9 Batsh*t Crazy Theories That Might Actually Be True

4. The Mars Curse: Something Is Eating Our Spaceships

We've all pretty much come to terms with the fact that there probably aren't any little green men on Mars these days. Unless, that is, they just don't want to be found.

Since we have been sending probes to Mars, around two thirds of them have failed. The Mars Curse or, even better, the "Great Galactic Ghoul" is a hypothetical Martian space monster that subsists on a diet of space probes and does its level best to prevent us from reaching the planet's surface.

Although the curse is a facetious way to explain the large number of doomed missions to the red planet, there is a very, very, very small chance that there is something big and mysterious on Mars that is swatting down our probes and making it look like an an accident.

In a slightly less mental vein, it could be that there is an unknown natural phenomenon, such as variable atmosphere or something in the soil on Mars, that causes our probes to fail.

Either that or it's just very difficult to shoot a robot at a target over 200 million miles away, but that's less exciting.