I get where you are coming from and agree. But why would saudi arabia attack the first world superpower, its biggest trading partner and biggest military ally?

People do some really stupid stuff in the name of religion all the time. Perhaps that was motivation enough, and the line in your comment is seen as a means to invoke plausible deniability

The CIA didn't need to do anything: Bigfoot, Loch Ness, Yeti, all sorts of mysterious / conspiracy theories just propagate on their own and at times because they're fun to imagine as real.

What is the "conspiracy" behind Bigfoot. The word "conspiracy" used to have a specific meaning different from "farfetched".

The Democrats are keeping bigfoot secret until they get the bigfoot population high enough to replace the MAGA crowd.

Those damn democrats!!!

They coined the term and publicised it. The things you described used to be called just myths.

No they didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Etymology_an...