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Which conspiracy theories do you believe?

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RoseWylie · 11/11/2026 19:17

Me-

Covid came from a Chinese lab.
Epstein's death was engineered by a third party, whether by murder or by compromising the suicide watch.
Lucy Letby's conviction isn't sound and was affected by institutional motivation to find a cause for babies dying other than negligence and squalor across the department. (FAOD I have no idea whether she is innocent or guilty.)

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somanychristmaslights · 12/11/2026 21:05

EconomyClassRockstar · 11/11/2026 23:12

You think 64 families are lying about losing their loved ones?! Would you like me to introduce you to one so you can tell them that? Because it's an amazing act that has impacted her life for the last 25 years if she didn't.

I didn’t say that.
But a plane that size can’t just skim the ground at high speed like that. There’s been professional pilots that have said that. For the angle it “hit”, it would have to be travelling at a fair distance. There was no footage/ evidence of a plane shooting along a street at a few hundred mph and not hitting other buildings. And a building like The Pentagon only have 1 grainy cctv camera isn’t believable. I just find the whole thing Pentagon side of 9/11 odd.

Periperi2025 · 12/11/2026 21:09

notimagain · 12/11/2026 20:34

Yep,.agree with the above.

Thinking back to pre the Mull accident I can think of a couple of instances I was involved in where significant numbers of personnel of fairly specialist units (not int) were flown from A to B in a single airframe..if those aircraft had crashed it would have meant quite a problems for the defence.of the realm.

I think the Mull accident was a case of the same being done but for once with tragic consequences.

Stupidity & complancency - everythings fine until it's not!

MagdaLenor · 12/11/2026 21:09

Periperi2025 · 12/11/2026 21:09

Stupidity & complancency - everythings fine until it's not!

Absolutely

notimagain · 12/11/2026 21:15

@somanychristmaslights

The area around the Pentagon is fairly flat and relatively building free,.nothing like the situation in NYC - no high rise so nothing to block an aircraft in a shallow dive and no reason for it to be caught on traffic cameras on the surrounding roads.

As a result TV images are almost non existent but the impact was seen by eyewitness, including the crew of a military aircraft who.had been told to watvh out for the highjacked aircraft

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 12/11/2026 21:16

somanychristmaslights · 12/11/2026 21:05

I didn’t say that.
But a plane that size can’t just skim the ground at high speed like that. There’s been professional pilots that have said that. For the angle it “hit”, it would have to be travelling at a fair distance. There was no footage/ evidence of a plane shooting along a street at a few hundred mph and not hitting other buildings. And a building like The Pentagon only have 1 grainy cctv camera isn’t believable. I just find the whole thing Pentagon side of 9/11 odd.

But a plane that size can’t just skim the ground at high speed like that

Better tell all those pilots who are defying the laws of physics every single time they land one of the things then.

There was no footage/ evidence of a plane shooting along a street at a few hundred mph and not hitting other buildings

Plenty of independent eye-witnesses on the nearby freeway though who saw the entire thing unfold, and I'm sure most of them would be familiar enough with what a civil airliner looks like to recognise one at close quarters.

There was no footage/ evidence of a plane shooting along a street at a few hundred mph and not hitting other buildings

That'll likely be due to the fact the Pentagon is not on a "street" and there are practically no nearby buildings of any size.

nevernotmaybe · 12/11/2026 21:28

somanychristmaslights · 12/11/2026 21:05

I didn’t say that.
But a plane that size can’t just skim the ground at high speed like that. There’s been professional pilots that have said that. For the angle it “hit”, it would have to be travelling at a fair distance. There was no footage/ evidence of a plane shooting along a street at a few hundred mph and not hitting other buildings. And a building like The Pentagon only have 1 grainy cctv camera isn’t believable. I just find the whole thing Pentagon side of 9/11 odd.

You are just repeating conspiracy nonsense though, not anything real that resembles what happened.

Even if you aren’t saying the families are lying, the no plane idea still falls apart when the question of what happened to Flight 77 comes up. Passengers called home from the hijacked plane, the wreckage and both black boxes were recovered at the crash site, and DNA from many people on board was identified in the Pentagon rubble.

