10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories Surrounding The Sandy Hook Shooting

The most prominent conspiracy theory is that the New World Order left clues in a scene of The Dark Knight Rises. No relation to reality.

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1. The attack was carried out by government Black Ops, not a lone shooter.

A sadly prominent theory is that the military filled the school with actors and the attack was faked using Black Ops soldiers. Fromthetrenchesworldreport.com points to the confused reports of the shooter’s appearance that came in early morning:

Original reports said the shooter was wearing camouflage pants and a utility vest and then it was black fatigues and an armored vest. Today the two accounts which would indicate two shooters have been morphed into the lone wolf dressed in “black camouflage”. This is a black op.

2. The Sandy Hook victims and parents interviewed were actors.

Youtube user WeTheCom1, along with many Twitter users, have been passing around a video of a father of one of the murdered children laughing during a press conference. From the video’s summary:

Fathers of slain children do not go around joking and laughing the next day this guy is a fraud and he is an actor and so is the aunt that spoke before him and this entire shooting is a scam to take away gun right for a much bigger global domination plan.

3. “The Dark Knight Rises” was actually a warning from the government or possibly The New World Order.

There is a location called “Sandy Hook” on a map of Gotham City that was used for the film. And many sites are claiming it was a warning, especially considering the franchise’s ties to the Aurora Shooting. Infowars.com lays the blame on Satanic spells used by the Pentagon propaganda machine:

There can be no question that occult magic is in practice in the upper-most tiers of secret societies and that it is continuously being researched and experimented with using us, the unwitting public, as disposable guinea pigs.

4. There was a second shooter “in camo pants and a dark jacket” arrested at the scene.

Tumblr user Illuminology points to the same confusion around the shooter’s ID Friday morning and connects it to mixed reports of which weapons were found by the police:

According to multiple eyewitness reports from Aurora, Colorado, including at least one caught on camera by mainstream media news reports in Colorado, James Holmes did not operate alone… But the media quickly eliminated any mention of a second shooter from its coverage, resorting to the typical cover story of a “lone gunman.” Today, the exact same thing is happening with the Newton, CT school shooting.

Youtube user PathocracyNow has a video interviewing a Newtown resident claiming to have seen a second shooter. In the video’s description:

It is clear that 20-year-old Adam Lanza could not have done this all by himself (assuming he was actually involved - we have no way of knowing and no way of ever finding out for sure). The shooting dead of 28 people, with at least 100 rounds let off, took place within three minutes… and we’re being asked to believe that “autistic, troubled” Lanza pulled it off with two handguns?

5. President Obama is using the tragedy as a way to institute martial law.

This theory is actually being circulated pretty heavily on Twitter and birther queen Orly Taitz has even addressed it on her blog. The theory is that Obama is using the Sandy Hook tragedy to remove all protection from American citizens to better control the population. From her blog post:

Obama and his regime are trying to disarm all of us, in order to gain an absolute power. They are trying to show that some person can appear out of the blue and slaughter people.

6. Adam Lanza was not physically able to do it because of his autism.

Source: @seanbradleyh

It should be noted the above image is full of factual errors. But this Twitpic has been passed around everywhere in the last 24 hours. The hashtags attached to it — #FalseFlag and #Foreign #Bankers — imply this is a New World Order conspiracy orchestrated by foreign bankers.

7. There are government shills monitoring Reddit’s r/conspiracy subreddit.

R/conspiracy members have noticed a certain user who is deflecting any and all “alternative discussion” about the details surrounding Sandy Hook:

There is a new redditor who is commenting excessively and exclusively on any/every sandy hook post here on /r/conspiracy.

I noticed that he was kinda over the top the way he vigorously opposes every single alternative frame of thought regarding the Shooting. He is even out right combative.

I thought it was weird when I first noticed the frequency of his comments, so I hovered over his name and found out that he has only been a redditor for about 5 weeks.

8. The medical examiner was a government plant.

Website theconversativetreehouse.com makes the point, “When was the last time you saw an M.E. give a presser in a labcoat?” This theory is expanded upon by conspiracy site beforeitsnews.com, which argues that a .223 Bushmaster wasn’t found anywhere near Lanza’s body. (It, in fact, was.)

