Any time there's any large-scale disaster, we can count on conspiracy theories springing

up almost immediately.

One of the more interesting examples of this was the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Wild claims that it was anything from a financial scam to it wasn't even the Titanic, to alternative

theories about what caused it to sink.

And today we've got a roundup for you of some of the best.

This coming right up on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Three Titanic Myths.

The more iconic the event, the more likely conspiracy theories and alternate histories are likely

to spring up around it.

Such was the case with the RMS Titanic, the luxury liner that struck an iceberg and sank

in 1912.

Titanic mythology abounds, but no part of it captures the imagination as much as the alternate

theories of its sinking.

Today, we're going to look at the three most popular, made so, by the perpetual allure

of the conspiracy theory that innate desire to have special insight, a secret glimpse,

into forbidden knowledge.

The true facts of the sinking are well known and undisputed.

After the ship struck the iceberg, water flooded multiple watertight compartments, spilling

over the top of each compartment into the next.

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