10 Obscure Conspiracy Theories You've Probably Never Heard Of

There are hundreds if not thousands of conspiracy theories out there. Some of them are so mainstream
that it’s hard to think of them as just theories; others are less well-known even
though they should be household knowledge. Here are 10 Obscure Conspiracy Theories You
May Not Know.
10. Codex Alimentarius
Codex Alimentarius is Latin for “Food Code”. It is a huge collection of guidelines and
standards for international food safety. It was established in 1961 and is developed by
the Codex Alimentarius Commission, overseen by the United Nations and the World Health
Organization. Most of the world is signed up to it: 187 individual countries, and the
entire European Union. Over 200 institutions observe its rules. None of its recommendations
are binding, but pretty much everything it says is practiced.
Right-wing conspiracy theorists claim it is part of a globalist scheme to control our
diets, or even poison us.
On the other hand, campaigners for ecologically sustainable agriculture have criticized the
Codex for prioritizing the rights of global agribusiness over local farmers. Meanwhile,
proponents of vitamin supplements and alternative herbal remedies say the Codex wants to ban
non-standard foods. There may be more truth to this than first appears, since the Codex
has recommended strict labelling for supplements ever since Germany lobbied against them in
the mid-90s.
9. Columbia v. Scalar Interferometer
On February 1st, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. It disintegrated,
killing all seven crew members. According to NASA, the shuttle had suffered wing damage
during take-off, which sent the craft out of control and made it break up.
But an amateur astronomer took a photo of the shuttle as it re-entered the atmosphere,
before it fell apart. The photo, which NASA has never released and is only available in
low resolution copies, shows a strange purple streak hitting the craft. Some say it is lightning,
others say it is evidence of a Tesla weapon, named after the scientist who first proposed
them. These guns use concentrated electromagnetic rays, or scalar waves, to destroy their targets.
According to Thomas Bearden, scalar waves are projected by machines called interferometers,
and were developed by the government to control the weather. He says they could be used as
weapons, too.
At the end of his life, Nikola Tesla did seek funding to build an electronic death beam.
He didn’t succeed. As for the photo - the purple streak is still a mystery...
8. Cold Fusion Cover-Up
In 1989, scientists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced they had achieved cold
fusion - a nuclear reaction that occurs at room temperature. Potentially it could provide
all our nuclear energy needs without the dangerous heat production of the conventional fusion
we rely on, that can be used in war.
Fleischmann and Pons were widely discredited and cold fusion was disregarded as impossible.
But more and more scientists are coming forward to claim cold fusion is possible - 60 Minutes
even made a program about it in 2009.
Conspiracy theorists argue that the fossil fuel industry suppressed cold fusion because
it threatens their business. Cold fusion scientists like Fleischmann and Pons are driven out of
universities and lose their funding because big oil buys off their bosses.
The vast majority of scientists do believe cold fusion is impossible. But it is now known
that throughout the 20th century, Big Oil funded climate change denial, destroyed electric
car companies and lobbied hard against renewable energy technology. Suppressing cold fusion
would not be out of character...
7. The Black Eagle Fund
You may never have heard the name of New York district attorney Henry Stimson, and he'd
like it that way.
Stimson had close ties to Wall Street, and during the Second World War he set up the
Black Eagle Fund. This fund is top secret, under the control of the government, but it
answers to Wall Street. It was set up as place to deposit trillions of dollars in gold and
art plundered by the Nazis and the Japanese and liberated by America during the war. Since
then, it has been used to finance false flag operations, manipulate elections and carry
out secret coups around the world - all with the goal of making the USA the greatest, and
richest, imperial power in the world.
According to theorist Steven Hager, $200 billion in government bonds were anonymously transferred
into the Black Eagle Fund the day before the 9/11 attacks. Hager says the Twin Towers were
destroyed to hide this massive transaction.
Naturally, there is no evidence that the Black Eagle Fund exists. Which, according to the
theory, is just how the government wants it.
6. The Assassination of Olof Palme
Olof Palme was Prime Minister of Sweden twice, for a total of 10 years. On night in February
1986, he was walking home with his wife from the cinema when his second term in office
was ended by a bullet in the back.
The identity of his assassin is still unknown. Witnesses didn't get a good look at the killer.
After two years of investigating, police arrested Christer Pettersson, a criminal and drug addict.
But a year after his conviction, Pettersson was set free for wrongful imprisonment.
As a result, there are many theories about who killed Olof Palme. As a lifelong socialist
democrat who campaigned against Apartheid, he may have been murdered by South Africa,
