37 Wacko Things The Internet Believes
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There are so many great things about this age we live in: technology has made life immeasurably better in many ways, and we're lucky to have it. How else would you not have to leave your house to get food? Oh, the horror.
Kidding. Seriously, though, tech has done some resplendent things, but one area where we're sure it hasn't helped is the spreading of stuff that shouldn't be spread - or if it is going to be spread then that should be on a field as fertilizer, because that's what it is. You get the picture. Its brown and smells really awful.
Sure, conspiracy theories and similarly whackjob nonsense can be harmless and worth a laugh, but sometimes they can have devastating consequences and impact lives in a real way. Here are some of the strangest notions that the internet just won't let die. If they would we'd definitely fertilize our tomatoes with them.
![WND's Selena Owens believes that the ice bucket challenge is an attempt to recruit satanists. She sees the challenge as a means to 'baptize' unknowing participants into Satanism, and believes that the celebrities who participate like Oprah and Lady Gaga are the ones who lead the recruitment process. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/0/804450.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM Is Paul really dead? It doesn't actually matter, since never existed at all! In fact, all of them were replaced multiple times by new sets of people who were very similar, but not quite. The website thebeatlesneverexisted.com covers how their heights, eyebrows, teeth and ears changed over time, proving they couldn't possibly be the same people.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/9/804449.jpg)
![According to TitanicUniverse.com, THE TITANIC WAS SUNK TO ELIMINATE OPPOSITION TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE. Founding the Federal Reserve was part of a Jesuit plot to take control of global finance, so key opponents of the Fed - John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim and Isador Strauss - had to be killed. They were invited aboard the Titanic, and the captain (secretly a Jesuit) made sure the ship sank. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/8/804448.jpg)
![Everyday Chemistry is purportedly a Beatles album from an alternate universe in which the group never broke up. A man calling himself James Richards says he got it from an interdimensional visitor. The Beafles Everyday - chemistry BY Fast gays a Talking 3 Angwing عدله 200 - they night TC M use to acnes Yong jamborea ELECTRIC GENERAL 60 MINUTES OF TRUE FIDELITY REUSABLE TAPE CARTRIDGE RECORDING (Total-Both Sides AS Chevising - side A The The album actually consists of mashups made from the Beatles' solo works. But Richards sticks to his story, arguing that the group members had the same](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/6/804446.jpg)
![Charlie Veitch was a 9/11 Truther who changed his mind. After he expressed his doubt that the 9/11 incident was an inside job, he was swarmed with death threats by conspiracy theorists who claimed that he had been bought. Someone hacked his email and sent confessions that Charlie was a pedophile to 15,000 people. GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/5/804445.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![Michael Mann, a climate scientist, was just doing his job when he began receiving death threats from people who didn't believe that climate change was real. Someone actually sent him an envelope suspected to contain anthrax (it was later confirmed to be cornstarch). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/7/804447.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![The U.S. Government Has Weather Weapons Of Mass Destruction According to bloggers such as Bill Morgan and Michael Shore, the U.S. government has the ability to manipulate the weather. And Hurricane Katrina was created to destroy oil rigs to drive up oil prices. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/4/804444.jpg)
![Former World Bank legal counsel Karen Hudes claims that Homo capensis, a large-brained human species, secretly rules the world through using the world's key financial and religious institutions to make humans constantly fight each other. W - GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/3/804443.jpg)
![Robert Kardashian and Ted Cruz are the same person! Out-there website WellAware1.com believes that Robert Kardashian never died but faked his death and changed his identity to Ted Cruz so he could enjoy a successful political career and no longer have to deal CRACKED.COM with the women in his family.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/2/804442.jpg)
![Chris Bovey posted a video with evidence of chemtrails, toxic chemicals sprayed from planes, then explained it was meant to poke fun at believing in them. Now he gets viciously attacked online by chemtrail conspiracy theorists. For example, one person posted to his Facebook page about how he'd get butt f**ked in prison, among other things. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/804441.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![Ever wonder the real reason behind Bush's invasion of Iraq? According to Dr. Michael Е. Salla, PhD, he wanted to prevent the reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar, Saddam Hussein, from opening Earth to an alien invasion through his actual Stargate, left on Earth by the Anunnaki around 1,700 В.С. Obviously. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/0/804440.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM BIGFOOT IS AN ALIEN UFO researcher Stan Gordon believes this because, in the '70s, he started noticing Bigfoot sightings in the same areas as UFOs. This led him to create a 24-hour UFO/Bigfoot Hotline, which still runs to this day.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/9/804439.jpg)
