Warning: This post discusses sexual abuse.
Recently, Reddit user purplegalaxy86 asked , Which conspiracy theories were later proven to be true? So grab your tin foil hat and flat earth maps because we
e about to go on a wild ride together:
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1. The FBI actually ran a secret program to spy on and disrupt civil rights groups, anti-war activists, and other political organizations they didn’t like in the 1960s. This wasn’t just passive surveillance either — they actively tried to discredit people like Martin Luther King Jr. and infiltrate groups like the Black Panthers. The Titanic splitting in half before it sank. Nautical engineers denied it, saying there was no way that couldve happened. Until the wreck was discovered, there was a lot of debate as to whether it went down in one piece.
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5. There were posts with videos of bodyguards watching her every move, and people started to march for her freedom. It all ended up in court and was proven true. A conspiracy theory that South Korea and North Korea worked together to prevent a popular South Korean politician from being elected president was actually proven to be true. But, surprisingly to some, neither did the North Koreans in charge. They met secretly in China, where South Korea gave money to North Korea to create border disruptions whenever Kim Dae-jung got too popular during election campaigns. MK-ULTRA is my favorite because you sound unhinged anytime you explain it to people whove never heard of it: MK-ULTRA was how the CIA used the power of LSD and psychological warfare to control minds.\n
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MK-ULTRA was an illegal mind-control research program that the US Central Intelligence Agency operated between 1953 and 1964. The CIA conducted experiments using high doses of LSD and other drugs, hypnosis, electroshock, and sensory deprivation on subjects who often had no idea that they were part of a covert test.
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9. The NSA mass surveillance program on US citizens and individual heads of friendly states. All while collaborating with big telecom companies to bulk gather data and pass it on to NSA in-house tools. The first communist government to come to power through democratic voting was overthrown by the CIA in 1959 in Kerala, India. People knew about such priests, were aware that they were dangerous, and had those priests shuffled around between parishes when their behavior became known. Lots of people believed this conspiracy theory about him, and it turned out that he did actually use drugs.
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14. Light bulb manufacturers in the 1900s conspired together and purposely designed their products to fail, so people would need to keep buying more. This included General Electric, Phillips, and other big-name manufacturers.
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If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE, which routes the caller to their nearest sexual assault service provider. You can also search for your local center here .
If you are concerned that a child is experiencing or may be in danger of abuse, you can call or text the National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-422-44534.A.CHILD; service can be provided in over 140 languages.
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