Listen up, dear dash hounds, your reptilian overlords Beth and Kelly have an odd tale about the Illuminati, witchcraft, the apocalypse, and eternal damnation. Strange Country is talking conspiracies and includes a special Jack Chick readers theater!

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Cite your sources:

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Godwin, Richard. “One Giant ... Lie? Why so Many People Still Think the Moon Landings Were Faked.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 10 July 2019, www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/10/one-giant-lie-why-so-many-people-still-think-the-moon-landings-were-faked.

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Ito, Robert. "Fear Factor: Jack Chick is the World's Most Published Author--And One of the Strangest." Los Angeles Magazine, May 2003, pp. 56-63, books.google.com/booksid=v10EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&dq=%22Chick+tract%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22Chick%20tract%22&f=false.

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Olito, Frank. “35 Of the Most Popular Conspiracy Theories in the US.” Insider, Insider, 4 May 2020, www.insider.com/popular-conspiracy-theories-united-states-2019-5#some-people-believe-the-american-military-installation-area-51-is-researching-and-experimenting-on-aliens-and-their-spacecraft-1.

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Sides, John. “Fifty Percent of Americans Believe in Some Conspiracy Theory. Here's Why.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 19 Feb. 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/19/fifty-percent-of-americans-believe-in-some-conspiracy-theory-heres-why/.

Walker, Jesse. The United States of Paranoia: a Conspiracy Theory. Harper Perennial, 2014.

Yuhas, Alan. “The Pentagon Released U.F.O. Videos. Don't Hold Your Breath for a Breakthrough.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/pentagon-ufo-videos.html.

Zitelmann, Rainer. “How Many Americans Believe In Conspiracy Theories?” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 28 June 2020, www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2020/06/29/how-many-americans-believe-in-conspiracy-theories/#17d7dc515e94.