- Death Israel
On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing political activist, was assassinated at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, while speaking at an outdoor campus debate planned by Turning …
- Sexuality and gender
Milo Yiannopoulos ( yə-NOP-əl-əs; né Hanrahan, Greek: Μίλο Γιαννόπουλος; born 18 October 1984) is a British far-right conspiratorial political commentator, known for his opposition to Islam, feminism,…
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James Orsen Bakker (; January 2, 1940 – October 5, 2026) was an American televangelist and convicted felon. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable telev…
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The Illuminati (; plural of Latin illuminatus, 'enlightened') is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlighte…
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Roy Marcus Cohn ( KOHN; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and conservative political activist. He first gained fame as a prosecutor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg …
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The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Fo…
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James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer-songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his charismatic pe…
- Nazi Religion
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military leader. He was the fourth and longest-s…
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The "doctors' plot" (Russian: дело врачей, romanized: delo vrachey, lit. 'doctors' case') was a Soviet state-sponsored anti-intellectual and antisemitic (under the guise of being anti-cosmopolitan) ca…
- Death
The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: Гибель тургруппы Дятлова, romanized: Gibel turgruppy Dyatlova, lit. 'Death of the Dyatlov Hiking Group') was an event in which nine Soviet ski hikers died in the no…
- Death
The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote commune in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious organization led by Jim Jo…
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The Tate–LaBianca murders were a series of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family cult during August 9–10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, under the direction of Tex Watson and Charles …
- Nazi Religion
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician, a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany, and a convicted criminal of World War II. Appointed …
- Science and technology
The dead Internet theory is a concept that asserts that the Internet consists primarily of bot activity and automated content manipulated by algorithmic curation. Originally conceived as a conspiracy …
- Pseudolaw
The sovereign citizen movement (sometimes abbreviated as SovCits) is a loose group of anti-government activists, conspiracy theorists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters and financial scammers found …
- Death
On February 14, 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Jacob Cruz walked into his former school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, and fatally shot seventeen people including fourteen stu…
- Death
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing b…
- Death
On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band Nirvana, was found dead at his home on Lake Washington Boulevard, Seattle. Forensic investigators and a coroner d…
- Race and ethnicity
Adolescence is a psychological crime drama television series created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, and directed by Philip Barantini. It centres on a 13-year-old schoolboy, Jamie Miller (Owen Coop…
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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. During …
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, leading the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Before the war, he was a…
- General
The Eye of Providence or All-Seeing Eye is a symbol depicting an eye, often enclosed in a triangle and surrounded by rays of light or a halo, intended to represent divine providence watching over huma…
- Sexuality and gender
Adam Baldwin (born February 27, 1962) is an American actor. He made his film debut in My Bodyguard (1980) and later appeared in films including Full Metal Jacket (1987), Predator 2 (1990), Independenc…
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Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliance…
- Death
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman ( KOWF-mən; January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer and performance artist. He has sometimes been called an "anti-comedian". He disdained telling jokes and…
- Death
Samuel Cooke (né Cook; January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was an American soul singer and songwriter. Considered one of the most influential soul artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to …
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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; German: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most …
- Health Race and ethnicity Religion
QAnon is a far-right American political conspiracy theory and political movement that originated in 2017. QAnon centers on the fabrications of an anonymous individual or individuals known as "Q Cleara…
- Death Religion
On 7 July 2005, Islamist terrorists carried out four coordinated suicide bombings targeting commuters travelling on London's public transport during the morning rush hour. The attacks are sometimes kn…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, then a former president of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, survived an assassination attempt wh…
- General Science and technology
The Tartarian Empire or Great Tartaria is a group of pseudohistorical conspiracy theories, including ideas of a "hidden past" and "mud floods", which originated as pseudoscientific Russian nationalism…
- Communism
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy be…
- UFO
The chupacabra or chupacabras (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾas], literally meaning 'goat-sucker', from Spanish: chupa, 'sucks', and cabras, 'goats') is a legendary creature, or cryptid, in the fo…
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Alexander I of Russia (Russian: Александр I Павлович, romanized: Aleksandr I Pavlovich, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ]; 23 December [O.S. 12 December] 1777 – 1 December [O.S. 19 November] 1825), nickn…
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Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːli ˈʁaʊbal]; 4 June 1908 – 18 September 1931) was the half-niece of Adolf Hitler. Born in Linz, Austria-Hungary, she was the second child and eld…
- Race and ethnicity Religion UFO
Reptilians (also called archons, reptoids, reptiloids, saurians, draconians, or lizard people) are reptilian humanoids, which play a prominent role in fantasy, science fiction, ufology, and conspirac…
- Nazi Religion
Agartha (variously spelled as Agharta, Aghartta, Agharti, among many other spellings) is a legendary kingdom said to be on the inner surface of the Earth. Though the story has many different versions,…
- Death
Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian Fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of Wor…
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Since the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001, allegations of Saudi government involvement in the attacks have been made, with Saudi Arabia regularly denying such claims.
The 9/11 Commis…
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McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the accusation and investigation of left-wing individuals of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the Unit…
- Sexuality and gender
Gamergate or GamerGate (GG) was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign motivated by a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. It …
- Communism
Rodney Stephen Steiger ( STY-gər; April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Ranked as "one of Hollywood's most cha…
- Religion
The Georgia Guidestones was a granite monument that stood in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, from 1980 to 2022. It was 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall and made from six granite slabs weighing a…
- Race and ethnicity
The Kalergi Plan, sometimes called the Coudenhove-Kalergi Conspiracy, is a far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theory. The theory claims that Austrian-Japanese politician Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi,…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, also known as the Lost Cause Myth or simply as the Lost Cause, is an American pseudohistorical and historical negationist myth that argues the mission, purpose, or g…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Since 2014, the government of China has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecuti…
- Death
On February 19, 2013, the body of Canadian tourist Elisa Lam (born Lam Ho-yi; Chinese: 藍可兒) was recovered from a large cistern atop the Stay on Main hotel in downtown Los Angeles, where she had been a…
- CIA Death
On the evening of August 4, 1962, American actress Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose inside her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Her body w…
- Race and ethnicity
The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by Jean Raspail. A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization throug…
- Nazi Religion
The Black Sun (German: Schwarze Sonne) is a type of sun wheel (Sonnenrad) symbol originating in Nazi Germany and later employed by neo-Nazis and other far-right individuals and groups. It first appear…
- Death Israel Race and ethnicity Religion
On August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and a child sex offender, was found unresponsive in his jail cell at 6:30 a.m, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, hang…
- UFO
Alien abduction (also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) is the phenomenon claimed by people reporting that they or their patients have been kidnapped by extrater…
- Death
George Reeves (born George Keefer Brewer; January 5, 1914 – June 16, 1959) was an American actor. He was best known for portraying Clark Kent/Superman in the television series Adventures of Superman (…
- Race and ethnicity
The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of National Alliance, an American white nationalist group, published under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. It was …
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Nicole Ann Shanahan (born September 26, 1985) is an American attorney and entrepreneur. She was the running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his campaign in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Born i…
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Goyslop is an antisemitic internet slang term used to describe ultra-processed food, fast food, and other mass-produced consumer products. Conspiracy theorists use it to frame such products as tools u…
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JFK is a 1991 American political thriller film co-written and directed by Oliver Stone. The film examines the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy by New Orleans district attorney J…
- Race and ethnicity
The Proud Boys is an American far-right, neo-fascist militant organization that promotes and engages in political violence. The group's leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the federal go…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The Great Replacement (French: grand remplacement), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a debunked white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory coined by French author Re…
- CIA Death Religion
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X, a Muslim African American minister and Black power activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds…
- Death
On 14 June 2020, Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his room in Bandra, Mumbai, aged 34. The cause of death was ruled as suicide, with official postmortem reports confirming Rajput di…
- Death
Pablo Neruda ( nə-ROO-də; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel P…
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EgyptAir Flight 990 was a scheduled flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Cairo International Airport, with a stop at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City. On October 31, 19…
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Suchir Balaji (November 21, 1998 – November 26, 2024) was an American artificial intelligence researcher who was found dead one month after accusing OpenAI, his former employer, of violating United St…
- Death
Gloria Cecilia Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) was an American woman who was dubbed the Toxic Lady or the Toxic Woman by the media when several hospital workers became ill after airborn…
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Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she start…
- Death
On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan and serving member of the Japanese House of Representatives, was assassinated while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the Tatmadaw (armed forces of Myanmar). The genocide has consisted of two phases to date: the fi…
- Communism General
The Bilderberg Meeting (also known as the Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg Conference or Bilderberg Club) is an annual off-the-record forum established in 1954 to foster dialogue between Europe and North …
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic trope which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christians in order to use their blood in the performance of religious ritual…
- Israel
Greater Israel (Hebrew: ארץ ישראל השלמה, romanized: Eretz Yisrael HaShlema) is an expression with several different biblical and political meanings over time. It is often used, in an irredentist fash…
- UFO
Ancient astronauts (also ancient aliens or paleocontact) are a pseudoscientific set of beliefs that intelligent extraterrestrial beings (alien astronauts) visited Earth and made contact with humans in…
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The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, P…
- Race and ethnicity
"The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated "14W" or "14"; also combined with "88" to form "14/88" or "1488") is a reference to two slogans originated by the American neo-Nazi David Eden Lane, one of nine …
- Genocide denial
OneBC (1BC) is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. It was registered with Elections BC on June 9, 2025. Independent MLAs Dallas Brodie and Tara Armstrong launched the new party, …
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Nazi Race and ethnicity Religion
Holocaust denial is the negationist and antisemitic fringe claim that Nazi Germany and its collaborators did not commit genocide against European Jews during World War II, ignoring overwhelming histor…
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The Nepalese royal massacre (also called Durbar Hatyakanda, दरबार हत्याकाण्ड) was a mass shooting which occurred on 1 June 2001 (19 Jestha 2058 Nepal B.S.) at the Narayanhiti Palace, the then-residenc…
- Communism Death False flag Military and warfare Nazi Race and ethnicity
The Reichstag fire (German: Reichstagsbrand, pronounced [ˈʁaɪçstaːksˌbʁant] ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, preci…
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Die Glocke (German: [diː ˈɡlɔkə], 'The Bell') was a purported top-secret scientific technological device, wonder weapon, or Wunderwaffe developed in the 1940s in Nazi Germany. Rumors of this device ha…
- False flag
Thomas MacDonald (born September 21, 1988) is a Canadian rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer and former professional wrestler. He is known for commenting on social and political issues in his s…
- Death
Pablo Escobar, the notorious leader of the Medellín Cartel, was killed on December 2, 1993, in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, by members of Search Bloc, the Colombian Special Forces. After months of e…
- Death
There are many conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31 August 1997. Official investigations in both Britain and France found that Diana died in a manner consistent…
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Loose Change is a series of seven films released between 2005 and 2017 that argue in favor of certain conspiracy theories relating to the September 11 attacks. The films were written and directed by D…
- Race and ethnicity
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson ( NEEL; born 18 April 1964) is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center …
- Death
Gojong (Korean: 고종; Hanja: 高宗; 8 September 1852 – 21 January 1919), personal name Yi Jaehwang, later changed to Yi Hui, also known as the Gwangmu Emperor, was the penultimate Korean monarch. He ruled …
- Genocide denial Nazi
The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right) is a far-right and white nationalist movement. A largely online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in the United States during the late 2000s befor…
- Communism
The Hollywood blacklist was the mid-20th century banning of suspected Communists from working in the United States entertainment industry. The blacklist began at the onset of the Cold War and Red Scar…
- Death
On 26 October 1979, Park Chung Hee, the third president of South Korea, was assassinated during a dinner at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) safe house near the Blue House presidential co…
- CIA
Several sources have alleged that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had ties with Osama bin Laden's faction of "Afghan Arab" fighters when it armed Mujahideen groups to fight the Soviet Union duri…
- Aviation incidents Death
Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has continued since their disappearance in 1937. After the largest search and rescue attempt in history up to that time, the U.S. Nav…
- Genocide denial
The Grey Wolves (Turkish: Bozkurtlar), officially known as Idealist Hearths (Turkish: Ülkü Ocakları, [ylcy odʒakɫaɾɯ]), is a Turkish far-right political movement and the youth wing of the Nationalist …
- Race and ethnicity
Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to thei…
- Aviation incidents
This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), some of which include related claims of close encounters of the second or third kind or alien abduction. UFOs are ge…
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Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 Gothic fantasy drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi and…
- Death
On January 22, 1987, R. Budd Dwyer, the 70th Treasurer of Pennsylvania, committed suicide during a press conference in his office in the Pennsylvania Finance Building. His suicide was broadcast to man…
- General
Anti-scientific beliefs in a flat Earth are promoted by a number of organizations and individuals. The claims of modern flat Earth proponents are not based on scientific knowledge and are contrary to …
- General
The phantom time conspiracy theory is a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory first asserted by Heribert Illig in 1991. It hypothesizes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester …
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The 9/11 truth movement encompasses a disparate group of adherents to a set of overlapping conspiracy theories that dispute the general consensus of the September 11 attacks that a group of Al-Qaeda t…
- Military and warfare
Raoul Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945) was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holoca…
- Sexuality and gender
The Kerala Story is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Sudipto Sen and produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. It stars Adah Sharma, Siddhi Idnani, Yogita Bihani and Sonia Balani. The plot f…
- Health
Sadyr Nurgojo uulu Japarov (born 6 December 1968) is a Kyrgyz politician, lobbyist, and legislator who has been serving as the sixth president of Kyrgyzstan since 28 January 2021. He previously served…
- Communism Race and ethnicity Religion
Jewish Bolshevism, also Judeo–Bolshevism, is an antisemitic, anti-communist conspiracy theory, and myth that claims that a Jewish conspiracy was behind the Russian Revolution of 1917, controlled the S…
- Communism
Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise of left-wing ideologies in a society, especially communism and socialism. Historically, red scares have led to mass political persecutio…
- Health
The Confederation Liberty and Independence (Polish: Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość, KWiN), frequently shortened to just Confederation (Konfederacja), is a far-right political alliance in Poland.…
- Death
Alfredo Darrington Bowman (26 November 1933 – 6 August 2016), also known as Dr. Sebi (), was a Honduran herbalist who practiced in the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Bowman p…
- Nazi Religion
Savitri Devi Mukherji (born Maximiani Julia Portas, French: [maksimjani pɔʁtɑs]; 30 September 1905 – 22 October 1982) was a French-born Greek Nazi activist, spy, and author. She served the Axis power…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Yosef Mizrachi (Hebrew: יוסף מזרחי; born 1968) is an Israeli-American Haredi rabbi and public speaker. Considered by some to be a leading Orthodox Jewish outreach rabbi, Mizrachi's outspokenness on ce…
- Israel
Petah Tikva (Hebrew: פתח תקווה, pronounced [ˈpetaχ ˈtikva] ), also spelt Petah Tiqwa, is a city in the Central District of Israel, 10.6 km (6.6 mi) east of Tel Aviv. It was founded in 1878, mainly by …
- Death Nazi Race and ethnicity
Fringe and conspiracy theories about the death of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, contradict the accepted fact that he died by suicide in the Führerbunker on 30 April 1945. Largel…
- Communism Race and ethnicity Religion
Cultural Marxism is a far-right and antisemitic conspiracy theory that misrepresents Western Marxism (especially the Frankfurt School) as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity p…
- Health
Sanseitō (Japanese: 参政党, lit. 'Political Participation Party'; self-rendered as Party of Do It Yourself in English; DIY) is an ultraconservative, right-wing populist political party in Japan. It is on…
- Death
On 5 December 1791, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at his home in Vienna at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation.
The principal sources…
- Sexuality and gender
The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Kamakhya Narayan Singh and produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah through Sunshine Pictures. A sequel to the 2023 film T…
- Health
The Joe Rogan Experience is a podcast hosted by American comedian, presenter, and UFC color commentator Joe Rogan. It was initiated on December 24, 2009, on YouTube by Rogan and comedian Brian Redban,…
- Race and ethnicity
Reconquête (French: [ʁəkɔ̃kɛt], REC; English: Reconquest), stylised as Reconquête! (often shortened as R!), is a far-right political party in France founded in late 2021 by Éric Zemmour, who has since…
- Death
Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American laboratory technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about corporate practices related to health and s…
- Communism Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
The stab-in-the-back myth (German: Dolchstoßlegende, pronounced [ˈdɔlçʃtoːsleˌɡɛndə] , lit. 'dagger-stab legend') is an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that was widely believed and pr…
- Nazi Religion
The religious beliefs of Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, have been a matter of debate. His opinions regarding religious matters changed considerably over time. During the…
- Communism
Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
He first gained prominence during World War II with a seri…
- General
Gang stalking or group-stalking is a set of persecutory delusions in which those affected believe they are being followed, stalked, and harassed by a large number of people. The term is associated wit…
- Race and ethnicity
Harassment Architecture is a 2019 novella that was self-published and written by writer Mike Ma. A sequel, Gothic Violence, was published in 2021. It follows an unnamed protagonist, a racist insomniac…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Although the Confederate States of America dissolved at the end of the American Civil War (1861–1865), its battle flag continues to be displayed as a symbol of white supremacy in the United States. Th…
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Juval Aviv (Hebrew: יובל אביב; February 24, 1947), also Yuval Aviv, is an Israeli-American security consultant and founder of Interfor International, a corporate investigations firm in New York City. …
- Death
The Clinton body count is a conspiracy theory centered around the belief that former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have secretly had their p…
- Communism Death
On August 21, 1983, on the apron of what was then Manila International Airport, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., a former Philippine senator, was assassinated with a gunshot to the head. Aquino, a longtime…
- Race and ethnicity
Elon Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and xAI. He is the wealthiest individual in the world, and a former U.S. government employe…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Israel Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Efforts to deny that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians during the Gaza war include challenging the scale and intent of Israeli military actions, casting doubt on casualty statistics, …
- UFO
The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a near-miss) that certain groups believed would take place in the early 21st c…
- Death
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother before murdering 20 students and six staff member…
- General
Deep state is a term used for unauthorized secret networks of power operating within a government but independent of its political leadership, in pursuit of their own agendas and goals. In popular usa…
- UFO
In popular culture and UFO conspiracy theories, men in black (MIB) are allegedly government agents dressed in dark suits, who question, intimidate, harass, and threaten unidentified flying object (UFO…
- Military and warfare
Defiance is a 2008 American epic war film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski, Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski, and George MacKay as Aron Bie…
- Nazi Religion
The Ahnenerbe (German: [ˈaːnənˌʔɛʁbə], "Ancestral Heritage") was a pseudoscientific organization founded by the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany in 1935. Established by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler o…
- UFO
The Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory claims that a spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin is in near-polar orbit of the Earth, and that NASA is covering up its existence and origin. This conspi…
- Sexuality and gender
Carl Charles Benjamin (born 2 September 1979), also known by his online pseudonym Sargon of Akkad, is a British right-wing YouTuber and political commentator. A former member of the Eurosceptic UK Ind…
- Pseudolaw
The Nuwaubian Nation, Nuwaubian movement, or United Nuwaubian Nation () is an American religious organization founded by Dwight York circa 1967. Since then the group has repeatedly changed its name, t…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Antisemitic tropes, also known as antisemitic canards or antisemitic libels, are antisemitic "sensational reports, misrepresentations or fabrications" about Jews as an ethnicity or Judaism as a religi…
- UFO
A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal. The term was coined in the early 1980s. Crop circles have been described as all falling "with…
- Genocide denial
The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous children directed and funded by the government of Canada through the Department of Indian Affairs. Canad…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The international Jewish conspiracy or the world Jewish conspiracy is an antisemitic trope that has been described as "one of the most widespread and long-running conspiracy theories". Although it typ…
- Genocide denial
The recognition of the Armenian genocide is the acknowledgement of the fact that the Ottoman Empire's systematic massacres and forced deportation of Armenians from 1915 to 1923, both during and after …
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Zeitgeist is a series of three documentary films released between 2007 and 2011 that promote a number of conspiracy theories, as well as proposals for broad social and economic changes. The films, Zei…
- General
The Great Reset, also known as the Great Reset Initiative, is an economic recovery plan that was proposed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was launch…
- Nazi Race and ethnicity Religion
Esoteric neo-Nazism, also known as esoteric Nazism, esoteric fascism or esoteric Hitlerism, represents a fusion of Nazi ideology with mystical, occult, and esoteric traditions. This belief system emer…
- CIA
Cathy O'Brien (born December 4, 1957) is an American author who claims to have been a victim of a government mind control program called "Project Monarch", which she alleges was part of the CIA's Proj…
- Pseudolaw
Sovereign is a 2025 American biographical crime thriller film written and directed by Christian Swegal and starring Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, Thomas Mann, Nancy Travis, Martha Plimpton, and Denni…
- Religion
"The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)" (Andalusian pronunciation: [aseɾeˈhe]) is a song by Spanish pop group Las Ketchup, released as the lead single from their debut studio album, Hijas del Tomate (2002). The …
- Death
"Epstein didn't kill himself" ("EDKH") is a phrase used by conspiracy theorists to question the official cause of the death of American child sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Authorities co…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Upstart Crow is a British sitcom based on the life of William Shakespeare written by Ben Elton. The show premiered on 9 May 2016 on BBC Two as part of the commemorations of the 400th anniversary of Sh…
- Health
Direction – Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer – sociálna demokracia), also commonly referred to as Smer, is a left-wing populist and left-wing nationalist political party in Slovakia led by its founder a…
- Health
The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (Romanian: Alianța pentru Unirea Românilor, AUR) is a right-wing populist and far-right political party active in Romania, with a branch in the neighbouring Rep…
- General
The Christ myth theory, also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism, or the Jesus ahistoricity theory, is the fringe view that the story of Jesus is a work of mythology with no historical sub…
- Aviation incidents
Frederick Valentich (, VAL-ən-tich) was an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile (232 km) flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft, registered VH-DSJ, over Bass Strait. On the ev…
- Nazi
The Dybbuk box, or Dibbuk box (Hebrew: קופסת דיבוק, romanized: Kufsat Dibbuk), is an antique wine-cabinet claimed to be haunted by a dybbuk, a concept from Jewish mythology. The box drew attention whe…
- CIA Death
On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt, the 17th prime minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea, Victoria. An enormous search operation was mounted in and around Cheviot Bea…
- Military and warfare Nazi Race and ethnicity Religion UFO
In Ufology, conspiracy theory, science fiction, and comic book stories, claims or stories have circulated linking UFOs to Nazi Germany. The German UFO theories describe supposedly successful attempts …
- Health Science and technology
Medbeds (short for "medical beds" or "meditation beds") are a nonexistent medical technology that became prominent in conspiracy theory narratives in the early 2020s. Medbeds can supposedly cure any c…
- CIA Death
On 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme on the central…
- Death Religion
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan People's Party, had been campaigni…
- Genocide denial Military and warfare Nazi
The myth of the clean Wehrmacht (German: Mythos der sauberen Wehrmacht) is the pseudohistorical and negationist notion that Nazi Germany's regular armed forces (the Wehrmacht) were not involved in the…
- General
The Trilateral Commission is
a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. It was founded in July 1973, principal…
- General
No Agenda is a podcast co-created by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak. Since its launch, the show has been recorded twice weekly, on Thursdays and Sundays at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, and is primarily foc…
- General
Project Azorian (also called "Jennifer" by the press after its Top Secret Security Compartment) was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from t…
- Communism
Over four weeks in 1954, the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) explored the background, actions, and associations of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American scientist who directed the Los Alamo…
- Israel
Jeffrey Epstein has been the subject of multiple Internet memes and parodies, starting in 2019 with a resurgence in late 2025. These memes have been compared to jokes about the September 11 attacks, t…
- Science and technology
Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting the extensive evidence for anthropogenic glob…
- CIA
In the United States, a political conspiracy theory posits the existence of a deep state within the US federal government, primarily composed of members of the FBI and CIA. Proponents argue that a cla…
- Science and technology
Red mercury is a discredited substance, most likely a hoax perpetrated by con artists who sought to take advantage of gullible buyers on the black market for arms. These con artists described it as a…
- Nazi Race and ethnicity
The Fourth Reich (German: Viertes Reich) is the hypothetical successor to Nazi Germany, also known as the "Third Reich" (1933–1945). The term is used to describe the regime's possible survival (e.g. i…
- Death
Frank Rudolph Emmanuel Olson (July 17, 1910 – November 28, 1953) was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and an employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
The Badge Man is a figure that is purportedly present within the Mary Moorman photograph of the assassination of United States president John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. Conspirac…
- Communism Sexuality and gender
The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government which led to their mass dismissal from government service during the mid-20th century. It contributed to an…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
In September 1999, a series of explosions hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk, killing more than 300, injuring more than 1,000, and spreading a wave of …
- Death
William Egan Colby (January 4, 1920 – May 6, 1996) was an American intelligence officer who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from September 1973 to January 1976. During World War II, C…
- Death
Kirisuto no Haka (Japanese: キリストの墓) (lit. 'Tomb of Christ') is a tomb claimed to be that of Jesus in Shingō, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
Kiyomaro Takeuchi claimed that he discovered the tomb in 1935 whi…
- Health
Happy Science (幸福の科学, Kōfuku-no-Kagaku), formerly known as the Institute for Research in Human Happiness, is a new religious movement founded in Japan on 6 October 1986 by former Wall Street trader Ry…
- Health
The Reclaim Party, formerly known as Brexit Express, is a right-wing populist and far-right political party in the United Kingdom. It was launched in 2020 by English political activist and actor Laure…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
During Barack Obama's campaign for president in 2008, throughout his presidency and afterwards, there was extensive news coverage of Obama's religious preference, birthplace, and of the individuals qu…
- Religion
The new chronology is a pseudohistorical theory which argues that events generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt, among others, actually occurred during the Middle …
- Death
Rebecca Mawii Zahau (March 15, 1979 – July 13, 2011), also known as Rebecca Nalepa, was a Burmese American woman who was found hanging at the beach house home of her boyfriend in Coronado, California,…
- Health Science and technology
False information, including disinformation and conspiracy theories about the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and the origin, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease has been spread through…
- Aviation incidents Death
On the evening of 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu, was shot down with surface-to-air missiles as their j…
- General
The 15-minute city (FMC or 15mC) is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services – such as work, shopping, education, healthcare and leisure – can be easily reached by a 15…
- Death
The Tashkent Files is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language conspiracy politicial thriller propaganda film written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri. It focuses on the mysterious death of former prime minister L…
- Communism
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (Pub. L. 82–414, ch. 477, 66 Stat. 163, enacted June 17, 1952), also known as the McCarran–Walter Act, codified under Title 8 of the United States Code (8 U…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Armenian genocide denial is the negationist claim that the Ottoman Empire and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), did not commit genocide against its Armenian citizens during …
- False flag
On July 13, 2024, photojournalists covering a political rally near Butler, Pennsylvania captured numerous photographs of Donald Trump — then a former president of the United States and the presumptive…
- Death
On September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende, the president of Chile, died by suicide during a coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. In 2011, after decades of…
- Nazi Religion
In Nazi Germany, gottgläubig (German: [ˈɡɔtˌɡlɔʏbɪç] or [ˈɡɔtˌɡlɔʏbɪk] , lit. 'believing in God') was a Nazi religious term for a form of non-denominationalism and deism or theism practised by those …
- Health
Toby Daniel Moorsom Young, Baron Young of Acton (born 17 October 1963), is a British social commentator and Conservative life peer. He is the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, an associat…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Oy vey (Yiddish: אױ װײ) is a Yiddish phrase expressing dismay or exasperation. Also spelled oy vay, oy veh, or oi vey, and often abbreviated to oy, the expression may be translated as "oh, woe!" or "w…
- Death
Robert Gaston Fuller (October 22, 1942 – July 18, 1966) was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for "Let Her Dance" and his cover of the Crickets' "I Fought the Law," recorde…
- Aviation incidents
Air France Flight 296Q was a chartered flight of a new Airbus A320 operated by Air Charter International for Air France. On 26 June 1988, the plane crashed while making a low pass over Mulhouse–Habshe…
- Race and ethnicity
Starting in September 2024, false claims spread online saying Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, United States. The claims began with a local Facebook group post cl…
- General Health
Turbo cancer is an anti-vaccination conspiracy theory alleging that people vaccinated against COVID-19, especially with mRNA vaccines, are suffering from a high incidence of fast-developing cancers. A…
- Health
Rebel News (also known as The Rebel Media and The Rebel) is a Canadian far-right political and social commentary media website operated by Rebel News Network Ltd. It has been described as a "global pl…
- Death False flag Military and warfare Religion
There are some conspiracy theories about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in American history. These hypotheses offer alternate explanations to the official version of the inci…
- Aviation incidents
JAT Flight 367 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 aircraft (registration YU-AHT) which exploded shortly after overflying NDB Hermsdorf (located in or around Hinterhermsdorf, in the present-day municipali…
- Race and ethnicity
The Eurabia conspiracy theory, often simply called Eurabia (a blend word of Europe and Arabia), is an Islamophobic and far-right conspiracy theory. It claims that European politicians, led by France, …
- Communism Death False flag Israel
Dealey Plaza , named after George Dealey, is a city park in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is sometimes called the "birthplace of Dallas", and was the location of the ass…
- Sexuality and gender
The finger pinching conspiracy theory is an antifeminist conspiracy theory that originated in South Korea. It claims that there is a deliberate plot to spread and promote misandry through symbolic han…
- Communism Death Science and technology
The Lost Cosmonauts or Phantom Cosmonauts are subjects of a conspiracy theory, which alleges that Soviet and Russian space authorities have concealed the deaths of some cosmonauts in outer space. Pro…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) was an English writer and poet during the Elizabethan period. Her 1611 volume Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, God, King of the Jews) has been seen as pro…
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José Eduardo Verastegui (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾðo βeˈɾasteɣi]; born May 21, 1974) is a Mexican actor, former singer, producer, and political activist. He was part of the band Kairo and later e…
- Communism
The Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than three dozen cities across the United States, and in one rural county in Arkansas…
- Military and warfare
Nippon Kaigi (日本会議; lit. 'Japan Conference') is Japan's largest ultraconservative and ultranationalist far-right non-governmental organisation and lobbying group. It was established in 1997 and has ap…
- Communism
A fellow traveller (also fellow traveler) is a person who is intellectually sympathetic to the ideology of a political organization, and who co-operates in the organization's politics, without being a…
- Death
On 18 August 1945, a Mitsubishi Ki-21 heavy bomber belonging to the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service crashed upon take off from Taihoku Airfield in Taihoku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan, present day S…
- Death
Since Elvis Presley's death on August 16, 1977, various discredited conspiracy theories have circulated stating that he may still be alive. "Elvis sightings" from people claiming to have seen him aliv…
- Pseudolaw
Reichsbürgerbewegung (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪ̯çsbʏʁɡɐbəˌveːɡʊŋ] ; 'Reich Citizens' Movement') or Reichsbürger (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪ̯çsˌbʏʁɡɐ] ; 'Reich Citizen[s]') are several anticonstitut…
- Health Science and technology
Anti-vaccine activism, which collectively constitutes the "anti-vax" or "anti-vaxx" movement, is a set of organized activities expressing opposition to vaccination. These collaborating networks often …
- Science and technology UFO
Some conspiracy theories argue that various governments and politicians globally, in particular the United States government, are suppressing evidence that unidentified flying objects (UFO) are contro…
- Sexuality and gender
The anti-gender movement is a global, mainly right-wing, social movement in opposition to concepts it refers to as "gender ideology" or "gender theory". These terms are loosely defined, and encompass …
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Hungarian-American billionaire businessman George Soros is the subject of a number of antisemitic conspiracy theories. Veronika Bondarenko, writing for Business Insider in 2017, said: "For two decades…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
On July 4, 2022, a mass shooting occurred during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. The shooting occurred at 10:14 a.m., roughly 15 minutes after the parade had star…
- False flag
Sean Michael Curran (born 1976) is an American law enforcement officer who has served as the director of the United States Secret Service since 2025.
