7 Historical Conspiracy Theories
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2022
- Conspiracy theories aren't a modern phenomenon. In fact, some fascinating (if less than convincing) conspiracies have been circulating for thousands of years. Was Queen Elizabeth I a man? Are we leaving in the year 1722? The answers may be obvious, but the stories behind them are interesting and illuminating.
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Just want to say I've been watching this channel for years back when John Green was host. While it was sad when he left I absolutely love Justin and Erin. I think they are both hilarious and amazing hosts and I look forward to each episode possibly more than I used to. You guys are awesome :)
same !
@@morganburt2565 Aw, thank you both! John is obviously a super-talented UA-camr (amongst other things), so it was definitely a challenge to build a version of the channel without him. Happy to hear people are still enjoying the content and getting to know our new hosts!
Really
Bram Stoker was one to talk! There was a conspiracy (of sorts) that he died of syphilis because he either contracted it from either his friend Oscar Wilde or his wife Florence (who was courted by both Oscar and Bram at the same time.) The power of conspiracies is everywhere! (Insert maniacal laughter here.)
I don't know whether Oscar Wilde would have courted Florence.
Oh God the wording of this is.. just.. proof read please..
@@rottensloth354 Nobody gives af. Is he writing a novel or commenting on social media?
The Maine, The Lusitania, Pearl Harbour, The Gulf of Tonkin incident, a recurrent theme whenever the US wants to declare war; the US is attacked in some incident which outrages the population.
Erin... Your bangs are perfect!
See I thought historical conspiracies would be conspiracies historic people engaged with, not conspiracies about history.
We didn’t start the fire
It was always Nero
He was not a hero
Henry Hudson is an interesting story of a disappearing explorer. On his fourth voyage to try and find the northwest passage, after a mutiny in 1611 he, his son, and seven other crew members were cast adrift somewhere in the southern portion of Hudson’s Bay never to be seen again.
Yes
Boris Karloff was Jack the Ripper. His alibi is that he was just a baby but that's a bit too convenient if you ask me, it's ageist too.
I cant believe I never realised that.
I got an acquaintance who doesn't believe in any history before the invention of photography, no joke.
When I was in college, I read a book (fiction) which proposed that Lincoln (barely) survived the assassination attempt and then retreated to the home of a supporter out West. While there, they had an Independence Day celebration and he was invited to be the Grand Marshall and lead the parade. A young boy, knowing that he was important but not sure who he was, asked him to sign his autograph book, but "not at the beginning, 'cause I don't know who else will sign it." Lincoln signed it, with the lead in of "To [Jimmy], an honest friend."
excellent presentation
The blame for the Maine is mainly on Spain.
Top 5 Things To Remember:
5. The Fifth of November
4. The Maine
3. The Alamo
2. 9/11
1. The Fifth of November
So remember the fifth of November twice, and the ninth once.
6. That thing at the place with the person
Edward Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, was also a target of Booth's gang of assassins.
Unfortunately Marlowe is unlikely to have written the plays of Shakespeare because it's quite hard to be a playwright when you're dead. ...though if memory serves there's a conspiracy theory about that too.
Yes there was. I did a research paper on it at college. Basically the conspiracy theory says that Marlow had to fake his death because he had become too notorious. I mean, even an Elizabethan playwright can't just go around saying things like " All those who love not tobacco and young boys be fools" without expecting some consequences. Hence, he faked his death. But he was too arrogant to stop writing, So he hired young Shakespeare to pose as the writer. Which, claim the conspirators, is why so much of Marlow appears in Shakespeare's work. It's not plagiarism, just Marlow secretly trying to explain that he's alive!
Yeah. Like revealing he was actually alive would be the sort of thing someone who has to fake their death would be inclined to do. Why, I bet Elvis imitated him when he faked his death centuries later.
Oh, wait! Elvis was kidnapped by aliens, right? And that's about as credible as the notion that Marlowe wrote Shakespeare's plays.
I read one theory that Shakespeare was a front for the plays, the real authors being a monastery whose monks had access to all the documentation that [apparently] Shakespeare didn't. The "proof"? No one man could have written so many plays so quickly.
[] I think that if the Ripper's identity was every positively established, people would say "Who? never heard of him" - or her, or them, as the case may be. The idea that Royalty would need to personally murder 5 prostitutes is ridiculous - there were locals who'd slit a throat for a few pounds, and there were more discreet ways to remove people than slicing them open and stealing their internal organs.
Shakespeare is not boring!
if the phantom time hypothesis is true than that means the Mayan calendar is still going there for it will end in around 300 years
You can’t call the Maine a historical conspiracy theory, as I kind of think it’s possible (but more likely an unfortunate fire).
Is anyone else getting Peter Griffin vibes from Nero with those chin balls of his?
Good Stuff, Erin McHawty. 🥰
I always thought it was strange we didn't take anything into our life's until around 18/1900s
3:31 TIL: it is CliffsNotes, not Cliff Notes
I always assuked it was cliff notes because you found it on tue edge of the page, the cliff of the book.
this video is a small sad reminder of how many people have lived and died on this earth. I wish somebody would have taught a youthful me that I should have reveled in my time.
