What's the wildest ACTUAL conspiracy you've heard of that would shock most people if they knew about it?

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there's this black fluid from deep under the earth and it's made of concentrated death, entire dead biospheres, ancient and buried and hidden, and we tap into it. for its power. the black fluid has become the blood of a world-spanning monster that every single one of us serves every day. Because we cannot imagine a life not in its service.

the monster is killing us all, right now.

the all-death is already well underway. our parents knew a world with twice the insects and three times the birds

also richard gere really did get a gerbil stuck in his ass

there are two parts of my life:

• the time before i learned about the existence of Operation Gladio
• the time after i learned about the existence of Operation Gladio

This isn't a conspiracy "theory" per se, but the big fossil fuel companies certainly conspired to totally discredit the good science showing how their emissions would lead to global warming. Judging by how things are going in the current day, including literacy or even basic acceptance of a warming planet among the general population, as well as the political inaction on the matter, I would say they largely succeeded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Climate_Coalition

The Dutroux Affair is a wild one to dig into, mostly because of how similarly the Epstein affair played out a few years later. A known pedophile finally gets convicted after the police spend years avoiding his arrest and in the end none of the clients are discovered

In 1995, Dutroux's mother wrote a letter to the authorities stating that she knew that Dutroux had kidnapped two girls and was keeping them at his house.

After Lejeune and Russo were kidnapped in June 1995, it took police 14 months to arrest Dutroux, although he had been a prime suspect from the start, having committed similar crimes before. During the search for Lejeune and Russo, police visited Dutroux's house, where Lejeune and Russo were held, twice, on 13 and 19 December 1995 without finding them. Several video tapes found during the search were never looked at. Some of them showed Dutroux constructing the dungeon in which Lejeune and Russo were held. Michel Bourlet, who was appointed lead investigator, said that some of the video tapes had disappeared and that he wanted to have them all recovered and reviewed.

There were countless hairs found in the dungeon where the two girls were held. Judge Langlois refused to have them tested for DNA evidence even though the leading police investigator, Michel Bourlet, had begged him to have them analyzed in order to know whether more people beside Dutroux were involved.

At least seven members of law enforcement were arrested on suspicion of having ties to Marc Dutroux. One of them was Georges Zico, a police detective believed to be an associate of Dutroux.

More than 20 potential witnesses in the case died in mysterious circumstances

i mean that handful of cops who have been caught distributing fent, and the fent dealers doing police informing basically prove that police and/or feds are involved with perpetuating and expanding the "fentanyl crisis" and culpable for tens of thousands of deaths, even if we don't have a smoking-gun CIA file yet