Reddit Explains Conspiracy & the Unknown

A man wanted to throw a good birthday party for his son, so he hired a clown through a friend. The clown didn’t show up, causing a great disappointment among the son and other children at the party. They later went to bed before hearing a disturbing sound in the night.

In the 1950’s, the CIA took on a project they called MK-Ultra to test mind control on unknowing victims. For a long time this was just considered a conspiracy theory until way later documents were revealed that proved this program was real. We talk about the project and some of the effects from it.

A woman was in bed when she heard her toddler calling her name. Shen went in there, but the toddler was fast asleep. Then she went to bed again and her husband began to call her, but of course he was still at work. Then she started seeing images on the walls, which appeared and disappeared from sight.

This poster’s wife seems very strange this particular night. She’s lying down behind him in bed, but her breathing, movements, and even her breath are not like they usually are. Everything seems off about his wife until he hears her walking up the stairs, talking on the phone.

This poster tells about a girl he knew just out of high school that he and his best friend used to hang out with. A while later, he ran into her again while with some friends, but she had no memory of ever meeting him, nor did she ever live in that same town in which he lived. He consults his best friend, who denies ever having met her or hung out with her before.

In 2011, a space shuttle called The Challenger exploded during launch. There’s a major probability that the astronauts were not conscious when they hit the water and that the explosion was not the initial cause of death. We go over theories for this conspiracy.

At the start of the 20th century, Alfred Loewenstein was firmly established as one the most powerful financiers in the world. On July 4th, 1928, Alfred boarded his private plane. He went to use the restroom mid flight, but never came back out. That was the last time anyone had ever seen him alive. We discuss theories of what may have happened.

The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread the path without a sound. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him.

While in a home in the forest, the OP is awakened at night to their dog growling at something outside. The growl gets louder and eventually the dog approaches the window and begins to bark. They hear a couple of female voices outside, but when they go out to see who it is, it’s not at all what they expected to find.

Spying is still a very real thing for most world governments. One of the most foolproof ways of delivering a coded message is through a one-time-code, a code used only once before being discarded. Shortwave radio is an extremely secure way of sending these messages. We discuss this theory.