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An ancient archaeological site meets conspiracy theories — and Joe Rogan

Graham Hancock, a British journalist and star of the controversial Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse, has theorized — without empirical evidence — that Gobekli Tepe was built by a "lost civilization" wiped out by an Ice Age cataclysm.

Once confined to the fringes, theories like Hancock's have gained mainstream traction — thanks in large part to Joe Rogan, whose massively popular podcast has become a platform for alternative takes on science and history.

In November 2024, another Gobekli Tepe conspiracy theorist, Jimmy Corsetti, a YouTuber and self-described "ancient history investigator," appeared on Rogan's podcast, bringing with him a slew of speculations and wild theories about the site.

Among them, Corsetti accused archaeologists of intentionally dragging their feet and hiding key discoveries about the site.

"We're talking about pillars buried in dirt. It's 2024. Don't tell me we don't have the technology!" Corsetti told Rogan.

Corsetti accused archaeologists of moving slowly on purpose, perhaps to preserve the mystery and keep the curious tourists coming.

Only a small percentage of the site has been dug up since excavations began in the mid-1990s. And with Rogan's platform behind them, theorists like Corsetti have helped turn that slow progress into a source of global suspicion.

Lee Clare, an archaeologist who has led the excavation site for over a decade, has heard it all — including the outlandish theories.

"Some of these guys go to the site for half an hour and think they can explain the whole site," he says of the budding conspiracy theorists.

The real danger here isn't just misinformation, according to Clare. It's that these competing narratives risk drowning out the real story, the one scientists have spent decades trying to properly decode.

"There are a lot of narratives out there about Gobekli Tepe. The question is, whose narrative is correct? And I think we'll never know."

One of the few things scientists do know for sure?

Gobekli Tepe is proof that humans have been storytellers dating back at least 12,000 years.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/09/nx-s1-549...rchaeology

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Anna Paulina Luna Tells Joe Rogan About Her UFO Experience in Air Force

On the podcast, Luna, 36, told Rogan that during her time at Portland Air National Guard—where she worked as an airfield manager—she encountered an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP). In efforts to describe a broader range of unexplained sightings, the U.S. government shifted to the term UAP in lieu of UFO, as the latter refers specifically to flying objects.

Luna said an airspace incursion occurred one day while she was working. But when she asked a pilot for more information, she said they told her they were not allowed to talk about it, she told Rogan.

"No one really wanted to address it, and so from what I gathered, that had likely been a UAP," she said. "So that kind of was my perspective."

She said she did not look at it with a "crazy lens of perspective" because she believes "you never know if we're the only ones out there, essentially."

Rogan asked why she did not assume it could have been another country's military craft, but Luna said the way the pilot discussed it made her believe otherwise.

"He didn't want to, from what I gather, get taken off flight status, and he was like, 'I really can't discuss it. We couldn't identify it, essentially.' And it had outperformed them," Luna said.

The Florida Republican leads a House Oversight Committee on "disclosure," which focuses on government transparency on matters from UFOs to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. She said the task force was formed after pilots at Eglin Air Force Base came forward to accuse the Air Force of covering up instances of UAP incidents.

The panel's investigations have indicated there is technology out there that "would rival what we know currently with physics" and that the U.S. does not have "the ability to reproduce" it.

Luna also said on the podcast: "Based on the photos that I've seen, I'm very confident that there's things out there that have not been created by mankind."

https://www.newsweek.com/anna-paulina-lu...fo-2113169

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Let's remember an old conspiracy - this is how Alex Jones claimed the US was in 2000 under Clinton:

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Social media convinced Putin's body double met Trump due to one reason as expert weighs in

Despite the presence of the world’s cameras on the two men, X lit up shortly after the greeting to claim Trump was not meeting the real Vladimir Putin – because he was not using his famed ‘gunslinger walk’.

Many users took to their accounts to declare the person Trump met as ‘Putin’s body double’ with some even going so far as to describe him as a ‘low quality body double’.

Conspiracy theorists have been convinced Putin sends a body double to most major events for years – and the reason is rooted in the “real” Kremlin leader’s walk.

Over a decade ago, neurology professor Bastiaan Bloem of the Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands and colleagues noted Putin often walks with his right arm held rigid, while his left arms swings freely and had wondered about possible Parkinson’s disease or a stroke.

