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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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#1
Religion was created to control the masses.
Linus Nilsson 3 years ago
Maybe todays religion, but from the beginning it was simply a way to explain things we didn't understand.
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#2
Our ancient (human) history is far more vast and impressive than we can even begin to imagine.
#3
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
Sky Render 3 years ago (edited)
Sounds like what my dad did back in 2015. Made sure mom's life insurance was high-return and always paid up, then "accidentally" started a house fire and "forgot" to tell the firefighters that his family was still in the house. Luckily he failed and mom left him. Sickens me that man still walks free, that's not even his worst crime against his own family...
Katrina Marie 3 years ago
What the what!!! I'm so sorry to hear that you had to go through that and I can't imagine how that knowledge alone affects you. That's beyond horrifying.... he should be put away. That's a dangerous person.
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Vicky Z 3 years ago
That is always my question when I hear similar stories or even when a movie has this plot! I was always wondering
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Bobert Robertson 3 years ago
Hmmm *calls insurance company to take out a policy on Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk*
Mohsie Supposie 3 years ago
Looks like I got good gut instinct... I just posted this comment one the post above: "Gut instinct is a very powerful thing." ... It applies more here.
Faith Love-robertson 3 years ago
Walmart does it as standard policy- it's called 'dead peasant policies', they take the statistics and analyze them. They know a certain number of their employees will die while employed by them and they do the math- it's just business. Sad but true.
Paul Macdonell 3 years ago
Now put a policy on him.... and then tell him. Well worth the 200 $ for a years payments. He won't sleep.
Viviane 3 years ago
That is truly frightening. I'm glad she and her mother let fear guide them out a potential nightmare. Dreams aren't proof, but in this case, they certainly come from informed mistrust!
Catlady6000 3 years ago
Dreams are your subconscious telling you what your conscious either can't or won't acknowledge. When you're asleep, you let your guard down and the lies and reassurances you tell yourself (I'm just being paranoid) are weakened, and the real knowledge comes out.
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MysteriousLegBruise 3 years ago
I'm so glad you listened to your intuition. I hope you stay safe sugar 🖤
Monica Sargent 3 years ago
....your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams....
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
It seems that it's quite easy to get a life insurance on someone in the US. It doesn't even have to be someone you have some sort of relationship with. Investigating Life Insurance Fraud and Abuse Fraud costs the insurance industry billions of dollars every year. So you can imagine that there's some serious money you can make when your fraud works.
Jane Doe 3 years ago
It's not fraud though. The only issue is if there's a required medical exam and you misrepresent yourself. If there isn't, you ask the company for a policy in the name of a person, you pay the premiums. Contract valid.
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Nicola Roberts 3 years ago
In the UK you can only take out a policy if you have a joint interest ie a Mortgage. So I can't take a policy out for my Mum even as a "gift" because well why would you??
CincyReds 3 years ago
Yes you can totally get insurance on someone without them knowing. I got a policy on my husband when I started a new job. We had not been together for over 8 years, just never divorced. Well he was sick he got diagnosed with Cirrhosis. The policy started on 2/1, and he passed on 2/3. The reason I got it was during our separation, he never gave me child support or helped with the kids on any way. WE were still friends, the amount I got required no physical. I was albe to pay for his funeral, give my daugther money for student loans, and my son wanted to buy gold.
tuzdayschild 3 years ago
You absolutely can get life insurance on people without their knowledge.
Margaret Martin 2 years ago
Step-Momster told me I was lucky to have Angels watching over me. She had put a life insurance policy on me & all the "near-death/ mauling accidents" I kept having while working with Dad were actually "intentionals" that didn't go as planned. :'(
Nicholas McShane 2 years ago
I have heard of employers taking out insurance policies on their employees...without telling their employees
Terri Keller 3 years ago
While my divorce was in progress my soon to be ex-husband asked me to go dear hunting with him, "just for old times sake." Of course, I refused. When I told my mother she said, "Oh Lord, don't ever do that! He'll shoot you and no one can prove it wasn't an accident." That was my gut feeling, too.
Amaranthim Talon 3 years ago
Here's one for you, businesses can (could?) get insurance on workers without their knowledge - Dead Peasant - https://www.policygenius.com/life-insurance/dead-peasant-insurance/
Amanda Hunter 3 years ago
Shows how we may not really know the person we love enough to marry.
