Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers)
Intuition is a funny thing. It appears in our consciousness without obvious deliberation and often doesn't even require any evidence.
However, psychologists don't think our gut feeling is magical, but rather a faculty in which hunches are generated by the unconscious mind rapidly sifting through past experience and cumulative knowledge.
Sounds interesting, but rather vague, no? So to find out more about the ways our psyche manifests itself, we at Bored Panda put together a new list of stories where people suspect something to be true but can't actually prove it.
From government conspiracies to rigged sports games, continue scrolling to check them out and if you want more similar observations, fire up our older publication on the same topic.
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My smartphone is listening to me and pushes advertisements based on what I say.
I can prove this. This is not a conspiracy or anything like that. It's true.
Ancient civilisations were far more advanced than we're led to believe
Donald Trump's behavior makes me believe he's in the early stages of dementia.
Well I remember savage beatings at the hands of my parents and siblings but now that I’m an adult everyone denies it they say it never happened and I feel my mind slowly slipping away, I think I’m crazy.
Gaslighting. I feel for this person. My friend has undeniable evidence of mistreatment, is trying currently to face their family, and bring met with flat denial. It is horrible.
That I got my job as charity and therapy. I came back from a combat tour a total wreck. I stayed at my uncle's home for a month and I was already drinking too much and couldn't sleep without nightmares, the kind where you wake the house up from yelling and punching air. My uncle owned 4 restaurants and soon had me working in two of his kitchens 70 hours a week. I threw myself into the work because I had no social life; in six months, I was kitchen manager at his busy 24/7 restaurant. I did an excellent job but unc paid me 50% over the local scale. I think he hired me initially just to keep me out of trouble.
I once started a small bar in the city. We were doing really well. Then in a matter of months I got absolutely distroyed by the police. Every day they were there looking for the smallest infrigment of any code. If some one was smoking less then 6 meters from my door I would hear about it. If some one had an open beer within a mile, i would hear about it. We were constantly told to keep the live music down even though there are literally no residential neighbours, NONE. Eventually we closed down.
Within a few weeks of this happening I realized that the other people that owned a bar near by had had a serious decrease in sales since we opened and since they had been a long time contributor to the local political scene I think they got the cops to shut us down.
No proof. Just a hunch.
Apple is sabotaging my phone so I buy the new iPhone. The same day the iPhone X dropped my phone started have minor problems.
They did get done for that at some point didn't they? Got found out to be slowing older Apple phones deliberately?
World leaders and the world’s richest people have hidden bunkers all over the world they can hide in if things go tits up. It’s a secret club and we ain’t in it.
Again. Not conspiracy, but fact. If end of days or similar happened, world leaders are ready
I'm convinced there are definitely "sea monsters" out there. The ocean's so big I'm sure there's at least one large, undiscovered, sea creature out there.
That the NSA has stopped several terror attacks.
They told Congress they never have, but I believe it's actually a cover-up. Can you imagine if they admitted they stopped, say, 5 major terror acts in the last 6 months?
Woud that make you feel safer? Of course not. It would scare the shit out of us and destroy tourism to major cities.
I think Men In Black put it best:
"Man, we ain't got no time for this cover-up BULLSHIT! There's an alien battlecruiser about to---"
"There's always an alien battlecruiser! Or a Korillian Deathray! Or an intergalactic plague that will wipe out life on this planet. The only way these people get on with their happy little lives is they do not know about it!"
You are correct. My cousins husband was in the the CIA and he can’t say much but what he would tell me is: for every one we know about them stopping, there were at least 10 we don’t know about. So we know of about 1/10 of the attempts at terrorism. He also said, he knows the stuff we don’t want to know about. He promised we’d know more upon his death.
So I worked at a certain venue for a while, and the owners liked me, so they kept me around despite me being a slow learner on the job (waitstaff).
The venue got brought a few months ago, and the new owners have a totally different vision for it. Some of the old staff stuck around, including myself, but many left.
I strongly suspect that I was given a job at the new venue as a request of the old owners. I don't fit the mould of the people they hire at all, and I really got the impression that they weren't sure what to do with me at the start.
I may never know, but I'm pretty thankful to the old owners regardless.
Astronomer here! I very strongly suspect there is life beyond Earth in the universe, and there’s a good chance it exists elsewhere even in our solar system. I can’t prove it however, but would be astounded if it wasn’t the case- life is just a chemical process when you get down to it, so why would that process be so unique as to happen only once when we see all the ones we can measure repeat all over?
