Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to Be True

missing Japanese citizens One Night in June 1978 a 22-year-old single mother of two kids named yo Uchi was working her usual shift in Tokyo Japan's Cabaret Hollywood after finishing her shift right at around midnight yo left the Cabaret through the front door and was never seen again at first nobody thought that anything serious had happened to Yo in fact several years later her manager was questioned and he claims that everyone thought she had quit when she failed to show up at around that time time there had been rumors going around that several North Korean spies

were working undercover in Japan looking to abduct innocent citizens and hold them as hostages back in North Korea however this was seen by the Japanese government as nothing more than a conspiracy theory that couldn't possibly be true sadly the missing case of yo went cold and it wasn't until almost a decade later that a clu to her whereabouts emerged following a disturbing chain of events in November 1987 as South Korea Was preparing to host the Olympics in the capital city of Soul a Korean a lines plane blew up in midair as it was flying over

the endan sea taking the lives of 115 innocent people during the investigation it was revealed that two North Korean agents acting under direct orders from the North Korean government had planted a bomb in an overhead storage compartment before getting off at the first layover in Abu Dhabi as the authorities were closing in on the two suspects one of them took his life with a cyanide lace cigarette but the South Korean government was able to arrest the other agent responsible for the attack during her interrogation it was revealed that she had been training for that mission

for 6 years and that for three of them she had been paired with yo taguchi who had taught her how to speak and act like a Japanese woman so she could fly under the radar as it was later revealed yo wasn't the only woman who had been kidnapped by the North Korean government as of today 17 Japanese citizens have been officially confirmed by the Japanese government as having been abducted by North Korea from 1977 to 1983 disturbingly a lot of them were shamelessly kidnapped in the middle of the day and thrown on a boat to

North Korea you might think that the victims were involved in something Shady that put them on the North Korean government's radar but the investigations actually suggest that most of them were average citizens who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time one woman was captured while she was walking to a knitting class and two others were kidnapped on a vacation to Europe another one a 13-year-old girl was taken as she was walking back home from school some of these victims were kidnapped for identity theft purposes While others like yo were forcefully

brought to North Korea to teach the Japanese language and culture to North Korean spies after the kidnappings were confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt the North Korean government had no choice but to come forward and apologize but they claimed that only five of the 17 kidnapping victims were still alive over the next few years the North Korean government would send what they would claim to be the cremated remains of some of the deceased victims back to Japan however as DNA testing would quickly reveal pretty much all of the remains were fake leading the Japanese

government to believe that many more of the kidnapping victims were still alive to this day the North Korean government has stuck to its story claiming that there are only 13 kidnapping victims and that the ones who are still alive were sent back safely to Japan shockingly while the Japanese government has officially confirmed 17 kidnappings the list of potential victims suggest that the true number could be as high as 800 sadly given the current political situation it's unlikely we'll ever see the full extent of these abductions or see the North Korean government held truly accountable for

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journalist named Seymour HS published an article in the New York Times in which he accused the CIA of several assassination attempts on both foreign and American politicians who they considered to be anti-war dissidents due to these allegations the US Senate put the CIA under investigation for alleged covert action abuses which resulted in the release of 14 reports on major abuses committed by the CIA FBI and NSA the majority of the reports include an accus ACC ation of crimes such as opening and resealing US citizens private mail for several years and illegally surveilling black power activists

although these claims are obviously pretty serious they paled in comparison to one particular accusation or conspiracy theory which alleged that the CIA had developed a pistol that could fire a poison dart over 300 feet take a person's life and leave absolutely no Trace as to the cause of death as it was later revealed this Theory turned out to be true and the development of the poison dart gun was just one part of the program called MK Naomi through which the CIA had sought to develop weapons for biological warfare in 1975 William Colby the CIA director

at the time had to testify in front of the committee that was investigating the agency during questioning he claimed that the CIA had developed a host of biological weapons as part of a plan to eliminate German leaders during World War II but that their research had continued until well after the war He also mentioned that the poison dart gun was almost completely silent on account of the battery that was housed inside the hand and that it had been specifically designed for the Target to feel nothing more than a mosquito bite when the dart struck interestingly

