CREDIT: CHRISTIAN MITCHELL
James Roberts plays Tom and Kelsea Meredith plays Shelly in the upcoming film Theories by a group of London and Fanshawe filmmakers.

A small town where nothing ever happens, and people have nothing to do.

Conspiracy rumours of strange happenings that are just that – rumours.

Except this time.

Such is the premise of the upcoming feature film Theories by a group of London and Fanshawe College filmmakers.

The film is about a group of people that investigates a strange happening in a town called Union. They aren’t expecting much – nothing ever comes out of their conspiracy-hunting adventures – but this time, one of the group members goes missing and everything turns into a nightmare.

What it is the group is investigating or what happens exactly, the filmmakers are not saying.

“That’s part of the film,” said Dayna Pearce, a Fanshawe Advanced Filmmaking student and one of Theories’ writers and producers.

All they’re saying is that the film involves hallucinations of aliens, government agents and men in biohazard suits, among other characters related to conspiracy theories.

There’s also a cult.

Writers and producers Mike Tyrrell and Christian Mitchell were working for a designated driver service when they got the idea for the film.

“There’s not a lot to do late at night,” Mitchell said.

And so they were listening to Coast to Coast AM, a late-night radio show dealing with conspiracy theories and the paranormal.

The duo had been looking for story ideas and thought doing a film about conspiracy theories and the paranormal would allow them to write a story involving a mystery and special effects.

They started developing the idea back in February and completed the script in June. Since then, the group’s been revising the script and casting actors.

They plan to start filming in and around London in September.

“I think that London is just as viable a place to make a movie as any,” she said. “We hope that London can be a place where feature films can be made.”

But there is one problem – filming is expensive.

In order to help fund the project, the group has launched an Indigogo campaign, a crowdfunding service where people can donate money in return for perks. Some of the perks include guest appearances in the film, T-shirts, signed scripts and executive producer credits. They’re asking for $6,000.

“Because we’re trying to bring in local artists, we figured, ‘Why not try and bring in the public as well to be part of it?’” Pearce said.

Theories’ producers and writers are all from London, as is most of the cast, said Pearce.

The group is also collaborating with local musicians instead of licensing music.

“We really wanted to be able to involve as many people as possible,” he said. “There’s some really great artists in London that are trying to break into their industry, and we love to feature them in the film.”

The group says it hopes the film turns out well and that it gets distribution.

“And we hope to have a great time doing it,” Pearce said.

Interesting conspiracy theories

JFK ASSASSINATION

The “official” story

American President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed by a sniper on November 22, 1964 while travelling in an open-top limousine in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed the president.

The truth

Oswald wasn’t the shooter. Or if he was, he wasn’t acting alone. Either the CIA, the KGB or Havana ordered the president to be killed. Some say it might’ve been Kennedy’s own vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, who ordered the killing. After all, he did become president after Kennedy was killed. But we’ll never know for sure, because Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner, killed Oswald two days after Oswald killed Kennedy, covering the truth.

PAUL MCCARTNEY IS DEAD

The “official” Story

Paul McCartney is getting old, but he’s not dead.

The truth

McCartney died in a car accident in November 1966 after leaving the recording studio following a fight with the rest of the Beatles. The band replaced him with a look-alike. There are hundreds of clues. One famous example is the cover of Abbey Road: George Harrison, in denim, represents a gravedigger; Ringo Starr, in black, the undertaker; and John Lennon, in white, the clergy. “McCartney” is barefoot and out of step with the others, because he represents the corpse. He’s also holding a cigarette in his right hand – the real McCartney was left-handed.

9/11

The “official” story

Four Boeing planes were hijacked by al-Qaida on the morning of September 11, 2001. Two of the planes were flown into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center. Another crashed into the Pentagon, and the fourth one, aimed at Washington, D.C., crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

The truth

Either the government knew about the attacks beforehand and let them happen, or the government was the mastermind behind the attacks, not al-Qaida.

One clue is that NORAD took a lot of time to scramble jets to stop the attacks. And once they were in the sky, they failed to do anything, despite being equipped with the technology to track commercial planes.

ROSWELL UFO INCIDENT

The “official” story

An American military balloon equipped with microphones to detect Soviet atomic bomb tests crashed on a ranch near the town of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947.

The truth

The whole balloon story was a cover- up. It was a spaceship that crashed near Roswell that summer. The government even recovered dead alien bodies. Some say they recovered live ones, too.

The Air Force even admitted so, initially saying they had recovered a “flying saucer” at the site before changing it to a weather balloon and now some sort of nuclear detector device. Hundreds of witnesses have since come out, saying they’d seen alien bodies and materials made of “nothing made on this earth” at the ranch.

AREA 51

The “official” story

There was no official story. Until last summer, when the CIA said there was something called the Nevada Test and Training Range and Groom Lake in the Nevada desert, where it developed the U-2 spy plane.

The truth

Area 51 is where they brought the Roswell aliens and the spaceship’s debris. In fact, that’s where everything alien-related in the United States is. They’re reverse engineering flying saucers, studying alien bodies and developing time travel and weather control technology there.

Area 51 also serves as an embassy to aliens: the American government holds conferences with aliens there. That’s where E.T. was heading when he and his fellow aliens stopped in California.

LOST COSMONAUTS

The “official” story

The Soviet Union sent the first human into outer space – Yuri Gagarin – in April 1961.

The truth

Gagarin wasn’t the first human the Kremlin sent into space: he was the first person return from human spaceflight alive. Kind of. The Soviets sent at least three other men in space before Gagarin. Two of them died, so the Soviets covered up the story.

The Soviets launched a third man, Vladimir Ilyushin, into space two days before Gagarin. Ilyushin survived the spaceflight but landed in communist China, where he was held for a year. Ashamed, the Soviets also covered up that story.

THE MOON LANDING

The “official” story

American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in July 1969, winning the Space Race against the Soviets.

The truth

The moon landing was staged. After the Soviets beat the Americans to human spaceflight and unmanned moon landing, Washington felt they had to put man on the moon first. After the government watched Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, it decided he should direct the moon landing film. It was either shot at Area 51 or in Hollywood.

One clue can be seen in the picture where Aldrin is planting the flag: it’s waving, which is impossible, because there is no wind in space.

REPTILIAN ELITE

The “official” story

Politicians, CEOs, musicians, actors and so on are humans and have no intentions of taking over the world.

The truth

They’re not humans – they’re shape-shifting reptiles, and they’ve already taken over the world. Rob Ford? Reptile. Kanye West? Reptile. Queen Elizabeth? Reptile. Bill Clinton? Reptile – he didn’t inhale, because reptiles don’t inhale. There are videos on YouTube in which you see their eyes shifting from human to reptilian.

MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHTS 370 AND 17

The “official” stories

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 left Malaysia in March en route for China but disappeared along the way. Flight 17 left the Netherlands for Malaysia in July, but pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine shot down the plane as it flew over the country.

The truth

Washington hijacked Flight 370 in March. The Americans then deliberately flew the plane – as Flight 17 – over Ukraine and had it shot down, blaming the pro-Russian rebels for the incident.

The goal was to start World War III with Russia.

THE CIA CREATED AIDS

The “official” story

HIV/AIDS is a disease believed to have originated in the late-19th century or early 20th century in Africa.

The truth

The CIA invented HIV/AIDS in military labs in the 1970s as a way to get rid of African Americans and homosexuals. The virus was injected in gay men in a “hepatitis-B experiment” in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York in 1978.

Former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki says so as does Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winning ecologist Wangari Maathai.