N29 entries

• "New Pearl Harbor" Quote ControversyControversy over a line in the Project for the New American Century's September 2000 report stating that military transformation would likely require "some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor," interpreted by conspiracy theorists as evidence of neoconservative foreknowledge of 9/11 attacks.
• N-rays FraudEarly 20th-century scientific delusion in which French physicist René Blondlot and over 120 other scientists claimed to have discovered a new form of radiation, later exposed as experimental error and observer bias by American physicist Robert W. Wood.
• Nag Hammadi LibraryCollection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered by Egyptian farmers near Nag Hammadi in 1945, whose genuine scholarly importance in illuminating early Christian diversity has been separately adopted by conspiracy theorists as evidence of a suppressed true Christianity.
• NATION OF YAHWEHBlack supremacist religious movement founded by Hulon Mitchell Jr. (Yahweh ben Yahweh) based on Black Hebrew Israelite beliefs, notorious for ritual murders and the collection of human ear trophies from white victims.
• National Investigations Committee on Aerial PhenomenaCivilian UFO research organization founded in 1956 under Donald Keyhoe's leadership, advocating for government transparency on UAP investigations and congressional hearings on the phenomenon.
• Natural NewsAlternative health website founded by Mike Adams promoting unproven medical claims and conspiracy theories, repeatedly banned from major social media platforms for violating misinformation policies.
• Near-Death Experience ResearchScientific investigation of reports by individuals who describe consistent subjective phenomena during clinical death or extreme medical crisis, interpreted as evidence of consciousness survival by some researchers and as brain chemistry effects by others.
• Nebraska Man HoaxPaleontological error in which a single pig tooth was misidentified as evidence of early human evolution in North America, creating the fictional species Hesperopithecus haroldcookii before the mistake was corrected in 1927.
• NELL, KarlRetired United States Army colonel who publicly corroborated David Grusch's 2023 claims regarding alleged government retrieval of non-human craft, though his assessment remains unverified by released physical evidence.
• NephilimBiblical giants described in Genesis as offspring of divine beings and human women, reinterpreted by modern fringe theorists as evidence of ancient extraterrestrial intervention in human genetics.
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming Mind Control TheoryNeuro-Linguistic Programming mind control theory alleges that practitioners employ linguistic, visual, and neurological manipulation techniques to systematically reprogram human consciousness without conscious awareness, enabling institutional control over behavior, belief formation, and decision-making.
• Never Broke a Bone TheoryViral TikTok conspiracy theory claiming that individuals who have never broken a bone possess special spiritual protection, divine favor, or supernatural resilience indicating they are 'chosen ones' destined for significant purposes.
• NEW WORLD ORDER THEORYUmbrella conspiracy theory claiming that secretive elites are working to establish a unified authoritarian world government through coordinated control of international institutions.
• NFT Rug Pull PhenomenonPattern of cryptocurrency fraud in the NFT market where creators generate hype for digital art projects before disappearing with investor funds, representing a modern evolution of Ponzi schemes adapted to blockchain technology.
• Nibiru CataclysmDoomsday theory claiming a rogue planet will pass near or collide with Earth causing global catastrophe, originated by Nancy Lieder in 1995 and repeatedly rescheduled as predicted dates pass without incident.
• Nicolas Cage Vampire TheoryInternet joke theory claiming actor Nicolas Cage is an immortal vampire, based on resemblance to an 1870 Civil War-era photograph and sustained as tongue-in-cheek folklore rather than genuine belief.
• NIELSEN, DavidFormer Ensign Peak Advisors portfolio manager who became a whistleblower in 2019, exposing the LDS Church's $100+ billion investment fund and alleging tax violations through false charity representations.
• Nigerian Prince Email ScamArchetypal internet advance-fee fraud scheme in which scammers impersonate Nigerian royalty or officials requesting assistance moving large sums of money, becoming the template for email-based confidence tricks.
• Nigerian Prince ScamAdvance-fee fraud scheme that became ubiquitous in early internet culture, in which perpetrators pose as wealthy Nigerian royalty or officials requesting help transferring large sums of money in exchange for non-existent rewards.
• Nine Unknown MenLegendary secret society allegedly founded by Indian emperor Ashoka in the third century BCE to safeguard advanced scientific knowledge, popularized through 20th-century Western occult fiction without historical documentation.
• Nixon ShockPresident Richard Nixon's August 1971 decision to unilaterally end the U.S. dollar's convertibility into gold, effectively terminating the Bretton Woods monetary system and inaugurating the modern fiat currency era.
• NOLAN, GarryAmerican immunologist at Stanford University who has analyzed alleged UAP materials and biological samples from claimed encounter witnesses, though his findings have not undergone independent peer review or verification.
• NOORY, GeorgeAmerican radio host who has presented the overnight paranormal and conspiracy-themed program Coast to Coast AM since 2003, succeeding Art Bell as the program's principal voice to a nationwide late-night audience.
• NORAD Stand-Down TheoryDebunked claim that NORAD was deliberately ordered to stand down during the September 11, 2001 attacks to prevent interception of hijacked aircraft.
• NORTH, OliverFormer Marine Corps officer who served on the National Security Council under President Reagan and was a central figure in the Iran-Contra affair, coordinating covert arms sales to Iran and diverting proceeds to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
• NOSTRADAMUSFrench astrologer who published Les Prophéties in 1555, a collection of deliberately vague quatrains that later interpreters have retroactively matched to historical events, a practice attributed to the texts' intentional ambiguity rather than genuine predictive accuracy.
• Murder of The Notorious B.I.G.The murder of rapper Christopher Wallace, known professionally as The Notorious B.I.G., shot in a Los Angeles drive-by shooting on March 9, 1997, six months after the killing of Tupac Shakur, remains formally unsolved, with a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging Los Angeles Police Department officer involvement having been dismissed amid findings of prosecutorial misconduct.
• NSO GroupIsraeli cybersurveillance technology firm that develops and sells Pegasus spyware to government clients worldwide, placed on U.S. Commerce Department blacklist in 2021 over documented human rights abuses.
• NXIVMOstensible executive self-help organization led by Keith Raniere, exposed in 2018 as operating a secret sorority whose members were branded and coerced into sexual servitude, resulting in Raniere's racketeering conviction.