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Sure, M.I.A.'s waggling middle finger caused a grand mal kerfuffle among the 37 Super Bowl viewers who were still sober enough to notice it. But far more insidious symbolism was at play during the 2012 halftime show. We are referring to, of course, the subliminal Satanic-Illuminati-Freemason messages that permeated Madonna's set. More »
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What exactly are we hearing in these YouTube videos posted by people who claim they've recorded ear-splitting roars coming from the sky with no explanation? Here you can see one of the latest, recorded in Budapest, Hungary last week. Conspiracy-lovers are calling them "apocalyptic sounds." Whatever they really are, they're freaking creepy. Are they jet engines attached to UFOs, bizarro weather, or pure fakery?

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Did Egyptians cross the Pacific Ocean and wander the American Southwest thousands of years ago? In the early 20th century, claims of such a discovery were made by two Smithsonian-funded archaeologists, who spoke of a thriving civilization tucked within a series of caverns carved into the side of a remote portion of the Grand Canyon. What did the archaeologists find? What evidence did they bring back? Hell, did these men even exist? More »
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In the 2,800-person village of Shingō in Japan's Aomori prefecture, you can visit a tourist attraction that earns almost doodlysquat fanfare despite its world-shattering theological ramifications. I am, of course, talking about the grave of Jesus Christ. What, you didn't know that Jesus escaped crucifixion and emigrated to northern Japan to become a rice farmer?

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Nicolas Bourbaki spent much of the twentieth century publishing rigorous and revolutionary papers on mathematics. So why haven't you heard of him? Because he never existed. He was the name taken by a secret society of French mathematicians with some very odd rules. More »
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For years, the internet has swirled with rumors about a large number of black plastic containers stored along a stretch of interstate near Atlanta. Conspiracy theorists dubbed the black containers coffins, and hypothesized that they were being stored for a planned or foreseen event that would cause the deaths of millions of North Americans. More »
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Viruses are obviously artificial creations, little pieces of technology designed to download evil software into your cells. This is definitely my favorite new conspiracy rant. The best part is when the narrator, known on YouTube as "adampants," starts acting out all the voices of the cells involved in immune response. "Hey, I'm a white blood cell!" This is a great, trippy video to watch during your afternoon tea. More »
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The White House has responded to two petitions asking the US government to formally acknowledge that aliens have visited Earth and to disclose to any intentional withholding of government interactions with extraterrestrial beings. More »
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Popular lore suggests that the street layout of Washington, D.C., was designed so that the streets emanating from the White House would intersect with landmarks in the area to form a pentagram. The designers of the district were Freemasons, and the pentagram is one of a plethora of symbols important to the fraternity. Is there any truth to this strange tale of Washingtonomancy, or is it mere coincidence? Let's take a look. More »
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Every time something newfangled hits the scene and gets the kids riled up, some folks always assume that the devil is in the details. Like this guy right here, who also has an occult bone to pick with Minecraft, Guitar Hero, and Magiquest. It must be noted that he's not alone in this notion. More »
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At the core of the 9/11 Truther movement is the idea that the government staged the attacks to drum up support for a war. So much Truther evidence is laughable that it's easy to dismiss the idea, but there exists a chilling reminder that the U.S. military was once all-too-willing to deceive and attack its own citizens for political reasons. That was the goal of Operation Northwoods. More »
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The 9/11 conspiracy theorists hope to peddle their truther gobbledygook theories to the masses via the graphic The Big Lie, created by Swamp Thing artist Rick Veitch. Take a look at the first few pages right now! More »
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According to professional paranoid yelling man Alex Jones, the government's dosing us with DMT because the clockwork elves are conspiring with Satan and the Large Hadron Collider. Given that io9 is staffed entirely by clockwork elves, he's not off-base. More »
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After the Chinese hacker attacks on Google, we're all ready for the first Internet War to begin. But how would such a war really start? One guy has a mesmerizingly crazy idea . . . More »
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A guy named David Martines announced on YouTube that he'd discovered an "anomaly" which is clearly a secret Martian base, just by using Google maps. You can see what he's calling the base in this image, taken from Google, above. More »
