They say it’s always best to trust your gut. But what if it tells you there’s something off with a particular person, place, situation, you name it? Today, we are diving into some hard-to-believe scenarios shared by people with very strong suspicions. The only catch is that they have zero proof of the conspiracies.
“What do you strongly suspect but have no proof of?” asked u/757jsmith on the r/AskReddit subreddit and the answers started rolling in.
Let’s scroll through the most interesting ones below, and who knows… sometimes life is stranger than fiction!
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Religion was created to control the masses.
Maybe todays religion, but from the beginning it was simply a way to explain things we didn't understand.
Our ancient (human) history is far more vast and impressive than we can even begin to imagine.
Suspect my Physically and mentally abusive ex husband was planning on offing me during our separation/divorce. He got a $75,000 life insurance policy on me during our separation. Found out 2 years after our divorce when he had overpaid the policy and the insurance sent me a refund check. Mistake on their part.
During our separation, he had invited me to join his “family” vacation at Grand Canyon, I said no. He invited me to the mountains that same summer to try to be a family again, I said no. Then he invited me to Mexico for “reconciliation, again no. ( I said no because the gut feelings I had and my mom told me not to) She had 3 dreams in a row that my soon to be ex husband would tell her I was dead.
I have no proof, just the insurance policy and my mom’s dreams. 2 years after divorce, he canceled policy. I didn’t know you could get insurance on someone without them knowing
Woman's clothes have either no pockets or crumby pockets to promote handbag sales.
I've heard this one so many times, but I've always wondered then why there aren't more companies that make both pants and hand bags.
The Kardashians usually wear solid colored clothing because it’s easier for them to photoshop
That the universe is teeming with life. Earth just can't be that special.
Ooor, there have been lots of planets like the earth before, maybe with higher developed civilisations like us, but their galaxy exploded in a supernova billions of years ago like it will happen to our galaxy. Maybe some of the black holes only exist because some alien experiment went horribly wrong. The universe is so big and so old and so crazy-for me, everything is possible..
That the developed world would function just fine if people were paid the same salaries, but worked only 3 days a week instead of 5. I strongly suspect the elite and governments want us working as much as possible so we don't have enough free time to cause unrest and improve society in a way that would negatively affect them. After all, since machines and factories have automated most forms of manufacturing, so why are we working as many (or more) hours as people from 150 years ago?
For those saying it's unrealistic, this sort of mass shift; please let me draw your attention to history. There were people who were certain the economy couldn't stand paying former slaves, allowing women into the work force, cutting back from 80 hour work weeks to 40 hour work weeks, not allowing children to work, and I'm sure there's more. The proposed idea would be a major shift but it's not unrealistic or outright impossible. I'd love to hear some economists debate the feasibility.
All those “questionnaires” and “create your X name” things on Facebook are created by people hoping to data mine secret question answers to steal your identity or bank info.
Your stripper name is the first car you owned + The street you grew up on.
Yo dummy, those are the secret questions to your bank account!
Cats can understand our words, but do not care. They are waiting for a moment to speak, but since we are so far beneath them it hasn't happened yet.
There’s no sales on Black Friday. It’s just hyped up and people don’t do the research. Something could have been on “sale” earlier in the year for the same price, but people flock to the stores on Black Friday and buy it immediately because in their mind... it’s the cheapest it has ever been.
That the "unsubscribe" method in spam emails, calls or texts are really just a way of confirming the number is attached to a real person.
That a lot of businesses in my hometown are just money laundering operations. 25 nail salons in a town of 70,000? 3000 square foot DVD rental shop in the best block of downtown where commercial rents are very high? Dozens of $10 barber shops sitting empty all day but remaining open? Red flags all around.
Yes! I always think this, like how can they make a profit, and afford to pay all of their overheads?
That my oldest brother is actually my bio father.
