𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙉𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙠
When the Titanic sank in 1912, it shocked the world. The limits of human innovation were cruelly displayed with the destruction of such a technically remarkable ship. But a conspiracy theory that has crept up online in recent years asks the question, most recently on Reddit: Was it actually the Titanic that sank? Everyone seems to agree on one fact: That a ship really did sink in the icy waters of the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, and approximately 1,500 passengers aboard that ship died. The conspiracy simply suggests that the ship was not actually the technical marvel that the ship's parent company, the White Star Line, had promised. Rather, the White Star Line swapped ships for the voyage from Southampton to New York and the ship billed as the top-of-the-line Titanic was actually an older ship, the Olympic. What's more, the conspiracy theory suggests, the entire crash was an insurance scam gone wrong.....
