conspiracies
Did This Three-Year-Old Girl Meet the Real Santa Claus at a Diner?
Aleksander Chan · 11/14/14 09:13AMThree-year-old Gracie Lynn was eating breakfast with her parents at a Bob Evans in Evansville, Ind. this week when she noticed a man dressed as Santa Claus sitting alone in a booth. Not one to leave the bringer of presents to eat alone, she simply walked over and sat down across from him. Her mother told WFIE that the two talked "like they'd known each other for years." What does this little girl know? And was that the real Santa Claus?
Joan Rivers' Death Is a "Mystery" Because Melissa Stopped the Autopsy
Allie Jones · 10/20/14 07:16AMIs This James Franco's Dick or What?
Rich Juzwiak · 10/10/14 12:35PMTeen Won't Be Allowed to Use Amazing Cat Photo as Senior Portrait
Aleksander Chan · 09/17/14 03:20PMDamn. After launching a petition to have his amazing laser cat photo run in his high school year book, Schenectady High School senior Draven Rodriguez will have to settle for the significantly less exciting prospect of posing for another photo with his cat and the school's principal—and her chihuahua. Sounds like someone was jealous...
FedEx Charged in Illegal Prescription Drug Conspiracy
Aleksander Chan · 07/17/14 10:35PMThe Treason Case Against the Last U.S. Taliban Hostage, Explained
Adam Weinstein · 06/02/14 11:45AMAdam Weinstein · 05/23/14 11:00AM
Cliven Bundy Is Now Offering Awful U.S. History Lessons on YouTube
Adam Weinstein · 05/08/14 11:48AMMeanwhile, back at the ranch, the armed crazy folks are still armed and crazy.
Oberlin Professor Accuses Colleague of Murder Conspiracy
Sarah Hedgecock · 04/22/14 11:36AMNew Crazy Conspiracy: Obama Is Taking Away Your Helicopter Defenses!
Adam Weinstein · 04/15/14 02:00PMMeet the Weird Christian Content Mill Behind Newsweek's New Owners
Adam Weinstein · 04/01/14 10:56AMSupertramp Predicted 9/11, Says Dumb Conspiracy Theory
Adam Weinstein · 01/23/14 09:31AMGabrielle Bluestone · 11/23/13 05:27PM
Sirhan Sirhan — the man convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy — was moved in a "routine" transfer to a San Diego facility on Friday, which was also the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Corrections authorities are calling it an "unfortunate coincidence." Theorists of conspiracy, have at it.
A Redneck Overcharged the Navy for "Untraceable" Rustic Gun Silencers
Adam Weinstein · 11/13/13 10:05AMA civilian Navy official scored a nearly $2 million dollar contract for his ne'er-do-well mechanic brother to illegally produce "unmarked and untraceable" silencers for AK-47s, patterned after car mufflers, allegedly to sell to the Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden, according to federal court documents and a Washington Post article published today.
Please Help Us Sketch Out Kevin Shields' Brit-Pop Conspiracy Theory
John Cook · 10/03/13 03:42PMKevin Shields, the extremely wise and plugged-in founder of fuzz-gods My Bloody Valentine, just dropped a bomb on the British public: Brit-pop—the "Cool Brittania"-era explosion of ghastly, derivative rock'n'roll from the likes of Oasis, Blur, Pulp, and any other number of one-word bands—was in fact a conspiracy foisted on the Western world by British intelligence agencies. I mean, it's so obvious once you think about it.
British Paper Duped into Fake NSA Scoop by Obama-Is-Gay Crank
Max Read · 07/01/13 11:28AMYour Guide to the TWA 800 Conspiracy and Its New Truther Documentary
Max Read · 06/21/13 11:20AMRemember the '90s? Snap bracelets? 'N Sync? Friends? Accusing the Navy of taking down a U.S. passenger plane with a missile? That's right—our favorite '90s conspiracy theory is back, thanks to a new documentary purporting to show "new evidence" that TWA Flight 800 crashed because it was hit by a missile. Here's everything you need to know.
Here Come the Michael Hastings Death Conspiracy Theories
Max Read · 06/20/13 09:33AMNaomi Wolf Is a Snowden Truther
Tom Scocca · 06/14/13 03:55PMNaomi Wolf—the author, Thought Leader, and political consultant/non-consultant—has been following the story of Edward Snowden, and she has decided to share her thoughts on Facebook. Specifically, Wolf wishes to convey her "creeping concern" that Snowden "is not who he purports to be." Who is he, then? Signs point to his being one of them. You know: THEM.