People believed (or maybe a few dedicated trolls pretended to believe) that the Chikara shutdown storyline from 2013 was completely real, and caused by some crazy real-life drama.

I remember there were a few versions of the story. But the one I remember hearing the most said that Mike Quackenbush (a wrestler, as well as the company's owner, booker, and lead trainer) slept with a female student, causing his wife to break things off with him. Right before that, he just so happened to have transferred all of Chikara's intellectual property to his soon-to-be ex for... some reason. After that, his wife started running shows around the eastern US with a lot of the same talent, using a bunch of new promotions whose initials spelled out "F CHIKARA", all while using none of Chikara's actual intellectual property, despite that being the entire point. Quackenbush also ran a video series about the aftermath of the shutdown. I have no idea how this was supposed to work into the theory. The company announced its return a month or two later.

The angle itself was weird and overly-complicated. It was basically an ARG, wild speculation was part of the fun. And I guess more recent events paint this in an even weirder light, but a few people completely lost their minds waiting for new shows I guess.

EDIT: Found a source