The conspiracy recently popped up on the Bravo original series Southern Charm, when on a guy’s trip to Linville, North Carolina, Craig Conover asks a question that’s been on his mind: Are pandas real?

Lovable panda bears can be found anywhere from their native China to your local zoo and we've all, at the very least, seen a photo of them. But what if we told you they're not real? Or at least that's ...