Why some QAnon believers think JFK Jr is still alive – and about to become vice president

Conspiracy theorist group QAnon hit a bizarre milestone in November 2021, when its supporters gathered for what they hoped would be the return of the late JFK Jr – who, they believed, would be running on an imagined 2024 ticket with former president Donald Trump.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr’s plane was pulled out of the Atlantic Ocean more than 24 years ago in a crash that killed him, his wife Carolyn and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette.

For some QAnon true believers, however, the son of the 35th president of the United States not only survived the tragedy but is poised to make a dramatic return to public life.

A bizarre theory duly emerged suggesting that the accident had just been a ruse to fake his death and that he will re-emerge to join a reinstated President Trump as his VP.

And those devotees gathered in November 2021 for what they expected would be a dramatic revelation at the AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas – but was in fact more of a damp squib.

When JFK Jr, unsurprisingly, failed to make an appearance, people in the crowd suggested he would in fact make an appearance