![An environmentalist group claimed that it was not Zika virus that caused microcephaly; it was a pesticide known as pyriproxyfen. Farmers in Pernambuco, Brazil stopped using the pesticide immediately, and because Zika was carried by mosquitoes, Pernambuco became the most microcephally-affected state in Brazil. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/8/804438.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![Days after Leonard Pozner lost his son, Noah, in the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, theories that the whole incident was staged by actors started emerging. Hoaxers began sending the grieving father death threats and harassed him by posting photos of his house online. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/7/804437.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![FINLAND DOESN'T EXIST! It's a secret that Japan and Russia are hiding from the world. Japan fish in that region of ocean without worrying about environmental can repercussions, and Russia gets a CUT Helsinki is in Sweden and all border countries have signed a treaty to keep this secret. SWEDEN CRACKED.COM 60N ESTONIA LATVIA This is what the whole subreddit r/finlandConspiracy believes](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/6/804436.jpg)
![MICHAEL JACKSON WAS KILLED BY THE IRANIAN GOVERMENT As reported by The Telegraph, many believed that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had The King of Pop murdered so it would distract people from the ongoing protests in their country back in 2009... and it worked! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/804435.jpg)
![Obama Traveled To Mars Lawyer Andrew D. Basiago and friend William Stillings are self-acclaimed chrononauts, or time-travelers. The two men claim they were placed in a secret CIA Mars program alongside a 19-year-old Obama. This program trained men to teleport to Mars in order to survey alien life. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/804434.jpg)
![It wasn't Mark David Chapman who killed John Lennon As 12 VIV VI HISTURA Chapman Lennon ally creating a nuclear explosion simply Chapman getting Lennon's autograph, as - YMCA volunteer; 'Nobody in Hawaii is OB the . by the force of her will. 1970s. E going to believe mr Charlie's napalm-to-nuclear capabil- thing of It was Stephen King! Stephen King One great big Zippo lighter. ity is the result of a Government-spon- sored experiment in which her_mother and father both college students at the John Lennon, signing his life away. stops to give an autograph to Accused Killer Mark David Chapman](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/804433.jpg)
![The Large Hadron Collider Summons The God Of Death Researcher William Henry claims that CERN built the Collider as a stargate portal to summon the God Osiris or Shiva. Followers of this conspiracy claim it's no coincidence that there is a statue of Shiva in front of the CERN building. GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/1/804431.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM In January 2016, One Direction singer Louis A Tomlinson's baby was born. But some fans swear the whole thing was staged. According to a Tumblr page called TheTruthAboutOneDirection, Louis's PR team deliberately faked the story of him having a baby in order to distract everyone from the fact that Louis is secretly having a relationship with one of his bandmates, Harry Styles.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/804432.jpg)
![Your groceries are funding terrorism! Such is a popular theory that's been espoused by the website 'Boycott Halal' and many other Islamophobic groups online. They say that the money which big food/drink/toiletry companies pay to receive the 'Halal certified' seal is given to terrorist organizations. - Al CHEEZ-IT OREO Frenchis pineapple LOOT NyQuil juice Honey A1 Colgate OPTIC - - WHITE - - Kerns - Advil Aprica - - Triscuit I S - - - Prangle NESTEA حمد Original NEOSPORIN - pepsi - - ORGAN - V8 PLANTERS PER RAZ RTZ RIT Peanuts - HUGGIES HELLMANN HAVE ONO в SULZ](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/0/804430.jpg)
![Some people believe dinosaurs helped build the pyramids. Even some professionals believe this. According to professor of Egyptology Nabir Al-Sammud, dinosaurs were tamed and trained to carry equipment much like elephants have done. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/8/804428.jpg)
![At least two people have been arrested on separate occasions for plotting or threatening to kill Barack Obama... ...because they thought he was the Antichrist. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/6/804426.jpg)
