Top 10 Conspiracy Theories
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We all love a good conspiracy theory. And here you will find 10 of the best conspiracy theories from the last few decades. From the death of an American icon (Marilyn Monroe) to the fall of another American icon (Twin Towers), you may read this list and have your own doubts about these event. Prepare to have your beliefs challenged by these top 10 conspiracy theories.
10. The Myths of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe, one of the greatest legends of the 20th Century, is also the subject of one of the most mysterious deaths of our time. Her unexpected passing in 1962 had the world whispering about what may have really happened. Her death was a result of a massive dose of barbiturates, but whereas some say it was suicide, others argue the fatal drug was administered by someone trying to desperately prevent state-secrets emerging from her alleged affair with John F. Kennedy.
9. Who Wants to Take Over the World?
The most widely accused world-dominators are the Jews, who in varying conspiracy theories, run Wall Street, Hollywood, numerous secret societies and the media. More recently, this oft-flawed hypothesis has adapted to presume either Arabs or Scientologists are the ones hell-bent on conquering the world – or even the universe.
8. The Loch Ness Monster
“Nessie” has been sought after since 1933, resulting in her habitat of Loch Ness in Scotland becoming a huge tourist attraction. Tourists flock to get a glimpse of the plesiosaur-like lake monster, often mistaking seals, driftwood and flocks of birds for the mythical beast. Scientists, desperate to either disprove or discover Nessie, have spent thousands of pounds on studies and high-tech equipment, but the general consensus is that she’s a simple subject of folklore.
7. Fuel Farce
A golden oldie still doing the rounds is the rumor that one of the large fuel corporations bought the rights of eco-friendly car designs many moons ago. The story goes that Esso or Shell hurriedly bought the blueprints for an electric or otherwise renewable fuel car to ensure their multi-million fuel sales were not compromised.
6. The JFK Murder Mystery
Coming back to JFK, the circumstances surrounding his death, a year after his supposed Mistress’, were equally as puzzled over. Although Lee Harvey Oswald was immediately held liable over the murder, he too was assassinated before his motive or indeed guilt could be ascertained. Theories about the arrangement of John F. Kennedy’s death have been constantly mulled over, including a plot by the CIA, or a murder by the KGB, a Cuban rebellion group, or Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson to name but a few.
5. Second-Hand Beatle
This slightly lesser-known theory has a well deserved place in this list due to its ludicrous nature. In 1966, major media – who were probably high at the time – declared that Paul McCartney had, in fact, died and was replaced by a look-alike who still claims his fame to this day. Eager to jump on the bandwagon of this fancy-free fable, Lennon and the other Fab Four had a laugh by “encoding” clues in lyrics and album art for their fans to draw further assumptions from.
4. The Murdered Princess
When England’s Rose died in a tragic car crash back in 1997, the world couldn’t quite believe it. The shock immediately provoked people to come up with causes and reasons to justify the death – namely that it wasn’t a tragic accident, but a plot by the Royal Family. Mohamed Al Fayed, father of the princess’ fiancé, added further weight to this by campaigning for years to investigate whether the M16 – recruited by the Royals – had engineered the accident to stop Diana marrying a Muslim. One other theory is that the princess, sick of constant media attention, faked her own demise.
3. Roswell Gets Rumbled
This hugely popular theory has been the catalyst for numerous research programs, debates, movie spin-offs, books and TV programs. The incident, dubbed “Area 51”, took place in July 1947 and prompted head scratching about little green men for years, although the Government still dismiss it as a crash-landing of a top-secret research balloon. The conspiracy theorists would have us believe that an alien spaceship crash-landed and the wreckage, plus the extra-terrestrial pilots, are being held and studied in a secret bunker somewhere.
2. Mickey Mouse Moon Landing
Although all of us want to believe that man has walked on the moon, naysayers have put across convincing contentions to say otherwise. In a time of depression for America, spirits were lifted when Neil Armstrong uttered the infamous words “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. However, it’s all been slated as an attempt to cheer America up and stick two fingers up to Russia at the same time. Arguments against the moon landing include the US flag flapping in the ‘wind’ despite zero gravity, important missing documents, misplaced shadows – and – the fact that no one has been back since!
1. 9/11 – Even More Sinister?
The tragedies that rocked New York on the morning of September 11th also rocked the world. It wasn’t long before tongues began to wag about the seemingly neat and controlled collapse of the solid steel Twin Towers –reminiscent of dynamite at the base instead of a jet smashing into the side. Other arguments for the theory cite the “tidy” wreckage of the Pentagon attack, not to mention the fact that in normal circumstances any other foreign aircraft would have been intercepted much quicker than the 40 minutes it took the plane to make impact. Proponents of this theory believe Bush was trying to rouse public support for military action and expansion of the police state.
