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Even Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey are brothers
- Even Woody Harrelson is convinced of the popular theory that he and Matthew McConaughey are related, but he has a story that may serve as evidence that they might actually be brothers! During an 'Explain This' segment for Esquire, Justin Theroux asked Harrelson if he and McConaughey are actually brothers and Harrelson said he's not sure "because we haven't done the testing" however, he added, "there's a lot of—almost insane—coincidences" that have him convinced. "His mom had a relationship with my dad right around the time he was conceived," Harrelson explained. "That seems like a big coincidence. And his dad did say—you know, [when] she was going to the hospital to give birth—he goes, 'That ain't my son.' And he didn't go to the hospital." Like us, Theroux's mind was blown. McConaughey also revealed on Kelly Ripa's podcast, 'Let's Talk Off Camera,' that his mother had previously insinuated she knew Harrelson's late father intimately while they were all on vacation together in Greece, and it turns out Harrelson's father was on furlough at the same that McConaughey's parents were in their second divorce (they were married three times). The actors are conveniently set to star in a comedy series 'Brother From Another Mother' for Apple TV+, which is a series about their families "based on truth."
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Katy Perry is a robot
- At a concert, Perry's right eye appeared to become stuck shut. She paused on stage to try to get it to stay open again, tapping her right temple which seemed to help for a moment, before the eyelid fell shut again. She eventually seemed to fix the issue and carried on with the concert as if nothing had happened. Fans were quick to joke that Perry looked like a malfunctioning robot. "It's like one of those dolls that you tilt back and the eyes close, but one of the eyelids got stuck open," one Reddit user joked. Others speculated that the singer was having some kind of side effect to the COVID-19 vaccine, playing into one of the more harmful conspiracies to surface in recent years.
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Kim Kardashian faked the Paris robbery
- After Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in 2016 at a hotel in Paris, social media users instantly questioned whether she did it for publicity. She was quick to reject these accusations.
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3 / 32 Fotos
Every celebrity is in the illuminati
- Founded in 1776 in Bavaria, the Illuminati was a real secret society that opposed tyranny and supported separation of church and state. However, it died out nine years later when the local government outlawed secret societies. Conspiracy theorists, however, believe that the society reformed, expanded, and recruited every celebrity you can imagine. From Beyoncé to Madonna, these celebs are allegedly part of the group, indoctrinating people through symbols hidden in their lyrics and music videos.
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4 / 32 Fotos
The FBI killed Biggie and Tupac
- Biggie Smalls was killed in a drive-by shooting six months after Tupac died. Their murders still remain unsolved, which has raised several theories, including that the FBI is to blame. At the time of their respective murders, Tupac and Biggie were at the center of a West Coast vs. East Coast battle, and their murders were allegedly a way for the FBI to end the war on rap.
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5 / 32 Fotos
Britney Spears isn't singing her songs
- Britney Spears has long been accused of lip-syncing. With sound engineers allegedly mixing her voice with those of stronger vocalists, it was the leak of her 2013 single 'Passengers' that made many people question her real singing voice.
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6 / 32 Fotos
Elvis Presley is still alive
- Despite the autopsy confirming that Elvis died of a heart attack in Graceland in 1977, many fans have sworn that he's still alive. Throughout the years, people are said to have spotted the King all over the US. Some even believe he faked his own death to live a more anonymous life.
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7 / 32 Fotos
Pokémon GO is a government spy program
- A huge success that landed in the app store in the summer of 2016, conspiracy theorists believe the game's use of GPS tracking is part of the US government's spy program.
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8 / 32 Fotos
Marylin Monroe was murdered
- While Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962 was officially ruled a suicide, many conspiracy theories about why she died have emerged throughout the years. The most famous one is that the CIA murdered her to cover up an alleged affair with JFK.
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9 / 32 Fotos
Bob Marley was killed by the CIA
- In an effort to destabilize Jamaica’s left-wing government in the '70s, conspiracy theorists believe that the CIA went after Bob Marley, whose Rastafarian beliefs and reggae music were denouncing the West. Marley died of a cancer in his toe, which some believe was poisoned by the CIA.
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10 / 32 Fotos
Nicki Minaj rapping is actually Jay-Z sped up
- Some conspiracy theorists believe that by slowing down her songs, Nicki Minaj sounds exactly like Hova. And by speeding up his songs, he sounds like Minaj.
