22 Bizarre Conspiracy Theories - mental_floss List Show Ep. 323

Conspiracy theories are either unnecessarily convoluted explanations for perfectly normal phenomena or (if you're fun*) the secret to understanding the true meaning of the universe.

Was the moon landing faked? Was Lee Harvey Oswald a lone shooter? In this highly suspicious episode of The List Show, we break down (and debunk) 22 bizarre conspiracy theories.

A weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John looks at some bizarre conspiracy theories that people actually believe!

*Generally misinformed.
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[chopperhead]

Stanley Kubrick did in fact film the moon landing, but being a perfectionist, he insisted they film on site.

[sophieward]

I like to think that there's one guy out there who's completely sold on the reptile overlord thing, but he heard the one about electric cars for the first time in this video and went, "Well that seems a little far fetched."

[LazerLord]

I wonder how accurate the result of 12 million people believing in lizard people is. To be honest, I bet a lot of people just put down 'yes' because it was funny.

[ZoggFromBetelgeuse]

I happen to know the alien who crashed the Roswell UFO. Poor guy passed six solar cycles in an military underground facility. He only got out with some help from the Lizard People. Now he has trouble with the Central Galactic Bureaucracy for "illegal contact with planetary natives".

[psypsy]

Electric cars one seems somewhat plausible.

[IoEstasCedonta]

If they'd hired Kubrick to fake the moon landing, he'd have filmed it on the moon.

[ohthepeppers]

Illuminati? No, no, no.

_Hail Hydra._

[taitaisanchez]

HOW ARE YOU ALL BLIND TO THE SNAKE PEOPLE(OR, SNEEPLE)?!

[RobloxHacksForMac]

Don't say shape shifting lizards r a conspiracy, it's not a conspiracy, I SAW IT WITH MY OWN THREE EYES!

[Ravenclaw]

The lizard people conspiracy theory is probably one of my favorites because it never fails to make me laugh. I hadn't heard about half of these. I love conspiracy theories but I've never met anyone that believes any of the huge ones.

[johnackermann]

I always thought John Lennon was saying (slowly, in a deep voice) "I'm...very....bored".

[FernieCanto]

My favourite aspect of many of those crackpot theories is that, apparently, the same Evil Masterminds that plan all those conspiracies also happen to give *hints* that they're going to happen... in TV shows and movies.

[georg]

my favorite (probably because of geographical reasons) is the theory the the german city Bielefeld does not exist and is faked by "Them". Everyone that moves to Bielefeld is either one of "Them" or was killed by "Them" and the move to Bielefeld is used to cover it up…

[Phildog]

It always gives me a calm feeling when John tells me, "Don't forget to be awesome."

[sydswayze]

Every time I watch these videos, I hug my copy of the fault in our stars.

[aozgolo]

The general flaw in most conspiracy theories is that the theorists are generally far more clever than those whom they prescribe the theory to, despite none of them being aware of this.

[ChefSqunk]

My favorite conspiracy theory I have learned about recently is the Berenstain/Berenstein Bear parallel universe theory. Many people from their childhood remember the children's books being spelled Berenstein but now it is spelled Berenstain, this is from two parallel universes interacting with one another.

[Bonana]

Did anyone else think of Silurians when he talked about lizard people?

[RobertBass]

My favorite conspiracy theory is the one where the real reason the US invaded Iraq was to seize Saddam Hussein's Stargate.

[alexlamoreaux]

What about the ones claiming that vaccines, GMOs, and gluten (unless you have Celiac disease) are bad?