# Conspiracy theories: Why the outlandish ones that don't even sound remotely real? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 26, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theories-why-the-outlandish-ones-that-dont-even-sound-remotely-real/916360 "2020-07-26T03:03:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 110
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theories-why-the-outlandish-ones-that-dont-even-sound-remotely-real/916360/110 "2021-03-07T00:55:05Z")
> [@GMANCANADA](#): > > In answer to the OP, he notes in his discussion of the CT “There is no Finland” (Yes, some people believe that the country Finland does not exist) : I used to jokingly prank people that Delaware doesnt exist, it was just a big building full of drawers and offices for Corporations. I asked- have you ever been there? Do you know anyone from there? One person claimed to have driven thru there, but I pointed out that road signs are easily faked. We even, long afterwards had a SDMB thread about it, and there was a Tumblr page on it, all starting after my pranks in the 1980s. Of course, that doesnt mean the jokes originated from me, it _is_ a peculiar state. > [@Resolved: Delaware Does not Exist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358): > > I don’t get it. I never meet anyone who admits to being from Delaware. I would like to knock it off of my “states not visited” list, but it always seems to be out of the way, wherever I happen to be (as if the whole state were some mapmaker’s afterthought.) Nothing newsworthy ever happens there. When’s the last time Delaware showed up on the front page of the paper for anything? I am reluctantly drawn to the conclusion that Delaware does not exist. It is an elaborate hoax concocted by a coterie… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theories-why-the-outlandish-ones-that-dont-even-sound-remotely-real/916360)._