I also suspect though it will be nowhere near as exciting as most people think it will be, due to Hollywood films. Rather, it will be like finding water on Mars- speculating it’s there, finding the first evidence that it may have existed at one point, and after a ton of intermediate steps concluding there is definitely water on Mars. First we will probably find a chemical signature from an exoplanet that may be from life or have another explanation, then something more solid, and then with all the steps on the way after years a conclusion that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Not very Hollywood, but very in line with how science works!
I just remember someone saying that if Earth was the only life in the entire Universe, what an incredible waste of space it would be.
I seriously suspect that people get more reckless and angry when the weather is hotter. I just can't find a way to prove it without being Mr Burns and blocking out the sun.
This is absolutely true. Good weather brings more assholes out onto the streets or public areas. They never come out when it rains. This is why I always hate sunny weather and love rain
Life doesn't end when we die. Everything else in this world is recycled, why wouldn't our consciousness also be?
Public Schools purposely don't teach finance to most of their students. If they did, very few would agree to the conditions of their student loan notes, which would lead to a decline in college matriculation and in general make the school look bad.
Retired business teacher, high school here. Do you know how many times I tried to teach budgeting, or savings accounts for future needs, 401K's, interest rates, credit cards........? Most of the time it was met with "I don't need those things till I'm old." I tried to relate how they would need all these things the minute they walk out of their childhood home. "Daddy will help me if I need it." Yes, it was an affluent section of Connecticut. Even the parents say they don't need to know this right now. WHEN??????????!!!!!!!!!! I have had a few come back and thank me. That is what kept me going.
Jennifer Lawrence faked her trip walking up on the Oscar stage, and faked her trip again the next year on the orange cone in order to sell her crafted quirky, girl-next-door persona
Nope, for several reasons: 1) On the first trip, she was wearing a sponsored dress (Dior). It would be a bad advertisement for Dior. 2) In an interview Liam Hemsworth said that J-Law had been tripped on multiple occasions behind the camera during their Hunger Games promotion. He said those trips were genuine, she was a very very clumsy girl. 3) There was a story of J-Law tripped again on a pre-shoot talk show. She forced the studio to delete it, but the studio crew talked 😂
That my coworker is deliberately trying to drive me insane.
I bring lunch with me to work most days, and Every day,without fail and no matter what I have for lunch, she comes into the staff room at lunch and says in her nasaly voice "oohh that smells good! Can I have some??"
Same joke, every single workday.
So finally, one day, I brought in one of my normal lunch staples, and also brought a little extra for her to try. She came into the staff room and said her normal "oohh that smells good! Can I have some??" to which I pulled out a pyrex dish and offered her some. She seemed to recoil a bit, like she was simultaneously surprised and disgusted. She paused for a minute and said "oh...no thanks I'm heading out for lunch" and quickly walked away
Next day at lunch she was right back to "oohh that smells good! Can I have some??"
"That smells good, can I ha..." No b***h, get your own damn food"
That my sister is my half sister.
There's a bunch of s**t that makes me think she resembles and has habits like somebody my mother "knew".
Get dna tests for both of you for Christmas. On second thoughts, don't.
That I got fired from my job because the boss was friends with a family I had a falling out with. Guess when their son sexually assaulted me it was suppose to be my fault. But I can't prove it and they won't say.
I believe my father might have been killed by his wife. We had no real proof other than the words of that lady's former friend. Once he died we realized everything had been taken out of my name and left to her.
That the "shuffle" feature on my iPhone isn't random at all. Far too often I'll get the same artist back-to-back, or even two songs from the same album right after the other. I suspect Apple pushes some bands that either have new albums, or are touring in my area soon, to subliminally promote the artists.
Starbucks is burning the s**t out of their black coffee in a plot to make us all pay more for sugared up and flavored drinks.
There's bleeding edge technology not available to the public and perhaps only available to a selected bunch. I mean, touch screens were invented in the 70s, but didn't become popular until the 00s. Yes, they were more expensive to make back then but still. F**k knows what they've invented now.
This has always been the case with technology. Some things just never get cheap enough to commercialize before some other solution/work around is found. IBM created mass holographic storage systems decades ago, but they never met the markets needs or prove points. Laser discs/cd-roms were invented by the military decades before commercial application and costs allowed thier use.
That the NBA is rigged. I don't think they want specific winners per se, but I think they want to ensure that there are superstars to drum up business. To that end refs always favor the big name athletes.
Yeah just look up videos of king baby taking 5+ steps yet no travel call, or while dribbling carry the f**k outta the ball.
That the heads of organizations like the FBI and CIA are not the real heads and the real ones are way more secretive
You have to understand that the "heads" of most government agencies, state and federal, are basically politicians. Few know little, if anything, about the actual functioning of the agency. Yes, other people are actually running things...not because they are clandestine, but because it is just their job to do the business of the agency.
