User blog comment:CoughOfFire/Slenderman Incident: Really People?/@comment-25244773-20140806135810

Some people believe that they can cure cancer with crystals. That a Nigerian Prince is offering them money. That the President is a Muslim, and/or the Antichrist. That fluoride in the water is a plot by Communists/the New World Order to sap and impurify our bodily essences. That the Illuminati--a group founded and ultimately suppressed in the late 18th century--were in fact founded in the days of Atlantis--which would be significantly earlier, if they had actually happened--and are presently working to take over the world. With flying saucers.

Simple version--there's no floor limit on human gullibility. No matter how crazy, unlikely and demonstrably false the theory, there'll always be a few nutters who buy it.