he had a blank blank look in his eye he didn't know who we were he didn't know we were his daughters welcome to watch mojo and today we'll be counting down our picks for the top 10 conspiracy theories that turned out to be true oh there's the president sitting there signing a document what the heck were we worried about for this list we'll be going over the strangest and most famous conspiracy theories that were actually conspiracy facts is there a theory you once believed that you now realize was a load of baloney tell us in the comments number 10 roswell cover-up in the summer of 1947 an object crashed down to earth in roswell new mexico theories that it was an alien spacecraft have pervaded pop culture for over a half a century since everybody thinks that roswell was the first sighting of a ufo in the united states in that bull roar the u. s air force claimed that the object was merely a weather balloon only added fuel to the fire and the conspiracy theorists were right it was no weather balloon and there was a cover-up but it wasn't an alien ship either probably the object was a high-altitude balloon launched as part of project mogul these balloons were intended to detect sound waves from soviet atomic bomb tests during the cold war the u. s military couldn't exactly be honest about that in the papers now whether you think that's another cover story well this better not be another damn russian spy job number nine big tobacco's big lie there's extensive use of this technology which is called ammonia chemistry that allows for nicotine to be more rapidly absorbed in the lungs and therefore affect the brain and central nervous system smoking causes lung cancer and a lot of other adverse health effects scientists demonstrated this definitively in the 1950s however public opinion wavered for decades with sources springing up to generate controversy and debate some suspected that the tobacco industry was suppressing and distorting the facts through a coordinated campaign and it eventually came out that they were together the world's largest tobacco companies initiated operation berkshire to generate fake controversy and debate big tobacco knew that smoking caused cancer and that nicotine was addictive they decided not to make cigarettes less harmful because addiction made them a lot of money now the work we did here is confidential not for public scrutiny any more than our one's family matters you're threatening my family now too just goes to show where there's smoke there's often fire see how camels agree with your throat see how mild and good tasting a cigarette can be number eight the white sox through the world series the chicago white sox are on record for having one of the longest droughts between winning world series at 87 years however they weren't always known for their bad luck back in the late 1910s the sox won in 1917 and they even had a wonder like shoeless joe jackson on the team yet rumors during the 1919 series held that the games were fixed the white sox lost the series but the rumors persisted into the next year eventually a grand jury found evidence that eight players including jackson though his role is disputed were involved in a conspiracy to receive money in exchange for throwing the series i think the black sox players saw a high reward for what they were doing they could make as much as their yearly salary in one week for fixing the world series while a trial found them not guilty they were nevertheless banned from the league permanently number seven nefarious agents infiltrated the government the church of scientology is infamously touchy about any criticism of their organization i didn't mean anything by it i don't even know i'll run her their influence over celebrities is well known but theories about their influence over the government are also out there and here's the thing scientologists really did infiltrate the government in the 1970s at least 5 000 members of the organization conducted espionage on government agencies and private organizations and this wasn't a fringe element either the founder's wife mary sue hubbard pleaded guilty and went to prison it was one of the largest scale infiltrations of the u.
s government in history all of this was done with the aim of destroying evidence that painted scientology in an unfavorable light it arguably had quite the opposite effect boy those scientologists they could be pretty sensitive number six the fbi spied on political activists [Applause] those involved in political protests and other activist causes are often paranoid that they're being watched and they should be because it's happened before and it can happen again tapes from the hotel rooms fbi reports those are pieces of information that we shouldn't have from the late 50s to the early 70s the fbi engaged in illegal surveillance infiltration and disruption of protest movements and other organizations deemed subversive he realized how sick this country was we were trying to reveal the truth about segregation these ranged from independence movements to civil rights movements to feminist organizations they even had john lennon the former beatles front man under watch while this program named cointelpro was abolished in 1971 others may have taken its place this represents the darkest part of the bureau's history number five the first female u. s president while the united states has yet to elect a woman to the office of president by electoral college anyway some theorize that a woman has assumed the duties of the office already in 1919 president woodrow wilson suffered a debilitating stroke this left him bedridden and partially paralyzed with some impaired judgment if i don't help him be president what a kind of wife am i for over a year wilson's wife edith aided him in governing the country to the point where she was basically performing his job in all but name the degree of her involvement was kept a close secret and wilson herself denied that she made executive decisions until her death so he's like sitting there and they like move his arm and then they just release that to the press and that's how dumb people were back then number four the government is spying on you the common refrain for cranks and conspiracy nuts for decades has been that the government is watching our every move and it's not completely wrong with the rise of smartphones and the internet the government has unprecedented access to information on its citizens they're following us in the wake of 9 11 the bush administration initiated far-reaching mass surveillance programs both foreign and domestic the nsa's activities in the years since have included sucking up and storing online history emails metadata text messages you name it edward snowden revealed a lot of this info with his leaks including how other governments were also implicated even if you send it to somebody within the united states your holy domestic communication between you and your wife can go from new york to london and back and get caught up in the database few believe that in the time since governments have just given up number three false justification for war in august 1964 the uss maddox fired a warning shot as three north vietnamese torpedo boats approached the gulf of tonkin after the torpedo boats opened fire the maddox sank all three two days later the report of a second attack prompted president lyndon b johnson to authorize further military action in vietnam for years people questioned this justification at one point the commander of the ship said we're not certain of the attack another point they said yes we're absolutely positive and then finally late in the day admiral sharp said yes we're certain it happened it was eventually revealed that the second attack was imaginary based on wrongly interpreted communications intercepts it wasn't the last dubious rationale for war in 1990 george h. w bush leveraged false testimony crafted by a public relations firm to initiate the gulf war over a decade later his son would falsely claim that iraq possessed wmds to justify an invasion the people of the united states and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder number two watergate scandal perhaps the most well-known political conspiracy of all time the watergate scandal was unthinkable when it occurred because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook the scandal began when republican president richard nixon's administration illegally wiretapped and broke into the democratic national committee headquarters we don't know who ordered the burglary and we don't really know what the burglars were up to that night their aim was to acquire information about nixon's opposition in the forthcoming election the arrest of the perpetrators led to attempts by nixon and his administration to cover up their involvement however mounting evidence and leaks soon exploded into a scandal that has become a byword for political disgrace leading to nixon's resignation one of the things that's so hard to recreate and understand now looking back is there was no sense that the president could lie to the american people things have changed garrett things have changed today before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into settings and switch on your notifications number one the cia conducted mind control experiments the idea of a government agency trying to control people's minds might sound like science fiction but it really happened prostitutes would lure men to these apartments and then once the men were in the apartments they were dosed with lsd and then they were basically studied by cia scientists in the 1970s a commission on the cia's activities within the u.