The rest comes down to the layout of the area and 2001 technology. The Pentagon isn't surrounded by city streets and things to crash in to. The side in question faces wide highways and open lawns. The plane didn't skim the ground for miles either. It came down steep and only levelled out in the final second or two, which a 757 can absolutely physically do when forced nose down at 530 mph, while knocking down five poles right in front of many eye witnesses (there were a lot of eye witnesses).

Unlike New York where people were already filming after the first hit, nobody in Virginia randomly had a camcorder pointed at the sky waiting for something. Security cameras they used back then recorded at about one frame per second to save tape. They were meant for checking cars stopped at a gate for a car park, not catching a jet moving nearly 800 feet per second!

Moonlightdust · 12/11/2026 21:34

I thought Covid was confirmed as a manmade virus that was created in a lab?

Missohnoyoubetterdont · 12/11/2026 21:35

Periperi2025 · 11/11/2026 19:59

Foot and mouth was a proven lab leak, and the Covid zoonotic hypothesis is an unproven hypothesis currently considered the most likely route of transmission it is not a proven fact, so considering other hypotheses is scientific method not conspiracy theory.

It’s well documented that Foot and Mouth was a lab leak so the truth, not a conspiracy theory! 😂

Hoppopitamus70 · 12/11/2026 21:36

Thindog · 12/11/2026 12:40

There was no abduction of Madeleine.
Harry is a love child of Hewitt.
Epstein didn’t kill himself.
The pope that was emeritus was hidden away because of some big hidden scandal.

Yes I'd forgotten about that, the Harry/Hewitt suggestion.

It really does make you wonder if Diana was pregnant by Dodi which would have (quite wrongly, I might add) further cast shame on the Royal Family to have had Diana produce a mixed race child. It would be very typical of their thinking I would imagine.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 12/11/2026 21:40

I do believe that Covid originated in Wuhan, China, whether from a lab or from one of the markets that sell wild animals for food.

Covid first kicked off in Europe in N Italy, where apparently certain leather working factories employed a lot of Chinese workers from the Wuhan area, who had recently returned after some festival at home.
To me this sort of 2+2 does make 4.

scalt · 12/11/2026 21:43

MagdaLenor · 12/11/2026 18:48

"Boris Johnson in a wig" is genuinely the best conspiracy theory on here 🤣!

Boris wanted (and probably still wants) to be world king. Dressing as the Queen was the nearest he could get to it.

Missohnoyoubetterdont · 12/11/2026 21:45

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 12/11/2026 21:40

I do believe that Covid originated in Wuhan, China, whether from a lab or from one of the markets that sell wild animals for food.

Covid first kicked off in Europe in N Italy, where apparently certain leather working factories employed a lot of Chinese workers from the Wuhan area, who had recently returned after some festival at home.
To me this sort of 2+2 does make 4.

It’s not really a conspiracy theory to think Covid originated in Wuhan, that’s the general consensus of opinion by most experts. Whats wrong with people on here not understanding what a conspiracy theory actually is?!

Squirrelsnut · 12/11/2026 21:47

I think there is plenty of good reason to believe that Jim Morrison didn't die in his bath, and that Jimi Hendrix was murdered.

MagdaLenor · 12/11/2026 21:47

scalt · 12/11/2026 21:43

Boris wanted (and probably still wants) to be world king. Dressing as the Queen was the nearest he could get to it.

I'm convinced!

SirChenjins · 12/11/2026 21:48

TheFriendlyPotato · 12/11/2026 20:03

For what reason? If it was the info and relationship with the Kennedys... why murder when they could have..

Paid her off. She was a wealthy, famous actress. A substantial financial settlement could have secured her silence.

Used political influence. The Kennedys had enormous influence and access to powerful people. Not only could they have keot much of it out of the media, but they could potentially have persuaded her not to speak publicly. Threatening blacklisting from acting, modelling etc roles would have leveraged her into silence.

Discredited her. If she made embarrassing allegations, they could have portrayed her as unreliable or emotionally unstable which in those years they would have done without a single thought.

