[ WP ] You come across an old newspaper that , while appearing legitimate , details a completely different history than what you 've always believed .

A few weeks ago when my Uncle John passed, I was asked to clean out his estate. With no friends or other close family willing to do it, his estate would go up for sale this coming weekend. 
 
 Getting to his house was easy, the largest one in the block since I was a child, many items of his estate were just odds and ends scattered about that I never paid attention to. I opened a large closet in his living room, and found a number of old newspapers were stacked neatly in the corner in a milk crate. 
 
 `` The Wall Street Journal'' as I read the title. Why would he save copies of a newspaper dealing with finance, I thought Grandma said he was in the oil business? 
 
 My Uncle was a wealthy man at one time, but he gave away most of his money before he died. Reading through some of the articles, it was mostly boring business things that never appealed to me, and I thought that these could easily be tossed as junk. We were never really close, and other then our family dinners, we never spoke much. 
 
 I dumped the crate of newspapers into the trash bag, but the bottom paper stuck inside the crate. Going to fish it out with my hands, I saw it. And it did n't make sense... 
 
 `` Market up 600 points, Biggest One Day Move in History!'' It was n't the headline that caught my eye, it was the date: October 29th, 1929. 
 
 Maybe this was one of those funny newspapers you could get made up I thought to myself. After all, everyone knows that the day is Black Tuesday, the most devastating day in the history of the United States Stock Market. Uncle John spoke of that day with glee, but from what I remember, most people were poor and left with nothing? 
 
 But it was n't a spoof. It was the real print, with the same articles and authors, just different stories. I pulled out the other papers, and they were normal. Other things throughout history made sense, they lined up. I went back to the original paper to continue reading the article when I saw it a small note between the two pages. I almost fell out of my chair went I read it. 
 
 Nephew, 
 
 Reading this, I know the family has left you to tend to my affairs. This is the only paper we ever had printed. What really happened? Well, if you're reading this, then you know: The Great Crash was a lie. 
 
 We had to do it for our family. The failures, Rigging the Markets, putting the country in economic ruin, it was all necessary. Without it, we would n't have been able to do everything we needed to for the world to be a better place. We would n't have solidified our place as one of the wealthiest families in America. 
 
 Our family will be known forever because of our most heinous deeds. But I did n't expect our family to get greedy. That's why I made it clear that you would be the one to handle my estate. I 
 
 I know that you may never forgive me, but I hope you one day you will understand. 
 
 Your Uncle, 
 
 John Rockefeller 
 

