Here are crazy conspiracy theories that turned out to be true!
8 - Gulf of Tonkin The Gulf of Tonkin conspiracy or the USS Maddox
incident was highly debated and finally, analysis shows that the original claims that the North
Vietnamese Navy attacked the USS Maddox was made up.
Two main events happened during this time an attack on August 2nd, 1964, an one on August
4th.
On the 2nd it was reported that while the Maddox was patrolling for information on the
North Vietnamese Navy like the location of coastal radar transmitters and any other useful
information that could be gathered from being in international waters.
When three North Vietnamese patrol boats started to pursue the Maddox.
The North Vietnamese boats launched a torpedo and opened fire.
Their boats were heavily damaged by the Maddox though and both retreated.
On the 4th is when things get tricky, almost the entire telling of events were made upthat
day.
It was said that the Maddox reported seeing enemy boats, torpedo attacks, enemy cockpit
lights, and other sure signs of enemy attack.
The Maddox fired off their own attack, but in reality, they were fighting no one.
Almost every account of the incident comes up short, it was long thought that this was
a fabricated event to escalate war, and that was proven true.
This incident was a tactic to take the war into US hands and fight communists and escalate
war tension to get what they wanted.
7 - MK ULTRA Project MK Ultra is more commonly known under
a much more ominous name, as the CIA's mind control program.
Even if you aren’t a conspiracy buff, you’ve probably heard rumors or some crazy man shouting
about how the government is experimenting on its citizens.
Well, don’t panic it’s not happening!...
Rather, it’s not happening now.
It did happen in the 1950s.
The CIA experimented on US and Canadian citizens and almost all none of the participants consented
or even knew they were being experimented on.
The first type of people that were targeted were the ones no one would investigate too
heavily - call girls, substance abusers, and mental patients, basically people the media
wouldn’t consider credible.
When that wasn’t enough they moved onto the general public.
The “experiments” performed happened in hospitals, in prisons, and even colleges.
MK Ultra included a vast amount of research topics based on different goals, including
creating a chemical to aid in interrogation, memory-erasing, and giving subjects LSD to
see if any of the “mind-altering effects” would be helpful to the government.
Additional procedures were subjecting people to sensory deprivation, verbal abuse, isolation,
hypnosis, various chemicals and drugs, and a variety of psychological torture.
That “crazy man” isn’t sounding so crazy anymore...
6 - Tuskegee syphilis This is one of many examples of horrendous
things the African American community was subjected to by scientific and medical communities.
From 1932 to 1972 the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment was conducted in secret.
The experiment is exactly what it sounds like..
It was used to gather information on what happens when rural African American men with
syphilis were left untreated.
It included around 600 “participants” and by participants, we mean folks that were
tricked into becoming part of the study.. while it was disguised as free health care
by the US government.
The experiment took place in Tuskegee Alabama, having one of the highest rates of syphilis
at the time, and 200 involuntary participants were left untreated...
Even though the standard treatment for syphilis, penicillin, was established in 1947 the experiment
lasted all the way until 1972.
It’s because of real-life events like this that other conspiracy theories start to form.
6.Snow White What do you think of when you hear the word
Scientology?
Tom Cruise and John Travolta acting funny on the TV, or a crazy organization that executed
the largest US government infiltration in history.
Both those things are correct, but we’re not here to talk about Tom Cruise today.
The most notable government office infiltrated by the scientologists, among the 136 involved,
is the International Revenue Service (IRS).
Project Snow White was a plan by scientologists in the 1970’s to retrieve and destroy all
incriminating documents that could harm the reputation of the organization and their founder
L Ron Hubbard.
High ranking officials in Scientology broke into government offices and copied and stole
documents right under the nose of the government.
They also inserted their own people into government positions, and wiretapped areas to gain access
to secret information.
Using Fake IDs and Stolen keys, they acquired a LOT of it.
Hopefully, that information was worth it because the scientologist linked to these illegal
activities were sentenced to five years in prison and L Ron Hubbard went into hiding.
5 - Illuminati Christian Eye of Providence later a symbol
of freemasonry.
