I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday story where we go beyond the news to bring you one big

story. Since the COVID pandemic, lots of conspiracy theories have been floating around the

internet. For some, these ideas and the conspiracy thinking that fuels them may not have

had much of an impact.

But for others, they can feel urgent and personal.

This is the case for journalist Zach Mack.

Mack's father holds a number of conspiratorial views.

He believes, among other things, that a shadowy cabal secretly runs the world, a group he calls the globalist.

Last year, as Zach tried to make sense of his dad's beliefs, he began recording their conversations, with his dad's permission, of course.

Here's a moment from one conversation in which Zach's dad

urges Zach to start stockpiling emergency supplies. So you really want to store up two months

worth of food and water because they probably won't be able to pump water throughout the city

because that's all controlled by computers and electronics.

And the EMP is going to shut down everything electronic.

I know, I know it sounds like conspiracy theory, but they're going to do this.

This is what they're planning and I just want to have you be prepared, okay?

Today on the Sunday story, a look at what happens to one family in this age of misinformation

and conspiracy theories, a conversation with reporter Zach Mack when we return.

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