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• The Mormon and the Federal Reserve Pact

  The Banking Act that a Utah Mormon wrote in 1935 removed the Treasury Secretary from the Federal Reserve's board, and his last act in 1951 was to publish minutes that proved a president wrong and pull monetary policy out of the Treasury's hands. That is the whole of the Mormon presence at the centre of the Fed, and it runs the wrong way for a theory about a pact. What the record does hold is a wheat sale, a bank the Church sold in 1960, and a $32 billion portfolio hidden behind thirteen shell companies — concealment that was real, documented, and about something else entirely.

• The "Olympic" Paganism

  The most ancient-looking Olympic ritual is the newest: the torch relay from Olympia was invented for the Berlin Games of 1936. That chronology sits at the centre of a long-running claim that the modern Olympics are a pagan revival in sporting costume — a claim needing no leaked document, because the ancient Games really were a religious festival, Coubertin really did call what he built a religion, and the ceremony that lights the flame still names Apollo aloud.

• The Boulé

  Sigma Pi Phi, founded in Philadelphia in 1904, took only men already established in a profession and spent most of a century declining to be written about. That combination produced a theory: a Black Skull and Bones, deputised by white power to manage Black America. Its membership roll is published, its papers are open at Emory, and the argument underneath the theory is a real one about class that Du Bois was having in print in 1903.

• Ray Epps and the January 6 False Flag

  A retired Marine's photograph went up on the FBI's Capitol Violence page and then came down, and video showed him telling a crowd to go inside the Capitol. From that the theory followed that 6 January 2021 was a federal operation and he was the agent who started it. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to probation, sued Fox News and lost — and every one of those outcomes was absorbed as further proof.

• 11B-X-1371

  An unmarked DVD postmarked Warsaw reached a Swedish tech blogger in 2015. Hidden inside a two-minute film of a masked figure were White House coordinates, Latin, morse code and photographs of mutilated women — and for a fortnight it read as either a confession or a threat. Every element traced back to found material, and a man in Poland later claimed it as an art project.

• Who Paid for the Scofield Reference Bible

  The 1909 Scofield Reference Bible did more than any other book to make American evangelicals Zionists, and a claim circulating since 1988 holds that a Zionist financier paid for it. The claim's author wrote "we assume"; the club's own membership book, the project's own historian and the dates all point elsewhere. The interesting part is the thirty-eight-year chain by which an assumption became a citation.

• George Soros and the Funding of the Left

  A philanthropy that publishes its own grant records became the central figure in a theory about hidden money, and the publication did not settle it. The specific allegations — the 2018 migrant caravans, the "Soros D.A." — are checkable and thin; the general claim treats every disclosed grant as the same proof, which is why disclosure feeds it. Two men who had repeated the theory acted on it in a single week of October 2018.

• The National Butterfly Center

  A hundred-acre butterfly sanctuary outside Mission, Texas went to court over a border wall crossing its land, and was then described in public as a front for human trafficking by the founder of the organisation building a private fence nearby. No law enforcement investigation of the center or its staff ever followed. The sanctuary closed its gates in early 2022 under the weight of threats, and in the spring of that year the man who made the claims pleaded guilty to federal fraud in an unrelated case over the fence's donors.

• The White UN Trucks

  Photographs of white UN-marked armoured vehicles on American highways and rail cars have circulated for decades as evidence of a foreign force being pre-positioned inside the United States. The 2016 Virginia convoy was traced to Alpine Armoring, a Virginia manufacturer shipping a UN order overseas. The structural objection is larger: the first principle the UN publishes for peacekeeping is consent of the parties, and no mission has ever been requested on American soil — though in 2015 a Texas governor did send the State Guard to watch the US Army.

• The 2014 Scottish Referendum Count

  Scotland voted against independence on 18 September 2014 by 2,001,926 to 1,617,989 on an 84.6 per cent turnout. Within hours, video of ballots on counting tables was circulating as proof of substitution, and petitions for a re-run passed 80,000 signatures. The Yes campaign itself said the footage was being misread, and the Chief Counting Officer recorded that not one of the thousands of accredited observers had complained on the night — but the Electoral Commission went on to measure the highest level of fraud perception it had ever recorded.

• Irradiating the Public Food Supply

  Food irradiation began as a US Army programme co-sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission, and in 1963 the FDA approved irradiated bacon on data it had not read — then withdrew the approval in 1968 after reading it. Four New Jersey irradiation plants produced criminal convictions for lying to federal inspectors, including a former Atomic Energy Commission member. What the record does not show is scale: in January 2000 the GAO put the whole irradiated food supply at 97 million pounds a year, almost all of it spices.

• George Van Tassel and the Integratron

  An aircraft mechanic leased four square miles of Mojave Desert, said a visitor from Venus gave him the plans for a machine that would rejuvenate human cells, and spent twenty years building a 38-foot wooden dome with no metal in it. He died in 1978 with the device unfinished, and his notes and equipment vanished shortly afterwards — the absence on which the suppression claim rests. In September 2026 the Huntington Library bought the blueprints.

• Freemasonry

  The oldest continuous subject in conspiracy literature: a fraternal order said to direct governments from behind them, to have planted its symbols in national iconography, and to teach initiates a doctrine at odds with the one it professes. The order is real, old and unusually well documented — its rituals have been in print since 1730, its constitutions and officers are published, and the charge that it conceals a hidden doctrine has twice been tested in public, once by a French writer who announced in 1897 that he had invented his own evidence. What the record carries instead is the opposite relationship to power: the craft was suppressed by the Nazi regime, criminalised by Franco and banned across the Soviet bloc.

