# What is the strangest and mosts obscure Conspiracy Theory you know of? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275 "2009-01-21T06:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Strassia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Strassia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strassia)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/1 "2009-01-21T06:54:55Z")
As a few recent threads in [Great](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=502355) [Debates](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=502056) have shown us, people love their conspiracy theories. Most of us have hears about moon landing deniers, 9/11 theorists, the New World Order, JFK’s assassination, and some other big, popular ones. What is the most obscure, strange theory you have run into? Mine is the [**Canola Conspiracy**](http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/canola.htm): To sum up: Canola oils is actual rape seed oil (this much is true) and is therefore evil. No good can come from rape!! It must be bad: [QUOTE=Shirley] Canola oil comes from the rape seed, which is part of the mustard family of plants. Rape is the most toxic of all food-oil plants. Like soy, rape is a weed. Insects will not eat it; it is deadly poisonous! The oil from the rape seed is a hundred times more toxic than soy oil. [/QUOTE] How bad is it? Well, not only does it cause “emphysema respiratory distress, anemia, constipation, irritability and blindness in animals-and humans,” but it also the source of mustard gas and contains the same chemicals as Agent Orange! And worst of all: > [@](#): > > Canola oil is also high in glycosides that cause serious problems by blocking enzyme function and deprive us of our life force - - chi, qi, prana, call it what you like. You hear that! It deprives us of our chi! How can we perform energy attacks when battling Freezer without our chi? If you wondering why you have never heard about the terrible effects of Canola oil, it is because they are hiding them behind fake diseases such as Mad Cow Disease: > [@](#): > > Rape oil was widely used in animal feeds in England and Europe between 1986 and 1991 when it was thrown out. You may remember reading about the cows, pigs and sheep that went blind, lost their minds, attacked people and had to be shot. Where does she get this sensational information? From primary sources on the ground and in the know: > [@](#): > > A woman called me from Chicago to tell me that she had been in England when the “Mad Cow Disease” had been at its peak. She said that she had seen a television news report that told people not to panic if they had been using rape oil in their diet and were over 65 years of age. The “experts” added that the effects of rape oil ingestion takes at least 10 years to manifest, and in all likelihood, most of these people would be dead by then anyway. Comforting! If you can’t trust a website who quotes an unnamed woman who saw a report on TV over 15 years before, who can you trust? On the plus side, this site introduced me to the word “factological.” So share your own little known CTs so we can all laugh and giggle. Jonathan ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/2 "2009-01-21T12:04:01Z")
I like rape. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/3 "2009-01-21T12:15:23Z")
I believe the female orgasm is nothing but a myth created by angry feminists who have no chance of ever having a real man, ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/4 "2009-01-21T12:28:53Z")
Mayo made with rape seed oil tastes better than mayo made with sunflower oil. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/5 "2009-01-21T14:51:23Z")
My personal favorite is the one about the underground alien bases out west where the aliens are being fed with the “hundreds of thousands” of children who go missing every year. Never mind that the vast majority of those missing kids are found within hours. Or that we’d definitely notice HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of missing kids a year. Or that there’d have to be a HUGE abduction, transportation and processing industry in order to support this, and that couldn’t be kept secret for so long. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/6 "2009-01-21T15:18:23Z")
Plus, why feed the aliens with children? Is it like veal to aliens or something? Surely it would be easier and more cost-efficient to feed the aliens with prisoners. “That’s right, guys, keep working those weights. Zarfrox is hungry.” ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/7 "2009-01-21T15:27:47Z")
Among my peers in the evangelical Christian community, there are several who _sincerely_ believe that thousands, nay tens of thousands of children are routinely sexually abused in Satanic rituals. Then there was the guy who claimed that those children who were sent to live in the countryside during WWII (ostensibly to escape the bombing in the cities) were sent there on orders from Rome, with the cooperation of the Crown (who was secretly Catholic), so they could be sent to rural parishes to be molested by priests. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/8 "2009-01-21T15:36:05Z")
The strangest I know of is has been around for a while. It’s the one where AIDs was developed by white people in order to kill black people. I don’t think I know any obscure ones. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/9 "2009-01-21T16:04:31Z")
I can’t testify as to how obscure it is, but it’s not spoken of as much as 9/11, JFK, ET, and other coverups. Snuff films. Supposedly, there’s a huge snuff film industry going on around the world under the noses of authorities in almost every country. (Cecil handled this question [here](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1170/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-snuff-film), and I recall reading an article in an international version of a newspaper detailing the arrest of of hundreds of people involved in a snuff film network, though I can’t seem to find that article now. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/10 "2009-01-21T16:28:10Z")