Curran joined the United States Secret Service as …
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The Judeo-Masonic conspiracy is an antisemitic and anti-Masonic conspiracy theory involving an alleged secret coalition of Jews and Freemasons. Antisemitism blended after the French Revolution with an…
- Death
Pope John Paul I died suddenly on 28 September 1978, 33 days after his election. Following his death, several conspiracy theories have sprung up.
- Aviation incidents
On 27 June 1980, Itavia Flight 870 (IH 870, AJ 421), a Douglas DC-9 passenger jet en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica at 20…
- UFO
Cattle mutilation is the killing and mutilation of cattle under supposedly unusual, usually bloodless circumstances. Reportedly removed parts often include an ear, eyeball, jaw flesh, tongue, lymph no…
- Military and warfare
The Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory is an unproven conspiracy theory alleging that U.S. government officials had advance knowledge of Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Starting fro…
- Race and ethnicity
Submission (French: Soumission) is a novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq. The French edition of the book was published on 7 January 2015 by Flammarion, with German (Unterwerfung) and Italian (So…
- Communism
The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law enacted on June 15, 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was origin…
- Death
Deputy White House counsel Vince Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., on July 20, 1993. Foster's death was ruled a…
- Death
The murder of Seth Rich occurred on July 10, 2016, at 4:20 a.m. in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Rich died about an hour and a half after being shot twice in the back. The perpetra…
- Death
The Gospel of Barnabas is a non-canonical, pseudepigraphical gospel, written during the Late Middle Ages and attributed to the early Christian disciple Barnabas, who (in this work) is one of the apost…
- Military and warfare
The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue concerns the fate of United States servicemen who were reported as Prisoners of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA) during the Vietnam War and associated theaters of ope…
- Genocide denial
The Conquest of the Desert (Spanish: Conquista del desierto) was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca during the 1870s and 1880s with the intention of establi…
- General
Electronic harassment, electromagnetic torture, and psychotronic torture is a conspiracy theory describing the hostile use of mundane electromagnetic devices, such as radio or microwaves, against self…
- Genocide denial
"We Will Dance Again" (Hebrew: עוד נרקוד, romanized: Od Nirkod) is a song by Boy George self-released on his Instagram and X profiles on 26 July 2026. In response to the song's reception, Boy George w…
- Aviation incidents
The hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 615 occurred on 29 October 1972 and was aimed at the release of the three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre from a West German prison.
When the Lufthansa …
- Communism
Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered on…
- Death
Lee Seung-bok (Korean: 이승복; 9 December 1959 – 9 December 1968) was a 9-year-old South Korean boy who was murdered, along with three members of his family, by North Korean commandos in the aftermath of…
- Health
Fox News is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Fox Corporation. Since its creation by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1996, the channel has been the subject of seve…
- Death
LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide, but the evidence of …
- Communism
Joseph Nye Welch (October 22, 1890 – October 6, 1960) was an American lawyer who served as the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for alleged Communist activitie…
- Death
The body of Rey Rivera was found on May 24, 2006, inside the historic Belvedere Hotel in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Although the event was ruled a probable su…
- Death
Gonzalo Ángel Quintilio Lira López ([ɣonˈsalo ˈaŋxel kinˈtiljo ˈlira ˈlopes], February 29, 1968 – January 12, 2024) was a Chilean-American, at various times in his life novelist, screenwriter, filmmak…
- Aviation incidents Death
On 18 September 1961, a DC-6 passenger aircraft of Transair Sweden operating for the United Nations (UN) crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia). The crash resulted in the deaths of…
- Race and ethnicity
r/The_Donald was a subreddit where participants created discussions and internet memes in support of U.S. president Donald Trump. Initially created in June 2015 following the announcement of Trump's 2…
- Aviation incidents Death Religion
Pan Am Flight 103 conspiracy theories suggest a number of possible explanations for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988. Some of the theories preceded the official investigation by Sc…
- Death
On the afternoon of 17 August 2017, 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a van into a crowd of pedestrians on La Rambla street in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, killing 13 people and injuring at least 1…
- Health
Miracle Mineral Supplement, often referred to as Miracle Mineral Solution, Master Mineral Solution, MMS or the CD protocol, is a branded name for an aqueous solution of chlorine dioxide, an industrial…
- Nazi Race and ethnicity
Much of the focus of the discussion about Nazi gold (German: Raubgold, "stolen gold") concerns how much of it Nazi Germany transferred to overseas banks during World War II. The Nazis looted the asset…
- Death
Luna al-Shibl (1 September 1975 – 5 July 2024; Arabic: لونا الشبل) was a Syrian journalist and political adviser who served as a special adviser to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. She was kno…
- Communism
Harry Dexter White (October 29, 1892 – August 16, 1948) was an American government official in the United States Department of the Treasury. Working closely with the secretary of the treasury Henry Mo…
- Nazi Religion
The Armanen runes (or Armanen Futharkh) are 18 pseudo-runes, invented by Austrian mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List in 1902. Inspired by the historic Younger Futhark runes, they were de…
- Religion
Criticism of the Quran, the religious text held to be sacred by Islam, often concerns the text's factual accuracy, moral tenability, and supposed inerrancy claimed by ulemas. Muslims regard the Quran …
- Sexuality and gender
Love jihad (or Romeo jihad) is an Islamophobic conspiracy theory promoted by Hindutva activists that aims to misrepresent consensual marriages between Hindu women and Muslim men to be a part of broade…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Allegations that Barack Obama secretly practices Islam, or that he is the antichrist of Christian eschatology, or covertly holds some other esoteric religious position, have been suggested since he ca…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
On October 28, 2022, 42-year-old David Wayne DePape attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives. DePape beat Paul with a hammer du…
- Nazi Religion
Miguel Joaquín Diego del Carmen Serrano Fernández (10 September 1917 – 28 February 2009) was a Chilean diplomat, writer, occultist, and fascist activist. A Nazi sympathiser in the late 1930s and early…
- General
Agenda 21 is a non-binding action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the Earth Summit (UN Conference on Environment and Development) held in Rio de J…
- CIA Communism Death False flag Israel
The CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory is a prominent John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. According to ABC News, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is represented in nearly ev…
- Pseudolaw
The Posse Comitatus (Latin for 'force of the county') is a loosely organized American far-right extremist social movement which began in the late 1960s. Its members spread a conspiracy-minded, anti-go…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s, and featured charges against day-care providers accused of committing several forms of child abu…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
On March 1, 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested and charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy, with the help of Lee Harvey Oswald…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The most common name for the American Civil War in modern American usage is simply "The Civil War". Although rarely used during the war, the term "War Between the States" became widespread afterward i…
- Death
On 11 May 1812, at about 5:15 pm, Spencer Perceval, the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a Live…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
More than 160 Confederate monuments and memorials to the Confederate States of America (CSA; the Confederacy) and associated figures have been removed from public spaces in the United States, all but …
- Race and ethnicity
Bernard Lewis (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British-American historian who specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Clev…
- Death
Delia Dueñas Smith (July 17, 1966 – May 31, 1985), better known as Pepsi Paloma, was a Filipino dancer and actress in the Philippines. She was one of the popular Softdrinks Beauties introduced in the…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
The Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations were based on false claims by the United States federal government alleging that a secretive relationship existed between Iraqi president Saddam Hussei…
- UFO
From July 12 to 29, 1952, a series of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings were reported in Washington, D.C., and later became known as the Washington flap, the Washington National Airport Sight…
- Sexuality and gender
Gaylor, sometimes referred to as Gaylorism, is a loose conspiracy theory that claims that the American musician Taylor Swift is either lesbian or bisexual. The small faction of her fans who subscribe …
- Health
During the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, the CIA ran a covert operation utilizing a fake hepatitis vaccine program in Pakistan to illicitly collect DNA samples from bin Laden's suspected family. The CI…
- Death
On 27 March 1968, Yuri Gagarin, the first human to go into space, died together with pilot Vladimir Seryogin during a routine training flight, after the MiG-15 jet fighter they were flying crashed nea…
- Health
Emilio "Pepe" Escobar (born 1954 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian journalist. He is known for his association with online alternative media, and his works have appeared in publications such as Asia Times,…
- Israel Race and ethnicity Religion
The Andinia Plan (Spanish: Plan Andinia) is an antisemitic conspiracy theory about an alleged Jewish plot to establish a Jewish state in Patagonia, a region spanning southern Argentina and Chile. The …
- Military and warfare
Uyoku dantai (右翼団体; lit. 'right-wing groups') are extreme Japanese nationalist and far-right activists and provocateurs, often organized in groups. In 1996 and 2013, the National Police Agency estimat…
- Military and warfare
The Rommel myth, or the Rommel legend, is a phrase used by a number of historians for the common depictions of German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a vict…
- Health Science and technology
Vaccine hesitancy is a delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability and supporting evidence of effectivity. The term also includes accepting vaccines but remaining uncertain about t…
- False flag
Kimberly Ann Cheatle (born 1970/1971) is an American former law enforcement officer who served as the 27th director of the United States Secret Service from 2022 until 2024. After serving in the Secre…
- Science and technology
A water-fuelled car is an automobile that hypothetically derives its energy directly from water. Water-fuelled cars have been the subject of numerous international patents, newspaper and popular scie…
- General Pseudolaw
The strawman theory (also called the strawman illusion) is a pseudolegal conspiracy theory originating in the redemption/A4V movement and prevalent in antigovernment and tax protester movements such a…
- Communism
A King in New York is a 1957 British comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin in his last leading role. The film presents a satirical view of certain aspects of American politics and socie…
- Science and technology
The Hollow Moon and the closely related Spaceship Moon are pseudoscientific hypotheses that propose that Earth's Moon is either wholly hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. No sci…
- UFO
The black helicopter is a symbol of an alleged conspiratorial military takeover of the United States in the American militia movement. Black helicopters have also been associated with UFOs, especially…
- Health
Aseem Malhotra is a British cardiologist and author, whose COVID-19 vaccine and anti-statin views have been criticised as misinformation by experts. He contends that people should reduce sugar in thei…
- Nazi Race and ethnicity Sexuality and gender
There is a widespread and long-lasting myth alleging that homosexuals were numerous and prominent as a group in the Nazi Party or the identification of Nazism with homosexuality more generally. It has…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
"Rootless cosmopolitan" (Russian: безродный космополит, romanized: bezródnyj kosmopolít) was a pejorative epithet that was mostly applied to creatives, intellectuals, and prominent political figures, …
- Communism
Salt of the Earth is a 1954 American independent drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. Because all three men were blacklisted by the Holl…
- Pseudolaw
David Wynn Miller (1948/1949–2018), also styled :David-Wynn: Miller, was an American pseudolegal theorist, self-proclaimed judge and leader of a tax protester group within the sovereign citizen moveme…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
Cyril Harrison Wecht (March 20, 1931 – May 13, 2024) was an American forensic pathologist and attorney. He was president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of L…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Israel Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Pallywood (a portmanteau of "Palestine" and "Hollywood") is a derogatory, anti-Palestinian term used to falsely accuse Palestinians of staging scenes of suffering and civilian death in the Israeli–Pal…
- Military and warfare Nazi Race and ethnicity Religion
The claim that there was a Jewish war against Nazi Germany is an antisemitic conspiracy theory promoted in Nazi propaganda which asserts that the Jewish people, framed within the theory as a single hi…
- Health
The Democratic Patriotic Popular Movement "Niki" (Greek: Δημοκρατικό Πατριωτικό Λαϊκό Κίνημα «Νίκη», romanized: Dimokratikó Patriotikó Laikó Kínima “Níki”), often shortened to simply Niki (lit. 'Vict…
- Nazi Race and ethnicity
The Nazi gold train or Wałbrzych gold train is an urban legend about a train laden with gold and treasure that was hidden by the Nazis in southwest Poland during the last days of World War II. The apo…
- Death
Dai Li (Chinese: 戴笠; pinyin: Dài Lì; 28 May 1897 – 17 March 1946), courtesy name Yunong, was a Chinese lieutenant general and spymaster. Dai was born in Jiangshan, Zhejiang and later studied at the Wh…
- Health
The Party of Young People (Romanian: Partidul Oamenilor Tineri; POT, lit. '[I] can/ [They] can') is a political party in Romania, founded by MP Anamaria Gavrilă, who had previously left the Alliance f…
- Genocide denial
Residential school denialism is negationist ideology that trivializes, downplays, or misrepresents the effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. Despite decades of recognition and ackn…
- Death
Gary Arlen Kildall (; May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the operating system CP/M among other operating…
- Death
Lal Bahadur Shastri, India’s second Prime Minister, died early 11 January 1966 in Tashkent, then in the Soviet Union. He was 61 and the official cause was reported as a myocardial infarction.
Shastri …
- CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been accused of involvement in the illegal drug trade. Several works on the subject have received significant attention, including those written by historian …
- Health
Natural News (formerly NewsTarget, which is now a separate sister site) is a far-right website that promotes anti-vaccination content, conspiracy theories, fake news, and pseudoscience. The website be…
- Race and ethnicity
Identity Evropa () was an American far-right, neo-Nazi, neo-fascist, and white supremacist organization established in March 2016. It was rebranded as the American Identity Movement in March 2019. In …
- Communism
Red-baiting, also known as reductio ad Stalinum (; Latin for 'reduction to Stalin') and red-tagging (in the Philippines), is the act of attempting to discredit the validity of a political opponent and…
- Race and ethnicity
Gisèle Littman (née Orebi; born 1933), better known by her pen name Bat Ye'or (Hebrew: בת יאור, Daughter of the Nile), is an Egyptian-born, Jewish-British author, known for her promulgation of the Eur…
- Death
Juanita Joan Nielsen (née Smith; 22 April 1937 – disappeared 4 July 1975) was an Australian newspaper publisher, urban conservationist, and heiress. She disappeared after attending a meeting at the Ca…
- Nazi Race and ethnicity
There is no evidence that Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany, used look-alikes as political decoys during his life, but it has been the subject of speculation. Some stories about his death and…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
The Hampstead hoax was a series of false allegations starting in 2014 that a Satan-worshipping paedophile ring of about "175 parents, teachers, and religious leaders" had been abusing children in the …
- Military and warfare
In March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian officials falsely claimed that public health facilities in Ukraine were "secret U.S.-funded biolabs" purportedly developing biological we…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
Since the September 11 attacks, doubts have been raised about the mainstream account of events. There have been a number of 9/11 conspiracy theories with some suggesting that Israel was involved in th…
- Death
Grégoire Kayibanda (1 May 1924 – 15 December 1976) was a Rwandan politician, revolutionary and military dictator who was the first President of Rwanda from 1962 to 1973. An ethnic Hutu, he was a pione…
- Religion
Counter-jihad (also known as the counter-jihad movement) is an anti-Muslim political movement loosely consisting of authors, bloggers, think tanks, demonstrators, and other activists across the Wester…
- Nazi Religion
Major-General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller (1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966) was a senior British Army officer, a military historian and strategist, a fascist, and an occultist.
During Wo…
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Abner "Longie" Zwillman (July 27, 1904 – February 26, 1959) was a Jewish-American mobster who was based primarily in North Jersey. He was a longtime friend and associate of mobsters Lucky Luciano and …
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Neo-Confederates are groups and individuals who portray the Confederate States of America and its actions during the American Civil War in a positive light. The League of the South (formed in 1994), t…
- Sexuality and gender
Transvestigation (a portmanteau of transgender and investigation) is a conspiracy theory that asserts that many celebrities and other prominent individuals are transgender (or, conversely, that some …
- Death False flag Military and warfare
Zoran Đinđić, the sixth Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, was assassinated on Wednesday 12 March 2003, in Belgrade, Serbia. Đinđić was fatally shot by a sniper while exiting his vehicle outsid…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
The ten stages of genocide is an academic tool and a policy model which was created in 1987 by Gregory Stanton, American jurist, former research professor and founding president of Genocide Watch. The…
- Religion Science and technology Sexuality and gender
The CERN ritual is a found footage video that depicts an occult ritual occurring in the grounds of CERN, the intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the…
- UFO
The disclosure movement is a social movement that argues in favor of various conspiracy theories which allege that governments generally, or the United States government specifically, have secret info…
- Death
Members of the ruling Romanov dynasty— including Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and his children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei— were executed by a firing squad led by Yakov Yurovs…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" is the ninth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 148th episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central …
- Sexuality and gender
Afwaah (transl. Rumour) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language mystery thriller film written and directed by Sudhir Mishra. Produced by Anubhav Sinha and Bhushan Kumar under their respective banners Benaras …
- Race and ethnicity
"Two-tier policing" is the claim that police treat white people more harshly than ethnic minorities, predominantly used by the right-wing and far-right in the United Kingdom since the early 2020s. The…
- Aviation incidents
The Belgian UFO wave was a series of sightings of triangular UFOs in Belgium, which lasted from 29 November 1989 to April 1990.
- Death
Basilides (Greek: Βασιλείδης) was an early Christian Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt who, according to Clement of Alexandria, was active between 117–161 AD, and claimed to have inherite…
- Pseudolaw
The "redemption movement" is a fraudulent pseudolaw fringe ideology, mainly active in the United States and Canada, that promotes fraudulent debt and tax payment schemes. The movement is also called r…
- Nazi Religion
Karl Maria Wiligut (alias Weisthor, Jarl Widar, Lobesam; 10 December 1866 – 3 January 1946) was an Austrian Völkisch occultist and soldier. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I an…
- Race and ethnicity
In the United States, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory typically holds the view that "political elites" are purposefully seeking to increase the number of racial and religious minorities in an …
- Nazi Religion
The 1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet, a German scientific expedition, took place in Tibet between April 1938 and August 1939 under the leadership of the German zoologist and SS-officer Ernst Schäf…
- Health
Extensive investigation into vaccines and autism spectrum disorder has shown that there is no relationship between the two, causal or otherwise, and that vaccine ingredients do not cause autism. Major…
- Military and warfare
The Bitburg controversy concerned a ceremonial visit by Ronald Reagan, the incumbent President of the United States, to a German military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany in May 1985. The visit was i…
- Genocide denial
Bosnian genocide denial is the act of denying the occurrence of the systematic genocide against the Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or asserting it did not occur in the manner or …
- Genocide denial Nazi
Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America is a 2018 film directed, written, and produced by Ronald Dalton Jr. The film espouses antisemitic messaging and spreads misinformation. It contains antisemiti…
- Death
Wilhelm Münzenberg (14 August 1889 – June 1940) was a German communist activist and publisher who served as the first head of the Young Communist International from 1919 to 1921 and as a member of the…
- Death
René Garcia Préval (French pronunciation: [ʁəne ɡaʁsja pʁeval]; 17 January 1943 – 3 March 2017) was a Haitian politician and agronomist who twice was President of Haiti, from early 1996 to early 2001…
- Aviation incidents
This is a list of notable alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the United Kingdom. Many more sightings have become known since the gradual release, between 2008 and 2013, of the …
- Death
Yasser Arafat, who was the President of the Palestinian National Authority and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, died unexpectedly on 11 November 2004, at the age of 75, after a short…
- Health
The We – Voice from the People (Serbian: Ми — Глас из народа, Mi — Glas iz naroda, abbrev. MI–GIN) is a populist political organisation in Serbia. Until the 2024 split, the main representative of MI–G…
- Race and ethnicity
This article includes information on the African heritage of presidents of the United States, together with information on unsubstantiated claims that certain presidents of the United States had Afric…
- Nazi Religion
Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer also known as Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff (or Sebottendorf; 9 November 1875 – 8 May 1945) was a German occultist, writer, intelligence agent and political activist. He…
- Military and warfare
Netto-uyoku or net uyoku (ネット右翼, lit. 'Internet rightists'), often shortened to neto-uyo (ネトウヨ), is a term used to refer to Japanese people who espouse ultranationalist and far-right views online. It …
- Military and warfare
"The Vladimir Putin Interview" is a television interview hosted by the American journalist and political commentator Tucker Carlson with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. It premiered on the Tucke…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis (30 March 1958 – 4 September 2019) was a New Zealand childcare worker who was convicted of child sexual abuse, but later had his conviction quashed. He was at the centre of o…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Aside from its use of political violence in pursuit of its goals, the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas has been widely criticised for a variety of reasons, including its use of ha…
- Communism Genocide denial
The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in the United States. It was established in January 1962 as the Progressive Labor Movement following a split i…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
The FEMA camps conspiracy theory is a belief, particularly within the American Patriot movement, that the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is planning to imprison United States…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship contends that Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher, essayist and scientist, wrote the plays that are attributed to William Shakespeare. Various explanations a…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Israel Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Nakba denial is a form of historical denialism pertaining to the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight and its accompanying effects, which Palestinians refer to collectively as the "Nakba" (lit. 'cata…
- Communism Death False flag General Israel
The Gemstone File is a conspiratorial document attributed to Bruce Porter Roberts. In 1975, "A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File" appeared and is generally attributed to Stephanie Caruana. The "Key" i…
- Communism
In American political discourse, the "loss of China" refers to the unexpected victory of the Chinese Communist Party over the U.S.-backed Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang government at the end of the Ch…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The Great Lechia (Polish: Wielka Lechia), also known as the Lechite Empire, and Lechian Empire (Polish: Imperium Lechitów), is a name for a fictional country from a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory …
- Israel Race and ethnicity Religion
Conspiracy theories (i.e. explanations for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy, generally by powerful sinister groups, often political in motivation, but always when other…
- Aviation incidents
TWA Flight 800 conspiracy theories are alternative explanations of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800) in 1996. The NTSB found that the probable cause of the crash of TWA Flight 80…
- Death
On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, a Marxist-Leninist African American activist, chairman of the Black Panther Party's Illinois chapter, and founder of the Rainbow Coalition, was shot and killed in hi…
- Communism
The Palmer raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arres…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Confederate monuments and memorials in the United States include public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Ci…
- Aviation incidents Death
On 19 October 1986, a Tupolev Tu-134 jetliner with a Soviet crew carrying President Samora Machel and 43 others from Mbala, Zambia to the Mozambican capital Maputo crashed at Mbuzini, South Africa. Ni…
- Sexuality and gender
The Elm Guest House was a hotel in Rocks Lane, near Barnes Common in southwest London. In a list produced by convicted fraudster Chris Fay, several prominent British men were alleged to have engaged i…
- Religion
The Trojan Horse scandal, also known as "Operation Trojan Horse" or the Trojan Horse affair, was a conspiracy theory that posited a plot to introduce an "Islamist" or "Salafist" ethos into several sch…
- Communism
From April through June 1919, a series of bombings were carried out or attempted across the United States by Galleanists (followers of Italian insurrectionary anarchist Luigi Galleani). The targets i…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Genocide denial is the attempt to deny or minimize the scale and severity of an instance of genocide. Denial is an integral part of genocide and includes the secret planning of genocide, propaganda wh…
- Death
Donald Bruce Mackay (13 September 1933 – 15 July 1977) was an Australian businessman and anti-drug campaigner. He disappeared in 1977, but his body has never been found. In 1986, James Bazley was conv…
- Health
The People's Party (formerly the Movement for a People's Party, MPP) is a syncretic political organization in the United States which describes itself as having the goal of "forming a major new politi…
- Death
Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾðo fɾej monˈtalβa]; 16 January 1911 – 22 January 1982) was a Chilean political leader. In his long political career, he was Minister of Pub…
- Nazi Religion
Historians, political scientists and philosophers have studied Nazism with a specific focus on its religious and pseudo-religious aspects. It has been debated whether Nazism would constitute a politic…
- Health
Sucharit Bhakdi (Thai: สุจริต ภักดี Thai pronunciation: [sut̚˨˩.t͡ɕa˨˩.rit̚˨˩ pʰak̚˦˥.diː˧]) is a Thai-German retired microbiologist. In 2020 and 2021 Bhakdi became a prominent source of misinformatio…
- Military and warfare
Holocaust trivialization is the act of making comparisons that diminish the scale and severity of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. The Wiesel Commission defines trivialization as the abusive …
- Death
In 2017, a theory began that Melania Trump, the first lady of the United States, was replaced, or was sometimes replaced, by a body double, and that the "real" Melania was refusing to attend occasiona…
- Communism
The Internal Security Act of 1950, 64 Stat. 987 (Public Law 81-831), also known as the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, the McCarran Act after its principal sponsor Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Neva…
- General Health Science and technology
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that is well established for use in animals and people. The World Health Organization (WHO), the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the United States Food and Drug Ad…
- Military and warfare UFO
Operation Saucer (Portuguese: Operação Prato; literally, Operation Plate) was an investigation carried out between 1977 and 1978 by the Brazilian Air Force following alleged UFO sightings on the islan…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Southern chivalry, or the Cavalier myth, was a popular concept describing the aristocratic honor culture of the Southern United States during the Antebellum, Civil War, and early Postbellum eras. The …
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War was that slavery was a positive institution, as opposed to seeing it as morally indefensible or a neces…
- Communism
Alberta Social Credit was a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on social credit monetary policy put forward by Clifford Hugh Douglas and on conservative Christian social v…
- Nazi Religion
Nazi archaeology was a movement in pseudoarchaeology, directed and funded by leaders of Nazi Germany such as Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, that sought material evidence for a prehistoric Aryan ma…
- Health Science and technology
Opposition to the addition of fluoride to drinking water arises from political, ethical, economic, and health considerations. International and national agencies and dental associations across the wor…
- Israel Race and ethnicity Religion
Ulusalism (Turkish: Ulusalcılık) is a Turkish nationalist, secularist (laik) ideology in Turkey that is influenced by Kemalism. Until the late 20th century, the word had been used as an equivalent of …
- Health
Alex Norman Berenson (born January 6, 1973) is an American writer who was a reporter for The New York Times, and has authored several thriller novels as well a book on corporate financial filings. His…
- Death
On 17 August 1988, a Lockheed C-130B Hercules operated by the Pakistan Air Force with thirty people onboard crashed in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Among the victims were President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, his c…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
Malcolm Everett "Mac" Wallace (October 15, 1921 – January 7, 1971) was an American economist for the United States Department of Agriculture. On October 22, 1951, Wallace fatally shot John Douglas Kin…
- Genocide denial
The Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum (Turkish: Iğdır Soykırım Anıt-Müzesi) is a memorial-museum complex in Iğdır, Turkey. It is known for its denial of the Armenian genocide.
