So I was discussing general conspiracy theories with someone and the subject of flat Earth came up. I'm not very knowledgeable on this so I didn't do a great job explaining why someone would think the Earth is flat.

Can anyone give me the main reason why flat Earthers believe what they believe? I gather it's an elite/resources thing to restrict the plebs from some amazing hidden area that is off limits. Something to do with Antarctica?

What are the top 5 reasons people can justify this claim with that haven't already been debunked? I tried to have a look myself but there is a whole lot of crazy out there on this subject.

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I'm sure people remember those odd groaning/screeching/trumpet sounds that were seemingly coming from the Earth in various locations around the world a few years ago.

I'm yet to hear of an explanation for them. To me, they sound very mechanical, like heavy industrial machinery and I saw a comment somewhere referring to a video that made the link between tunnel boring machines and these sounds. Specifically when TBMs breakthrough the end of tunnel. I've watched a load of videos of these breakthroughs and they don't seem particularly loud, i.e. none of the work crews appear to be wearing any ear pro.

I was wondering if anyone recalls this video making the connection and if it sheds any light on this theory. Perhaps it depends on the rock composition etc. I don't know.

Example of the sounds in this video

https://youtu.be/vul4SYL4QiQ

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Anyone know much about Operation Seraglio? When Hitler saw the war was not going the way he'd hoped for in 1945, he evacuated his guys from the Berlin bunker. Operation Seraglio was the plan to get his top people out.

The last flight out was a transport plane. Supposedly carrying ten heavy chests under the supervision of Hitler's personal valet Sergeant Wilhelm Arndt. The plane ultimately crashed into the Heidenholz Forest, near the Czechoslovak border.

Some of the wreckage was stolen by locals before the police and SS could get to the area and secure it. It is claimed that when Hitler was informed of the crash, he said "I entrusted him with extremely valuable documents which would show posterity the truth of my actions!". So it is believed that in the cargo, there were various documents but no indication of anything else. This seems odd to me.

I'm trying to find any more info or speculation out about what was on that plane and where it eventually ended up but all I can find is stuff on the forged Hitler diaries. It doesn't seem much investigation has gone on re. the crash and aftermath. For instance, how bad the crash was, big fiery explosion limiting recovery or whatever. There were two survivors of the crash so it couldn't have been that bad. Could anything have survived and moved somewhere else etc. There would have only been a couple of weeks or so between the crash and the Nazis surrendering. So not long.