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When something bad happens, we want to know why\u2026the weirder and badder the event, the more we need to know\u2026\nIt can\u2019t possibly be random\u2026someone needs to be responsible and held accountable\u2026someone needs to be blamed\u2026and there had better not be any loose ends\u2026\nCertain segments of the population have always been suspicious of the official story\u2026forget the simplest of most logical explanation\u2026these awful events or phenomenon\u2019s are the work of some kind of secret cabal or organization pulling the strings of life on earth\u2026it was a conspiracy\u2026\nFor example, the most famous murder of modern times was the assassination of JFK on November 22, 1963\u2026more than sixty years later, it seems like no one believes that lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman\u2026\nTo be fair, they might be right\u2026there\u2019s been a lot of investigation into the JFK case over the decades\u2026i\u2019m one of those nuts who reads, watches, and listens to everything involved with the assassination\u2026and I gotta tell you that i\u2019m convinced this was the result of a loose need-to-know operation involving the CIA, the deep stage, Cuban exiles, and American mobsters\u2026\nThere\u2019s also something called \u201cOccam\u2019s razor\u201d which dates back to the 14th century\u2026this Monk\u2014William of Occam\u2014was annoyed at how people blamed supernatural forces when even the simplest thing went wrong\u2026his answer to that was \u201clook, the simplest and most obvious explanation is usually the correct one\u201d\u2026\nBut try that approach with people who believe the earth is flat and that we never went to the moon\u2026Covid-19 was engineered by the media\u2026and the Illuminati live beneath the Denver airport\u2026\nThe world of conspiracy theories is a bottomless pit of weirdness\u2026and when it comes to music, one of the deepest and strangest of these theories has to do with what happened above a greenhouse in Seattle on April 5, 1994\u2026\nBoy, have I got stories\u2014multiple stories, in fact\u2014about this one\u2026in fact, it might be the most compressive study you\u2019ve ever heard on the subject\u2026this is uncharted: music and mayhem in the music industry, episode 12: it\u2019s the ever-popular Kurt-Cobain-was-murdered theory\u2026\n\nShow contact info: \nX (formerly Twitter): @AlanCross\nWebsite: curiouscast.ca\nEmail: Alan@alancross.ca\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices