Redditor u/Accomplished-Leg-991 recently asked the people of Reddit to share the weirdest and craziest conspiracy theories they have ever heard. The responses revealed just how gullible some individuals can be. Here are some of the most bizarre theories:
1. “Rocks are soft until touched. The dumbest, but still my favorite.” – u/JiN88reddit
2. “Traffic barrels are left up for so long because the Department of Transportation bought too many and have no place to store them.” – u/dailysunshineKO
3. “That Gisele Bündchen is an actual witch, and she hexed Leonardo DiCaprio after they broke up so that he would never be able to date anyone older than she was when they broke up.” – u/Dunlaing
4. “That Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen, and they made the movie Frozen so that when people googled ‘Walt Disney Frozen’ the movie would come up first.” – u/LizardPossum
5. “The push for green lawns in the US is by Big Pharma. To get green grass, you need pesticides, pesticides cause cancer, cancer is good business for drug companies.” – u/StillBald
6. “I had a co-worker that fully believed the government controls the weather so celebrities can have nice weddings.” – u/pinballgizard
7. “The ‘5G waves emitted by the Emergency Broadcast test activate the COVID vaccine microchips and turn people into zombies’ one is definitely one of the weirdest I’ve ever heard.” – u/furiousfran
8. “That Finland doesn’t exist.” – u/im-a-disaster
9. “Flat Earth. Just…everything about it.” – u/GMSryBut
10. “Your social security number indicates which bank you were sold to at birth.” – u/compuwiza1
11. “Conspiracy 58 – basically, a conspiracy that the World Cup from 1958 never happened in Sweden as it was broadcast, and it was a CIA psy-op.” – u/malleoceruleo
12. “That the great fire of London was actually started by a rat spontaneously combusting.” – u/TheScarceRecrea
13. “Some nut jobs have convinced themselves that every celebrity is trans.” – u/PzMcQuire
14. “QAnon. All of it is insane, but the most crazy and unbelievable part is that they consider Trump to be a genius.” – u/skrilledcheese
15. “One of the wildest ones is that Charlemagne’s grandson moved the calendar forward 300 years, and thus the Dark Ages never happened.” – u/seandowling73
16. “Mass shooting victims being crisis actors.” – u/invasionfromkat
17. “I randomly heard recently that they get transplanted kidneys out of prisoners.” – Anonymous
18. “That owning chickens are the gateway drug to believing conspiracy theories.” – u/sarcasmawm
These conspiracy theories range from the absurd to the downright cruel. It’s a reminder of the power of misinformation and the unfortunate susceptibility of some individuals to fall for unfounded claims.