My conspiracies
Since I started going down this rabbit hole with the post about autism, I will try to go a little further. I will have to admit that as time has gone by and I have gotten old, I tend to not believe in too many things. But throughout my life, I guess like everyone I have had interactions with conspiracy theories and have for a while believed in many of them. Not the flat Earth though, i figure if the earth is flat there is no way you can sail around the World and end up at the same point. I know this, because my daughter made that trip, Honduras-Panama-Turkey (where she joined a cruise vessel)-several European countries, Egypt, UAE, India, Malaysia Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia New Zealand and Australia. She was discharged in Sidney and took a flight to LA then to Houston and then back to San Pedro Sula Honduras, exactly where she started her trip. So, no, I really don't think the Earth is flat.
I already told you I do not believe vaccines are an effort to hurt people, on the contrary, growing up I met a lot of people who, not having access to the polio vaccine contracted this horrible disease. Maybe other vaccines are not good, but I can vouch for the polio vaccine. I will tell you a little anecdote, first of all I must confess I am terrified of injections, what I am going to talk about happened in Utila, an English speaking Island that is a part of Honduras, completely different from the rest of the country.
The thing is, at that moment, I am not sure if it was 1973 or 74, there was an tetanus epidemic, people would get it from anything. So I guess the Honduras government made a deal with USAID. And a brigade came to Utila a few very pretty Gringas injecting as many people as they could. I was laying low to avoid them, but one unlucky day they found me on an out of the way street. there was no where to run, nothing to say, so I took that vaccine like a man. they told me they would be back in six months. Well in six months they were back and again I was trying to avoid these people. But as luck or whatever will have it, the same two girls who vaccinated me found me in the exact same place they had found me six months before, so I had no way out, I took the booster. Was this vaccine a plot against humankind? How would I know, I do know I have never gotten tetanus.
But back to my no longer believing too much in conspiracy theories like for example: We are ruled by reptile creatures. this one I don't believe because if they have subdued us humans why would they keep the charade and not just show themselves as they are? Another one, UFO's. I dearly believed in this one, I was actually waiting for them to make themselves known and bring an era of unprecedented prosperity and happiness to human kind. I was in high school then, let's travel a few decades later and my son would just go out in the yard late afternoon and he'd spot a strange moving object in the sky, he would call me and I saw several of them. I do not know what they were, but I am quite certain they are not extraterrestrials. why? Well it seems travelling thousands of light years is no easy feat and probably not a great deal for extraterrestrial civilizations as I don't think there is anything for them just visiting Earth. Why would they waste effort, time resources to just come watch us? No I do not believe in extraterrestrial visitors, maybe what we see are modern vehicles we have no idea about.
These are the more mainstream conspiracies, but there are conspiracy theories that are just local in all places of the World. when I was a drunk and stayed up nights, there was a disco named Cherry's right by the beach, the grapevine said that a fellow showed up inviting everyone to drinks even giving out money, until a girl noticed he had horse's legs. everyone started shouting and left, and the money turned into blank paper. Needless to say, i never went to that place, to be cautious is to be safe. How could I be sure the horse legged man did not show up again. No, I did not believe this for a second, there are no horse footed men. and as usual I never met a person who actually saw him, it was always the friend of a cousin, or a well known person whose name could not be given. this one is absolutely one that didn't happen, but I guess this is more an urban legend than a conspiracy theory.
And here we have a creature that drinks cattle blood and eats there tongue just leaving the carcass. I guess this guy must be the same one known as the Chupacabras, but here it does not kill goats, just cattle. Once a worker we had, who was not big on wits, came running saying they had caught the comelenguas who in reality was a huge flying animal like a huge bird but with teeth. i heard him say that and immediately thought of a pterodactyl. I immediately went to the place the guy told me it was at, and to my dismay it was a lie. But back then I believed in these things. So much believing has turned me into an unbeliever. Nowadays to believe something I have to see real proof. also I don't believe even half of what I hear or read, especially if found on shady internet news sites.
I know a lot of other stories I might jus write about them but I don't know if people will find them interesting enough to read.