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12 crazy conspiracy

theories that actually

turned out to be true

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7. The government is spying on

you
Conspiracy: With the advances in
technology, the government is using its vast
resources to track citizens.
The truth: In 2016, government
agencies sent 49,868 requests for user data to
Facebook, 27,850 to Google, and 9,076 to
Apple, according to the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (the EFF), a major nonprofit
organisation that defends civil liberties in the
digital world and advises the public on matters
of internet privacy.
developed a "gaydar" machine. Listen To Your
8. Fake battle, real war The truth: It really happened: In the
1960s, the government hired a university
Conspiracy: The Gulf of Tonkin Favorite XZBN Show
professor to develop a way to detect
incident on August 2, 1964, was faked to
homosexuality in federal employees.
provoke American support for the Vietnam War. Using The Following
He came up with a machine that
The truth: By the time news reached
measured pupil dilation in response to same-sex- RSS FEEDS
American ears, the facts surrounding the North
Vietnamese attack on the American Naval ship erotic imagery; the Canadian government used it
to exclude or fire more than 400 men from civil
Maddox were already fuzzy. A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle
service, the military, and the Mounties.
Declassified intelligence documents https://www.spreaker.com/show/2069421/episodes/feed
Fortunately, things have changed a lot
have since revealed that the Maddox had
since those days.
provided support for South Vietnamese attacks Connecting with Coincidence with Dr.
on a nearby island and that the North Bernie Beitman, MD
Vietnamese were responding in kind, according 12. The Illuminati and the U.S. https://www.spreaker.com/show/2081300/episodes/feed
to the U.S. Naval Institute. government
The event "opened the floodgates for Conspiracy: A secret society that rules Empowering Woman with Gwilda Wiyaka
direct American military involvement in the world - the Illuminati - and the U.S. National https://www.spreaker.com/show/3071220/episodes/feed
Vietnam." Security Agency (NSA) are in cahoots.
The truth: We're here to tell you that a Heart Two Heart with Dan and Anne
9. Big Tobacco knew that link does, in fact, exist. Clark
cigarettes caused cancer Of course, that "link" is actually a https://www.spreaker.com/show/3287764/episodes/feed
hyperlink (i.e., an electronic link between two
Conspiracy: For decades, tobacco
Internet sites). Kal’s Korner with Kal Korff
companies buried evidence that smoking is
If you type Illuminati backward - https://www.spreaker.com/show/2645059/episodes/feed
deadly.
Itanimulli - into a web browser, you will land on
The truth: At the beginning of the
the NSA website. [] Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth
1950s, research was showing an indisputable
https://www.spreaker.com/show/2090172/episodes/feed
statistical link between smoking and lung
cancer, but it wasn't until the late 1990s that
Mission: Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka
Philip Morris even admitted that smoking could
https://www.spreaker.com/show/2888020/episodes/feed
cause cancer.
The benefits of quitting smoking are
Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson
huge: food tastes better, your mouth feels fresher
https://www.spreaker.com/show/3135813/episodes/feed
and, most importantly, your risk of tobacco-
related disease drops significantly.
Two Good To Be True with Justin and
Peter Marsh
10. There is alien evidence in the
https://www.spreaker.com/show/2345118/episodes/feed
American Southwest

Conspiracy: E.T. is buried in the desert The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show with Rob
of New Mexico. McConnell
The truth: This one is real: The Atari https://www.spreaker.com/show/1078348/episodes/feed
video game E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial failed so
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miserably that the company buried unsold
cartridges in a desert landfill. (Wait, what did
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you think we meant? Real aliens? In New
https://www.spreaker.com/show/3345454/episodes/feed
Mexico? Not yet, anyway.)
The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast
11. Canada tried to develop
Network
'gaydar'
Conspiracy: The Canada government www.XZBN.net
was so paranoid about homosexuality that it