Lisa Chambers 3 years ago
They have convicted people in courts of law based on this kind of thing. Good thing nothing happened to you!
Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 3 years ago
How...where I live both people + some witness have to sign SO many pages. Live and in person in front of the insurance person.
Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
You are absolutely correct. Lucky to be alive. Trust instincts and dreams of that nature.
Corey Smith 3 years ago
When I got divorced, I found out my ex had an $850,000 policy on me that I didn't know about. It was through a company that was a little more expensive because it didn't require a physical. I wonder about that one a lot.
Tara Leigh 3 years ago
and invite them places that are secluded and a country that he could stage a murder go look like mugging gone wrong. She could have went and had a gun on her. Been prepared. Self defence.
Richard Henderson 3 years ago
Circumstantial evidence but pretty compelling. You’re lucky I would say.
Effin Fred 3 years ago
Sounds like a kooky ignorant and paranoid woman who believes in dreams and gave up on her marriage. I suspect she also believes in ghosts.
Deb Johnston 3 years ago
You can not get an insurance policy on someone without them knowing, and if the insurance company sent you a refund check, that meant you were the owner of the policy. This story does not add up.
#4
Woman's clothes have either no pockets or crumby pockets to promote handbag sales.
Bobert Robertson 3 years ago
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.
#5
The Kardashians usually wear solid colored clothing because it’s easier for them to photoshop
#6
That the universe is teeming with life. Earth just can't be that special.
Johnny Rodriguez 3 years ago
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..
#7
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?
DDmaybeandor 3 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.
#8
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!
#9
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.
#10
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.
#11
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.
#12
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.
Aski Markup 3 years ago
Yes! I always think this, like how can they make a profit, and afford to pay all of their overheads?
#13
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.
#14
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.
#15
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.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
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".
#16
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.
#17
That only about 20% of people actually do any work. The rest just get by looking busy.
#18
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?
Ember 3 years ago
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?
#19
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.
#20
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.
#21
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.
#22
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.
#23
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.
Monica Martinez Castañeda 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure that's a fact. I've read it so many times. It's free advertising for them
#24
My dog sees supernatural events at our house.
#25
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.
#26
Some zoos have empty exhibits and just claim the animal is in there, you just never see them.
#27
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.
#28
That my five month old knows exactly when I’m about to fall asleep and starts crying just to screw with me.
#29
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".
#30
That your phone and laptop mics are hot and sending data to certain groups.
#31
That my English teacher didn't read essays, and based grades on how we were in class.
#32
Mattress stores are a money laundering scheme. No one buys that many mattresses.
#33
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.
Mystery Egg 3 years ago
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.
#34
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
#35
That Earth has been visited by one or more advanced civilizations, and may even be watching us stealthily.
What do you think ?
Lauren 3 years ago
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.
Kisses4Katie 3 years ago
And get this! A whole slice fits perfectly on a slice of..bread!
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Yeah, you heard 3 years ago (edited)
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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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Every accusation you hear made by a member of the US Republican Party is an admission of guilt. GOP = Gaslight, Obstruct, Project
Chich 3 years ago
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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Bob Belcher 3 years ago
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.
Bob Belcher 3 years ago
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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Paweł Duda 3 years ago
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.
Ronnie Beaton 3 years ago
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.
Tereza Cervenakova 3 years ago
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...
renee brack 3 years ago
Superb thread providing much food for thought as well as some amusement. Thank you Bored Panda :)
JustAnother Soul 3 years ago
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.
Rei 3 years ago (edited)
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.
Unwelcomed Guest 3 years ago
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
Lauren 3 years ago
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.
Kisses4Katie 3 years ago
And get this! A whole slice fits perfectly on a slice of..bread!
Load More Replies... Yeah, you heard 3 years ago (edited)
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... Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Every accusation you hear made by a member of the US Republican Party is an admission of guilt. GOP = Gaslight, Obstruct, Project
Chich 3 years ago
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... Bob Belcher 3 years ago
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.
Bob Belcher 3 years ago
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... Paweł Duda 3 years ago
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.
Ronnie Beaton 3 years ago
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.
Tereza Cervenakova 3 years ago
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...
renee brack 3 years ago
Superb thread providing much food for thought as well as some amusement. Thank you Bored Panda :)
JustAnother Soul 3 years ago
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.
Rei 3 years ago (edited)
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.
Unwelcomed Guest 3 years ago
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
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