9. Israeli death squads carried out the Sandy Hook shooting.

This theory is actually the work of former Arizona Senator and GOP Campaign Finance Chairman Michael Harris. In an internationally televised broadcast he blamed the shootings on Jewish-controlled Hollywood and undercover Israeli Death Squads:

The facts are now becoming obvious. This is another case where Israel has chosen violence and terrorism where their bullying in Washington has failed. Israel believes the US “threw them under the bus,” particularly after the recent Gaza war, allowing Israel to be humiliated in the United Nations. Their response was to stage a terror attack, targeting America in the most hideous and brutal way possible, in fact, an Israeli “signature attack,” one that butchers children, one reminiscent of the attacks that killed so many children in Gaza?”

10. James Holmes and Adam Lanza’s fathers were both connected to the LIBOR scandal.

Conspiracy theorists are connecting the facts that Robert Holmes and Peter Lanza were both supposed to testify at hearings for the LIBOR Bank Scandal. Thehulltruth.com points to a now deleted Examiner article with this pullquote:

The father of Newtown Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza is Peter Lanza who is a VP and Tax Director at GE Financial. The father of Aurora Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes is Robert Holmes, the lead scientist for the credit score company FICO. Both men were to testify before the US Sentate in the ongoing LIBOR scandal. The London Interbank Offered Rate, known as Libor, is the average interest rate at which banks can borrow from each other. 16 international banks have been implicated in this ongoing scandal, accused of rigging contracts worth trillions of dollars. HSBC has already been fined $1.9 billion and three of their low level traders arrested.

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    • David M. thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is WTF  about a month ago
    • tomo7 4 months ago

      It’s a wonder how they develop their theories,they all sound like they live in fear under their beds, clutching their pearls and bibles in one hand and a Glock w/extended capacity magazine in the other. How go they get their Ideas?

    • jerrys11 4 months ago

      People that make up Conspiracy theories have nothing better to do then pick their ass and then lick their fingers! Some Conspiracy theories are just funny, but when they say that 20 kids did not die and that it was all made up, well then that is just stupid!! You guys need to get a life!!!

    • angiepaolaa thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is WTF  about 4 months ago
    • splendda 4 months ago

      The school shooting was totally real, trust me I was a 5 year old that day and I got killed with 1 bullet, then I turned into 4 other children and some old lady who exists only in the news stories.

    • livelst thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is Trashy & Fail  about 4 months ago
    • lisas27 thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is WTF  about 4 months ago
    • alanv3 5 months ago

      dont you remember in the first news reports the cops were looking for 2 gunmen ? whatever happened to that. and arent there cams in the school? you sheeple are twonks!

    • amandaalisvolatp 5 months ago

      Marginalize all you want, folks are waking up to the illusion of this fear based reality. You won’t bring us down. <3 to all

    • foxfurs thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is WTF  about 5 months ago
    • kerrit2   10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... and thinks it’s WTF  about 5 months ago
    • polit thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is Fail & WTF  about 5 months ago
    • esquimalv 5 months ago

      The real conspiracy is to allow people to possess firearms.

    • AluraDrewen   10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi...  about 5 months ago
    • ashleyu thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is WTF  about 5 months ago
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    • joshplague 5 months ago

      The people in control want you to think these things are crazy. The truth is out there, and if you think you are getting the truth from the ABC CBS NBC FOX CNBC…please please please think again. This is a sad and tragic event and should never happen. I cry every time I read about Sandy Hook, but I do know that the American People are not getting the truth about what happened. Please, please think for yourself.

    • Allison Kranz thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is OMG  about 5 months ago
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    • Beth 5 months ago

      Occam’s razor. We have to come up with a universally-understood descriptor or law to quickly identify people who see conspiracy in events that over which they personally obsess. Conspiracy theorists: most of you are paranoid and mentally ill. Please get help.

      • sillymessiah1981 5 months ago

        So, people that don’t blindly accept what is told to us by media or government agencies are always ‘paranoid and mentally ill”? I’m not arguing that there is a conspiracy in this instance, but you’re saying that you should never question official stories. A majority of Americans don’t believe the story of the JFK assassination given by the Warren Commission for example. Does that mean all of those people are paranoid? It just means that things don’t add up to a critical thinker. I don’t think it’s paranoid to ask questions and expect suitable answers. There are still a lot of conflicting stories that are unraveling in this tragedy, I think people are just trying to make sense out of it. You’re correct that some people will make a conspiracy when there isn’t one, but not in all cases. It’s when they start trying to find ways around the suitable answers.

