Conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theories · Space and Astronomy

The flat Earth theory holds that the planet is a flat surface, usually a disc, rather than a sphere, and that governments, space agencies and scientists conceal or fabricate the evidence of its roundness. The modern…

Conspiracy theories · Space and Astronomy

The "artificial celestial dome" thesis holds that the sky is not open space but a solid vault, a firmament, built over a flat Earth and closing it like a giant snow globe. Its supporters usually start from Genesis…

Conspiracy theories · Archaeology and Civilizations

The theory claims that maps drawn centuries before Antarctica was seen show its coast without ice, which would prove that a lost civilization, or outside help, mapped the continent in the remote past. The best-known…

Conspiracy theories · Geography and Forbidden Places

The thesis "Antarctica hides a civilization" holds that an advanced society once lived on the southern continent, or still lives beneath its ice, and that this has been kept from the public. Its best-known form comes…

Conspiracy theories · Geography and Forbidden Places

The "Nazi base" thesis holds that Nazi Germany built a secret, city-sized base in Antarctica, often called Base 211 or New Berlin, in the area it explored in 1938-39 and named Neuschwabenland, and that Nazi leaders…

Conspiracy theories · Geography and Forbidden Places

The thesis holds that the 1959 Antarctic Treaty is not what it claims to be: behind its language of peace and science it would conceal a ban on going to Antarctica that applies to everyone on Earth, kept in place to…

Conspiracy theories · Geography and Forbidden Places

The "ice wall" thesis holds that the Earth is a disc centred on the North Pole and ringed by a wall of ice, which official maps call Antarctica, sometimes capped by a dome or "firmament". It goes back to the English…

Conspiracy theories · Flat Earth, Antarctica and Hidden Geography

The idea that other continents lie beyond the ice wall extends the "ice wall" thesis: Antarctica, presented as a barrier ringing a flat or infinite world, would hide further lands, sometimes called Terra Infinita…

Conspiracy theories · Flat Earth, Antarctica and Hidden Geography

The thesis claims that Operation Highjump, the large U.S. Navy expedition to Antarctica of 1946-1947, was really a military campaign against hidden enemies and was driven off by flying saucers. Versions differ. In one…