MASS DELUSION

OSA-027FLAT EARTHDEBUNKEDSettled by Eratosthenes with two sticks; reopened by recommendation algorithm OSA-028CHEMTRAILSDEBUNKEDThe sky's most-photographed conspiracy is condensation with good lighting OSA-029DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTDEBUNKEDApocalyptic murals, a demon horse, a bunker that ate luggage OSA-031THE BERMUDA TRIANGLEDEBUNKEDA pulp-magazine coinage promoted to a law of nature OSA-036THE MANDELA EFFECTDEBUNKEDThousands of witnesses, one shared wrong memory OSA-045THE DANCING PLAGUE OF 1518OPEN CASEStrasbourg's citizens danced for weeks and could not stop OSA-048THE HUMUNVERIFIEDThe low drone two percent of a town can hear, and no microphone can find OSA-070THE PONT-SAINT-ESPRIT POISONINGCONTESTEDA French town lost its mind for a week OSA-073THE 9/11 "INSIDE JOB" CLAIMSDEBUNKEDControlled demolition, melted steel, and what the engineering shows OSA-074PIZZAGATEDEBUNKEDA misread email, a nonexistent basement, an armed man OSA-075QANONDEBUNKEDThousands of predictions, zero hits OSA-076BOHEMIAN GROVEDEBUNKEDThe real retreat, the real owl, the imaginary sacrifice OSA-077PAUL IS DEADDEBUNKEDThe lookalike theory that outlived its author's confession OSA-120THE McMARTIN PRESCHOOL TRIALDEBUNKEDSecret tunnels, satanic rituals, 321 counts, zero convictions OSA-132WACOCONTESTEDThe government denied using incendiary devices, then admitted it in 1999 OSA-190THE WEST MEMPHIS THREECONTESTEDThree teenagers convicted of child murders on almost no physical evidence OSA-192THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELESDEBUNKEDAn all-night barrage over a city, at a target nobody could identify OSA-195THE ARIEL SCHOOL ENCOUNTERUNVERIFIEDSchoolchildren in Zimbabwe reported a craft and figures during morning break OSA-199SLENDER MANDEBUNKEDA fictional creature with a documented author, and a real attempted murder OSA-200THE DEAD INTERNET THEORYUNVERIFIEDA claim that was paranoid when it was made and is now partly measurable