10 Insane And Bizarre Theories About Stephen King
10. Reading His Books Allows Him To Control Your Mind
King published a total of seven novels under the pen name Richard Bachman, one of which was a disturbing novel about a student who held his classmates at gunpoint, titled Rage. Unfortunately, fantasy became grim reality when Jeffrey Lyne Cox, who had read the book, held seventy of his own classmates hostage.
It was this first incident that lead the author to become accused of mind control; an accusation that even went as far as some suggesting he used the pen name to get away with the crime completely. King then killed off his Bachman alter-ego in 1985, the real author cited his cause of death as cancer of the pseudonym. He has denied all rumours relating to mind control though.
One of the other more prominent theories surrounding Stephen Kings association with mind control is during a scene in The Shining where the two creepy twins appears a ski poster can be seen with the words Monarch on it. Monarch was the code name for MKUltra, a CIA behavioural engineering programme that according to theorists was practice of mind control. The minds behind that believed The Overlook Hotel represents the CIA and Jack Torrance is their personal subject, and was an endorsement of King's own involvement.