What is the Titanic conspiracy?
EVEN after the remains of the Titanic were found in 1985, there are still several conspiracy theories with wild claims about if and why the boat sank.
We've gathered some conspiracy theories below to help you decide what truly happened on that snowy night in April 1912.
What is the Titanic conspiracy?
The sinking of the Titanic has countless conspiracy theories.
However, one has been around for years and is probably what most people think of when they think of the Titanic conspiracy theory.
The theory is that the Titanic never sank.
You read that right.
According to the theory, someone switched out the Titanic with another White Star Line ship, the RMS Olympic.
The Olympic was damaged and had been in England for repairs just weeks before the Titanic set sail.
According to the : "The conspiracy theory claims that some person or people found the Olympic too severely damaged to be profitable, and so at some point switched it with the Titanic to ditch the damaged ship purposefully, reap the insurance money and, it seems, kill a bunch of people in the process."
Of course, there are a lot of holes in this theory now that the actual wreckage from the Titanic has been found, but before then, it was a semi-plausible theory.
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What other conspiracy theories exist about the Titanic?
JP Morgan conspiracy
There are many surrounding the fact that JP Morgan was supposed to be on the boat but changed his itinerary last minute.
Some believe that Morgan planned the disaster to kill off his rivals, Jacob Astor, Isidor Straus, and Benjamin Guggenheim.
While all three men perish aboard, there's no reasonable explanation for how Morgan would have plotted out the iceberg and the ship hit it.
The Mummy Curse conspiracy
A passenger aboard the Titanic believed in early 20th-century spiritualism. His name was William Stead, and he'd spent years claiming "a cursed mummy was causing mysterious destruction and disaster in London," according to .
After he died on the Titanic, survivors recounted how he'd told them the mummy's stories and how it would bring bad luck to everyone on board.
What happened to the Titanic?
While we'll never have perfect answers, this much we know.
Just before midnight on April 14, the Titanic failed to change course after hitting an iceberg.
Because the compartments in the Titanic filled with water, the bow began to sink, and the stern raised almost vertically.
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Then, the Titanic broke in half.
At around 2.20am on April 15, the stern and bow sank to the depths of the ocean floor.