Conspiracy Theories
- EntertainmentYahoo Life UK
Here's why so many people still believe Princess Diana's death was a conspiracy
The latest episode of Yahoo UK's podcast Britain Is a Nation Of... looks at the Royal family - and why so many people think there was a conspiracy behind Princess Diana's death.
- NewsTom Butler
11 times The Simpsons predicted the future with eerie precision
Dismiss ‘The Simpsons’ simply as a cartoon for kids at your peril. Donald Trump may only be a presidential candidate hopeful right now, but his ambition was foreseen by this classic ‘Simpsons’ episode where Bart was shown his future by a Native American. Simon Singh, the author of a book titled ‘The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets’, claims Homer Simpson predicted the mass of the Higgs Boson particle 14 years before it was actually figured out for real by scientists at the Large Hadron
- NewsBen Falk
10 real-life conspiracy theories which inspired Dan Brown
The plots of ‘Inferno’ author Dan Brown’s books are always packed full of secret symbols and shadowy organisations. The crux of the mystery at the heart of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ is that Christ has descendants and they are the real Holy Grail, protected by a holy order called the Priory of Sion founded in 1099. This hypothesis was pushed by the authors of the 1982 book ‘The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail’ who subsequently sued Brown unsuccessfully for pinching large swathes of their work.