Simply denied everything. An allegation about an affair, without corroborating evidence, wouldn't necessarily have caused a political catastrophe.

I think she knew too much about too many people, not just the Kennedys.

deste · 12/11/2026 21:48

In what way was the Chinook crash a conspiracy? It was an accident, we knew the pilot.

MagdaLenor · 12/11/2026 21:49

Hoppopitamus70 · 12/11/2026 21:36

Yes I'd forgotten about that, the Harry/Hewitt suggestion.

It really does make you wonder if Diana was pregnant by Dodi which would have (quite wrongly, I might add) further cast shame on the Royal Family to have had Diana produce a mixed race child. It would be very typical of their thinking I would imagine.

Edited

That's completely unsubstantiated. Anyway, she wasn't.
Harry was born by the time she had the affair with Hewitt. You can tell he's Charles' son.

IzzyLeng · 12/11/2026 21:50

My favourite conspiracy theory is the one about birds not being real. I mean that’s blatantly batshit. Not only have I seen many birds flying and hopping about but I’ve seen ones hit by cars, some caught by cats….with various amounts of blood. Definitely not little robots.

nevernotmaybe · 12/11/2026 21:53

IzzyLeng · 12/11/2026 21:50

My favourite conspiracy theory is the one about birds not being real. I mean that’s blatantly batshit. Not only have I seen many birds flying and hopping about but I’ve seen ones hit by cars, some caught by cats….with various amounts of blood. Definitely not little robots.

That's what someone who wants us to think birds are real would say though!

EasternStandard · 12/11/2026 21:53

Missohnoyoubetterdont · 12/11/2026 21:45

It’s not really a conspiracy theory to think Covid originated in Wuhan, that’s the general consensus of opinion by most experts. Whats wrong with people on here not understanding what a conspiracy theory actually is?!

Yeh that one might be missing the mark somewhat.

notimagain · 12/11/2026 21:58

deste · 12/11/2026 21:48

In what way was the Chinook crash a conspiracy? It was an accident, we knew the pilot.

Some think the number of intelligence personnel on one aircraft is a bit suspect...knowing how the RAF works or worked at times like others here I'm not convinced

TBF though in aviation circles there was also a bit of a theory that MOD/HMG tried to pin blame soley on both the pilots for the accident to
hide shortcomings in safety standards and problems with the Mark 2 (?).Chinook

Not sure if that also counted as a conspiracy theory but anyhow if you know one of the families you'll know how much effort and how much time it took to get the two guys cleared of being grossly negligent.

nofacenonamenonumber · 12/11/2026 21:59

Stevie Wonder isn't blind

NoMusicPlease · 12/11/2026 21:59

somanychristmaslights · 12/11/2026 21:05

I didn’t say that.
But a plane that size can’t just skim the ground at high speed like that. There’s been professional pilots that have said that. For the angle it “hit”, it would have to be travelling at a fair distance. There was no footage/ evidence of a plane shooting along a street at a few hundred mph and not hitting other buildings. And a building like The Pentagon only have 1 grainy cctv camera isn’t believable. I just find the whole thing Pentagon side of 9/11 odd.

How the heck do you think planes land?

It didn't skim the ground, it came in steep and fast then leveled out just before impact.

There are no other building surrounding the Pentagon!

Which conspiracy theories do you believe?
MagdaLenor · 12/11/2026 22:05

SirChenjins · 12/11/2026 21:48

I think she knew too much about too many people, not just the Kennedys.

She died of an overdose, she was a vulnerable and unhappy person.

grindergirl · 12/11/2026 22:09

I don't believe either Epstein or Dr David Kelly committed suicide. Back in the 1980s, there were 25 very mysterious deaths (mostly attributed to suicide) of scientists and researchers who worked for the defence industry's UK outlets of Plessey, GEC and Marconi. They were involved with computer simulation and a US torpedo project. It seemed far too high to be 'normal'. It stuck with me because I had a failed job interview with Plessey.
I believe Jill Dando was murdered because she had the trust of the public and knew far too much about high profile paedophiles