The 21 Most Believable Conspiracy Theories

17.

George RR Martin deleted his draft for “Winds of Winter” and is just stalling for its release.

18.

Flight 800 was shot down. My dad was a navy salvage diver at the time and he had friends that did the salvage for the plane (my dad would have but he got assigned to another job). During the salvage job everyone of the divers said it was clear that the plane had been hit by a missile because of damage done to the fuselage or something like that. Also a lot of people reported a streak in the sky at the time the plane went down (a missile).

19.

The Challenger got the go-ahead for the launch, against the warnings of NASA’s experts, because it was the same day as Reagan’s State of the Union address, and he wanted to be able to say “today we put a teacher into space.”

20.

That United Airlines Flight 93, the flight that crashed into a field on 9/11 was actually shot down by the US military. Having already seen the other planes hit the pentagon and WTC, the US govt. would have known that the plane was heading for the white house. It is highly plausible that they would shoot it down before it reached there and conceive a story involving the heroism of those on board.

21.

Whatsapp isn’t encrypted and the government can read your messages on it. They say that they can’t so that people blatantly send clear messages on it so that it is easy for them to spy people and pick up on illegal activity.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.