We’ve just been having a little discussion about conspiracy theorists in the office. It seems someone here doesn’t believe a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 11/9/01, and is insisting that it was a rocket fired by the US Government in order to generate international sympathy and justify their stomping all over the middle east to get oil. As conspiracy theories goes, it’s not a particularly inventive one and has been thoroughly debunked, anyway.
But that’s not the interesting bit. No sooner does this discussion end than the following email arrives in my inbox:
From: ***** <*****@bbc.co.uk>
To: ****@parm.net
Subject: YOU STILL DOING THE URBAN MYTHS ROUND? BBC TV NEWS HERE..
Hi Chris, just doing a bit of internet research and spotted your paper.
Are you still based in the North West, any chance of a chat?
That’s slightly spooky timing, in my book.
(I assume they’re referencing an essay I wrote about 5 years ago ranting about emails people forward round telling you that they found Hell in Siberia and how I’ll go to hell and Jesus will stop loving me if I don’t forward this email about a non-existent documentary about how Jesus was gay onto every other Christian on the planet, but that’s besides the point).