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11 / 32 Fotos
Lewis Carroll was Jack the Ripper
- The author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) is the subject of many conspiracy theories. The most famous one is that he was Jack the Ripper. And even if there isn't any substantive evidence, some people believe that Carroll confessed to his crimes via his anagrams in 'The Nursery “Alice”' (1890).
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12 / 32 Fotos
Princess Diana was murdered
- In this conspiracy theory, Prince Philip ordered the MI6 to murder Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed by making it look like a crash. The motive was because Diana was pregnant with Fayed’s child. As Fayed was an Egyptian Muslim, the union wouldn't sit well with the British royal family. However, in the autopsy it was clear Diana wasn't pregnant.
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Michael and LaToya Jackson are the same person
- There was a long-standing rumor that Michael and Latoya Jackson were the same person. However, the siblings, born two years apart, were just physically similar.
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14 / 32 Fotos
Jim Morrison was murdered
- In 1971, the Doors front man Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub in Paris. The official cause of death was listed as heart failure. But some fans don't buy it, as the only people who saw his body were his girlfriend Pamela Courson, a friend of hers, and a doctor who left an illegible signature on the death certificate. Other theories speculate that he's still alive, surfacing in the Bahamas, Paris, and Oregon.
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15 / 32 Fotos
Beyoncé faked her pregnancy
- Speculations about Beyoncé's 2011 pregnancy began as soon as she announced it at the VMAs. But it peaked when she appeared in an Australian TV interview, where her stomach seemed to "fold" as she sat down. Bey's rep said that the rumors were "stupid, ridiculous, and false."
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Stanley Kubrick faked the Moon landing
- Conspiracy theories about the Moon landing are endless, but there is one related to Hollywood filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Believers of this theory argue that Kubrick produced much of the footage, presumably because he had just directed '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968), which is partly set on the Moon.
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Kris Jenner sold Kim’s sex tape
- It's undeniable that Kim Kardashian’s sex tape with Ray J threw her family into the spotlight in 2007. And even if her professed humiliation of its leak was talked about on 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians,' many speculated that it wasn't a leak. Instead, Kris Jenner is thought by many to have orchestrated the sale of the video herself.
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18 / 32 Fotos
Stevie Wonder isn’t really blind
- Believers of this theory have over and over again pointed out several things to back their suspicions. For example, Stevie Wonder once caught a mic stand mid-fall, and he likes to sit courtside at basketball games.
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Britney Spears was an instrument of the Bush administration - In 2007, Britney Spears had a famous public meltdown, where she shaved her head. Some people speculate that she was paid by the Bush administration to grab headlines away from the incompetent White House.
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Paul McCartney is dead
- This conspiracy theory speculates that Paul McCartney died in a car accident in 1966, and the Beatles hid it for the rest of their career by hiring a look-alike. Being one of two Beatles still alive, the said look-alike is doing awfully well for himself!
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Taylor Swift doesn’t have a belly button
- At the beginning of her career, Taylor Swift was frequently seen wearing crop tops and bottoms that showed off her midsection, but left her belly bottom covered. This left people speculating about the existence of her belly button. But around 2015, she was photographed wearing a bikini that revealed that she in fact has one.
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22 / 32 Fotos
Keanu Reeves is immortal
- Born on September 2, 1964, one popular theory speculates that Keanu Reeves is at least 150 years old. Some believe that he's either Charlemagne, who supposedly died in 814 CE, or Paul Mounet, a French actor who supposedly died in 1922. Either way, he straight up doesn't age!
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23 / 32 Fotos
J.K. Rowling isn’t real
- Everyone is familiar with J.K. Rowling's struggling beginnings as a single mother who came up with 'Harry Potter' on a train ride. But one theory suggests that she isn't real, and that the famous books were created by a team of advertisers and writers. Instead, the woman you think is J.K. Rowling is just an actress hired to play the part of the author at events.
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24 / 32 Fotos
Walt Disney’s body is cryogenically frozen
- A myth that continues to resurface, there is still speculation that Walt Disney’s body is cryogenically frozen. It all started in 1972 when Bob Nelson, the president of the Cryonics Society of California, revealed to the LA Times that Walt Disney Studios had inquired about the freezing process just before his death in 1966. However, this rumor has been shut down numerous times by Disney's family.
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25 / 32 Fotos
Kanye West is a clone
- After West lashed out at Jay-Z and Beyoncé on stage in 2016, and announced his support of Donald Trump, theories about him being cloned started to surface. Apparently, for some people, that was the best explanation for his behavior.
