As the Earth prepares for its next grand spectacle—the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024—so too does the imagination of the internet. The rumor mill has been spinning faster than a black hole, churning out conspiracy theories about the celestial show that range from sleeping giants to technological Armageddon and more, confirming the great solar eclipse of 2024 is already a blockbuster event before it’s even premiered. So shield your eyes and shine up your tin foil hat — here are the 4 biggest conspiracy theories and the top 5 viewing locations for the solar event of the year!

This is a weird one… but that’s the way we like it. There are lots of conspiracy theories floating around the internet lately, but who knew there was even one about your streetlights? Some folks claim that some peculiar purple streetlights lining highways and on-ramps are not the result of flawed LEDs, as the manufacturers claim, but are in fact part of a nefarious black light surveillance network.

A note from Tony on the creation on THE GREAT RE:SET | ORDER OUT OF CHAOS: While watching videos on 'The Great Reset' that were published by the World Economic Forum, I saw a video that caught my eye. In it, the video took the word "reset" and put a colon between the letters "re" and "set," which I found an interesting choice… That's when I took a deeper look into the ancient Egyptian gods called Re and Set, and what I found blew my mind…

On December 12, 2019 Tony had the awesome opportunity to join an episode of the Tin Foil Hat Podcast, hosted by Sam Tripoli! If you haven’t listened yet, check out Episode #258: The Nephilim, Bigfoot, UFOs and Satanists with Tony Merkel for an entertaining conversation on some strange topics! Many thanks to Sam Tripoli and Tin Foil Hat crew for having Tony on the show!

Grab your lucky charm - there is probably no date in history more notorious for bad luck, superstitions, and freak accidents than Friday the 13th! But is fear of Friday the 13th really irrational? For centuries history has recorded many terrible and unfortunate things centered around the number 13, and a surprising number of those occurrences have fallen specifically on Friday the 13th. Does Friday the 13th actually hold a supernatural power of misfortune, or has the power of persuasion triggered us to believe in superstition? Here are 13 unfortunate occurrences that may just prove Friday the 13th is an unlucky day!

With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing on the horizon, we’re taking a brief look at several lunar conspiracies that have taken a place in history, and never quite left. Do they have any truth to them? Are they completely crazy? Can we ever know for sure? Put on your thinking cap - or your tin foil hat - and apply your critical thinking skills as you check out these 5 enduring conspiracies about the Moon.

In this video, we revisit the pyramid-shaped UFO that was filmed by at least THREE different people, hovering and rotating over the Pentagon, in December 2018. We’ll show you a new video leak of the event, and also interview one of the people who filmed the UFO sighting firsthand!