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.
This is true. A study confirmed it. But people are so dumb that they fall for it every single year. Fighting each other in the aisles. Sometimes it's embarrassing to be a human.
There are some extremely worthwhile Black Friday sales, but they require some research to find. There are also some sales for stuff that should go in the dumpster. I've been a crowd of 40+ people waiting to attack a bin of $1 DVDs of movies that are about good enough to show on afternoon network TV.
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Actually I have proof that prices are raised few days before, just to be "lowered" on Black Friday. Many such proofs exist on internet too.
Sunday-Satursay sales haven't been common in forever. Most places run sale price points a few days Then go to standard pricing on the lower traffic days. Then back to another sale for the heavy traffic days. Long story short, of course the prices are raised before a sale.
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It's also been confirmed that many products, especially electronic items, are specifically manufactured to be sold during Black Friday. These products are made with cheaper parts etc and thus them being "marked down" makes no difference to the companies.
Many outlet stores do the same thing all year round, too.
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I worked at a lowes one christmas, and i was setting up a vacuum cleaner display. The tag said "originally (price), but now (same price)". The supposed sale price was twice as large as the original price, and highlighted. We sold out of them in a few hours.
Confirmation bias aside there are Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals that are better than standard sales
This has also been proven to some extent. A lot if the items "on sale" are items that didn't meet quality control standards. The item is given a model number very similar to others so it's hard to know the difference. Like instead of getting a 55" Samsung UHD TV model 123456789A, your actually getting a 55" Samsung UHD TV model 123456789B.
its still a sale, even if its not the best price EVER. but no, black friday prices are typically no better than 20-30% off when the same item was 50% off earlier in the year on random day. i work in accounting and in tech and track the prices of a lot of tech goods and TVs/videogames and black friday prices are rarely anything special
Also, used to work for an electronics company: Don't buy big ticket electronics like TVs on Black Friday. Most likely refurbished and break down faster. That's why they're cheap. Some companies actually make a model line of cheapass TVs, Blue Rays or speakers that are worse quality and/or refurbished SPECIFICALLY for Black Friday.
Agree. Black Friday is a lot of hype and if you pay attention you can usually get better sales throughout the year without fighting crowds
that's why i make lists of what to buy and track prices. They do drop on black friday ;) ior earlier, or on cyber monday... or mid season sale. BF used to be special US extension for thanksgiving, nowadays it's not special
plus, those "special" items are marked up, so that discount looks better than it is.
tbh I thought Black Friday stopped being a thing years ago. I remember when Black Friday meant insanity and everything would fly off the shelves, people camping the night before, etc. But since a few years ago, I've gone to the stores on Black Friday and not only there's no sales or things particularly cheaper, but everything looks like any normal day, stores aren't empty, there's no lines to enter the stores, etc. I've actually found more sales on cyber Monday.
Noticed that plenty of times, items that normally sold for £10 were suddenly £15 so they could give you the "bargain deal" of 2 for £20.
I don't do Black Friday. Never have. Never will. Can't understand why anybody would even want to.
Prices are artificially inflated a few months/weeks before Black Friday so that when they drop to their normal price it seems like a huge discount.
I believe this. I never have and never will shop black Fridays. The crowds suck too.
Some people put money away each month for Christmas shopping. This is just the perfect day to start spending it.
If you check the prices a few weeks before Thanksgiving, they’re about 3 times the price they are normally. Then they go “on sale.”
Prices are put up the week before any sale. So when the sale is on, they can say that the item has been reduced
Yep it's psych 101, make people believe they're getting a once-a-year deal or artificially inflate the scarcity of something (OFFER ENDS SOON!) and people will literally step over the bodies of other humans to get a deal on a f*****g flat screen they could have bought for the same price a week earlier. I really wish that was hyperbole: (Google "Jdimytai Damour")
I hate black Friday, but some of those sales are actually gangbusters. I pay attention to prices on things like TV's and one that's over $500 on sale the rest of the year, will go on sale for $175 on black Friday... But quantities are limited and they're used to lure you in to buy more things. Same with black Friday toy sales... If you're a parent, you know those black Friday sales are real. But again, I hate black Friday and don't mess with it. But to each their own... As long as they act civilized and don't murder people in the process of feeding their greed, or acting like ticket scalpers.
We have an issue since a few years where stores raise the prices a week or two, sometimes a month before and then discount the exact same amount on flack friday (black friday is relatively new here, most people fall for it). People are trying to get the pratcice banned and rightfully so
I'm so glad I grew up with the rule in my family that no Christmas shopping be done during the Thanksgiving holiday (Wednesday through Sunday, for my family). My brothers and I have always adhered to this rule, even into our adulthoods.
There is a department store where I live that literally has a "sale" every single week.
Black Friday used to be a real thing before we had the Amazons and Walmarts of the world. Now you can undercut someone by $.15 and sell it to someone in another country so the market is driven to best price every day. It was called Black Friday because supposedly that was the day retail made its first profit of the year. Like Costco's $5 whole chickens, the black Friday sale was to get you in the door and hope you bought more. My town had a K-Mart and a Woolworth's and the 5 kids in our house all wanted an Atari but we couldn't afford it. On Black Friday, dad got the $199 Atari ($850 today) and 3 $30 games for $100 from K-Mart and that was our single combined gift that year. Rest of Christmas was new socks and fruit but its still my favorite X-mas, It all happened because a store desperately needed people to go there instead of the other one. Useless fact for old people - Woolworth's changed their name to Foot Locker as part of the bankruptcy.
It's a piece of piss to lie to the gullible morons. They never question anything.
This is ALL sales, they put the price up for a bit before they do a "sale"
Apparently not, considering how people behave on black Friday.
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I use to sell cars, a bad part of my life, and we'd have a "tent" sale with all the other dealerships in our area. The management would literally mark prices UP. Also, any salesperson could sell from any dealership but it was common, during a take your turn with each customer walking in, to have a salesperson from the dealer that actually owned the car to underhandedly tell someone else's customer that they could give them a better deal because it was their dealerships car. There were fistfights and death threats regularly. Also, non-present owner thought that we were missing opportunities to sell more and doubled our, commission only, sales staff over night. I went from making a normal salespersons reasonable wage to $200 a month. We had just financed our first home and I was the only one working with my wife and 4 kids at home. I didn't quit quick enough and loss the house our car and we're almost homeless. Working in commission only sales was already hard enough. The last week I worked I told all my customers that I make the same amount on a NEW car at full price than if they got employee pricing. I sold 3 cars that day to identical teen triplets and taught one of them to drive a stick so he could have the same car as his brothers. It was a great day and I made life-long customers. Too bad I quit the next day after management found out that I was honest with my customers. I told my customers that I'd do the song and dance but I'd get them my price, which only paid me $110 per ($30k) car. Sorry if this 9ne is long and rambling. Just wanted to get some of my stories out there.
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.
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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
