My friends, I’m really excited for two reasons. First, I didn’t have to write much about Romania’s conspiracy theories, and second, there’s significant interest in regional conspiracy theories from the Balkans. Despite borders and language barriers, the similarities among these theories are truly mind-boggling.
First, my own experience with conspiracies: you gather around with groups of teens and information is bound to get wild; illuminati, aliens, and evli spirits run amock, but you know it’s you and your friends. But imagine that one I went to school and our religion teacher had some conspiracies to share with the class: the bar code on all products translates to 666 the number of the beast, and once the state of Israel is the same as in biblical times, armaghedon will begin (plus something about reconstructing some ancient monument).
Anyway, it is weird that this biblical prophecy guides our lives and is the type of thing to stir up at the end of the world. But my favorite thing ever was going as a kid on a fieldtrip visiting a monastery, and guess what we saw —a book with Rihana on top saying that her music is actually satanic. That was a massive shock, and the next time I went to a monastery and saw that Beyonce’s music is satanic, I just laughed because a diva is a female version of what priests are afraid of.
Right now we are going through a reliving of our Dacian past. The Dacians were a loose conglomeration of tribes unified at different points between approximately 5th century B.C. and 106 A.D., very skilled in processing gold and loved to fight. But conspiracies today range from mystical energy to tunnels and even Christianity originating from the Dacian religion of Zamolxe, as he was a mortal that became a God.
If you are looking to expand your conspiracy horizon:
Dracula's Guide to Romania 
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