ADVERTISEMENT

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.

#1

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) My smartphone is listening to me and pushes advertisements based on what I say.

Wearealljustapes , Tofros.com Report

Add photo comments
POST
johnpowers avatar
John Powers
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can prove this. This is not a conspiracy or anything like that. It's true.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#2

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) Ancient civilisations were far more advanced than we're led to believe

zielony1981 Report

Add photo comments
POST
francesm avatar
Frances M
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Romans had underfloor heating and Aztecs had calculus. It’s not that they were more advanced, it’s that modern people refuse to believe that they are no smarter then our ancestors .

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#3

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) Donald Trump's behavior makes me believe he's in the early stages of dementia.

[deleted] , Wikipedia Report

#4

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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.

BigBossWesker4 , Pixabay Report

Add photo comments
POST
laurencaswell4 avatar
Lauren Caswell
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#5

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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.

khegiobridge Report

Add photo comments
POST
lissmerriweather avatar
Bonesko
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It may have started as 'charity' its not anymore. You worked hard.

View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
#6

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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.

pitchko Report

#7

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) Apple is sabotaging my phone so I buy the new iPhone. The same day the iPhone X dropped my phone started have minor problems.

woulnwooden , Martin Sanchez Report

Add photo comments
POST
laurencaswell4 avatar
Lauren Caswell
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They did get done for that at some point didn't they? Got found out to be slowing older Apple phones deliberately?

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#8

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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.

Wearealljustapes Report

Add photo comments
POST
johnpowers avatar
John Powers
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again. Not conspiracy, but fact. If end of days or similar happened, world leaders are ready

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
#9

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.

Gokaioh Report

Add photo comments
POST
jmscargill avatar
Scagsy
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Considering that more than 80% of our oceans are unmapped, I would say that there is a very good chance that you correct. Btw does Cthulu count as discovered or undiscovered?

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#10

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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!"

TheGreatChatsby , Wikipedia Report

Add photo comments
POST
mushroomkrb avatar
Mushroomlover
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#11

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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.

anon , Jeremy Wong Report

ADVERTISEMENT
#12

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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!

Andromeda321 , Pixabay Report

Add photo comments
POST
emory_ce avatar
Carol Emory
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#13

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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.

[deleted] , Oleksandr Pidvalnyi Report

Add photo comments
POST
peejmaybe avatar
Peej Maybe
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

shopgirl012974 avatar
Alicia M
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know I'm in the minority but I absolutely hate hot, sunny weather. I love the rain. I love gray skies. I love cool temperatures. I think Seattle has great weather. I don't even like mildly warm weather. If it's over 70⁰ F, I don't want to be out. What most people consider "good weather," I consider terrible weather. I want to live somewhere that is never (ideally) hotter than the 60s, has gray, overcast skies all the time. I don't want to see the sun. I would fast forward straight to October, if I could.

Load More Replies...
lisa-daeumler avatar
Lys Chen
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember there are actually studies that prove this!

mndm-synth avatar
Monday
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, several. There's a general agreement that anything that makes us feel uncomfortable also makes us more aggressive.

Load More Replies...
sharonfaust avatar
Kookamunga
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is actual and factual. I work in a hospital and things get nuts here during heatwaves.

thelanguageexpress avatar
Luna Gage
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can totally relate to this. I'm Jamaican and used to teach at a high school. As the summer months approached each year, disagreements and fights among students would start to increase, and would worsen towards the end of the school year. The heat just messes with the psyche; it's no joke! There's a valid reason why schools go on holiday during the summer.

katy_malinowski avatar
Katy McMouse
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So true. Come July, there's a massive shift in my patience level. I don't necessarily become mean, just excessively cranky. I don't feel like myself until the temp drops to consistent and humane levels.

jon_steensen avatar
Jon Steensen
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

when the temperature goes out of the comfortable range, it puts you under a bit of stress, which takes away some of your mental capacity, as you tend to focus on the signals your body is constantly sending you. I can feel that on the really warm days where my head just stops functioning, and I can't consentrate so everything runs a bit slower. When we get stressed or worn down, the capacity for the advanced level of thinking required to be empathatic goes down, and we begin acting more animal like and instinctive as the fuse gets shorter.