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Having recently been stranded in Denver Airport for 24 hours, I can tell you anecdotally that the place is hellish. Exit arrows point at each other instead of outside; corridors lead to nowhere; and security checkpoints seem to disappear mysteriously as you approach them. As you drive into the airport, you're greeted by a giant horse with glowing red eyes, and one of the terminals is decorated with a massive statue of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death. More »
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Are we living out the results of a temporal conspiracy in which hundreds of years were smuggled into the Roman calendar to convince us that the Middle Ages happened? Are we really living in the 1700s? This chart explains. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5801363&view=rss&microfeed=true In the movie Salt, Angelina Jolie plays a double-agent who is mind-controlled by scary remnants of the USSR secret service. And in real life, the 1940s bombshell Candy Jones was apparently brainwashed with drugs and used as a CIA covert operative. At least, according to testimony that Jones gave while under hypnosis, after her husband realized that she was acting strangely and seemed to have a split personality. Several years ago, the Fortean Times described what Jones reported while hypnotized: More »
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For some strange reason, CBS News Atlanta decided to do some hard-hitting investigative reporting on that old hat conspiracy notion of chemtrails, a.k.a. the sinister version of contrails, or those jet trails that can be seen following your average airliner. The best parts are when the reporter meets the chemtrail conspiracy theorists in a local park (where they yammer the periodic table at him) and when he confronts Georgia Senator John Isakson, who has no clue what is going on. More »
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In 1979, ABC News aired Mission Mind Control, a documentary about the US government's research into the mind control applications of hallucinogens. The documentary is fascinating (albeit depressing), and the 1970s production values give the video a retro flair. [Archive.org] More »
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T Campbell's long-running webcomic Fans! is a love letter to fans and fandom of all stripes. When his plucky band of fans aren't gaming or playacting or reading scifi, they're taking down government conspiracies, militant time travelers, and body-swapping scientists. More »
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There was no critics' screening of Piranha 3D, so I ventured out of my cave, $12 in hand, to see it yesterday afternoon. And now I know the truth. This movie is an authoritarian plot! More »
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These pictures of a whiteboard at Google headquarters were taken in 2005, and they reveal at last what the Big G's plans for total world domination really involve. More »
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If you've been growing blue and red wires out of sores on your skin like hundreds of Morgellons disease sufferers have (pictured), then you may actually have a nano-fiber chemtrail infection. Or so says the "chemtrail activist" community, a group of amateur scientists who study the "fibers" that they claim are raining down out of chemtrails in the sky. For those unfamiliar with conspiracy-speak, chemtrails are clouds of chemical substances created by hush-hush government experiments that I'm sure we'll hear more about when Fringe hits the airwaves this fall. So how is this all related to Morgellons? More »
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Sometimes science fiction series dissolve into acronym soup. In Marvel comics, you've got SHIELD (introduced in the Iron Man movie too), HYDRA, and AIM (not the instant messenger client, which is probably ten times as evil as the mad scientist group). And then there are all the strange organizations which secretly run the world, like the Dharma Initiative in Lost, or the The Syndicate from the X-Files. How the hell are you supposed to keep it all straight, especially when most nations already have real-life spy groups with names almost as acronym-tastic as science fiction? We've put together a list of the greatest hits of (mostly) Earth-bound conspiracy spy groups from science fiction. So yeah, that means no frakkin Tal Shiar, OK? More »
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Murderous aliens with secret connections to the Russian government ruin an innocent vacation with their cold, emotionless black eyes and hearts in Project Grey. Five friends go on a weekend camping trip, but only one makes it out alive. When the sole survivor is questioned by the government he explains that his friends were brutally murdered by aliens. Of course the whole thing turns into a huge government cover-up with the CIA, Russian spies and weapons of mass destruction, as alien attacks so often do. Project Grey was created by a husband-and-wife team and shot almost entirely in their basement or outdoors. The special effects were done in their living room. So when is Project Grey coming to a theater near you? More »
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