The world is flat, and it only looks round from space due to gravity distorting light.

Your birthday decides who you are as a person

David Icke's theory That every world leader, member of royalty and figure of importance is reptilian.

Whales control the weather and are currently causing global warming. Because apparently their movements affect ocean currents or air currents or I don't even know what. I wish I were making this up.

If you have "organ donor" on your driver's license then EMTs will let you die to take your organs

So many people genuinely believe blood is blue inside their body

The earth is only 6000 years old. Tell that to the Sumerians

we only use 10% of our brains

Breatharianism. The idea that people can live without food and all we really need to survive is oxygen. Not sure how this group still exists

My father once told with with absolute seriousness that if a snake bites you, and you survive, the snake dies instead. Apparently this is an old wives tale from India, but he defended it for a solid ten minutes before begrudgingly admitting that it didn't make any sense

An idiot told my wife a few weeks ago that if you are being mugged at an ATM you need to type in your PIN backwards. He thinks this will allow you to withdraw money as normal but "alerts" the police who dispatch a squad car to your location immediately. When she asked what about people with mirror image PINs and PINs such as 4444 he still maintained that he was right. No actual answer, just insisted he was correct.

There is an activist group (with a large following) that claims that clouds in the sky are not real. They are just figments of everyone's imaginations because the government brain washes everyone into thinking clouds exist. Seriously?

That if you startle a pregnant woman the baby will come out cross eyed

That the Mona Lisa is actually Leonardo da Vinci in drag

Definitely the Korean urban myth of sleeping with a fan on will you. I’ve heard it explained as the blades chopping up the air creating gaps so that you suffocate in your sleep

Some guy told me about how the Illuminati gets two dead bodies every year and place them in the Coca Cola tanks. Then they use them to ferment the Coca Cola the public drinks to control us

The moon landing is fake.

Magnetic balance improving bracelets. I will immediately write you off as dumb or at least very gullible if you wear one of those those things.

A black cat is an omen of bad luck and if one crosses your way you have idk how many years of bad luck. Along the same lines is the mirror 7 years of bad luck, and walking under a ladder. Like, excuse me? Can that cat ration enough to put a fucking spell on you?? And how tf are inanimate objects gonna cast a fucking spell????? Like it just seems extremely dumb

My all time favorite is Chinese buffets are just a way of making us fatter and easier to invade.

Hollow Earth theory. One of my co-workers asked if I had heard of it and then very seriously told me to look it up. I thought she was kidding until I talked to her again about and it turns out she was completely serious.

Dinosaurs were placed in the ground by the government in order to discredit religious people and prove evolution...or something like that. I can't remember the details. It gave me an aneurysm.

Aliens put humans on earth to find gold for them

As recently as 1993, when I had my youngest child, there were people telling me during my pregnancy to get rid of my cat because it would get in the crib and "take the baby's breath away." The fact that I had an almost-four-year-old who survived household cats didn't hold water with them.

If you have a sat nav/gps it's really the government spying on you and can control your car.

Bermuda Triangle

If you are in a cold environment you'll catch a cold

That Hello Kitty's creator made a deal with the devil to save her daughter that had mouth cancer and that's why she created hello Kitty.