The stated aim of the …
- Sexuality and gender
The boxing controversy at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris involved two female boxers: Algerian Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan. Their eligibility to compete in the women's boxing events…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
Lawrence Pazder (April 30, 1936 – March 5, 2004) was a Canadian psychiatrist and author. Pazder wrote the discredited biography Michelle Remembers, published in 1980, with his patient (and eventual wi…
- Science and technology UFO
Unidentified flying objects have been reported by astronauts while in space. These sightings have been claimed as evidence for extraterrestrial life by ufologists.
Some of the alleged sightings never …
- Nazi
Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years is a literary hoax by Misha Defonseca, first published in 1997. The book was published as a memoir telling the claimed true story of how the author survived the…
- Death
Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch politician, was assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf in Hilversum, North Holland on 6 May 2002, nine days before the general election of 2002, in which he was leading the Pim For…
- CIA Health Science and technology
Various fringe theories have arisen to speculate about purported alternative origins for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), with claims ranging f…
- Pseudolaw
The Washitaw Nation (Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah) is an African-American group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America who claim to be a sovereign state of Native Americans within the bou…
- Death
On 11 March 2006, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević died in his prison cell of a heart attack at age 64 while being tried for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Forme…
- Health
The Light is a monthly British, far-right and conspiratorial newspaper founded by flat earther Darren Scott Nesbitt (frequently under the pseudonym Darren Smith) on 27 September 2020. The publication …
- Nazi
Laurel Rose Willson (August 18, 1941 – April 8, 2002) was an American author. She authored books as Lauren Stratford alleging Satanic ritual abuse (SRA), and later assumed the guise of a Holocaust sur…
- Health
The Patriots (French: Les Patriotes; LP) is a nationalist and hard Eurosceptic political party in France. Founded by former vice president of the Front National (FN) Florian Philippot, it was register…
- Race and ethnicity
"Londonistan" (also Londonabad) is a sobriquet referring to the British capital of London and the alleged growing influence of its Muslim population in the late 20th- and early 21st-century.
The word …
- Death
The Basilidians or Basilideans were a Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria in the 2nd century. Basilides claimed to have been taught his doctrines by Glaucias, a disciple of St. Peter, tho…
- Pseudolaw
Pseudolaw consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be based on accepted law or legal doctrine but have no actual basis in law and are generally rooted in conspiracy theories. …
- Death
Matthias Sindelar (German: [maˈtiːas ˈʃɪndəlaːɐ̯], Czech: Matěj Šindelář; 10 February 1903 – 23 January 1939) was an Austrian professional footballer. Regarded as one of the greatest Austrian players …
- Communism Sexuality and gender
Cultural Bolshevism (German: Kulturbolschewismus), sometimes referred to specifically as art Bolshevism, music Bolshevism or sexual Bolshevism, was a term widely used by state-sponsored critics in Naz…
- Religion UFO
The demonic UFO hypothesis is the proposal that unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are the result of a satanic influence, or are themselves demons.
- Science and technology
Late in the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, misinformation and conspiracy theories spread about the nature of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, and about the post-storm disaster recoveries. False…
- Death
The swoon hypothesis is any of a number of ideas that aim to explain the resurrection of Jesus, proposing that Jesus did not die on the cross, but merely fell unconscious ("swooned"), and was later re…
- Nazi Race and ethnicity
Die Spinne (German for "the spider") was a post-World War II organisation that helped certain Nazi war criminals escape prosecution. Its existence is still debated to this day. It is believed by some …
- Aviation incidents
Air France Flight 1611 (AF1611) was a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III en route from Ajaccio, on the island of Corsica, to Nice, mainland France, on 11 September 1968 when it crashed into the Mediter…
- Death
Harmeet Singh (24 September 1981 – 27 January 2020) also known as PhD or Happy was the 8th chief of Khalistan Liberation Force.
- Health
The spread of HIV/AIDS has affected millions of people worldwide; AIDS is considered a pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that in 2016 there were 36.7 million people worldwide li…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
"I'm a Good Ol' Rebel", also called "The Good Old Rebel", is a pro-Confederate folk song and rebel song commonly attributed to Major James Innes Randolph. It was initially created by Randolph as a poe…
- Aviation incidents
This is a list of alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects or UFOs in Brazil.
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Genocide Watch is a non-governmental organization based in Washington, D.C. which campaigns against genocide, and the various stages running up towards genocide. It was founded by Gregory Stanton in 1…
- Genocide denial
NAZA: The Real Story (Hebrew: נז"א: הסיפור האמיתי) is a 2026 Israeli documentary directed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservist Lt. Col. Roi Danino, IDF reserve major Ariel Averbuch, and content c…
- General
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars: An Introduction Programming Manual (often shortened to Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars or simply Silent Weapons) is an alleged clandestine document that first surfaced in …
- Nazi
Wilkomirski syndrome (German: Wilkomirski-Syndrom) is a public phenomenon when non-Jews present themselves as Jewish Holocaust survivors or Jews with a Holocaust trauma in the family. It is considered…
- Aviation incidents
Malév Flight 240 was a regular service from Budapest Ferihegy International Airport, Hungary, to Beirut International Airport, Lebanon. On 30 September 1975, the aircraft operating the route, a Tupole…
- Sexuality and gender
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is a YouTube video series created by Anita Sarkeesian examining gender representation in video games. The series was financed via crowdfunding, and came to widespread a…
- Death
Robert James Cassilly Jr. (November 9, 1949 – September 26, 2011) was an American sculptor, entrepreneur, and creative director based in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1997, Cassilly founded the idiosyncrati…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
"BlueAnon" is a term used to describe conspiratorial thinking among liberals in the United States. A portmanteau of blue (the color of the Democratic Party) and QAnon, it was first used by conservativ…
- Military and warfare
Yoshinori Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林 よしのり or 小林 善範, Hepburn: Kobayashi Yoshinori; born August 31, 1953) is a Japanese manga artist known for his far-right political commentary manga Gōmanism Sengen. In p…
- Religion
In the Western world, the Christian persecution complex is the belief, attitude, or worldview that Christians and Christian values are being oppressed by Western governments and social groups. This be…
- Race and ethnicity
Dhimmitude is a neologism characterizing the status of non-Muslims under Muslim rule, popularized by the Egyptian-born British writer Bat Ye'or in the 1980s and 1990s. It is constructed from the Arabi…
- Nazi
Warschau (see other names) was a Nazi concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II. It was formed on the base of the since-demolished Gęsiówka prison, in what is today the Warsaw n…
- Communism
The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American short documentary film. Shot in 16mm with a runtime of 15 minutes, it was created quickly to raise public awareness and legal funds for the ten screenwriters and d…
- Health
Attack (Bulgarian: Атака, romanized: Ataka) is a nationalist political party in Bulgaria, founded in 2005 by Volen Siderov, who was at the time presenter of the homonymous TV show Attack on SKAT TV.
T…
- Death
Eric V Klipping (1249 – 22 November 1286) was King of Denmark from 1259 to 1286. After his father Christopher I died, his mother Margaret Sambiria ruled Denmark in his name until 1266, proving to be a…
- Pseudolaw
The Christian Patriot movement is a subset of the broader American Patriot movement that promotes Christian nationalism and emphasizes it as its core goal and philosophy. Like the larger Patriot movem…
- Communism Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Holodomor denial is the historical negationist claim that the Holodomor, a 1932–33 man-made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine, did not occur or was exaggerated.
The government of the Sovie…
- Race and ethnicity
Joshua K. Haymes is an American podcaster and pastor. He hosts the Reformation Red Pill podcast.
Haymes served as a co-pastor of SOMA Venice, a church within the SOMA church network, from 2020 to 2023…
- Death
Chang Ya-juo (died 1942) was the mistress of Chiang Ching-kuo and bore twin sons for him, John Chiang and Winston Chang. She was born in Jiujiang and met Chiang when she was working at a training camp…
- Nazi Race and ethnicity
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler is a 2011 book by Gerrard Williams (1958–2022) and Simon Dunstan. In 2014, the book was adapted as a docudrama film, Grey Wolf: Hitler's Escape to Argentina, dire…
- Death
The death of Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, was announced by government officials to have been on 5 March 2013 at 16:25 VET (20:55 UTC) in Caracas, Venezuela, from cancer at the age of 58.
Cháve…
- Death
Paul Donald Kemp Jr. (April 21, 1947 – ca. November 16, 1982) was an American advertising executive from New York City who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in a remote part of Wyoming in Nov…
- Health
"Shots!!!" is the third episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series South Park. The 300th episode overall of the series, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United …
- False flag
The 2024 Republican National Convention was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 15–18, 2024. A large-scale event, the organization and facilitation of the convention involved complex and multifaceted lo…
- Israel Race and ethnicity Religion
Conspiracy theories are a prevalent feature of culture and politics in Turkey. Conspiracism is an important phenomenon in understanding Turkish politics.
- Nazi Religion
The German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung) was a religious movement in Nazi Germany that existed between 1933 and 1945, closely associated with University of Tübingen professor Jakob Wilhel…
- Genocide denial
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR; French: Musée canadien pour les droits de la personne) is a Canadian Crown corporation and national museum located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, adjacent to The Fo…
- General
The Truman Show delusion, also known as Truman syndrome or Truman disorder, is a type of delusion in which the person believes that their life is a staged reality show, or that they are being watched …
- Religion
Conspirituality is a portmanteau neologism describing the overlap of conspiracy theories with spirituality, typically of New Age varieties. Contemporary conspirituality became common in the 1990s.
- Race and ethnicity
George Weigel (born April 17, 1951) is an American Catholic author, political analyst, and social activist. He currently serves as a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.…
- Health
Misinformation related to immunization and the use of vaccines circulates in mass media and social media despite the fact that there is no serious hesitancy or debate within mainstream medical and sci…
- Communism
Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television was an anti-communist document published in the United States at the start of the 1950s. Issued by the right-wing journal Count…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
From October 22 to November 1, 2018, 16 packages found to contain pipe bombs were mailed via the U.S. Postal Service to several Democratic Party politicians and other prominent critics of U.S. Preside…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
2016: Obama's America is a 2012 American right-wing conspiracy propaganda film written and directed by Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan. The film is based on D'Souza's books The Roots of Obama's Rage …
- Death
On December 19, 2003, Ricardo Alfonso Cerna, a Guatemalan immigrant residing in Muscoy, California, committed suicide inside an interrogation room of the San Bernardino County police department. His s…
- UFO
The mutilation of "Snippy" the horse was the death and alleged dissection of a Colorado horse that was first widely-reported on October 5, 1967. Mainstream experts concluded the death was the result …
- Sexuality and gender
"Gay agenda" or "homosexual agenda" is a pejorative term for the normalization of non-heterosexual sexual orientations.
The term has been used to criticize advocacy for LGBTQ rights, rooted in the bel…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
L'effroyable Imposture (or "The Horrifying Fraud") is the original French title of a highly controversial and discredited 2002 book by French journalist and political activist Thierry Meyssan. Its Eng…
- Military and warfare
The "Global War Party" (Georgian: გლობალური ომის პარტია, globaluri omis p’art’ia) is a conspiracy theory created and advanced by Georgian Dream, a Georgian political party. It is an alleged internatio…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The spelling of William Shakespeare's name has varied over time. It was not consistently spelled any single way during his lifetime (1564–1616), including by Shakespeare himself, in manuscript or in p…
- Health
Since 2005, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promoted vaccine misinformation and public-health conspiracy theories, including the chemtrail conspiracy theory, HIV/AIDS denialism, and the scientifically dispr…
- Health
José Gerardo Rodolfo Fernández Noroña (born 19 March 1960) is a Mexican politician and sociologist, previously served as the president of the Senate from 2024 until 31 August 2025, a member of the Nat…
- Sexuality and gender
Crash Override Network was a support group for victims of large scale online abuse, including revenge porn and doxing.
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The Jewish lobby are individuals and groups predominantly in the Jewish diaspora that advocate for the interests of Jews and Jewish values. The lobby references the involvement and influence of Jews i…
- Death
Lauren Smith-Fields (January 23, 1998 – December 12, 2021) was a woman living in Bridgeport, Connecticut. On the morning of Sunday, December 12, 2021, she was allegedly found unresponsive in bed by he…
- Health
The Scottish Family Party (SFP) is a minor socially conservative political party in Scotland. It was formed in 2017 and is led by former UKIP member and registered teacher Richard Lucas.
When launche…
- Israel
Racism in Palestine encompasses all forms and manifestations of racism experienced in Palestine, the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, irrespective of the religion, colour, creed, or ethnic origin …
- Race and ethnicity
Red Ice is a white supremacist multimedia company founded in Sweden and led by the married couple Lana Lokteff and Henrik Palmgren. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has described Red Ice as bein…
- Communism
Samuel J. Tilden High School was a New York City public high school in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York City. It was named for Samuel J. Tilden, the former governor of New York State an…
- UFO
Above Majestic is a 2018 documentary film that posits a global conspiracy involving anthropomorphic alien reptiles who secretly control the world's governments. The film was the most successful docume…
- Genocide denial
Nutuk (Ottoman Turkish: نطق, lit. "The Speech") is a historic speech delivered by Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 15 to 20 October 1927, at the second congress of the Republican People's Party (CHP)…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
As part of a larger conspiracy theory, Donald Trump posited that Barack Obama had spied on him, which Trump described as "the biggest political crime in American history, by far." The series of accusa…
- Communism Military and warfare
The Vietnam stab-in-the-back myth asserts that the United States' defeat during the Vietnam War was caused by various American groups, such as civilian policymakers, the mass media, antiwar protesters…
- Death
Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro (Portuguese: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku ˈsa kɐɾˈnɐjɾu] ; 19 July 1934 – 4 December 1980) was a Portuguese politician, who was one of the founders and the first leader of th…
- UFO
Since 1947, United States media coverage has speculated that UFO reports might be linked to atomic sites.
In June 1947, the start of the Cold War led to domestic UFO reports being taken seriously by b…
- Nazi
İsmail Necdet Kent (1 January 1911 – 20 September 2002) was a Turkish diplomat, who claimed to have risked his life to save Jews during World War II. While vice-consul in Marseille, France between 19…
- UFO
Sightings is an American paranormal and news television show that first aired in the 1990s. The show began on October 17, 1991, as a special titled The UFO Report: Sightings. Two follow-up reports wer…
- Death
Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The Mysterious Death of an Icon is a 1998 book that explores the premise that the death of Kurt Cobain, frontman of American rock band Nirvana, was a case of murder and not su…
- Death
Kaneko Fumiko (金子 文子, Kaneko Fumiko; January 25, 1903 – July 23, 1926) or rarely Pak Fumiko and Pak Munja (Korean: 박문자; Hanja: 朴文子), was a Japanese anarchist and nihilist. She was convicted of plottin…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Rwandan genocide denial is the pseudohistorical assertion that the Rwandan genocide did not occur, specifically rejection of the scholarly consensus that Rwandan Tutsis were the victims of genocide be…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
911: In Plane Site: Director's Cut is a 2004 film which promotes 9/11 conspiracy theories. Photographs and video footage from the September 11 attacks are presented and claims that the public was not …
- Death
Reinaldo José Ottolina Pinto (December 11, 1928 – March 16, 1978) was a Venezuelan producer and entertainer. Born in Valencia, Carabobo, he performed professionally under the name Renny Ottolina.
- Sexuality and gender
The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party is a 1995 pseudohistorical book by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams. Drawing on Samuel Igra's 1945 book Germany's National Vice, Lively and Abrams argue…
- Nazi
Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood is a 1995 book, whose author used the pseudonym Binjamin Wilkomirski, which purports to be a memoir of the Holocaust. It was debunked by Swiss journalist and…
- Death
The Shijiazhuang bombings (Chinese: 靳如超爆炸案 or 石家庄"3·16"特大爆炸案), also known as Jin Ruchao bombings and March 16 bombings, were a series of bomb blasts that took place on March 16, 2001, in Shijiazhuang,…
- Sexuality and gender
"Intimidation Game" is the fourteenth episode of the sixteenth season of the police procedural television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The episode aired on February 11, 2015, on NBC. In t…
- Aviation incidents
On 19 May 1986, a series of radar and visual contacts with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) took place across the Brazilian states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, and Goiás, becoming loc…
- Military and warfare
The Croatian Wikipedia (Croatian: Wikipedija na hrvatskome jeziku) is the Croatian language version of Wikipedia, which was created on 16 February 2003. It has 235,974 articles and a total of 7.61 mil…
- Race and ethnicity
Eurafrica (a portmanteau of "Europe" and "Africa") refers to the originally German idea of strategic partnership between Africa and Europe. In the decades before World War II, German supporters of Eu…
- Military and warfare
The Sèvres syndrome (Turkish: Sevr sendromu), also referred to as Sèvres paranoia, refers to a popular belief in Turkey that dangerous internal and external enemies, especially the West, are "conspiri…
- Health
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a politically conservative non-profit association that promotes conspiracy theories and medical misinformation, such as HIV/AIDS denialism…
- Genocide denial
Prior to joining the Allied Powers late in the war, Turkey was officially neutral in World War II. Despite its neutrality, Turkey maintained strong diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany during the pe…
- UFO
The extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis or extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), synonymous with interplanetary aircraft and alien UFO technologies, proposes that some unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are …
- Sexuality and gender
Drag panic (also called drag queen panic or anti-drag hysteria) is a moral panic that stems from the belief that exposure to drag, especially for minors, can be harmful, due to its perceived sexual na…
- Death
Chan Yin-lam (16 July 2004 – 19-22 September 2019) was a teenage Hong Kong girl whose death sparked much speculation and controversy due to its unusual circumstances. Chan's death occurred during the …
- Health
The relationship between vaccination and religion is complex and multifaceted. While most major religions have issued statements supportive of vaccination, and no major religion explicitly prohibits v…
- Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
Conspiracy theories arose almost immediately following the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995. The perpetrator, Jewish Israeli law student Yigal Amir, was appreh…
- CIA Communism Death Israel
On May 9, 1978, Aldo Moro, a Christian Democracy (DC) statesman who advocated for a Historic Compromise with the Italian Communist Party, (PCI), was murdered after 55 days of captivity by the Red Brig…
- CIA Communism
Dulles' Plan or the Dulles Doctrine (Russian: План Даллеса or Доктрина Даллеса) is the central document of a Russian conspiracy theory, according to which the CIA chief Allen Dulles had developed a pl…
- Death
Hilda Murrell (3 February 1906 – on or before 24 March 1984) was a British rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear power and nuclear weapons. She was abducted and found murdere…
- Death
Rakhat Mukhtaruly Aliyev (Kazakh: Рахат Мұхтарұлы Әлиев, Rahat Mūhtarūly Äliev; 10 December 1962 – 24 February 2015) was a Kazakh politician and diplomat, who died in an Austrian prison awaiting trial…
- Communism
The Seattle General Strike was a five-day general work stoppage by 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, from February 6 to 11, 1919. The goal was to support shipyard workers in several u…
- Health
Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives (formerly HEAL, Health Education AIDS Liaison) is a 501(c) non-profit organization of AIDS denialists.
- UFO
Giant from the Unknown (working titles Giant from Devil's Crag and The Diablo Giant ) is a 1957 independently made American black-and-white science fiction-horror film drama, produced by Marc Frederic…
- Health
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), formerly Brixton Endeavors, is a British-American not-for-profit NGO company with offices in London and Washington, D.C. with the stated purpose of stopp…
- Communism
The Centralia Tragedy, also known as the Centralia Conspiracy and the Armistice Day Riot, was a violent and bloody incident that occurred in Centralia, Washington, on November 11, 1919, during a parad…
- Genocide denial Nazi
The Faurisson affair was an academic controversy following publication of a book, Mémoire en défense (1980), by French professor Robert Faurisson, a Holocaust denier, and the inclusion of an essay by …
- Death
Marek Hłasko (14 January 1934 – 14 June 1969) was a Polish author and screenwriter.
- Nazi Religion
Green Dragon was a mystical Tibetan or Japanese occult order first mentioned at the beginning of the 20th century. The organization was mainly popularized through the book The Morning of the Magician…
- Death
Margaret Drummond (died 1501) was a Scottish noblewoman, daughter of John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond, and a mistress of King James IV.
She had a daughter, Lady Margaret Stewart. The death of Margaret…
- Health
Tsargrad TV (Russian: Царьград ТВ) is a Russian television channel owned by Konstantin Malofeev. It was named after Tsargrad, the old Slavic name for Constantinople, now modern Istanbul. It is known f…
- Sexuality and gender
The Amsterdam sex crimes case (Dutch: Amsterdamse zedenzaak) is a court case involving Robert Mikelson's abuse of babies in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The defendant Mikelson, dubbed "the Monster of R…
- Death
Gershon Harry Agron (Hebrew: גרשון אגרון; né Agronsky; 7 January 1894 [O.S. 27 December 1893] – 1 November 1959) was an Israeli newspaper editor, politician, and the mayor of West Jerusalem between 19…
- Death
Harminder Singh Nihang (April 1967 – 18 April 2018), also known as Harminder Singh Mintoo, was a prominent Sikh militant and the 7th leader of Khalistan Liberation Force. Nihang was instrumental in re…
- Race and ethnicity
Germany Abolishes Itself: How We're Putting Our Country in Jeopardy (German title: Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen) is a 2010 book by Thilo Sarrazin. The book deals w…
- Communism
The role of antisemitism during McCarthyism (also known as the Second Red Scare) has been noted and debated since the 1940s. In particular, the role of antisemitism during the trial of Julius and Ethe…
- Race and ethnicity
Race suicide was an alarmist eugenicist theory, coined by American sociologist Edward A. Ross around 1900 and promoted by, among others, Harry J. Haiselden. According to the American Eugenics Archive,…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Lee Highway was a United States auto trail through the American South and Southwest. When opened in 1923, it connected Washington, D.C., and San Diego, California; extensions were later added to N…
- Nazi
Enric Marco Batlle (12 April 1921 – 21 May 2022) was a Catalan impostor and former trade unionist who claimed to have been imprisoned by Nazi Germany in the Flossenbürg concentration camp during World…
- Pseudolaw
"Paper terrorism" is a neologism referring to the use of false liens, frivolous lawsuits, bogus letters of credit, and other legal or pseudolegal documents lacking sound factual basis as a method of h…
- UFO
The Greada Treaty is a conspiracy theory dating to the 1980s that suggests American President Dwight D. Eisenhower made a secret agreement with malevolent Gray aliens in 1954.