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Brittany Murphy death was a Homeland Security cover-up
- Brittany Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack, died five months apart. And the circumstances were bizarre. Some attribute their death to drug overdose or pneumonia and anemia. But the strangest theory comes from when Murphy's friend Julia Davis blew the whistle on her employers in the Department of Homeland Security. After Murphy vouched for her, she became a target. Both Davis and Murphy's father suspected the feds.
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27 / 32 Fotos
Prince Harry isn’t King Charles' son
- In 1986, two years after Harry’s birth, Princess Diana began a five-year affair with James Hewitt, her horse-riding instructor. This started the rumor that Hewitt might be Harry's father. And despite his own admission that they both have red hair and look alike, Hewitt has denied the rumor for years.
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28 / 32 Fotos
Eminem looks nothing like he used to
- This conspiracy suggest that the real Slim Shady died of an overdose or in a car crash several years ago, and the Eminem we see today is actually a clone.
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Miley Cyrus was an instrument of the Obama administration
- This theory started when Korn front man Jonathan Davis released a video for 'Spike in My Veins,' featuring clips from her famous VMA performance and 'Wrecking Ball' music video. He then gave an interview to the far-right radio host Alex Jones, stating that Miley's performances were part of the Obama administration's ploy to distract Americans from having their liberties taken.
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30 / 32 Fotos
Avril Lavigne was replaced by a look-alike in 2003
- This strange conspiracy theory started because someone was trying to prove how easy it is to spread conspiracy theories. It all began with a Brazilian blog post alleging that Avril Lavigne took her own life and was replaced by a woman named Melissa. And even if the post stated that the theory was just an illustration, it still spread like wildfire. Sources: (Cosmopolitan) (Vulture)
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Even Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey are brothers
- Even Woody Harrelson is convinced of the popular theory that he and Matthew McConaughey are related, but he has a story that may serve as evidence that they might actually be brothers! During an 'Explain This' segment for Esquire, Justin Theroux asked Harrelson if he and McConaughey are actually brothers and Harrelson said he's not sure "because we haven't done the testing" however, he added, "there's a lot of—almost insane—coincidences" that have him convinced. "His mom had a relationship with my dad right around the time he was conceived," Harrelson explained. "That seems like a big coincidence. And his dad did say—you know, [when] she was going to the hospital to give birth—he goes, 'That ain't my son.' And he didn't go to the hospital." Like us, Theroux's mind was blown. McConaughey also revealed on Kelly Ripa's podcast, 'Let's Talk Off Camera,' that his mother had previously insinuated she knew Harrelson's late father intimately while they were all on vacation together in Greece, and it turns out Harrelson's father was on furlough at the same that McConaughey's parents were in their second divorce (they were married three times). The actors are conveniently set to star in a comedy series 'Brother From Another Mother' for Apple TV+, which is a series about their families "based on truth."
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1 / 32 Fotos
Katy Perry is a robot
- At a concert, Perry's right eye appeared to become stuck shut. She paused on stage to try to get it to stay open again, tapping her right temple which seemed to help for a moment, before the eyelid fell shut again. She eventually seemed to fix the issue and carried on with the concert as if nothing had happened. Fans were quick to joke that Perry looked like a malfunctioning robot. "It's like one of those dolls that you tilt back and the eyes close, but one of the eyelids got stuck open," one Reddit user joked. Others speculated that the singer was having some kind of side effect to the COVID-19 vaccine, playing into one of the more harmful conspiracies to surface in recent years.
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2 / 32 Fotos
Kim Kardashian faked the Paris robbery
- After Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in 2016 at a hotel in Paris, social media users instantly questioned whether she did it for publicity. She was quick to reject these accusations.
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3 / 32 Fotos
Every celebrity is in the illuminati
- Founded in 1776 in Bavaria, the Illuminati was a real secret society that opposed tyranny and supported separation of church and state. However, it died out nine years later when the local government outlawed secret societies. Conspiracy theorists, however, believe that the society reformed, expanded, and recruited every celebrity you can imagine. From Beyoncé to Madonna, these celebs are allegedly part of the group, indoctrinating people through symbols hidden in their lyrics and music videos.
© Getty Images
4 / 32 Fotos
The FBI killed Biggie and Tupac
- Biggie Smalls was killed in a drive-by shooting six months after Tupac died. Their murders still remain unsolved, which has raised several theories, including that the FBI is to blame. At the time of their respective murders, Tupac and Biggie were at the center of a West Coast vs. East Coast battle, and their murders were allegedly a way for the FBI to end the war on rap.
