Conspiracy theories start out as far-fetched concepts and ideas that very few people claim, and even then it feels like the people behind these ideas have one or two bolts loose.
But that’s not always the case. Sometimes what looks like a conspiracy has a chance of becoming real, or it stays on the craziest conspiracy theory page. But those that get out of the funny zone, not because it’s some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, but rather because someone wasn’t really crazy after all.
Redditors have been sharing conspiracy theories that turned out to be as real as the moon landing or Bigfoot. The now-viral AskReddit post was so successful that it even got 17,000 upvotes with engagement from readers generating over 7,600 comments.
We’ve filtered out the best of the best responses from the Reddit post and meticulously crafted a curated list which you can vote, comment, and simply enjoy down below. And don’t forget to share some of your conspiracy theories turned reality in the comment section below!
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#1 Apple Deliberately Slowed Down Their Phones
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#2 Various Industries Were Silencing Scientists And Studies That Went Against Their Products
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#3 Toronto's Gay Community Had A Serial Killer That Local Law Enforcement Didn't Believe
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#4 This One Guy Taped His Laptop Camera Way Before Snowden's NSA Disclosure
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#5 Johnson & Johnson's Awareness Of Asbestos In Their Products
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#6 Project MKUltra, An Illegal Human Experimentation Program
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#7 Operation Snow White, A Criminal Conspiracy By The Church Of Scientology To Infiltrate The Government
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#8 Social Media Sites Selectively Censor Things They Don't Agree With
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#9 The 1953 Iranian Coup D'état To Replace The Iranian Leader
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#10 Oil And Automotive Companies Against Green Energy And Other Anti-Climate Change Efforts
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#11 The 100 Hall, A Hallway In A School Used As A Bomb Shelter
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#12 Malcolm X's Assassination
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#13 The FBI Was Tracking Ernest Hemingway Because Of His Cuban Ties
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#14 The Pentagon Was Spying On President Richard Nixon
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#15 The Echelon Program, A Government Surveillance Program To Spy On People And Corporation Communication
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#16 Operation Northwoods, A Proposed False Flag Operation Against American Citizens
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#17 The Renault Formula One Crash Controversy, Where One Driver Deliberately Crashed To Give A Team Mate An Advantage
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#18 False Flag Conspiracies That Disguise The Actual Source Of An Attack To Shift The Blame
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#19 Super Mario Bros. 3 Is Actually A Stage Set And Nothing There Is Real
In Super Mario Bros. 3, he wasn’t actually rescuing the princess again, was a stage play. [Writer's Note: this conspiracy pertains to how the game opens up with a curtain rising on the title screen, the blocks are "bolted" as if it was a set, the end of every stage is an end of an act and the stage, and other aesthetic details, and Mario is actually Wario in disguise.]
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#20 The Government Is Watching You
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