XENOPHILIA (The Band)

1

The Earth is flat.

Earth

1

F

2

Cavities in teeth are caused by a communicable bacteria.

Teeth

1

A

3

Chupacabras are real creatures.

Cryptozoology

1

B

4

Not all Bigfoot sightings are hoaxes.

Cryptozoology

1

B

5

Rods are real animals.

Cryptozoology

1

D

6

The Apollo Moon landings were faked.

Space

1

C

7

Some UFO sightings are still unexplained, even by our govt.

UFO

1

B

8

Raymond Rife cured cancer in the late 1930s.

Health

1

B

9

The Earth is hollow.

Earth

1

D

10

Fluoride in drinking water is harmful.

Health

1

B

11

Mercury in amalgam dental fillings leaks out and is harmful.

Health

1

B

12

Auto pollution causes asthma.

Health

1

B

13

A 200 mile per gallon carburetor was suppressed by oil companies.

Alt. Energy

1

C

14

Unlimited Zero Point Energy secretly has been successfully harnessed.

Alt. Energy

1

C

15

The universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate.

Space

1

B

16

Life on earth came from bacteria in comets.

Biology

1

B

17

Ancient advanced civilizations capable of brain transplants coexisted with dinosaurs.

History

1

C

18

There is present day evidence for ancient nuclear wars.

History

1

C

19

Your cells communicate with light.

Biology

1

B

20

Jesus was black.

Religon

1

C

21

Normally undetectable monoatomic elements make up 5% of the earth's crust.

Physics

?

C

22

Some crop circles are made with microwave laser beams.

Physics

1

C

23

Ancient crystal skulls store information and heal people.

Metaphysics

1

C

24

The mythical Atlantis was a real place.

History

1

C

25

Ghosts are the lingering spirits of dead people.

Metaphysics

1

D

26

It is possible to bend spoons with your mind.

Metaphysics

1

D

27

Some people are psychic and can see the future.

Metaphysics

1

C

28

People who have Near Death Experiences know where we go when we die.

Metaphysics

1

D

29

Every 90 minutes, the side of your nose that you breathe out of changes.

Biology

1

A

30

It is possible to be conscious in your dreams and to control them.

Mind

1 2

A

31

Time travel was accomplished for humans in something called the Montauk Project.

Physics

1

C

32

The Ica stones in Peru are the library of an ancient civilization.

History

1

C

33

One or more disks crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1945

UFO

1

C

34

The 9-11 attacks were an inside job to create outrage and allow conquest of Afghanistan for a US pipeline.

History

1

B

35

The real motivation for the US invasion of Iraq was an oil conquest and personal revenge.

History

1

B

36

Reincarnation is real.

Metaphysics

1

D

37

Reptilian aliens are taking control our planet.

Aliens

1

D

38

Reality is not objective; it depends on what you believe.

Metaphysics

?

D

39

Gravity is a push force shielded by mass.

Physics

1

B

40

The Loch Ness Monster is really a modern dinosaur.

Cryptozoology

1

C

41

It is possible to enter other dimensions and become invisible.

Physics

1

D

42

Radiation in space prevents human travel beyond the Van Allen belts.

Space

1

B

43

The oceans are nearly depleted due to heavy fishing by humans.

Biology

1

B

44

Life on Earth originated on Mars.

Biology

1

C

45

There are underground basses on the Moon.

Space

1

C

46

There are weather weapons that can create tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes.

Earth

1

B

47

It is possible to beam voices into a person's head.

Physics

1

A

48

Elongated atomic nuclei make cold fusion possible.

Physics

?

C

49

Electrostatic repulsion can be used to create floating UFOs.

Physics

1

B

50

Religion is needed to control people who would otherwise lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc.

Religon

?

D

51

Consciousness is just what it is like to have a mental model of yourself.

Mind

1

B

52

Personality type is revealed by hand or body shape.

Mind

1

D

53

Possession by spirits is more than just a misbelief by the person possessed.

Metaphysics

?

D

54

Acupuncture can treat and cure many ailments.

Health

1

C

55

It is possible to become immortal, to live forever in one's current body.

Health

1

F

56

Humans have secretly been cloned.

Biology

1

B

57

Methane gas bubbles from the bottom of the ocean are the reason for ship and plane disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.

Earth

1

B

58

Dowsing rods can find underground water, minerals, etc. more than by chance alone.

Metaphysics

1

D

59

There is a giant face on Mars that is not a natural geological feature.

Space

1

C

60

Walking across burning hot coals without getting burned requires supernatural ability.

