Like the Australian story, the 'Bielefeld doesn't exist' conspiracy theory also has a well-known point of origin.

In a nondescript part of Germany, you may or may not find a city called Bielefeld. Now that we're done with that, it's worth noting that Finland and Australia aren't the only places in the world that are both denied by some to exist, and can be easily visited by anyone at any time. But regardless, let us expend an appropriate amount of effort presenting the evidence that Australia is in fact real. She probably wishes she'd kept a bit more distance from Flat Earther forums. The post was quickly shared over 20,000 times before Floryd deleted it, telling BuzzFeed News at the time that she was buried in ridicule from angry Australians, including '100 or so' death threats. Let it be known, that Australia does not exist. It's a codeword for the cold blooded murder of more than a hundred thousand people, and it is not okay. It's a coverup for one of the greatest mass murders in history, made by one of the most prominent empires. In reality, all these criminals were loaded off the ships into the waters, drowning before they could see land ever again. It's a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace. The idea languished in Internet obscurity for a long time until a Swedish Facebook user named Shelley Floryd revived it based on some random thread on Reddit, and this time she added a motivation:Īustralia is not real. They are really secret government agents. I am sure you have even talked to people on the internet who claim to be from Australia. Everything you have ever heard about it was made up, and any pictures of it you have seen were faked by the government. Well, the fact is that Australia doesn't really exist. Most of you have probably been brought up believing in the imaginary land called Australia. In 2006, an anonymous post on the Flat Earth Society forum first raised the idea of Australia being fake. Well, regardless of how plausible you may have felt that one was or wasn't, we have another one for you today: a similar claim made about Australia, complete with an equally believable motive. A few years ago we covered a conspiracy theory that claimed the country of Finland doesn't exist, and all the world's governments cooperatively conspired to fool all the world's citizens into believing in it as a ploy to get extra fish to feed struggling post-war Japan.

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