It just makes no sense to me otherwise. I have a butt chin and no one else in my family does. This older brother was(is?) an alcoholic, drug addict, and just a big mess all around. He brought different women to my parent's house every day and we would hear them f**k. It makes no sense to me that he came out of that with zero children. Makes less sense since he's ~20 years older than me, which means my parents would have had me at a dangerously (for my mom) old age. I know it's not impossible, but it just makes a lot more sense this way. Plus my parents always covered up for his wrongdoings so it honestly wouldn't surprise me.
I once asked my mom and she got visibility upset. Didn't even ask her outright, I just said I had a dream that they told me my brother was really my father. She got super mad and refused to even discuss or acknowledge my dream. Weird as hell.
I would still consider my mom, my mom. Wouldn't consider my brother my dad if he were because he's an ass. It's just something I think is highly probable.
Every episode of every reality show is either tightly scripted, or at least framed and re-shot so the producers can get the right amount of drama on the screen.
In my city something bad is about to happen.
I see a lot of mansions on sale, and houses with good location too. I think rich people know something that the rest of the people don't.
Pretty paranoid, sorry.
Not that paranoid. It's called "insider knowledge" and rich people hold often the position where they are informed about plans that could affect their properties. So it could be that soon you'll find that some very polluting industry is building a new plant right across the street because it suddenly has been designated as "industrial area".
Queen Elizabeth will probably live up to 120 years and longer. She is one of the best fed and most cared person on Earth.
If we invented something for immortality, she likely took it already.
That only about 20% of people actually do any work. The rest just get by looking busy.
I believe that many animal rescues self-perpetuate their own problem. Some rescues have VERY picky requirements - like salary minimums, yard size minimums, prior experience, age minimums, required seminars, required volunteer work, etc. Meanwhile you can just go to a breeder or a store, and be able to get a pet that day.
I understand wanting to make sure the animals go to a home equipped to care for the animal, but if it's so hard to get a rescuee pet that it drives people to stores, then those shelters will only ever become more crowded. A parrot rescue near me requires 6 months of volunteering for 3 hours every week before you can adopt... and there's a store nearby that just breeds and sells parrots. Which one would most people pick?
I couldn’t agree more with this! Plenty of people would love to adopt a cat or dog but live in a flat/apartment and are discounted immediately. I’ve never understood why having access to a garden is deemed more important than a loving home with people who care. Here in the UK many people would love to take on a rescue pet but are stumped at this first hurdle. It would be ok for me to have a baby in that environment but not a dog/cat?!? How does that make sense to anyone?
I believe my grand mother was a serial killer. She was married 7 times; each ending in a sudden death. She died in the 1980’s but everything is still suspicious and no one seems to know anything. I did find an article about her when she came to the US where her first husband died defending her after her ex-boyfriend climbed in her window in New York City. I also found evidence of her having been in prison before coming to the US.
That a relative is a CIA agent. She was in the Peace Corps, Vietnam era. Ever since she's been a "world traveler," somehow able to drop her work and "go hiking the Spanish version of the Appalachian Trail" or otherwise go to exotic locales. Sometimes she came back with injuries, "I fell as we were climbing some rocks." Her son is in the agency as an employee, not a spy, and he's married to a CIA translator.
Prince Charles will never sit on the throne. I believe he made a deal with Queen Elizabeth that in exchange for being allowed to marry Camilla he gave up his right to sit on the throne. Prince William will sit on the throne when Queen Elizabeth dies.
That Bath and Body Works has like, 13 unique scents. Every couple of months they just rotate the scents in and call them something else.
Starbucks baristas intentionally spell your name wrong so you take a picture of it and post it on social media to give the company free advertising.
I'm pretty sure that's a fact. I've read it so many times. It's free advertising for them
My dog sees supernatural events at our house.
Historians +200 years from now will be able to look at all of all of the private messages and data of people who have been long dead.
Similar to how we can read private letters of people from 1700’s.
Some zoos have empty exhibits and just claim the animal is in there, you just never see them.
I think my great great uncle was gay, but lived in a time where he had to hide that part of himself. He never had a wife or kids. He traveled a lot and was very into art. I asked my grandma a while back if she thought he was gay and she said he just wasn't interested in having girlfriends.