I believe two of my coworkers are having an affair, based on the way they act around each other, and they keep it secret because one of them is married.
That the milk corporations really want dominance over the breakfast beverage market.
1. I once read that the dairy companies petitioned/bribed/lobbied whoever made/remade the food pyramid to have a significantly noticeable portion dedicated solely to "Dairy".
2. I once saw a "got milk" ad that was pretty much a personal attack against almond milk. I always wondered why they would spend resources just to reduce the name of a minor competitor
That there is no difference in the effect from different alcohols. Saying "whiskey makes me sad" "red wine makes girls angry" "tequila makes clothes come off" etc is all (I believe) Pavlovian.
If you are at a crazy party, people tend to do tequila shots. SO, you assume that tequila shots make you crazy. If you got in a fight with someone while drunk on gin, you will associate gin with anger. Same goes for the rest of them.
Yeah this has been studied and is correct. Alcohol depresses higher brain function, so your brain stops inhibiting your emotions. Therefore alcohol acts as an emotional amplifier, it doesn't give you the emotion to start with. Probably a confusion of cause and effect - sad people drink "sad" drinks, get sadder &c
I strongly suspect that the football coaches at my high school talk to teachers to “help” their players’ grades.
Of course they are. You can’t go to school for 7 hrs a day, practice for 3hrs and then also have time for study on top of that?! That said, what you learn in class (without homework and study) should be enough to give you a passing grade anyway, just not an honours one.
That Russia is underhandedly pushing a war between North Korea and the United States. I believe Russia intentionally interfered in our election to get Trump elected, knowing he would be impulsive and easy to provoke. Now Russia is encouraging and funding North Korea to provoke the United States. I believe we are on the verge of World War 3.
Russia is not a big funder of North Korea. That job is being done by China, the only country it has with economic ties.
Russia has definitely interfered in our elections. And they did it to get Trump elected. This is fact.
North Korea doesn’t have any allies. Even China is only supporting it, so they don’t have a ‚western‘ country right on their border. In a way between NK and the US, the only thing one has to worry about is South Korea. Other than that the war would be over within days and not involve any other countries, so not WW3.
Yes, the northern edge of South Korea would likely face an artillery thrashing for a couple of days, but the conflict would end very quickly. The North lacks the resources to mount anything which could be described as an 'invasion' in the modern sense. I also think their leaders are intelligent enough to know that if they use nuclear weapons, the south and the US retaliation with conventional weapons would turn their country into a smoking hole.
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If world war 3 does happen.....you'll catch me at my house, with my doggo, having lost hope in humanity
I think North Korea is learning a quick lesson in international politics and whether their borders are porous by means of Covid. Once they realise you need to spend money on hospitals and not just nuclear missiles, they'll drop the bellicosity.
Russia is always trying to destabilize others. USA, EU, NATO etc, anything with power.
Russia wanted Trump elected because he is not that smart and hence he is easily manipulated. He seems to basically want to hack the democracy in order to gain as much power as possible, and hence he looks up to dictators like Putin who has refined the craft to a point where it is an artform. Having someone in the White house with a just a tad of sense of reality would be bad for Russia, and hence they most likely would do whatever they could to try and influence who became the president of the US, and of the two candidates Trump was the best bet.
14 presidents have been elected since Korea was first divided (13 since the end of the Korean War). Of those, only 3 visited North Korea. Of those 3, only 1 visited WHILE serving in office, and that was Donald Trump. While he might be a complete [Insert expletives here], he actually made history and tried make/keep peace.
That my Dad was a covert agent for the CIA. I don’t want to reveal too much but he had a job that frequently took him around the world. We even lived overseas several times while I was growing up. He often was working as a “special science advisor” for the US Dept of State when overseas. There were just enough oddities that didn’t add up. I asked him once and he laughed but never answered the question. Unfortunately he died a few months ago so I’ll never know.
Every time I get refused for promotion at work, it's not because of my ability or interview technique, but because the people they do choose fit their clique better, so they give them the promotion and keep giving me the work.
Tom Cruise has killed someone for Scientology, or was present when Miscavige killed someone. I think he knows what happened to Shelly.
That some people wait around until they see someone sitting or parked by themselves and then go sit or park close to them.
I don't know what their goal is but it happens so many times there has to be something going on.
They're criminals. If nothing happens it means they didn't see any opening.
That late at night, when I pull up to a red traffic light with no cross traffic, it forces me to sit and wait until a car on the crossing road approaches, so that when it lets me through it can make that car wait -- like the light isn't doing its job unless it's impeding someone.
