Conspiracies That Were Real After All

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00:00Missing Japanese Citizens

00:03One night in June 1978, a 22-year-old single mother of two kids named Yaiko Taguchi was

00:09working her usual shift in Tokyo, Japan's Kabaret, Hollywood.

00:13After finishing her shift right at around midnight, Yaiko left the Kabaret through the

00:16front door and was never seen again.

00:19At first, nobody thought that anything serious had happened to Yaiko.

00:23In fact, several years later her manager was questioned and he claims that everyone thought

00:27she had quit when she failed to show up.

00:29And around that time, there had been rumors going around that several North Korean spies

00:33were working undercover in Japan looking to abduct innocent citizens and hold them as

00:37hostages back in North Korea.

00:39However, this was seen by the Japanese government as nothing more than a conspiracy theory that

00:43couldn't possibly be true.

00:45Sadly, the missing case of Yaiko went cold, and it wasn't until almost a decade later

00:50that a clue to her whereabouts emerged following a disturbing chain of events.

00:54In November 1987, as South Korea was preparing to host the Olympics in the capital city of

00:58Seoul, a Korean Airlines plane blew up in mid-air as it was flying over the Andaman Sea taking

01:03the lives of 115 innocent people.

01:07During the investigation, it was revealed that two North Korean agents acting under direct

01:11orders from the North Korean government had planted a bomb in an overhead storage compartment

01:16before getting off at the first layover in Abu Dhabi.

01:19As the authorities were closing in on the two suspects, one of them took his life with a

01:22cyanide laced cigarette, but the South Korean government was able to arrest the other agent

01:27responsible for the attack.

01:29During her interrogation, it was revealed that she had been training for that mission for

01:32six years.

01:34It was revealed that for three of them, she had been paired with Yaiko Taguchi, who had

01:37taught her how to speak and act like a Japanese woman so she could fly under the radar.

01:42As it was later revealed, Yaiko wasn't the only woman who had been kidnapped by the North

01:45Korean government.

01:47As of today, 17 Japanese citizens have been officially confirmed by the Japanese government

01:52as having been abducted by North Korea from 1977 to 1983.

01:56Disturbingly, a lot of them were shamelessly kidnapped in the middle of the day and thrown on

02:01a boat to North Korea.

02:02You might think that the victims were involved in something shady that put them on the North

02:06Korean government's radar, but the investigations actually suggest that most of them were average

02:10citizens who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

02:14One woman was captured while she was walking to a knitting class, and two others were kidnapped

02:18on a vacation to Europe.

02:20Another one, a 13 year old girl, was taken as she was walking back home from school.

02:24Some of these victims were kidnapped for identity theft purposes, while others, like Yaiko,

02:29were forcefully brought to North Korea to teach the Japanese language and culture to North

02:32Korean spies.

02:34After the kidnappings were confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt, the North Korean government

02:38had no choice but to come forward and apologize, but they claimed that only 5 of the 17 kidnapping

02:43victims were still alive.

02:45Over the next few years, the North Korean government would send what they would claim to be the cremated

02:49remains of some of the deceased victims back to Japan.

02:52However, as DNA testing would quickly reveal, pretty much all of the remains were fake, leading

02:57the Japanese government to believe that many more of the kidnapping victims were still alive.

03:01To this day, the North Korean government has stuck to its story, claiming that there were

03:04only 13 kidnapping victims and that the ones who were still alive were sent back safely

03:08to Japan.

03:09Shockingly, while the Japanese government has officially confirmed 17 kidnappings, the list

03:14of potential victims suggests that the true number could be as high as 800.

03:18Sadly, given the current political situation, it's unlikely we'll ever see the full extent

03:23of these abductions, or see the North Korean government held truly accountable for its

03:27horrific crimes.

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04:31Heart Attack Gun

04:33Back in the 70s, a journalist named Seymour Hersh published an article in the New York

04:37Times in which he accused the CIA of several assassination attempts on both foreign and American politicians

04:43who they considered to be anti-war dissidents.

04:46Due to these allegations, the U.S. Senate put the CIA under investigation for alleged

04:50covert action abuses, which resulted in the release of 14 reports on major abuses committed

04:54by the CIA, FBI, and NSA.

04:58The majority of the reports included accusations of crimes such as opening and resealing U.S.

05:02citizens' private mail for several years and illegally surveilling black power activists.

05:07Although these claims are obviously pretty serious, they paled in comparison to one particular

05:12accusation or conspiracy theory which alleged that the CIA had developed a pistol that could

05:17fire a poison dart over 300 feet, take a person's life, and leave absolutely no trace as to the

05:22cause of death.

05:24As it was later revealed, this theory turned out to be true, and the development of the

05:28poison dart gun was just one part of the program called MK-Naomi, through which the CIA had sought

05:33to develop weapons for biological warfare.

05:36In 1975, William Colby, the CIA director at the time, had to testify in front of the committee

05:41that was investigating the agency.