That my five month old knows exactly when I’m about to fall asleep and starts crying just to screw with me.
I believe that apple never actually intended for anyone to buy their $999 monitor stand. It was just an excuse so they could invalidate all warranty claims for the Pro monitor.
"We can't approve your claim due to the use of improper 3rd party equipment".
That your phone and laptop mics are hot and sending data to certain groups.
That my English teacher didn't read essays, and based grades on how we were in class.
Mattress stores are a money laundering scheme. No one buys that many mattresses.
That every single person who has submitted their DNA to their ancestor sites has officially damned themselves. That’s like giving away all the passwords to your devices. Our DNA is our coding, it is what builds us. If someone for some reason wanted that information for any reason that would likely ignore the integrity of bioethics, they could get to it. Rich person will die within 2 days without a kidney transplant? They could easily pay someone to check the database to find an individual who could potentially be the closest match. That person would have also submitted where they live. It would be pretty convenient for that person to randomly get terribly injured and be taken to the hospital where the rich person happens to be at. I know it sounds crazy, and there are 100 less crazy things people can do with out data. But with body autonomy rights starting to be taken away by some states, it’s essentially the government saying they own the rights to your body, it’s just not that obvious...for now. Y’all wait. Y’all mark my words.
Yep! I will never willingly give away my DNA and I think it's utterly crazy that anyone does. Those ancestry sites make it all look so fun and interesting but there is something sinister about them. I just know it! In the same vain, I'd never have one of those Alexa (or similar) spybots in my house.
Have you ever had bloodwork done before? Cheek swab? Left any hairs at the gp? Then they've got your DNA.
Load More Replies...I see the logic, but I also don't believe the world is one big conspiracy theory where everyone is trying to destroy everyone else.
We are all getting destroyed without needing it to be a conspiracy theory
Load More Replies...I appreciate your opinion, but I found my biological family through DNA and I have no regrets
Oops I did Ancestry and 23andMe. Oh well, Ill just enjoy my kidneys while I still have them.
Don't know about kidneys, but nobody is going to want my liver after the last year or so
Load More Replies...It's not enough to share DNA for transplants. You need to be a blood match. Most DNA sites you send them saliva. I'd be more worried about the blood they take for "standard testing" for physicals and life insurance polices. My DNA results show I share DNA with 41,000 other individuals in the US alone.
More likely problem are insurance companies, but not exactly because of these ancestry companies but in general because of how much cheaper and faster the sequencing of DNA has become. Would be legal for insurance companies to demand your DNA sequence to see if you have the genetic tendency to certain diseases?
Well, i did 23 and me and found out i carry one gene for cystic fibrosis! It does tend to run in families. But we didn't have any children so I am good. But my sisters with kids, had genetic testing done for it prior to having first babies. Do not want to being a child in to this world with cystic fibrosis! To have a child with it, I'd have to have married someone with a gene copy of it also. But as we didn't have kids we are fine.
Load More Replies...It is a well known fact that those DNA-sites sell your DNA sample. Nothing new about it and if you've read their T&C before sending them your sample, you would have known it. As far as the "body autonomy rights" goes, during a pandemic you do not get to decide that it's your freedom to keep spreading a lethal virus.
It's not a "well known fact". One, one company has been 'caught' doing that, and I say caught because they already openly admitted to it before hand in their TOS. There was some genuine concerns with 23andme sold out recently, but so far that data seems to be secure still. That's not to say it won't ever happen, but it's certainly NOT the norm (yet).
Load More Replies...Nah. I like to look at as I may contribute to the solving of a crime by a relative. And, I don't live where I did when I submitted my DNA. But I did find out some valuable answers about my ancestors. Quite interesting to say the least.
Do tell! I'm researching my ancestors, doing quite well but there were some books lost and couldn't carry on. But found out that my greatgreatgrandmother had her son out of wedlock at 28 years old and married at 41 a 28 years old man. Quite adventurous for the end of the 19th century! I have quite a few illegitimate ancestors and the father's side is lost there. And in the older books mother's family name isn't even mentioned. Here DNA testing would come handy, but I'm not doing it. Better safe than sorry.
