Every theory — from Chinese troops infiltrating the U.S. to exterrestrial healing — has an advocate at Conspiracy Con, which took place in May in Santa Clara, California. We visit the people who devote their lives to notions the rest of us would rather ignore. Produced by Raquel Maria Dillon.
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