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!

Twitter is an uncivilized wilderness of weirdness. The latest, greatest descent into the rabbit hole of the Twitterverse comes courtesy of a viral video of a lady on a plane aggressively accusing her seat mate of being “not real.” On the surface, it could be relatively easy to dismiss the clip as a case of too much booze before boarding, or even a medical episode of delusion. But in the days since the original video first emerged, this particular rabbit trail has gotten curiouser and curiouser.

If you are fascinated by the subject of giants (like we are) or you’ve spent any length of time on TikTok, there’s a good chance you’ve seen an intriguing video posted by Andrew Dawson earlier this year. In it, Andrew spots what appears to be a huge human standing on a mountain peak miles away. The giant video earned him viral status, but it also may have earned him some unwanted attention. The following series of events begins unexpectedly, and ends both mysteriously and tragically. Along the way, we had our own interaction with Andrew that only seems to deepen the mystery.

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…

July 30th marks National Whistleblower Day - a day created to commemorate America’s first whistleblower law, which was enacted to protect citizens who would step forward to report corruption when they saw it. To acknowledge those who have risked whistleblowing in the face of corruption and illicit activity, we have compiled all the “whistleblower” episodes of The Confessionals. Tune in to these episodes to listen, learn, and appreciate their stories.

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!

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!