French conman Pierre Plantard Confesses

In 1965, French conman Pierre Plantard confessed to planting forgeries of historical documents in France’s national library to perpetuate myths he had created about the Priory of Sion. These myths, just a few decades later, inspired books like Holy Blood Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code, not to mention a whole septic leak of mainstream conspiracy theories and a deluge of subconsciously accepted “what ifs.”