Conspiracy Theories

Very little has been conceived in books and movies that hasn't happened in real life. In fact, the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction" wasn't coined in vain. It's one reason conspiracy theories are so popular. That and the internet. Theories run the gamut of deceased celebrities still being alive to false flag tragedies and elaborate one world order plots. 

I enjoy a good government conspiracy theory. Not that I believe them--not all of them anyway. But it can be fun to speculate. It can also be a little unnerving when some of those theories turn out to be accurate. Like the CIA's MK Ultra program that spanned decades and involved numerous experiments mostly around the effects of LSD. Samuel Archer comes face to face with this one and a few others in The Biography of Samuel Archer.

In Working for Uncle Henry, Parker's friend Ijue is a bonafide conspiracy theorist obsessed to the point of mild paranoia. He lives in a faraday type house in the swamp in our fictional town of Rolling Rivers, VA. Ijue's theories include Elvis, UFOs, government plots, Big Foot, and crediting the Georgia Guidestones to Jimmy Carter.

The average person will laugh at such "nonsense." But what if the seemingly harmless but crazy theories are just to throw us off the ones that are real? After all, we know some things actually happened. Statistical odds would say then that some current conspiracies floating around are real. And the other old adage "where there's smoke, there's fire" tends to be true more often than not.

Do you follow conspiracy theories? What's your favorite? What's one you believe to be true?