Conspiracy theories

[95th Rifleman]

I remember watching a documentary that put forward the theory that an American sub sank the Kurks with a torpedo by mistake and both sides initiated a cover-up to prevent WW3 (russia let the submariners die so no survivors could testify apparently).

[mikeo80]

Let's not forget one of the most pervasive conspiracy theories of the late 20th century!!

Roswell, NN!!

Little green guys and all......

My $0.02

Mike

[Tegyrius]

Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman

I remember watching a documentary that put forward the theory that an American sub sank the Kurks with a torpedo by mistake and both sides initiated a cover-up to prevent WW3 (russia let the submariners die so no survivors could testify apparently).

That ties in nicely with the story that we sank K-129 and the Soviets later sank USS Scorpion in retaliation.

K-129 has a great conspiracy theory of her own, too, which Red Star Rogue addresses in full and wacky detail.

- C.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

So you haven't heard the one from David Icke that the British royal family are actually flesh-eating lizard aliens from Alpha Draconis and they are here to help their lizard comrades re-establish the slave base they had on Earth millennia ago?
Apparently humans were bred as slaves for them and movies like ET The Extra Terrestrial and Jurassic Park were specifically made to ease us all into accepting our lizard overlords when they return.
He claims they found the skull of one of the lizard overlords in the Antartic and even had a picture... well, the picture was of the hole in the ice that it had "apparently" been found in (convincingly lizard skull shaped and without a single manmade object next to it to compare the size & depth)
Various nations are conspiring to cover all this up and prepare us for out 'true' masters.

Or how about the one that claimed Russian police had to use a flamethrower to clean out some "thing" that was draining all the blood from people who rode a certain elevator in a conveniently un-named Russian apartment block? The Russian police officer in charge took a police sergeant with him to investigate and they rode the elevator only to hear strange noises above them, then the power went out and the sergeant shone his flashlight up and collapsed with fright due to his phobia of spiders.
Allegedly a massively gigantic spider was living in the elevator shaft and killing anyone who rode that elevator. The police officer escaped and supposedly had a flamethrower brought in from the army to 'cleanse' the elevator shaft.
Allegedly, the Russian police, the apartment owners and the government conspired to hide all this from the public so that the real estate prices for apartments wouldn't drop.

[natehale1971]

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Or how about the one that claimed Russian police had to use a flamethrower to clean out some "thing" that was draining all the blood from people who rode a certain elevator in a conveniently un-named Russian apartment block? The Russian police officer in charge took a police sergeant with him to investigate and they rode the elevator only to hear strange noises above them, then the power went out and the sergeant shone his flashlight up and collapsed with fright due to his phobia of spiders.
Allegedly a massively gigantic spider was living in the elevator shaft and killing anyone who rode that elevator. The police officer escaped and supposedly had a flamethrower brought in from the army to 'cleanse' the elevator shaft.
Allegedly, the Russian police, the apartment owners and the government conspired to hide all this from the public so that the real estate prices for apartments wouldn't drop.

You know.. this reminds me of one of those horror shows of the late-1980s/early-1990s. Two young men are going to an old aparemtent building that they had inherited and while riding the elevator a giant spider eats them...

[Targan]

Heck, I'm living in a country rich with conspiracy theories. "A baby ate my dingo!", anyone?

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Yeah; I've heard the K129 was on its way to nuke Hawaii (sometimes the theory is that they were trying to trigger a war between the US and China) and got sunk so we "gave up" the Scorpion.

My favorite Kursk conspiracy theory is that an LA class rammed her, sank her, and snuck off. Of course this all ignores the fact that an LA class is, compared to a double-hulled boomer like the Kursk, as thin and flimsy as a beercan and would itself have been destroyed in the process (point this out to the Russian conspiracy theorists and they usually come back with "US captain knew just right where to hit big Kursk to do most damage" or "Little tap yes but disturbed SKVALL torpedo launch to cause big explosion").

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by Targan

Heck, I'm living in a country rich with conspiracy theories. "A baby ate my dingo!", anyone?

That was just mean. Poor Meryl Streep.

[pmulcahy11b]

Here's one for the Southwest US: just Google "Chupacabra."