All the research I’ve done since has only confirmed that belief. I was never one to doubt the moon landing actually took place exactly as they’ve always said it did. The stories were updated and modernized and clearly fictional, but the events they were portraying were obvious. These were technoparanoid, space-age conspiracy theories.
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In movie theaters Sunn International released a string of low-budget documentaries about the Loch Ness monster, alien visitations and Biblical prophecies about the end of the world, all of it providing a steady slow drip of what Jack Webb called High Strangeness.Īs part of all that, Hollywood, through a series of big-budget all-star productions, introduced a generation of young Geeks to the joys of conspiracy theory.There had been fictionalized accounts of other, real conspiracies in the past (like Executive Action, the first and still the best film about the plot to kill Kennedy), but this new crop was different. TV offered up shows like In Search Of and Project UFO, specialty magazines (and even short-run comics) popped up every month. Books about Bigfoot, The Bermuda Triangle and Ancient astronauts topped the bestseller charts. Everyone was interested in strange phenomena.
We were in the middle of a second saucer craze, but this time the boundaries had expanded and mainstream culture played along.
The later ‘70s were a golden age for the differently-obsessed.
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