What are your favorite tin foil hat theories?

[sangria]

Any that you actually believe in?

[BlondeSpiders]

Ok, I don't actually believe in this, but there's a house I have to drive by at least twice daily, and the person has a ton of shitty beatup old trucks all over the lawn and yard. Most of the have spray painted slogans on them, the most popular one "Y R WE BEING CHEMTRAILED?" and includes a website address. The chemtrail one is the funniest to me.

[mcsangel2]

What qualifies as a tin foil hat theory? Because I totally believe TWA 800 was blown up by a US Navy missile.

[CallingAllAngels]

Jul 15, 2015 18:23:43 GMT -5 BlondeSpiders said:

Ok, I don't actually believe in this, but there's a house I have to drive by at least twice daily, and the person has a ton of shitty beatup old trucks all over the lawn and yard. Most of the have spray painted slogans on them, the most popular one "Y R WE BEING CHEMTRAILED?" and includes a website address. The chemtrail one is the funniest to me.

If I were slightly crazier I would believe in chemtrails. I'm like on the cusp of believing it now (but I don't really). I mean, they are ALWAYS in the air. Always. Why? What are all those planes doing?

[sangria]

Jul 15, 2015 18:27:10 GMT -5 mcsangel2 said:

What qualifies as a tin foil hat theory? Because I totally believe TWA 800 was blown up by a US Navy missile.

Purposely?

[mcsangel2]

Jul 15, 2015 18:28:37 GMT -5 sangria said:

Jul 15, 2015 18:27:10 GMT -5 mcsangel2 said:

What qualifies as a tin foil hat theory? Because I totally believe TWA 800 was blown up by a US Navy missile.

Purposely?

I think it was purposely done by accident. Does that make sense? But no way do I think the jet fuel randomly sparked and ignited.

[msmerymac]

Is peak oil a "conspiracy theory" or just good sense?

[sparrowsong]

Oliver Stone's JFK left me wide-eyed.

[katietornado]

Jul 15, 2015 18:28:37 GMT -5 CallingAllAngels said:

Jul 15, 2015 18:23:43 GMT -5 BlondeSpiders said:

Ok, I don't actually believe in this, but there's a house I have to drive by at least twice daily, and the person has a ton of shitty beatup old trucks all over the lawn and yard. Most of the have spray painted slogans on them, the most popular one "Y R WE BEING CHEMTRAILED?" and includes a website address. The chemtrail one is the funniest to me.

If I were slightly crazier I would believe in chemtrails. I'm like on the cusp of believing it now (but I don't really). I mean, they are ALWAYS in the air. Always. Why? What are all those planes doing?

Flying places?

[CallingAllAngels]

You all and your logic. Pshw

[shauni27]

I don't know that I believe anything but I am fascinated by all of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Denver Airport (I don't even know why I care, but I seriously love it.)

[jln]

I think that Trump is secretly a democrat.

[onomatopoeia]

Jul 15, 2015 19:18:45 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

I don't know that I believe anything but I am fascinated by all of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Denver Airport (I don't even know why I care, but I seriously love it.)

Like what?  #toolazytogoogle

I always wonder if there was some sort of plot when I hear of a mid-level politician (or anyone kind of famous or important, for that matter) who has been killed in a plane crash/car crash/random bicycle accident/etc.  

[ttt]

Jul 15, 2015 18:28:37 GMT -5 CallingAllAngels said:

Jul 15, 2015 18:23:43 GMT -5 BlondeSpiders said:

Ok, I don't actually believe in this, but there's a house I have to drive by at least twice daily, and the person has a ton of shitty beatup old trucks all over the lawn and yard. Most of the have spray painted slogans on them, the most popular one "Y R WE BEING CHEMTRAILED?" and includes a website address. The chemtrail one is the funniest to me.

If I were slightly crazier I would believe in chemtrails. I'm like on the cusp of believing it now (but I don't really). I mean, they are ALWAYS in the air. Always. Why? What are all those planes doing?

At any given moment, there are about 3,600 passenger planes in the air over the U.S. So there really are always planes in the air. But they're just taking people places in uncomfortable seats.

[ttt]

Jul 15, 2015 18:27:10 GMT -5 mcsangel2 said:

What qualifies as a tin foil hat theory? Because I totally believe TWA 800 was blown up by a US Navy missile.

I believe that too. I think it was an accident - a training exercise went horribly wrong.

I also feel pretty confident that Flight 93 was shot down.

[heyjude]

There are definitely aliens!

[msmerymac]

Jul 15, 2015 19:35:40 GMT -5 ttt said:

Jul 15, 2015 18:27:10 GMT -5 mcsangel2 said:

What qualifies as a tin foil hat theory? Because I totally believe TWA 800 was blown up by a US Navy missile.