However, after searching for explanations, the team encountered a training manual of the former Russian KGB.

Writing in the British Medical Journal at the time, the team wrote: “According to this manual, KGB operatives were instructed to keep their weapon in their right hand close to their chest and to move forward with one side, usually the left, presumably allowing subjects to draw the gun as quickly as possible when confronted with a foe.”

Despite this most recent cry of a body double from all corners of social media, celebrity psychic and body language expert, Inbaal Honigman, believes that this time Putin’s gunslinger gait was as evident as ever when walking with Trump.

Speaking on before of Oddspedia, she said: "As we observe Vladimir Putin march alongside Donald Trump, the Russian president's famed 'gunslinger gait' is as evident as ever.

"His left arm swings naturally, while his right arm is still and stiff, held strongly in place by his side.

“This is an identifiable mark of the former KGB agent, which allows an officer to be ready to pull a firearm out of its holster at a moment's notice.

“Compared with footage of Putin from 2015, he is a little slower, his shoulders are a little stiffer, but it is the exact same motion."

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...y-35740446

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Are New Mountain Dew Flavors Tied To World Tragedies? The Curse Conspiracy, Explained

The names of certain flavors made by the brand seem to line up with tragic world events, and the internet is abuzz with ideas.

The earliest example of a Mountain Dew flavor corresponding with a tragedy was in 2001. That May, the company released Code Red, its cherry-flavored, red-hued version of the popular soda. However, just five months later, 9/11 took place, marking the first of multiple strange coincidences. The brand released Baja Blast in July 2004, just five months before the Boxing Day Tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 220,000 people.

Other notable examples include Mountain Dew Voltage, which seemingly coincided with the 2008 financial crisis, and the grape-flavored Mountain Dew Pitch Black, which some believe predicted the 2024 CrowdStrike blackout. Mountain Dew even released its Star Spangled Splash flavor in 2024, the same year that the Francis Scott Key Bridge was struck by a passing ship and collapsed — Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."

While the Mountain Dew theory makes sense on the surface, a closer look at some of the dates and finer details involved will determine how related these events are to the brand's flavor. Starting from the beginning, the Department of Homeland Security wasn't officially using the term "code red" when 9/11 took place. Instead, the color-coded system was only introduced after the attack and used until 2011.

One of the rarest Mountain Dew flavors, Maui Burst, doesn't align well with the event some people believe it predicted. The flavor was released in October 2019, over three years before fires began ravaging the island of Maui. Additionally, Pitch Black was introduced in 2004 as a limited Halloween edition of the soda before it was rereleased in the early 2020s. With such significant gaps, the theory becomes less convincing.

Our final two examples continue this trend. Mountain Dew Voltage might have been released in 2008, but it's a bit of a stretch to say that the term "voltage" predicted a financial crisis (not to mention that the Great Recession truly began in December 2007). Lastly, Star Spangled Splash, which performed well in our Mountain Dew flavor ranking, seems like a strong theory at first glance. Examine the dates, however, and you'll see that the bridge collapsed around three months before Mountain Dew released the flavor. While this theory might be fun to speculate about, it doesn't hold water (or even Mountain Dew).

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles...36401.html

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Some newspapers are turning, what was obviously a crash of a mundane aircraft, into Poland's Roswell.

UFO crashes and explodes in a Polish cornfield, sparking fears

An unidentified flying object (UFO) crashed and exploded in a cornfield in eastern Poland early Wednesday.

Local authorities reported receiving calls about the crash around 2 a.m., discovering charred metal and plastic debris near the village of Osiny. The explosion from the UFO resulted in broken windows in nearby homes, but no injuries were reported, local news reported.

Poland's Armed Forces Operational Command announced on social media that overnight, there were no recorded violations of Polish airspace by neighboring Ukraine or Belarus. Initially, officials suggested the explosion could have been caused by an old engine part with a propeller. It comes just days after NASA spotted a "hostile" object heading toward Earth at 135,000mph - and predicted the exact date of its arrival.

Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz later indicated the object was likely a drone, adding that an investigation was underway to determine if it was military or smuggling-related.

In November, the Pentagon's UFO report unveiled hundreds of new sightings of unexplained aerial phenomena, but none suggested an extraterrestrial source.

