Nov 28, 2018
The Craziest Titanic Conspiracy Theories, Explained
Becky Little
Did a mummy's curse cause the Titanic to sink?
Pivotal events have a way of attracting harmful myths and conspiracy theories. This goes for great achievements like the moon landing (which Buzz Aldrin punched a guy for denying) as well as great tragedies like Martin Luther King’s assassination, the 9/11 attacks and the Titanic disaster.
Late in the evening on April 14, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic hit an iceberg and sank into the icy waters of the North Atlantic, killing 1,517 of the 2,223 passengers and crew members aboard. To make sense of this tragic and seemingly random disaster, people over the past century have told stories of ominous signs of bad luck that were supposedly ignored beforehand, or spun elaborate conspiracy theories to explain the “real†reason it sank.
Here, we explain the most enduring conspiracy theories and myths about the tragedy.
https://www.history.com/news/titanic-sinking-conspiracy-myths-jp-morgan-olympic