I go to a "prestigious" art college in New York. Based on the talent here, I feel like all the applicants are just automatically accepted despite what their acceptance rate says online.
well in the states, universities are businesses, so obviously they want as many customers as possible, so it depends on how many applicants they get vs how many places they have. If they have fewer applicants than places, yes, they will accept anyone.
That USS scorpion was sunk by the soviet navy. Officially it was lost in an accident but the circumstances was fishy.
I have a strong yet paranoid feeling that the life I am in right now is not my actual life.
I believe in alternate time lines and by believing in that also believe it's possible to accidently walk into the wrong timeline and back again. It's long to explain and I want to keep this short but I have too many memories that I know for a fact happened that the people around me have no memory of that I strongly think i have somehow crossed into the wrong timeline and that somewhere another me is just now finding this out.
I could also just be delusional. Maybe it's bad memory? Maybe there's something wrong where I think dreams are facts? I dont know.
I just strongly know something isn't right and I can't prove it.
That my mom got rid of my cat when I was on vacation few years ago. The cat mysteriously disappeared halfway through the time I wasn’t home. My mom would always complain about cats hair(it was a Persian) and how she didn’t like it
Hope you got rid of your mother. If one of my pets disappeared while in someone's care, I wouldn't even care why, they'd be dead to me.
The government knows a lot more about things in our universe then they're telling us.
The government? The "government" is the federal courts system, the legislatures, administration of Medicare and Medicaid, the IRS, the National Parks, the EPA, etc..Yes, there are a few thousand scientists funded by the federal government who know a whole lot more about the universe than they share with the general public...not because it is secret, but because the general public does not care and, God knows, they could not understand.
That for a few years in the 90s Stephen King's wife was ghost writing his books.
Nah. He was just on a lot of drugs and alcohol. He’s admitted it himself XD He’s very open about the things he did in the past. Also, people change. Their writing “voice” may change. His books from the 90s are different from his earliest works written in the 70s, and they’re different than his modern (post-00s) books. Yet the intrinsic factor that makes him Stephen King is present in all his work. (I might just be a teensy bit of a Stephen King fan. XD I’ve read all his books and short story collections multiple times. My dad gave me The Waste Lands when I was 10 and I was hooked for life…)
A man ruined my career to save his own a*s and his boss backed him up by deleting the data. The latter was basically a veiled threat implied to me by the boss in a private 1 on 1. Sort of like a, “sue if you want but the recorded evidence is deleted”.
Didn’t think too much about it at the time but it should’ve been a major red flag.
All over Chicago there are billboards for hair growth treatments using Brian Urlacher with hair as the selling point. I strongly suspect like he was never bald and just shaved his head for football. That man has us played with the long con.
that gallowboob is a shared account at a social media company. as an approved content partner, they basically submit stuff and give it a starting karma of a few thousand points so that it goes right to the front page which benefits reddit too.
Solange was Beyoncé and Jay Z's surrogate.
There, I said it.
I think my company hired me for the insurance money and are planning to send me off. I can't prove it but I strongly suspect it
As a company owner... What? I don't get insurance money to hire someone. Planning to send you off? That doesn't make sense either. If didn't want you, wouldn't have hired you.
I still think Hitler escaped before Berlin fell, surely someone with that much power and realising how futile the last few weeks of the war were that he wouldn't have a back up plan in motion?
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I’m sure my ex-stepdad made a half-assed attempt to kill me when I was thirteen. We never liked each other. One day he asked for help looking at something in my mom’s car, a little Toyota Corona wagon. It was parked on an angled driveway. He asked me to stand behind it and keep it from rolling back while he checked something on the brakes, and then he released the parking brake and put it in neutral. It took everything I had to keep the car from rolling over me, and I was screaming at him to put the brakes back on. He was yelling back that I just needed to hold it a little longer. I think he came to his senses when I started to slip, and he put the car back in gear and pulled the parking brake. Then he chastised me for being too weak to hold “such a little car” back and walked away.
I think Covid lockdown has made people more selfish. So many poeple now seem to give zero phooks than before it all.
I don't think it made them more selfish as such; it just made them more likely to act like it. Like Trump didn't make more racists, he just made it okay to be be overtly racist.
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I have a sweet story where I'm 100% sure of something, but will never be able to corroborate it. When I was a small child, I gathered & planted a bunch of seeds/weeds/twigs/etc in the hope of growing something. I watered the area morning & night for several days until I woke up one day to find a beautiful flower "sprouting" from my little dirt pile. Even at 6yrs old, I knew a flower can't grow 6" and fully bloom overnight, but my Dad will never admit to putting it there & will surely take his "secret" to the grave, lol. All to make me feel special — best Dad ever! ❤
This is going to sound so farfetched and I promise I'm actually a smart and logical person, but I personally think dragons used to exist for real and possibly still could. I mean, I feel like coming up with that sort of thing is hard to do and there were creatures similar to them. Idk, maybe I just love dragons a lot, but I really do think they were real at some point (and maybe still are).