Huh, Black Butler may have been right.
The entire conspiracy theory that Shakespeare didn't write his own books really has its roots in class-based discrimination and poor historical research. Basically the early proponents went to the same sort of sources one would go to to look up members of the gentry, aristocracy, or royalty. Finding little to nothing about Shakespeare, they just assumed he had no capacity to write the books, rather than acknowledging their own poor scholarship.
What they forgot, what modern scholars have now remembered, is that during Elizabeth's reign, England had two of its greatest spymasters ever. The spymasters paid average citizens money to keep tabs on their neighbors and write everything down in these little books that were distributed to them. When the books were full, these neighborhood spies would turn the books in, be paid and then given a new book. Historians are now looking at these books and discovering all sorts of juicy details about the Shakespeare family.
The first juicy detail is that his Emily was apparently Catholic. A priest bolt hole was found in his childhood home. At that time, the priest were talking about would not have been the neighborhood friar, but specially trained priest who were experts at history, foreign language, and religion. Often, these priests would pay for their keep by giving lessons to the children of the household. So it's highly likely that young William received an excellent continental education at the hands of the priest or priests who hid his family home.
We also know for a fact that he intended a local primary school. In fact, a couple of books still exist with his handwriting in them. Combine this basic education with the more detailed education he received from the priest in his home, and it's quite clear that William Shakespeare did have the education to produce his works.
Another issue is the fact that we can tell from contemporary sources that Shakespeare, like a lot of other authors, cribed huge parts of his stories from earlier works by better authors. Strains of Marlow float throughout his work. If you can lift 30% of your work or more off of somebody else's work, then really you just had the task of mimicking, rather than creating out of whole cloth. That's always an easier task.
And we've also discovered that a lot of his famous plays had co-authors. Macbeth, for example. Therefore, these are not singularly his works, but collaborations with others.
So there really isn't any need for a conspiracy theory to explain Shakespeare's plays. He was a reasonably competent playwright, taking advantage of a time that allowed him to plagiarize in large portions, and who frequently worked with other talented artists. But I suppose the truth will always be more boring than a fascinating conspiracy theory. Hence why we keep making them up.
The Marlow theory that he faked his death but kept on writing plays under the name of a real person he knew in real life is very silly.
As for lost explorers, Mansa Muhammad heading West is a great story. Part of me hopes they found the Americas.
Yes, the Marlow theory is ridiculous. " He faked his own death so he could keep writing plays that are actually considered inferior to the place he was writing before he faked his death." Basically I just summed it up.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
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Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?
What about the statues and the paintings that literally cannot be re created due to the crazy fuckjng detail?
We all know The Doctor started the fire that burnt down Rome.
Weeks used to be four days on, two days off, but kings wanted a further day of work. Workers refused to give up a day off, so instead they just made the week seven days with five days on, two days off. All of our other measures of time are factors of 6 (minutes in an hour, hours in a day, months in a year, etc.), so 7 day divisions of time make no sense otherwise. It doesn't fit neatly into a month, a year, or anything. The seven day week was a royal lie to make workers work more.
Booth was injured so someone went back for his papers, hence booth does not have red hair
Wow
7 Historical Conspiracy Theories that were True next!
I'm faternity brothers with Thomas Looney the guy who formulated the Earl of Oxford authorship theory
Shit I don’t know queen Elizabeth 🤣
Henry Hudson
Nice use of the word glom.
A tailor made video for audio only.
Amelia Earhart! Not necessarily an explorer
But- Henry VIII was unaliving his wives because he wanted a male heir, among other reasons. So, wouldn’t he notice if one of his children had equipment?
"Conspiracy theories are always False. Incompetency theories are always True."
All you need to know this is a possibility is to look up and understand the definition of conspiracy and you will see my point
I vote for hh Holmes as the ripper
Im just an Erin Fan don’t mind me!!!
Too call cuba independent after the Spanish American war is hilariously wrong
more like "under new management "
But john wilkes booth killed hosent abe
Are you serious that you said the name of The Scottish Play out loud in what is essentially a performance space? Seriously? SERIOUSLY????? You made me listen to you say that and now we all gotta worry about the damn bad luck, geez
HOT POTATO! ORCHESTRA! PLUCK TO MAKE AMENDS!
*Gives nose a tweak*
You realize that a conspiracy is not the same as a conspiracy theory
The truth is usually less entertaining.
Bor-ing!
Didnt they prove Jack the ripper was some sort of sailor???
First
That isn't proof that Shakespeare wrote the plays, just that his name was on the works.
I don't care if he did or not, I dislike Shakespeare because most of it is boring
So much bullshit! I'm horrified at the prospect of people believing anything you said. Appalling.
Does anyone else watch Mentalfloss because Erin is so beautiful?
*creeper alert*
I don't understand why you are publicizing this nonsense.
Dumbest comment ever.
So you start us off with the whole first minute and a half being a lie that you say is a lie, then get to the video, in which I have learned nothing. This channel gets worse every video