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Some stories sound too unrealistic to be true. That’s because quite often they aren’t. Whether it’s a myth, a conspiracy theory, or simply a lie someone blurted out, it might spread among people, making some of them actually believe it. And when they do, they are inclined to tell others about it.

Looking for some of the most unbelievable stories people consider to be true, redditors have repeatedly turned to the ‘Ask Reddit’ community with a question—what is the dumbest myth you have ever heard? The abundance of answers they received covered everything from dinosaur remains being planted by the government to people looking for gold for aliens. Scroll down to find more of their unbelievable answers.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Aside from everything in the bible itself, my mom told me that bibles could not burn because they contained the word of God so God protected them from being destroyed. She told me there were many instances of entire houses burning down but the bible(s) remaining intact and virtually unscathed. So I burned a bible when I was about 8 years old. Myth busted!

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

lmfao I can only imagine the horror on her face when you burned a bible and I love it

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing scientology

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Bernd Herbert
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I urge everyone to read about the actual belief Scientology promotes. The founder was a bad Science-Fiction Writer and so is this cult. The main character is the galactic overlord Xenu. I am not making this shít up. And I am still amazed that people despite knowing that still follow

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Boris Long-Johnson
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is less believable than a child of god was killed for our sins, shoved in a cave and disappeared (ie rose again)? Or how about how Lot dididled his daughters, Or Mohammed consummating his marriage with Aisha when she was 9 or 10? Religion is about what you’re used to.

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Jared Robinson
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, everyone has the right to believe whatever they want, as long as it doesn't harm anyone else. You have the right to believe this is a myth, others have the right to believe it is truth. And you can't do anything about it.

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Nadine Saloum
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oooooh if you think it doesn't harm anyone you aren't very widely read...

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Amity_Calamity
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was editing the info for my doctors office stuff and for religion there was no option for atheism...there was however an option for scientology 😭

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Ericthedead
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just imagine what we could accomplish if instead of religion all that energy was focused on science and the advancement of humans.

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Steve Riddle
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Romans invented the Christian religion to control the Hebrews who rebelled against them. It was so successful that this authoritarian religion took over Europe and spread all over the world.

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ghostFluff
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

everyone has a right to their own religion, I've taken enough s**t for being an atheist to say otherwise

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Mint Sauce
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Any religion!!!! Even J K Rowling hasn't made as much money from writing about a fictitious character!!!!!!

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

not necessarily evil, but definately b******t. Lucifer, from the bible? is one of the kindest and most supportive entities (human or not) that I have ever met. The same goes for Lady Lilith. the Archangels are chill too. the book is b******t, the entities aren't. Edit: I'm a Pagan Witch

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Stannous Flouride
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Charles Manson went through 150 sessions with a Scientologist cellmate and decided it was too whacky for him so asked to be put into solitary confinement.

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Adolf Hitler believed he was a God. He used dark witchcraft and daemons to do his bidding. Those of his followers were daemon possessed and worshipped him as their reborn god.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Your birthday decides who you are as a person

bauchwech , Nikhita Singhal Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing The earth is only 6000 years old. Tell that to the Sumerians

rawbamatic , Michel wal Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing My MIL got mad at me for reaching up high to grab something while pregnant because, "That'll wrap the umbilical cord around the baby's neck!"I told her that no part of my anatomy directly connects my arms to the inside of my placenta. She didn't believe me so I googled to show her it's an old wives tale. She got upset and cried. :/ Sweet lady but damn. Use some common sense

ComprehensiveScore4 , Anastasiia Chepinska Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing If you have "organ donor" on your driver's license then EMTs will let you die to take your organs

ajfirnfh , Yassine Khalfalli Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't need to call an ambulance to have your organs taken, I'll do it for free.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing That dwarfs didn't exist before World War 2.

A friend tried to tell me that They were bred by the Australians to be able to hide in kangaroo pouches and 'sneak attack' if the country was ever invaded.

We're not friends anymore.

The_Master_of_LOLZ , Mark Galer Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing The world is flat, and it only looks round from space due to gravity distorting light.

