police – the Steven Avery conspiracy
Right folks, I think it’s about time I talked about the hottest conspiracy theory around right now: the conviction of Steven Avery… The Steven Avery case has dominated headlines and got tongues wagging in outrage all over the world since Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer aired last December. (Yes, there are significant spoilers for Read more
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Heather Mills knows that Paul McCartney is an imposter
Paul McCartney is dead. He has been since 1966. And Heather Mills knows it. In my first Paul McCartney article, I looked at some of the audio and visual clues in The Beatles’ songs and album covers that allegedly expose the music industry’s biggest and most audacious secret: Paul McCartney was killed in a car Read more
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Assassination by tea! Putin and the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
Wow. It turns out state-sponsored murder isn’t always just a paranoid conspiracy theory… On 1st November 2006, at the Millennium Hotel in London, ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko – who fled to London in 2000 – took tea with fellow former agents Andrey Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun. It’s said that Lugovoi and Kovtun were helping Litvinenko Read more
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Paul McCartney has been dead since 1966
Beatles legend Paul McCartney is not who he claims to be. That’s according to a number of conspiracy theorists who believe he was killed in a car crash in November 1966 and his death was elaborately covered up… The “Paul is Dead” conspiracy theory and urban legend is one of the most bizarre that I’ve Read more
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