Load More Replies...If this is a thing, what about blood samples for tests? Gee, it's full of DNA! Whatever should we do with that? Pretty much any time you get tested for anything.
As the Simpsons once said, If you have ever touched a penny the government has your DNA. S7E1
Load More Replies...I did it and found a sister that no one knew about and I couldn't be happier. Worth the risk
If you send in your DNA to get tested, just use a fake name, and fake info. They post the results online, on "your" page, so no one has to know you. Decline any hits you might get saying so and so matches you and might be a relative.
My grandpa refuses to get any of the new iPhones with the facial scanner because he doesn't want the government to have his face. He has a driver's license...
As much as I would like to laugh at this, I expect to see a BP post in ten years about prophetic posts wherein this will be prominently featured.
The Golden State Killer got caught a few years ago because of ancestry sites, where relatives of him were listed. That's one of the good purposes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo
They catch killers with it, like the Golden State Killer. Unless you’re a criminal your dna will likely exonerate you from criminal suspicion.
Ha! Someone steals my DNA or organs and the jokes on them. I am broken.
They have been able to solve cold cases, so that is a good thing. Even if it was your Dad that got arrested.
If you’ve ever submitted a blood test, you’ve already handed over your dna.
Well every baby ever born, at least in most countries, has their blood taken and they have the DNA from birth, so of those babies are still alive then I'd say, your kidneys are safe!
Load More Replies...My dad doesn't trust them either, although he has different reasoning. His is they use your DNA to find criminals and arrest them within your family, even if they committed those crimes years ago
They're not looking for random criminals. If someone has a rapist or murderer in their family, it shouldn't matter how long ago they committed the crime. But considering that there are rape kits sitting around that are YEARS old that have never even been processed, the only way that this is going to happen is if it's a high-profile, unsolved murder case. Even then, DNA would have had to be left at the crime scene, the sample would have had to have been large enough to test AND the sample would have had to have been preserved. Your dad is "worried" about something that's completely unlikely to happen. Unless, of course, he IS the criminal some department is looking for. It was a bonus for me. If I had a family member that committed the kind of crime that this would potentially solve, I'd give more DNA, go into their home and get their DNA for the police and help the police arrest them.
Load More Replies...no one wants my dna. I am a boring 60 year old. my dna has no real value. I think people are just paranoid.
Governments owning the rights to people's bodies?? Well they've been stopping women from having abortions forever. Maybe men just need to get used to it too
Of course you're putting your DNA in some sort of database to be sold when you do that, but damning themselves? Homeboy needs to touch grass.
Damn. I really have wanted to try one of those ancestry deals because I know nothing of the dude that impregnated my mother thus producing me (he hasn't earned the name father or dad)
Except there's a waiting list for organ donors, and no amount of money will get someone to the top of that list. Now, black-market organ transplants, that's a whole 'nother ballgame.
Yep snd if they needed a kidney, they could pay me and I'd give them one.
Load More Replies...I'd totally pay 15 dollars for a ticket to this movie; hurry, write the script!!!
Hmmmm... Of course none of that confirms if they are doners or if their family will give permission or that they'll actually be at the top of the list to receive. Paranoid stupidity.
On the plus side; these sites combined with human curiosity is helping identify murderers, rapist, plus Jane, and John Does! By getting murders off the streets, this is potentially saving your llife, or that of someone you care about.
As a true crime fan, I'm seeing more and more cases solved by familial DNA searches. So if you submit yours to one of those sites, and your cousin commits a crime, they can find him through you. There are pluses and minuses to all tech.
I agree 100%. If you dont believe this is even remotely true, fine. But look up how many heart transplants Rockefeller has had. Using the medical matrix for continuing care, he should have been done after the first transplant failed. It is highly recommended for all kinds of reasons to not give anyone your DNA for any kind of database. Just ask your family about your ethnic background.
doesnt matter, if ANY ONE OF YOUR RELATIVES does this, 99.999999% of YOUR DNA is already available, as is your information
They’ve already used DNA ancestry tests to find criminals, including tests submitted by their relatives.
