now bob is fully aware his life is in danger so much so that he hires a security detail to guard his home 24 7. welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 celeb death conspiracy theories you know somebody out there knows something and i just wish i could know for this list we'll be looking at the most fascinating conspiracy theories that have been put forth about the deaths of famous celebrities even if they are in fact still alive do you believe any of these let us know in the comments number 20 john lennon the world stopped and grieved on the night of december 8 1980 when it learned that john lennon had died lennon was shot and killed at about 11 o'clock last night outside his apartment building after returning home following a recording session lennon was infamously shot in the back by mark david chapman it's a pretty clear-cut and readily accepted story regardless it has resulted in a few conspiracy theories some believe that chapman was a patsy used and brainwashed by the cia which wished to assassinate lenin due to his outspoken left-wing ideals chapman started talking about a little person inside of him and a big person inside of him [Music] the big person has been winning the battle up to now but tonight the little person won others think chapman is totally innocent including author salvador estruchia who argues that forensic evidence absolves chapman of the crime in any case lenin won't be the only beatle on this list the statements he made the music he made you know it's going around the world number 19. sam cook often called the king of soul sam cook was popular in the late 50s and early 60s but on december 11 1964 cook was shot and killed by a motel manager sam cook one of the most talented singers and music producers of his generation is shot in a shabby motel allegedly cook took a woman named elisa boyer to the motel and assaulted her she then escaped and cook violently confronted the motel manager who shot cook in self-defense cook's family and friends reject this version of events however and have put forth various theories he was not a violent guy he never i never saw him get angry some believe that cook was violently attacked by several people with singer etta james stating that his body had suffered horrific unexplained injuries others claimed that cook's manager alan klein might have even had him killed so far neither of these theories have been corroborated this was really troubling to the black community did he really make us a silly mistake wrong place the wrong time in a cd motel was he set up i don't know number 18 bobby fuller this rock singer found top 10 success with a cover of the crickets i fought the law the single was released in late 1965.
they were four country boys in el paso but everyone knew it was bobby's band he was the star on the following july 18th fuller was found dead inside a parked car and the medical examiner tentatively blamed gasoline vapors for his death fuller's death is officially labeled a fatal accident however various far-reaching conspiracy theories have been put forward by people who don't buy it fuller's bandmate jim reese believed that charles manson had something to do with it despite being in prison at the time and others suspect that fuller was killed due to personal connections with the mafia it's likely that we'll never know we want to know who did it and why number 17. avril lavigne let's just clarify that avril lavigne is not dead the 2000's pop icon is alive and thriving but not according to some a few fans are adamant that the avril lavigne we see today is actually a woman named melissa vandella the conspiracy goes like this that avril died and was replaced by an avril lookalike according to the conspiracy the real levine passed away after the release of her debut album let go but the record company didn't want to stop the gravy train so she was replaced with a body double to fool the public and continue her musical legacy the main evidence surrounding the conspiracy is levine's changing physical appearance supposed subliminal messages in later songs and the word melissa written on her hand in a photo shoot as expected levine has continuously denied the conspiracy yeah some people think that i'm not the real me which is so weird like why would they even think that number 16 tupac shakur on september 7th 1996 hip-hop icon tupac shakur was shot in a las vegas drive-by he died six days later unrolled the window arm came out opened fire and just ratted town two crips gang members were named in an affidavit including dwayne davis who later said that his nephew orlando anderson was the shooter however countless conspiracy theories exist in regards to tupac's death and even survival some believe that the shooting was ordered by either music executive suge knight or the notorious b. i.
g things eventually went south in the middle of the decade when the two rappers got embroiled in an epic east coast west coast rap rivalry others believe that tupac is actually alive and faked his death and moved to cuba and as is often the case with conspiracy theories some believe that the cia is involved regardless tupac's death may forever remain contentious there's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that suge knight knew immediately who was behind the murder of tupac shakur number 15. steve jobs the famous co-founder and ceo of apple passed away on october 5th 2011 from pancreatic cancer he was only 56 years old this is a man who really stood for american exceptionalism uh was the man who created the mac the ipod the iphone the ipad all of that nearly eight years after his death a photo began spreading around the internet that had everyone convinced of his continued survival the photo shows a balding gray-haired man sitting in a plastic chair outside and the man admittedly bears a striking resemblance to the late jobs the sneaky photo was reportedly taken in egypt leading many to believe whether seriously or not that jobs is alive and well unfortunately this is simply a case of one man looking a lot like another you can do multi-finger gestures on it and boy have we patented it number 14. michael jackson the world lost music's biggest icon on june 25th 2009 when the king of pop died of cardiac arrest in his la mansion both the los angeles times and cbs news are both now reporting that michael jackson has died his personal physician conrad murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter as he had incorrectly administered various drugs to help jackson sleep murray spent two years in prison but many people including jackson's own daughter believe that there is more to the story paris jackson claims that her father's death was quote a setup orchestrated by people quote out to get him at some point he was like they're gonna kill me one day however she's declined to explain who the people are jackson's old advisor leonard rowe told radar online that jackson was assassinated for his music catalog worth approximately 1 billion dollars number 13.
