# What's your favorite conspiracy theory? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606 "2005-04-16T05:35:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/41 "2005-04-18T01:24:04Z")
A collection of conspiracy theories can be found at [www.crank.net/conspiracy.html](http://www.crank.net/conspiracy.html). So many nutjobs, so little time… Post 2000, woo-hoo. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/42 "2005-04-18T01:51:46Z")
This I heard at the bowling pro shop the other day: Kurt Cobain was murdered and so was Vince Foster. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/43 "2005-04-18T03:13:55Z")
[This lady](http://www.amightywind.com/index.asp) has been a favorite of mine for a few years. I also heartily second **Measure for Measure’s** recommendation of crank dot net. I like to look at the ones rated as “illucid” the most. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/44 "2005-04-18T03:44:45Z")
I can’t seem to find it right now, but I once encountered a website containing the ramblings of a woman who was convinced that Bill Gates had personally set her house on fire. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/45 "2005-04-18T03:54:23Z")
[QUOTE=wonderwench] That is basically correct - except for the part about concentration camps being in remote areas. This is what the sound walls lining freeways are for. (see above). QUOTE] No, those are the ones that Bush and the Trilateral Commission are building. Probably meant for hippies. Does anyone remember the late, lamented [William Cooper?](http://www.hourofthetime.com/williamcooper.html) He was the only radio host that made Art Bell seem almost sane. Well, _almost_. ---
**Author:** ![Elvez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8491ac/32.png) [@Elvez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvez)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/46 "2005-04-18T04:22:46Z")
I like the one about how there’s [some connection](http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/info/oz.html) between Pink Floyd’s _Dark Side of the Moon_ album and [_The Wizard of Oz_](http://http://www.everwonder.com/david/wizardofoz/) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/47 "2005-04-18T10:42:39Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > Ah! I love Shakespeare authorship! The Marlovian theory is my favorite, just because it’s so dashing. > > Marlowe fakes his own death and writes all of Shakespeare’s plays while secretly spyhatting around Europe and Ireland, uncovering and foiling plots against the English crown. Oh, yeah, and he’s gay and atheist. Scandal! Drama! Romance! > > It helps that, in my head, Marlowe is usually played by Rupert Everett a la _Shakespeare in Love_. And a coiner. Don’t forget the coining. {Wasn’t Marlowe played by Ben Affleck in that movie?} ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/48 "2005-04-18T11:32:39Z")
Not really a conspiracy, but I love John Titor. Because of this thread, I’m going to read his predictions again. So funny! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/49 "2005-04-18T11:37:28Z")
There’s a book out there somewhere that has a very convoluted historical line that somehow Princess Diana was a direct decsendant of Jesus /or the Holy Grail peoples and that Prince Charles had to marry her in order to bring back prestige and vigor to the House of Windsor. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/50 "2005-04-18T11:39:56Z")
This is my own conspiracy theory: That the security toll gate thingies in all the stores wipe your mental “what am I here for to get” list clean and you wander the store aimlessless. Fabric stores impregnant their material with some kind of mind altering substance. ---
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/51 "2005-04-18T11:56:51Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > **wonderwench** I read the _exact_ same conspiracy theory on line, in fact there was a big discussion about it. Only it was the 2000 elections, not the 2008 and the President was Clinton not Bush! In fact, The Onion (hey… it crops up again… anyone think that’s suspicious?) ran a story several years ago that claimed Clinton had declared himself “President for Life”. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/52 "2005-04-18T14:32:19Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > William Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by any individual or combination drawn from a cast including, but by no means limited to… Francis Bacon… I’ve heard the Bacon one so many times that I finally decided to derail the conversation last time it came up. Me: You know Francis was actually Bacon’s middle name, right? Literatus: Really? What was his first name? Me: Kevin Literatus: :smack: My fave conspiracy theory is that the phone lines are powered separately from the rest of the house so that the government can continue to use the land lines as listening devices during blackouts. After all, almost everyone has a land line, and it already has a microphone connected to a vast network. Can you _really_ say for sure that the phone is completely deactivated when you hang up? How do you know? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/53 "2005-04-18T14:35:01Z")
> [@mrklutz](#): > > My fave conspiracy theory is that the phone lines are powered separately from the rest of the house so that the government can continue to use the land lines as listening devices during blackouts. After all, almost everyone has a land line, and it already has a microphone connected to a vast network. Can you _really_ say for sure that the phone is completely deactivated when you hang up? How do you know? :eek: This explains why we have so many government workers. They aren’t really managing things like the Mohair Subsidy. All of those silly programs are just fronts while they listen in on our conversations. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/54 "2005-04-18T14:57:48Z")
Well, let’s not leave out the favorites that I hear every day: We’re at war in Iraq over oil. GWB was in kahoots with bin Laden and is responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The government flew the airliners into the WTC, etc. using remote control after having removed and murdered the crew and passengers. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/55 "2005-04-19T00:30:15Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > The government flew the airliners into the WTC, etc. using remote control after having removed and murdered the crew and passengers. Now THAT makes no sense. Why remove and murder the crew and passengers instead of just leaving them on the plane? That’s just sloppy conspiracy-theorizing is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/56 "2005-04-19T01:08:11Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Now THAT makes no sense. Why remove and murder the crew and passengers instead of just leaving them on the plane? > > That’s just sloppy conspiracy-theorizing is what it is. That’s because they weren’t planes - they were missiles. Just like the one that hit the Pentagon. The footage of the planes was faked. 😉😉 (This would be one of my favorite theories, except that so many people seem to believe some aspect of it.) ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/57 "2005-04-19T01:47:54Z")
The CIA distributes crack to inner city minorities to keep them strung out. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/58 "2005-04-19T01:50:55Z")
That the former Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, who disappeared while swimming at a Victorian beach on 19 December 1967, didn’t drown. Instead, he was actually a Chinese spy and he was picked up by a Chinese submarine cruising offshore and whisked back to Beijing. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/59 "2005-04-19T07:59:52Z")
Princess Diana was murderered by MI6 at the instigation of Prince Philip. The driver in her car was a suicide agent who crashed on purpose. Or the brakes were tampered with. Or a white Fiat Uno forced them off the road. This was because she was pregnant with Dodi Fayed’s child and the Royal Family didn’t want the future King of England to have a Muslim half-brother. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606/60 "2005-04-19T09:12:38Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Princess Diana was murderered by MI6 at the instigation of Prince Philip. The driver in her car was a suicide agent who crashed on purpose. Or the brakes were tampered with. Or a white Fiat Uno forced them off the road. This was because she was pregnant with Dodi Fayed’s child and the Royal Family didn’t want the future King of England to have a Muslim half-brother. This is definatly one of my favourites. But then given that the royal family are actually extraterrestial reptiles, what sort of behavior would you expect? Myself, I think the account of Mckinley’s assasination is far to straight foward to be plausable. Leon Czolgosz was a patsy. Theodore Roosevelt was behind it. Just look at his ties to the Dead Rabbits. We’re though the looking glass here, people… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory/299606.md?page=4)