> [@kelly5078](#): > > The strangest I know of is has been around for a while. It’s the one where AIDs was developed by white people in order to kill black people. I’ve heard that one. Similarly, that crack was deliberately introduced to the inner city to kill blacks via overdosing on crack. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/11 "2009-01-21T17:02:00Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > Snuff films. Supposedly, there’s a huge snuff film industry going on around the world under the noses of authorities in almost every country. (Cecil handled this question [here](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1170/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-snuff-film), and I recall reading an article in an international version of a newspaper detailing the arrest of of hundreds of people involved in a snuff film network, though I can’t seem to find that article now. I’ve always said that the snuff film industry would never prosper, not because there are not enough sick individuals out there, but because it faces way too much competition from your average daily news. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/12 "2009-01-21T17:03:58Z")
Broccoli is from outer space. The government covers it up. Know the truth! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/13 "2009-01-21T17:04:50Z")
One of the strangest I have knowledge of concerns the Canadian airplane the **Avro Arrow**. The Arrow was a high tech interceptor aircraft with good performance that was produced in the 1960s. It’s mission was to shoot down Russian nuclear bombers flying over the North Pole. A change in Canadian governments cancelled the project and destroyed the prototypes. Since then it has been the subject of many conspiracy like stories such as: The USA ordered the plane destroyed because it was too good, that they were not destroyed but hidden in secret places across Canada. It seems very strange perhaps our Canadian dopers have some insights on the mystery Arrow. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/14 "2009-01-21T17:07:30Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > I’ve always said that the snuff film industry would never prosper, not because there are not enough sick individuals out there, but because it faces way too much competition from your average daily news. No, it’s best competition is from Torture Porn Movies. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/15 "2009-01-21T17:29:30Z")
I once heard that officials in the Catholic Church were made aware of priests all across America molesting little boys and girls and instead of punishing them or excommunicating them, they just covered it up and sent the priests to other churches, with many of the continuing to molest children. For, like, 40 years! Crazy! ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/16 "2009-01-21T17:48:17Z")
During the first term of the Clinton administration, I was touring DC and saw a schizo with a placard outlining how Al Gore had been kidnapped and replaced with a Russian double with designs on destroying America. His sign was complete with before and after pictures outlining the changes in appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/17 "2009-01-21T18:09:13Z")
**The Gemstone File** - This seems to be the grandaddy of conspiracy theories, tying together the Kennedy Assassination and multiple other fringe theories. For example, Aristotle Onasis was somehow in on it, and married Jackie to keep an eye on her. **The Hughes Glomar Explorer** - The CIA, working with Howard Hughes, built a special ship to raise a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine, with the cover story that they were doing undersea mining for manganese nodules. This CT does not get widely circulated because it has the disadvantage of being true. **Release of the Munich Terrorists** - After the failed rescue attempt, and the death of the Israeli athletes, three of the terrorists survived and were captured by the police. They were released about two months later, to meet the demands of hijackers who took over a Lufthansa aircraft. In the movie _One Day in September_, it is suggested that the hijacking was done with the collaboration of the West German government, who didn’t want their handling of the rescue attempt to be exposed if the men were brought to trial. I’ve never found any other documentation of that. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/18 "2009-01-21T18:18:41Z")
I don’t know that it’s obscure, because I have seen it pop up repeatedly, but the one in which all the government bigwigs (I guess they’re all illuminati) are actually aliens or alien-human hybrids. Reptilian, to boot. You’d think V would have never made it on television if there really were reptilian alien-human hybrids in charge of the world. The whole Canola = rape see oil at least has some basis in truth, albeit twisted, obscured and taken completely out of context. I don’t like the taste of Canola oil, so I don’t use it, preferring instead my EVOO. Personally, I love conspiracy theories. Especially the ones that have some shred of truth to them. Those are the ones that are really fun to listen to/read about online. Now, what I cannot believe never got morphed into a theory for the 9/11 attacks is how The Lone Gunmen could have predicted the government plot to crash a plane into the Twin Towers to create a reason for a war – in 2000, I think? Sorry, couldn’t remember the name of the episode, but it is mentioned on the Wiki page about TLG. I, for one, was freaked all the hell out when the planes crashed into the towers, remembering that episode (I also watched The X Files back when). ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/19 "2009-01-21T18:24:21Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Plus, why feed the aliens with children? Is it like veal to aliens or something? Surely it would be easier and more cost-efficient to feed the aliens with prisoners. “That’s right, guys, keep working those weights. Zarfrox is hungry.” Or feed them old people. Solves the social security crisis, killing two birds with one stone. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275/20 "2009-01-21T18:30:29Z")
My favorite has to be **ground rainbows**. That something is oozing out of the ground or being put in the water to cause rainbows near the ground. I have no idea how prevalent this theory is, but it cracks me up. Excellent video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXiAivAh6WM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXiAivAh6WM) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-and-mosts-obscure-conspiracy-theory-you-know-of/482275.md?page=2)