The review included hundreds of cases where balloons, birds, and satellites were misidentified, as well as some that defy simple explanation, like a near-collision between a commercial airliner and an unknown object off the coast of New York.

While it's unlikely to end any debates about the existence of extraterrestrial life, the report does reflect increased public interest in the subject and the government's attempts to provide some answers.

https://www.the-express.com/news/space-n...king-fears

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The New York Times is covering a guy who claims to talk to leprechauns

Ireland’s Last Leprechaun Whisperer Reaches for a Pot of TV Gold

On a clear morning 36 years ago, Kevin Woods was taking his boxer for a walk on a mountain behind his house in rural Ireland. He claims to have come upon three tiny men, sitting on a rock, chatting. The dog and its owner were frozen by the sight, until the men — leprechauns, in his telling — vanished under the rock.

Back home, few believed Mr. Woods. No matter: A few weeks later, on the same walk, he says he encountered another man, scarcely 18 inches tall and named Carraig, who told him the legend of the 236 leprechauns left in Ireland. He asked Mr. Woods to spread the word that these creatures still existed.

Now a hale 81, Mr. Woods calls himself Ireland’s last leprechaun whisperer, a title that reflects the weekly conversations he says he still carries on with them. But he’s more precisely a leprechaun promoter, building a tidy business from books, merchandise and guided tours of the cozy leprechaun cavern he dug in a small park in front of his home, in the coastal town of Carlingford, north of Dublin.

“Look, there’s people that don’t believe,” Mr. Woods says equably as he shows a visitor around the cave twinkling with red and white lights, which he says is connected by a tunnel to another cavern under the mountain, where the leprechauns live. “But there’s people that don’t believe in God.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world...woods.html

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9/11 conspiracy theorist Richard Gage says Ron Johnson will keynote his conference

On a far-right podcast, conspiracy theorist Richard Gage said that Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) — the chair of the Senate subcommittee on investigations within the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — would keynote a conference dedicated to conspiracy theories about 9/11 that would be held on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Gage has helped spread debunked conspiracy theories about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks for years that suggest that the World Trade Center building collapses were caused by controlled demolition, the U.S. government, and/or Jewish people.

He also announced that Johnson — who has previously been criticized by 9/11 first responders and other lawmakers for reportedly spreading a conspiracy theory about the attack — would be meeting “in his office” with “several stakeholders in the 9/11 truth movement.”

During an appearance on the far-right podcast Absolute Storm on August 20, Gage said it was “the first 9/11 truth conference we’ve had in many, many years.” He claimed that Johnson would keynote the conference, saying that it was “unprecedented, off the charts” and “unheard of in the 9/11 truth movement. We never had anything like this.” (Gage has previously said he has ties with Johnson, and Johnson has cited Gage in an interview.)

https://www.mediamatters.org/false-flag-...eynote-his

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This one's got me really intrigued.

Was it Trump’s Sharpie? Social media lights up with conspiracy theories about Melania’s signature on letter to Putin

It didn’t take long for people to remark how similar it looked to the president’s.

“Donald Trump and Melania Trump's signatures. So weird,” said one person on X, who shared a side-by-side image of the two. “That’s IDENTICAL to Trump’s own signature…”

“Melania has the same type of signature as Trump...odd...” wrote a Facebook user.

“Why she have the same sharpie a** signature as Trump?” said another, referring to the president’s favorite pen.

“No way is that her signature,” said another. “She didn’t write it and Trump signed it,” someone else said on Facebook, without evidence.

Others questioned why the first lady’s signature appears to have changed over the years, with one user asking Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot, “Why did Melania Trump change her signature?”

The chatbot’s answer actually tallies with the opinion of Bart Baggett, a handwriting expert who has testified in criminal cases. He said the style with its “angular letters” and “long downstrokes” is all about the Trump “brand.”

“She's got angular writing that's a fast, analytical line. She's had that long before she met Donald Trump,” Baggett said.

However, Melania’s handwriting and signature has “morphed” into Trump’s in the last 10 years, the expert noted.

“Her current handwriting is almost like a brand, like a logo, and I think she morphed it a little bit more into matching Trump’s as she bought into the brand,” Baggett added.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...11981.html