A curated, connected archive of conspiracy theories
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Start anywhere — a break-in, a hijacking, a haunted house — and follow the thread through the people, places, and events it actually shares with the case next to it. Every connection is graded documented, speculative, or disputed, and grading isn't the same as proof. Nothing here is true just because it made it onto the board.
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See all →Just used Find the Connection and got a 3-hop path I did not expect
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Anyone else think the CIA connections are the real spine of this whole graph?
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PSA: read the "Other Side" section before arguing in the comments
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All categoriesGovernment & PoliticsUnsolved Deaths & DisappearancesParanormal & UFOMysterious Objects & ArtifactsHoaxes & DebunkedHistorical EventsModern & Internet EraNatural & Unexplained Phenomena
Moon landing hoax
⇄disputedSix landings, one persistent rumor.
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The Illuminati
⇄disputedA real secret society that was shut down in 1785 — and somehow still "runs the world" according to the internet.
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The Bilderberg Group
⇄disputedRoughly 130 of the world's most powerful business leaders, royals, and politicians have met behind closed doors every year since 1954 — and attendees are contractually barred from ever revealing what was actually said inside.
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TWA Flight 800
⇄disputed230 people died when a passenger jet exploded over Long Island in 1996 — hundreds of witnesses reported seeing a streak of light rise toward the plane just before it happened, and investigators spent four years explaining, in exhaustive technical detail, why it almost certainly wasn't a missile.
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The 9/11 Truth Movement
⇄disputedA movement of architects and engineers has spent two decades arguing the official explanation for a building's collapse doesn't add up — and federal investigators have spent just as long explaining, point by point, why it does.
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The Phoenix Lights
⇄disputedThousands of people across an entire state watched a massive, silent V-shaped formation of lights pass overhead in 1997 — and the governor who publicly mocked the sighting later admitted he saw it too.
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The Face on Mars (Cydonia)
⇄disputedA 1976 NASA photo showed what looked exactly like a giant carved face staring up from the Martian surface — then higher-resolution photos revealed it was just a hill.
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Die Glocke (The Nazi Bell)
⇄disputedA supposed secret Nazi anti-gravity weapon, sourced almost entirely to one former intelligence officer's unverified claims.
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The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
⇄disputedIn 1961, a New Hampshire couple described a star map under hypnosis — an amateur astronomer later argued it eerily matched a real, then-obscure star system.
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The Philadelphia Experiment
⇄disputedLegend says the Navy made a warship invisible in 1943 — and some of the crew came back fused into the deck.
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The Georgia Guidestones
⇄disputedA monument nobody claimed, with rules for a post-collapse population of 500 million — blown up by persons unknown in 2022.
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Continuity of Government
⇄disputedThe U.S. government has a real, still largely classified plan for what happens if Washington D.C. is destroyed in a nuclear attack — including secret bunkers, a shadow government, and procedures that have reportedly been quietly activated more than once.
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The Merchants of Death (Nye Committee)
⇄disputedA 1930s Senate investigation set out to prove American weapons manufacturers had secretly maneuvered the U.S. into World War I purely for profit — and found real evidence of arms industry lobbying, even as historians still debate whether it actually caused America's entry into the war.
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Havana Syndrome
⇄disputedDozens of U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers reported sudden hearing strange sounds followed by genuine, lasting brain injuries — and a U.S. intelligence assessment and outside medical panels still disagree about whether it was a directed-energy attack or something else entirely.
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The Federal Reserve Conspiracy
⇄disputedAmerica's central bank was created in 1913 during a real secret meeting where senators and bankers traveled under false names to avoid being recognized — and that genuinely secretive founding has fueled over a century of conspiracy theories about who actually controls it.
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The Bohemian Grove
⇄disputedFor two weeks every summer, some of the most powerful men in America gather at a private California redwood retreat for a ceremony involving a 40-foot concrete owl — and a conspiracy researcher secretly filmed it in 2000, confirming the ritual was genuinely real.
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Numbers Stations
⇄disputedFor decades, shortwave radio listeners have picked up eerie broadcasts of a robotic voice reading strings of random numbers — and no government has ever officially confirmed exactly why, even though everyone in the intelligence world already knows.
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HAARP Weather Control
⇄disputedA real U.S. government-funded research facility in Alaska genuinely does beam powerful radio energy into the upper atmosphere — and conspiracy theorists have blamed it for hurricanes, earthquakes, and mind control ever since.
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The Dead Internet Theory
⇄disputedA growing number of people believe most of what you see online isn't posted by real humans anymore — and the rapid rise of AI-generated content has made a once-fringe theory feel a lot more plausible.
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Simulation Theory
⇄disputedA real Oxford philosopher published a formal mathematical argument that we're probably living inside a computer simulation — and tech billionaires have taken it seriously enough to say so publicly.
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The October Surprise Theory
⇄disputedIran held 52 Americans hostage through the entire 1980 election, then released them the moment Reagan was inaugurated — and some researchers believe that timing wasn't a coincidence.
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Operation Mockingbird
⇄disputedA congressional investigation found the CIA had secretly used American journalists to plant stories — and the full list of exactly who was never made public.
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The Montauk Project
⇄disputedA legend claiming a Long Island military base ran secret time-travel and mind-control experiments — built almost entirely on one man's books, with no independently verified evidence behind them.
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Cicada 3301
⇄disputedAn anonymous group posted the internet's hardest puzzle in 2012 — cryptography, hidden book codes, real-world locations — and never revealed who they were or what they wanted.
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The Bielefeld Conspiracy
⇄disputedA German internet joke claims an entire city of 340,000 people doesn't actually exist — and it's now so famous even the German government has joked back.
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Pizzagate (debunked)
⇄disputedA hoax that ended with gunfire in a real restaurant.
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