Jazmine Doom @gravezwave@witches.town

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crack open a cold one with the bigfoots

did I ever talk about how there was a bigfoot sighting at this lake near my hometown and it made front page news in the local paper

@TipsyTentacle ok ok backstory: in freshman english we had a project that was essentially supposed to be a fun break in between units where everyone picked a famous conspiracy theory and did a presentation on it. it was actually quite fun but every year there'd be at least one or two people who got intensely into the celebrity illuminati theories and wouldn't shut up about it for weeks. since I did academic competition for this teacher and was in her study hall every year I always had to listen to it.

@grime_witch @TipsyTentacle yeah it so easily veers into racist/anti-Semitic/whathaveyou territory and then it's not fun anymore

I have war flashbacks to sitting in study hall trying to read my damn book while a bunch of my classmates show each other youtube videos of Beyonce songs played backwards as proof that Beyonce is an illuminati satanist

illuminati conspiracy theory memes are funny on the one hand but on the other it just makes it all the more disconcerting when you stumble across someone and have the slow dawning horror of realizing that they actually believe it

@TipsyTentacle you know why I can't fux with the ancient aliens thing. I have purely personal reasons for hating the illuminati one and they all stem from the project my freshman english class in high school had to do where we discuss conspiracy theories (though there's plenty of actual good reason to dislike illuminati theories too)

@TipsyTentacle there's good evidence from studies over a pretty long time for why the bermuda triangle is what it is and why vessels disappear there (the short answer is chemicals and magnetism), so seeing people ignore that and continue to present it as an unsolved spooky mystery that we can't possibly have an explanation for irks me

a list of conspiracy theories that I can't enjoy from an entertainment perspective anymore

-aliens building the pyramids
-the bermuda triangle
-the illuminati

@TipsyTentacle yeah I've skipped most of the ghost huntery ones tbh

official verdict: the buzzfeed "unsolved" series about true crime is better than the supernatural one

@TipsyTentacle it's a dang buzzfeed video about ancient aliens but it's only 12 minutes long so go for it

narrator: the third mystery is arguably the strongest evidence for ancient aliens - the pyramids of Giza
me: *screaming*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmUrJaOo1Lw

the skeptical guy in this video is my salvation

https://witches.town/media/CcCXQ-vRc9Et1l0EArk

@Efi "this guy said he wants to kill people and has homemade bombs in his house, so we didn't bother to charge him with anything"

@Efi "witnesses described a white dude with red hair, so we told investigators to apprehend a black guy"