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..
Big stars explode and become supernovas, not galaxies
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This is dumb. People are really bad at estimating the likelihood of complex life on other planets in a similar way they are bad at understanding their odds for winning the lottery. Yes, it's possible, just really unlikely.
The possibility of life developing is incredibly small, but the universe is so vast it makes that tiny possibility an inevitability.
It is now theorized that right now there are over two dozen alien civilizations out there. Not a million years ago, not a million years from now. But right now.
There are 200 billion trillion stars out there with countless planets orbiting them, that in turn have moons that are possibly orbiting them. The idea that in all of that we live on the only planet that has life on it is very far fetched. Considering also that we have had 5 mass extinctions, these are points in our history that alien life would have looked at our planet and wondered if the Earth could sustain life.
actually we can be that special. The mathematic odds of Humans evolving naturally is 1:10 to the 40,000 power. That is a 10 with 40,000 zeros after it. That is just for humans. In fact the mathematic odds of a single new organic protein forming that lasts beyond the first few generations (meaning it survived the evolutionary process) is 1:10 to the 19th power. Just looking at the sheer math around what life, earth, etc. Scientists have already given up on calculating the odds (a peer reviewed paper in 1986 said the mathematic odds were better for a tornado to assemble a 747 in a junk yard), unless you say there is an all powerful god, the odds of any other life out there is borderline impossible.
The chances of there being no life on any other planet in the entire universe is infantessibly small. Sure, we might not be able to see it, understand it or reach it before we destroy our own civilisation - but it doesnt mean its not there.
There is this creepy theory that the universe *used to* teem with life, but it got wiped out in wars and cataclysms... and we are a late-blooming civilisation that has emerged long after everyone else was gone :O
Not very plausible theory. For this to be conceivable, the universe would have to be much much older than it actually seems to be. We are much more likely one of the first civilizations, and that wouod explain why we don't see anyone else out there.
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We will probably never see this other life though, because apparently life occurrence is at the very minimum kinda sparse.
Earthlings are arrogant to think we’re the only living things in the Universe.
The big corporations agree with you, they have no qualms killing of our planet.
They now think, between planetary systems and rogue planets, there are more planets than stars. What a waste if none of them had any kind of life on them.
And that life is definitely not humanoid! We can't even imagine how different life would be.
Or... other species are far more intelligent then us and recognize we are an invasive species. So they don't make contact to protect their planet while waiting for us to destroy our planet and our own species.
It is mathematically impossible that there is not life in the vastness of the universe. But it takes 27,000 years for us to travel 1 light year so ... finding it may be a challenge!
"Life" can be as complicated as us or single-cells. Life can arise and be extinguished (or nearly so) and arise again and again, taking different forms each time. And "life" does not need to resemble life on Earth...unless the conditions under which it arose closely match the conditions that gave rise to our millions-of-years evolutionary path.
SPOILER ALERT : The universe is a vast, lifeless desert. The fact that we exist is a complete fluke. The sad reality is that we are probably alone.
If Flat-Earthers can go around preaching their truth without evidence, why should it stop you?
THIS. There are probably so many other creatures out there, the reason we haven't found them is because they are so far away, because the universe is so vast that there is probably a lot of space between life, and the reason we haven't had an alien invasion is because earth isn't even that special and the aliens wouldn't care enough for us to come visit us (or they don't have enough technology to get all the way to us, just like we can't get to them yet), we're all just self-centered thinking that they want to come to see us.
Also, our arrogance that if a planet doesn't have water it can't have life!
So worm holes are possible and black holes suck things in and a less commonly known white hole, which spits out mass so I think black and white holes are the 2 ends of worm holes that lead to different galaxies or parallel universes and that would also mean teleportation might be possible
Fermi's paradox. The Drake equation conservatively predicts 1000s of contemporaneous technological civilization in our galaxy. The paradox is we don't see any evidence what-so-ever.
Do you have any idea how vast a galaxy is? That's like indigenous tribes in the UK or Australia deciding that there were no other people on the planet because they couldn't see them. We don't even know what to look for. The Drake equation relies on multiplying unknowns by unknowns, so the results vary by multiple orders of magnitude depending on which guesses you plug into it.
