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No, Lindsay Lohan has not been poisoned. The search term "Lindsay Lohan Poisoned", which popped up on Google Trends and elsewhere two days ago, is a publicity stunt by Alex Jones. He's promoting an 11-minute video on the supposed dangers of ADHD medications, fluoridated water, vaccines, GMO food, etc. It's amazing how many errors one... Continue Reading →
Australian toilet vampires, yo. The Too Much Time on Their Hands Award goes to the group of archeology students who supposedly saw a UFO last week while digging for Bigfoot remains in Kemerovo Province, Russia. When it comes to weirdness, Henry Makow's Save the Males website is a goldmine. And today's top story doesn't disappoint:... Continue Reading →
This is a tricky post because Canadians, in general, are not a paranoid people. Our conspiracizing is mostly limited to things like, "They must put extra caffeine in this Tim Horton's coffee, eh?" (which has been thoroughly debunked, BTW). In fact, we have so few conspiracy theories that people have to invent them for us.... Continue Reading →
Several months ago, a guy named Ian Tindell posted 5 Convincing 'Real' Paranormal Cases that "will give the average skeptic...food for thought" at Ranker.com. He's right. There is food for thought, and "real" does belong in quotation marks. Let's review: 1. The "exorcism" of Annelise Michel. This was the case that inspired the mediocre horror... Continue Reading →
Now that Noah's Ark has been discovered for the umpteenth time, let's review a classic Ark hoax from the '90s.In the early '90s, CBS aired a string of Bible documentaries produced by Sun International Pictures/Sunn Classic Pictures: Ancient Secrets of the Bible, Ancient Secrets of the Bible II, Mysteries of the Ancient World, and The... Continue Reading →
The media hoo-rah surrounding South Carolina governor Mark Sanford's "disappearance" brought to my mind some far stranger voluntary disappearances, most of them involving the very same thing that supposedly drove Gov. Sanford into the arms of his Argentine mistress: True love. Or, in some cases, the lack of it. Parts I & II: Agatha Christie... Continue Reading →
Hey, if Glenn Beck can use idiotic visual aids, why can't I? It's a week of heightened hysteria in the conspiranoia world - the pie is falling! First up, Chavez and the earthquake machine conspiracy... I guess this makes Chavez the most prominent international figure to actually take this bit of conspiranoid WTFery seriously. Tesla... Continue Reading →
Inspired by this Cracked.com list of real conspiracies, Jonathan Elinof of the website New World Order Report posted a list of 33 "conspiracy theories" that turned out to be true. Then a commenter at the Above Top Secret forums posted a shorter list of real-life conspiracy theories. The problem is, all of the things listed... Continue Reading →
Continued from Hoaxes From Space: The Montauk ProjectIs there any chance the Philadelphia Experiment really happened, and that a lot of dumb-a** hoaxes have become attached to it?Not really. Given the amount of time and money that the military-industrial complex devoted (and still devotes) to nature's version of invisibility - plain ol' camouflage - they... Continue Reading →
The Pants Afire Award goes to the least credible people I've written about here on Swallowing the Camel. And the lucky winners are... Benjamin Fulford, saving the world with Freemasonic ninjas Larry Sinclair - Obama's gay lover and his murder allegations James Frey - Bad writer, no Pulitzer! Sylvia Browne, the whiskey-throated emodiment of epic... Continue Reading →
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