I believe that too. I think it was an accident - a training exercise went horribly wrong.

I also feel pretty confident that Flight 93 was shot down.

I feel like if that were true, I might be okay with it.

[pixy0stix]

Jul 15, 2015 19:36:33 GMT -5 heyjude said:

There are definitely aliens!

I think the government has proof of aliens and is keeping it on lockdown.

[ttt]

Jul 15, 2015 19:41:44 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Jul 15, 2015 19:35:40 GMT -5 ttt said:

I believe that too. I think it was an accident - a training exercise went horribly wrong.

I also feel pretty confident that Flight 93 was shot down.

I feel like if that were true, I might be okay with it.

Me too. It was almost certainly the right call, considering what had already happened that morning. The alternative would be to let it crash into another building, killing even more people. But of course you can't just admit to the public that the U.S. Military shot down an American passenger jet over US soil.

[bears]

This thread if freaking me out.

[bears]

Jul 15, 2015 18:45:49 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

Jul 15, 2015 18:28:37 GMT -5 CallingAllAngels said:

If I were slightly crazier I would believe in chemtrails. I'm like on the cusp of believing it now (but I don't really). I mean, they are ALWAYS in the air. Always. Why? What are all those planes doing?

My sister thinks they are trails of poison put up there by Obama to fly over the Bible Belt and kill all the Christians. 

I don't know how she walks the earth being this deluded. 

Where are all the dead/dying Christians if that's the case?

[ttt]

Jul 15, 2015 19:47:26 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Jul 15, 2015 19:36:33 GMT -5 heyjude said:

There are definitely aliens!

I think the government has proof of aliens and is keeping it on lockdown.

Good. I don't want to know about this.

[ttt]

The U.S. Military has accidentally shot down passenger jets before so it's not like this is a wildly unrealistic theory.

ETA just one, not jets plural. But other governments have done this as well.

[mlt]

A small part of me has always thought the moon landing was staged.

/ashamed

[pretzel]

I'm crazy about the Loch Ness monster. I badly want it to be true that there's a dinosaur living in a lake in Scotland.

[saz]

Jul 15, 2015 19:18:45 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

I don't know that I believe anything but I am fascinated by all of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Denver Airport (I don't even know why I care, but I seriously love it.)

I am fascinated too, and every time I see this painting, I am tempted to believe them haha:

[AllieHound]

I fully believe the government shot down Flight 93. I don't understand anyone who would have a problem with that if it had happened, but I understand why (if it did happen) it needed a cover story.

I also believe the mob killed JFK, because they really wanted to kill Bobby, but knew doing so would put a giant target on their back if the older brother seeking revenge was the POTUS. I can't remember all of the "facts" behind the theory- but it made a lot of sense to me at the time, so that's what I'm going with.

[sushi]

Jul 15, 2015 19:32:12 GMT -5 onomatopoeia said:

Jul 15, 2015 19:18:45 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

I don't know that I believe anything but I am fascinated by all of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Denver Airport (I don't even know why I care, but I seriously love it.)

Like what?  #toolazytogoogle

Stuff about commies and secret hallways and murals.

It's not a conspiracy, but it's creepy as fuck: the evil red-eyed blue horse sculpture at the airport killed its creator.

[sparrowsong]

I don't "believe" the DIA airport stuff, but I still think if shit goes down and it's chaos, I'll probably start walking that direction and hope for the best. A possibly underground city that might take me in sounds like better odds than me in the wild.

[rubytue]

Jul 15, 2015 20:50:14 GMT -5 AllieHound said:

I fully believe the government shot down Flight 93. I don't understand anyone who would have a problem with that if it had happened, but I understand why (if it did happen) it needed a cover story.

I also believe the mob killed JFK, because they really wanted to kill Bobby, but knew doing so would put a giant target on their back if the older brother seeking revenge was the POTUS. I can't remember all of the "facts" behind the theory- but it made a lot of sense to me at the time, so that's what I'm going with.

I don't even think it was a cover story, per se. I think they shot it down. But I also think the passenger were also planning a revolt. And they did make the calls and everything. When that started coming out, before the govt admitted they shot it down, everyone said lets roll with it. Let these people die heros and let that be the narrative. I mean really, on that day, can you even imagine "errr, no. All the devastation and lost lives everywhere, and sorry son, your dad wasn't really a hero. Either he failed or we beat him to the punch." Yeah, no. Just let that be the narrative. And while I believe we shot it down, I also have no problems with either shooting it down or letting those passengers die as "heros."