paul mccartney sir paul mccartney is one of the two surviving members of the beatles but according to one prominent urban legend that sprung up in the 1960s mccartney actually died long before his late bandmates so this started some rumor that because he was barefooted he's dead proponents claimed that mccartney perished in a car crash shortly after the album release of revolver not wanting to upset the public mccartney was quickly replaced with a look-alike fans scouring the beatles work have also found so-called subliminal messages in their songs and album covers the myth suggests the beatles planted clues to paul's death in their songs and album art to break the news gently the beatles press office was quite vocal in its defense calling the legend quote a load of old rubbish and referring to its believers as quote nuts the rumor was put to bed after a very much alive mccartney was featured in life magazine in november 1969. it was a little bit strange because people did start looking at me like number 12. bob marley singer bob marley his reggae music known far beyond its roots in jamaica died in a miami hospital today the death of this reggae legend was hard to accept in july 1977 marley was diagnosed with an aggressive skin cancer under his toenail which within three years spread to the rest of his body leading to his death at just 36.
fans could not accept the explanation and the conspiracy led to where they seemingly always lead the cia the prevailing view remains that marley favors manly making the singer public enemy number one to the conservative right which includes the usa and the cia the story goes that a cia agent named bill oxley infected marley with cancer through a pair of converse sneakers he reportedly did so because the cia didn't want marley starting a revolution despite the story not making a ton of sense it nevertheless received traction and in 2018 was shared by the likes of t. i and busta rhymes the cia is never implicated in the assassination attempt nor connected with any plot to cause the cancer that kills him number 11. andy kaufman almost 30 years after his death a brand new andy is alive rumor is raging through the internet in life this quirky comedian often enjoyed pulling fast ones on well everybody so when andy kaufman permanently disappeared in 1984 supposedly due to lung cancer the world refused to believe the official account of his death andy's last girlfriend and his own brother seemed to have conflicting stories but whatever you believe about kaufman's death no one can deny that a decades-long hoax would have been so andy he allegedly even said that if he were to fake his death he would return 20 years later which would have been in 2004.
who knows maybe he's just enjoying some r r in albuquerque there are also fans who say if he's living in albuquerque he should be left alone number 10. jonbenet ramsay what happened to this american child beauty queen shocked the nation in 1996 and continues to fuel debate and conspiracy of all of the evidence left behind that ransom note is the most baffling the case remains unsolved which certainly does not help and while some conspiracies are more grounded and based in reality others are a little more out there and let's face it a little disrespectful one theory claims that ramsay didn't actually die and grew up to become katy perry an unseen man named dave johnson makes a string of claims linking the pop star with jonbenet this theory was given further prominence in 2017 when billy eichner confronted perry about it at the vmas for a billy on the street segment it's a bizarre theory and a quick google search shows that the timelines don't even add up as perry was twice ramsay's age at the time of her death blink twice if you're really jonbenet ramsey wait no that's not real number nine jimmy hoffa well it became a question of power as against money certainly i would select power while the average person may not know what this man actually did for a living many have thought his body was buried under giant stadium as the leader of the teamsters union jimmy hoffa was known to anger a few people and according to legend the mob took care of the problem who exactly well it's become quite popular to claim responsibility for the hit following a tip from a dying man police are looking at this property in roseville michigan at the driveway to be specific under which may lie the solution to a 37 year old national mystery it's an awfully trendy deathbed confession among mobsters and if you believe notorious hitman richard kuklinski he's the man responsible for hafa's earthly departure can we just all agree that jimmy hoffa could only have been killed once all trace of off his gun his jewelry is dust number eight jim morrison [Music] if you were around in the late 60s and had the opportunity to hang with the lead singer of the doors he probably seemed more like a regular dude than somewhat of a mythical unicorn figure if you're popular go with it if you go out of favor just keep doing it but a shady death always leads to conspiracy theories especially when the person in question supposedly died in a parisian bathtub although the cause of death was stated as heart failure no autopsy was ever performed causing some to think that jim faked his own death and others to claim that he overdosed in the bathroom of a nightclub well the 70s were definitely a bit hazy for some and conspiracy theorists continue to search for clarity he's dead sorry i'm sorry number seven george reeves look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane it's superman yes it's superman here's what we know for sure tv's superman died from a gunshot to the head in june 1959 which ended his reign as the man of steel but from there things get extremely blurry in part thanks to the extreme inebriation of the guests at his house that night while they claimed to have heard one gunshot three bullets had been fired from the gun police believed he took his own life but some have