Dr_Graves , NASA Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's obvious that the world isn't flat, cats would've knocked everything off over the edge.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Breatharianism. The idea that people can live without food and all we really need to survive is oxygen. Not sure how this group still exists

Akatsiya , Artem Kovalev Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Dinosaurs were placed in the ground by the government in order to discredit religious people and prove evolution...or something like that. I can't remember the details. It gave me an aneurysm.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing we only use 10% of our brains

Black-Byte , Robina Weermeijer Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Whales control the weather and are currently causing global warming.

Because apparently their movements affect ocean currents or air currents or I don't even know what. I wish I were making this up.

dynamouse , Todd Cravens Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First I've heard of that. Though to be honest I'm more worried about those butterflies causing hurricanes.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing A black cat is an omen of bad luck and if one crosses your way you have idk how many years of bad luck. Along the same lines is the mirror 7 years of bad luck, and walking under a ladder. Like, excuse me? Can that cat ration enough to put a f**king spell on you?? And how tf are inanimate objects gonna cast a f**king spell????? Like it just seems extremely dumb

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Black cats are literally the most precious creatures on planet Earth, how dare you

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing As recently as 1993, when I had my youngest child, there were people telling me during my pregnancy to get rid of my cat because it would get in the crib and "take the baby's breath away." The fact that I had an almost-four-year-old who survived household cats didn't hold water with them.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The issue is the cat is a selfish beast who will sleep on top of the baby, because a cat is programmed to find something squishy and warm to sleep on. It's not a frequent issue but you need to make sure they can't. The much bigger risk is their litter tray. It contains poops with toxoplasmodium gondii in it. You want to clean that often with gloves and wash hands after.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing David Icke's theory That every world leader, member of royalty and figure of importance is reptilian.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an anthropomorphic reptile I can confirm that the president is a lizard. And Mark Zuckerberg.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing I can't decide which one of these are worse.

- Having a discussion with a friend and his buddy about Bruce Lee. Then the topic of his death comes up. The conspiracy theories start to fly but it didn't really get too ridiculous until my friend's buddy piped up.

"Bruce Lee actually died when he set himself on fire while cooking hot dogs. They covered it up because no one wanted to think that the world's greatest martial artist would have done that to himself. But anyone who does a little reading will know this."

- At work we were discussing fighting games. The one guy then blurts out that the reason Asians are so good at these games is that the machines are built by other Asians to have *genetic decoders* built into the buttons. Once the machine verifies that you are Asian, the game gives you unfair advantages over your opponent. He was completely serious about this theory. When he was finished talking, there was a good 8 seconds of complete silence until my friend piped up and says, "That's.....got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard."

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This person has no idea how DNA testing is actually accomplished, do they?

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing An idiot told my wife a few weeks ago that if you are being mugged at an ATM you need to type in your PIN backwards. He thinks this will allow you to withdraw money as normal but "alerts" the police who dispatch a squad car to your location imediately.

When she asked what about people with mirror image PINs and PINs such as 4444 he still maintained that he was right. No actual answer, just insisted he was correct.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You type the last four first, then the second to last and so on. Do we need to explain everything to you?

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing My father once told with with absolute seriousness that if a snake bites you, and you survive, the snake dies instead. Apparently this is an old wives tale from India, but he defended it for a solid ten minutes before begrudgingly admitting that it didn't make any sense

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it bites you and you die, its venomous. If you bite it and you die, its poisonous. If you both bite each other and neither of you die, its kinky

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing The moon landing is fake.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The American government did, indeed, film the moon landing. However, they hired Stanley Kubrick to direct the film, and he was such a perfectionist that he insisted on shooting on location.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing So many people genuinely believe blood is blue inside their body

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing There is an activist group (with a large following) that claims that clouds in the sky are not real. They are just figments of everyone's imaginations because the government brain washes everyone into thinking clouds exist.

Seriously?

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing My all time favorite is Chinese buffets are just a way of making us fatter and easier to invade.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing A coworker of mine believes that if you play the phrase "Yes we can." backwards, it sounds suspiciously like "Thank you Satan.", and so Obama must have made a pact with the devil in order to win the presidency. The strangest part is that he isn't particularly political, or outspokenly partisan. His real concern is ACTUALLY Satan.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing That if you startle a pregnant woman the baby will come out cross eyed

m0ther0fg0ds , Ömürden Cengiz Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Magnetic balance improving bracelets. I will immediately write you off as dumb or at least very gullible if you wear one of those those things.

