I’m aging myself, but I used to listen to Art Bell on his Coast to Coast show for this reason. Then as the years passed I became saddened and creeped out that what used to be entertainment became actual identities and lifestyles for some people.
I’ll never forget listening the night the guy “flew into area 51”, Mel’s Hole, and I still remember hearing Art’s disgust when he super glued a cigarette to his lip 🤣.
A while ago I discovered that my home town newspaper made their entire archive searchable online. For fun I decided to search for my family to see if anyone had been in the papers.
The only one I found was my dad in a city council meeting public comment session arguing against fluoridation of the water supply and saying it was a communist plot.
Yep. That’s my dad. I once found a box of John Birch society leaflets in our attic. If it wasn’t for the fact that operating anything more complex than a light switch is effectively beyond him, he’d be up to his scalp in q-anon bullshit.
anything qanon related will make your brain implode faster than a carbon fiber pressure hull at 12k feet.
edit: this is not a good thing
Yeah, I’m all for conspiracies and many have been proven true over time. Q is a whole different world.
I want the return of fun conspiracy theories.
Bigfoot. Aliens. Secret government weapon projects.
That would be nice.
I’m aging myself, but I used to listen to Art Bell on his Coast to Coast show for this reason. Then as the years passed I became saddened and creeped out that what used to be entertainment became actual identities and lifestyles for some people.
I’ll age with you. I used to listen to Coast to Coast at night when falling asleep or driving home from my night shift at BK in the late 90’s.
Wanna take a ride?
I’ll never forget listening the night the guy “flew into area 51”, Mel’s Hole, and I still remember hearing Art’s disgust when he super glued a cigarette to his lip 🤣.
Actually few have been proven true.
Government surveillance and things like Iran-Contra and MK Ultra are what I’m meaning.
Those were not exactly conspiracy theories. They were investigated and proven. They were illegal from the start.
Before they were proven they would have been regarded as conspiracy theories.
Right, that was my point.
A while ago I discovered that my home town newspaper made their entire archive searchable online. For fun I decided to search for my family to see if anyone had been in the papers.
The only one I found was my dad in a city council meeting public comment session arguing against fluoridation of the water supply and saying it was a communist plot.
Yep. That’s my dad. I once found a box of John Birch society leaflets in our attic. If it wasn’t for the fact that operating anything more complex than a light switch is effectively beyond him, he’d be up to his scalp in q-anon bullshit.
As it is, the tv never changes from fox news.