And with good reason. Most of them are far too fanciful, and simply don't add up. Anyone who ever ran across Lyndon Larouche and his followers, who used to be a nuisance in the US Democratic Party, will know the feeling. Vast baroque edifices of coincidence upon implausibility, all purporting to show that a sinister cabal runs the world. Headed, I seem to recall, by the British royal family - who in the real world are none too good at organizing their own everyday lives, much less global domination.
Trouble is, every now and then a conspiracy turns out to be true.
Here's a paranoid idea. Aw c'mon, says the skeptic. Pull the other one. Alas, gentle reader, it's all true. After three days of this had rattled all and sundry, the incursions suddenly stopped.