30 Crazy Conspiracy Theories People Actually Believe
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People, it seems, will believe just about anything. If you make a YouTube video that amounts to nothing more than a grainy slideshow, a spooky voice over, and half made up phrases of pseudoscience, SOME uncle out there will accept it as absolute fact and make it the crux of their worldview come Thanksgiving. Yet, even in our current climate of social media disinformation campaigns and dudes spewing nonsense in between ad reads for protein powder, there are some conspiracy theories out there that stretch the limits of our imagination.
In the list below you'll see a fair number of the common ones: Obama is a lizard man, the Earth is actually flat, Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing and planted clues about it in The Shining… But you'll also see a fair amount of stuff that you'll refuse to believe anyone out there actually, well, believes.
But man, wouldn't it be crazy if this was all true?
Flat Earth
![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/5/0/5/874505.jpg)
Michael Jackson was Castrated
![THE CONSPIRACY: Michael Jackson was chemically castrated. GRACKED COM THE THEORY: Не was prescribed a powerful acne drug at the age of 12 that caused his body to fend off puberty.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/4/874504.jpg)
Lorde Is 40
![THE CONSPIRACY: Lorde is a 40-year-old woman. CRACKED COM THE THEORY: She hasn't had any of the typical 20-something pop star gaffes or outbursts; she has to be pulling a Never Been Kissed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/3/874503.jpg)
Miley Cyrus Has Been Replaced
![THE CONSPIRACY: Disney assassinated Miley Cyrus. CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: Miley wanted a childhood, but Disney wanted money. So they offed her and readied the next clone.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/1/874501.jpg)
A Plot by the Pope
![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/5/0/2/874502.jpg)
The Blue Beam Project
![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/4/9/9/874499.jpg)
Lost Cosmonauts
![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/5/0/0/874500.jpg)
Boycotting the Polio Vaccine
![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. NONE 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/4/9/8/874498.jpg)
Biggie & Tupac Are Alive... And Friends!
![THE CONSPIRACY: Biggie and Tupac are hanging in New Zealand. CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: The rivals put their differences aside, faked their own deaths, and moved to a resort town together.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/7/874497.jpg)
Stevie Wonder Isn't Blind
![THE CONSPIRACY: Stevie Wonder can see. CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: Не likes basketball, and once caught a falling mic stand: two things typical of the sighted!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/6/874496.jpg)
Stanley Kubrick Faked the Moon Landing
![THE CONSPIRACY: The moon landing was shot by Stanley Kubrick. CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: 2001: A Space Odyssey was such a big hit, the U.S. government wanted to give us a secret sequel.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/5/874495.jpg)
Tom Cruise Wife Auditions
![THE CONSPIRACY: Tom Cruise holds wife auditions. CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: Не was so powerful by the time of his third marriage that he auditioned Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba before giving the part to Katie Holmes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/2/874492.jpg)
Dinosaurs Helped Build the Pyramids
![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/4/9/4/874494.jpg)
Groceries and Terrorism
![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. AMITIVES Al CHEEZ-IT OREO French pineapple 100% NyQuil COVOR juice Honey - - A1 | Colgate OPTI C - - - WHITE - - - - Kerns Advil - - Triscuit - - and - Pringle NESTEA PARATH Original NEOSPORIN - - pepsi adidas geore - V8 PLANTERS ALL RUZ RIT RIII Peanuts HUGGIES WELLMANN](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/1/874491.jpg)
Jewish Mind Controlled Sharks
![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/4/9/3/874493.jpg)
Obama is the Antichrist
![At least two people have been arrested on separate occasions for pletting OF threatening to kill Barack Obama... ...because they thought he was the Antichrist. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/0/874490.jpg)
Steve Jobs is Still Alive
![THE CONSPIRACY: Steve Jobs is hanging out in Egypt. Mike Sington @MikeSington Steve Jobs is discovered alive and living in Egypt! CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: This 2018 picture is of Steve Jobs kickin' it in a plastic lawn chair. Case closed!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/9/874489.jpg)
Bob Marley Was Killed as a Warning
![THE CONSPIRACY: Bob Marley was killed as a warning to other reggae artists. GRACKED.COM THE THEORY: The CIA was working to take out the Jamaican prime minister, and the reggae community knew too much.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/8/874488.jpg)
Elvis' Constipation
![THE CONSPIRACY: Elvis died of chronic constipation. GRACKED CON THE THEORY: Elvis never actually got fat. What we think of as fat Elvis was really normal Elvis with weeks of poop in him, gumming up the works.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/7/874487.jpg)
Jay-Z and the Illuminati
![THE CONSPIRACY: Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella diamond is Illuminati imagery. GRAGKED.COM THE THEORY: Okay, sure, everybody's in the Illuminati. But Jay-Z has gone so far as to trademark the hand signal. Cui bono??](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/2/874482.jpg)
Obama on Mars
![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/4/8/4/874484.jpg)
The Truth About One Direction
![CRACKED.COM In January 2016, One Direction singer Louis 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/4/8/3/874483.jpg)
The God of Death
![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. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/6/874486.jpg)
Katy Perry is JonBenet
![THE CONSPIRACY: Katy Perry is JonBenet. CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: Perry is a mere 6 years older than JonBenet, and their parents look kinda similar. You connect the dots.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/9/874479.jpg)
Bill Hicks is Alex Jones
![THE CONSPIRACY: Bill Hicks didn't die; he just became Alex Jones. GRACKED.COM THE THEORY: The CIA kidnapped him and turned him into a right-wing propaganda machine.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/1/874481.jpg)
J.K Rowling Doesn't Exist
![THE CONSPIRACY: J.K. Rowling doesn't exist. THE THEORY: The story of Harry Potter, and her own story of redemption, are just too good to be true. She's an actor fronting for a team of writers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/6/874476.jpg)
You Aren't Real
![IF{Soul=FALSE}, RunProgram(NPC.exe) L Could you be an NPC? That dank NPC Wojak meme you forwarded to trigger the normies is actually based on a theory that 75% of us are soulless, non-player characters. A 4chan user speculated that humankind only has a limited number of souls, but as the С population grows, all the extra bodies become NPCs who just conform to groupthink trends. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/0/874480.jpg)
Iran Killed Michael Jackson
![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/4/7/7/874477.jpg)
Stephen King Killed John Lennon
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