The case files
Every conspiracy theory, indexed
956 sourced case files, each with a precise claim, its origin, the evidence on every side, and an honest verdict. Filter by category or by where the evidence lands.
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'2000 Mules' proved thousands of paid operatives illegally stuffed ballot drop boxes in 2020
In May 2022, conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza and the activist group True the Vote released '2000 Mules,' which claimed that anonymized cellphone geolocation data,…
Read the case file →'Cultural Marxism' is a deliberate plot to destroy Western civilization from within
The 'Cultural Marxism' conspiracy theory holds that a deliberate plot, hatched by the Frankfurt School of Marxist thinkers, has spent decades corroding Western…
Read the case file →'Judeo-Bolshevism,' the claim that Jews created and controlled communism to destroy Western civilization, is a debunked antisemitic canard that served as a rationale for genocide
'Judeo-Bolshevism' is the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews, as a people, created and secretly controlled communism in order to destroy Western and Christian…
Read the case file →'Population jihad,' the claim that Indian Muslims are deliberately out-breeding Hindus to overtake the majority and take over India, is a debunked, Islamophobic demographic myth that the country's own census and health-survey data flatly contradict
'Population jihad' (also 'demographic jihad' or the mocking 'hum do, humare pachees,' we two and our twenty-five) is the Hindu-nationalist conspiracy theory that Indian…
Read the case file →'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' is a genuine record of a Jewish plot to control the world
'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' claims to be the secret record of Jewish leaders plotting to rule the world.
Read the case file →'Żydokomuna,' the Polish claim that Jews were collectively responsible for communism and for imposing Soviet rule on Poland, is a debunked antisemitic canard
'Żydokomuna' is the Polish version of the antisemitic 'Judeo-Bolshevism' myth: the claim that Jews collectively created communism and served as a fifth column to impose…
Read the case file →“AI took my job” is often a corporate cover story, with companies over-crediting artificial intelligence for layoffs actually driven by pandemic-era over-hiring and ordinary cost-cutting
By 2025 and 2026, “AI is taking the jobs” had hardened into conventional wisdom, repeated in earnings calls and layoff memos across the technology sector.
Read the case file →“Corona Jihad,” the 2020 claim that Muslims were deliberately spreading COVID-19 across India, was a debunked, Islamophobic misinformation campaign
In March 2020, as India entered lockdown, a religious gathering of the Tablighi Jamaat, a Sunni missionary movement, at its Nizamuddin Markaz headquarters in Delhi was…
Read the case file →"John Titor," who posted on internet forums in 2000 and 2001, was a genuine time traveler sent from the year 2036
In November 2000, an anonymous poster calling himself TimeTravel_0 began describing time travel on internet forums, and by January 2001 was posting as John Titor: an…
Read the case file →“Love jihad,” the claim that Muslim men systematically seduce Hindu women in order to convert them to Islam, is a debunked, Islamophobic conspiracy theory that repeated Indian police and central-agency investigations have found no evidence for
“Love jihad” is the name Hindu-nationalist groups in India gave to an alleged conspiracy in which Muslim men are said to systematically feign romantic love, seduce, and…
Read the case file →“Peter Bergmann,” a man who methodically erased his own identity before dying on a Sligo beach in 2009, has never been identified
In the second week of June 2009, an unidentified man arrived in Sligo, in the northwest of Ireland, and checked into the Sligo City Hotel under the name “Peter…
Read the case file →112 Ocean Avenue was a violently haunted house
A real mass murder at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, became the backdrop for one of the most famous haunted-house stories in American pop culture, yet the…
Read the case file →5G wireless networks make people sick, and 5G caused or spread COVID-19
5G is the fifth generation of mobile-network technology, and like every wireless system before it, it communicates using radiofrequency electromagnetic fields.
Read the case file →A 'mad gasser' prowled Mattoon, Illinois in 1944
For about two weeks in late summer 1944, the small city of Mattoon, Illinois believed a prowler was spraying a sweet-smelling paralyzing gas through open windows at…
Read the case file →A $2,000 tariff-dividend stimulus is being deposited to Americans in July 2026
The viral claim, and the scam attached to it, that a $2,000 'tariff dividend' stimulus payment has been approved and is being quietly deposited to Americans in mid-2026.
