Yes
Some people do look a bit like rats, some more like apes, or rabbits, or reptiles.
Every cultural generation is designed by its overlords- American Literature was created after the Revolution, for example, to establish American exceptionalism and spirit.
1988: Debris of a disaster
Pan Am flight 103 was just 38 minutes into its flight to New York when the bomb hidden in its luggage hold exploded.
The aircraft disintegrated and plunged several thousand feet onto the town of Lockerbie in south-west Scotland, killing all on board and 11 people on the ground.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/december/21/newsid_3332000/3332069.stm
So basically, anything anyone has ever thunk up and created artistically is real to some degree. The guardians of truth have all revealed truths 'stranger than fiction' and many have died/sacrificed for revealing too much, while others continue to profit.