A collection of conspiracy theories can be found at www.crank.net/conspiracy.html.
So many nutjobs, so little time…
Post 2000, woo-hoo.
This I heard at the bowling pro shop the other day:
Kurt Cobain was murdered and so was Vince Foster.
This lady 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.
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.
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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).
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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?
He was the only radio host that made Art Bell seem almost sane.
Well, almost.
I like the one about how there’s some connection between Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album and The Wizard of Oz
And a coiner. Don’t forget the coining. {Wasn’t Marlowe played by Ben Affleck in that movie?}
Not really a conspiracy, but I love John Titor. Because of this thread, I’m going to read his predictions again. So funny!
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.
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.
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”.
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:
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.
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.
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.)
The CIA distributes crack to inner city minorities to keep them strung out.
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.
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…