From the early 1950s …
- Sexuality and gender
The term "phantom social workers" (also known as "bogus social workers") arose in the United Kingdom and United States following sporadic reports to police and media about people claiming to be social…
- Communism
My Son John is a 1952 American political drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Robert Walker, and Dean Jagger. Walker plays the title character, a middle-class colle…
- General
Project Cumulus was a 1950s UK government initiative to investigate weather manipulation, in particular through cloud seeding experiments. The project, which was operational between 1949 and 1952, was…
- Race and ethnicity
Troop Sport primarily known as World Of Troop or just TROOP is a clothing company founded in 1985 by two brothers, Teddy and Harvey Held, and William Kim. The clothing line was intended to target youn…
- Death
The substitution hypothesis or twin hypothesis states that the sightings of a risen Jesus are explained not by physical resurrection, but by the existence of a different person, a twin or lookalike wh…
- Death Religion
The controversy regarding the handling and representation of the Madrid train bombings by the government arose with Spain's two main political parties, Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Part…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
On March 4, 2017, Donald Trump wrote a series of posts on his Twitter account that falsely accused former President Barack Obama's administration of wiretapping his "wires" at Trump Tower late in the …
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
A claimed connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda came through an alleged meeting between September 11 ringleader Mohamed Atta and the Iraqi consulate in Prague, Czech Republic in April 2001. This allege…
- Death
Ahmadi Muslims consider Jesus (ʿĪsā) as a mortal man, entirely human, and a prophet of God born to the Virgin Mary (Maryam). Jesus is understood to have survived the crucifixion based on the account o…
- Death
The Gospel of Basilides is the title given to a reputed text within the New Testament apocrypha, which is reported in the middle of the 3rd century as then circulating amongst the followers of Basilid…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) is a controversial nonprofit professional organization of health professionals and individuals who claim interest in advancin…
- Communism
I Was a Communist for the FBI is a 1951 American film noir.
It stars Frank Lovejoy as Matt Cvetic, who infiltrated a local Communist Party cell for nine years and reported to the Federal Bureau of Inv…
- Death
Boris Floricic (8 June 1972 – 17 October 1998), better known by his pseudonym Tron, was a German hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is …
- Communism Race and ethnicity Religion
The Cohen Plan (Portuguese: Plano Cohen) was a document forged by the Brazilian military with the aim of establishing the Estado Novo dictatorship in November 1937. A conjunction between antisemitism …
- Death
Serge Alexandre Stavisky (20 November 1886 – 8 January 1934) was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair.
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception is a 2012 American film by Joel Gilbert. It presents his conspiracy theory that U.S. President Barack Obama's biological father was Frank Mars…
- Communism
Frederick George Fisher Jr. (April 19, 1921 – May 25, 1989) was an American lawyer who first entered the public eye in connection with Senator Joseph McCarthy.
- Nazi
Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived, written by Herman Rosenblat, was a fictitious Holocaust memoir purporting to tell the true story of the author's reunion with, and marriage …
- Nazi
The Hand That Signed the Paper is a 1994 novel and literary hoax. It was written by Helen Darville, now Helen Dale, and was published under the name Helen Demidenko. The novel tells the story of a Ukr…
- Death
On 6 September 1996, Salman Shah was found hanging from the ceiling of his bedroom at Eskaton, Dhaka. Police had filed a case of suicide, but the family objected to it and lodged a murder case. Busine…
- False flag
Meridian is a census-designated place (CDP) in Butler Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,881 at the 2010 census. Meridian was the site of an attempted assassina…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
On 1 September 2022, a man attempted to assassinate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the vice president and former president of Argentina. The assailant approached Fernández de Kirchner as she met with…
- UFO
A UFO flap is a rash of reports of unidentified airborne objects. Flap, originally a military term to describe a "period of panic or chaos", is used by ufologists to describe surges of sightings in on…
- Aviation incidents
Double Eagle II, piloted by Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it landed on 17 August 1978 in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours and 6 m…
- Death
The Canadian painter Tom Thomson died on 8 July 1917, on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. After Thomson drowned in the water, his upturned canoe was disc…
- Death
Shane Todd was an American engineer who died under disputed circumstances in Singapore in June 2012. Local authorities said Todd had committed suicide, though his family insists that he was murdered, …
- Race and ethnicity
The Boerestaat Party (English: Farmers State Party) is a Boer nationalist South African political party founded on 30 September 1986 by Robert van Tonder. It was never officially registered as a polit…
- General
The Epsilon Team (Greek: Ομάδα Έψιλον, romanized: Omada Epsilon) is an alleged secret society that appears in modern Greek folklore, conspiracy theories and ufology. The team was first described in a …
- Genocide denial
Article 301 is a lèse-majesté law of the Turkish Penal Code making it illegal to insult Turkey, the Turkish nation, the Turkish government institutions, or Turkish national heroes such as Mustafa Kema…
- Health
The Duesberg hypothesis is the claim that AIDS is not caused by HIV, but instead that AIDS is caused by noninfectious factors such as recreational and pharmaceutical drug use and that HIV is merely a …
- Health Science and technology
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are anti-malarial medications also used against some auto-immune diseases. Chloroquine, along with hydroxychloroquine, was an early experimental treatment for COVID…
- Death
The Passover Plot is a 1976 drama film adapted from the conspiratorial 1965 book of the same name by Hugh J. Schonfield. It was directed by Michael Campus and stars Zalman King as Yeshua (Jesus), Har…
- Sexuality and gender
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate is a memoir by indie video game developer Zoë Quinn about their experiences as the target of …
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Spygate is a disproven conspiracy theory peddled by 45th U.S. president Donald Trump and his political base on many occasions throughout his first presidential term. It primarily centered around the i…
- Nazi Religion
Arno Schickedanz (27 December 1892 – 12 April 1945) was a German diplomat who held paramount positions in both the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs (APA) and the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern…
- Death
Eugenia Smith (January 25, 1899 – January 31, 1997), also known as Eugenia Drabek Smetisko, was one of several Romanov impostors who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Nic…
- Genocide denial
Guenter Lewy (22 August 1923 – 24 March 2026) was a German-born American author and political scientist who was a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His works s…
- Death
David Andrew Whiting (August 1946 – February 11, 1973) was an American writer and personal manager who died in unusual circumstances. After becoming the youngest correspondent hired by Time, he turned…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters is a book by Catholic Worker theologian James W. Douglass that analyzes the presidency of John F. Kennedy, as well as the events surrounding his…
- Health Science and technology
The oral polio vaccine AIDS hypothesis (OPV AIDS) is a largely discredited hypothesis which argued the AIDS pandemic originated from live polio vaccines prepared in chimpanzee tissue cultures, acciden…
- Religion
Since the early twentieth century there has been a significant overlap between Christian fundamentalism and millennialism in the United States and belief in false conspiracy theories, primarily the Ne…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Grantism is a derisive term of United States origin referring to the political incompetence, corruption, and fraud, during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant. His presidency, which laste…
- Death
Vladimir Cvijan (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Цвијан; 24 November 1976 – 5 January 2018) was a Serbian lawyer and politician. From 2004 until 2010, he served as the legal advisor and General Secretary t…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Sarah Anne Dorsey (née Ellis; February 16, 1829 – July 4, 1879) was an American novelist and historian. She published several novels and a highly regarded biography of Henry Watkins Allen, governor of…
- Nazi Religion
Karl Ernst Krafft (10 May 1900 – 8 January 1945) was a Swiss astrologer, born in Basel. He worked in the fields of astrology and graphology.
- Race and ethnicity
Theodore Bruce Bawer (born October 31, 1956) is an American-Norwegian writer. Born and raised in New York, he has been a resident of Norway since 1999 and became a citizen of Norway in 2024. He is a l…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English playwright and poet, has appeared in works of fiction since the nineteenth century. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare, and has been suggested as an …
- Science and technology
Newman's Energy Machine was a DC motor which the inventor, Joseph Newman, claimed to produce mechanical power exceeding the electrical power being supplied to it. In 1979, Newman attempted to patent t…
- Communism Death
Buenaventura Durruti, a Spanish anarchist revolutionary and leader of the confederal militias during the Spanish Civil War, was fatally shot on 19 November 1936 during the battle of Ciudad Universitar…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Judeopolonia, also Judeo-Polonia, is an antisemitic conspiracy theory positing future Jewish domination of Poland. The idea had its roots in an 1858 book by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, but did not gain c…
- Race and ethnicity
The Miscegenation hoax, taking the form of a pamphlet titled Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, was published by New York World staff …
- Communism
Milo John Radulovich (October 28, 1926 – November 19, 2007) was an American reserve Air Force lieutenant who was accused of being a security risk for maintaining a "close and continuing relationship" …
- Death
Rrahman Morina (Serbian: Рахман Морина, romanized: Rahman Morina; 1943 – 12 October 1990) was a Yugoslav police officer and communist politician. As a Kosovo Albanian, he is remembered as being an opp…
- Aviation incidents
The Kaikōura lights is a name given by the New Zealand media to a series of UFO sightings that occurred in December 1978 in the skies above the Kaikōura mountain ranges in the northeast of New Zealand…
- Death
Eugenio Berríos Sagredo (14 November 1947 –c. November 1992) was a Chilean biochemist and member of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), who produced sarin as part of Proyecto Andrea. Berrío…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Battle of Liberty Place Monument is a stone obelisk on an inscribed plinth, formerly on display in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, commemorating the "Battle of Liberty Place", an 1874…
- Death
Lutz Eigendorf (16 July 1956 – 7 March 1983) was a German professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
- Genocide denial
Screamers is a 2006 documentary film directed by Carla Garapedian, conceived by Peter McAlevey and Garapedian and produced by McAlevey. The film explores why genocides have occurred in modern day hist…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The lepers' plot was an alleged conspiracy of French lepers in 1321 to spread their disease by contaminating water supplies, including well water, with their powders and poisons. According to the Amer…
- Health Science and technology
Mental illness denial or mental disorder denial is a form of denialism in which a person or group denies the existence of mental disorders. Both serious analysts and pseudoscientific movements may que…
- Genocide denial
A Town Betrayed (Norwegian: Byen som kunne ofres, Croatian: Grad koji se mogao žrtvovati, Izdani grad) is a 2010 Norwegian documentary about the prelude of the Srebrenica massacre (1995), written and …
- Military and warfare
The Naliboki massacre (Polish: zbrodnia w Nalibokach) was the 8 May 1943 mass killing of 127 or 128 Poles by Soviet partisans in the small town of Naliboki in German-occupied Poland (the town is now i…
- Communism
In Thai politics, the Finland Plot, Finland Plan, Finland Strategy, Finland Conspiracy or Finland Declaration (Thai: แผนฟินแลนด์, ยุทธศาสตร์ฟินแลนด์, ปฏิญญาฟินแลนด์, Finnish: Suomi-salaliitto, Suomi-s…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
The Panda Bar massacre (Serbian: Масакр у Панда Бару, romanized: Masakr u Panda Baru), alternatively known as the Panda Café attack (Serbian: Напад на кафић "Панда", romanized: Napad na kafić "Panda")…
- Communism
The Pinsk massacre was the mass execution of thirty-five Jewish residents of Pinsk on April 5, 1919, by the Polish Army. The Polish commander, reportedly acting on warnings from two Jewish soldiers ab…
- UFO
Philip Schneider (April 23, 1947 - January 17, 1996) was a promoter of conspiracy theories. He was known for his unsubstantiated claims about the Dulce Base conspiracy theory, an earlier story of ali…
- Communism
The Szeged Idea (Hungarian: Szegedi gondolat [ˈsɛɡɛdi ˈɡondolɒt]), also informally known as Szeged fascism, refers to the ideology that developed among anti-communist counter-revolutionaries in Szeged…
- Military and warfare
The communication of Fidesz, Hungary's governing party between 2010 and 2026, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has been widely described as populist propaganda.
Since Fidesz–KDNP's 2010 landslide v…
- Pseudolaw
The 861 argument is a statutory argument used by tax protesters in the United States, which interprets a portion of the Internal Revenue Code as invalidating certain applications of income tax. The ar…
- Health
Measles is extremely contagious, but surviving the infection results in lifelong immunity, so its continued circulation in a community depends on the generation of susceptible hosts by birth of childr…
- Communism Genocide denial
The Stalin Society is a British discussion group for individuals who see Joseph Stalin as a great Marxist–Leninist and wish to preserve his legacy. The society originated as a consequence of the disso…
- Death Race and ethnicity Religion
Philip B. Haney (July 9, 1953 – February 21, 2020) was an American U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) national security official and whistleblower. Haney was found dead with a gunshot wound in…
- Nazi Religion
The Palestinabuch (Book of Palestine), also Palestina Buch, Palästinabuch or Palästina Buch, is an allegedly lost manuscript by the German-Dutch historian and antisemite Herman Wirth (1885–1981), foun…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
Permindex, also referred to as Permanent Industrial Exposition or Permanent Industrial Expositions, was a trade organization headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Allegations that Permindex was a front…
- Death
Kim Hyong-uk (Korean: 김형욱, January 16, 1925 – c. October 8, 1979) was a South Korean brigadier general who served as director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency from 1963 to 1969.
- Health
During the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, many people began to spread false or un-confirmed data and information. This included politicians and other government officials from administrations in several…
- Aviation incidents
The Manises UFO incident took place on 11 November 1979, during which an alleged unidentified flying object forced a commercial flight of the Spanish company Transportes Aéreos Españoles, with 109 pas…
- Genocide denial Nazi
The Journal of Historical Review was a non-peer-reviewed, pseudoacademic periodical focused on promoting Holocaust denial. It was published by the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), based in Torra…
- Race and ethnicity
Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within is a 2006 best-selling book by the British journalist Melanie Phillips about the spread of Islamism in the United Kingdom over the previous t…
- Pseudolaw
Citizens for Constitutional Freedom (C4CF), later also known as People for Constitutional Freedom (P4CF), was the name taken on January 4, 2016, by an armed private U.S. militia that occupied the U.S.…
- Sexuality and gender
The anti-LGBTQ law in Kazakhstan, formally On Introducing Changes and Additions to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Matters of Archival Affairs and Restrictions on the Distributi…
- Health
The Bulgarian National Alliance, also called the Bulgarian National Union, is a Bulgarian far-right informal organization headquartered in Sofia, founded in 2001 by Boyan Rassate, which claims to be a…
- Military and warfare
Falsifiers of History is a book, first published by the Soviet Information Bureau, edited and partially re-written by Joseph Stalin, in response to documents made public in January 1948 regarding Germ…
- Israel
The 10 agorot controversy refers to a conspiracy theory made public by Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat's appearance at a specially convened session of the UN Security Council …
- Death
John Magufuli, the 5th President of Tanzania, died on 17 March 2021 following a prolonged illness. He was the first Tanzanian president to die in office. Prior to his death, rumours speculated that he…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
Willem Leonard Oltmans (addressed as William Oltmans in some English publications; 10 June 1925 – 30 September 2004) was a Dutch investigative journalist and author active in international politics.
D…
- Communism Religion
The Iranian Revolution of 1979, in which Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown and replaced by an Islamist government led by Ruhollah Khomeini, has been the subject of conspiracy theories alleging…
- Race and ethnicity
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It is a 2006 non-fiction book by the Canadian newspaper columnist and writer Mark Steyn. It forecasts the downfall of Western civilization due to interna…
- Communism
Elmer Holmes Davis (January 13, 1890 – May 18, 1958) was an American news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipien…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Numerous lawsuits and ballot challenges, based on conspiracy theories related to Barack Obama's eligibility for the United States presidency, were filed following his first election in 2008 and over t…
- Health
JWA List (German: Liste JWA, JWA), also known as JWA – Wirth Anderlan, is a right-wing populist and separatist political party active in South Tyrol, Italy. The party has the aim of representing the G…
- Military and warfare
The Truth About Nanjing (南京の真実, Nankin no shinjitsu) is a 2007 Japanese film by Satoru Mizushima that is widely considered to advocate for denial or revisionism of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.
- Communism
John Emil Peurifoy (August 9, 1907 – August 12, 1955) was an American diplomat and ambassador in the early years of the Cold War. He served as ambassador to Greece, Thailand, and Guatemala. In this l…
- Pseudolaw
The Kingdom Filipina Hacienda–Autocratic Sovereign Monarchy, or simply the Kingdom Filipina Hacienda (KFH), is an organization in the Philippines based in Iligan. Associated with the sovereign citizen…
- Health
The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) is an international alliance of news media, social media and technology corporations which claim to be working to identify and combat purported disinformation about n…
- Pseudolaw
Tax protesters in the United States advance a number of constitutional arguments asserting that the imposition, assessment and collection of the federal income tax violates the United States Constitut…
- Aviation incidents
MOD West Freugh is located in Wigtownshire, 5 miles (8 km) south east of Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, and is operated by defence contractor QinetiQ, on behalf of the Ministry of Defence…
- Pseudolaw
The Law That Never Was: The Fraud of the 16th Amendment and Personal Income Tax is a 1985 book by William J. Benson and Martin J. "Red" Beckman which claims that the Sixteenth Amendment to the United …
- Aviation incidents
Air France Flight 212 was a scheduled passenger flight from Santiago International Airport, was flying to Paris, France via Lima, Peru; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Bogota, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; Pointe…
- Death
Marga Boodts (February 18, 1895 – October 13, 1976) was a woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia. She was one of a considerable number of Romanov pretenders who emerged from …
- General
Baron 52 was the call sign of a United States Air Force EC-47 carrying eight crew members that was shot down over Laos during the predawn hours of 5 February 1973, a week after the Paris Peace Accords…
- Israel
Beginning in 1978, for more than two decades, Ron Paul – American physician, libertarian activist, congressman, and presidential candidate – published a variety of political and investment-oriented ne…
- Genocide denial Military and warfare Nazi
Jasenovac – istina (English: Jasenovac – The Truth) is a 2016 Holocaust denial documentary film by the Croatian filmmaker Jakov Sedlar. The film contends that the extent of The Holocaust in the Indepe…
- Race and ethnicity
René Binet (16 October 1913 – 16 October 1957) was a French fascist political activist. Initially a Trotskyist in the 1930s, he espoused fascism during World War II and joined the SS Charlemagne Divis…
- Pseudolaw
Tax protesters in the United States advance a number of conspiracy arguments asserting that Congress, the courts and various agencies within the federal government—primarily the Internal Revenue Servi…
- Science and technology
The patent encumbrance of large automotive NiMH batteries refers to allegations that corporate interests have used the patent system to prevent the commercialization of nickel metal hydride (NiMH) bat…
- Death
Alex Ceslaw Maurice Jean Brimeyer (4 May 1946 – 27 January 1995) was a pretender who claimed connection to various European thrones. He used fraudulent combined titles such as "Prince d'Anjou Durazzo …
- Death Race and ethnicity
The "King Alfred Plan" is a fictional CIA-led scheme supporting an international effort to eliminate people of African descent, invented by author John A. Williams in his novel The Man Who Cried I Am.…
- Health
In the United States, an alternative vaccination schedule is a vaccination schedule differing from the schedule endorsed by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). These schedules may…
- Race and ethnicity
Tropical Fantasy is an inexpensive soft-drink, originally from Brooklyn, New York. Its low price of 49¢ per 21-ounce bottle led to its success in the 1990s. Tropical Fantasy was initially popular in i…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Claims that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works traditionally attributed to him were first explicitly made in the 19th century. Many scholars consider that th…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Crollalanza theory of Shakespeare's identity posits that Shakespeare was an Italian called Michelangelo Florio a.k.a. "Crollalanza", whose mother's family name is variously given as Crollalanza or…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
The CIA and September 11 (German: Die CIA und der 11. September) is a 2003 non-fiction book by Andreas von Bülow, a former state-secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Defence and a Social Democ…
- Aviation incidents
The 1980 Camarate air crash occurred on 4 December 1980 when a small private aircraft carrying Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro and Defense Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa crashed in…
- Genocide denial
Perinçek v. Switzerland is a 2013 judgment of the European Court of Human Rights concerning public statements by Doğu Perinçek, a Turkish nationalist political activist and member of the Talat Pasha C…
- General Health Science and technology
ID2020 is an American 501(c)(3) nongovernmental organization which advocates for digital ID for the billion undocumented people worldwide and under-served groups like refugees. Clive Smith succeeded f…
- Death
Branko Miljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Миљковић; 29 January 1934 – 12 February 1961) was a Serbian poet.
- Pseudolaw
The Embassy of Heaven is a Christianity-based new religious movement based in Stayton, Oregon, that seeks to separate from secular government. Its members profess to be literal citizens of the Kingdom…
- Nazi
The Holocaust teaching hoax was a hoax perpetrated in Great Britain in 2007 that purported that the teaching of the Holocaust had been banned in British schools for fear of offending Muslim pupils. Th…
- Health
The Resistance (Bulgarian: Съпротива, romanized: Saprotiva) is a Bulgarian nationalist political party. The leader of the party is chalga singer Georgi Georgiev-Goti.
- Military and warfare
In Our Time is a 1944 American romantic drama film set in the days leading up to World War II. It stars Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid.
- Israel Race and ethnicity Religion
The Children of Moses (Turkish: Musa'nın Çocukları) is an antisemitic book written by Ergün Poyraz, originally published in 2007, which mainly targets Recep Tayyip Erdoğan but also his wife, Emine Erd…
- UFO
Space Brothers is a term used for extraterrestrials in several narratives involving alien contact. The term was first used in the 1950s to describe benevolent spacefarers who had supposedly contacted …
- Military and warfare
The "German Plot" was a spurious conspiracy that the Dublin Castle administration in Ireland claimed existed between the Sinn Féin movement and the German Empire in May 1918. Allegedly, the two factio…
- UFO
Gabriel L. "Gabe" Valdez (c. 1944 — August 7, 2011) was a long-time New Mexico State Police officer and New Mexico Gaming Control Board investigator. Valdez is most remembered for leading the criminal…
- CIA
The Casa Matusita is a building located at the intersection of Garcilaso de la Vega and España avenues in the center of Lima, Peru. It is known for the popular belief of being a place where paranormal…
- General
Philosophy of conspiracy theories is the academic study by philosophers of the phenomenon and history of conspiracy theories. A conspiracy theory has been defined as an explanation for an event or sit…
- Communism
Ellen Wolf Schrecker (born August 4, 1938) is an American professor emerita of American history at Yeshiva University. She has received the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship at the Tamiment L…
- Death
Santiago Maldonado was an Argentine activist who went missing after the Argentine National Gendarmerie dispersed a demonstration against the Benetton Group's activities in Cushamen Department, Chubut …
- Health
The Disneyland measles outbreak began at the Disneyland Resort, California, in December 2014, and spread to seven states in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, before it was declared over in mid-Ap…
- Communism
The United States Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations (AGLOSO) was a list drawn up on April 3, 1947 at the request of the United States Attorney General (and later Supreme Court justic…
- Sexuality and gender
The Online Abuse Prevention Initiative (OAPI) was an organization founded in 2015 that aimed to study and combat abuse on the Internet.
- Health
Anti-vaccinationism in chiropractic is widespread, but there are notable differences within the trade. Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine founded on the idea that all disease is caused by …
- Communism
Terruqueo (from Andean Spanish terruco, -ca 'terrorist') refers in Peru to the act of falsely labeling people as terrorists or terrorist sympathizers without evidence, primarily via the use of the pol…
- Health Science and technology
Trace Amounts: Autism, Mercury, and the Hidden Truth is a 2014 anti-vaccination biographic film by Eric Gladen, who claims to have experienced mercury poisoning after receiving a tetanus vaccine. In t…
- Race and ethnicity
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within is a 2006 book by Bruce Bawer. It was Bawer's second book dealing with the issue of religious fundamentalism, following his ear…
- Communism
Amerasia was a journal of Far Eastern affairs best known for the 1940s "Amerasia Affair" in which several of its staff and their contacts were suspected of espionage and charged with unauthorized poss…
- Communism
There have long been ideological restrictions on naturalization in United States law. Nativism and anti-anarchism at the turn of the 20th century, the red scare in the 1920s, and further fears against…
- Race and ethnicity
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West is a 2009 book by Christopher Caldwell about the impact of the mass immigration of Muslims to Europe in the 20th century.
- Health
ABBA (Maltese: Partit ABBA) is an inactive far-right and Christian right political party in Malta.
- Health
Jeanette Wilson (born 1962 or 1963) is a New Zealand medium, reiki practitioner, and spiritual healer. She says she is able to heal people with the assistance of spirits. She has been criticised for p…
- Death
Nestor Aleksandres dze Kalandarishvili (Georgian: ნესტორ ალექსანდრეს ძე კალანდარიშვილი; 8 July 1876 – 6 March 1922) was a Georgian revolutionary socialist and military commander. Born into the lesser …
- Nazi
Operation Treblinka is widely regarded by historians as a historical fabrication devised by Władysław Rażmowski, codenamed Poraj, and certain Polish World War II veterans. It was later popularized by …
- Race and ethnicity
Renegade is an American white nationalist and antisemitic media platform, based in Deltona, Florida. The project consists of two main outlets; Renegade Broadcasting, an internet radio network founded …
- Death
The deaths of Janson Tate Rowland (November 7, 1970 – July 26, 1988) and Terrie Shawn Trosper (February 27, 1964 – May 30, 1991), two siblings in Childress, Texas, occurred in 1988 and 1991, respectiv…
- Nazi Religion
Karl Spiesberger (29 October 1904 – 1 January 1992) was a German mystic, occultist, Germanic revivalist and Runosophist. He is best known for his revivalism and usage of the Sidereal Pendulum for divi…
- Communism
William Burnett Benton (April 1, 1900 – March 18, 1973) was an American senator from Connecticut (1949–1953) and publisher of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1943–1973).
- Military and warfare
The Czechoslovak myth is a narrative that Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1938 was a tolerant and liberal democratic country, oriented towards Western Europe, and free of antisemitism compared to othe…
- Religion
The alleged state-sponsored kidnappings of Muslims in Sweden is a conspiracy theory and a global disinformation campaign against Sweden. The conspiracy theory gained attention in 2021 after a number o…
- Genocide denial
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's statements on the Armenian genocide include Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's speeches, parliamentary remarks, correspondence, interviews and later writings regarding the Armenian genoci…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
On 21 November 2006, Pierre Amine Gemayel, the Lebanese minister of Industry and member of parliament, was shot fatally by three unknown gunmen allegedly linked to the SSNP. The motive for the attack …
- Death
Nebojša M. Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: Небојша М. Крстић; 28 August 1964 – 3 December 2001) was a Serbian theologian and sociologist.
Krstić was the founder and first president of the Serbian far-right …
- Death
Eleonora Albertova Krüger (Nora) (Bulgarian: Елеонора Албертова Крюгер; Russian: Элеонора Альбертовна Крюгер; 1901 – 20 July 1954) was a Russian woman who lived in the village of Gabarevo, Bulgaria. A…
- Death
The 2004–2005 Greek wiretapping case, also referred to as Greek Watergate, involved the illegal tapping of more than 100 mobile phones on the Vodafone Greece network belonging mostly to members of the…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Blandford Church is the oldest building in Petersburg, Virginia whose history is well documented. It is at the highest point in the city, atop Well's Hill. It is today (2019) part of a memorial to…
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Delmart "Mike" Vreeland (born March 20, 1966, in Mason, Michigan) became notable for claiming to predict the events of September 11, 2001.
- Nazi
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz is the title of a claimed autobiographical, but later classified as semi-autobiographical and semi-fictional book by Denis Avey, who is a recipient of a British Hero o…
- Death
Alina Matshievska (also known as Granny Alina; died 12 December 1969) was the foster grandmother of Gabriel Louis Duval, who claimed in his 2004 book A Princess in the Family that she might have been …
- Death
Nadezhda Ivanova-Vasilyeva (? – 1971; Cyrillic: Надежда Владимировна Иванова-Васильева) was one of several women who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. Vasilyeva first surface…
- Death
On February 17, 1933, William J. Costello, a fire captain in Peabody, Massachusetts, was found dead by his wife, Jessie B. Costello. After an autopsy found a lethal amount of potassium cyanide in his …
- Genocide denial
Report about Case Srebrenica (the first part) was a controversial official report on the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was prepared by Darko Trifunović (Serbian C…
- Health
The Durban Declaration is a statement signed by over 5,000 physicians and scientists in 2000, affirming that HIV is the cause of AIDS, seventeen years after the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency…
- Health
This timeline includes entries on the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. This includes investigations into the origin of COVID-19, …
- Death
Anatoly Ionov (born 1936) is a Russian man who claims to be the son of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.
- Health
Neutral Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Неутрална България, romanized: Neutralna Balgarija) was a coalition of political parties in Bulgaria created to participate in the 2023 Bulgarian parliamentary election.
- Pseudolaw
Swissindo (formally the Swissindo World Trust International Orbit, also known as UN Swissindo or NEO the United Kingdom of God Sky Earth) is a debt relief scheme widely classified as a cult and a scam…
- Genocide denial
Jean Lynn Beyak (née Smith; born February 18, 1949) is a retired Canadian politician who represented Ontario in the Senate of Canada from January 25, 2013, to January 25, 2021. Initially appointed to …
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Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story is a 2020 book about the Delhi riots that took place over a period of six days in February 2020 in which 53 died, including 36 Muslims and 15 Hindus. According to th…
- Pseudolaw
The Ubuntu Party was a minor South African political party founded in 2012 by author and songwriter Michael Tellinger. Based on the principles of Ubuntu Contributionism, the party espouses Tellinger's…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
Valerie Sinason is a British poet, writer, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist who is known for promoting the idea that people with a developmental disability can benefit from psychoanalysis and also th…
- Death Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Camp Van Dorn Slaughter was a racial hoax popularized in the self-published book The Slaughter: An American Atrocity by Carroll Case in 1998.
Case alleged that some 1,200 African-American soldiers…
- Health
The George's Day Movement (Bulgarian: Движение Гергьовден, romanized: Dvizhenie Gergyovden) is a nationalist political party in Bulgaria.
The party was founded in December 1996 by members of the pol…
- General
Sidney Warburg (1880–1947) is the pen name of an author or a group of authors who remained anonymous and who published a book about funding of the Nazi Party by American bankers between 1929 and 1933.…
- Death
Andrea Salsedo (21 September 1881 – 3 May 1920) was an Italian anarchist whose death caused controversy as it was caused by a suspicious fall from the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation (BOI…
- Health
Continuum was a magazine published by an activist group of the same name who denied the existence of HIV/AIDS.
Favoring pseudoscientific content, the magazine addressed issues related to HIV/AIDS, AID…
- Death
Dragan Malešević Tapi (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Малешевић Тапи; 22 January 1949 – 29 October 2002) was a Serbian painter. Although by vocation an economist, he is generally considered one of the leadi…
- Race and ethnicity
Bruce S. Thornton (born August 2, 1953) is an American classicist at California State University, Fresno, and research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
- Shakespeare authorship question
Sir Edward Dyer (October 1543 – May 1607) was an English courtier and poet.
- Health Science and technology
The SARS conspiracy theory began to emerge during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in China in the spring of 2003, when Sergei Kolesnikov, a Russian scientist and a member of the …
- Death
The death of Imane Fadil occurred on 1 March 2019 in Rozzano, Italy, after the Moroccan-Italian model and key witness in the “bunga bunga” trials involving former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was …
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Tragedy of Arthur is a 2011 novel by the American author Arthur Phillips. The narrative concerns the publication of a recently discovered Arthurian play attributed to William Shakespeare, which th…
- Communism Military and warfare
The Pacte Synarchique is a historical theory that the surrender of Vichy France was as a result of a conspiracy by French industrial and banking interests to surrender France to Hitler in order to fig…
- Pseudolaw
The Tenther movement is a social movement in the United States, whose adherents espouse the political ideology that the federal government's enumerated powers must be read very narrowly to exclude muc…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
In the United States, a citizen grand jury is a non-actionable, non-governmental organization that assumes a responsibility upon itself to accuse an individual or groups of individuals of having commi…
- Health Science and technology
Multiple conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and quack cures have circulated about ebola viruses, regarding the origin of outbreaks, treatments for ebola virus disease, and preventative measures.
- Health
Vaccine Choice Canada (VCC) is Canada's main anti-vaccination group. It was founded in 1986 under the name Association for Vaccine Damaged Children, became the Vaccination Risk Awareness Network in 1…
- Death
Eugène Bonaventure Jean-Baptiste Vigo (known as Miguel Almereyda; 5 January 1883 – 14 August 1917) was a French journalist and activist against militarism.
He was first an anarchist and then a sociali…
- Health Science and technology
From its origins in the 19th century to the 2022 convoy protests, the Canadian anti-vaccination movement has been resisting public health efforts to promote vaccinations through mass demonstrations, p…
- Death Religion
On 24 May 2017, two explosions occurred at a bus terminal in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta. Police confirmed that the explosions were caused by multiple explosive devices found in the toilet and in ano…
- Pseudolaw
The convoy to Canberra was an anti-vaccine mandate protest in Australia between late January and mid-February 2022 that was inspired by the Canadian Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa. Thousands of prot…
- Communism
Watkins v. United States, 354 U.S. 178 (1957), is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that held that the power of the United States Congress is not unlimited in conducting investigati…
- Genocide denial Nazi
The Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up was set up in 1999 as the think-tank of the Arab League. It was named after and principally funded by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the pr…
- Genocide denial
FactCheckArmenia.com is a website whose stated purpose is "exposing Armenian distortions and hypocrisies". Purporting to be a fact-checking website; the website publishes false information denying the…
- Communism
The Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) was a United States federal committee. It was the subject of a landmark United States Supreme Court decision of the Warren Court, Communist Party v. Subv…
- Death
Eugene Nicolaievich Ivanoff of Poland, who claimed to be Tsarevich Alexei Romanov in the mid-1920s, was one of the first in a long line of Romanov impostors to emerge from various parts of the world f…
- Health
Andre Chad Parenzee (born c. 1971) is an HIV-positive Australian man convicted of three counts of endangering human life by exposing others to the risk of infection through unprotected sex as he claim…
- Genocide denial
The Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) is the main Turkish lobby organization in the United States. Its stated purpose includes education and congressional advocacy. It is based in Washington, D.C., w…
- Communism
Stanley Alexander Weigel (December 9, 1905 – September 1, 1999) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
- Communism
Harisiades v. Shaughnessy, 342 U.S. 580 (1952), was a United States Supreme Court case which determined that the Alien Registration Act of 1940's authorization of deportation of legal residents for me…
- Communism
The Green Feather Movement was a series of college protests directed against McCarthyism at the height of the Red Scare in the United States. The movement arose in response to an attempt to censor Rob…
- Health
CEASE (Complete Elimination of Autistic Spectrum Expression) therapy is a pseudoscientific practice used by naturopaths (particularly homeopaths) who claim that it can treat or even cure people with a…
- Communism
Louis Freeland Post (November 15, 1849 – January 11, 1928) was a prominent American Georgist lawyer and newspaper editor who was appointed the first Assistant United States Secretary of Labor by Presi…
- UFO
The Unexplained Files is an American television series on Science Channel that investigates paranormal and other unexplained phenomena.
According to a King Features spokesperson, it was the most watch…
- Health Science and technology
Medical Racism: The New Apartheid is a 2021 video production that promotes conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines. Distributed by the anti-vaccination group Children's Health Defense, it alleges …
- Health
A speculated link between vaccines and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) has been refuted, but remains a common anti-vaccine claim. The claim, attributed to Robert Mendelsohn in 1991 and promoted by…
- Military and warfare
Shōichi Watanabe (渡部 昇一, Watanabe Shōichi; 15 September 1930 – 17 April 2017) was a Japanese scholar of English and one of Japan's cultural critics. He is known for ultranationalist historical negatio…
- Nazi
Hannah: From Dachau to the Olympics and Beyond is a falsified Holocaust biography written by Jean Goodwin Messinger about Hannah Pence. The book gained notoriety when it was revealed that the entire s…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Texas Civil War Museum, located in White Settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth, opened in 2006. It was the largest American Civil War museum west of the Mississippi River until it closed on October 3…
- Health
The Perth Group is a group of HIV/AIDS denialists based in Perth, Western Australia who claim, in opposition to the scientific consensus, that the existence of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is no…
- Israel Military and warfare Religion
The Kissinger Plan in Lebanon is a conspiracy theory about alleged political strategies of the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Lebanon, who played a complex role in the Lebanese Civil …
- General
SMOF (also spelled smof) is an acronym used within the science fiction fan community which stands for "Secret Master(s) Of Fandom". Its coining is generally attributed to long-time science fiction fan…
- UFO
The cryptoterrestrial UFO hypothesis proposes that reports of flying saucers or UFOs are evidence of a hidden, Earth-based, technologically advanced civilization. Aaron John Gulyas, a scholar of consp…
- Communism
George Racey Jordan (January 4, 1898 – May 5, 1966) was an American military officer, businessman, lecturer, activist, and author.
- Communism
In 1948, on the initiative of Chilean President Gabriel González Videla, the Chilean National Congress enacted the Permanent Defense of Democracy Law (Spanish: Ley de Defensa Permanente de la Democrac…
- Death
Max Victor Wenner (15 April 1887 – 4 January 1937) was a Briton of Swiss ancestry, textile business heir, country squire, wildlife photographer, citizen scientist (usually publishing as M.V. Wenner), …
- Military and warfare
Documents on the Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern-Central Europe is the abridged English translation of a multi-volume publication that was created by a commission of West German historians betwe…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Ashbourne portrait is one of several portraits that have been falsely identified as portrayals of William Shakespeare. At least 60 such works had been offered for sale to the National Portrait Gal…
- Health
The Fabunan Antiviral Injection (FAI) is a patented medicine administered to patients by US-based Filipino doctors Ruben and Willie Fabunan, who claims that it can treat dengue fever, chikungunya, dog…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Pacific Repertory Theatre, originally known as the GroveMont Theatre, is a non-profit year-round theatre company based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States. The company presents an annu…
- Death
Ceclava Czapska (Cécile Czapska) (Bucharest 2 January 1899 – 1 December 1970) was a Romanov impostor who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Maria, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last autocratic ruler …
- Military and warfare
Crimean Tatar denialism is the idea that the Crimean Tatars are not a distinct ethnic group. After the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, the Soviet government no longer recognized Crimean Tatars as a…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (ISBN 978-0806517728) is a book by L. Fletcher Prouty who was a Washington insider for nearly 20 years. It was first published in 1992…
- Communism
Bolshevism on Trial is a 1919 American silent propaganda film made by the Mayflower Photoplay Company and distributed through Lewis J. Selznick's Select Pictures Corporation.
Directed by Harley Knoles…
- Military and warfare
The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos gyventojų genocido ir rezistencijos tyrimo centras or LGGRTC) is a state-funded research institute in Lithuania dedicated…
- Nazi Religion
Ludwig Straniak (June 30, 1879 – January 16, 1951), was a German mystic, Germanic revivalist and most notably a pendulum dowser. He was an architect and astrologer and was used by the German military …
- Genocide denial
Rwanda: The Untold Story is a 2014 documentary film by the British Broadcasting Corporation that was broadcast on BBC2 at prime-time on 1 October 2014.
- General
A conspiracy theory in the context of law is a theory of a case that presents a conspiracy to be considered by a trier of fact. A basic tenet of "traditional 'conspiracy theory'" is that each co-consp…
- Race and ethnicity
White Rabbit Radio is a far-right and white nationalist online radio station hosted by Timothy Gallaher Murdock, known by the pseudonym Horus the Avenger. The program promotes white purity, the white …
- Health
Conservative Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Консервативна България), previously known as National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Национален фронт за спасение на България, romanized: Natsionalen…
- Pseudolaw
"We live in a constitutional republic", "the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy", and variations of these phrases are political slogans associated, since the mid-20th century, with some aspects of co…
- Death
Joseph Enoch Vogler (April 24, 1913 – c. May 31, 1993) was an American politician and the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party.
He was also chair or gubernatorial nominee during most of the party…
- Genocide denial
The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide is a 2006 book by Guenter Lewy about the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. In the book, Lewy argues that the high death toll among…
- Death
The Barracks anarchists (Italian: Anarchici della Baracca) were a group of five young adults who lost their lives in a car accident on the night of 26 September 1970, while they were on their way to R…
- Communism
Scales v. United States, 367 U.S. 203 (1961), was a 1960 decision of the United States Supreme Court that upheld the conviction of Junius Scales for violating of the Smith Act on the basis on his memb…
- Communism
Jozef Mlot-Mroz (born Józef Wladyslaw Mróz; January 21, 1921 – October 31, 2002) was a Polish-American anti-communist, right-wing political activist and antisemitic conspiracy theorist.
During the Sec…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, Inc. (OPSEC) is a 501(c)(4) organization formed in the United States in 2012 to conduct a media campaign critical of President Barack Obama by accusing his adm…
- Health
Covid-Organics (CVO) is an Artemisia-based drink that Andry Rajoelina, former president of Madagascar, claims can prevent and cure Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The drink is produced from a spe…
- Pseudolaw
Guardians of the Free Republics, active around 2010, was a group based in the U.S. state of Texas regarded as being part of the sovereign citizen movement. The group was associated with Sam Kennedy (w…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
Where's the Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President is a book by Jerome Corsi which promotes the false claim that then U.S. President Barack Obama was not a natu…
- Communism
Rooi gevaar (English: Red danger) is an Afrikaans phrase, sometimes translated into English as "Communist danger". The term gained popularity in South Africa during the Cold War and was associated wit…
- Death
Armand Robin (January 19, 1912 – March 29, 1961) was a French poet, translator, and journalist.
He joined the French Anarchist Federation in 1945, which published his Poèmes indésirables (Undesirable…
- Communism
A Protocol of 1919 is a fabricated text published as an appendix in some editions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It was purportedly found on 9 December 1919 among the documents of a Jewish Re…
- Military and warfare
Folk og Land (lit. 'People and Country') was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Oslo. It was an organ of historical negationism for Norwegians who were found to be Nazi collaborators during the Secon…
- Death
Eduardo Frei Montalva, President of Chile (1964 – 1970), was as an opposition leader against the government of President Salvador Allende and initially supported the Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed …
- Health
Ethan Lindenberger (born September 30, 2000) is an American activist known for his opposition to anti-vaccine disinformation campaigns. He received vaccinations, against his mother's wishes, on reachi…
- Death
Alejandro Alberto Castro Castro (20 September 1988 – 4 October 2018) was a Chilean environmental activist. His death, officially reported as a suicide, has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theo…
- Communism
Camp Unity was a communist-affiliated summer resort for adults located in Wingdale, New York. It was one of the first multiracial camps of its kind in the United States.
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The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire is a 2008 non-fiction book by Matt Taibbi, published by Spiegel & Grau on May 6, 20…
- Military and warfare
There are differences from one country to another regarding the definition of Japanese war crimes. War crimes have been broadly defined as violations of the laws or customs of war, which involves acts…
- Race and ethnicity
Hege Storhaug (born 21 May 1962) is a Norwegian political activist, writer and author. She has been known for her criticism of Islamic cultural practices focusing on women's rights since the 1990s, a…
- Health Science and technology
Hold-up is a 2020 independent pseudoscience propaganda film directed by French conspiracy theorist Pierre Barnérias. The film makes a number of false claims about the COVID-19 pandemic. Hold-Up was f…
- Military and warfare
The Association for the Defence of the Memory of Marshal Pétain (French: Association pour défendre la mémoire du maréchal Pétain; ADMP) is a French association set up on 6 November 1951 under the patr…
- False flag
Connoquenessing Township is a township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,265 at the 2020 census.
- Health
The Bulgarian Patriots (Bulgarian: Българските патриоти, romanized: Bŭlgarskite patrioti) was a nationalist electoral alliance formed by VMRO, Volya, and the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgar…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
The Green Marker Scare is a 2012 horror film from the Irish director Graham Jones that is animated by children. It premiered in November 2012 on YouTube.
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Marlowe Papers is a novel by Ros Barber published in 2012.
The novel, written in blank verse, is a story about the English 16th century poet Christopher Marlowe, contemporary of William Shakespea…
- Health
Nicoli Nattrass (born 30 May 1961) is a South African development economist who is professor of economics at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is the co-director of the Institute for Communities …
- Genocide denial
The Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), created in 1979, is the umbrella organization whose stated purpose is to promote cooperation between the social and cultural Turkish American orga…
- Communism
Robert Walter Scott McLeod (June 7, 1914 – November 7, 1961) headed the U.S. Department of State's Bureau for Security and Consular Affairs from 1953 to 1957 and served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland f…
- Death
Shrikant Khandalkar was a lawyer known for filing public interest litigation in India. He died Sunday 29 November 2015.
On Sunday 29 November 2015 Khandalkar was found dead. Police determined that the…
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The Conspiracy Museum was a private exhibition of conspiracy theories in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). R. B. Cutler, self-described as an "assassinologist", opened th…
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Virulent: The Vaccine War is a 2022 documentary produced by Laura Davis and directed by Tjardus Greidanus which explores the history, dangers and impact of the anti-vaccination movement in the United …
- Genocide denial
The historiography of Indigenous genocide is the study of how the history of Indigenous genocides have been documented, recorded, narrated, summarized and sometimes even silenced by historians, schola…
- Nazi Religion
A. Frank Glahn (1865–1941), was a German mystic, Germanic revivalist, and most notably a pendulum dowser. He was used by the German military in the Third Reich, not necessarily willingly.
Glahn was me…
- Genocide denial
The March for Justice on April 24, 2015 was a six-mile march of over 130,000 participants from the neighborhood designated as Little Armenia in Hollywood to the Turkish consulate of Los Angeles, deman…
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Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK (French: L'Amérique brûle, lit. "America Is Burning") is a 1968 political book about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Published under the pseudonym James He…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Interred With Their Bones is a novel by Jennifer Lee Carrell published in 2007. It was published in the United Kingdom as The Shakespeare Secret. The novel's plot and structure have been compared to T…
- Health Science and technology
The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa has had a large effect on the culture of most of the West African countries. In most instances, the effect is a rather negative one as it has disrupted many Afr…
- Health
The Nationalist Party of Bulgaria or NPB (Natzionalisticheska Partiya na Bulgaria) (Bulgarian: Националистическа партия на България), was a far-right nationalist political party in Bulgaria that was f…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Samuel Mosheim Schmucker or Smucker (January 12, 1823 – May 12, 1863) was an American historical writer and popular biographer.
- Death
Radomir Radović (1951 – 30 April 1984) was a civil engineering technician and trade unionist who advocated creating an independent trade union in SFR Yugoslavia. He was among the 28 members of Milovan…
- Genocide denial
Roderic H. Davison (April 27, 1917 – March 23, 1996) was an American historian of the Middle East who taught at George Washington University from 1947 to 1993. He served as president of the Middle Eas…
- Death
John Williams Ntwali (7 June 1979 – 18 January 2023) was a Rwandan investigative journalist. The founder of the YouTube news channel PAX TV – IREME News and editor of the independent newspaper The Chr…
- Death
Albert Hackelsberger (17 October 1893 – 25 September 1940) was a German businessman and politician during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. He sat as a deputy in the Reichstag for the German Cente…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Dark Lady Players is a New York-based Shakespeare company who perform what they regard as the religious allegories in the Shakespearean plays. In 2007, they performed an allegorical production of …
- Communism
The Interim Committee on Un-American Activities or Joint Legislative Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, most commonly known as the Canwell Committee (1947–1949), was a special investiga…
- Death
Alexei Tammet-Romanov was the name assumed by Ernest Veermann (died June 26, 1977), an Estonian immigrant to Canada, when he claimed to be the last heir to the throne of Russia, Tsarevich Alexei Nikol…
- Communism
Carl Paivio (born Karl Einar Päiviö; 23 November 1893 – April 1952) was a Finnish American labor activist and anarchist. He became known in 1919 during the First Red Scare as Paivio and his fellow ana…
- Pseudolaw
The Rodolphus Allen Family Private Trust was a group, purporting to be a property trust, operating in Ireland. While supporters of the group's methods stated that it could exploit loopholes in mortgag…
- Race and ethnicity
Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, published in October 2003, is a nonfiction book by Robert Spencer. Spencer described the book as an "in-depth study of the doctr…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Beard of Avon is a play by Amy Freed, originally commissioned and produced by South Coast Repertory in 2001. It is a farcical treatment of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, in which …
- Communism
Wieman v. Updegraff, 344 U.S. 183 (1952), is a unanimous ruling by the United States Supreme Court which held that Oklahoma loyalty oath legislation violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth A…
- Communism
Noto v. United States, 367 U.S. 290 (1961), was a 1961 United States Supreme Court case that reversed the felony conviction of a lower-echelon official of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
- Health
Beginning in March 2014 and increasing substantially in May and June 2014, over 600 teenage girls and women in El Carmen de Bolívar, Colombia developed medically unexplained symptoms, including fainti…
- Communism
The International Juridical Association (IJA; 1931–1942) was an association of socially minded American lawyers, established by Carol Weiss King and considered by the U.S. federal government (in the f…
- Genocide denial
Ahmet Esat Uras (1882–1957) was a perpetrator of the Armenian genocide who later wrote The Armenians in History and the Armenian Question (1950), an apologist work which has been described as "the ur-…
- Health
Roy D. Mugerwa (2 January 1942 – 19 April 2019) was a Ugandan physician, cardiologist and researcher. His contribution to the world of academics include being a Professor Emeritus at Makerere Universi…
- Communism
Herman Struve Hensel (August 22, 1901 – May 27, 1991) was an American international lawyer who served in several senior positions in the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defense from 1941 …
- General
The Operations plan (Spanish: Plan de Operaciones) is a secret document attributed to Mariano Moreno, that set harsh ways for the Primera Junta, the first de facto independent government of Argentina …
- Health
Kim Goldberg (born 1954 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American-born journalist, poet and former green party supporter who has lived in Canada since the 1970s.
- Race and ethnicity
David Bukay (Hebrew: דוד בוקאי) is a Professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Islamic Fundamentalism and the Arab Political Culture. He specializes in the Arab–…
- Genocide denial
ASİMKK (Turkish: Asılsız Soykırım İddiaları ile Mücadele Koordinasyon Kurulu; English: Committee to Coordinate the Struggle with the Baseless Genocide Claims or Coordinating Council against Baseless G…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
The Södertälje case (Swedish: Södertäljefallet) was an alleged case of satanic ritual abuse that led to prosecution and convictions in Sweden in the early 1990s. In 1992 a 15-year-old girl from Södert…
- Communism
Jesse Washington Carter (December 19, 1888 – March 15, 1959) was an American lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from September 12, 1939 to March 15, 1959.
- Death
Christoforos Marinos (1967 - July 23, 1996) was a Greek anarchist and hunger striker known for his long involvement with both the police and the controversy surrounding his death.
- Communism
Helen Infeld (20 July 1907 – 6 July 1993) was a mathematics professor and one of the few women to earn a doctorate in mathematics in the United States before World War II. For her anti-fascist politic…
- Communism
William Henry Taylor (30 March 1906 – January 1965) was a Canadian-born U.S. Treasury economist accused by Elizabeth Bentley of having been a Soviet spy.
- Race and ethnicity
Hallgrim Berg (born 28 January 1945) is a Norwegian author, traditional folk musician, and former politician for the Conservative Party. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament from 1982 to 1997, …
- Genocide denial Nazi
Ryszard Janusz Bender (16 February 1932 – 24 February 2016) was a Polish right-wing politician and historian. He is noted for his characterization of Auschwitz as a "labour camp", attracting allegatio…
- Communism
Samuel Krieger (1902–1981) was an American union organizer, IWW member, Teamsters member, and communist.
- Health
Fazze is an influencer marketing agency. It is a subsidiary of AdNow, a Russian-based marketing firm. The agency was behind a multi-country campaign to spread COVID-19 disinformation online. Fazze, a …
- Genocide denial
The Blue Book, Political Truth or Historical Fact is a 2009 documentary film by Gagik Karagheuzian about Armenian genocide denial.
- Communism
William A. Reuben (November 26, 1914 – May 31, 2004) was an American investigative journalist and author, best known for writing about the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg atomic espionage case and the Alge…
- Health
19 to Zero is a Canadian not-for-profit behavioural sciences initiative based in Calgary, Alberta. Hosted at the University of Calgary, the public–private partnership is made up of around 500 members …
- Shakespeare authorship question
Wilbur Gleason Zeigler (1857–1923) was a lawyer and writer who is best known for founding the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship in the preface and notes to his 1895 novel It Was Marlowe. He a…
- Communism
The Undercurrent was a 1919 American silent directed by Wilfrid North, produced by Guy Empey, distributed by Select Pictures. It is based on a story by Arthur Guy Empey and though fictional, is consid…
- Communism
The Responsibilities Program was the code name for a Federal Bureau of Investigation program active from 1951 to 1955. Under this program the FBI would give reports about possible subversives to state…
- Genocide denial
Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies or CESS (Avrasya Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi, ASAM) is a Turkish think tank organization which studies about politics, economics, international relations, hist…
- Sexuality and gender
/v/, short for Video Games, is an anonymous imageboard on 4chan for discussing video games, consoles, and related topics. Created in October 2004, the board has influenced internet culture through a s…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Confederated Southern Memorial Association (Confederated Southern Memorial Association (U.S.); acronym CSMA; est. 1900) was a Neo-Confederate women's organization of unified memorial associations of t…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Frank W. Wadsworth (June 14, 1919 – August 9, 2012) was an American Shakespearean scholar, author, and sportsman.
