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Either for fun or serious. About celebrities, your neighbors, winter, whatever.

The mysterious "clown sightings" are signs of a "Plan B" in case Trump loses.

oh, God, the clown sightings - we actually had one near our local high school yesterday. (Why a high school, I'll never figure out)

School system in my neighborhood got shut down today 'cuz of a clown attack where the guy made threats against students.

anon with the creepy clown at the high school:

Okay, now that is creepy.

I would love to know what logic these people are using

Do you follow Owen Ellickson's Twitter? He's been doing a parody of Trump's campaign and I love the clown storyline.

Oh man, I read that feed religiously.

- I think people who post controversial stuff publicly on facebook (IF they don't always post publicly) do so because they hope it means no one will want to publicly get into an argument with them.

- This is actually an old conspiracy theory, but I always kind of thought Stephenie Meyer intended for Twilight to be a parody of the vampire genre, and at the end of the series Bella would dump both Jacob and Edward and point out how creepy they were.

Although I suppose the theory still holds some ground if you consider that the hype made her hesitant to go there, so she played it straight instead.

I don't think Stephenie Meyer wrote the books as parodies at all, but I do think her critics took the books more seriously than they were meant to be taken. They were criticized for being teen romance novels with vampires when that was the entire point.

Didn't Meyer famously claim she'd never read any of the classic vampire literature, though? It seems odd that you'd plan an elaborate parody if you didn't even care about the genre beforehand.

Not mine, but a friend lives in the town where the first "clown sightings" took place, and she said she heard it was a hoax spread to get the police to actually pay attention to an area that apparently has a lot of problems with crime.

I just assume it was two teens in clown outfits being weird. And once it became big it is other people trolling around in the forest. If I had a clown suit, I might creep around the forest a bit.

AYRT - That was definitely my first theory, and is still a possibility. I don't honestly believe there was ever any legitimate threat, just some high school or college kids goofing around. I mean, for one thing, it sounded way too horror film to be true.

My second theory is viral marketing for the movie IT.

Re: Conspiracy theories

diet_poison - 2016-10-01 00:07 (UTC) - Expand

I'd be afraid of getting shot doing that to be honest, mostly because if some creepy asshole in a clown outfit fucked around with me at night that's exactly what I would do to them. Stuff like this guy in the UK( ttp://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/scary-clown-sightings-closer-lincoln/story-20099017-detail/story.html) just starts to ask for trouble. I'm not sure about the newer sightings, but still.

Re: Conspiracy theories

kaijinscendre - 2016-09-30 23:47 (UTC) - Expand

I figured it was viral marketing for the IT remake..?

this isn't quite a conspiracy theory, but: Andrew Borden was (probably sexually) abusing Lizzie Borden and her sister, and that's why the murder happened [though I don't think Lizzie did it herself]

I've honestly wondered if it wasn't something like that myself.

Interesting theory. Why do you think that?

A bunch of reasons! I think from the evidence it's pretty clear Lizzie *couldn't* have done it (just time wise: the window for Andrew Borden's death is SO small, and she had no blood on her shortly after). BUT, I do think that her behavior suggests she knew more than she should have. And there are several things that I can't get away from, that make it impossible for me to believe this wasn't a family affair:

1) Everyone in that house expected to die. Abby thought they were being poisoned (rather than the fairly obvious assumption that it was just food poisoning). Lizzie told a close friend she had a terrible feeling that something awful was going to happen.

2) The house itself--the physical house as well as the family--was just bizarre. Half the doors were locked, such that you had to go downstairs and physically leave the house to move from one second-floor room to the next. On its own, not such a big deal. Added to the weirdness already in that family, I think it's suggestive of a lot of fear.

3) Emma (the older sister) was out of the house staying with friends at the time of the murder--the first time she had stayed overnight away from home in years. I can't believe that's a coincidence.

4) Why were both daughters unmarried and still living at home in their thirties/forties? Obviously, some people just don't find anyone, but they were well-connected, well-off, reasonably attractive women. I suspect their father wanted them to stay at home (a controlling personality seems in keeping with the evidence on his character).

5) Both the mother and the father died, and in a horribly brutal manner. If it was only one or the other, or if the death was of a less violent nature, I could believe it was an outside, or it was a money matter, or something like that. The fact that it was both of Lizzie's parents makes me think it was someone in the family, and it's well established that when someone is murdered in a particularly violent fashion, 9-10 times out of 10 the murderer was very close to them.

tl;dr: weird family clearly had secrets, death was so violent it was clearly personal. Marcia Carlisle has an essay explaining this theory much better than I can here: http://www.americanheritage.com/content/what-made-lizzie-borden-kill?page=show

Re: Conspiracy theories

(Anonymous) - 2016-10-01 03:37 (UTC) - Expand

I am slowly coming around to the Vincent Van Gogh was actually shot accidentally and lied about it so no one would get in trouble theory.

tbh this one is compelling

Encountered today a guy who was 100% serious in thinking Hillary Clinton wanted to disable the US government and instill a world government. He didn't think it was going to happen, but he was sure that was the trajectory she would go on. Also talked to another person who thinks she had dozens of people killed.

I am kinda digging the mystery surrounding January Jones and how the father of her child is not public information.

I'm not interested in learning the facts about her at all, it's none of my business. I am just fascinated by the illusion that she is kind of old Hollywood lol

What kind of conspiracy theories are there about winter? It's cold because of aliens?

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