© Getty Images
5 / 32 Fotos
Britney Spears isn't singing her songs
- Britney Spears has long been accused of lip-syncing. With sound engineers allegedly mixing her voice with those of stronger vocalists, it was the leak of her 2013 single 'Passengers' that made many people question her real singing voice.
© Getty Images
6 / 32 Fotos
Elvis Presley is still alive
- Despite the autopsy confirming that Elvis died of a heart attack in Graceland in 1977, many fans have sworn that he's still alive. Throughout the years, people are said to have spotted the King all over the US. Some even believe he faked his own death to live a more anonymous life.
© Getty Images
7 / 32 Fotos
Pokémon GO is a government spy program
- A huge success that landed in the app store in the summer of 2016, conspiracy theorists believe the game's use of GPS tracking is part of the US government's spy program.
© Getty Images
8 / 32 Fotos
Marylin Monroe was murdered
- While Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962 was officially ruled a suicide, many conspiracy theories about why she died have emerged throughout the years. The most famous one is that the CIA murdered her to cover up an alleged affair with JFK.
© Getty Images
9 / 32 Fotos
Bob Marley was killed by the CIA
- In an effort to destabilize Jamaica’s left-wing government in the '70s, conspiracy theorists believe that the CIA went after Bob Marley, whose Rastafarian beliefs and reggae music were denouncing the West. Marley died of a cancer in his toe, which some believe was poisoned by the CIA.
© Getty Images
10 / 32 Fotos
Nicki Minaj rapping is actually Jay-Z sped up
- Some conspiracy theorists believe that by slowing down her songs, Nicki Minaj sounds exactly like Hova. And by speeding up his songs, he sounds like Minaj.
© Getty Images
11 / 32 Fotos
Lewis Carroll was Jack the Ripper
- The author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) is the subject of many conspiracy theories. The most famous one is that he was Jack the Ripper. And even if there isn't any substantive evidence, some people believe that Carroll confessed to his crimes via his anagrams in 'The Nursery “Alice”' (1890).
© Getty Images
12 / 32 Fotos
Princess Diana was murdered
- In this conspiracy theory, Prince Philip ordered the MI6 to murder Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed by making it look like a crash. The motive was because Diana was pregnant with Fayed’s child. As Fayed was an Egyptian Muslim, the union wouldn't sit well with the British royal family. However, in the autopsy it was clear Diana wasn't pregnant.
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13 / 32 Fotos
Michael and LaToya Jackson are the same person
- There was a long-standing rumor that Michael and Latoya Jackson were the same person. However, the siblings, born two years apart, were just physically similar.
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14 / 32 Fotos
Jim Morrison was murdered
- In 1971, the Doors front man Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub in Paris. The official cause of death was listed as heart failure. But some fans don't buy it, as the only people who saw his body were his girlfriend Pamela Courson, a friend of hers, and a doctor who left an illegible signature on the death certificate. Other theories speculate that he's still alive, surfacing in the Bahamas, Paris, and Oregon.
© Getty Images
15 / 32 Fotos
Beyoncé faked her pregnancy
- Speculations about Beyoncé's 2011 pregnancy began as soon as she announced it at the VMAs. But it peaked when she appeared in an Australian TV interview, where her stomach seemed to "fold" as she sat down. Bey's rep said that the rumors were "stupid, ridiculous, and false."
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16 / 32 Fotos
Stanley Kubrick faked the Moon landing
- Conspiracy theories about the Moon landing are endless, but there is one related to Hollywood filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Believers of this theory argue that Kubrick produced much of the footage, presumably because he had just directed '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968), which is partly set on the Moon.
© Getty Images
17 / 32 Fotos
Kris Jenner sold Kim’s sex tape
- It's undeniable that Kim Kardashian’s sex tape with Ray J threw her family into the spotlight in 2007. And even if her professed humiliation of its leak was talked about on 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians,' many speculated that it wasn't a leak. Instead, Kris Jenner is thought by many to have orchestrated the sale of the video herself.
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18 / 32 Fotos
Stevie Wonder isn’t really blind
- Believers of this theory have over and over again pointed out several things to back their suspicions. For example, Stevie Wonder once caught a mic stand mid-fall, and he likes to sit courtside at basketball games.
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19 / 32 Fotos
Britney Spears was an instrument of the Bush administration - In 2007, Britney Spears had a famous public meltdown, where she shaved her head. Some people speculate that she was paid by the Bush administration to grab headlines away from the incompetent White House.