![The rise of the anti-vaxxer movement caused the resurgence of various preventable diseases. Reduced vaccination rates in Europe and America paved the way for outbreaks of measles and whooping cough, respectively, in 2012. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/9/804429.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![Braden Matejka survived getting shot in the head during the Las Vegas shooting, only to have people bombard his social media accounts with conspiracy theories and threats. Oh please. Worst acting I've ever seen in my life. Did his girlfriend learn how to shed a crocodile tear yet? Puke 1 hour ago Like Reply Delete According to them, he's an actor who should be shot in the head for real. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/8/804418.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![The NASA Blue Beam Project According to the late journalist Serge Monast, NASA is planning on projecting giant 3D holograms of religous figures into the atmosphere to initiate a spiritual apocalypse among world religions. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/0/804420.jpg)
![AIDS denialism killed over 300,000 people in South Africa between 2000 and 2005. NISE SE WISE ourl f Know uno Status Jhoh status Ma SE LIFE CHOOSE LIF CHOOSE - I LI The president at the time denied the link between HIV and AIDS and held back donated anti-HIV medication, calling it toxic and a GRACKED.COM plot to weaken his country. His health minister instead recommended herbal remedies to fight against AIDS.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/9/804419.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![IS THE EARTH FLAT? According to countless YouTube videos, the answer is yes. Flat Earth theories are nothing new but have spread like wildfire over the internet. According to Flat-Earthers, everything NASA claims to have done has been faked, including photos and videos taken from orbit. Why would NASA commit these frauds? To get money for their projects, which gets funneled on the sly back to the government, of course. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/5/804425.jpg)
![Jewish Mind Controlled Sharks! In 2010, a series of shark attacks occurred at the Red Sea resort town Sharm El Sheikh. In an interview with Egyptian news site Ahram Online, South Sinai governor Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha speculated that the Mossad was using GPS to mind control the sharks in order to use them as bioweapons to decrease tourism in the region. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/7/804427.jpg)
![GRAGKED.COM DONALD TRUMP IS AN ALIEN After studying a NASA Rover Photo, Scott Waring (a blogger posting on ufosightingsdaily.com) shared that he'd found a perfect likeness of Trump on the surface of Mars. Не theorized this may mean Trump is an alien (saying this would explain Trump's magical power in his voice that causes mass hysteria and loyalty), and that he may be part of a group called the CTR who are said to exploit the human race for financial gains.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/804415.jpg)
![Activists at geoengineeringwatch.org are adamant that the recent drought in California was engineered by the U.S. government, possibly as a form of food control. How? By using chem trails, of course! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/6/804416.jpg)
![Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space in 1961. But according to the LOST COSMONAUTS CONSPIRACY THEORY, the Soviet Union launched manned space flights prior to Gagarin's and cosmonauts have died in the attempts. This assumption acknowledges Yuri Gagarin only as the first man to SURVIVE human spaceflight. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/4/804424.jpg)
![NTSC U/C In 2000, an article on WorldNetDaily.com stated the U.S. Customs Service and FBI were investigating claims that Saddam Hussein was buying thousands of PlayStation 2 game consoles. According to the article, the government believed he was going to MacGyver the hardware into some sort of WMD. KTC FIELD2 N COMBAT 252 GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/1/804421.jpg)
![CCONSPIRACY After reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television along with her cameraman, her boyfriend Chris Hurts has become the target of harassment by gun truthers, who send him videos and pictures of the tragedy with commentary pointing out their imagined proof that it was staged. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/4/804414.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![Back to the Future predicted 9/11 (and everything else). 68 A YouTube series by Polarization Nation Media claims that Back to the Future predicted 9/11, the 2005 London bombings, the Paris attacks, and more through coded messages and clock imagery. This McFly code is said to be part of a communication network used by undercover terrorists, and hints at future disasters. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/7/804417.jpg)
![Claiming the West was deliberately attempting to cause outbreaks of HIV and infertility, many religious and political leaders in Nigeria encouraged a boycott of the polio vaccine. GOTALL For a year vaccinations were not administered, resulting in an enormous jump in the number of cases not just in Nigeria but among neighboring populations. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/3/804423.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
![THE KNOW-NOTHING MOVEMENT believed the 19th-century wave of Catholic immigrants was a PLOT BY THE POPE to take over the United States and destroy the American banking system. Dozens of Catholic churches and convents were burned to the ground. Street riots killed scores of people. Some 50 Italian immigrants were lynched. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/2/804422.jpg)
Source: Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences