My first brush with the real hardcore "what THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW" type stuff was when alt.conspiracy was added as a newsgroup to my local dial-in ISP.
I read about how the Soviets had planted nuclear torpedos in the locks and flood control gates of various rivers and reservoirs. Another good one was that the Challenger astronauts were alive and well after they hit the water and survived well after the impact, NASA just didn't go get them because they were too busy destroying evidence of fault after the booster rocket disaster. I heard all this back in 1990 or so...
What else...
oh, another fun one I heard not that long ago was that the first Atom Bomb did not, in fact, work, and it was a work of precision demolition combined with a single massive bomb going off over the city. Basically that somehow the US managed to replicate the Texas City explosion by sneaking barges of ANFO up the various estuaries into place at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki - it was only well after the war that we got a "working formula" (yeah, insane).
As the son of a Freemason and a deMolay member the number of conspiracy theories about guys who can't agree on what house rules to use in a game of Rook or Pinochle are endless.
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