05:43During questioning, he claimed that the CIA had developed a host of biological weapons

05:47as part of a plan to eliminate German leaders during World War II, but that their research had continued

05:52until well after the war.

05:54He also mentioned that the poison dart gun was almost completely silent on account of

05:58the battery that was housed inside the handle, and that it had been specifically designed

06:01for the target to feel nothing more than a mosquito bite when the dart struck.

06:05Interestingly, the agency had used a specific shellfish toxin to make it impossible for anyone

06:09to know what the cause of death was, leading forensic pathologists to believe that the victim

06:13had suffered an inexplicable heart attack.

06:16It wouldn't help pathologists that the dart was designed to melt inside the body so that

06:19it only left a small red mark where it entered the victim.

06:22When asked if the heart attack gun as it was nicknamed was ever used on anyone, the director

06:27alleged that it had only been used for experiments, and that there were no records of actual use.

06:31As part of the investigation, the CIA had to hand over the gun to the committee, and there

06:35are some pretty wild pictures of the committee members analyzing the gun as William Colby answers

06:39their questions about it.

06:42Normally you'd expect to see something like the heart attack gun in a spy movie, and it's

06:45pretty wild to think that if they hadn't put it under investigation, they would've

06:48probably gotten away with using it for who knows what purposes.

06:51It's also pretty crazy to think that if that's the kind of stuff they were developing

06:55back in the 70s, imagine the kind of technology they have their hands on now.

06:59Disturbingly, the hearing was the only time the heart attack gun was ever shown publicly,

07:04and to this day, it remains unclear what happened to it after the investigation.

07:10Rogue Waves

07:12Sailors often get a reputation for making up stuff they claim to have seen during their

07:16time out at sea, and because there's no one there to refute their claims, they sometimes

07:20get away with some pretty tall tales.

07:23For centuries, sailors all around the world had talked about seeing monster waves on the

07:27open sea that would allegedly reach over 100 feet in height.

07:31In 1826, a French captain claimed that he had seen a 108 foot tall wave in the Indian Ocean.

07:37Even though he had 3 sailors with him who backed up his claims, when he came back to the mainland,

07:42he was publicly ridiculed by the scientific community, as it was widely believed that it

07:45was impossible for a wave to be higher than 30 feet tall.

07:49For a long while after that, dozens of people continued to claim sightings of these monstrous

07:53waves in the middle of the ocean, but with no real evidence other than eyewitness testimonies,

07:58the existence of these waves fell into the urban legend or conspiracy theory category.

08:03In the 80s and early 90s, the Dropner platform was set up in the North Sea off the coast of

08:08Norway to extract natural gas.

08:10As part of the protocol that was carried out to see if the platform was stable enough to

08:13withstand the rough seas, a wave height recorder was installed on the platform.

08:18On New Year's Day in 1995, the sensor recorded an 84 foot tall wave, which served as the first

08:24real piece of evidence for the existence of rogue waves.

08:28After this incident, a lot of people started wondering how many of the sailors from previous

08:31centuries had been telling the truth.

08:34What's more disturbing than that is that there were probably hundreds of disappeared sailors

08:37from all around the world who had come across a rogue wave, also known as a monster wave or

08:42a freak wave.

08:43But because most people who encountered 100 foot tall rogue waves generally didn't live

08:47to tell the tale, their testimony went down into the depths of the ocean with them.

08:52Since the Dropner wave of 1995, there has been a growing interest in rogue waves brewing

08:56in the scientific community.

08:58A few years ago, a professor at the Australian National University had estimated that at any

09:02given moment, there are 10 rogue waves active in the world's oceans.

09:06As of today, a rogue wave is usually defined as a wave that is twice as large as the largest

09:10waves that come up in a particular area.

09:13And while the root cause of rogue waves continues to be investigated, it's generally accepted

09:17that these monster waves appear when two wave crests join together at the exact right

09:21time, resulting in a massive wave that can sink even the largest ships and oil rigs.

09:25Interestingly, it's also been discovered that rogue waves can take place in large lakes.

09:31In 1975, a freighter named the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior under some pretty mysterious circumstances, with a lot of people in the scientific community

09:40coming up with all kinds of hypotheses to explain the incident.

09:44It wasn't until several years later that the scientists started theorizing that the

09:47vessel could have fallen prey to a set of three consecutive killer rogue waves.

09:51A phenomenon referred to as the Three Sisters, in which the first wave destabilizes the ship,

09:57the second wave hits the ship's deck before it can stabilize again, and the third wave overloads

10:02the ship with more water than it can take on.

10:05If this were true, it could also provide an explanation for the mysterious sinking of other

10:09large ships and oceans around the world over the past few centuries, but this might be a

10:13bit more difficult to prove.

10:15Poisonous Alcohol In January 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to

10:21the U.S. Constitution was successfully ratified, triggering a 13-year period known as Prohibition,

10:28during which the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol was made illegal.

10:32During this period, the government enforced some pretty strict measures to prevent bootlegging

10:36of alcohol, which made the alcohol black market flourish like crazy.

