Crypto-creatures
This large, hairy, ape-like creature is said to live in the forests of North America and is also known as Sasquatch.
What is Bigfoot?
In 1947, officials said this object that crashed near _______, New Mexico, was actually a weather balloon
What is the Roswell?
People are more likely to believe conspiracy theories during times of fear, crisis, or this condition.
What is uncertainty?
This secret society is often claimed to control world events and is symbolized by an eye inside a triangle.
What is the Illuminati?
This 1969 event is claimed by some conspiracy theorists to have been staged by the U.S. government.
What is the Apollo 11 moon landing?
This legendary creature is reported to live in a famous lake in Scotland.
What is the Loch Ness Monster?
This term is now used by the U.S. government instead of “UFO” to describe unexplained sightings.
What is Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)?
This factor helps conspiracy theories spread quickly.
What is the internet, or social media?
This secretive group at Yale University is often mentioned in conspiracy theories involving elite power and influence.
What is Skull and Bones?
Believers of the moon landing conspiracy often point to this missing feature in photos as “evidence.”
What are stars in the background?
Believers use eyewitness accounts, photos, and reports of "these" sightings as evidence that these beings may have visited Earth.
What are aliens?
This U.S. government office investigates reports of UFOs, using the acronym AARO.
What is the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)?
This "thinking skill" helps people evaluate evidence and decide whether a claim is reliable.
What is critical thinking?
This term is used to describe artifacts that appear to be too advanced for the time period in which they were found.
What is forbidden archaeology? (or out-of-place artifacts)
This term describes when citizens believe their government hides important information from the public.
What is a cover-up?
Sightings of this winged creature with glowing red eyes in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, are often linked to a tragic bridge collapse.
What is the Mothman?
This incident saw thousands of Americans, living in the southwest in the 1990s, seeing a triangle of lights over a mile wide. The Governor at the time made fun of it, but later admitted he did not know what it was.
What is the Phoenix Lights incident?
This psychological tendency causes people to seek out information that supports their existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
This famous treasure hunt book from the 1980s hid clues in illustrations that led to buried keys across North America.
What is The Secret?
This secret project involved U.S. government experiments on human subjects without consent during the Cold War.
What is MK-Ulta?
This creature from lumberjack folklore symbolizes the dangers and fears faced by workers in dense forests.
What is the Hidebehind?
This famous alien encounter involves a 1961 couple who claimed they were abducted by aliens in New Hampshire.
What is the Betty and Barney Hill encounter?
What is the CRAAP test.
This mysterious online puzzle, first appearing in 2012, used cryptography, literature, and internet clues to recruit problem solvers.
What is Cicada 3301?
This term refers to the belief that governments sometimes manipulate public information to maintain control or power.
What is propaganda?