EVEN after the remains of the Titanic were found in 1985, there are still several conspiracy theories making wild claims about whether and why the boat sank.
We’ve collected some conspiracy theories below to help you decide what really happened on that snowy night in April 1912.
What is the Titanic Conspiracy?
The sinking of the Titanic has numerous 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 correctly.
The theory goes that someone mixed up 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 sailed.
According to the History channel: “The conspiracy theory claims that some person or people found the Olympic too badly damaged to be profitable, and so at some point switched it up with the Titanic to purposefully ditch the damaged ship, rake in the insurance money and, thus it seems, killing a lot of people in the process.”
Of course, there are a lot of holes in this theory now that the actual wreck of the Titanic has been found, but before that it was a semi-plausible theory.
What other conspiracy theories exist about the Titanic?
JP Morgan conspiracy
Over there There are many rumors about the fact that JP Morgan was supposed to be on the boat, but at the last minute changed his itinerary.
Some believe Morgan planned the disaster to kill his rivals, Jacob Astor, Isidor Straus and Benjamin Guggenheim.
While all three men on board die, there is no reasonable explanation for how Morgan could have spawned the iceberg and the ship hit it.
The Mummy Curse Conspiracy
A passenger aboard the Titanic believed in the spiritualism of the early 20th century. His name was William Stead, and he had claimed for years that “a cursed mummy was causing mysterious destruction and disaster in London,” according to History.
After he died on the Titanic, survivors told how he told them the stories of the mummy and how it would bring bad luck to everyone on board.
What happened to the Titanic?
While we will never have perfect answers, we do know this much.
Just before midnight on April 14, the Titanic failed to change course after hitting an iceberg.
As the Titanic’s compartments filled with water, the bow began to sink and the stern rose almost vertically.
Then the Titanic broke in half.
At around 2:20 am on April 15, the stern and bow sank to the depths of the ocean floor.