10:40It was pretty much a playground for the mafia, in which the government would raid one bar,

10:44and another one would crop up in just a few days' time.

10:47While all of this was happening, there were some pretty messed up rumors floating around

10:51that the U.S. government was taking extreme measures to make sure people weren't consuming

10:54alcohol.

10:56These included allegations that the government was intentionally poisoning alcohol to make

10:59people who consumed it sick.

11:02For a while, this remained something of a conspiracy theory, but things took a turn pretty quickly

11:06on New Year's Day 1927 when 41 people died from alcohol poisoning at New York's Bellevue

11:12Hospital.

11:13Disturbingly, the autopsies revealed that a lot of the victims had been drinking industrial

11:17methanol, otherwise known as wood alcohol, which can be fatal even at low doses.

11:22It turns out that the government had forced companies to denature industrial alcohol to make

11:26it undrinkable since 1906, which was far before Prohibition.

11:31But when the crackdown on alcohol started, the government ordered these companies to add quinine,

11:35methyl alcohol, and other toxic chemicals to discourage people from drinking it.

11:40Their reasoning was that if black market dealers knew their alcohol had been poisoned, they

11:44wouldn't dare distribute it knowing how dangerous it would be for their customers to consume.

11:49I guess they forgot to factor in that the demand for alcohol at the time was absolutely insane,

11:53and that black market dealers didn't care who lived or died from consuming their product.

11:58It wasn't until December 1933, six years after the Bellevue incident, that the federal government

12:03finally toned down their abstinence from alcohol policies.

12:07But by then, thousands of Americans had already been poisoned with contaminated alcohol.

12:15Gorillas.

12:16Nowadays, there's really nothing too shocking about seeing a gorilla in a zoo or on TV, but

12:21there was once a time when gorillas were considered to be in the same category as the chupacabra,

12:26the Jersey Devil, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster.

12:28I was able to find that up until a couple of centuries ago, gorillas were considered cryptids,

12:33which are animals that are believed by some to exist somewhere in the wild, but whose existence

12:37has never been proven.

12:39With most of these creatures, alleged sightings often turn out to be hoaxes, but obviously

12:43in the case of gorillas, what were once just rumors turned out to be true.

12:47Western explorers wouldn't come across a gorilla until around the 1500s, when an English explorer

12:52named Andrew Battelle was captured by the Portuguese off the coast of West Africa.

12:56While he was held captive on the mainland, Battelle described these disturbing, giant,

13:01ape-like creatures that would occasionally prowl around his campfire, but because he had

13:05never seen a similar creature before, he described them more as monsters than as animals.

13:10Battelle's description sent the rest of the world into what we can only call a gorilla

13:13frenzy, with all kinds of rumors being spread about these allegedly bloodthirsty, dangerous

13:18creatures living in exotic parts of the world.

13:22Over the next couple hundred years, the buzz around gorillas grew as explorers in Africa

13:25sent back illustrations of gorillas to Europe, which were often given to royalty and emperors

13:30as rare gifts.

13:32If you were to ask any European back then what a gorilla was, they would have described it

13:36in a similar way to how we describe Bigfoot or the chupacabra nowadays.

13:40They were thought of more as mythical monsters than regular animals.

13:43It wasn't until over 200 years or so later that an American naturalist named Thomas S. Savage

13:48found a gorilla skull in 1847 during an expedition to Africa, which was the first piece of real

13:54proof for the existence of these animals.

13:56Naturally, this triggered a bunch of new expeditions to the area, and between 1855 and 1859, French

14:02explorer Paul Ducheyou confirmed the existence of gorillas and even brought some back dead.

14:08Just as Andrew Battelle before him, Paul Ducheyou also described gorillas as these savage, bloodthirsty

14:13creatures which stuck in the public mind for a long time.

14:17Around 15 years later, some German explorers brought back a baby gorilla from Africa to Liverpool,

14:22then putting up some towels on the ship so he could swing around and entertain himself

14:25on the long journey back.

14:27As you can probably imagine, as soon as the ship arrived back in Liverpool, people started

14:31flocking around the hotel where the gorilla was allegedly being kept to catch a glimpse

14:34of the once mythical creature.

14:37To the public's dismay, Pongo the gorilla wasn't the massive, violent monster they had

14:41thought, but rather a cute little two-year-old gorilla who loved to play with dogs.

14:45A few years later in 1902, a German explorer named Robert von Beringe killed two mountain

14:52gorillas, which were huge in comparison to the baby gorilla that the previous German explorers

14:55had brought back.

14:57And that was really the first time the public was able to understand what a full-sized adult

15:01gorilla looked like.

15:02It's pretty crazy to think that, at some point these animals that we now see as normal were

15:06once seen as legendary monsters.

15:08Interestingly, if you really look at the research, there are a ton of other animals that we now

15:13take for granted that were once brushed off as hoaxes, including kangaroos, platypuses,

15:18giant squids, and komodo dragons.

15:21With so many of these myths turning out to be true, it really makes you wonder how many

15:25animals are out there that we have no idea even exist.

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