pauldavis avatar
Paul Davis
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember a few decades ago that TV and movies constantly made mention of increasing violence during heat waves. I guess it went out of style to talk about it and now here we are with someone claiming that it's a theory he has that no one might have heard of.

the_true_opifex avatar
Katie Lutesinger
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I absolutely do get more short tempered when I'm overheated. Been noticing it for years.

catmarshall57 avatar
BusLady
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There have been a lot of mass shooting incidents lately, even for the U.S.

alanwilkening avatar
Earl Grey
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In hot weather, violent crime goes up. In cold weather it goes down. These statistics are available from law enforcement in big cities.

goregirl10 avatar
Susan Williams
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Murder rates definitely go up! People snap in the relentless heat and humidity.

Load More Replies...
makaylargardner avatar
Black Pearl
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sure get more pissed the hotter it is because I hate the heat

anjelabarranco5 avatar
Anjelika
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I prefer the cold and I get easily irritated on the summer

fam_schaeffer avatar
Kathi Schäffer
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm definitely angrier and more annoyed when it's hot out. Don't know about reckless ^^

wallicktn avatar
Tracy Wallick
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good weather brings people outside, and being hot makes people cranky.

glynnreid avatar
Glynn Reid
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hate heat. Makes me sweaty, grumpy and tired.....leads to anger just because it's too hot. I'm not reckless with it but I'm definitely angry.

katieandjaredcoates avatar
Kisses4Katie
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe that’s why everyone is going nuts publicly now. Global warming=increase in right wing a*holes?

flash_henry avatar
Flash Henry
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This has been proven. The higher the temperature gets, the more stress your body and brain are dealing with trying to keep you alive.

txjac avatar
Tx jac
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can attest to this being true! As it's me! Heat/Summer can make me angry here in Texas.

oberlinmom1 avatar
Stymied Egan
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hated living in FL for just this reason. You do acclimate a little but never enough for me. Now as temperatures hear in the north seem to be rising more in the summer, I don't even want to go out. My sweat actually stings sometimes plus it pours down from my head. If I'm leaning over it pools in my glasses. Who doesn't get irritated and unreasonable in the heat?

drh95051 avatar
GramDB
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hot weather brings out the ugly side of humans … I love the Spring & Fall when people are nicer.

dodsonmichelle avatar
Celtic Pirate Queen
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right? We lived in San Diego and the number of people taken to the ER with "extreme sunburn" was staggering. Um - Grannie's having a heart attack, but by all means you rich stupid f*ck, please throw a temper tantrum to get you 5 y/o with a SUNBURN to the front of the line. FYI - it didn't work. And Grannie turned out just fine. The Dad & the kid are probably still entitled assh&les, though.

tiger-328645 avatar
L1z
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/1989-36724-001 It does

elliottlayus avatar
elliott Layus
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Santa Ana winda in LA can be linked to an increase in violent crimes such as assaults. They are hot, and people lose their temper. I also was discussing this fact with a floor manager in a poker room. They keep the room extra cool. People tend to get heated when playing poker, so they keep it cool to reduce the amount of fights.

darcymarie avatar
Darcy Marie
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I 100% get crankier when it's hot. I also get kind of stupider? So cranky and stupid is a bad combo. I definitely support blocking out the sun.

evigrimes avatar
Evi Grimes
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know I'm angrier the hotter it gets. Then again anything above 65° F is too hot to me. The rain doesn't effect my mood negatively, or the cold. But the heat? Ugh

cheyanne_pavan avatar
Cheyanne Pavan
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Both are true. There is more crime in nice weather because more people are outside of their homes AND the hotter it gets, to the point of discomfort & beyond, the more people get irritable\angry, the more violent crime there is. This has been studied both in local areas over different times a year and in geographical terms where the farther south you go in the summer, the more violent crime there is.

fmc avatar
Niall Mac Iomera
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in the pilbara where it stays over 40C for months at a time. No one has the energy to be reckless or angry.

batphace avatar
BatPhace
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Road rage in Phoenix always climbs in the summer so yeah, probably true

lyndsey-macd avatar
LynzCatastrophe
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because warm weather brings people outside, sun gives energy, adrenaline. Suddenly people have drinks.

richard_6 avatar
Richard Willis
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ask any police officer, the same happens when there is a full moon.

atribe1973 avatar
Anna Tribe
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They also get louder. I'm in North Sweden and at this time of the year it's daylight 20 hours out of the day and the remaining 4 hours it's a little darker but not completely dark which means that kids are out screaming for 14 - 16 hours a day, especially weekends and evenings after school. Adults in my neighbourhood are blasting loud bass music almost all the time and it's awful. I'm very light and sound sensitive and the next 4 months are hell. Much prefer the fall and winter when it's dark 20 hours a day and so cold no one is out.

iamme_3 avatar
IamMe
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This explains why the Scandinavian countries are always on the top of those Happiest places lists. And, then we have Florida Man.

iamme_3 avatar
IamMe
Community Member
1 year ago

This comment has been deleted.