- Health
Gregory D. Zimet is an American clinical psychologist and academic researcher known for his work on vaccination attitudes and behavior, particularly regarding human papillomavirus vaccination (HPV), a…
- Race and ethnicity
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too is a book by Claire Berlinski about problems and challenges facing Europe, and the consequences of Europe's failure to meet these challen…
- Health
Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines are Safe and Save Lives is a 2012 book that explains the history of and science behind vaccines. The book encourages routine childhood immunization and dispels myth…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart is a 1999 non-fiction book by Felicity Allen, published by the University of Missouri Press, about Jefferson Davis.
The author argued that many existing works were…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The John W. Inzer Museum (also known as the Inzer House and the Dean–Inzer House) is a historic residence and museum in Ashville, Alabama. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Pl…
- Genocide denial Nazi
NORTOM is a Polish publishing house, founded in 1992 in Wrocław, specialising in books on Polish history with a focus on the Kresy region of the prewar Second Polish Republic, the Polish literature an…
- Death
José Luzón Morales was a Spanish anarchist militant who was part of the "Spartacus" battalion in the Spanish Civil War.
- Health
Edward Angas Johnson (1873 – 19 June 1951), known as Angas or E. Angas Johnson, was City Health Officer of Adelaide, South Australia. His name has very frequently been misspelled as "Angus" Johnson.
- Aviation incidents
In the afternoon of 23 April 2007, Ray Bowyer, a pilot for the airline Aurigny flying south towards the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands, sighted unidentified flying objects. He reported the …
- Israel
The 2010 Sharm El Sheikh shark attacks were a series of shark attacks on swimmers in the Red Sea at a tourist resort in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. One Ukrainian and three Russians were seriously injured …
- Israel
2010 İskenderun attack was an attack in Mediterranean port city of İskenderun on 31 May 2010, around 00:40 perpetrated by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). 6 soldiers died and 7 or 9 others were inju…
- General
The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-lo…
- Health
On 12 April 2025, two cases of measles linked to international travel were confirmed in the Cayo and Corozal districts of Belize. By 28 April, a further five cases were confirmed among close contacts …
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On December 13, 2025, a mass shooting occurred at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, during the second day of final examination week for the fall semester. The shooter, Cláud…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
On 10 November 2025, a car exploded near the Red Fort in Delhi, India, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 20 others. According to the Delhi Police, there were two to three people inside…
- Race and ethnicity
On May 21, 2025, Donald Trump, the president of the United States and Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, held a contentious bilateral meeting broadcast live in the Oval Office at the Whit…
- Death
In the early morning of June 14, 2025, Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman was assassinated at her home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States, by Vance Boelter. Hortman, the leader of …
- Israel Race and ethnicity
In late July 2026, an estimated 80,000 people, mainly young men originating from Morocco, illegally breached and crossed the border from Morocco into the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta in North Afri…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag w…
- Science and technology
Misinformation related to 5G telecommunications technology was widespread in many countries of the world. False information and conspiracy theories were propagated by the general public and celebritie…
- General
The Bauer 5GBioShield, usually shortened to 5GBioShield, is a fraudulent device which was claimed to protect against radiation from 5G mobile networks. The device was invented by clinical pharmacist J…
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Various conspiracy theories allege that certain institutions or individuals had foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001. Some of the primary debates include whether the …
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
Various conspiracy theories attribute the preparation and execution of the September 11 attacks against the United States to parties other than, or in addition to, al-Qaeda. These include the theory t…
- Communism
Abraham J. Isserman (May 11, 1900 – April 22, 1988) was an American lawyer and activist who defended Gerhart Eisler in 1947, and leaders of the CPUSA in the 1949 Foley Square trial. Isserman was found…
- Death
Achmed Abdullah (12 May 1881 – 12 May 1945) was an American writer apparently from Afghanistan. He gave his full name variously as "Achmed Abdullah Nadir Khan el-Durani el-Iddrissyeh" or as "Alexander…
- Sexuality and gender
Acquired homosexuality is the pseudoscientific idea that homosexuality can be spread, either through sexual seduction or recruitment by homosexuals, or through exposure to media depicting homosexualit…
- Race and ethnicity
Active clubs are decentralized cells of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups masquerading as a fitness-focused organization active in North America and Europe. Largely inspired by the defunct street-…
- Health
AdNow is a digital marketing company involved in several disinformation campaigns in the EU.
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The American Civil War Centennial was the official United States commemoration of the American Civil War. Commemoration activities began in 1957, four years before the 100th anniversary of the war's f…
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American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us is a book written by former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura, together with Dick Russell. It was published by Sky…
- Communism
The American Public Relations Forum (APRF) was a conservative anti-communist organization for Catholic women, established in southern California in 1952 with its headquarters in Burbank. It was founde…
- Military and warfare
The occupying United States government undertook the selective cover-up of some Japanese war crimes after the end of World War II in Asia, granting political immunity to military personnel who had eng…
- Communism
During its Second Red Scare (1947–1957) a distinct set of domestic policies and conservative social mores came to dominate popular culture and interpersonal relations in the United States.
- Communism
Americans Battling Communism Inc. (ABC) was an anti-communist organization created following an October 1947 speech by Pennsylvania Judge Blair Gunther that called for an "ABC movement" to educate Ame…
- Death
Amiram Nir (Hebrew: עמירם ניר; 8 December 1950 – 30 November 1988) was an Israeli journalist. He had also been a terrorism advisor to two Israeli prime ministers, and played a role in the Iran–Contra …
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground is a 2011 book by Canadian journalist Jonathan Kay that examines the popularity of conspiracy theories in the United St…
- Sexuality and gender
The Angers pedophile network case is a French criminal case in which sixty-two people were convicted of sexual abuse committed against forty-five children aged from a few months to 12 years old, betwe…
- Sexuality and gender
Anita Sarkeesian ( sar-KEE-zee-ən; born 1983) is a Canadian-American feminist media critic. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency, a website that hosts videos and commentary analyzing portrayals of…
- Death
Anna Anderson (born Franziska Schanzkowska; 16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984) was an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the…
- Sexuality and gender
Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Nilesh Krishnaa in his directorial debut and jointly produced by Jatin Sethi and R. Ravindran under Zee Studios,…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Anne (or Anna) Whateley is the name given to a woman who is sometimes supposed to have been the intended wife of William Shakespeare before he married Anne Hathaway. Most scholars believe that Whatele…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Anonymous is a 2011 period drama film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff. The film is a fictionalized version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan cou…
- Communism
Anti anti-communism is opposition to anti-communism as applied in the Cold War. The term was coined in 1984 by Clifford Geertz and was meant to show that it was possible to criticize anti-communism, p…
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The Anti-Communist Foreign Legion of the Caribbean (Spanish: Legión Extranjera Anticomunista del Caribe, LAC) was an anti-Castroist right-wing paramilitary group based in the Dominican Republic funded…
- Genocide denial
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, is a New York-based international 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1913 with the sta…
- Communism Military and warfare
Anti-Katyn (Polish: Anty-Katyń, Russian: Анти-Катынь) is a denialism campaign intended to reduce and obscure the significance of the Katyn massacre of 1940 — where approximately 22,000 Polish military…
- Sexuality and gender
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric comprises themes, catchphrases, and slogans that have been used in order to demean lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is widely cons…
- Communism
Anti-Propaganda Act of 1940 or Voorhis Anti-Propaganda Act is a United States statute requiring the registration of organizations subject to foreign control while accomplishing activities in the Unite…
- Health
The Australian Family Party is a minor right-wing political party that has been registered in South Australia since 2021. It was founded by Bob Day, who served in the Australian Senate from 2014 until…
- Genocide denial
The history wars is a term used in Australia to describe the public debate about the interpretation of the history of the European colonisation of Australia and the development of contemporary Austral…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
The victim theory (German: Opferthese), encapsulated in the slogan "Austria – the Nazis' first victim" (Österreich – das erste Opfer der Nazis), was the Austrian ideological basis formed by Austrians …
- Death
A conspiracy theory that originated in 2011 states that Canadian singer Avril Lavigne died by suicide in 2003, shortly after the release of her debut album, Let Go (2002), and was replaced by a body d…
- Death
Avtar Singh Khanda (died 15 June 2023) was a Sikh activist raised in Moga, Punjab, India and living in the United Kingdom.
- Communism Death False flag Israel
The Babushka Lady is an unidentified woman present during the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy who is speculated to have photographed or filmed the events that occurred in Dallas' De…
- Pseudolaw
Bernard Gilroy (born 1967 or 1968) is an Irish political activist, anti-eviction campaigner and conspiracy theorist who has been leader of the far-right political party Liberty Republic (formerly Dire…
- Communism
Bernard James Sheil (February 18, 1888 – September 13, 1969) was an Auxiliary Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago.
- Communism
Hubert Lewis (22 July 1920 – 21 December 2010) was a World War II RAF airman who went on to become a peace campaigner in the UK. Bertie Lewis became well known for his opposition to nuclear weapons a…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy is a 1980 book by David S. Lifton. It details the author's long quest to solve what he considered a fundamental mystery in…
- Science and technology
The Betz mystery sphere is a metal sphere with an approximate diameter of 8 inches (20 cm) weighing nearly 22 pounds (10 kg) uncovered in 1974 by a family in Florida.
- General Religion
Biblical conspiracy theories posit that much of what is believed about the Bible is a deception created to suppress a secret or ancient truth. Such conspiracy theories may claim that Jesus actually ha…
- Health Science and technology
Big Pharma conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories that claim that pharmaceutical companies as a whole, especially big corporations, act in dangerously secretive and sinister ways that harm patien…
- Health
Brian Martin (born 1947) is a social scientist in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in NSW, Australia.…
- Death
Brijgopal Harkishan Loya (12 December 1966 – 1 December 2014) was an Indian judge who served in a special court which deals with matters relating to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He was p…
- Death
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy,…
- Nazi Religion
Bruno Schweizer (3 May 1897 in Dießen am Ammersee - 11 November 1958) was a German linguist, best known for his work with the Nazi Ahnenerbe division. Schweizer was a personal believer in the theory t…
- Health
The COVID-19 kit, often referred to as early treatment, is a term used to describe the denialist approach promoted by the Brazilian government led by Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters regarding the us…
- Health
COVID-19 scams are scams whose cover story primarily relies on the existence of the COVID-19 pandemic. They have been reported in multiple countries, primarily the United States, Canada and the United…
- Health
A variety of unfounded conspiracy theories and other misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines have spread based on misunderstood or misrepresented science, religion, and law. These have included exagger…
- Death Religion
The Cairo Fire (Arabic: حريق القاهرة), also known as Black Saturday, was a series of riots that took place on 26 January 1952, marked by the burning and looting of some 750 buildings—retail shops, caf…
- Science and technology
The California drought manipulation conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory that proposes that the 2011–2017 drought was a deliberate, man-made phenomenon, created by weather modification. It is larg…
- Communism Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Cambodian genocide denial is the belief expressed by some academics that early claims of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge government (1975–1979) in Democratic Kampuchea were exaggerated. Many s…
- Death
Camillo Berneri (Italian: [berˈnɛːri]; 1897–1937) was an Italian anarchist and anti-fascist activist. Born in Lodi, Berneri joined the Italian Socialist Party at an early age, but quickly became dissi…
- Military and warfare
The charge at Krojanty, battle of Krojanty, the riding of Krojanty or skirmish of Krojanty was a Polish cavalry charge on the evening of 1 September 1939, the first day of the Second World War, near t…
- Science and technology
The chemtrail conspiracy theory is the erroneous belief that long-lasting condensation trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are actually "chemtrails" consisting of chemical or biological ag…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
Child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (CSAAS) is a syndrome proposed by Roland C. Summit in 1983 to describe how he believed sexually abused children responded to ongoing sexual abuse. He said chi…
- Aviation incidents
The Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter occurred at approximately 2:45 am on July 24, 1948, in the skies near Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted…
- Communism
The term China Hand originally referred to 19th-century merchants in the treaty ports of China, but came to be used for anyone with expert knowledge of the language, culture, and people of China. In 1…
- Communism
The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA) was a labor organization formed in 1933 to protect the civil rights of overseas Chinese living in North America and "to help Chinese laundry workers break thei…
- Communism
The Communist Control Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844) is an American law signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on August 24, 1954, that outlawed the Communist Party USA and criminaliz…
- Communism Genocide denial
The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), abbreviated CPGB-ML, is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in the United Kingdom, active in England, Scotland, and Wales. The…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Confederate Medal of Honor is a posthumous award created by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) in 1977 to recognize Confederate veterans who "distinguished themselves conspicuously by gallantr…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Confederate Memorial was a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. It commemorated members of the armed forces of the Confederate States of America wh…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Confederate Memorial Hall (sometimes calling itself the "Confederate Embassy") was a museum, library, and social club owned by the Confederate Memorial Association and located at 1322 Vermont Aven…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Confederate Monument (Greenville, South Carolina) is a shaft of granite topped by a marble statue of a soldier—the oldest public sculpture in Greenville—that memorializes the Confederate dead of t…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
There are several works of art in the United States Capitol honoring former leaders of the Confederate States of America and generals in the Confederate States Army, including six statues in the Natio…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Dalit Voice was a political magazine published in Bangalore, India. The current full title is "Dalit Voice: the voice of the persecuted nationalities denied human rights" and it appears fortnightly in…
- Race and ethnicity
Damien Rieu (born 27 August 1989) is a French far-right activist, political communicator, and political consultant.
He became active as a teenager in the Front national de la jeunesse (FNJ), then with…
- Genocide denial
Dark Pasts: Changing the State's Story in Turkey and Japan (2018) is a book by historian Jennifer Dixon that discusses controversies around Japanese war crimes in World War II and the Armenian genocid…
- Israel
David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, former politician and grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was …
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David William Ferrie (March 28, 1918 – February 22, 1967) was an American pilot and anti-communist activist who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in a con…
- Race and ethnicity
David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones (15 February 1936 – 17 November 2025) was a British conservative author, historian and political commentator.
- Genocide denial Nazi
Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian and diplomat. She is the author of Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005)…
- General
A debunker is a person or organization that exposes or discredits claims believed to be false, exaggerated, or pretentious. The term is often associated with skeptical investigation of controversial t…
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Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts is a non-fiction book published by Hearst Communications, Inc. on August 15, 2006. The book is based on the article "9/11: De…
- Communism
"Declaration of Conscience" was a Cold War speech made by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950, less than four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy's "Wheeling Speech" on Febr…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt is an Internet signing petition which seeks to enlist broad public support for the Shakespeare authorship question to be accepted as a legitimate field of academic …
- Genocide denial
Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789–2009 is a 2015 book by Turkish sociologist Fatma Müge Göçek which deals with the denial, justifica…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Denial of genocides of Indigenous peoples, a form of genocide denial, consists of claims in which the multiple genocides and atrocity crimes which have been committed against Indigenous peoples are de…
- Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
Since the October 7 attacks, which initiated the ongoing Gaza war, there has been a spread of conspiracy theories, largely antisemitic and on social media, focused on the argument that the attacks or …
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Nazi Race and ethnicity Religion
Denial of the genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a Nazi German puppet state which existed during World War II, is a historical negationist claim that no systematic mass crime…
- Communism
Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951), was a United States Supreme Court case relating to Eugene Dennis, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA. The Court ruled that Dennis did not have t…
- Sexuality and gender
Depression Quest is a 2013 interactive fiction game dealing with the subject of depression. It was developed by Zoë Quinn using the Twine engine, with writing by Quinn and Patrick Lindsey, and music b…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Der Weg (German: The Way) was a far right monthly magazine which was published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the period 1947–1957. Its subtitle was Monatshefte zur Kulturpflege und zum Aufbau (German…
- Health
Destiny Church is a New Zealand Christian fundamentalist organisation variously described as a church, a religious movement, or a cult. Based in South Auckland and with a strong Māori conservative cha…
- Genocide denial
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ʔalɡemaɪnə ˈtsaɪtʊŋ]; often abbreviated to DAZ; English: German General Newspaper) was a German newspaper published between 1861 and 1945.
Until 1918, the…
- Communism
Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey and former governor of Minnesota Harold Stassen engaged in the first United States presidential debate on May 17, 1948. The two candidates were competing for the R…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Dunning School was an historiographical school of thought regarding the Reconstruction period of American history (1865–1877), supporting conservative elements against the Radical Republicans who …
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Emilia Lanier theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that the English poet Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) is the actual author of at least part of the plays and poems attributed…
- UFO
Endangered Species is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed and co-written by Alan Rudolph, and starring Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Peter Coyote, and Hoyt Axton. It follows a former…
- Health
Enough is Enough (Serbian: Доста је било, romanised: Dosta je bilo, abbr. DJB) is a right-wing populist political party in Serbia.
It was established on 27 January 2014 around the former minister of e…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Europa: The Last Battle is a 2017 English-language Swedish ten-part neo-Nazi propaganda film created by Tobias Bratt, a Swedish far-right activist associated with the Nordic Resistance Movement, a Eur…
- False flag
Evan Vucci (; born June 15, 1977) is an American photojournalist, currently serving as a senior photojournalist for Reuters in Washington, D.C. Vucci has shot and produced both still photography and v…
- General
Exaro or Exaro News was a British website based in London between 2011 and 2016. It purportedly undertook political investigative journalism, but is now primarily known (together with its editor Mark …
- Communism
President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 on April 27, 1953. Effective May 27, 1953, it revoked President Truman's Executive Order 9835 of 1947 and dismantled its Loyalty Review Boar…
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The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagi…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The First White House of the Confederacy is a historic house in Montgomery, Alabama, which served as the initial executive residence of President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis a…
- Race and ethnicity
Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen (born 11 June 1975) is a Norwegian far-right counter-jihad blogger who writes under the pseudonym Fjordman. Jensen wrote anonymously as Fjordman starting in 2005, until he di…
- General
Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient societies subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography. The model has undergone a recent re…
- Aviation incidents
The Flight 105 UFO sighting occurred on 4 July 1947, when three crew members aboard a United Airlines flight reported seeing multiple unidentified flying objects in the skies over the Pacific Northwes…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Florian theory of Shakespeare authorship holds that the Protestant pastor Michelangelo Florio (1515–1566) or his son the English lexicographer John Florio (1552–1625), or both, wrote the plays of …
- Communism
The Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (commonly known as the Johns Committee) was established by the Florida Legislature in 1956, during the era of the Second Red Scare and the Lavender Scar…
- Aviation incidents
Flying Saucers from Outer Space is a non-fiction book published in 1953 by Donald Keyhoe about unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
- Communism
Frederick Vanderbilt Field (April 13, 1905 – February 1, 2000) was an American leftist political activist, political writer and a great-great-grandson of railroad tycoon Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbi…
- Science and technology
Free energy suppression (or new energy suppression) is a conspiracy theory that technologically viable, pollution-free, no-cost energy sources are being suppressed by governments, corporations, or adv…
- Health
The Freedom Alliance (Finnish: Vapauden Liitto, VL), is a national conservative registered political party in Finland. The party was founded by Ossi Tiihonen after splitting from the Power Belongs to …
- Health
The Freedom List (Danish: Frihedslisten) is a Danish political group. A liberal party, it brands itself as promoting individual rights. It was founded during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark by promin…
- Race and ethnicity
Freedom, Equality and the Muslim Brotherhood (Norwegian: Frihet, likhet og det muslimske brorskap) is a Norwegian documentary film written and presented by Walid al-Kubaisi and directed by Per Christi…
- General Pseudolaw
The freeman on the land movement (sometimes spelled freeman-on-the-land or abbreviated as FOTL), also known as the freemen of the land, the freemen movement, or simply freemen, is a loose group of ind…
- Nazi Religion
Friedrich Bernhard Marby (10 May 1882 – 3 December 1966) was a German rune occultist and Germanic revivalist. He is best known for his revivalism and use of the Armanen runes. Marby was imprisoned du…
- Genocide denial
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) is a Canadian public policy think tank founded in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Centre favors free markets and has promoted climate change denial…
- General
The furtive fallacy is an informal fallacy of emphasis in which historical outcomes are asserted to be the result of hidden (furtive) misconduct or wrongdoing by decision makers. Historian David Hacke…
- Science and technology
The GEC-Marconi scientist deaths theory looks at when between 1982 and 1990, 25 British-based GEC-Marconi scientists and engineers who worked on the Sting Ray torpedo project and United States Strateg…
- Health Science and technology
GMO conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories related to the production and sale of genetically modified crops and genetically modified food (also referred to as genetically modified organisms or "G…
- Health
Health, Environment, Accountability, Rights, Transparency (HEART) is a minor Australian political party registered federally and in New South Wales. The party supports alternative medicine, COVID-19 s…
- Military and warfare
HIAG (German: Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS, lit. 'Mutual Aid Association of Former Waffen-SS Members') was a lobby group and a denialist veterans' org…
- Health Sexuality and gender
HIV/AIDS denialism is the belief, despite evidence to the contrary, that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) does not cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Some of its proponents reject…
- Health
In South Africa, HIV/AIDS denialism had a significant impact on public health policy from 1999 to 2008, during the presidency of Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki criticized the scientific consensus that HIV is the …
- Religion
Halal conspiracy theories revolve around a series of Islamophobic conspiracy theories and hoaxes regarding halal certification in products such as food, beverages and cosmetics. The claims usually mad…
- Genocide denial Israel Nazi
The Hamas–UNRWA Holocaust dispute erupted on 31 August 2009 following a perception in the Gaza Strip that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) planned to include a course on human right…
- Race and ethnicity
The Helter Skelter scenario is an apocalyptic vision that was supposedly embraced by Charles Manson and members of his Family. At the trial of Manson and three others for the Tate–LaBianca murders, t…
- Death
Hemant Kamlakar Karkare, () (12 December 1954 – 26 November 2008) was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In 2009, he was posth…
- Death
Herbert Charles Abrams (July 9, 1955 – July 23, 1996), also known by the nickname Mr. Electricity, was an American professional wrestling promoter from Queens, New York, who founded the Universal Wres…
- Health
Herbert Kickl (born 19 October 1968) is an Austrian politician who has been leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since June 2021. He previously served as minister of the interior fro…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Hester Dowden (1868–1949), also known as Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium who is most notable for having claimed to contact the spirits of Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare and ot…
- Nazi Religion
The Hexenkartothek (known as the "H-special order" project) was an investigation into witch trials led by SS-Untersturmführer Rudolf Levin under the orders of Heinrich Himmler.
Himmler organised a tea…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Heyward Shepherd monument is a monument in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It commemorates Haywood Shepherd (1825 – October 17, 1859), a free black man who was the first person killed during John Br…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary wing whose military and security activities have been prohibited by the Lebanese government since March 2026, amid the…
- Science and technology
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a University of Alaska Fairbanks program which researches the ionosphere – the highest, ionized part of Earth's atmosphere. The most promi…
- Health
Homeoprophylaxis, or homeopathic prophylaxis, is the use of homeopathy, as a preventive medicine or immunisation against serious infectious diseases.
- Death
Homi Jehangir Bhabha (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear theoretical physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding directo…
- Sexuality and gender
Homosexual seduction is the pseudoscientific conspiracy theory which suggests homosexuality is spread through intergenerational sex, and that older homosexuals aim to change the sexual orientation of …
- Communism
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives created …
- Health
House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic is a 2009 film directed, produced, and hosted by Brent Leung. The film argues that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is harmless and does not cause acquired i…
- Health
Hover Lab, also known as Garo Sero Research Institute (Korean: 가로세로연구소), is a South Korean YouTube channel and think tank.
Hover Lab is widely considered to promote far-right political views, and has …
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Hugh Talmage Lefler (1901–1981) was an American historian and educator. He is known for his work on the history of North Carolina, some of which is considered pseudohistorical. Lefler taught at the Un…
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The September 11 attacks were a series of terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, in which 2,977 people and 1…
- Genocide denial
Hutu Power, or Hutu Supremacy, is an ethnic supremacist ideology that asserts the ethnic superiority of Hutu, often in the context of being superior to Tutsi and Twa, and the supposed right of Hutu to…
- Communism
In re Anastaplo, 366 U.S. 82 (1961), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that denying a bar applicant's character and fitness because they would not answer questions about m…
- Science and technology
Infinite Energy: The Magazine of New Energy Technology, more commonly referred to simply as Infinite Energy, is a bi-monthly magazine published in New Hampshire that details theories and experiments c…
- Genocide denial Nazi
The Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR) (Information Service against Right-Wing Extremism) was a German-language internet portal devoted to collecting information about persons, organisa…
- General
The Institut Nova Història (INH, "New History Institute") is a Catalan cultural foundation with headquarters in Barcelona committed to historical journalism research. Its members, of which the most pr…
- Genocide denial
Institute for Armenian Research (Ermeni Araştırmaları Enstitüsü; EREN;ERAREN) was a privately funded think tank sub-working group in Turkey established in April 2001 by the Center for Eurasian Strateg…
- Communism
The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was an international NGO established in 1925 to provide a forum for discussion of problems and relations between nations of the Pacific Rim. The International …
- Genocide denial
The Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) is a foundation based in the United States with the avowed objective of advancing Turkish studies at colleges and universities in the United States. Having been …
- UFO
The interdimensional UFO hypothesis (IUH) is the proposal that unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are the result of experiencing other "dimensions" or "portals" that coexist separately alongsi…
- Genocide denial
The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide was the first major conference in the field of genocide studies, held in Tel Aviv on 20–24 June 1982. It was organized by Israel Charny, Elie…
- Genocide denial Nazi
International Holocaust Cartoon Contest was a 2006 cartoon competition, sponsored by the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, to denounce what it called Western "double standards on freedom of speech". The ev…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Ireland Shakespeare forgeries were a cause célèbre in 1790s London, when author and engraver Samuel Ireland announced the discovery, by his son William Henry Ireland, of a treasure-trove of Shakes…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Irvin Leigh Matus (July 25, 1941 – January 5, 2011) was an independent scholar, autodidact, and author. He is best known as an authority on Shakespeare, but also wrote about aspects of Brooklyn's hist…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, a…
- Communism
Is This Tomorrow: America Under Communism! was an anti-communist propaganda comic book published by the Catholic Catechetical Guild Educational Society of St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1947.
- Race and ethnicity
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide is a book by Bat Ye'or.
- Death
The biblical account of the crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus (ʿĪsā) recorded in the Christian New Testament is traditionally rejected by the major branches of Islam, but like Christians …
- Communism Religion
Islamo-leftism is a neologism designating a supposed proximity and laxity of certain left-wing ideologies, personalities or parties towards political Islam or militant Islamism. It was coined by Pierr…
- Religion
Islamophobic tropes, also known as anti-Muslim tropes, are sensational reports, misrepresentations, or fabrications regarding Muslims as an ethnicity or Islam as a religion.
