25 SHOCKING Rumors That Are Actually True

whether it was a celebrity a government or a company we can all remember at least one rumor that just so happened to be true of course sometimes we expect it but when we don't it can be quite a surprise I'm Michael was 25 and these were 25 shocking rumors that are actually true 25 the government was spying on John Lennon although Lennon sounded really paranoid and stuck-up at first it eventually came to surface that the government was in fact spying on him 24 team Kardashian and Kanye West named their daughter North once denied during a talk-show interview most people had little trouble believing it when the couple named their daughter northwest 23 South Korea was ruled by a cult leader South Koreans are no longer surprised by a political drama between corruption dictators strange rituals you name it South Korea's leaders have been a constant procession of failures and disappointments but president Park geun-hye is downfall has been especially intense as it turns out the rumors that she was the puppet of a shady rasputin type cult leaders daughter actually turned out to be true nothing is surprising anymore 22 Atari buried unsold video games in the desert over the years the Atari video game burial had become something of an urban legend Atari went out into the New Mexico desert and buried all its unsold et video games one of the biggest Floss in the history of gaming well in 2014 the government of New Mexico went out into the desert to figure out the truth and they found the video games 21 Caitlyn Jenner being transgender rumors of wearing women's clothing and secretly wanting to become a woman became not so secret and turned out to be true in September 2015 Bruce officially became Caitlyn after boldly stepping out with a public statement earlier that year 20 Strom Thurmond had a biracial daughter outside of his marriage if you don't know why this was so newsworthy it's because you don't know who Strom Thurmond was he was a u.s. politician and a hardcore believer in segregating or separating black and white communities 19 dr. Seuss John Edwards and Newt Gingrich all had affairs while their wives had cancer what made these allegations unbelievable was that all three of these guys spoke strongly about family values sadly as some commenters have said quote cheating on your wife before she dies is the only bipartisan thing the government has ever done Gingrich is a Republican and Edwards as a Democrat 18 the Manhattan Project nobody believed the people wearing the tinfoil hats when they warned us about the secret government project that could destroy the world well it turns out they were right also the government had recruited and parted Nazi scientists 17 the government was spying on us here's another rumor that the conspiracy theorists were adamant about get real we told them the government can't do that we have WikiLeaks to thank for clearing things up so to clarify yes the government can and does spy on you all the time so Robert 16 abuse by the Roman Catholic Church before spotlight blew the story wide open it was something that everybody kind of suspected to some extent the real story however was that the abuse had been actively covered up by the church 15 Bernard L Madoff investment Securities LLC was a Ponzi scheme Harry Markopolos worked for an investing firm in Boston when his boss told him to figure out how Madoff's hedge fund was getting so rich his boss wanted to copy Madoff strategies in no time Harry had mathematical proof that Madoff was running a financial scheme he reported it to the SEC but was ignored it would take another 10 years before Madoff scheme was figured out and shut down by the government as a note instead of intentionally ruining thousands of lives Bernie and other white-collar criminals received little more than a slap on the wrist in contrast the average person on death row is poor and uneducated as they say when you rob a bank you get the death penalty when the bank robs you they get a bonus 14 the colonies would repeal the British crown was actually quite good towards the colonists as far as those things go and it was surprising that the relatively mild relationship would turn so sour but hey if the US had remained a part of Great Britain it might have universal health care today gosh darn you Canada thirteen Sony makes up fake reviews David Manning was the made-up name for a marketing executive at Sony who always posted positive reviews on all their product releases apparently lying was a lot easier before the Internet twelve Boris Johnson only supported brexit because it would boost his political career it turns out he even wrote an article against brexit if there's one thing you should learn from this list politicians with integrity are the exception not the rule 11 the US and UK overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran and installed a dictator if you've ever wondered why some people hate the West it's because of stuff like this officially called the 1953 Iranian coup d'etat imagine if Russia came in Elstad the US president and then installed a dictator favorable to Russia and why would they do that because they want access to the oil this is exactly what the West didn't they're on ten Donald Trump was a candidate for the presidency almost everybody joked about this at first he who last last nine cops were framing people as I've already said the Internet has made it really hard to lie it turns out that police officers really have been framing and targeting people more over social media has shown how please use excessive force against black males more than those from other communities as I've already mentioned it was easier to push this behavior under the rug before the Internet eight there weren't weapons of mass destruction in Iraq once again the conspiracy theorists were right 7 Azaria Chamberlain was actually eaten by a dingo according to her parents two year old Azaria Chamberlain was taken from their tent in Australian outback by a dingo her mother Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of murder and spent three years in jail until bits of Azaria's clothes were found near a dingo lair in 2012 32 years after his area's death her parents version of the story was officially confirmed for years however the Australian public treated them as the murderers 6 the military industrial complex it was actually general turned President Dwight Eisenhower who first warned us of this supposed military-industrial complex after numerous leaks and Freedom of Information requests from government agencies it turns out that he was right all along it shouldn't be much of a surprise considering that the u.s. spends war on guns and the next eight largest spenders put together five the housing market would implode nobody listened to the naysayers and just kept betting that house prices would never stop skyrocketing in fact many of those predicting the Great Recession were ridiculed for Lance Armstrong was doping so many people wanted to believe the rumors weren't true 3 most baseball players took steroids nobody took Jose Canseco seriously regardless of what he said so when he started talking about how up to 80% of players are taking performance enhancers not many people believed in since then though even Congress has taken notice - cigarettes caused cancer thanks to a lot of lobbying from the cigarette industry it took quite a while for people to realize the truth in spite of doctors and scientists trying to warn people since the early 20th century one the US government deliberately infected black men with syphilis the subjects of this study were poor African Americans who were told they were received free health care from the government after 1940 when it was discovered that penicillin could cure syphilis the men weren't given the drug in fact they weren't even told that they had syphilis the study ended in 1972 due to a whistleblower named Peter Buxton enjoying our lists be sure to click that subscribe button in the bottom right we don't miss out on new ones every Monday to 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Published: Mon May 01 2017