Every rabbit hole has a bottom — but some go much deeper than you’d expect. Conspiracy theories have fascinated and unsettled people for centuries, from whispered rumors in royal courts to viral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conspiracy-mongers are now frothing at the mouth as both of the high-profile cases, while unrelated, reached unceremonious, and to ...

Pokémon might seem innocent—but some fan theories say otherwise. In this video, I explore the creepiest and most unsettling Pokémon conspiracy theories out there, from ghost-type origins to dark ...

Psychologists have long considered how a tendency towards irrational thinking or particular personality traits might predict peoples’ interest in conspiracies. Yet these individual factors do not ...

"Homer conceived the power of the gods in such a way that whatever happened on the plain before Troy was only a reflection of the various conspiracies on Olympus," Karl Popper told an Oxford lecture ...

On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes struck southern Türkiye within hours of each other and killed more than 50,000 people. While rescuers were still searching the rubble, a different explanation for ...

The Apollo moon landings never happened and were staged in Hollywood film studios. Climate change and COVID-19 are hoaxes. Feminism is a conspiracy to decrease the white birth rate to endanger the ...

A five-year study dispels the stereotype of conspiracy theorists as angry loners or keyboard warriors. Rather, social and emotional connections provided by conspiracy theorists are recruiting diverse ...

Four percent of Americans – roughly 12 million people – believe that “lizard people” secretly control the Earth. At least, that was the finding of an infamous 2013 public opinion survey. Do so many ...