22 Wild Conspiracy Theories People Actually Believe

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a day ago

With everything going on in the world, it's honestly no wonder that people want to theorize about the ways that governments, celebrities, and, uh, aliens might be conspiring against the masses.
That being said, when we recently asked the BuzzFeed Community about which conspiracy theories they actually believe might be real, we got some truly WILD responses. Without further ado, here's how some of the over 300 commenters responded:
"The housing crash was crap. I guess we're just a dishonest society, but how can both the seller and buyer be doing the wrong thing and have it collapse?"
"The moon landing was staged... Murica is all about marketing... and competing with China and Russia, LOL."
—catnamedcalamity
"That the Egyptian pyramids were designed by aliens. I don't know how they could have been built so precisely otherwise?"
"That there are cures for different cancers, but Big Pharma is keeping it quiet and such because their entire business is based on sick people."
"I think that maybe Ouija boards are *really* cursed. Once, I did one, and it spelled out my friend's name (she had bone cancer; her name was Pam) and the next morning, we found out she'd passed away..."
—mxcchio-
"I think everyone sees colors differently. I.e., my red looks like your blue, but we both learned what we see as 'red.'"
"Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were at first a publicity stunt."
"That we are not real. Our galaxy is just located in a locker in a station in outer space or in the charm on the collar of a big orange cat."
"That the calendar is built like it is (i.e., Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) so we have to buy new ones every year, and it was all done by the calendar corporations to leech off our money."
—the_snookie
"Alien civilizations want nothing to do with the people of Earth because we are basically the trailer trash of the universe! We're supposed to be an intelligent society, but everything we do is to our detriment. We let people die because we don't share with each other, we have imaginary lines that people can't cross, and things that should be free, like food, clothes, and shelter, need to be bought with money."
"The current state of the US is a direct result of Republican meddling, starting in 1968. The intent was to slowly dumb down the population, thus making them easier to control. The 'conspiracy' is that it was intentional."
"AI listens to us all."
"That HGTV developed the open concept home to make money. Smash down walls with sledgehammers = more male viewership. Fewer walls means less materials, but builders can still charge the same as they were for more traditional homes."
—micahdr
"The government wants us all to be sick and dumb so we can rely on them for money and food. Doing this gives them full control. That's why our education levels suck compared to other countries and healthy food is so damn expensive."
"Religion was created by men to deny the fact that women are the superior gender — oh wait."
"Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same bird. They're working together and just give constituents the illusion of choice. They're in politics for themselves and for the monied elite."
"The world really did end in 2012 in accordance with the Mayan Calendar, and our collective consciousness has been uploaded into a simulation that is being observed by aliens for their entertainment."
—certified_drapetomaniac"Or this is the bad place, and they're running out of plot lines to torture us."—monikap6
"Aliens got here a long, long time ago, and they're in the ocean."
"IDK if it's a conspiracy theory, but aliens are definitely out there. There are billions of planets that could sustain life out there, so that's billions of opportunities for life to evolve. It happened on Earth, why can't it happen somewhere else in the universe?"
"The current elites are doing space travel because they plan to go up to space for a few days while they get robot drones and droids to kill us, and then they'll come back to Earth to enjoy their privilege."
"The paintings on display in museums and art galleries are replicas, and the real ones are hidden in a vault somewhere."
—ishouldstopactingcool
And finally, "Dragons were real."
So, we have to ask: What's a conspiracy theory you believe is real? Get weird in the comments.