Physics

1

D

61

Our lakes, rivers and oceans contain vast quantities of Dihydrogen Monoxide.

Physics

1

A

62

Some life forms arise spontaneously from non-living matter.

Biology

1

F

63

Carbon dating is unreliable for determining the age of organic material.

Physics

1

C

64

The Earth is only 6000 years old.

Earth

1 2 | 1 2 3

D

65

Fossils prove most species of plants and animals that ever existed are now extinct.

History

1

C

66

Vast numbers of entire species of plants and animals are dying off due to the actions of man.

Biology

1 2 3 4

B

67

Eating foods cooked in microwave ovens increases the risk of cancer.

Health

1 2 3 4

B

68

Men can learn to have multiple full body orgasms without ejaculating.

Biology

1 2 3

A

69

A Latvian immigrant rediscovered the secrets to building the pyramids and single-handedly moved 30 ton rocks to build his Coral Castle.

Physics

1 2 3

C

70

Od energy is substance which emanates from all things and beings. It produces the phenomena of mesmerism.

Metaphysics

1 2

D

71

The first US nuclear meltdown was in Idaho Falls, not Three Mile Island, and people died as a result.

Physics

1

B

72

A 7 to 9 ft tall headless Mothman which flew up to 100 mph was seen by multiple eyewitnesses in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the late 1960's.

Cryptozoology

1

C

73

Tests of things like nuclear aircraft engines starting in 1945 have spewed over 1 million curies of radiation into our atmosphere. (Three Mile Island released 15 curies).

Physics

1 2

B

74

Cattle mutilations are secret random tests to monitor radiation and other toxins in animal tissues.

Physics

1

C

75

The average person uses only 10% of his/her brain.

Mind

1

F

76

A person can be mentally awake while physically asleep and can observe dream start going from void to an experience of vivid full color, sound and sensation.

Mind

?

A

77

People who have out of body experiences can visit real places and bring back information.

Metaphysics

1

D

78

Each person has an immortal immaterial essence, animating principle or actuating cause of life that extends beyond biology.

Metaphysics

1

C

79

The ten commandments are included in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, written at least 2000 years before Moses lived.

History

?

A

79

In 1954 a woman in Sylacauga, Alabama was injured by a falling star.

Space

1

A

80

The technology exists to read thoughts at a distance.

Physics

1 2

D

81

It is possible to make hybrid creatures that have both human, animal and even plant DNA.

Biology

1

C

82

In 1909 more than 100 people across eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey swore they saw a flying hooved creature known as the Jersey Devil.

Cryptozoology

1

B

83

The austrailian Bunyip is a real amphibious beast that eats people and animals.

Cryptozoology

1

C

84

There are aliens at Area 51.

Aliens

1

D

85

A secret group called the Illumanati are running the world.

Conspiracy

1

C

86

Science is manipulated by industrial intrests causing poor health and needless death.

Conspiracy

1

B

87

Many past and present US elected officals are/were in office due to vote fraud.

Conspiracy

1

B

88

6,000 year old Sumerian descriptions of our solar system include a planet they called "Nibiru". This Planet X is a real planet we have not yet discovered.

History

1

C

89

Fluoride in drinking water lowers human intelligence.

Health

1

B

90

Supervolcanoes that black out the sun happen every 600,000 years and the last eruption was 640,000 years ago, so we are overdue.

Earth

1

B

91

Intestinal gas (a mixture of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, hydrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen sulphide produced by bacteria which live in your large intestine) if held back is absorbed by the blood and expelled as bad breath.

Biology

1

B

92

If you have a genetic predisposition at about 30 years old, sun exposure, caffine, sugar and a lack of vitamin C will weaken capillary walls in your skin, causing them to dialate and form red growths known as Cherry Angiomas.

Biology

1

C

93

There are very fast pygmies who can pull you out of your car if you leave your window open.

Conspiracy

1

C

94

In Cameroon on Aug 21, 1986 an invisible bubble of CO2 suffocated 1,746 people to death when it erupted from a volcano under Lake Nyos.

History

1

B

95

At the Oregon Vortex, objects roll up hill.

Physics

1

F

96

In 1986 K-219, a Russian submarine with 16 live nuclear warheads sank and landed 18,000 feet down about 400 miles east of the island of Bermuda. Corrosion may eventually lead to a massive nuclear chain reaction.

Physics

1

C

97

Depleted uranium dust caused the gulf war syndrome.

