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* Also from [[X Japan]], ex-bassist [[Taiji Sawada]]. There are arguably valid theories that he was killed in an act of [[Police Brutality]], and/or that his death resulted from a conspiracy involving higher-ups in Saipan government. |
* Also from [[X Japan]], ex-bassist [[Taiji Sawada]]. There are arguably valid theories that he was killed in an act of [[Police Brutality]], and/or that his death resulted from a conspiracy involving higher-ups in Saipan government. |
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* [[The Pope|Pope John Paul I]]. Supposedly killed by [[The Mafia]], the Freemasons, or by a conspiracy within the Church because he threatened to reveal the shady dealings of the Vatican's bank. |
* [[The Pope|Pope John Paul I]]. Supposedly killed by [[The Mafia]], the Freemasons, or by a conspiracy within the Church because he threatened to reveal the shady dealings of the Vatican's bank. |
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* [[Nelson Mandela]]; there are many who swear they can remember news reports that the famed South African human rights activist and president died in prison during the 1980s, and some even swear they can remember news of his funeral. In truth, he died in 2013. Numerous conspiracy theories to explain this range from the usual - that the one who became president of South Africa was an imposter - to the absurd - that Mandela was no mere mortal, and could alter people's perceptions and/or reality itself. This has become so widespread, it coined the term [http://www.snopes.com/2016/07/24/the-mandela-effect/|the "Mandela Effect"] |
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* Princess Diana's fatal car crash was supposedly engineered by the [[British Royal Family]], who did not want her marrying Dodi Fayed, an Egyptian Muslim. Not helped at all by the fact that Diana was actually quoted as saying she thought Prince Charles wanted her dead... |
* Princess Diana's fatal car crash was supposedly engineered by the [[British Royal Family]], who did not want her marrying Dodi Fayed, an Egyptian Muslim. Not helped at all by the fact that Diana was actually quoted as saying she thought Prince Charles wanted her dead... |
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* [[John F. Kennedy]]'s assassin, [[Gunman with Three Names|Lee Harvey Oswald]], allegedly did not act alone in killing him, but had assistance from another gunman on a nearby grassy knoll. Just ''who'' the guy on the grassy knoll was working for [[Who Shot JFK?|has been the subject of enough writing to fill the Library of Alexandria]]. The following people and groups have been blamed (oh, it's a long list), often in combination with one another: |
* [[John F. Kennedy]]'s assassin, [[Gunman with Three Names|Lee Harvey Oswald]], allegedly did not act alone in killing him, but had assistance from another gunman on a nearby grassy knoll. Just ''who'' the guy on the grassy knoll was working for [[Who Shot JFK?|has been the subject of enough writing to fill the Library of Alexandria]]. The following people and groups have been blamed (oh, it's a long list), often in combination with one another: |
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