28 Wild Rumors and Theories That Ended Up Being True
In a linguistic sense, a conspiracy theory that’s been proven true is no longer a conspiracy theory. The thing is, sometimes the truth is so wild, it still feels a tiny bit like bullshit. The government force-feeding people LSD without their knowledge in pursuit of mind control? One of the participants of which would later become the Unabomber?
That’s the sort of cockamamie plot you find on a cable spy show, not fully and genuinely recorded in official CIA documents. Yet, MKUltra is very much real. The world’s full of rumors and theories that are crazy right up until… they aren’t. Then, the people in charge just hope they managed to cover it up long enough that people stopped caring.
Below are more examples of wild rumors and stories that ended up either partly or completely true…