We’re not sure when the word Illuminati became so heavily linked with Beyonce and
pop culture, instead of the rich history actually behind it, but let’s talk about the real
history of the Illuminati.
Because it is a real secret society and it has a trackable history.
May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt held the first Illuminati meeting in a forest.
5 men gathered together to discuss the injustice of the church and government stifling enlightenment,
putting metaphorical chains on everyone.
Weishaupt was a philosophy teacher, and the first members were his students, but gradually
the membership was extended to others that fit the society's requirements.
Men who had a strong reputation, wealth, a respectable family name, and very influential
connections.
Lawyers, doctors, intellectuals, noblemen, and politicians started to become the backbone
of the Illuminati.
The Illuminati originally consisted of 3 classes which were broken down into 13 grades of rank.
The original society was broken up and forbidden in 1787.
The government back then felt threatened by a society that wanted freedoms for people
that they couldn’t control, tax, or understand.The “Universal happiness” which was one of
the original goals of the Illuminati isn’t very profitable for the government or the
church.
3.Cointelpro Speaking out against the government takes
a lot of guts, especially when you are in a position of power in a civil rights group.
Cointelpro, a US government agency, was created in August of 1956 with the intent of causing
disruption in the communist party.
It seemed to get out of control when it considered civil rights groups a threat to US political
stability and it started going after influential persons like Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm
X among many other important figures.
There’s only so far we can speculate into their early demises, but they were definitely
on the Cointelpro radar.
The organization used tactics against their targets like police harassment, anonymous
mailings, surveillance, infiltration, and just plain psychological warfare.
They had a clear incentive to discredit and even destroy strong players and their organizations
in the civil rights movement.
Other sabotage targets included groups like the Socialist Workers Party, the Black Panther
Party, and anti-war and religious groups.
The program was kept a secret until 1971 when it was exposed and eliminated because of…
well… it’s not very hard to see why the program had to be disbanded.
2 - North Korea Kidnapping An odd occurrence started happening in coastal
towns in Japan between 1977 - 1983…
Japanese citizens around the age of 20, began disappearing.
One particular case describes the disappearance of a 13 year old girl who was abducted just
miles away from her home.
Her parents still believe to this day that she’s alive somewhere.
That somewhere... maybe North Korea.
It wasn’t until 2002 that the late leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il gave an oral apology
and admitted that the North Korean government had indeed taken 13 Japanese citizens.
They would take the people, and either steal their identities or make them teach North
Korean spies Japanese.
They would also take people because they had witnessed activities by North Korean infiltrators.
An apology is not nearly enough to settle this case.
Possibly hundreds of Japanese citizens were taken by the North Koreans, as of today only
13 people were confirmed kidnapped.
Japanese officials say that the actual number of people taken by North Korea is 17.
And even though they returned 5 of the victims back to their families, when missing person
reports were reviewed it reveals that there are possibly hundreds of people that fit the
description of a person that was abducted by the North Koreans.
One of the cremated remains sent back that supposedly belonged to the 13-year-old year
they had taken years ago, but DNA evidence didn’t support their claims.
What else was North Korea hiding?
1 - Prohibition Prohibition is a significant event in our
history that we cover briefly in school, glazing over some very important facts.
Prohibition was a government policy from 1920 to 1933, where the US banned the manufacturing,
importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
The history books tell us about the resistance from US citizens - distilling their own alcohol
and creating secret places to indulge, called Speakeasy(s).
What they don’t tell you, while you’re thumbing through old history books, is that
the US government poisoned around 10,000 people during that time.
While Prohibition seems to have started off noble enough, with the idea that taking away
alcohol would reduce crime and improve health, it ended with the government using toxic additives
that wiped out an alarming amount of people.
They thought that by adding chemicals to the cleaning supplies that contained industrial
alcohol they could scare people away from using it.
Among the chemicals added in the products were Kerosene which today is used in jet engines,
gasoline, mercury salts, and Camphor which is used in insect repellent and explosive
production.
Their idea did NOT work as planned since people still tried to distill these supplies so that
they could still drink and sell it - causing many to consume these lethal substances.
Here’s what’s next!