© Getty Images
20 / 32 Fotos
Paul McCartney is dead
- This conspiracy theory speculates that Paul McCartney died in a car accident in 1966, and the Beatles hid it for the rest of their career by hiring a look-alike. Being one of two Beatles still alive, the said look-alike is doing awfully well for himself!
© Getty Images
21 / 32 Fotos
Taylor Swift doesn’t have a belly button
- At the beginning of her career, Taylor Swift was frequently seen wearing crop tops and bottoms that showed off her midsection, but left her belly bottom covered. This left people speculating about the existence of her belly button. But around 2015, she was photographed wearing a bikini that revealed that she in fact has one.
© Getty Images
22 / 32 Fotos
Keanu Reeves is immortal
- Born on September 2, 1964, one popular theory speculates that Keanu Reeves is at least 150 years old. Some believe that he's either Charlemagne, who supposedly died in 814 CE, or Paul Mounet, a French actor who supposedly died in 1922. Either way, he straight up doesn't age!
© Getty Images
23 / 32 Fotos
J.K. Rowling isn’t real
- Everyone is familiar with J.K. Rowling's struggling beginnings as a single mother who came up with 'Harry Potter' on a train ride. But one theory suggests that she isn't real, and that the famous books were created by a team of advertisers and writers. Instead, the woman you think is J.K. Rowling is just an actress hired to play the part of the author at events.
© Getty Images
24 / 32 Fotos
Walt Disney’s body is cryogenically frozen
- A myth that continues to resurface, there is still speculation that Walt Disney’s body is cryogenically frozen. It all started in 1972 when Bob Nelson, the president of the Cryonics Society of California, revealed to the LA Times that Walt Disney Studios had inquired about the freezing process just before his death in 1966. However, this rumor has been shut down numerous times by Disney's family.
© Getty Images
25 / 32 Fotos
Kanye West is a clone
- After West lashed out at Jay-Z and Beyoncé on stage in 2016, and announced his support of Donald Trump, theories about him being cloned started to surface. Apparently, for some people, that was the best explanation for his behavior.
© Getty Images
26 / 32 Fotos
Brittany Murphy death was a Homeland Security cover-up
- Brittany Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack, died five months apart. And the circumstances were bizarre. Some attribute their death to drug overdose or pneumonia and anemia. But the strangest theory comes from when Murphy's friend Julia Davis blew the whistle on her employers in the Department of Homeland Security. After Murphy vouched for her, she became a target. Both Davis and Murphy's father suspected the feds.
© Getty Images
27 / 32 Fotos
Prince Harry isn’t King Charles' son
- In 1986, two years after Harry’s birth, Princess Diana began a five-year affair with James Hewitt, her horse-riding instructor. This started the rumor that Hewitt might be Harry's father. And despite his own admission that they both have red hair and look alike, Hewitt has denied the rumor for years.
© Getty Images
28 / 32 Fotos
Eminem looks nothing like he used to
- This conspiracy suggest that the real Slim Shady died of an overdose or in a car crash several years ago, and the Eminem we see today is actually a clone.
© Getty Images
29 / 32 Fotos
Miley Cyrus was an instrument of the Obama administration
- This theory started when Korn front man Jonathan Davis released a video for 'Spike in My Veins,' featuring clips from her famous VMA performance and 'Wrecking Ball' music video. He then gave an interview to the far-right radio host Alex Jones, stating that Miley's performances were part of the Obama administration's ploy to distract Americans from having their liberties taken.
© Getty Images
30 / 32 Fotos
Avril Lavigne was replaced by a look-alike in 2003
- This strange conspiracy theory started because someone was trying to prove how easy it is to spread conspiracy theories. It all began with a Brazilian blog post alleging that Avril Lavigne took her own life and was replaced by a woman named Melissa. And even if the post stated that the theory was just an illustration, it still spread like wildfire. Sources: (Cosmopolitan) (Vulture)
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The biggest pop culture conspiracy theories of all time
Is the Illuminati taking over Hollywood?
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Conspiracy theories have always fascinated people, and that includes when they involve the entertainment industry and celebrities. As ridiculous as they might sound, many of these rumors have been up for debate by individuals all over the world. From covering up deaths to cloning and faking pregnancies, pop culture is filled with insane stories that might have even fooled you. And while most of these have been debunked, it's fascinating to see the theories that have echoed in magazines, social media, and the minds of millions.
Want to have a look at the biggest pop culture conspiracy theories of all time? Then check out the following gallery.
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