Since the 20th century, ma…
- Israel
Israel-related conspiracy theories encompass a range of conspiracy theories about the State of Israel, its government, its military, its intelligence services, and its Jewish citizens, attributing to …
- Genocide denial
Israeli public diplomacy in the Gaza war refers to the Israeli effort towards bringing more favor of global public opinion to Israel and its actions during the Gaza war.
These efforts take place in th…
- Israel
The Israelization of Albania (Albanian: Izraelizimi i Shqipërisë) is an antisemitic conspiracy theory originating in Albania. The theory alleges that organizations or individuals affiliated with the Z…
- Death
The Istanbul nightclub shooting (also known as Reina massacre in Turkey) was a mass shooting that occurred on 1 January 2017 around 01:18 local time, in which a terrorist shot and killed 39 people and…
- Military and warfare
"Italians, the good people" (Italian: Italiani brava gente) is a phrase adopted by historians to refer to Italian popular beliefs about the allegedly limited, even non-existent, participation of Fasci…
- Communism
John Dennis Patrick O'Brian (August 16, 1914 – November 5, 2000) was an American entertainment journalist best known for his longtime role as a television critic for New York Journal American.
- Communism
John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of …
- Nazi Religion
Jacques de Mahieu, whose real name was Jacques Girault (31 October 1915 – 4 October 1990), was a French Argentine anthropologist and Peronist.
He wrote several books on esoterism, which he mixed with …
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories were based on the Jade Helm 15 United States military training exercise, which took place in multiple U.S. states between July 15 and September 15, 2015. The exerc…
- Health
José Jaime Maussan Flota (born 31 May 1953) is a Mexican journalist, television personality, and ufologist. He has promoted claims of supposed alien remains that have turned out to be hoaxes.
- Race and ethnicity
James Stephen Lindsay (born June 8, 1979), known professionally as James A. Lindsay, or Conceptual James, is an American author and mathematician. In 2017 and 2018 he, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluc…
- Death
James Lawrence McDonald (c. 1801 — September 1831) was a member of the Choctaw Nation and the first Native leader of his generation to be trained in the American legal system. Thus, he is known as the…
- Shakespeare authorship question
James S. Shapiro (born 1955) is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, specializing in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period. Shapiro served on the faculty …
- Aviation incidents
Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 was a Japanese Boeing 747-200 cargo aircraft flying from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Narita International Airport that was involved in an unidentified flying o…
- Military and warfare
The Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform (新しい歴史教科書をつくる会, Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho o Tsukuru Kai) is a group founded in December 1996 to promote a nationalistic view of the history of Japan.
- Military and warfare
Japanese history textbook controversies involve controversial content in government-approved history textbooks used in the secondary education (middle schools and high schools) of Japan. The controver…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Joel Hayward (born 1964) is a New Zealand-born British scholar, academic and writer. He has been listed in the 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 editions of The World's 500 Most Influential Muslims. He has be…
- Nazi Religion
Karl Brandler-Pracht (11 February 1864 in Vienna – 10 September 1939 in Berlin) better known by his pseudonym Johannes Balzli, was an Austrian/German author, newspaper editor, Theosophist and Armanis…
- Communism
John Beecher (January 22, 1904 – May 11, 1980) was an activist poet, writer, and journalist who wrote about the Southern United States during the Great Depression and the American Civil Rights Movemen…
- Health
John Lorimer Campbell is an English YouTuber and retired nurse educator who has made videos about the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, the videos received praise, but they later diverged into COVID-19 mi…
- Communism Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963, has spawned numerous conspiracy theories. These theories allege the involvement of the Central Inte…
- Communism
John Gibbons Adams (23 March 1912 – 26 June 2003) was the US Army's counsel in the Army-McCarthy Hearings. He was an Army veteran of World War II, and he worked in Washington, DC for the Defense Depar…
- Death
John David McAfee (, MAK-ə-fee; 18 September 1945 – 23 June 2021) was a British and American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time U.S. presidential candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Li…
- Communism
Judith Coplon Socolov (May 17, 1921 – February 26, 2011) was a spy for the Soviet Union whose trials, convictions, and successful constitutional appeals had a profound influence on espionage prosecuti…
- General
The "juiced ball" theory suggests that the baseballs used in Major League Baseball (MLB) have been deliberately altered by the league in order to increase scoring. The theory first came to prominence …
- Death
Julius Popper (December 15, 1857 – June 5, 1893; known in Spanish as Julio Popper (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxuljo poˈpeɾ])), a Romanian-born Argentine colonial engineer and explorer, known as a modern…
- Communism
Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Uni…
- Nazi Religion
Julleuchter (German pronunciation: [ˈjuːlˌlɔʏçtɐ]; "Yule lantern") or Turmleuchter ("tower lantern") are modern terms used to describe a type of earthenware candle-holder originating in 16th-century S…
- General
"Just asking questions" (JAQ; known derisively as "JAQing off") is a pseudoskeptical tactic often used by conspiracy theorists to present false or distorted claims by framing them as questions. If cri…
- Communism
During his premiership as Prime Minister of Canada, a conspiracy theory emerged that Justin Trudeau is secretly the biological son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. This claim has been promoted by Donald …
- Sexuality and gender
The Kejne affair was a political affair in Sweden in the 1950s.
In 1948, Karl-Erik Kejne (1913–60), a Swedish Lutheran pastor, publicly accused groups of gay men of threatening him and making attempts…
- Genocide denial
Kemal Karpat (15 February 1924, Babadag Tulcea, Romania – 20 February 2019, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States) was a Romanian-Turkish naturalised American historian and professor at the Univers…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Kenneth "Ken" McVay (born October 2, 1940), a Canadian-American dual citizen, was an Internet activist against Holocaust denial. He was the founder of the Nizkor Project, one of the first websites aga…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Kenneth S. Stern is an American attorney and an author. He is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, a program of the Human Rights Project at Bard College. From 2014 to 2018 he was the…
- Communism
Kenneth Noble Sanborn (November 14, 1926 – November 20, 2018) was a Michigan politician and judge best known for successfully defending his friend Milo Radulovich against charges of communism in 1953,…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
A largely abandoned historical hypothesis postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from converts to Judaism among the Khazars, a multi-ethnic conglomerate of most…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
The Kidwelly sex cult was a British cult that operated in Kidwelly, Wales, that raped children for decades until its perpetrators were arrested in 2010. Known by its members as simply "The Church", it…
- Death
Around 4:30 a.m. on August 23, 1987, 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a Union Pacific freight train in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were lying on…
- Death
On the evening of April 4, 1958, 14-year-old Cheryl Crane fatally stabbed 32-year-old Johnny Stompanato, the boyfriend of her mother, actress Lana Turner, at Turner's rented home in Beverly Hills, Cal…
- Death Israel
On 30 September 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada, 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah (Arabic: محمد الدرة, romanized: Muḥammad ad-Durra) was killed at the Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip dur…
- Death
On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan—at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United St…
- Communism
Kit Francis Clardy (June 17, 1892 – September 5, 1961) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was also known as Michigan's McCarthy, referring to his affinity for the controver…
- Aviation incidents
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theories concerns the various theories put forward regarding the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. The aircraft was en route from New York City via…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The "Kosher tax" (or "Jewish tax") is the idea that food companies and unwitting consumers are forced to pay money to support Judaism or Zionist causes and Israel through the costs of kosher certifica…
- Health
Krista Ford Haynes (née Ford; born September 13, 1991) is a Canadian former professional women's American football player. She is a daughter of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and niece of former Toronto Ma…
- Sexuality and gender
Conspiracy theories emerged in the 2010s alleging that governments were introducing endocrine disrupting chemicals into the water supply to increase the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (L…
- Sexuality and gender
The LGBTQ grooming conspiracy theory is a far-right conspiracy theory and anti-LGBTQ trope which alleges that LGBTQ people, and those supportive of LGBTQ rights, are engaging in child grooming and ena…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
A Ladies' Memorial Association (LMA) is a type of organization for women that sprang up all over the American South in the years after the American Civil War. Typically, these were organizations by an…
- Death
Lal Bahadur Shastri (2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 1964 to 1966. He previously served as home minister from 1…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Lamberto Tassinari (born 1945) is a writer and editor best known for his book John Florio: The Man Who Was Shakespeare. He is one of the founders of the transcultural magazine ViceVersa (not to be con…
- Genocide denial
Lana Jennifer Lokteff (born March 14, 1979) is an American far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist, who is part of the alt-right movement. She became a prominent YouTube perso…
- Sexuality and gender
Larries are shippers who believe that the former One Direction bandmates Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson had or still have a long-term and secret romantic relationship. A fundamental part of this con…
- Communism
The United States Senate failed to confirm the re-nomination of Leland Olds as the head of the Federal Power Commission in 1949. Olds was an economist who in the 1920s, before he was appointed by Roos…
- Death
Leucius, called Leucius Charinus by Photios in the ninth century, is named by Evodius, bishop of Uzala, as the author of a cycle of what M. R. James termed "postolic romances". These works seem to hav…
- Communism
The Levering Act (Cal. Gov. Code § 3100-3109) was a law enacted by the U.S. state of California in 1950. It required state employees to subscribe to a loyalty oath that specifically disavowed radical …
- Health
The Leviathan Movement (Serbian: Покрет Левијатан, romanised: Pokret Levijatan) is a neo-fascist political organisation in Serbia, that presents itself as an animal rights organisation. It is led by P…
- Pseudolaw
Liberty Republic is a minor far-right political party in Ireland. It has no representation at local or national level. It was established in 2010 as Direct Democracy Ireland (DDI) and was registered a…
- Military and warfare
"Like sheep to the slaughter" — and its numerous variants, such as "like a lamb to the slaughter" — is a simile that refers to facing a negative situation clueless of its consequences. It is a popular…
- Race and ethnicity
Lilla Saltsjöbadsavtalet ("The Little Saltsjöbaden Agreement") is a conspiracy theory within the far-right community about an alleged meeting which is claimed to have occurred at Saltsjöbaden on 21 Ma…
- Death
On 13 September 1971, the aircraft transporting Lin Biao, the sole vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, crashed near Öndörkhaan, Mongolia. Lin and several members of his family were travellin…
- UFO
Linda Moulton Howe (born January 20, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and documentary film maker best known for her work as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories, i…
- Sexuality and gender
The litter boxes in schools hoax was an urban legend spread in 2021 and 2022 that schools were installing litter boxes in bathrooms to be used by students who "identify as cats" or with the furry or o…
- Genocide denial
Living Marxism was a British magazine originally launched in 1988 as the journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). The magazine attracted attention for denying both the Rwandan genocide and …
- Religion Sexuality and gender
Elizabeth Laura Mullinar (née Hopkinson) is a London-born former film casting consultant. She is one of the founders of Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse (now Blue Knot Foundation) and is the Fo…
- Death
Maddess Aiort (died 1982) was a woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, the second daughter of Nicholas II of Russia. She died in 1982 of a serious disease still unknown.
- Science and technology
A magnet motor or magnetic motor is a type of perpetual motion machine, which is intended to generate a rotation by means of permanent magnets in stator and rotor without external energy supply. Such …
- Health Race and ethnicity Religion
Qui? or Mais qui? ("Who?" or "But who?") is an antisemitic French Internet meme which appeared in 2021 and was later used as a slogan on placards at demonstrations in France. One of the first "Mais qu…
- UFO
Majestic 12, also known as Majic-12, and MJ-12 for short, is a purported organization that appeared in fake documents first circulated by ufologists in 1984, and that some UFO conspiracy theories stil…
- Health
"Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) is an American populist slogan and political movement associated with Donald Trump, who serves as President of the United States, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ser…
- Aviation incidents
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on 8 March 2014, after departing from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. Najib Razak, Malaysia's prime minister at the…
- Communism
Margaret Schlauch (25 September 1898, Philadelphia, PA, US – 19 July 1986, Warsaw, Poland) was a scholar of medieval studies at New York University and later, after she left the United States for poli…
- Death
Marie I de Coucy (April 1366 – after 3 March 1405) was Dame de Coucy and d'Oisy, and Countess of Soissons from 1397. She succeeded suo jure to the title of Countess of Soissons upon the death of her f…
- Nazi
Marie Sophie Hingst (20 October 1987 – 17 July 2019) was a German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors. Born in Wittenberg to a Protestant family, she fab…
- Health
Marilyn Gladu (born 1962) is a Canadian politician who has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong since 2015. Elected as a Conservative, she crossed the floor to the Liberals…
- Military and warfare
Mark C. Yerger (1955 – 6 September 2016) was an American author of books about the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He had close contacts to SS veterans, through whom he was able to a…
- Race and ethnicity
Mark Steyn () (born 1959) is a Canadian author and a radio, television, and on-line presenter. He has written several books, including The New York Times bestsellers America Alone, After America, and …
- Religion Sexuality and gender
The Martensville satanic sex scandal, also known as the Martensville Nightmare occurred in Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada. There were two similar events around the same time where an allegation of…
- Communism
Martha Eccles Dodd (October 8, 1908 – August 10, 1990) was an American journalist and novelist. The daughter of William Edward Dodd, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first Ambassador to German…
- Communism
Martin Berkeley (August 21, 1904 − May 6, 1979) was a Hollywood and television screenwriter who cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 1950s by naming dozens of Holly…
- Race and ethnicity
Sir Martin John Gilbert (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill,…
- CIA Death
Conspiracy theories about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, relate to different accounts of the assassination. King was shot on the balcony of the Lo…
- Communism
Mary Susan McIntosh (13 March 1936 – 5 January 2013) was a British sociologist, feminist, and political activist for LGBTQ rights in the United Kingdom.
- Nazi Religion
Matthias Koehl Jr. (January 22, 1935 – October 9/10, 2014) was an American neo-Nazi activist and religious leader who served as the second leader of the American Nazi Party from 1967 to 2014. He joine…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749) was an Irish writer, poet and lawyer.
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Meriwether Monument is a 21 feet (6.4 m) tall obelisk erected in 1916 at John C. Calhoun Park in North Augusta, South Carolina, to commemorate Thomas McKie Meriwether (December 4, 1852 – July 8, 1…
- Aviation incidents
On 4 June 1969, Mexicana de Aviación Flight 704, a Boeing 727 airliner registered XA-SEL, crashed near El Carmen, some 20 miles north of the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León. All 79 people on board were …
- Shakespeare authorship question
Michael Egan (born 1941) is an American literary scholar and author. Egan was Scholar in Residence at Brigham Young University, Hawai’i and Professor of English and Political Science at TransPacific …
- Death
Harry F. Gerguson (born Hershel Geguzin, February 20, 1890 – September 1, 1971), known as Michael Romanoff, was a Hollywood restaurateur, con man and actor born in Lithuania. He is perhaps best rememb…
- Pseudolaw
Michael Tellinger (born 1960) is a South African author, lecturer, musician and political activist. He is known for his publications on ancient civilisations, his interpretations of the stone ruins of…
- Death
Michał Franciszek Goleniewski (16 August 1922 – 12 July 1993), also known as SNIPER and LAVINIA, was a Polish spy and military officer.
He was an officer in the Polish People's Republic's Ministry of …
- Death
Michelle Anches was a woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.
Michelle made plans to travel to see her purported grandmother, the Dowager Empress of Russia, but she wa…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
Michelle Remembers is a 1980 book co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith. A best-seller, Michelle Remembers relied on the di…
- Pseudolaw
The Montana Freemen were an anti-government Christian Patriot militia based outside the town of Jordan, Montana, United States. The members of the group referred to their land as "Justus Township" and…
- Pseudolaw
The Moorish sovereign citizen movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign citizen movement, Neo-Moors or the Rise of the Moors, is a sub-group of sovereign citizens that mainly holds to the te…
- General
Morgellons () is the informal name of a self-diagnosed, scientifically unsubstantiated skin condition in which individuals have sores that they believe contain fibrous material. Morgellons is not well…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK is a 1992 nonfiction book by Bonar Menninger outlining a theory by sharpshooter, gunsmith, and ballistics expert Howard Donahue that a Secret Service agent accid…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Most Holy Family Monastery is an American sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic organisation, based in Fillmore, New York. The monastery was founded by Joseph Natale in the late 1960s, a Benedictine C…
- Death
On the night of 8 December 1980, English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was fatally shot in the archway of The Dakota, his residence in Manhattan, New York City. The shooter, Mark Davi…
- Death False flag Genocide denial Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
Denial of the Nanjing Massacre is a negationist claim asserting that the murder and rape of hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians by Imperial Japanese forces in Nanjing is a fabricat…
- Military and warfare
Naoki Hyakuta (百田 尚樹, Hyakuta Naoki; born February 23, 1956) is a Japanese novelist, television producer, and politician. He is the co-founder and leader of the Conservative Party of Japan. He has bee…
- Military and warfare
Nariaki Nakayama (中山 成彬, Nakayama Nariaki; born 7 June 1943) is a Japanese politician who has served as leader of Kibō no Tō from 2019 to 2021. He served as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Sci…
- Aviation incidents
The Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting was an unidentified flying object sighting that occurred on 14 July 1952. Two commercial pilots, William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry, claimed to have seen eigh…
- Death
Natalya Petrovna Bilikhodze (Russian: Наталья Петровна Билиходзе; 1900–2000) was a Romanov impostor, one of several women to falsely claim that she was Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, wh…
- Health
National File is an American right-wing blog and news website created by Alex Jones in August 2019. It is known for publishing false or misleading claims about COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccines.
- Communism
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is a progressive public interest association of lawyers, law students, paralegals, jailhouse lawyers, law collective members, and other activist legal workers in the …
- Genocide denial Nazi
The National Socialist Japanese Workers' Party is a neo-Nazi political party in Japan. It was formerly headed by Kazunari Yamada (1962 – December 17, 2024), who maintained a website and blog which inc…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Neville theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that the English parliamentarian and diplomat Henry Neville (1564–1615) wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare.…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The New Market Cross of Honor was a commemorative medal established in 1904 by the Virginia Military Institute Alumni Association (VMIAA) to honor Confederate veterans who served in the Virginia Milit…
- Military and warfare
The New Right (Korean: 뉴라이트; MR: nyurait'ŭ) movement in South Korean politics is a school of political thought which developed as a reaction against the traditional divide between conservatives (the "…
- Health
The New Welfare Party (Turkish: Yeniden Refah Partisi, YRP) is an Islamist and ultraconservative political party in Turkey, founded on 23 November 2018. The party positions itself as the successor to …
- Pseudolaw
The New York Anti-Secession Ordinance, also called as Anti-Secession Resolutions of the New York legislature is a temporary resolution passed in 1861 by the New York State Assembly before the outbreak…
- Race and ethnicity
The Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Slave Insurrection of 1741, was a purported plot by slaves and poor whites in the British colony of New York in 1741 to revolt and level New York City with a …
- Race and ethnicity
The New Zealand National Front was a small white nationalist organisation in New Zealand.
- Race and ethnicity
Nya Dagbladet (lit. 'New Daily Newspaper') is a Swedish online newspaper associated with the National Democrats, a defunct far-right political party in Sweden. It is known for promoting conspiracy the…
- Communism
Nástup (translated as "line up" "forming ranks", "deployment", or "ascent") was a semimonthly Slovak periodical, published between 1933 and 1940, that advocated Slovak autonomy, ethnonationalism, and …
- Nazi Race and ethnicity Religion
The association of Nazism with occultism occurs in a wide range of theories, speculation, and research into the origins of Nazism and into Nazism's possible relationship with various occult traditions…
- CIA Death False flag Military and warfare
Alternative theories have been proposed regarding the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. These theories reject all, or part of, the official government report. Some of these theories focus on the possibil…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
On the Trail of the Assassins is a 1988 book by former New Orleans District Attorney (DA) Jim Garrison. Written a few years before his death, he looks back on his office's investigation of the Novembe…
- Health
Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON), commonly known as One Nation (ON), is a right-wing to far-right political party in Australia. It is led by its founder Pauline Hanson, who is the party's president …
- Race and ethnicity
Oriana Fallaci (Italian: [oˈrjaːna falˈlaːtʃi]; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. As a teenager she joined the Italian resistance movement during World War II, an…
- Death Military and warfare Race and ethnicity Religion
The death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, gave rise to various conspiracy theories, hoaxes and rumors. These include the ideas that he had died earlier, or that he lived beyond the reported date. D…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Oskar Gröning (10 June 1921 – 9 March 2018) was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken f…
- Communism
Otto E. Dohrenwend (1899–1989) was an American investment banker from Scarsdale, New York, best known for his conservative political activism during the 1950s.
As chairman of the Scarsdale Citizens Co…
- Genocide denial
The Otuken Union Party (Turkish: Ötüken Birliği Partisi) is a Turkish ultranationalist political party founded on December 20, 2017.
- Health
Our Homeland Movement (Hungarian: Mi Hazánk Mozgalom [ˈmi ˈhɒzaːŋk ˈmozɡɒlom], Mi Hazánk, MH or MHM) is a far-right political party in Hungary. It was founded by Ásotthalom mayor and former Jobbik Vic…
- Sexuality and gender
The Outreau case refers to a criminal case of pedophilia which took place between 1997 and 2000 in Outreau (a French commune) in northern France and a partial judicial error which led to provisional d…
- Communism
The Overman Committee was a special subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary chaired by North Carolina Democrat Lee Slater Overman. Between September 1918 and June 1919, it …
- General
The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. While historians and literary scholars overwhelmingl…
- Pseudolaw
In the United States, the patriot movement is a conglomeration of non-unified right wing populist and nationalist political movements, most notably right-wing armed militias, sovereign citizens, and t…
- Health
Patriotic Front (Bulgarian: Патриотичен фронт) was a nationalist electoral alliance in Bulgaria between political parties VMRO and NFSB.
- Health
The Patriotic Front (Bulgarian: Патриотичен фронт; PF) is a Bulgarian nationalist coalition participating in the November 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election. The coalition includes NFSB, Entire Bu…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War is a 1962 book of historical and literary criticism written by Edmund Wilson. It consists of 16 chapters about the works and lives …
- Death
Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was an American academic, author, and politician. He represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane …
- Death
"Paul is dead" is an urban legend and conspiracy theory alleging that English musician Paul McCartney of the Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike. The rumour began circulatin…
- Communism
The Peace Information Center (PIC) was an anti-war organization based in the United States which provided information on peace initiatives in other countries, and promoted the Stockholm appeal. The or…
- Health Science and technology
Plandemic is a trilogy of conspiracy theory films produced by Mikki Willis, promoting misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. They feature Judy Mikovits, a discredited American researcher and prom…
- Health Science and technology
Planet Lockdown is a film containing misinformation about COVID-19 that was banned on YouTube and Facebook.
The film's producers describe it as a documentary.
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Plantation tradition is a genre of literature based in the Southern United States that is heavily nostalgic for antebellum times. The ideology is that of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, though this…
- Communism
The political views of American academics began to receive attention in the 1930s, and investigation into faculty political views expanded rapidly after the rise of McCarthyism. Demographic surveys of…
- Science and technology
Polybius is an urban legend about a mysterious arcade video game. According to the legend, the game appeared in arcades around Portland, Oregon in 1981. The gameplay was supposedly psychoactive, abstr…
- Race and ethnicity
Raheem J. Kassam (born 1 August 1986) is a British political activist, former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News London, and former chief adviser to former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Far…
- Race and ethnicity
Raphael Israeli (Hebrew: רפאל ישראלי; born September 15, 1935) is an Israeli historian and writer. He is a professor emeritus of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Chinese history at the Hebrew University of…
- Death
Raudha Athif (18 May 1996 – 29 March 2017) was a Maldivian Vogue model and medical student, who died in Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
- Communism
Ray Howard Jenkins (March 18, 1897 – December 26, 1980) was an American lawyer, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the surrounding region, throughout much of the 20th century. He is best kn…
- Health
The ReAwaken America Tour is an American far-right and Christian nationalist movement launched in 2021 by Oklahoma entrepreneur Clay Clark and former Donald Trump national security advisor Michael Fly…
- Communism
Rena Vale, or Rena M. Vale, (1898–1983) was a writer who was a scriptwriter for Universal Studios in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930 and in the 1930s was an investigator for a U.S. House of Representativ…
- Military and warfare UFO
The Rendlesham Forest incident was a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England, in December 1980, which became linked with alleged UFO landings. The…
- Health
Revival (Bulgarian: Възраждане, romanized: Vazrazhdane) is a far-right political party in Bulgaria. Founded in August 2014, its chairman is Kostadin Kostadinov. The party is characterised by various a…
- Death
Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón (Spanish: [riˈkaɾðo ˈfloɾes maˈɣon]; known as Ricardo Flores Magón; September 16, 1874 – November 21, 1922) was a Mexican anarchist and social reform activist. His brothe…
- Genocide denial Nazi
Richard J. Green (born c. 1964, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American chemist known for his work against the claims of Holocaust deniers. He is a member of The Holocaust History Project.
