Inside L.A.'s Chemtrails Community, a Group That Thinks We're Being Sprayed By Toxic Chemicals

You see ordinary contrails; they see poisonous "chemtrails."

On a recent Saturday morning, a small buzz of activity emanates from the stately Wilshire Ebell Theatre abutting Hancock Park. This is not a theatrical production but rather "Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails," a conference for those sharing belief in "chemtrails" -- a theory alleging that the government is spraying us all with toxic chemicals via the seemingly ordinary condensation trails emitted by airplanes. The roster of speakers includes Roseanne Barr and former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.).

"I would show those who are unfamiliar how to identify the difference between a jet contrail and a chemtrail," declares conference speaker Deborah Whitman, founding president of the Davis-based nonprofit Environmental Voices. "It's affecting our health and our trees and the oxygen that we breathe, and it's serious."

The sturdily built, silver-haired Whitman radiates a wholesome, Middle American, can-do energy. It's hard not to like her. Were she an actress, she could convincingly play Roseanne's plucky older sister in a sitcom.

In her case, chemtrails awareness originated in personal experience.

"I suffer from severe multiple chemical sensitivities," Whitman says. "I was going into emergency on an average of once a month before I found out what it was. I get irregular heartbeats when they're spraying, my heart skips beats, my voice changes, sinuses swell up, skin burns and itches, I can't breathe, and my blood pressure goes to stroke levels."

Whitman stands by one of the handful of tables in the theater's grand rear lobby. Manned mainly by featured conference speakers, it's layered with pamphlets, books and DVDs: Troubled Water: What's Behind Fluoride?; Man-Made Warming: A Convenient Untruth; The Trouble With Vaccines; 9/11 a Physical Education: A P.E. Teacher Shatters the Official Conspiracy Theory.

A small crowd mills about, perusing materials and chatting about chemtrails and other alleged plots. Many attendees resemble folks you would see at a funky farmers market in Topanga Canyon, while a few could be diner-booth philosophers at a Bakersfield truck stop.

So if toxic chemicals are being diffused into the air high overhead, what is the purpose? And who's doing it?

"I believe it's under military and military contracts," Whitman says. "It's making us sick and it's dumbing us down. Especially with aluminum, it affects your brain, causes short-term memory loss. People don't think as clearly; they're too weak to stand up and fight."

She and her associates have gone to Sacramento and spoken with members of Sen. Barbara Boxer's staff, she says, but to no avail.

"They know. And why they're not doing anything?" Whitman says. "I'm guessing in some way they're controlled, afraid to speak out."

On the opposite side of the lobby, an amiable, huskily built Coloradan named Don Gifford sells a bottled liquid called Ormus (a sort-of acronym for Orbitally Re-arranged Monatomic Elements) through his company, Blue Water Alchemy. It tastes like a healthy, slightly milky sludge of mineral content; proponents insist that it radically improves health.

Gifford's venture nicely dovetails with the concerns of the conference.

"I've met people who are getting illnesses because of aluminum, barium and strontium," he says. "It's in the soil now -- there are issues with growing vegetables and plants. People are saying it's not true, even though there's scientific evidence."

Of course there is a plethora of articles, blog entries and videos online aimed at debunking the 16-year-old chemtrails theory. The scientific community is not impressed, either. You could interview 100 leading experts who'd tell you that, conspiracy theories aside, there's simply no scientific evidence that we're being deliberately sprayed with poison. But that hasn't convinced anyone here.

"I'm covering the infiltration of the organic essential timelines with these agendas that go really, really deep into our ancient history," says Laura Eisenhower, a tall, athletically built Ventura resident with direct blue eyes, just like her very famous great-grandfather.

"These lower forces want to have ultimate control. Family is like a mini-government. You don't really need this government, and we don't really need currency, at all, to survive. The ultimate deception enables us to hand over our free will. But they can't do it unless we hand it to them," she says.

Who are "they"?

"Shadow government, military-industrial complex, infiltration from lower extraterrestrial forces," answers the descendant of the great Army general and Republican president. "They've kind of, in a sense, possessed our leaders. There are spirit guides, angels and demons, you can't really see it. Some of these humans make themselves available as hosts by being selfish, greedy or having the desire to control and have power. It makes them easy to possess."

Nearby, a diminutive woman with fierce green eyes, who calls herself Sofia Smallstorm, declares her extreme wariness about talking to the press yet goes on to speak of a "Belief Matrix," whereby people "believe anything that's on television."

According to Smallstorm, human biology is undergoing massive adaptive changes leading to mutation and decline.

"That day's going to come when your cellphone will convert your voice to AC current," Smallstorm confides, "and your laptop will be powered by blood flow. There's a deliberate proliferation of engineered materials that embed into our tissues. Look up 'plezo-electricity.' "

If these conspiracies are so purposeful and damaging, is there hope for mankind? Can the government be stopped?

"Everything can be stopped." proclaims Mark "Dr. Dream" Peebler, a holistic healing practitioner and personal-energy specialist from Ventura. "It's a question of -- is the electorate awake enough to do something about it?"

He adds, "No, this theater's not full. It holds 1,280 people. If it could be stopped, there would be a line of people waiting out the door, clamoring to get in."

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Wilshire Ebell Theatre

4401 W. Eighth St., Los Angeles, CA

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