Conspiracy theories will always fire up the imaginations of even the most reasonable of
us.
It’s fascinating to imagine a bunch of people in a dark room, controlling actions from their
chairs and encouraging events that change the course of the world, with no one truly
being the wiser.
Now, most conspiracy theories are flimsy nonsense that are obviously full of holes and not true
at all.
However, some conspiracy theories have more truth than most people would ever imagine.
In some situations, there really was a group of people in a dark room conspiring to massively
pull the wool over the eyes of others, in order to change the course of the world.
10.
The US Government Once Planned A False Flag Operation Against Their Own People
When most people hear about the 9/11 conspiracy theories, they have very similar reactions.
Most people believe that the amount of complexity and manpower required to pull off such an
operation would have meant that we would have had far too many people snitching about what
happened for the conspirators to ever get away with it.
People also seem skeptical that the government would ever even consider something so horrific.
However, while it seems like something out of a dark fantasy, the truth is that the United
States government has, at the highest levels, planned similar operations in the past.
During the Kennedy years, the United States greatest threat were the Cubans led by Fidel
Castro, and some in the government were looking for an excuse to start an actual ground war
with the Cubans — something they wanted to get public support for both at home and
around the world.
It was to achieve this goal that the joint chiefs of staff at the time came up with a
plan, and proposed it to JFK, to attack United States citizens and property (while pretending
to be Cubans) as part of a false flag effort to gain support for a war.
Kennedy was very angry and told them it was a terrible, immoral idea and that they were
to shelve it and never bring it up again.
However, while Kennedy did not want to play ball, that doesn’t mean there weren’t
ever any presidents who would consider taking part in a similar plot.
9.
President Woodrow Wilson’s Wife Ran The Presidency For Over A Year
During Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, he was considered a very hard working executive,
whether you liked the man and his politics or not.
He was regularly traveling the world in his attempts to get the United States involved
in worldwide political alliances, and also engaged in speaking tours across the country.
Unfortunately, his habits of hard work eventually caught up with him and nearing the end of
his presidency, he suffered from a stroke.
Many people at the time wondered if something was wrong, and if there might be a conspiracy
to keep the extent of the president’s troubles from the public.
In fact, the government tried so hard to cover it up that his stroke and general ill health
was not known for months.
Even after that the true damage was never really spoken about to the press and not known
for years later.
Many people suspected that his health was indeed worse than the government was letting
on, and that his wife was actually making most of the decisions — basically being
the first woman president, in a way.
While Edith claimed that she was nothing but a steward, historians who studied the time
period in later years are certain that she practically was the chief executive of our
country for well over a year.
For those who still doubt her influence, keep in mind that while Edith Wilson was running
the show, women finally gained the right to vote.
8.
HAARP Is Not A Weather Control Device, But Massive Weather Control Has Been Attempted
Many people like to go on about HAARP, a government science project that many people were convinced
had a lot more going on than actually met the eye.
The government claimed it was simply testing radio waves and their effects on the ionosphere
and other mundane things that aren’t really that interesting.
Of course, conspiracy theorists were certain that something boring couldn’t actually
be boring; it had to be hiding something actually interesting.
Of course, all evidence points to the government telling the truth in this case, and HAARP
being nothing more than a rather mundane research project that was shut down when the research
had run its course.
However, that doesn’t mean weather control attempts have never been made, or that the
governments of the world aren’t trying to understand the science behind it better.
We know that during the Vietnam war, the United States government tried to seed the clouds
around South Vietnam with various substances in the hopes it would increase rainfall and
make the war effort harder for their enemies.
It certainly doesn’t stretch the imagination that technology of that sort has improved
over time, if the government has decided to continue researching it.
7.
The United States Government Has Experimentally Poisoned US Cities Multiple Times
Many people will claim that the government is secretly poisoning you in one way or another,
whether through chemtrails, fluoride, or some other insidious means.
Now, evidence has shown that most of these theories are total hogwash; however, that
doesn’t mean the United States government has never poisoned its own people.
According to records that were released years after the fact, from the 1950s through the
early 1970s, the United States government conducted nearly 300 bacterial weapon attacks
on various US cities in order to understand the results.
One of the most famous of these was in San Francisco, where the government wanted to
see if the fog would help spread a biological attack, and if an enemy could stage such an
attack from the sea.
They used hoses to release the bacteria, and according to their own data, it reached essentially
everyone in the city and effectively spread out enough that if it were a harmful bacteria,
the damage could be horrific.
While the United States government used bacteria that they thought were mostly harmless, multiple
people were proven to be hospitalized because of the attack, and at least one person died
because of it.
The United States secret experiments were deeply against the Nuremberg codes they had
just recently agreed to, which makes the entire thing all the more irresponsible and immoral.
6.
There Is Some Small Truth To The Beliefs People Have In Government Spraying Chemtrails
One of the most oft recurring conspiracy theories is the claim that the government (or governments)
are spraying chemicals in the upper atmosphere in order to do all kinds of terrible things.
Some people claim that the chemicals are to slowly make people stupider, while other people
claim the earth has an overpopulation problem, and world governments are releasing anti-fertility
drugs into the upper atmosphere.
Of course, there is no evidence for any of this, and scientists and other engineers in
the know will tell you that the trails you see from planes are not out of the ordinary.
Even if planes were secretly releasing chemicals, it would be impossible to sample properly
to prove it.
However, while there is no concerted effort to poison the atmosphere, and no known plan
to ruin peoples’ fertility or anything of the sort, the fact is that governments of
the world have strongly considered and researched geo-engineering solutions to our current climate
change problem, and if they thought they had a workable idea, they would almost certainly
attempt it — and they may or may not immediately tell the public about such an attempt.