Health

1

C

98

Dandruff is usually caused by a fungus called Pityrosporum ovale (P. ovale)

Health

1

B

99

An unusually long yawn can break your jawbone.

Biology

1

C

100

Several different people (Lt. Eileen M. Fanton? Naomi Maria Seiff or Selff? Lucille C. Slattery?) saw what they believed to be alien bodies recovered from a crash in Roswell, NM in 1947.

Aliens

1 2 3 4

B

101

Satan created dinosaur bones and placed them in the earth to cast doubt upon the Bible.

Religon

1

F

102

The OnStar system in some cars allows others to listen to your conversations without your knowledge.

Conspiracy

1

C

103

Project Looking Glass took place at Area 51. It focused beams of the strong nuclear force into a vaccuum chamber in order to look backwards in time.

Physics

1

C

104

Optimal health is possible on a vegan (no meat, no dairy) diet.

Health

1

C

105

PMS is caused by a nutritional deficiency.

Health

1

C

106

Headaches are almost always due to dehydration.

Health

1

C

107

Voice cloning can computer code the unique characteristics of a person's voice and then recreate that voice saying almost anything.

Technology

1

C

108

People have dopplegangers, exact look alikes.

Conspiracy

1

C

109

There are underground basses deep under the ice of the South Pole.

Conspiracy

1

C

110

Superconductors can transmute electromagnetic radiation into gravitational waves.

Technology

1

D

111

Solid objects can't pass through eachother because matter contains electrons (a kind of fermionic lepton) and fermions which, unlike bosons (energy), can't occupy the same space at the same time due to the Pauli exclusion principle.

Physics

1 2 3 4

B

112

Some humans can float or levitate without tricks or devices.

Supernatural

F

113

Ancient Egyptians could surgically reattach severed limbs, a feat not accomplished in recent times until the Viet Nam war.

Medicine

4

B

114

There are currently flying nuclear powered aircraft.

Technology

C

115

Astronauts could survive a two way trip through the Van Allen radiation belts.

Space

C

116

An ancient underground tunnel crosses most of South America.

Occult

C

117

A 200 MPG carburetor was invented, but oil companies bought the patent and suppressed the technology. .

Technology

C


Below slightly mad scientist Xeno (as seen on South Park) grades various strange ideas. How many have you heard? How many do you believe? See our Reasonable Person's Guide to Strange Ideas or click the links for more. Click here to send Xeno more strange ideas.
yes A	probably B	unknown C	doubt D	no F

