'Elvis Presley is alive' and 11 more conspiracy theories
In a post-truth world, conspiracy theories are aplenty - here are some of the most intriguing and bizarre out there

MH370 and MH17 are the same plane
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014 and has yet to be found despite an extensive search operation.
A little more than four months later, on 17 July 2014, another Malaysia Airlines flight, MH17, crashed in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border after apparently having been shot down by a missile.
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To most people the two tragedies looked like a terrible coincidence, but to conspiracy theorists there are no coincidences – and MH370 and MH17 were in fact the same plane.
Worldtruth.tv is one of the many sites that argues that MH370 was hijacked and flown to US military base Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
The "US propaganda machine" then staged the shooting down of MH17 so that the Russians would lose credibility.
The theory fails to explain why the same propaganda victory could not have been achieved, assuming it was desired, simply by shooting down any passenger aircraft over the Ukraine-Russia border. Read our in-depth article on MH370 conspiracies here.
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