Load More Replies...
x-lima-bean-x avatar
Kiwii Stone
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe people are more grateful for the simple things (like warmth and light) when they're used to experiencing cold and dimmer light?

mateo_buysse avatar
Mateo Buysse
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually rape does seem to happen more when there is good weather if i recall correctly.

phantomed avatar
Edgar Rops
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perhaps, we just aren't used to heat in the northern hemisphere. I noticed too that on hot days people tend to act weird. I wonder if folks in, say, Brazil react the same way to unusually cold weather?

penstubbs avatar
Apachebathmat
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live next to a pub (with beer garden) also opposite a police station, so I can 100% confirm the sun turns people into dickheads! I heard one guy crying and shouting at police because the cuffs on his ankle were too tight… it was his sock!

ritaggph avatar
Panda-riffic
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am an old lady and have lived in the Phoenix, Arizona area for longer than you have been alive x2. Talk to the hand!!!!

cocora-embra avatar
Coco
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only in britain. Other folks know how to behave in a proper summer

wh4ok avatar
Jon S.
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember someone doing a study on riots in the UK and showing how they tend to map well onto dry hot days and cease during bouts of wet weather.

ddw2945 avatar
Curry on...
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't get angry and reckless when it's hot, but I ain't happy.

wilwhalen avatar
Wil Whalen
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Siouxsie and the Banshees have a song called 92 degrees. Siouxsie said that was sparked off by a short story she read where crimes would escalate when the temperature reached 92 degrees.

el_dee_1 avatar
El Dee
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Job I worked at MANY years ago I could tell at the start of the night if it was going to be a bad/violent night in town. Luckily being self employed I could simply go home, which I did..

fredneobob90 avatar
Huddo's sister
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then again, people do get Seasonal Affective Disorder in bad weather...

ceegspam avatar
CLG
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crime rates increasing in hotter weather has been studied and shown to have a correlation, the speculative part is more about why it happens.

lakotasilver avatar
Lakota Wolf
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Puts me in mind of “August Heat", a short story by W. F. Harvey. XD Truly a terrifying little story.

mbbookkeeping avatar
DuchessDegu
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do 100% get angrier, even warm weather trigger migraines and sweating makes me break out in hives. And yes, all the arseholes suddenly leave their basements

tasmapittock avatar
Ranch Dressing
Community Member
1 year ago

This comment has been deleted.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
#14

Colonel Mustard

with the Lead Pipe

in the Conservatory

ttufizzo Report

#15

Life doesn't end when we die. Everything else in this world is recycled, why wouldn't our consciousness also be?

literalmetaphorical Report

Add photo comments
POST
jmscargill avatar
Scagsy
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like this one. Science says that energy never disappears, it just changes form. So what happens to the energy that is our consciousness when we die?

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#16

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.

Lyn1987 Report

Add photo comments
POST
1964mcdawnmarie avatar
Dawn Marie
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#17

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

Juswantedtono Report

Add photo comments
POST
starstruckbyacomet avatar
Busy Panda
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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 😂

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#18

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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??"

Cosakita , Keegan Evans Report

ADVERTISEMENT
#19

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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".

DangersVengeance Report

#20

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.

Super_delicious Report

#21

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.

Mathmatical Report

#22

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.

_MATCHES_MALONE Report

Add photo comments
POST
francesm avatar
Frances M
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This has been proved already as true as a pure random generator wasn’t believed by people, as repeats were seen as not random. So they created a “random” generator that removed previous numbers from the list.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#23

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.

SheogorathWaldo Report

#24

That we're not alone in the universe.

TheEpicRedCape Report

#25

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.

bloodymexican Report

Add photo comments
POST
zoel-krieger avatar
HurlWurk
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#26

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.

