It's only a theory, right?

Conspiracy Theory.

How do these two words make you react? Do you get a creepy feeling that everything is not quite right? Or do you automatically scoff and set your brain to disbelief mode?

Me, I fall somewhere in the middle. I do love a good conspiracy. They fall in between compelling fiction and a whodunit.

So this week on Eccentric Spheres I'm going to talk conspiracies. They'll range from possible to what-are-you-drinking-please-stop-it's-clearly-melting-your-brain. I'll even add one that's confirmed.

First up is Paul is dead.

This theory states that Paul McCartney actually died in 1967 in a car crash late at night following an argument with John Lennon. Of course the band and the label, and some say MI6, needed the success of the Beatles to continue. They feared this would be impossible without Paul, so they found a lookalike, gave him some minor reconstructive surgery, and voila, Paul is alive and well.

This of course seems pretty damn far fetched, so to substantiate the claim, believers say the band – wracked by guilt - placed tons of clues on their album covers.

Now I do not believe this for an instant. But the clues do add up. At least if you look at the m selectively. If you want to know more about this theory, here's a film about it. It's subtitled in Spanish, and you want to ignore the intro. It's supposed to be a testimony by George Harrison (it isn't) but it does list the clues very well.

Next up is the Moon landing.

Some claim we never went to the moon, and that the whole thing was shot in a studio by no other than Stanley Kubrick. There tons of books, documentaries etc. about this, some more compelling than others. Some even say Kubrick hid clues in The Shining. Personally I think it's pretty ridiculous. After all, faking the whole thing would have been as expensive as just going.

But there's a fun twist here. Some people claim we went, but that the U.S government still had Kubrick fake the footage, in order to hide what we found there. Namely aliens. Mull on that. If you want to know more, go to YouTube and start watching.

Naturally no conspiracy list can be complete without the JFK assassination.

I'm not going to go too deeply into this, since like the moon landing, it's very well known, and you already know the gist of it.

I will say however, that I've always been extremely skeptical about this kettle of fish. The odd way the investigation was handled, witnesses hushed up and threatened etc.

The kicker is that in 1976 the United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations was established, and in 1978, they concluded that Oswald could not have acted alone, which by definition makes it a conspiracy. They offered no further suggestions of people involved, and neither will I.

As we are nearing the end, I'll summarize a bit. In the field of really wacky theories, we have Vaccinations control your mind, Saddam Hussein owned a Stargate and the Catholic church assassinated President Lincoln (or the Rothshilds did it ).

But I did promise you a proven conspiracy theory didn't I? Well here you go: The Gulf of Tonkin.

The famous incident that propelled the U.S. Fully into the Vietnam War was a lie. This has been admitted, but the NSA didn't lie to start the war, but to cover up their mistake. Kinda makes you think doesn't it?

See you all next week. Unless your all hiding under the bed so that THEY can't find you.