I did my DNA as did my son and my daughter. I’m here to tell you if anybody wants body parts from my body all I can tell you is good luck!
Admittedly, I sent my DNA in. I wound up locating my long-lost biological father, and honestly? For a payout like that, I'm kinda willing to take the chance of the above theory since those odds are so incredibly slim anyway.
soo paranoid! Actually they use it for selling to research studies, they make big money off of funding that stuff.
I think this is a far bigger problem in places like the USA where medical insurance can deny you based on your genetics. Countries with universal healthcare don't have this problem.
Interesting premise. But DNA has nothing to do with donating an organ. It has to do with blood, tissue compatibility. DNA doesn't figure in to this.
When I first heard this idea I figured I didn't want to know my ancestry that desperately that I would pay to give away my DNA information. Even if it's not true now, doesn't mean it won't be in the future. But then, there are probably many other ways of getting your DNA, like blood tests or swabs at the Dr.'s
100 percent agreed on this one! I'll never do one of those DNA tests.
Actually...if you want access to someone's DNA, you can get ahold of it. Apparently it's not that hard. There's an artist that made a whole exhibit about this. https://www.popsci.com/anonymity-artist/
My dad loves ancestry stuff so he did that test. I told him he just paid someone to collect his DNA; and in the not too distant future, when big corporations unleash their clone armies on the world, one of those clone army soldiers will look just like him.
"That's how they get ya'." That is my standard responses whenever my family ask me to do an ancestry test.
I was always wary of those sites, because every single ad amounts to "Wow, I never knew I was X% of Y nationality!" I picture one person throwing darts at a map while a second person counts the money. I've been tempted to submit my own sample and my brother's to compare results that should be identical
Same here in the UK unless you have health conditions that can make your organs unusable for transplants, live HIV/AIDS, Leukemia, Cancer or any autoimmune disease.
Load More Replies...That companies (such as smartphones companies) are holding back their best technologies waiting their competitors to release something new so they release something a bit better but not the best they can do
That Earth has been visited by one or more advanced civilizations, and may even be watching us stealthily.
Maybe the whole Christianity thing is records of aliens walking on our planet. Think about it. The kingdom in the skies, Jesus' miracles and his superior knowledge, his resurrection -> ascending to the sky -> not reappearing for ages.... It sounds like this ruler of a kingdom called Heaven sent his son to go explore planet Earth, he had bad experiences with our rather barbarian ancestors, went back home and doesn't want to come back.
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I have one! I think Kraft and Nabisco are in cahoots. If you fold a slice of Kraft's American cheese (any brand really) in fourths, each quarter slice fits perfectly on a saltine.
And get this! A whole slice fits perfectly on a slice of..bread!
Load More Replies...I basically make about $10 a year online. It's enough to replace naff all. I was amazed how crap and time consuming it was when I tried it. Stay in school, kids!
Load More Replies...Every accusation you hear made by a member of the US Republican Party is an admission of guilt. GOP = Gaslight, Obstruct, Project
Can you blame them? They are old and afraid. Scared that the best is behind them and the future is too scary (even the 30yo ones). "No! No! No! Keep it the way it was and make other people pay for it" is the GOP battle whine.
Load More Replies...I know they've shown it in old movies and whatnot, but I'm really starting to think our universe is just a massive cell within another giant creature or being, and we're cancer to it slow destroying the single atom we inhabit until we spread to the next one and so on. Makes 100% sense to me.
Oh, forgot to add that "global warming" is 100% real and it's just the giant beings immune system trying to kill us off. Think about it, when you're sick your bodies immune system causes you to have a fever to kill off the infection.
Load More Replies...My one is: technology for faster than light travel is already on possession of most powerful governments right now. It's impossible all those UFO movies are just a coincidence.