Even back in the days of Lyndon Johnson, scientists have been proposing dealing with climate problems
with massive geo-engineering, either with satellites in orbit, particles laced in our
upper atmosphere — which sounds similar to chemtrail theories — or any number of
other crazy solutions.
Of course, while we know governments have attempted at least somewhat massive geo-engineering
in terms of making it rain, there is no hard evidence that massive attempts to push back
environmental damage are at anything more than the research stage as of now.
5.
The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln Was Not Just One Crazy Actor Acting Alone
Now, folks at the time of Lincoln’s assassination may or may not have immediately known or guessed
that many different people were involved, however, most people today tend to not be
aware of the scale of the plot.
Many people today believe that the assassination of a president like JFK could not have been
pulled off by one lone wolf, but don’t give much thought to the common belief held by
most people that John Wilkes Booth acted alone when killing President Lincoln.
The truth is, though, assassinating a president is very hard work and Booth had a lot of help.
There were several co-conspirators involved and they all had a role to play.
If they had succeeded, they could have sowed horrific chaos in the highest levels of the
United States government.
The thing was, it was a much bigger conspiracy than most people know, and included most of
his important cabinet members.
One man was supposed to kill Vice President Johnson, but lost his nerve, and another man
attempted to kill the Secretary of War, William Seward, but failed in his attempt.
Booth also would likely not have managed to escape without help, as he had co-conspirators
helping him along to freedom as well, after he murdered the president.
4.
During Vietnam The US Government Fabricated An Attack To Gain Support For War
Many people consider the idea of the government actually lying to get us into war as unthinkable,
and some are still convinced that the Bush administration was only mistaken when it came
to Iraq, WMDs, and that country’s involvement in 9/11.
People simply don’t like to believe that their government would lie to them just so
they could start a violent conflict in another part of the world, or amp up one that was
already ongoing.
However, back during the days of the Vietnam War, that is exactly what happened.
There was an incident with a US ship called the Maddox, which supposedly reported a torpedo
attack from the Vietnamese, which led to further involvement by the US in Vietnam.
The truth, however, is that the entire thing was a total fabrication, designed from beginning
to end in order to get us further into the war.
The Johnson administration actually sent the Maddox to perform covert attacks for the express
purpose of egging the enemy on to attack them, so they could get more support for war.
On top of that, the torpedo was a false signal and the Maddox quickly told the higher ups
it was a false alarm, but the top brass still used it as an excuse for more war funding.
3.
The US Government Deliberately Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition To Discourage Use
Prohibition was one of the strangest eras in the history of the United States.
People who were convinced drinking was the worst thing ever pushed super hard to ruin
everyone’s fun, and they succeeded for a time, but not before doing untold damage because
they couldn’t mind their own business.
The ban on one of the most popular things to ever exist in the history of the world
backfired rather spectacularly, giving rise to all new organized crime groups, some of
which took decades to break up to the state they are today.
For a long time, the black market on drugs was very organized.
Of course, the government wasn’t happy with people not only openly flouting the law whenever
possible, but also empowering criminal enterprises.
So, the United States government went to great length to poison a bunch of alcohol that they
knew would be making its way onto the black market, in order to make people less likely
to drink it.
This program adulterated the alcohol, making it unfit to drink and causing people to get
sick, and some to even go blind.
It would be many years after before the government admitted to their role in sickening people
who dared drink some booze while it was illegal.
While it sounds like an absurd conspiracy out of a very bad movie, it was a reality
during prohibition and added countless deaths and hospital visits to those already caused
by alcohol that was accidentally poisonous.
2.
Joseph McCarthy’s Methods Were Wrong, But He Was More Right Than People Realize
Joseph McCarthy is considered to be one of the most wrong people who was ever wrong in
politics, according to most of America.
He is (in)famous for constantly and consistently decrying an incredible amount of people as
Russian spies, and angrily grilling them in front of the senate.
His paranoia about Russian agents was legendary, and his scorched earth tactics earned him
the ire of the nation, and the senate, who eventually decided to censure him in 1954.
However, while McCarthy’s methods were almost certainly over the top, and put a lot of innocent
people unnecessarily through the ringer, the truth was that his paranoia may have been
more justified than many people realize.
Historical proof shows that the administrations of Truman and FDR were full of Russian spies,
that the communist party in America was funded by Moscow, and there were indeed several high
profile Russian agents that were caught around that time period, including Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg.
McCarthy may have gone about things almost entirely wrong, but his fears were not entirely
without justification.
1.
The MLB May Have Changed The Baseballs For The 2017 World Series
Baseball has always had a bit of a problem when it comes to exciting crowds, and also
tends to have a bit of a trust problem with its fans.
For baseball nuts, it’s really exciting to see a pitcher pitch a perfect game, for
example, but the sport is boring for a general audience.
This means that if the MLB wants more people to tune into games, they need to make sure
that more home runs happen, because it excites people’s passions and keeps their butts
in the seats.
When the steroid scandal first broke, it turned out the rabbit hole went far deeper than anyone
thought, and it turned out that the MLB knew more than they were letting on and were trying
to cover things up, because viewership was up.
More recently, things have become rather suspicious once again.
The steroid era was starting to end and pitchers were getting control again — this meant
not as much excitement, so something had to be done.
The 2017 World Series set a record for having the most home runs in any World Series ever
played, and players from both teams are 100% convinced that the balls used were significantly
different.
Both teams claimed that the balls were noticeably slicker, and this meant pitchers found it
much harder to achieve proper control, which means more home runs.
While the MLB officially denied it, they officially denied knowledge of the steroid issue as well,
and with both teams agreeing there was a major difference, it’s hard to believe the MLB’s
denials in this situation.