And lizard people.
Anthony Warner, who was obsessed with an outlandish tale about lizard aliens and other plots, had been planning for months.
...Mr. Warner also camped regularly in Montgomery Bell Park, west of Nashville, a pastime that fed his conspiracy obsessions — he considered the park to be prime ground for hunting alien reptilians.
He described struggling to spot them with an infrared device, believing they could adjust their body temperature to the surrounding environment, and warned that bullets would just bounce off. "If you try to hunt one, you will find that you are the one being hunted," he wrote... American conspiracy theories that attract a wide audience tend to be built around historic events like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, while the notion of shape-shifting lizards remains obscure.
The idea gained adherents in the late 1990s after an infamous British conspiracy theorist, David Icke, wrote about it, accusing Queen Elizabeth II, the Bush dynasty and the Rothchilds of being reptilians. He organized seminars that ended with participants trying to dance away the "lizard power," said Joseph E. Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami and co-author of a book called "American Conspiracy Theories"...
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