• Opus Dei

  A Catholic institution founded in 1928 and treated in conspiracy literature as a secret order inside the Church: a disciplined cadre placed in governments, banks and the Vatican itself, recognisable to most readers through a 2003 novel that gave it a murderous albino monk. Opus Dei has no monks. It is a personal prelature of about 93,000 people, some 2 per cent of them priests and around seven in ten married laypeople with ordinary jobs, and its statutes, institutions and prelate are public. What it does not publish is who belongs — and the most serious allegations against it, now before an Argentine federal court, come from former members rather than from outside.

• The Trilateral Commission

  A private body founded in 1973 to bring together senior figures from North America, Europe and Japan, and treated in conspiracy literature since the late 1970s as the committee that actually runs Western policy. The overlap it is accused of is real and was never hidden — a founding member became president in 1977 and filled his administration from the membership — and so is the document most often quoted against it, a 1975 report to the Commission arguing that American governance suffered from "an excess of democracy". What has never been produced is a mechanism: the Commission publishes its members, its reports and its accounts, and nothing in them instructs anyone to do anything.

• Smart-Dust Surveillance

  A theory claiming that the older chemtrail narrative has evolved into a subtler delivery model: microscopic “smart dust” particles dispersed through the air, inhaled into the lungs, and used for biometric or locational tracking without the need for an implantable chip. In this framework, tiny sensor systems and respiratory biomarker technologies are reinterpreted as the basis for invisible mass surveillance.

• Rush Limbaugh Is Jim Morrison

  Jim Morrison died in Paris on 3 July 1971 and no autopsy was performed, which is the gap every survival story about him is built in. This one holds that he staged the death and resurfaced as Rush Limbaugh — who was sixteen that year, and already on the air in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, under the name Rusty Sharpe.

• Ruby Ridge

  The rules the FBI snipers were given at Ruby Ridge said deadly force “can and should be employed” against any armed adult male seen before a surrender announcement — and a Senate subcommittee later called them unconstitutional on their face. Over eleven days in August 1992 a fourteen-year-old boy, a deputy US marshal and a woman holding her infant were killed on a mountain in Idaho, over a warrant for missing a court date he had been given wrong.

• The "Dreadnought" Hoax

  On 24 February 1910 the First Lord of the Admiralty told the House of Commons that "a number of persons" disguised as Abyssinians had visited one of His Majesty's ships. The ship was HMS Dreadnought, and the party, led by the prankster Horace de Vere Cole, included the future Virginia Woolf. They had been admitted on a forged Foreign Office telegram. Four years later Winston Churchill ordered a "dummy fleet" of merchant ships disguised in wood and canvas as battleships. Placed side by side, the two episodes produced a theory that British sea power in the dreadnought era was partly theatre.

• The Mighty Wurlitzer

  The Senate's Church Committee found that the CIA produced, subsidized or sponsored "well over a thousand books" before the end of 1967, and that until 1976 it kept covert relationships with about 50 American journalists. Both were part of what Frank Wisner, the first head of the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination, reportedly called his "mighty Wurlitzer": a network of front groups, publishers, student and labour organisations and journalists, built under the 1948 directive NSC 10/2. It was exposed in February 1967, when Ramparts revealed the agency's funding of the National Student Association.

• The New World Order of 2020: That The 2020 Reset Was The Final Contract

  The World Economic Forum's own launch release for the Great Reset, announced by the Prince of Wales and Klaus Schwab on 3 June 2020, said the plan "requires a new social contract." Believers took the phrase literally, as the terms of a New World Order agreed during the pandemic: safety in exchange for property, privacy and sovereignty. The theory was built from a public record, including Henry Kissinger's April 2020 call for a "post-coronavirus order," Gordon Brown's proposal for a global executive, the Forum's 2019 Event 201 pandemic exercise, a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation scenario called "Lock Step," and a 2016 Forum essay that opened "I don't own anything." No binding agreement of any kind has been produced.

• The WWI Conspiracy

  Colonel House's own diary records him and King George V discussing the sinking of the Lusitania on the morning it happened. James Corbett's 2018 documentary The WWI Conspiracy builds on documents like that one: the Rhodes wills, Edward Grey's secret staff talks with France, and the October 1915 letter in which Woodrow Wilson added the word "probably" to a promise that America would join the war. From them it argues that a British imperial network founded by Cecil Rhodes engineered the First World War.

• The Senior Executive Service as Shadow Government

  The theory's own numbers come from an OPM report that labels those people career civil servants. It holds that the Senior Executive Service — the eight thousand federal managers sitting below presidential appointees — is a shadow government installed by Barack Obama, identifying itself by a keystone lapel pin. The same report gives the number of political appointees among them as 736.

• Solar Warden: The Secret Space Fleet

  The US indictment speaks of damage and deleted files, and says nothing at all about what Gary McKinnon says he read there. He has maintained since 2002 that the machines held a spreadsheet of “non-terrestrial officers” and logs of fleet-to-fleet transfers — the origin of the claim that the Navy runs a secret space fleet called Solar Warden. He captured no screenshots, and the UK blocked his extradition in 2012.

• The Friendship Case

  The account was published in 2009 — thirty-one years after the contacts are said to have ended, and six years after the man at the centre of them died. Amicizia holds that from 1956 a circle of Italians, perhaps a hundred of them over the years, ferried crates of fruit to human-looking extraterrestrials living in bases under the hills near Pescara. Nothing was ever recovered or excavated.