The Department for Work and Pensions (the UK agency that handles unemployment benefits etc.) secretly has a computer program that spits out random names and addresses, and if yours comes up they'll mess with your benefit claim and make you jump through a few hoops, just on the off-chance that you're trying to cheat the system.
Beyonce was never pregnant with blue ivy; she used a surrogate. There I said it.
That the government poison-pills conspiracy theories, adding absurd, easily falsifiable elements to them so no-one believes conspiracy theories that the government doesn't want people to believe in.
Probably should add: just because the government doesn't want you to beleive in a conspiracy theory, doesn't make it true.
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Tech Companies in the early 2000's: - Engeneer: Hey, we have the technology to build a very cheap 2Tb usb drive. -CEO: release a 16mb drive and we'll upgrade a few mb per year.
Donny T does not have alzheimers, he is just a serial liar, cheat and gets away with it. That's why he has daily "big baby" tantrums. If someone could get to the bottom of things, they would find out the only reason he had power is because he has dirt on every single Republican candidate (so they will do his bidding). Also pertains to WORLD LEADERS.
I think the FBI has a media division that posts stories just like this one.
This may seem a little random, but I strongly think that Miles Moralas will be in the MCU with Tom Hardy's Venom
Ah, thanks for letting me know before I waste time trying to get the stupid post to load! Hope you have a good day!
Load More Replies... I’m sure my ex-stepdad made a half-assed attempt to kill me when I was thirteen. We never liked each other. One day he asked for help looking at something in my mom’s car, a little Toyota Corona wagon. It was parked on an angled driveway. He asked me to stand behind it and keep it from rolling back while he checked something on the brakes, and then he released the parking brake and put it in neutral. It took everything I had to keep the car from rolling over me, and I was screaming at him to put the brakes back on. He was yelling back that I just needed to hold it a little longer. I think he came to his senses when I started to slip, and he put the car back in gear and pulled the parking brake. Then he chastised me for being too weak to hold “such a little car” back and walked away.
I think Covid lockdown has made people more selfish. So many poeple now seem to give zero phooks than before it all.
I don't think it made them more selfish as such; it just made them more likely to act like it. Like Trump didn't make more racists, he just made it okay to be be overtly racist.
Load More Replies... I have a sweet story where I'm 100% sure of something, but will never be able to corroborate it. When I was a small child, I gathered & planted a bunch of seeds/weeds/twigs/etc in the hope of growing something. I watered the area morning & night for several days until I woke up one day to find a beautiful flower "sprouting" from my little dirt pile. Even at 6yrs old, I knew a flower can't grow 6" and fully bloom overnight, but my Dad will never admit to putting it there & will surely take his "secret" to the grave, lol. All to make me feel special — best Dad ever! ❤
This is going to sound so farfetched and I promise I'm actually a smart and logical person, but I personally think dragons used to exist for real and possibly still could. I mean, I feel like coming up with that sort of thing is hard to do and there were creatures similar to them. Idk, maybe I just love dragons a lot, but I really do think they were real at some point (and maybe still are).
The Department for Work and Pensions (the UK agency that handles unemployment benefits etc.) secretly has a computer program that spits out random names and addresses, and if yours comes up they'll mess with your benefit claim and make you jump through a few hoops, just on the off-chance that you're trying to cheat the system.
Beyonce was never pregnant with blue ivy; she used a surrogate. There I said it.
That the government poison-pills conspiracy theories, adding absurd, easily falsifiable elements to them so no-one believes conspiracy theories that the government doesn't want people to believe in.
Probably should add: just because the government doesn't want you to beleive in a conspiracy theory, doesn't make it true.
Load More Replies... Tech Companies in the early 2000's: - Engeneer: Hey, we have the technology to build a very cheap 2Tb usb drive. -CEO: release a 16mb drive and we'll upgrade a few mb per year.
Donny T does not have alzheimers, he is just a serial liar, cheat and gets away with it. That's why he has daily "big baby" tantrums. If someone could get to the bottom of things, they would find out the only reason he had power is because he has dirt on every single Republican candidate (so they will do his bidding). Also pertains to WORLD LEADERS.
I think the FBI has a media division that posts stories just like this one.
This may seem a little random, but I strongly think that Miles Moralas will be in the MCU with Tom Hardy's Venom
