The Blood Libel is one of the oldest — and deadliest —conspiracy theories.

Starting in Norwich, 1144, it claimed Jewish communities murdered Christian children in ritual sacrifices. The lie spread across Europe, fueling pogroms and expulsions, resurfacing in Nazi propaganda, and echoing today in QAnon and modern “child trafficking” conspiracies.

This week, Probably Not True unpacks how the Blood Libel began, why it spread, and why myths like this refuse to die.
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In 1835, the New York Sun claimed astronomers had discovered entire civilisations on the Moon: bat-people soaring over lunar forests, unicorns grazing in meadows,beaver-people lighting cooking fires.

For about a week, people believed it.

This was the Victorian version of viral fake news — cosmic clickbait that turned a respected scientist into the unwilling face of a lunar soap opera.

In this episode, we break down:
🌕 How the hoax exploded across 1830s America
🌕 Why newspapers embraced wild stories over facts
🌕 And how the same patterns of bullshit echo through conspiracy culture today.

Welcome to Probably Not True — where the conspiracies are older than you think, the facts are fuzzier than lunar dust, and the punchlines are made of cheese.

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In the 1950s, the CIA wanted more than spies — theywanted mind control.
Project MKUltra was their answer: a secret, real-life program that mixed Cold War paranoia with enough LSD to keep Woodstock going for a decade.

This wasn’t fiction. MKUltra happened. From dosing unsuspecting civilians to running secret brothels for "nationalsecurity," the CIA tested LSD, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, memory erasure, and more — often without consent, and almost always without ethics.

Spoiler: It scores 9.5 out of 10 on the ProbablyNot True Believability Index — because this one is absolutely, terrifyingly real.

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