the agency had used a specific shellfish toxin to make it impossible for anyone to know what the cause of death was leading forensic Pathologists to believe that the victim had suffered an inexplicable heart attack it wouldn't help Pathologists that the dart was designed to melt inside the body so that it only left a small red mark where it entered the victim when asked if the heart attack gun as it was nicknamed was ever used on anyone the director alleged that it had only been used for experiments and that there no records of actual use as

part of the investigation the CIA had to hand over the gun to the committee and there are some pretty wild pictures of the committee members analyzing the gun as William Colby answers their questions about it normally you'd expect to see something like the heart attack gun in a spy movie and it's pretty wild to think that if they hadn't put it under investigation they would have probably gotten away with using it for who knows what purposes it's also pretty crazy to think that if that's the kind of stuff they were developing back in the 70s

imagine the kind of Technology they have their hands on now disturbingly the hearing was the only time the heart attack gun was ever shown publicly and to this day it remains unclear what happened to it after the investigation rogue waves Sailors often get a reputation for making up stuff they claim to have seen during their timeout at Sea and because there's no one there to refute their claims they sometimes get away with some pretty tall tales for centuries Sailors all around the world had talked about seeing monster waves on the Open Sea that would allegedly

reach over a hundred ft in height in 1826 a French Captain claimed that he had seen a 108t tall wave in the Indian Ocean even though he had three Sailors with him who backed up his claims when he came back to the mainland he was publicly ridiculed by the scientific Community as it was widely believed that it was impossible for a wave to be higher than 30 ft tall for a long while after that dozens of people continued to claim signings of these monstrous waves in the middle of the ocean but with no real evidence

other than eyewitness testimonies the existence of these waves fell into the urban legend or conspiracy theory category in the 80s and early '90s the droper platform was set up in the North Sea off the coast of Norway to extract natural gas as part of the protocol that was carried out to see if the platform was stable enough to withstand the rough Seas a wave height recorder was installed on the platform on New Year's Day in 1995 the sensor recorded an 84t tall wave which served as the first real piece of evidence for the existence of

rogue waves after this incident a lot of people started Ed wondering how many of the sailors from previous centuries had been telling the truth what's more disturbing than that is that there were probably hundreds of disappeared sailers from all around the world who had come across a rogue wave also known as a monster wave or a freak wave but because most people who encountered 100 foot tall rogue waves generally didn't live to tell the tale their testimony went down into the depths of the ocean with them since the drop near wave of 1995 there's been

a growing interest in rogue waves brewing in the scientific Community a few years ago a professor at the Australian National University had estimated that at any given moment there are 10 rogue waves active in the world's oceans as of today a rogue wave is usually defined as a wave that is twice as large as the largest waves that come up in a particular area and while the root cause of rogue waves continues to be investigated it's generally accepted that these monster waves appear when two wave crests join together at the exact right time resulting in

a massive wave that can sink even the largest ships and oil rigs interestingly it's also been discovered that rogue waves can take place in large lakes in 1975 a freighter named the SS Edmond Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior under some pretty mysterious circumstances with a lot of people in the scientific Community coming up with all kinds of hypotheses to explain the incident it wasn't until several years later that the scientists started theorizing that the vessel could have fallen prey to a set of three consecutive killer rogue waves a phenomenon referred to as the three sisters

in which the first wave destabilizes the ship the second wave hits the ship's deck before it can stabilize again and the third wave overloads the ship with more water than it can take on if this were true it could also provide an explanation for the mysterious sinking of other large ships and oceans around the world over the past few centuries but this might be a bit more difficult to prove poisonous alcohol in January 1920 the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was successfully ratified triggering a 13-year period known as prohibition during which the production sale

and transportation of alcohol was made illegal during this period the government enforced some pretty strict measures to prevent boot lagging of alcohol which made the alcohol Black Market flourish like crazy it was pretty much a playground for the mafia in which the government would raid one bar and another one would crop up in just a few days time while all of this was happening there were some pretty messed up rumors floating around that the US government was taking Extreme Measures to make sure people weren't consuming alcohol these included allegations that the government was intentionally poisoning