Read the case file →A 12th-century Irish saint left a prophecy naming every pope down to a final pontiff after whom Rome falls and the world ends
The Prophecy of the Popes is a list of 112 terse Latin mottoes, each said to describe one pope in sequence, beginning in the 1140s and ending with a final pontiff named…
Read the case file →A 1981 arcade game called Polybius was a secret government mind-control experiment
Polybius is the legend of a black arcade cabinet that supposedly appeared in suburban Portland, Oregon in 1981, caused seizures, amnesia, night terrors, and violent…
Read the case file →A 2026 viral story claiming President Bola Tinubu was secretly preparing a constitutional package code-named "Project True Federation" to rename Nigeria the "United States of Nigeria" and abolish Sharia law in the north was a fabrication, publicly denied by the Nigerian Presidency and unsupported by any record in the National Assembly
In May 2026, a story spread across Nigerian social media and messaging apps claiming that President Bola Tinubu was secretly readying a sweeping constitutional package,…
Read the case file →A 6-year-old boy floated away over Colorado in a runaway homemade balloon in 2009
On the afternoon of October 15, 2009, a silver, saucer-shaped balloon lifted off from a backyard in Fort Collins, Colorado and drifted fifty miles across the northern…
Read the case file →A Bigfoot-like creature, the Fouke Monster, lives in the swamps around Fouke, Arkansas and attacked a local family in 1971
The Fouke Monster is a Bigfoot-type cryptid said to roam the Sulphur River bottoms near Fouke, a small town in southwestern Arkansas.
Read the case file →A body double or lookalike stands in for Melania Trump at public appearances, and the woman photographed beside the president is often not the first lady
Since 2017, a recurring online claim has held that the woman appearing beside Donald Trump at some public events is not Melania Trump but a body double.
Read the case file →A cluster of unexplained disappearances marks Vermont's Glastenbury Mountain as a 'Bennington Triangle'
Between 1945 and 1950, at least five people disappeared in the rugged country around Glastenbury Mountain in southwestern Vermont: an elderly hunting guide, an…
Read the case file →A coded sculpture at CIA headquarters hides a message no one has cracked
Kryptos is a curved copper screen, sculpted by artist Jim Sanborn and installed in 1990 in a courtyard at CIA headquarters, whose surface is punched with roughly 865…
Read the case file →A comet or asteroid will strike Earth and end all life in 2026
A prophecy attributed to the late Pakistani spiritual leader Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, who wrote around the year 2000 that a comet or asteroid would one day devastate the…
Read the case file →A coordinated 9-day global blackout of power, internet, and communications will begin on 18 July 2026, staged as part of Agenda 2030 and a planned great reset
In the summer of 2026 a claim spread across social media that a coordinated 9-day global blackout would begin on 18 July 2026, shutting down electricity, the internet,…
Read the case file →A cure for cancer already exists but Big Pharma and doctors suppress it to protect treatment profits
Few conspiracy claims touch as raw a nerve as this one: that a cheap, effective cure for cancer already exists and is being deliberately hidden by drug companies,…
Read the case file →A deliberate plot is 'replacing' white populations with non-white immigrants
The 'Great Replacement' holds that the changing demographics of Western nations are not an organic result of migration and birth rates but a deliberate plot to replace…
Read the case file →A Department of Energy-branded card announcing a nationwide "energy lockdown" in the Philippines starting April 20, 2026 was a fabrication, publicly debunked by Malacanang and the DOE
In early April 2026, a slickly designed card bearing the Department of Energy's logo told Filipinos that a nationwide "energy lockdown" would begin on April 20, and…
Read the case file →A dragon-like winged monster called the Snallygaster is a real creature that has stalked the hills of Frederick County, Maryland
The Snallygaster is Maryland's home-grown dragon: a winged, one-eyed, metal-beaked beast said to swoop out of the sky over South Mountain and the Middletown Valley,…
Read the case file →A foreign adversary attacked US personnel with a secret energy weapon and the government is hiding it
Beginning in late 2016, US diplomats and intelligence officers in Havana reported a frightening set of symptoms: a sudden sensation of pressure or piercing sound,…
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