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.
