Whatever you’ve heard is not the truth (at least entirely); whatever the truth, you shall not hear.
All conclaves are a dramatic struggle, all the more so coming after Benedict’s dramatic struggle which we would be wise to attribute to his own explanation instead of working ourselves into dramatic frenzies of speculation.
I take comfort that the Creator keep the only records that count. Man has not changed since the Adam was formed and the breath of life (soul/spirit intellect) was breathed into the Adam's nostrils.