Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated journalist and author, took his own life in his home on February 20, 2005, at the age of 67. Sources close to the family have credited age, failing health and a desire to "go out on top" as factors in his decision. Still, this is the Information Age and every real news story seems to have an attendant "conspiracy theory" attached to it . why should this be any different?

The Strange Tale of Hunter S. Thompson's Suicide
by Joseph L. Flatley

Was it murder?

Conspiracy theorists have gotten considerable mileage out of unconfirmed reports that "Thompson seemed in good spirits and was not known to be depressed" prior to his death. This has since proven not to be the case.

One evening, for example, around Thanksgiving, he matter-of-factly told me that he was not afraid to kill himself - as his authorized biographer, he wanted me to know that for the record.

- Douglas Brinkley in Rolling Stone

sources: "Suicide Fuels Conspiracy Buzz," New York Post , Mar 4, 2005

"Contentment Was Not Enough: the Final Days at Owl Farm" by Douglas Brinkley, Rolling Stone , March 24, 2005

Hunter S. Thompson: "snuff auteur."

Years ago a former state senator from Nebraska, John DeCamp, wrote a book titled: "The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska." This book is a favorite amongst the conspiracy fringe for its "exposé" of Satanic sex cults and Republican homosexual orgies.

In other testimony, Bonacci said that Larry King was smiling and laughing the whole time the film was shown, and that "the men with hoods" were a Satanic group which planned to use the dead boy in some sort of ceremony. He also named the director of the snuff film, whom they picked up in Las Vegas, as "Hunter Thompson."

- "The Franklin Coverup," pg. 105

source: http://abelahsimmons.gnn.tv/

Killed by the Saudi Royal Family.

According to an interview Thompson gave in 2004, Saudi Prince Bandar, who lived next door, was a "pretty good neighbor."

Thompson's last words were "Counselor" typed in the middle of a page. A counselor with Aspen Counseling Center, a local organization that provides support for victims at crime scenes, has seen members of Thompson's family. Over the years HRH Prince Bandar has donated upwards of a million dollars to the Aspen Valley Medical Foundation.

Following the logic of many a conspiracy researcher (and many a schizophrenic), the Thompson-Bandar link has thus been established. "Bandar Bush," as he is known in the White House, could certainly be counted on by the Bush family to administer a "hit," if required. But why would the Bush family want Thompson killed?

source: http://trunews.blogspot.com/

Thompson was silenced before he could blow the lid off the Satano-Republican Pedophile Conspiracy.

The "factual basis" for this theory is a radio interview with Canadian author Paul William Roberts.

JONES: Well let me just add this. I mean, we have the New York Post: 'Top gay porn star services moguls at Bohemian Grove ... I mean I have Parade magazine articles, Spy magazine articles from the '80s where, as I said they bus in the gay prostitutes like Beluga caviar for our "Christian conservative" leaders ... And is that what Hunter S. Thompson was on to? ROBERTS: He certainly knew all about that and I believe had written about it. I don't know whether there was a book in the works, but he certainly had published columns on it... JONES: Well it certainly looks pretty suspicious. Man let me tell you.

Conspiracy Theorists have taken this to mean that Thompson was working furiously to finish an exposé on par with "The Franklin Coverup."

source: http://www.total411.info/

Thompson was silenced by the shadow organization that bombed the World Trade Center and blamed it on terrorists.

We also have a dramatic re-interpretation of Paul William Roberts to thank for this theory. In a piece by Williams that appeared Feb. 26 Globe and Daily Mail, Roberts wrote:

Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think..."

That's how I imagine a tribute to Hunter S. Thompson should begin. He was indeed working on such a story, but it wasn't what killed him. He exercised his own option to do that. As he said to more than one person, "I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time."

Thompson has always voiced his anger and confusion over the events of September, 11 (voiced in print and other media), but no article has surfaced and no mention of any article has been made by him. This article may be compelling (at least up to the point where Roberts writes "He was indeed working on such a story, but it wasn't what killed him. He exercised his own option to do that), but it is not proof.

source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Thompson was a pederast! His own son said so. in code, of course. Sort of. And in Latin.

This is my favorite, due to its absurdity. In a testament to the power of the "blog," this theory started as a comment on Canadian author Jeff Well's site, "Rigorous Intuition," but has since taken on a life of its own.

That this quote by HST's son Juan has some sort of meaning beyond the obvious: "He stomped terra", which on the surface says Hunter stomped the ground. But the word play is obvious. He STomped has HST's initials encoded. If you re-arrange it, it can say: "He's Tom PED Terra". Geez, given the Gosch/Gucket thing, what could that PED refer to? As for terra, you can combine it with PED to get Ped-Terra, which is similar to pederast. Pederast = pedterra? From the Oxford English Dictionary: "Ibid. 332 A boy alleged to have been abused *pæderastically."

People familiar with Thompson's work realize that his son was quoting Hunter's work, "Mistah Leary - He Dead." But apparently you don't need to be familiar with Thompson's work to research the "conspiracy" behind his death.

source: http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/