Written by KATHERINE WATT
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Good list Katherine. In regard to the 9/11 conspiracy, people should look up the story of Barry Jennings. He is a man who worked for the city of New York and was almost killed in the World Trade Center building #7 on 9/11. He reported hearing numerous explosions in the building prior to the collapse. I just found this interesting because I heard no reports of explosions of any kind on the television in the time around 9/11. It wasn’t until years later that I looked on the internet and found extreme evidence for explosions happening in all the World Trade Center buildings. Isn’t this a pretty big deal and maybe the explosions might have helped to collapse the buildings. Meanwhile, the best crime scene governement officials in America attribute the collapse to fires on the top floors of the building. A second grader knows that this does not match-up, why didn’t they mention the explosions. Probably because “where in the hell were they coming from.” Anyway, Barry Jennings was mysteriously killed a few years ago before a federal hearing was scheduled. Also, the UFO evidence expands much further then just the Roswell issue. If anyone is interested check out the wikipedia page on the numerous UFO sightings that have occured. It is kind of interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFO_sightings
One guy said something once! Proof positive that 9/11 was a MASSIVE goverment conspiracy involving hundreds of unseen demolition experts who wrapped the interior of the building in invisible cables and never witnessed explosives and have remained silent in the matter for nearly a decade.
Oooohhhh, wikipedia. It MUST be true…. People get a life. These “conspiracies” have been debunked for years.
Awesome list
Ugh, 911 conspiracy theorists like above make me SICK. There has been no proof of Barry Jenning’s death, as in no obituary, nothing. More made up nonsense.
As for the top floors, learn the rules of physics, that will explain it all.
Exactly, no obituary or public proof of how he died, but ask his wife and children and they will be sure to tell you that he is definitely dead. I am not one to say that the Government planned 9/11, but just that there are certain things that just don’t add up. One who doesn’t have an open mind about conspiracy theory will laugh at any claim.
I’m glad that you enjoyed the writing exercise based on this list! Toptenz is a really good site for inspiration, particularly for speculative fiction writers.
I’ve just won myself a gold medal by not writing anything about the moon landing conspiracy. If anything gets my back up it’s people who deny that we landed on the moon.
The Moon Landing description is incorrect. NASA carried out six manned moon landings between 1969 and 1972. In total, twenty-four American astronauts have traveled to the Moon, with twelve walking on its surface and three making the trip twice.
No You can argue that these all were conspiracies but they HAVE been back to the moon since the Neil Armstrong landing in 1969.
Thanks, Jay Po. for the corrections.
One thing that really annoys me is people who refuse to even consider that the moon landings were faked. Check out the photos and ask yourself if that ship looks capable of going to the moon, or how it is they could go to the moon 40 years ago with less computer power than in a modern calculator, or why we cannot reasonably do something now that was apparently quite easy in the 70s.
Governments do lie, images can and are faked and common-sense is usually correct. The evidence from a modern landing would be much harder to fake as current day individuals would be able to scrutinise every image via computer. On balance I find it highly unlikely we went to the moon but I could be wrong. I am not in a position to know the definitive truth, and sorry but the people reading and writing on here do not “know” either.
Keep an open mind, look at the NASA website and judge for yourself. While you are on that website you could also have a look at the 11th great conspiracy, namely the images from Mars that appear to have been tampered with or entirely fabricated for unknown reasons. I am not sure what is really going on but I would certianly not believe everything that NASA or JLS are telling us about space exploration.
Every goofy theory trying to debunk the moon landing have been in turn debunked. A quick search of the internet or even a viewing of Mythbusters will demonstrate this.
I think the one way to shut the moon landing debunkers up is to get a powerful telescope, have them have their experts check the telescope to make sure nothing is being projected or transmitted to make a doctored image and then aim the telescope at the full moon at the lunar landing sites. There are strong enough telescopes that can view those areas and see the details on the lunar surface.
you can see the flag on the moon through a good telescope…case closed
no you cannot, that is a moronic statement, do your homework dude.
Mikaro, you’ve left out an important logical step ion your “argument”. You theorize that the moon landings were faked because no one has been back since the Apollo missions, and that that lack of return indicates that “we can’t go back”.
After complaining about government lies and deceit, you should also be aware of one telling feature of any government – inaction. The reason no one has gone back to the moon isn’t because they can’t, it’s simply because they haven’t.
You state that as a general rule “common sense is usually correct”. And I agree with this. However, common sense tells me that a government that could not break a stalemate in Vietnam, followed by a government that couldn’t even keep the Watergate tapes a secret, managed to fool the American public so perfectly that not a shred of verifiable proof of a fake moon landing exists?
Common sense tells me this ain’t likely. If Nixon couldn’t cover up Watergate, then no way could he have kept a fake moon landing secret. In the same vein – common sense tells me that the Bush Administration was not nearly so clever and intelligent as to plot 9/11 or cover it up.
The one thing that’s always convinced me that the moon landing was REAL is simply the fact that if there was even a remote possibility that it was fake, the Soviets would have jumped all over it. Don’t forget we were in a Cold War and a Space Race. No one had more reason to be skeptical than the communists, yet they accepted it as reality.
It’s not a myth that GM sold the rights to the NiMH battery to Chevron. Any google search will inform you that Chevron has veto powers over the sell or licensing of NiMH technology. They’re finally about to lose that option though….thankfully.
I’m still trying to see how Bush gained anything from setting up 9/11 it doesn’t make sense because of it we are in a decade long economy killing war trying to set up “democracy” in the most random part of the world that i dont give a flying fuck about and when we finally do accomplish this what do we gain that was worth killing 3000 innocent people and sending soldiers whom already over 3000 have been killed to die for nothing in nowhere land??? Bush you FAIL HARD but when you go to hell at least youll have a good multi kill streak on ur evil record
Julian,
How can you not see what Bush has gained? First of all him and all his buddies are getting rich off of defense contracts, second, they are over there to secure the pipeline…period! Getting control of the middle east means getting control of the oil and that means money.