The one where the world is being controlled by the Secret Armenian Terrorist Church that invented the Armenian Genocide as a way to get other countries to give them money.
Daylight Savings Time was delayed a week, starting a few years ago, because of lobbying by the candy industry. The change ensured that Halloween would always occur on DST, providing an extra hour of daylight for trick-or-treating, increasing demand for candy.
It was on the Internet so it must be true.
OK, this one’s a real blockbuster and it’s true! The government, see, they’ve got legions of…
OMG!! They’re at the window!!! I must… AAAaaaaaarrrggle!
Damn, I skimmed the double-spaced text on that site for 5 minutes or more, and I still wasn’t 1/6 through the page!
Yes it bloody does, I’ve been there!
The movement to ban CFC’s began picking up steam, just as DuPont’s patent on Freon was about to expire.
For those who don’t want to wade into those waters, I’ll summarize: Cobain was murdered for reasons possibly having to do with his opposition to NAFTA by either the government, his wife Courtney Love, or his bandmates. I don’t think the owner of the site is sure of anything except that Kurt Cobain was murdered. (For the young people: Kurt Cobain was a popular rock musician way back in the 1990’s who was NOT murdered. He committed suicide. It was very sad, and so is that demented website).
When I was teaching an English Composition class at the local junior college last year, one of my students handed in a paper alleging a conspiracy between William Randolph Hearst and the U.S. Government to make marijuana illegal. The reason: Technology had been found to make newsprint from hemp much more cheaply than from wood pulp. Hearst, however, allegedly owned vast tracts of timberland in the Pacific Northwest and huge paper mills, all of which would be useless in the face of deadly competiton from hemp. There’s a more or less tongue-in-cheek recitation of the conspiracy theory here, and a fairly thorough debunking of it here.
What surprised me was that I was a newspaper reporter and editor for nearly 25 years and never heard of the Hearst Hemp Conspiracy until that student turned in the paper. Hmmmmm!
Did you bring any souvenirs home? No! And not because the place is as dull as dishwater on a very gloomy day, but because it is a simulation.
I’ve read between the lines in that link and see exactly where the author is coming from. The whole bland persona of the (non-existent)nation is designed to make it unmemorable so it can get on with its evil plot to take over our minds, via Alastair Crowley’s magick spell book and some Illuminati medieval chanting ! Just look deeper and it’s all there, plain as day.
I had no idea Britain was planning on re-taking the Colonies. 
All those chip shops along the Costa Del Sol are merely fronts for an impending coup. Once we have the place surrounded, we’ll be closing the net. We’re sick of those far off, difficult to access conquests and Spain has lovely weather.
On a conspiracy forum recently there was a poster arguing that the shooting of the unarmed man in the Oakland subway was part of a plot by Mossad to distract people from the fighting in Gaza.
Litoris mentioned the lizard thing, and I’d have to say that the concept of extraterrestrial shape-shifting lizards running the world (beloved by all-time wackaloon David Icke) is very high on the strange conspiracy list but not quite so obscure, being that it is hilarious enough to have garnered some attention. Icke starts out with the standard Illuminati-Global Elite-Elders of Zion stuff, then dives into a rabbit hole of nuttery:
"The Global Elite controls the Brotherhood and the world using what Icke calls a “pyramid of manipulation,”[20] consisting of sets of hierarchical structures involving banking, business, the military, education, the media, religion, drug companies, intelligence agencies, and organised crime. At the very top of the pyramid are what Icke calls the “Prison Warders,” who are not human.[21] He writes that: “A pyramidal structure of human beings has been created under the influence and design of the extraterrestrial Prison Warders and their overall master, the Luciferic Consciousness…” In 1999, Icke wrote and published The Biggest Secret: The Book that Will Change the World, in which he identified the extraterrestrial prison warders as reptilians from the constellation Draco.[25]They walk erect and appear to be human, living not only on the planets they come from, but also in caverns and tunnels under the earth. They have cross-bred with humans, which has created “hybrids” who are “possessed” by the full-blooded reptilians."
Among the hybrids or reptile servants (I’m unclear on the exact classification) are Tony Blair and Hillary Clinton. It’s a good bet that Obama will make the list before long.
David Icke is a special breed of nutbar. You can learn a lot more by watching The Secret Rulers of the World or read Them:Adventures with Extremists (both by Jon Ronson)
There are many health conspiracy theories out there, but my favorite for bizarreness is the Aspartame Conspiracy.
That’s funny - that very conspiracy was mentioned in today’s Dr. Donahue column.
It’s not a public one. It’s my FIL’s. He believes that the Democratic party is corrupt to the last man (or woman) and is out to change this country into a socialist state. Hillary was mocked for her comment re the vast right wing conspiracy etc, but he is convinced that the opposite is true.
It’d be amusing if it weren’t so sad.
This one isn’t public I think.
Once, me and my dad met an old friend of his who worked for an eccentric entrepreneur who was such an avid animal collector that he was once the only person here to have a license to traffic live dolphins.
One time, this old friend met one of the businessman’s animal dealers and over drinks told him that there are people that deal in animals that are considered extinct or that have yet to be discovered by science, including - and here it gets interesting - Sasquatches, yetis, Tasmanian wolves and giant worms. The people that sell and buy these animals try to make sure that they don’t become known so they can continue making millions off each animal.
Weird, wild stuff.
My favorites is the “OJ was framed to cover up the Moon Landing Hoax”.
The theory goes that way back when OJ was in Capricorn One he met a scientific advisor that had worked for NASA on the set, who had proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that the moon landing was a hoax. The man wanted OJ to go public with it, as people would believe him. OJ was rightly scared however, but maintained the relationship. At some point the gov’t disappeared the guy, but not before OJ got a package with that information. He sat on it, however, still afraid to go public.
Eventually he was on the verge of takign what he knew public. So the gov’t sent a team of assassins to kill Nicole and Ron, leaving enough evidence to implicate OJ, but not enough to convict him so that he’d be permanently discredited.
Well, there are supposedly Werewolves living in Wisconsin. Near the Dells.