[deleted] Report

Add photo comments
POST
ianmcmahon avatar
Don't even
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#27

That the heads of organizations like the FBI and CIA are not the real heads and the real ones are way more secretive

somezoomerdude Report

Add photo comments
POST
philblanque avatar
phil blanque
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#28

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.

-eDgAR- Report

See Also on Bored Panda
#29

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

ChaosBrigadier Report

#30

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.

Kooooomar Report

Add photo comments
POST
contact_213 avatar
APL
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#31

I strongly suspect that the football coaches at my high school talk to teachers to “help” their players’ grades.

[deleted] Report

Add photo comments
POST
francesm avatar
Frances M
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#32

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.

MoodyBibarel Report

Add photo comments
POST
paulmacdonell avatar
Paul Macdonell
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Russia is not a big funder of North Korea. That job is being done by China, the only country it has with economic ties.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#33

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.

RooHound Report

Add photo comments
POST
lissmerriweather avatar
Bonesko
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know wha it's like to not have a parent with secrets. I'm sorry for your loss.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#34

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.

HereAndBlank Report

#35

Tom Cruise has killed someone for Scientology, or was present when Miscavige killed someone. I think he knows what happened to Shelly.

Snoo-68727 Report

Add photo comments
POST
mndm-synth avatar
Monday
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doubtful he knows. He's rich sure, but he's just a p**n to the scientologists. They want to milk him for as much money as they can, so they'll limit his influence in hopes he'll just keep pumping in more money to gain more influence.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#36

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.

Cinema_King Report

Add photo comments
POST
starstruckbyacomet avatar
Busy Panda
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're criminals. If nothing happens it means they didn't see any opening.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#37

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.

Shadow__Self Report

#38

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.

[deleted] Report

Add photo comments
POST
censorshipsucks3 avatar
censorshipsucks
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View more commentsArrow down menu
See Also on Bored Panda
#39

That USS scorpion was sunk by the soviet navy. Officially it was lost in an accident but the circumstances was fishy.

bustead Report

Add photo comments
POST
mndm-synth avatar
Monday
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasn't this one traced back to a defective torpedo in the end? Negligence or something if memory serves.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#40

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.

TheRealAbstractSquid Report

Add photo comments
POST
lauraschimmler avatar
Laura1985
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, I would get that checked out by a proper psychiatrist. This may be a symptom of schizophrenia.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#41

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

limowx Report

Add photo comments
POST
ivanakramaric avatar
Ivana Bašić
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#42

The government knows a lot more about things in our universe then they're telling us.

FlowGotDatDough Report

Add photo comments
POST
philblanque avatar
phil blanque
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#43

Ajit Pai has a cocaine habit.

stoneddj420 Report

Add photo comments
POST
jameskramer avatar
James016
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ex chairman of the FCC, corporate shill and has a very punchable face

View more commentsArrow down menu
#44

That for a few years in the 90s Stephen King's wife was ghost writing his books.

drjoehumphrey Report

Add photo comments
POST
lakotasilver avatar
Lakota Wolf
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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…)

View more commentsArrow down menu
#45

Someone Asked, “What Do You Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of?”, And 30 People Spilled Their Thought-Provoking Theories (New Answers) 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.

anon , Lukas Report

#46

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.

Eddiesea Report

Add photo comments
POST
ovanrem avatar
elmortero
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a theory about that too : If the richest man on earth is bald - and stays bald - while having all money end resources, I believe that there is indeed not cure for that.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#47

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.

gallow_truth_2017 Report

Add photo comments
POST
saragregory0508 avatar
NsG
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wha...? Some kind of explanation please... Every word is in English, but the whole is Gibberish.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#48

That Chael Sonnen took a dive against Anderson Silva. Twice.

Shermione Report

Add photo comments
POST
See Also on Bored Panda
#49

Solange was Beyoncé and Jay Z's surrogate.

There, I said it.

2540 Report

#50

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

thatismywife Report

Add photo comments
POST
johnpowers avatar
John Powers
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#51

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?

derpman86 Report

Add photo comments
POST
francesm avatar
Frances M
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Megalomaniac’s would never believe it could end badly and would therefore never turn tail and run. And no one liked him enough to pull him out.

View more commentsArrow down menu