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The bizarre origins of the lizard-people conspiracy theory embraced by the Nashville bomber, and how it’s related to QAnon
Conspiracy theories about lizard people have previously sparked real-world violence.In January 2019, a man in Seattle called 911 after fatally stabbing his brother with a 4-foot sword. "God told me he was a lizard," he told the dispatcher, according to charging papers obtained by The Seattle Times. Wolfe was acquitted of his murder charge by reason of insanity last year, according to a King County Superior Court representative.
The Daily Beast reported that the man, Buckey Wolfe, who was 26 at the time, had also expressed a belief in QAnon and had attempted to join the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group.
QAnon believers have been linked to several crimes, as have followers of the Proud Boys extremist group. Particularly as QAnon has been increasingly popular during the pandemic, and gained even more notoriety by spreading false claims about voter fraud in the presidential election, extremism experts have warned that the overlapping of these theories poses a real-world threat. That threat was made clear on Wednesday, when pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC - many of them supporters of the QAnon movement.

The bizarre origins of the lizard-people conspiracy theory embraced by the Nashville bomber, and how it's related to QAnon
FBI and first responders work on the scene after an explosion on December 25, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images Anthony Warner,
Bump, one of the top lizard person journalists in the field, made a handy guide last year that culled lizard-person identifiers. Here’s the list of lizard person tells:
- Green eyes
- Good eyesight or hearing
- Having red hair
- A sense of not belonging to the human race
- Unexplained scars on the body
- Love of space
- Low blood pressure

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California dad killed his kids over QAnon and 'serpent DNA' conspiracy theories, feds allege
Authorities say Matthew Taylor Coleman confessed to murdering his two young children in Mexico and told investigators he thought they would "grow into monsters."

There's increasing evidence that these people aren't merely nuts; many turn out to have neurological disorders that produces a form of dissociation that makes them think family/acquaintances are monsterous imposters.