The sinking of the RMS Titanic in April of 1912 was shocking, but it was never a mystery. Despite the huge death toll, there were many survivors, and documented communications with other ships, plus that iceberg that was still there after the Titanic was gone. Still, the ship had been called unsinkable, and in the aftermath people started to think there was more to the story than what they had been told in the newspapers. Such a horrible disaster couldn't have simply been a case of a collision with an iceberg! And so the conspiracy theories started.
These theories range from the slightly plausible ideas that only differ from the verified accounts by some small detail to the truly bonkers theories like the one where the ship was a victim of a mummy's curse. Or that it was engineered by J.P. Morgan to eliminate political enemies. Or that the Titanic never sank at all, and the headlines were a hoax. Read up on 10 strange theories about what happened to the Titanic, some that are still believed today, at Mental Floss.
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Did you know? If Titanic had hit the berg straight on, it probably would have stayed afloat. Fewer watertight compartments would have been breached. Plus, if the lookouts had their binoculars, they may have seen the berg in plenty of time to avoid it. But the binocs were locked up and the man with the key had gotten off at Cherbourg. Why they didn't just break into that locker, we'll never know, but I would guess it comes back to hubris, the real reason Titanic sank.
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