	strange idea	category	info	xeno's grade
1	The Earth is flat.	Earth	1	F
2	Cavities in teeth are caused by a communicable bacteria.	Teeth	1	A
3	Chupacabras are real creatures.	Cryptozoology	1	B
4	Not all Bigfoot sightings are hoaxes.	Cryptozoology	1	B
5	Rods are real animals.	Cryptozoology	1	D
6	The Apollo Moon landings were faked.	Space	1	C
7	Some UFO sightings are still unexplained, even by our govt.	UFO	1	B
8	Raymond Rife cured cancer in the late 1930s.	Health	1	B
9	The Earth is hollow.	Earth	1	D
10	Fluoride in drinking water is harmful.	Health	1	B
11	Mercury in amalgam dental fillings leaks out and is harmful.	Health	1	B
12	Auto pollution causes asthma.	Health	1	B
13	A 200 mile per gallon carburetor was suppressed by oil companies.	Alt. Energy	1	C
14	Unlimited Zero Point Energy secretly has been successfully harnessed.	Alt. Energy	1	C
15	The universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate.	Space	1	B
16	Life on earth came from bacteria in comets.	Biology	1	B
17	Ancient advanced civilizations capable of brain transplants coexisted with dinosaurs.	History	1	C
18	There is present day evidence for ancient nuclear wars.	History	1	C
19	Your cells communicate with light.	Biology	1	B
20	Jesus was black.	Religon	1	C
21	Normally undetectable monoatomic elements make up 5% of the earth's crust.	Physics	?	C
22	Some crop circles are made with microwave laser beams.	Physics	1	C
23	Ancient crystal skulls store information and heal people.	Metaphysics	1	C
24	The mythical Atlantis was a real place.	History	1	C
25	Ghosts are the lingering spirits of dead people.	Metaphysics	1	D
26	It is possible to bend spoons with your mind.	Metaphysics	1	D
27	Some people are psychic and can see the future.	Metaphysics	1	C
28	People who have Near Death Experiences know where we go when we die.	Metaphysics	1	D
29	Every 90 minutes, the side of your nose that you breathe out of changes.	Biology	1	A
30	It is possible to be conscious in your dreams and to control them.	Mind	1 2	A
31	Time travel was accomplished for humans in something called the Montauk Project.	Physics	1	C
32	The Ica stones in Peru are the library of an ancient civilization.	History	1	C
33	One or more disks crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1945	UFO	1	C
34	The 9-11 attacks were an inside job to create outrage and allow conquest of Afghanistan for a US pipeline.	History	1	B
35	The real motivation for the US invasion of Iraq was an oil conquest and personal revenge.	History	1	B
36	Reincarnation is real.	Metaphysics	1	D
37	Reptilian aliens are taking control our planet.	Aliens	1	D
38	Reality is not objective; it depends on what you believe.	Metaphysics	?	D
39	Gravity is a push force shielded by mass.	Physics	1	B
40	The Loch Ness Monster is really a modern dinosaur.	Cryptozoology	1	C
41	It is possible to enter other dimensions and become invisible.	Physics	1	D
42	Radiation in space prevents human travel beyond the Van Allen belts.	Space	1	B
43	The oceans are nearly depleted due to heavy fishing by humans.	Biology	1	B
44	Life on Earth originated on Mars.	Biology	1	C
45	There are underground basses on the Moon.	Space	1	C
46	There are weather weapons that can create tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes.	Earth	1	B
47	It is possible to beam voices into a person's head.	Physics	1	A
48	Elongated atomic nuclei make cold fusion possible.	Physics	?	C
49	Electrostatic repulsion can be used to create floating UFOs.	Physics	1	B
50	Religion is needed to control people who would otherwise lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc.	Religon	?	D
51	Consciousness is just what it is like to have a mental model of yourself.	Mind	1	B
52	Personality type is revealed by hand or body shape.	Mind	1	D
53	Possession by spirits is more than just a misbelief by the person possessed.	Metaphysics	?	D
54	Acupuncture can treat and cure many ailments.	Health	1	C
55	It is possible to become immortal, to live forever in one's current body.	Health	1	F
56	Humans have secretly been cloned.	Biology	1	B
57	Methane gas bubbles from the bottom of the ocean are the reason for ship and plane disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.	Earth	1	B
58	Dowsing rods can find underground water, minerals, etc. more than by chance alone.	Metaphysics	1	D
59	There is a giant face on Mars that is not a natural geological feature.	Space	1	C
60	Walking across burning hot coals without getting burned requires supernatural ability.	Physics	1	D
61	Our lakes, rivers and oceans contain vast quantities of Dihydrogen Monoxide.	Physics	1	A
62	Some life forms arise spontaneously from non-living matter.	Biology	1	F
63	Carbon dating is unreliable for determining the age of organic material.	Physics	1	C
64	The Earth is only 6000 years old.	Earth	1 2 \| 1 2 3	D
65	Fossils prove most species of plants and animals that ever existed are now extinct.	History	1	C
66	Vast numbers of entire species of plants and animals are dying off due to the actions of man.	Biology	1 2 3 4	B
67	Eating foods cooked in microwave ovens increases the risk of cancer.	Health	1 2 3 4	B
68	Men can learn to have multiple full body orgasms without ejaculating.	Biology	1 2 3	A
69	A Latvian immigrant rediscovered the secrets to building the pyramids and single-handedly moved 30 ton rocks to build his Coral Castle.	Physics	1 2 3	C
70	Od energy is substance which emanates from all things and beings. It produces the phenomena of mesmerism.	Metaphysics	1 2	D
71	The first US nuclear meltdown was in Idaho Falls, not Three Mile Island, and people died as a result.	Physics	1	B
