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16 Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories Some People Actually Think Are True

There's a fine line between a conspiracy and lunacy.

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There's a popular theory about titanic never sinking and that it was an insurance scam. The theory claims that the ship that sunk was Olympic, not Titanic.

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There's a group of people who think that the Dark Ages is a myth made up for propaganda purposes, and never actually happened.

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Continuum, a magazine devoted to the idea that AIDS was a conspiracy, went out of print around 2001 after all the editors died of AIDS.

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Were The Beatles manufactured by the Tavistock Institute of London and were all their songs written by Frankfurt School philosopher, Theodor Adorno, for the purpose of influencing social change?

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There's a theory about the popular singer Andrew WK being a fabricated piece of performance art, concocted by a secret organization and his performances are actually “performed” by multiple people.

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Some say that Paul McCartney died in the 60’s and was replaced by a lookalike.

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The Shining was a coded admission from Kubrick to faking the Moon landing, some people say.

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According to some, Hitler escaped via submarine into the “Hollow Earth” to a fortress under Antarctica.

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The Flat Earth Society believes the world is actually flat, and the governments are lying to us.

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Some theorists claim that the “Rugrats” babies were figments of Angelica’s schizophrenia, and not real at all.

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There is a ”Lost Cosmonauts” conspiracy theory alleging that there are cosmonauts who actually entered space before Yuri Gagarin, but their stories were covered up by the USSR.

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There is a conspiracy theory claiming that CIA blew up an island in the Gulf of Mexico to shift boundaries and get more oil.

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Hurricanes are controlled by the Russian mafia, according to some people.

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Shark Week - an orchestrated plan by American government to scare people out of the water? When you are swimming or doing anything at the shore, you aren’t spending.

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There is a “man will never fly” conspiracy theory that says that all airplanes are actually bullet trains and the passengers are fooled into thinking that they are flying.

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There is a conspiracy theory that people don’t need to drink any liquid and that the thirst is the result of addiction.

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