Al alol to make people who consumed it sick for a while this remained something of a conspiracy theory but things took a turn pretty quickly on New Year's Day 1927 when 41 people died from alcohol poisoning at New York's bellw Hospital disturbingly the autopsies revealed that a lot of the victims had been drinking industrial methanol otherwise known as wood alcohol which can be fatal even at low doses it turns out that the government had forced companies to denature industrial alcohol to make it undrinkable since 1906 which was far before prohibition but when the Crackdown on

alcohol started the government ordered these companies to add quinine methyl Alcohol and Other toxic chemicals to discourage people from drinking it their reasoning was that if Black Market dealers knew their alcohol had been poisoned they wouldn't dare distributed knowing how dangerous it would be for their customers to consume I guess they forgot to factor in that the demand for alcohol at the time was absolutely insane and that black market dealers didn't care who lived or died from consuming their product it wasn't until December 1933 6 years after the Belleview incident that the federal government finally

toned down their abstinence from alcohol policies but by then thousands of Americans had already been poisoned with contaminated [Music] alcohol guillas nowadays there's really nothing too shocking about seeing a gorilla in a zoo or on TV but there was once a time when gorillas were considered to be in the same category as the Chupacabra the Jersey Devil Bigfoot and The Lochness Monster I was able to find that up until a couple of centuries ago gorillas were considered Cryptids which are animals that are believed by some to exist somewhere in the wild but whose existence has

never been proven with most of these creatures alleged sightings often turn out to be hoaxes but obviously in the case of gorillas what were once just rumors turned out to be true Western explorers wouldn't come across the gorilla until around the 1500s when an English Explorer named Andrew battel was captured by the Portuguese off the coast of West Africa while he was held captive on the mainland Batel desribed these disturbing giant ap-like creatures that would occasionally prowl around his campfire but because he had never seen a similar creature before he described them more as monsters

than as animals Patel's description sent the rest of the world into what we can only call a gorilla frenzy with all kinds of rumors being spread about these allegedly bloodthirsty dangerous creatures living in exotic parts of the world over the next couple hundred years the buzzar around gorillas grew as explorers in Africa send back illustrations of gorillas to Europe which were often given to royalty and Emperors as rare gifts if you were to ask any European back then what a gorilla was they would have described it in a similar way to how he describe Bigfoot

or the chupacabra nowadays they were thought of more as mythical monsters than regular animals it wasn't until over 200 years or so later that an American naturalist named Thomas sa Savage found a gorilla skull in 1847 during an expedition to Africa which was the first piece of real proof for the existence of these animals naturally this triggered a bunch of new expeditions to the area and between 1855 and 1859 French explorer Paul duu confirmed the existence of gorillas and even brought some back aad just as Andrew Batel before him Paul duu also described gorillas as

these Savage bloodthirsty creatures which stuck in the public mind for a long time around 15 years later some German explorers brought back a baby gorilla from Africa to Liverpool even putting up some towels on the ship so he could swing around and entertain himself on the long journey back as you can probably imagine as soon as the ship arrived back in Liverpool people started flocking around the hotel where the gorilla was allegedly being kept to catch a glimpse of the once mythical creature to the Public's dismay Pongo the gorilla wasn't the massive violent monster they

had thought but rather a cute little 2-year-old gorilla who loved to play with dogs a few years later in 1902 a German Explorer named Robert Von binge killed two mountain gorillas which were huge in comparison to the baby gorilla that the previous German explorers had brought back and that was really the first time the public was was able to understand what a full-sized adult gorilla looked like it's pretty crazy to think that at some point these animals that we now see as normal were once seen as legendary monsters interestingly if you really look at the

research there are a ton of other animals that we now take for granted that were once brushed off as hoaxes including kangaroos platypuses giant squids and kodo Dragons with so many of these myths turning out to be true it really makes you wonder how many animals are out there that we have no idea even exist