True Conspiracies

Hello and for the final time, welcome back to “You’d Have to be Crazy to Believe This!” Over the past nine weeks I have talked about some really crazy and out there conspiracy theories. Some, maybe most, are probably no true. In fact a lot of them have over whelming evidence against them. But this week, for my final post, I want to talk about some conspiracy theories that seemed crazy when they were first proposed, but in the end turned out to be true. So be careful whom you call crazy, they just might turn out to be right.

Canadian Gaydar

So Canada was not always the happy loving place we know of today. In fact in the 1950s and 1960s homosexuals were categorized a “psychopaths.” So the government created a program to identify and eliminate gay men from the civil service. Suspected homosexuals were asked to take a “stress test” in which they were forced to watch pornography whilst their reaction was measured.  This resulted in the termination of over 9,000 workers. But by the end of the 1960s the so-called “stress test” was ousted for its true purpose.

FBI Alcohol Poisoning

During prohibition era America, the FBI was looking for a way to crack down on the illegal distribution of alcohol. They decided to infiltrate alcohol smuggling rings and poison all the product. It is unsure how many deaths this resulted in but the current estimate is about 50,000 fatalities and thousands more left blind or permanently wounded. The program did not end until 1933 when alcohol became legal again in the United States.

MKUltra

MKUltra is the nickname given to the CIA’s mind control scheme. The program took place from 1953 to 1973 and the plan was to develop some sort of mind control and/or brainwash drug to be used against soviet spies.  In an effort to develop such drugs, innocent Americans were subjected to tests and forced to take mind-altering substances such as LSD.  The experiments only had one known fatality but it is unknown exactly how many adults were involved in the studies.  MKUltra was finally known to the public in 1975 after a series of government investigations.

                                            Bohemian Groove

There have always been rumors that the worlds most elite meet up to plan how the world will be run, but in Bohemian Groove, that really happens.  The 2,700-acre camping site hosts annual retreats for its elite members in including every republican president since 1953. Guests partake in strange cult-like rituals in which they wear costumes and set effigies a blaze and perform sacrifices in front of a giant stone owl. Apparently, the first mentioning’s of the Manhattan project, the project that birthed the atomic bomb, was brought up at the Groove by a group of world leaders.

So what do you think about these real life conspiracy theories? Did any of these shock you? Which one was most surprising? And if you have read my blog a lot I would love to know which one of my posts was your favorite? Well that’s a wrap on “You’d Have to be Crazy to Believe This!” Thanks for reading!

The Lost City of Atlantis

Hello! And welcome back to “You’d Have to be Crazy to Believe This!” It is safe to say this week’s conspiracy theory is not too dry. Ha-ha, get it? It is a pun. This Week I am talking about the lost, underwater city of Atlantis! Was it real? Is it just legend? And if it was real, where did it go? Let’s look at the evidence for this mysterious lost city.

Atlantis is a legendary city that supposedly sank in 10,000 BC. This city was allegedly very technologically advanced, maybe even having had some sort of space travel or semblance of technology similar to ours. However, according to Greek legend the city sank in a tsunami, leaving behind almost no trace that it ever existed. Many theorists believe this city is out there somewhere, waiting to be discovered.

The first mentioning of Atlantis is found in the work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Plato says the island was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and was home to millions of citizens. He describes

a massive landmass, estimated to be greater in size than Libya and Asia Minor combined. According to Plato, Poseidon, the god of water, protected the island nation. The island was even named after his son, Atlas, whom Poseidon named the king of Atlantis. As the people of Atlantis grew too powerful for Poseidon’s liking, he sent earthquakes and tsunamis to demolish the city until it sank into the sea.

Many of people who have studied Plato’s work took this story to be more of a lesson than fact. We all must behave and not let power corrupt us or else the gods will kill us, simple enough. However, modern investigators believe they have found evidence for its existence.

                                                                 Oricalcum

In a January 2015 dive, some marine archeologist made an interesting discovery. Several pieces of a mysterious unidentified mental alloy.  Some conspiracy theorists have claimed that this mysterious metal is the illusive “Oricalcum,” The metal mined in Atlantis. Plato proclaims in his work that this metal was the source of much of the wealth of the city, and describes walls adorned with the precious metal. These pieces have still yet to be identified, so could they be the mysterious and precious “oricalcum?”

The Plateau

When speaking about this mythical city one must ask, where was it? Well theorists say it lies on an

incredibly large plateau in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The plateau in question is approximately 300,000 square miles big. The theory for how this plateau would have sunken is that a line of volcanoes running the length of the contentment all erupted at the same time causing massive earth quakes and tsunamis and eventually resulting in the island sinking.

Aside from that, there is really no concrete evidence for the existence of the lost city. No dives or investigations have ever turned up anything that legitimately points to the sunken civilization. But what do you think? Is there at all a chance that the lost city is real? I personally think it would be an amazing discovery but I don’t see it happening any time soon. Well, until next time!