72	A 7 to 9 ft tall headless Mothman which flew up to 100 mph was seen by multiple eyewitnesses in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the late 1960's.	Cryptozoology	1	C
73	Tests of things like nuclear aircraft engines starting in 1945 have spewed over 1 million curies of radiation into our atmosphere. (Three Mile Island released 15 curies).	Physics	1 2	B
74	Cattle mutilations are secret random tests to monitor radiation and other toxins in animal tissues.	Physics	1	C
75	The average person uses only 10% of his/her brain.	Mind	1	F
76	A person can be mentally awake while physically asleep and can observe dream start going from void to an experience of vivid full color, sound and sensation.	Mind	?	A
77	People who have out of body experiences can visit real places and bring back information.	Metaphysics	1	D
78	Each person has an immortal immaterial essence, animating principle or actuating cause of life that extends beyond biology.	Metaphysics	1	C
79	The ten commandments are included in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, written at least 2000 years before Moses lived.	History	?	A
79	In 1954 a woman in Sylacauga, Alabama was injured by a falling star.	Space	1	A
80	The technology exists to read thoughts at a distance.	Physics	1 2	D
81	It is possible to make hybrid creatures that have both human, animal and even plant DNA.	Biology	1	C
82	In 1909 more than 100 people across eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey swore they saw a flying hooved creature known as the Jersey Devil.	Cryptozoology	1	B
83	The austrailian Bunyip is a real amphibious beast that eats people and animals.	Cryptozoology	1	C
84	There are aliens at Area 51.	Aliens	1	D
85	A secret group called the Illumanati are running the world.	Conspiracy	1	C
86	Science is manipulated by industrial intrests causing poor health and needless death.	Conspiracy	1	B
87	Many past and present US elected officals are/were in office due to vote fraud.	Conspiracy	1	B
88	6,000 year old Sumerian descriptions of our solar system include a planet they called "Nibiru". This Planet X is a real planet we have not yet discovered.	History	1	C
89	Fluoride in drinking water lowers human intelligence.	Health	1	B
90	Supervolcanoes that black out the sun happen every 600,000 years and the last eruption was 640,000 years ago, so we are overdue.	Earth	1	B
91	Intestinal gas (a mixture of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, hydrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen sulphide produced by bacteria which live in your large intestine) if held back is absorbed by the blood and expelled as bad breath.	Biology	1	B
92	If you have a genetic predisposition at about 30 years old, sun exposure, caffine, sugar and a lack of vitamin C will weaken capillary walls in your skin, causing them to dialate and form red growths known as Cherry Angiomas.	Biology	1	C
93	There are very fast pygmies who can pull you out of your car if you leave your window open.	Conspiracy	1	C
94	In Cameroon on Aug 21, 1986 an invisible bubble of CO2 suffocated 1,746 people to death when it erupted from a volcano under Lake Nyos.	History	1	B
95	At the Oregon Vortex, objects roll up hill.	Physics	1	F
96	In 1986 K-219, a Russian submarine with 16 live nuclear warheads sank and landed 18,000 feet down about 400 miles east of the island of Bermuda. Corrosion may eventually lead to a massive nuclear chain reaction.	Physics	1	C
97	Depleted uranium dust caused the gulf war syndrome.	Health	1	C
98	Dandruff is usually caused by a fungus called Pityrosporum ovale (P. ovale)	Health	1	B
99	An unusually long yawn can break your jawbone.	Biology	1	C
100	Several different people (Lt. Eileen M. Fanton? Naomi Maria Seiff or Selff? Lucille C. Slattery?) saw what they believed to be alien bodies recovered from a crash in Roswell, NM in 1947.	Aliens	1 2 3 4	B
101	Satan created dinosaur bones and placed them in the earth to cast doubt upon the Bible.	Religon	1	F
102	The OnStar system in some cars allows others to listen to your conversations without your knowledge.	Conspiracy	1	C
103	Project Looking Glass took place at Area 51. It focused beams of the strong nuclear force into a vaccuum chamber in order to look backwards in time.	Physics	1	C
104	Optimal health is possible on a vegan (no meat, no dairy) diet.	Health	1	C
105	PMS is caused by a nutritional deficiency.	Health	1	C
106	Headaches are almost always due to dehydration.	Health	1	C
107	Voice cloning can computer code the unique characteristics of a person's voice and then recreate that voice saying almost anything.	Technology	1	C
108	People have dopplegangers, exact look alikes.	Conspiracy	1	C
109	There are underground basses deep under the ice of the South Pole.	Conspiracy	1	C
110	Superconductors can transmute electromagnetic radiation into gravitational waves.	Technology	1	D
111	Solid objects can't pass through eachother because matter contains electrons (a kind of fermionic lepton) and fermions which, unlike bosons (energy), can't occupy the same space at the same time due to the Pauli exclusion principle.	Physics	1 2 3 4	B
112	Some humans can float or levitate without tricks or devices.	Supernatural		F
113	Ancient Egyptians could surgically reattach severed limbs, a feat not accomplished in recent times until the Viet Nam war.	Medicine	4	B
114	There are currently flying nuclear powered aircraft.	Technology		C
115	Astronauts could survive a two way trip through the Van Allen radiation belts.	Space		C
116	An ancient underground tunnel crosses most of South America.	Occult		C
117	A 200 MPG carburetor was invented, but oil companies bought the patent and suppressed the technology. .	Technology		C