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This is Fermi's paradox. Statistically there should be millions of alien civilizations but as Fermi said "where is everybody?" I personally believe that alien life is out there but it hasn't shown up in historical times. Just like the conquistadors in Mexico, when you show up and the indigenous population doesn't have the technology to deal with you, there's no reason to hide. Secondly, there's a reason "take me to your leader" has become a cliche. Why fight 15,000 or deal with 25 entities that have no power to help you when you can just go straight to the top and save time/resources. We've been broadcasting into the universe since 1864 (dude named Maxwell) so they know exactly where to go and who to talk to since at least 1894 when Marconi made it easily repeatable. Why ask Cletus or Yichen anything when you know exactly where to land to talk to the UN, Joe Biden, or Xi Jinping?
Or maybe there's nothing, and earth isn't special because it isn't actually real and we're all just part of some sick, twisted game
Or you could think that there HAVE been other alien civilizations but they have long collapsed. Or even better, they are on their way but it'll take 100 million light years and we'll all be dead by the time they reach us. And that in fact, we are truly alone in the universe and by the time another civilization arises elsewhere, ours will be long gone. Thinking that ours is what? 50 000 years old? (I'm not counting dinos) that's not even a blink of an eye time wise.
Whether life is common seems to boil down to whether we find any that developed independently elsewhere in our own solar system. For instance, conditions on Mars were similar to Earth for the first 500 million to a billion years, time in which single-celled organisms could have developed. If it’s occurred at least twice in our own home, then it stands to reason that it’s common. If not, life could well be rare or unique, and it would take the much more complex task of finding it in interstellar space to prove otherwise. And intelligent life isn’t necessarily a foregone conclusion; life evolves to reproduce, and being intelligent and self aware has only worked for one species (several very closely related hominid species, anyway) out of millions on Earth so far.
Exactly. And I think even though people usually imagine intelligent aliens to be at least vaguely humanoid, or similar to some life form from Earth, they would be entirely different.
We are being stopped from developing far reaching space travel. Look how we've messed our own planet, and have already started leaving trash on our moon and Mars. "Aliens" know we would quickly destroy their planet with our messy ways, and are preventing that.
I am fascinated by the universe. We aren't capable of understanding just how big it truly is. I always wonder what is beyond the universe? How was it created? And how and WHY are we the only planet with beings/civilisations on it? I read once that it seems too perfect that the sun moon etc are exactly where they should be in order for Earth to exist at all. So perhaps a master mind behind it after all.
"Earth just can't be that special..." Why can the earth not be a one time special time event that will not repeat itself. We understand so little about how life was formed in the first place.
Earth is special, but like in a way that 1% of planets can support life like Earth does. Doesn't sound much, but is extremely much. It is just unrealistic that only Earth has life.
First someone has to explain to me how inorganic suddenly becomes organic.
The division between organic and anorganic molecules is arbitrary, it's just classification, not some metaphysical property. As for when a cluster of molecules become *alive* - we are not sure, but the division is, again, arbitrary. Generally, the ability to structure itself and actively push against entropy is the first prerequisity for something to become life.
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Sure... humans as a whole have a stellar history when it comes to be friendly to one another.... im sure that also be true for life from another planet.
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In a way it's cool that there will certainly be planets with life on them, but they're so far away we won't ever be able to know for sure.
Is there life out there? If the universe exists in the state we think it does, for sure. I don’t think we’ll have contact though- the distances are too far and the times involved are incomprehensible. I’m sure we’ll find evidence in our own solar system at some point.
Or they took the same path we are taking and destroyed their own planet.
We are not really destroyed our planet, more making it hard to inhabit. Our planet has had multiple points in the past when large amounts of life had died out and it bounced back. To quote the rapper The Streets " It's not the earth that is in trouble, it's the people that live on it"
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*proudly looking at my Alien Registration Card* No, seriously, this is the official name for us registered immigrants in Korea. However, unfortunately, there were news they were going to change it. Too bad, I actually like being officially an alien. I just hope they don't switch it to "foreigner" because that sucks. Linguists around the world agree the word "foreigner" has negative connotations, and so do I.
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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.
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