theorized that mgm vice president eddie manix or his wife tony manix were involved since reeves and tony had had an affair remember george reeves had pretty much an open house there were a lot of people in there all the time and friends of friends others suggest that reeves fiance leonore lemon shot him accidentally in the end of course it is all speculation that's the 64 thousand dollar question who knows who pressured who to do what to cover this up number six princess diana a french minister is being quoted this by the reuters news agency now that uh diana princess of wales has died in this accident months before the princess of wales was killed in a 1997 car crash along with boyfriend dodie fayed she allegedly wrote a telling letter worried that someone might tamper with her breaks well we all know what happened as princess diana's death inadvertently ushered in the age of internet speculation one theory according to claims by dodie's father mohammed al-fayed is that the mi6 and cia were involved with the potential motive for murder being that diana may have been pregnant with dodie's child and that the two were going to get engaged she was saying to the world yes i found someone i'm very happy with them but that was that's a completely different stage from we're going to get engaged we're going to be married the paparazzi photographer who was following diana before her death james and valson took his own life shortly after conspiracy theories arose just one of many oddities about a seemingly straightforward matter the only problem with mohammed fayed's theory of the royal family and mi6 being behind the murder of princes diana is that it doesn't have a shred of credible evidence to support it number five kurt cobain [Music] as the lead singer of nirvana and husband to courtney love kurt cobain earned plenty of headlines in the early 90s and deservedly so but it was cobain's 1994 death that sparked a larger discussion about his personal life it was a totally empty room no furniture just kurt's body lying on the floor there was a shotgun lying on his chest at the time his decision to take his own life wasn't a complete shock at least considering the media portrayal of cobain but as new details emerge theories continue to arise in search of the truth but the world just took courtney's word for it for example take the 2015 documentary soaked in bleach which focused primarily on the details of his death did someone assist in cobain's death and was it possible for kurt to even pull the trigger given his physical state at the time we may never know i cannot think of a case in which i have had someone inject himself with a large amount of heroin and then proceed to kill himself uh it just doesn't make sense number four natalie wood people sometimes go very big but that's abnormal from child stardom to massive success as an adult this late icon never failed to impress but with fame comes insecurities and natalie wood had a lifelong fear of drowning which makes her 1981 death even more suspicious natalie hated the water hated it had a great fear of it didn't go into her own swimming pool at home after a night out with husband robert wagner and actor christopher walken the actress inexplicably wound up in the waters off santa catalina island dead at the age of 43 with reportedly plenty of drinking and arguing going on that night one could be led to believe that natalie fell off the boat but many think her husband may have forcibly removed her from this situation the tension was building throughout the whole weekend of robert wagner being jealous of christopher walken the captain seems to know what happened but it's likely only wagner and walken know the truth well allegedly that is it's very difficult for all of us and uh you know every day is every day is a little a little better sometimes you go forward and sometimes just look back number three elvis presley in august 1977 the king of rock and roll was found dead in his bathroom today he continues to live on through his music although some take this more literally in fact some theorize that he faked his death and that he's actually still alive as over the years there have been countless claimed elvis sightings is elvis presley alive absolutely i would testify it in a court of law a few people even claim he was an alien and just went home we may never actually know what went down at graceland but elvis did have a few health issues most notably an enlarged heart and as you can imagine prescription drug abuse likely didn't help the old ticker even so the king lives on through conspiracy theories and all those special people who understand what's really going on elvis i i i want to thank you very much for being with us we noticed that you've settled in bismarck north dakota could you tell us elvis what's the biggest difference between bismarck and memphis uh probably the biggest difference man i never die in bismarck number two marilyn monroe just a few months after her famous birthday salute to jfk an american icon consumed a lethal amount of barbiturates and called it quits at least that's one possibility on the surface it seems that marilyn monroe was severely depressed and took her own life she was a victim of a homicide that she was murdered however some think her overdose was accidental while others believe she may have actually been murdered that evening in brentwood due to the fact that she ran with an interesting crowd of politicians mobsters and some real powerful individuals she was very nervous about her phone being bugged and asked me if i knew anyone that could look at it was it norma jean herself or someone with a motive and opportunity although no evidence of foul play was found in the investigation the theories surrounding her death continue what is the business of the cia which was involved or the fbi which was involved before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you'll have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number 1.