      • simoncoppingp 4 months ago

        Occam’s Razor means that the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is most likely the correct one. However, if that assumption-free explanation is filled with factual and logical holes, then that changes everything.  Saying that everyone who disbelieves the official narrative is “paranoid and mentally ill” demonstrates that you haven’t done much research into some of these “conspiracy theories.”  There are so many legitimate issues with the official narrative of reality that one could easily argue that it is those of you who dismiss conspiracy theorists as “crazy” who are really mentally ill. Though, your illness is not inherent. It was induced. It is indoctrination.

    • janice!   10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... and thinks it’s LOL, Fail & Trashy  about 5 months ago
    • Amber McDaniel thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is WTF  about 5 months ago
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    • timi2 5 months ago

      fact- the fathers of both of the alleged killers were due to give evidence in any future ‘libor trial’. the words ‘Sandy Hook’ was written on a map in the recent Batman movie…. But not to worry guys, it’s just a bunch of nutters taking these co-incidences and blaming it on the government. WAKE THE F**K UP SHEEPLE. Over 25 innocents brutally murdered so that ‘they’ can pursue a gun control agenda.

    • Yvilla363   10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi...  about 5 months ago
    • BuzzfeedThePoor 5 months ago

      Hiding in plain sight is the best way to hide….

    • RandomFlux thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is Trashy  about 5 months ago
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    • sabina_xo 5 months ago

      This is hilarious!!!

    • trollprincess 5 months ago

      I’m always amazed at people who believe that there are organizations out that which are smart enough to devise and execute complex secret plans, but too stupid not to hide a bunch of clues that can easily be spotted by some high school dropout on Stormfront.

      • angelat3 5 months ago

        That’s what I always say! You think if there’s some super-secret worldwide organization bent on global domination, some weirdo who spends way too much time on YouTube will be ale to figure their plans out? Give me a break.

      • jaken2 5 months ago

        I didn’t watch anything about the shootings really because it breaks my heart to even think about someone evil enough to brutally kill a single child,but 20+…. that being said the hard truth of your question/concern with conspiracy theorists is that if they are right then these “groups” DO do things like this because they know people JUST like you will think thingsnlike “the news can’t lie to me” You answer your own question. They know they can say what they want and people will believe it AUTOMATICALLY(with out thinking for your self) because 1. People are lazy,if they can not think its easier on them.2. People are AFRAID of being socially akward by thinking outside the box,and those people who already are are not afraid of this but people write them off because they’re not like “everyone else”. I’m not telling you to believe ANYTHING ANYONE says. Just think for yourself off facts you have found. Thats it. Open yourminds to the possibility of anything could happen and your heart and minds will do the rest.Something is wrong with our world today and most every person in the world can feel it.

    • LANWODD thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is WTF  about 5 months ago
    • juliai3 thinks 10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... is OMG  about 5 months ago
    • petep4 5 months ago

      there very well may be something going on here. some of these are not coincidences but there are allot of false accusations here so how can people take you serious? you may not want to believe it but, women and children were just massacred so show them some respect. you are disgusting. Whoever did this took the lives away from innocent people. not actors

    • cmonster11   10 Mind-Blowingly Disturbing And Ridi... and thinks it’s Trashy, WTF & Fail  about 5 months ago
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    • therblig 5 months ago

      these assholes need to kill themselves and get coal for christmas. don’t really care about the order.

    • brijazz 5 months ago

      If you’re running a high-power “secret society”, would you plant clues ANYWHERE, let alone a blockbuster film? Do these sorts of people think ALL mass shootings are government-orchestrated, or just this one and Aurora?

      • nikkir14 5 months ago

        The answer to that question is on you tube. Look up pretty much anything about actors or Hollywood and if you look through the random videos they find you will see… hundreds most likely that talk about Hollywood and the music industry and how they are controlled by secret orders, satanism, and of course greed. How Hollywood controls the masses….. (seriously I was looking at a video of a Whitney Houston singing and clicked on one about her death. Enter the world of conspiracy….)

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