There is a *very* broad streak of barely concealed antisemitism running through the English aristocracy. All the "old money" families with the titles, and the stately homes, whose ancestors at the time of the Crusades were in debt to their eyeballs to Jewish moneylenders.
Most of these Are just conspiracy theories, but #2 (about a soon-to-be ex plotting to kill his wife) Is way too real... This was the only one that send chills to my spine...
Superb thread providing much food for thought as well as some amusement. Thank you Bored Panda :)
I also have one. That the aliens or Greys of popular culture and UFOs are not aliens but humans from the future who have developed time travel technology and have physical adaptations to better live on their adopted planet Mars. It sounds far fetched but this is technically more feasible than traveling the vast reaches of space from another planet to earth. And the reason they are mostly interested and mainly seen in military bases and nuclear weapon sites is because they are trying to prevent our own self destruction.
Oh, I have one too!!! The big tissue companies invented the common cold infections in a lab and let them loose onto humanity so that they could sell lots of tissues to people.
My one is that the antivax movement was started to remove woman’s rights and get them out of the workforce back to being baby factories. If we loose herd immunity that the vaccines have given us childhood diseases that have almost been eradicated will come back with a vengeance. If a young couple wanted just two kids they would need to have 5 just to have two live to adulthood. That would mean the woman would be perceptually pregnant during her early adulthood during a time she would have been carving out her career
I have one! I think Kraft and Nabisco are in cahoots. If you fold a slice of Kraft's American cheese (any brand really) in fourths, each quarter slice fits perfectly on a saltine.
And get this! A whole slice fits perfectly on a slice of..bread!
Load More Replies...I basically make about $10 a year online. It's enough to replace naff all. I was amazed how crap and time consuming it was when I tried it. Stay in school, kids!
Load More Replies...Every accusation you hear made by a member of the US Republican Party is an admission of guilt. GOP = Gaslight, Obstruct, Project
Can you blame them? They are old and afraid. Scared that the best is behind them and the future is too scary (even the 30yo ones). "No! No! No! Keep it the way it was and make other people pay for it" is the GOP battle whine.
Load More Replies...I know they've shown it in old movies and whatnot, but I'm really starting to think our universe is just a massive cell within another giant creature or being, and we're cancer to it slow destroying the single atom we inhabit until we spread to the next one and so on. Makes 100% sense to me.
Oh, forgot to add that "global warming" is 100% real and it's just the giant beings immune system trying to kill us off. Think about it, when you're sick your bodies immune system causes you to have a fever to kill off the infection.
Load More Replies...My one is: technology for faster than light travel is already on possession of most powerful governments right now. It's impossible all those UFO movies are just a coincidence.
There is a *very* broad streak of barely concealed antisemitism running through the English aristocracy. All the "old money" families with the titles, and the stately homes, whose ancestors at the time of the Crusades were in debt to their eyeballs to Jewish moneylenders.
Most of these Are just conspiracy theories, but #2 (about a soon-to-be ex plotting to kill his wife) Is way too real... This was the only one that send chills to my spine...
Superb thread providing much food for thought as well as some amusement. Thank you Bored Panda :)
I also have one. That the aliens or Greys of popular culture and UFOs are not aliens but humans from the future who have developed time travel technology and have physical adaptations to better live on their adopted planet Mars. It sounds far fetched but this is technically more feasible than traveling the vast reaches of space from another planet to earth. And the reason they are mostly interested and mainly seen in military bases and nuclear weapon sites is because they are trying to prevent our own self destruction.
Oh, I have one too!!! The big tissue companies invented the common cold infections in a lab and let them loose onto humanity so that they could sell lots of tissues to people.
My one is that the antivax movement was started to remove woman’s rights and get them out of the workforce back to being baby factories. If we loose herd immunity that the vaccines have given us childhood diseases that have almost been eradicated will come back with a vengeance. If a young couple wanted just two kids they would need to have 5 just to have two live to adulthood. That would mean the woman would be perceptually pregnant during her early adulthood during a time she would have been carving out her career