Favourite Conspiracies

[Gromit]

What are your favourite conspiracy stories/groups.
Mine are:

The Illuminati - totally fascinated with this
TheMasons - intriguing
JFK Assisination
Death of Marilyn Monroe & the Kennedy Connection
Roswell - did ET really visit??

 

[DaveM]

I enjoy all the space related ones, Roswell being one of the best :y114:

 

[otherwise]

The conspiracy I'd like to have investigated is the group who keep hiding my keys and glasses whenever I put them down.

 

[Geoff587]

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The conspiracy I'd like to have investigated is the group who keep hiding my keys and glasses whenever I put them down.
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That will be the same group who hide the TV remote :wink:

 

[otherwise]

[quote author=Geoff587 link=topic=6889.msg37661#msg37661 date=1251111357]
That will be the same group who hide the TV remote :wink:
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The mysterious "Remote Hiding Group" aren't as smart as they think they are. I outwitted them by connecting the remote to the TV with a short piece of cord.

 

[DaveM]

If you did not let them hide your glasses then you would find the other stuff :y114:

 

[Geoff587]

[quote author=otherwise link=topic=6889.msg37664#msg37664 date=1251111814]
The mysterious "Remote Hiding Group" aren't as smart as they think they are. I outwitted them by connecting the remote to the TV with a short piece of cord.
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Don,t think I will get away with that, my remote is 6 ft tall with long dark hair.
What about the Conspiracy theory that there is a group who always go off Topic h:

 

[CarlS]

Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and three others of their ilk were born about nine months after the Roswell incident. I think they were conceived by the extra terrestrial beings from Roswell. That's proof enough for me! :y114:

Marilyn Monroe most definitely had a connection with Jack and Robert. She did attempt to call Robert just shortly before she died. The rest of the conspiracy theory is just fun reading.

As for JFK's assassination, the truth is locked away. The whole Warren Commission report was sealed. A sanitized version was released. I have no idea what the truth is; but I am positive the Oswald did not act alone. One of my uncles had an Italian rifle like the one Oswald allegedly used. I fired the rifle many times. It is impossible to fire that clunker accurately three times in that time span. A sniper rifle it is definitely not. It is a bolt action rifle and not a very smooth bolt action at that. One can fire it that fast if one fires it without aiming. Anyone who has ever been in combat or witnessed a shooting and saw the whole film of JFK being hit will have a very tough time believing the shot that killed JFK came from behind. That shot was fired from in front of JFK. I have my own theory as to the truth - and why we were not told the truth.

 

[DaveM]

JFK -- excerpt ("back and to the left&quot

JFK assassination: Secret Service Standdown

 

[The Seeker]

Carl and I disagree on the JFK assassination.....I actually believe Oswald was the lone gunman. I didn't for many years until I read Vincent Bugliosi's book and saw an Australian team re-enact it, showing all the shots were entirely possible.
When I was in Marine Basic Training, the Gunnery Sgt overseeing us on the shooting range heralded Lee Harvey Oswald and Charles Whitman by saying "here's an example of what one lone Marine and his rifle can do".

I think all the junk about the Masons is bunk.

I do believe something extraterrestrial crashed in Roswell, NM.

Closer to my home, the Keckesburg UFO incident might be even more compelling evidence of a UFO crash (with actual eye witnesses) than Roswell.

 

[CarlS]

Dave, my point exactly.

AJ, I have no doubt that Oswald was a good shot; however, he was not sniper trained and that piece of junk is not a sniper rifle. And the fatal shot did not come from the rear; it came from the front. I could have gotten off three or four accurate shots in that time frame - with the right weapon.

 

[DaveM]

[quote author=The Seeker link=topic=6889.msg37693#msg37693 date=1251124980]

Closer to my home, the Keckesburg UFO incident might be even more compelling evidence of a UFO crash (with actual eye witnesses) than Roswell.
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Very interesting reading, love this stuff :y115:

 

[The Seeker]

I dunno Carl???.....Oswald was only 60 feet up and about 50-60 yards away. The Australian team used the same exact rifle and ammo. They even got the 2nd (magic bullet) shot to do exactly what it was claimed was impossible. The fatal head shot does look to come from the front, however his head thrusting backwards is also typical of real life when the exit of the bullet from the front of the head being blown away forces it back instead of forward.

We may just have to agree to disagree on this one.

 

[The Seeker]

[quote author=DaveM link=topic=6889.msg37696#msg37696 date=1251125441]
Very interesting reading, love this stuff :y115:
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Dave,

Google more info on this story.....Wikipedia only touches the surface. There is a LOT more evidence than is mentioned there. It could NOT have been a meteor or Russian spacecraft crashing because they follow a straight line. Eyewitnesses who saw it just before it crashed watched it reverse direction a couple times.

 

[Geoff587]

The Bible has got too be the Biggest Conspiracy theory of all time .

 

[CarlS]

Oh, I quite agree about the head thrusting forwards; but the skull and brains blowing backwards is not indicative of a shot from behind. In a shot from the rear, the head would most often snap toward the rear and then go forward - much like whiplash in an auto struck from the rear.

I, too, read Vincent Bugliosi's book and saw the Australian team re-enactment. His book is no more convincing than the Warren Report and no more credible. Jim Garrison is just as convincing as Bugliosi and I don't buy his theory either. I surely don't buy the Warren Commission's published report.

 

[CarlS]

I should have added there is reason why the whole Warren Commission investigation is sealed. If Oswald acted alone, what is the reason the report was sealed until no one alive at the time is still living? Oswald was not even tested for nitrates before Ruby killed him. We do not even know if he fired a round at all. I think he he did; but there is no proof.

 

[Doug]

I'm sure Oswald thought he shot Kennedy,but I doubt it. He wasn't that good a shot and too many things factor against it,including Ruby so conveniently taking him out before he could talk when he himself knew he was dying and needed to square things with the mob...............

 

[Simmer]

I can only respond to the Masonic thing. I have been a Mason for thirty plus years and as Seeker said it is a lot of bunk. It is a fraternal organization and that's all. The whole idea is to take good men and make them better by living well with you fellow man. Discussion of a specific religion and politics is forbidden in the lodge, although you must believe in a supreme being to be a mason. I have been in lodges where the Bible and the Koran were side by side on the alter and brothers of all religions sit side by side in peace and harmony. Although masons will be the first to defend our country and way of life, it is to bad that more people can not live by masonic concepts and maybe we would have fewer wars.

Dave

 

[The Seeker]

Wow Simmer...you were a Past Master 3 times?

That's a lot of work, time, and memorization to go through the chairs even once.