or by a cabal of right-wing Swedish police, or even Ronald Reagan's CIA. Of course, there
is no evidence for anyone being responsible.
5. The Golden Fringe
People don’t like paying taxes, especially in America. Many tax protestors argue that
a small detail on the U.S. flag has great significance for tax laws: the golden fringe.
Most U.S. flags don’t have a fringe. The ones that do can be found in State and Federal
courts. According to the theory, the golden fringe means you are not on U.S. soil, but
in fact inside a foreign embassy. This means that U.S. law ceases to operate inside court
buildings, which in turn means tax dodgers can't be sentenced for their crimes because
federal tax law doesn't apply inside court.
The theory doesn’t stop there. Gold-fringed flags have another meaning: they are flown
in places that follow martial law. When you walk into a place flying the fringed flag,
you leave all your constitutional rights at the door.
The first recorded use of the golden fringe was in 1835, but its official purpose is merely
decorative. It is used as the military flag during parades, as directed by President Eisenhower,
and indoors for official posts. However, no-one has successfully used it to escape the IRS.
4. Child Cancer in North Wales
In 1983 British TV news revealed that children along the coast in North Wales were developing
cancer ten times more often than the national average. The dozens of cases all occurred
since the opening of nearby Sellafield, the world’s largest nuclear reprocessing plant.
The leukemia and brain tumours in children were blamed on nuclear waste that Sellafield
was dumping into the sea.
But the official government report says the unusually high cancer rates are nothing to
do with Sellafield, and are even disappearing.
Anti-nuclear activist Chris Busby claims the British government covered up the cases of
child cancer until they were exposed by journalists; and the report that clears Sellafield from
blame is simply another part of the cover-up.
3. Harold Holt
In December 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim off Cheviot Beach
near Melbourne. He was an experienced swimmer, but the ocean was rough. He never returned.
Police, navy divers and the air force never found his body. The government declared him
dead two days after he disappeared, presumably drowned in the turbulent waves.
But since the day Holt disappeared, conspiracy theorists speculated that he was really assassinated
by Communists, who drugged his food to make him lose consciousness while swimming. Alternatively,
one letter written to Australian police suggests Holt was really kidnapped by a Communist submarine
and interrogated because he had a close relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson. Others believe
he faked his death to run off with his mistress, who was with him at the beach that day. Years
after his death, a retired Australian navy sea diver claimed to have been part of a team
of assassins, who were brainwashed by the Australian secret service to drown the prime
minister in the ocean. He gave no motive for the crime.
With no corpse and no way to establish the cause of death, his disappearance will forever
remain a mystery.
2. Hilda Murrell
By 1984, 78-year-old Hilda Murrell had spent over a decade campaigning for environmental
protections and against nuclear energy and weapons. She was an influential activist,
known for using scientific facts to discredit nuclear power.
One day, her house was burgled and she was kidnapped. She was found in the countryside;
sexually assaulted, beaten and stabbed multiple times.
According to British politician Tam Dalyell, MI5 assassinated her on the orders of Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher. Not only was Hilda a damaging opponent of Thatcher’s nuclear
and environmental policies, but her nephew was an intelligence officer in the Royal Navy.
He was wrongly suspected of leaking information about the illegal sinking of an Argentine
warship by a British submarine. He says British intelligence believed Hilda was keeping state
secrets about the sinking in her home. He also says she received countless threats over
her nuclear activism in the months before her death.
In 2005, a man was sent to prison for the crime. He was 16 years old at the time of
the murder, and couldn’t drive. Hilda’s nephew believes there is still more to uncover.
1. Anti-Muslim Rats
For the past few years, Pakistan has been suffering a plague of rats. Since 2010, reports
of giant rats have grown widespread and deaths, mostly of children, from rat attacks are at
their highest for years. In Peshawar alone, one rat catcher has killed over 100,000 rats
since the epidemic began.
Pakistanis say the rats aren’t the local type. They’re too big and too vicious. Instead,
they believe the rats were genetically engineered by a foreign power - and they blame the USA.
Supply trucks often travel between Pakistan and U.S. army bases in Afghanistan, where
military forces are hunting for Islamist terrorists. Many Pakistanis believe America created giant
rats to attack their Muslim enemies, especially terrorists who live in hidden cave networks.
Whether by accident or design, they believe the rats have infested more of South Asia.

10 Obscure Conspiracy Theories You've Probably Never Heard Of

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