What would your response have been?

Dropped in on some friends last night. A movie came on TV. It was filmed as though it were a documentary. Never did it say it was a “true story,” but the documentary style suggested that it was. Supposed to have happened in 2009, but no one knew about it because “someone” had taken all the footage and hidden it. Well, the producers of the movie had supposedly “found” all this secret footage.
It was called The Bay. The Chesapeake Bay was supposedly contaminated with fertilizers, chicken feces and there was the tiny matter of a nuclear power plant leaking a bit into the bay 9 years early. All of that supposedly created some mutant parasite that ate fish from the inside out and especially liked their tongues (I didn’t know that fish had tongues! Then it went after humans and just destroyed this small town in Maryland. It was ridiculous, right from the start….but the wife of our friend went for it as being a true story, hook, line and sinker. She kept yelling “Oh my God! Can you BELIEVE that? And this is TRUE!!!”
She’d look over at me and I’d say, “It is hard to believe.”
At the height of the plague the CDC instructed the head of the hospital to send all of his staff home. She REALLY came unglued over that.
I was just flabbergasted that she believed that crap! She really believed it!
At one point she said, “This is almost like a horror story, isn’t it!”
I said, “Yes. Yes it is like a horror story.”
She said, “Do you like horror stories?”
“No, not really,” I said.
“Neither do I she said, but this is REAL!!!”
Finally, toward the end, she began to question how some of the shots were taken, like in an empty building when supposedly no one else was around.
One shot like that I suggested that the implication (stressed the word implication) was that there was a security camera running…but had to confess that I had no idea how they’d obtained a second shot, from behind a doorway, in that same setting.
Other than that, I just kept my mouth shut.

What would you have done? This is the wife of my husband’s best friend, BTW. They’d lost track of each other many years ago, but we hooked up with them again about 2 years ago. The guys had gone outside, to the barn, while that movie was playing so they missed it all.

She’s a gun nut, conspiracy nut, Obama hater, BTW…