Nsekiil , Stephen Leonardi Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

However, the placebo effect is real and it’s possible that this is one example.

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Freemason here.

I am constantly amazed by the people who claim that Freemasons have some kind of New World Order conspiracy going on. The only thing even *more* amazing is how people who are **not** Freemasons can describe to me in detail how the entire conspiracy works, except that I, myself (you know, the guy who's *actually* a Mason), don't know about it because I'm apparently not high ranking enough.

For those who don't know, there is no "head" of Freemasons. It's a fairly loose conglomerate of Grand Lodges which oversee local lodges. In the US and Canada, each state/province has it's own head 9Grand Lodge) - there isn't any national head. In Great Britain, England, Scotland, Ireland each have their own Grand Lodges. There's no head of the organization to flow down any kinds of instructions.

Also consider: Local lodges are filled with (mainly older) members of the community, like your grandfather, uncle, the neighbor across the street, etc. Generally, I'm amazed that the local lodges can successfully plan a charity fund raiser (or sometimes, even a picnic). Planning a far-reaching extra-government conspiracy is, well, you know. Just nuts.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Birth control pills will cause the downfall of society.

As my sociology professor explained, "Birth control pills let women have all the sex they want and don't have to worry about having babies, and there are more and more women who are using them and never settling down and having families. With no women getting pregnant anymore, the government will have to step in and start creating a workforce using cloning technology. These clones will grow up in a government-controlled school and trained to be mindless automatons whose goal in life is to work and to serve their government masters - they will be chemically neutered so that they aren't concerned about sex and marriage, and they will all be the same race."

Funny enough, he never thought about what would happen when the government officials die off and there are only clones left.

Diredoe , Thought Catalog Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Some guy told me about how the Illuminati gets two dead bodies every year and place them in the Coca Cola tanks. Then they use them to ferment the Coca Cola the public drinks to control us

fluffy-muffin , Evonne Yuwen Teoh Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing That the Mona Lisa is actually Leonardo da Vinci in drag

deleted , The Free Birds Report

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing A moron I worked with, swore that the diet Pepsi I was drinking was flavored with aborted fetuses from planned parenthood... He was serious.. Google it... This dude had tattoos on his eyelids too, so not real bright to begin with

OB-14 , Andrew George Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

because yes, the illuminati really have time, interest or energy to do s**t like that. for what end? I always ask these nuts (a) for what purpose would they do that and (b) how does it make them money or give them more power? They can never explain.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Definitely the Korean urban myth of sleeping with a fan on will you. I’ve heard it explained as the blades chopping up the air creating gaps so that you suffocate in your sleep

LosAngelesLio , Andrew George Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This has all the hallmarks of a parent trying to get the kids to turn the fan off at night to save electricity.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing In the past few months my friend went out with a girl that said she didn't believe in dinosaurs, I don't know why this bothers me so much I mean who cares what someone else thinks right? But f*****g hell dinosaurs the evidence is so f*****g overwhelming it's like saying every night the people from the Truman Show turn on the moon.

rozyhammer , Markus Spiske Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"People from the Truman Show turn on the moon"...sounds interesting...make sure David Icke gets to hear about that and he can weave that into a worldwide conspiracy involving the Pope, the Illuminati, the Royal Family and Jews and publish a thick boring book on it

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Illuminati conspiracy is the dumbest s**t I've ever heard of. I even heard that they controlled the earthquakes in Haiti

punkgx , Thought Catalog Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not just Haiti, but also they are allegedly reptilians who drink adrenochrome etc etc. Idiots will swallow anyhting that sounds outrageous.

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The Phantom Time hypothesis. That 300 years of European history between 600-900 AD were just made up.

This is also my favorite conspiracy theory.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I prefer the phantom thyme theory. you know…how oregano and thyme are the same herb, just marketed differently in order to make the lizard people more money so they can fund their nefarious schemes.

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