He was rais…
- Communism
The Right to Existence Group (Italian: Gruppo Diritto all'Esistenza) was an Italian American anarchist organization, based in Paterson, New Jersey. Established in 1890, the group drew most of its memb…
- General
Right-wing antiglobalism, also referred to as the antiglobalist right, is a political ideology opposing globalism. The term globalist is associated with antisemitic conspiracy theories, especially the…
- Israel
The ringworm affair refers to circumstances involving an alleged number of 20,000 to 200,000 Jews who were treated between 1948 and 1960 for tinea capitis (ringworm) with ionizing radiation to the hea…
- Death
Siméon or Timeone Riro ʻa Kāinga Rokoroko He Tau (died 1898 or 1899) was the last ‘ariki (king) of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) from 1892 until his death. He ruled the island during a brief period of indi…
- Death
Robert Boulin (20 July 1920 – 30 October 1979) was a French politician who served as Minister of Labour in the French Cabinet and was at the centre of a major real-estate scandal that ended only with …
- Communism
George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was infl…
- CIA Death
U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, during celebrations following his successf…
- Communism
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens (July 31, 1899 – January 31, 1983) was an American businessman and former chairman of J. P. Stevens and Company, which was one of the most established textile manufacturing p…
- UFO
The rumor of equine mutilation in France in 2020 was a French media and court case that gained momentum across France. Beginning in early 2020, rumors circulated of horses and donkeys being killed and…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
Rush to Judgment: A Critique of the Warren Commission's Inquiry into the Murders of President John F. Kennedy, Officer J.D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1966 book by American defense attorney Mar…
- Sexuality and gender
The anti-LGBTQ law in Russia, also known as the anti-gay law in Russia, formally Law for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating a Denial of Traditional Family Values, is a law …
- Health
Russophiles for the Revival of the Fatherland (Bulgarian: Русофили за възраждане на Отечеството, romanized: Rusofili za vazrazhdane na Otechestvoto) is a Bulgarian political party. The leader of the p…
- Communism
Ruth Bielaski Shipley (April 20, 1885 – November 3, 1966) was an American government employee who served as the head of the Passport Division of the United States Department of State for 27 years, fro…
- Aviation incidents Death
Samora Moisés Machel (September 29, 1933 – October 19, 1986) was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
The Saskatoon foster parent scandal occurred in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. There were two similar events around the same time where an allegation of child sex abuse escalated into claims of sata…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
Satan Wants You is a 2023 Canadian documentary film directed by Steve J. Adams and Sean Horlor. The film profiles the Satanic panic of the early 1980s, focusing on the discredited book Michelle Rememb…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA), sometimes known as ritual abuse, starting in North America in the 1980s, spreading thr…
- Religion Sexuality and gender
The Satanic panic is a moral panic about alleged widespread Satanic ritual abuse which originated around the 1980s in the United States, peaking in the early 1990s, before waning as a result of the sc…
- UFO
The secret space program and 20 and back are fictional stories presented as fact and associated with ufology. They present that some people are recruited into secret military programs that involve a p…
- Communism
See It Now is an American newsmagazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, with Murrow as the host of the show. From 19…
- Health
Since 2018, the health effects of consuming certain processed vegetable oils, or seed oils have been subject to misinformation in popular and social media. The trend grew in 2020 after podcaster and c…
- Genocide denial
The Serbian Party Oathkeepers (Serbian: Српска странка Заветници, romanised: Srpska stranka Zavetnici, abbr. SSZ), commonly known as just Oathkeepers, is a far-right political party in Serbia. Milica …
- Death
Serena Shim (Arabic: سيرينا علي سحيم, Serena Ali Suhaim; October 10, 1985 – October 19, 2014) was a Lebanese-American journalist for Press TV. While covering the Siege of Kobanê as a war correspondent…
- Health
Servus TV is a TV station based in Wals-Siezenheim in the Austrian state of Salzburg and owned by Red Bull Media House GmbH, a subsidiary of Red Bull GmbH, which also publishes the magazine Servus in …
- Health
Seth C. Kalichman is an American clinical community psychologist and professor of social psychology at the University of Connecticut, known for his research into HIV/AIDS treatment and HIV/AIDS denial…
- Death
The Sethians (Ancient Greek: Σηθιανοί, romanized: Sēthianoi) are one of the main currents of Gnosticism during the 2nd and 3rd century AD, along with Valentinianism and the Basilidians. According to J…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The University of the South, familiarly known as Sewanee (), is a private Episcopal liberal arts college in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Chur…
- General
The shadow government, also referred to as cryptocracy, secret government, or invisible government, is the subject of a family of theories based on the notion that real and actual political power resi…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies is a 2023 nonfiction book by journalist Elizabeth Winkler about the Shakespeare authorship question. The book uses journalism and literary criticism to explo…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him. Anti-Stratfordians—a collective term for adher…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The Simonini letter is the earliest modern example of a document claiming a Jewish conspiracy and a Jewish coalition with the Illuminati.
- General Science and technology
The simulation hypothesis proposes that what one experiences as the real world is actually a simulated reality, such as a computer simulation in which humans are constructs. There has been much debate…
- Pseudolaw
Innovated Holdings, Inc, better known under the trade name Satcomm Arbitration Association, is a "pirate" arbitration company located in Wyoming and associated with the sovereign citizen movement. It…
- UFO
Skinwalker Ranch, previously known as Sherman Ranch, is a property of approximately 512 acres (207 ha), located southeast of Ballard, Utah, that is reputed to be the site of paranormal and UFO-related…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
"Slavery and States' Rights" was a speech given by former Confederate States Army general Joseph Wheeler on July 31, 1894. The speech deals with the American Civil War and is considered to be a "Lost …
- Death
Slobodan Penezić "Krcun" (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Пенезић "Крцун"; 2 July 1918 – 6 November 1964) was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs o…
- Communism
The Alien Registration Act, popularly known as the Smith Act, 76th United States Congress, 3rd session, ch. 439, 54 Stat. 670, 18 U.S.C. § 2385 is a United States federal statute that was enacted on J…
- Communism
The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders were a series of trials held from 1949 to 1958 in which leaders of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) were accused of violating the Smith …
- Death
Soaked in Bleach is a 2015 American docudrama directed by Benjamin Statler, who co-wrote and produced it with Richard Middelton and Donnie Eichar. The film details the events leading up to the death o…
- Nazi
During the 20th century there were various instances of soap being made from human body fat. During World War I, the British press falsely claimed that the Germans operated a corpse factory in which t…
- Military and warfare
Sonderaktion 1005 (German pronunciation: [zɔndɐakt͡sjoːn aɪ̯ntaʊ̯zəntfʏnf], 'Special Action 1005'), also called Aktion 1005 or Enterdungsaktion (German pronunciation: [ɛntɐdʊŋsakt͡sjoːn], 'Exhumation …
- Aviation incidents
South African Airways Flight 295, sometimes referenced and known as the Helderberg disaster, was a scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan, …
- Race and ethnicity
South African farm attacks (Afrikaans: plaasaanvalle) are violent crimes, including assault, murder, rape, and robbery, that take place on farms in South Africa. The attacks target both white and blac…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Southern Partisan is a neo-Confederate online magazine based in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. It is focused on the Southern region and states that were formerly members of the Confederate S…
- Health
State of Denial is a 2003 documentary film about AIDS in Africa, produced and directed by Elaine Epstein. The film highlights the errors of President Mbeki's government, which insists that there isn't…
- Race and ethnicity
State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America is a 2006 book by American conservative Patrick Buchanan, in which the author criticizes the large number of illegal immigrants ent…
- Nazi
Stella Krenzbach (alternatively Kreutzbach or Krentsbakh,) is a fictitious person, ostensibly a Jewish-Ukrainian member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) during World War II.
- Health
Steven Todd Kirsch (born 1956 in Los Angeles) is an American entrepreneur. He has started several companies and was one of two independent inventors of the optical mouse. Kirsch has been both a philan…
- Death
The stolen body hypothesis posits that the body of Jesus Christ was stolen from his burial place. It theorises that his tomb was found empty not because he was resurrected, but because the body had b…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park, 15 miles (24 km) east of Atlanta, Georgia. Outside the park is the city of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The park is…
- Race and ethnicity
The Suidlanders (English: Southlanders) is a South African right-wing ethnonationalist Afrikaner survivalist group whose ideology is based on the prophecies of Boer Siener van Rensburg. The group beli…
- Religion
Ethnic Azerbaijanis carried out a pogrom against the Armenian population of the town of Sumgait, in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, in February 1988. The pogrom took place during the early s…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
On November 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelley shot and killed 26 people and wounded 22 others, including an unborn child, at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, United States. Kelley wa…
- Death
Suzanna Catharina de Graaff (born Suzanna Catharina Hemmes; 5 May 1905, in Rotterdam – 25 November 1968), was a Dutch woman who claimed to be a fifth daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra…
- Sexuality and gender
In June 2023, a hoax was posted online stating that Sweden had officially declared sex a sport and was hosting Europe's first-ever sex competition.
- Health
Swiss Democracy (Czech: Švýcarská demokracie) is a Czech political party advocating for direct democracy and the adoption of a new constitution inspired by the Swiss model, founded in 2021.
- Health
Swiss Policy Research (SPR; before mid-May 2020, Swiss Propaganda Research) is a website that has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories, including claims that QAnon was a psyop of the FBI …
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Texas Confederate Museum was a museum in Austin, Texas, in the United States. The United Daughters of the Confederacy opened it in 1903 in a room on the ground floor of the Texas Capitol and close…
- Race and ethnicity
The Texas slave insurrection panic of 1860, also known as the Texas Troubles, was a moral panic or mass hysteria and a resulting massacre in North and East Texas. Vigilantes killed an estimated 30 to …
- UFO
The Age of Disclosure is a 2025 American documentary film about UFOs directed and produced by Dan Farah, in which a number of former United States government officials and people associated with the d…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
The Dark Overlord (also known as the TDO) is an international hacker organization which garnered significant publicity through cybercrime extortion of high-profile targets and public demands for ranso…
- Race and ethnicity
The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization is a 2001 book by the paleoconservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan. In his book, Patrick …
- Race and ethnicity
The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude is a 1991 book by author Bat Ye'or. In the book the author describes her interpretation of the waning of the Eastern Christend…
- Race and ethnicity
The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam is an essay on the dhimmi peoples—the non-Arab and non-Muslim communities subjected to Muslim domination after the conquest of their territories by Arabs by…
- Sexuality and gender
The Diary of West Bengal is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language political drama film directed by Sanoj Mishra and produced by Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi. The film is presented by Waseem Rizvi Films and fea…
- Health
The Epoch Times is an international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with Falun Gong, a new religious movement. It has been variously described as far-right, right-wing, and conse…
- Communism
The Eternal Jew (German: Der ewige Jude) was an exhibition of antisemitism displayed at the Library of the German Museum in Munich from 8 November 1937 to 31 January 1938. The displays, with photograp…
- Aviation incidents
The Flying Saucer Conspiracy is a 1955 book authored by early UFO researcher Donald Keyhoe. The book pointedly accused elements of United States government of engaging in a conspiracy to cover up know…
- Aviation incidents
The Flying Saucers Are Real, by Donald Keyhoe, is a book that investigated reports of UFOs by United States Air Force fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, between 1947 and 1950.
- Race and ethnicity
The Force of Reason (La forza della ragione) is a 2004 book by Oriana Fallaci. The book is a follow-up to The Rage and the Pride, aimed at her public critics, accusations of racism, and the lawsuits a…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The French Suicide (Le Suicide français) is a 2014 essay by French far-right journalist Éric Zemmour. It argues that the French nation state has suffered a gradual decline since the 1970s, which Zemmo…
- Death
The Messiah, also referred to as Jesus, Jesus, the Spirit of God,Good Tidings of the Savior (Persian: بِشارت مُنجی, romanized: Bešārat-e Monjjy), is a 2007 Iranian film directed by Nader Talebzadeh (1…
- UFO
The Narrows is a horror novel by American writer Ronald Malfi. It was published in 2012 by Darkfuse Publications in a limited edition hardcover for collectors, then as a trade paperback and ebook wi…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 (2004) is a book written by David Ray Griffin, a retired professor of philosophy at the Claremont School of Theology. …
- Health
The Other Side of AIDS is a 2004 pseudoscience film by Robin Scovill. Through interviews with prominent AIDS denialists and HIV-positive people who have refused anti-HIV medication, the film makes the…
- Genocide denial
The Ottoman Lieutenant (Turkish: Osmanlı Subayı) is a Turkish-American romantic war drama film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by Jeff Stockwell. The film stars Michiel Huisman, Hera Hilmar, Josh…
- Nazi
The Painted Bird is a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński that describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray," wandering about small villages scattered around an unspecified c…
- Race and ethnicity
The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History is a 1916 racist and pseudoscientific book by American lawyer, anthropologist, and proponent of eugenics Madison Grant (1865–193…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is a work of paleoconservative literature covering various issues in U.S. history by Thomas E. Woods, published in December 2004. This book was the …
- Communism
The Portuguese Falcon (Portuguese: Capitão Falcão, lit. 'Captain Falcon') is a 2015 Portuguese superhero comedy film directed by João Leitão. It was released on April 23, 2015.
- Communism
The Prime Minister Was a Spy is a 1983 book by British writer Anthony Grey. The book's premise is that Harold Holt, prime minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967, was a lifelong spy for the Chinese go…
- Race and ethnicity Religion
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an antisemitic hoax and forgery purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first publishe…
- Race and ethnicity
The Rage and the Pride (La Rabbia e l'orgoglio) is a book released by Oriana Fallaci in 2001. The book accuses the West of being blind to the true threat of Islam, and was written in New York City in …
- Genocide denial
The Remaining Documents of Talaat Pasha (Turkish: Talât Paşa'nın Evrak-ı Metrûkesi), also known in Turkey as The Abandoned Documents of Talaat Pasha and Talaat Pasha's Black Book, is the title of a 20…
- Aviation incidents
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is a 1956 book by then-retired Air Force UFO investigator Edward J. Ruppelt, detailing his experience running Project Blue Book. The book was noted for its su…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is a book written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the…
- Race and ethnicity
The Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against White World-Supremacy is a 1920 nonfiction book by American author Lothrop Stoddard about racialism and geopolitics, which foresees the collapse of white s…
- Shakespeare authorship question
The Romance of Yachting (full title: The Romance of Yachting: Voyage The First) is an 1848 work by Joseph C. Hart published by Harper and Brothers. The work is considered notable for being the first w…
- Military and warfare
The Sankei Shimbun (Japanese: 産経新聞, Hepburn: Sankei Shinbun), name short for Sangyō Keizai Shinbun (産業経済新聞, lit. 'Industrial and Economic News'), is a daily national newspaper in Japan published by th…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Scattered Nation is a controversial speech by the U.S. Senator, Confederate officer, and slaveowner Zebulon Baird Vance, written sometime between 1868 and 1870. The speech praises the accomplishme…
- General
The School of Night is a modern name for a group of men centred on Sir Walter Raleigh that was once referred to in 1592 as the "School of Atheism". The group supposedly included poets and scientists C…
- Race and ethnicity
The Slave Market (French: Le Marché d'esclaves) is an 1866 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts a West Asian or North African setting where a man inspects the teeth of a nude, fe…
- Race and ethnicity
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam is a 2017 book by the British journalist and political commentator Douglas Murray. It was published in the United Kingdom in May 2017, and in …
- Science and technology
The Water Engine is a 1977 play by David Mamet that centers on the violent suppression of a disruptive alternative energy technology.
- General
There Is No Cabal (abbreviated TINC) is a catchphrase and running joke found on Usenet. The journalist Wendy M. Grossman writes that its appearance on the alt.usenet.cabal FAQ reflects conspiracy accu…
- Shakespeare authorship question
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter KG (5 May 1542 – 8 February 1623), known as Lord Burghley from 1598 to 1605, was an English politician, courtier and soldier.
- False flag
Thomas Matthew Crooks (September 20, 2003 – July 13, 2024) was an American man who attempted to assassinate then-former U.S. president Donald Trump, who at the time was the presumptive Republican Part…
- Death
Thomas Harper Ince (November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent era filmmaker and media proprietor.
Ince was known as the "Father of the Western" and was responsible for making over …
- Science and technology
Thomas Henry Moray (August 28, 1892 - May 18, 1974) was an inventor from Salt Lake City, Utah. He received US patent 2,460,707, "Electrotherapeutic Device", in February 1949, after a process of 17 yea…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
The three tramps are three men photographed by several Dallas-area newspapers under police escort near the Texas School Book Depository shortly after the assassination of United States President John …
- Nazi Religion
Thule (, TH(Y)OO-lee; Ancient Greek: Θούλη, romanized: Thúlē; Latin: Thūlē also spelled as Thylē) is the most northerly location (if not Hyperborea) mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and…
- Nazi Religion
The Thule Society (; German: Thule-Gesellschaft), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ('Study Group for Germanic Antiquity'), was a German occultist and Völkisch group founded in Mu…
- General
Time Cube was a pseudoscientific personal web page set up in 1997 by Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray. It was a self-published outlet for Ray's "theory of everything", also called "Time Cube", which posits that…
- UFO
The time-traveler hypothesis, also known as chrononaut UFO, future humans, extratempestrial model, and Terminator theory, is the proposal that unidentified flying objects are humans traveling from the…
- Death Science and technology
On April 14, 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg, damaging the hull's plates below the waterline on the starboard side, causing the front compartments to flood. The ship then sank two hours and…
- Race and ethnicity
Anthony David Blankley (January 21, 1948 – January 7, 2012) was an American political analyst who served as press secretary for Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and as a regular panelist on The McLa…
- Death False flag Military and warfare
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American conservative political commentator, journalist, and host of The Tucker Carlson Show since 2023. He previously hosted the nightly politi…
- Genocide denial
The Turkish Historical Society (Turkish: Türk Tarih Kurumu; TTK) is a research society studying the history of Turkey and the Turkish people, founded in 1931 by the initiative of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk…
- Nazi
Turkish Passport is a 2011 Turkish film directed by Burak Arliel that purports to tell the story of rescue of Jews during the Holocaust by Turkish diplomats. It was promoted as "the only Holocaust fil…
- Health
The Twitter Files are a series of releases of select internal Twitter, Inc. documents published from December 2022 through March 2023 on Twitter. CEO Elon Musk gave the documents to journalists Matt T…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
The "umbrella man", later identified as Louie Steven Witt (October 20, 1924 – November 17, 2014), is a figure who appears in several films and photographs of the assassination of United States Preside…
- UFO
An unidentified flying object (UFO) is an object or phenomenon seen in the sky but not yet identified or explained. The term was coined when United States Air Force (USAF) investigations into flying s…
- Health
Unified – Alternative for Patriots (Czech: Jednotní – alternativa pro patrioty) was a political party in the Czech Republic, which existed from 2019 until 2022. It was founded by three MPs from Freedo…
- Health
The Union of Patriotic Forces and Militaries of the Reserve Zashtita (Sajuz na Patrioticnite Sili i Voinite ot Zapaca Zaštita, abbreviated as SPSZ) is a nationalist political party in Bulgaria founded…
- Communism
The Union of Russian Workers in the United States and Canada, commonly known as the "Union of Russian Workers" (Союз Русских Рабочих, Soiuz Russkikh Rabochikh) was an anarcho-syndicalist union of Russ…
- Pseudolaw
The Union of Slavic Forces of Russia (USSR; Russian: Союз славянских сил Руси; СССР; Soyuz slavyanskikh sil Rusi, SSSR), also known by various other names, are a network of conspiracy theory-oriented …
- Aviation incidents
United Air Lines Flight 553 was a scheduled domestic flight from Washington National Airport to Omaha, Nebraska, via Chicago Midway International Airport. On December 8, 1972, the Boeing 737-200 servi…
- Health
The United Patriots (OP; Bulgarian: Обединени Патриоти; ОП, romanized: Obedineni Patrioti; OP) was a nationalist electoral alliance in Bulgaria formed by three political parties: VMRO, Attack (until 2…
- Communism Death False flag Israel
The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established on September 15, 1976, by U.S. House Resolution 1540 to investigate the assassinations of John F. K…
- Communism
The United States Senate's Special Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, 1951–77, known more commonly as the Senate Internal Sec…
- UFO
The United States UFO files, officially known as the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), also referred to as the UFO files or the UAP files, are a collection of de…
- Pseudolaw
The University of Cosmic Intelligence (UCI) is an American new religious movement founded by rapper and convicted child molester Rashad Jamal. Described as a cult, the UCI is primarily based on social…
- Military and warfare UFO
The Varginha UFO incident involves a series of events in 1996 wherein residents of Varginha, Brazil, claimed to have seen one or more strange humanoids and at least one unidentified flying object (UFO…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
Varina Anne Davis (known as Winnie; June 27, 1864 – September 18, 1898) was an American author who is best known as the youngest daughter of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of Amer…
- Death
The Vatican murders occurred on 4 May 1998, when Swiss Guard lance corporal Cédric Tornay, using his service pistol, shot and killed the commander of the Swiss Guard, Alois Estermann, and Estermann's …
- Death
Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan (Armenian: Վազգեն Զավենի Սարգսյան, pronounced [vɑzˈɡɛn zɑvɛˈni sɑɾkʰəsˈjɑn]; 5 March 1959 – 27 October 1999) was an Armenian military commander and politician. He was the first…
- Health
Velichie (Bulgarian: Величие, lit. 'Greatness') is a Bulgarian political party founded in 2023, with strong connections to the Bulgarian businessman Ivelin Mihaylov. The party has a strong position in…
- Communism
Vernon Countryman (May 13, 1917 – May 2, 1999) was an American legal scholar at Harvard Law School who was an expert on bankruptcy and commercial law.
- Health Science and technology
Vernon Edward Coleman (born 1946) is an English conspiracy theorist and writer, who writes on topics related to human health, politics and animal welfare. He is most notable for his AIDS denialism, an…
- Communism
Vernon Oliver Johnson (July 21, 1920 – September 1, 1987) was an American diplomat. After losing his crew in a B17-bomber crash and spending 18 months in V.A. hospitals, Johnson dedicated himself to s…
- Death
Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil (Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Максимович Чорновіл, Ukrainian pronunciation: [ʋjɐt͡ʃesˈlau̯ mɐkˈsɪmowɪt͡ʃ t͡ʃornoˈwʲil]; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian dissi…
- Military and warfare
Vichy syndrome (French: syndrome de Vichy) is a term used to describe the guilt, denial and shame of French people regarding the actions of Vichy France. It was coined by Jewish historian Henry Rousso…
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Private donations…
- Death
Volodymyr Vasyliovych Shcherbytsky (17 February 1918 – 16 February 1990) was a Ukrainian politician in the Soviet Union, who served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 19…
- Nazi Race and ethnicity Religion
The Vril Society was a fictitious secret society that is said to have existed in Germany in the early to mid-twentieth century. A series of conspiracy theories and pseudohistorical texts, starting wit…
- Death
Vukašin Šoškoćanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Вукашин Шошкоћанин, pronounced [ʋukǎʃin ʃoʃkǒ:tɕanin]; 24 June 1958 – 15 May 1991) was a Croatian Serb paramilitary commander active during the early stages of th…
- Military and warfare
The United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the United States-led Iraq Survey Group (ISG) failed to find any of the alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass destru…
- Military and warfare
The Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the paramilitary SS organisation of Nazi Germany, is sometimes portrayed uncritically or admiringly in popular culture.
The activities of HIAG, a German lobby group…
- Health Science and technology
On 28 February 1998, a fraudulent research paper primarily authored by the English physician Andrew Wakefield, along with twelve other coauthors (titled "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specif…
- Death
Walter Germanovich Krivitsky (Russian: Ва́льтер Ге́рманович Криви́цкий; born Samuel Gershevich Ginsberg; Russian: Самуил Гершевич Гинзберг; June 28, 1899 – February 10, 1941) was a Soviet military int…
- Race and ethnicity
Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (26 May 1921 – 30 September 2018) was a German-born American historian, journalist, political commentator, and Holocaust survivor. He was an influential scholar on the subjects of…
- Communism
Walter Lowenfels (May 10, 1897 – July 7, 1976) was an American poet, journalist, and member of the Communist Party USA. He also edited the Pennsylvania Edition of The Worker, a weekend edition of the …
- Military and warfare Race and ethnicity
The War Between the States Museum, in Florence, South Carolina, United States, was founded in 1988 by members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), who donated many of the museum's artifacts. The…
- Religion
The "War on Islam" is a concept advocated by some Muslims to denote what they perceive as a concerted effort by non-Muslims and "false Muslims" to harm, weaken, or annihilate Islam and Muslim society …
- Communism
Ward Vinton Evans (June 6, 1880 – August 2, 1957) was a chemist who served as a professor at Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago. He was known as one of three members of the commissi…
- Death Science and technology
The water fuel cell is a non-functional design for a "perpetual motion machine" created by Stanley Allen Meyer (August 24, 1940 – March 20, 1998). Meyer claimed that a car retrofitted with the device …
- Health
The White Rose is a group that runs a stickering campaign to distribute disinformation and conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic. Its name is an appropriation of that of the anti-Nazi White …
- Race and ethnicity
In February 2025, a refugee program officially known as Mission South Africa was launched by United States president Donald Trump to grant asylum to white South Africans and other minorities in South …
- Race and ethnicity Religion Sexuality and gender
The white genocide, white extinction, or white replacement conspiracy theory is a white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims there is a deliberate plot to cause the extinction of white people thr…
- Race and ethnicity
White genocide in South Africa is a claim that white farmers in South Africa are being killed and targeted because they are white, and that the killings are connected to land based policies. The Insti…
- Race and ethnicity
Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (also known as Echo of Murder and Unanswered Questions) is a TV movie about the Atlanta child murders starring James Belushi and Gregory Hines. It was directed by Charle…
- Communism
William Vincent "Vit" Vitarelli (October 21, 1910 – January 19, 2010), also referred to as Rubak in Palau, was an American educator and architect. He worked for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Isla…
- Health
Wilson Edwards (Chinese: 威尔逊·爱德华兹; pinyin: Wēi'ěrxùn Àidéhuázī) was the name of an alleged Swiss biologist who was quoted by multiple Chinese news media in July 2021 condemning the United States over …
- General Religion
The witch-cult hypothesis is a discredited theory that the witch trials of the Early Modern period were an attempt to suppress a pagan religion that had survived the Christianization of Europe. Accord…
- Death
Wolfgang Werner 'Gaks' Grams (6 March 1953 – 27 June 1993) was a member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German far-left terrorist organization. Grams went underground in 1984 and subsequently belonge…
- Aviation incidents Death False flag Israel Military and warfare
Some conspiracy theories contend that the collapse of the World Trade Center was caused not solely by the airliner crash damage that occurred as part of the September 11 attacks and the resulting fire…
- Communism Genocide denial
World Without Nazism (WWN; Russian: Мир без нацизма, МБН, Mir Bez Natsizma, MBN) is a Russian political organization with ties to Vladimir Putin's government, which claims to campaign against neo-fasc…
- Health
The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (WIV; Chinese: 中国科学院武汉病毒研究所) is a virology research institute under the Wuhan Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Located in Jiangxi…
- Death
Władysław Sikorski's death controversy revolves around the death of the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, General Władysław Sikorski, in the 1…
- Military and warfare
Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen from across Southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II and supposedly…
- Communism
Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that the First Amendment protected radical and reactionary speech, unless it posed a…
- Israel
The Yinon Plan is an article published in February 1982 in the Hebrew journal Kivunim ("Directions") entitled 'A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s'. The article was penned by Oded Yinon, reputedly a fo…
- Military and warfare
The Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle Ingolstadt e. V. (Ingolstadt Research Institute for Contemporary Historical Research registered association, ZFI, also known as Institut für Zeitgeschichtsforsc…
- Israel Race and ethnicity Religion
The Zionist Occupation Government, Zionist Occupational Government, or Zionist-Occupied Government (ZOG), sometimes also called the Jewish Occupational Government (JOG), is a term for the government o…
- Sexuality and gender
Zoë Tiberius Quinn (born 1987) is an American video game developer, programmer, and writer. Quinn developed the interactive fiction game Depression Quest, which was released in 2013. In 2014, a blog p…
- Aviation incidents
ČSA Flight 540 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Prague, Czechoslovakia to Tehran, Iran via Damascus, Syria and Baghdad, Iraq. On 20 August 1975, the flight, operated by an Ilyushin …
- Communism
Żydokomuna ([ʐɨdɔkɔˈmuna], Polish for "Judeo-Communism") is an anti-communist and antisemitic canard, or pejorative stereotype, suggesting that most Jews collaborated with the Soviet Union in importin…