Conspiracy Theories With A Surprising Amount Of Evidence To Back Them Up
Reddit user Specific_Shop_3975 asked: 'What’s a conspiracy with the most evidence to back it up?'
We've all heard our fair share of conspiracy theories, and whether or not we truly believe them, we can agree that they're fun to think about.
But there are some that are more sinister than others, and some that are far too applicable to simply ignore.
Redditor Specific_Shop_3975 asked:
"What's a conspiracy with the most evidence to back it up?"
The Sinking of RMS Lusitania
"The British government deliberately put the RMS Lusitania in harm's way to get her sunk to bring the USA into WW1. The fact the records have been resealed for another 100 years adds credence to this conspiracy."
- Blackmore_Vale
"Dude, it's not even a conspiracy theory. The German consulate took out a two-page ad in the New York Times telling people to not board because they were going to sink it."
"Also at the time Britain didn't have an option but to sell the ship because it was carrying so many munitions that they desperately needed. This isn't a conspiracy theory; it's just plain fact."
"Both governments knew the risks and they needed it to galvanize support."
- hagantic42
Not So Sweet Candy Stores
"In the UK, there was a recent boom in American sweet shops that sold grossly overpriced import candy. They were suddenly everywhere after the pandemic, they didn’t sell much, but they were everywhere."
"Someone on TikTok theorized that they were all money laundering fronts, so people started filming in the shops laughing at the prices, and staff always seemed to get really angry about it."
"Then it was announced last year that there was an HMRC (UK’s tax wing of government) investigation started because the theory held water, and suddenly they all shut down."
"The one in Leeds Centre near Trinity currently has a notice of abandonment in the window and you can see the shelves are still stocked: the owners just ran off and left it."
"Sounds like another successful case for the TikTok detectives."
- fearthe0cean
What's Behind the Price of a Piece of Art
"Modern art is just money laundering."
"Nobody pays 2.2 million for a blank canvas."
- Poultry_Master123
"The brilliance of modern art money laundering can't be understated."
"Alfred wants to pay Brad $100k for a bribe."
"Brad wants this money to be 'clean' to avoid authorities looking into him."
"Brad 'sells' a worthless modern art piece for $100k."
"Alfred has now successfully transferred the bribe to Alfred. However, Brad is now in possession of a painting that the 'market' says is worth $100k. Down the line, Alfred might be able to sell this now 'valuable' piece of art to a third party for $50k, $100k, or potentially at a profit!"
"It can get even more complex when the artist is basically a part of the money laundering ring. This makes it so that Brad can fictionally increase the cost of buying the art from the artist in the first place in order to make the money laundering less obvious."
- Zigxy
Why So Many Options?
"There is something fishy going on at Mattress Firm. How can they stay in business with a store in practically every plaza when the average person buys a new mattress every decade or so?"
- PWcrash
Quite the Distraction
"Might not be a 'conspiracy theory' per se. But I believe that the government works hard to cover up their own incompetence."
"Part of that is manufacturing insane conspiracy theories as a way to make anyone who asks questions look crazy. Or at least to serve as a distraction."
- ButtFarquad66
A Conspiracy Is a Conspiracy
"The meta-conspiracy to convince dumb people that the word 'conspiracy' means 'a crazy person’s imagination.'"
"Conspiracies happen every day. There’s a global conspiracy of adults to convince kids Santa is real. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a conspiracy."
"Somewhere along the line, the word got hijacked and it immediately discredits whoever says it. It’s practically a trap to use the word, so you have to dance around it if you want to describe people planning things in secret."
- Bob_the_peasant
Widely Discredited
"The government deliberately leaked false information to UFO investigators to discredit them because they were getting too close to the truth."
"(The truth being that Area 51 was a testing grounds for spy planes and stealth aircraft and was attracting too much attention for a secret weapons facility.)"
- 4thofeleven
"I think the government does this with conspiracy theories across the board. Promoting outlandish tinfoil hat-type theories helps discredit the ones that are actually real."
- QUINNFLORE
Another Money Laundering Front
"Benetton is a front for Italian mob money laundering."
"Probably wasn't at first back in the 80s but now... decent-sized stores in expensive real estate all over Europe, never anyone in the stores, never seen anyone wearing the clothes, don't know anyone that's bought anything from them, ever, and neither do those people."
- Bannedin_3_2_1
"I shop there all the time, in both Italy and Switzerland. It’s the highest quality for the most reasonable price that I can regularly find in Europe. I’m never the only one in there or checking out, either."
- AdultDisneyWoman
"Sounds like something a money launderer would say."
- kjm16216
Residential Monopoly
"Blackrock and Vanguard are buying up all the residential property they can in order to get the majority of Americans renting from them. Estimates say by 2030 they will own 60% of residential property."
- smartsapants
"I so wish we could all stop fighting about dumb sh*t for just a few weeks so both sides of the country could pass a law that bans any corporation or non-US citizen from owning residential property(with some provisions to account for things like bank loans obviously)."
"This would have such a massive effect on quality of life going into the future. Of course, it won’t happen."
- ternic69
People of Influence Parties
"The Bilderberg group. Every year in summer, they meet, and people keep track of who is there. Guest lists every year. Top politicians, royalty, corporate owners. Extreme security. No protocols."
"There is confirmation from a variety of these people that they were there."
"So, what do they talk about? Are they coordinated somehow after each meeting? How much influence do they have?"
"Well, given the extreme security, it's difficult to say. I am sure it's nothing, though. Why would those groups of people want to influence the world to suit their agendas, right?"
"Also note, anyone discussing this gets called a tin foil hat, or paranoid, or a conspiracy theorist who probably also believes in antivaxx reptilian....."
- Common-Wish-2227
Secret Climate Change
"The petroleum companies knew burning fossil fuels would lead to global climate change but hid the evidence of their own funded studies and did nothing to curb consumption, instead funded groups opposed to renewable, non-greenhouse gas generating energy to maximize shareholder value."
- 85_Draken
The Travels of Elvis Presley
"Elvis didn’t die in 1977. He was working with the government (DEA OR CIA? I can’t remember?). When he was compromised they had to fake his death."
"He actually moved to Argentina and lived the rest of his life down there."
"There were a lot of sightings. My favorite is when one of his house workers reported someone that looked just like him lying out by the pool at his own house the day after he died."
"It’s a fun theory that is pretty convincing the more you look into it."
- Affectionate-Win-788
Conspiracies All the Way Down
"People believe all the governments in the world have collaborated on keeping the shape of the Earth and our inability to visit the Moon a secret..."
- draculamilktoast
"But what about the turtle we are sitting on?"
- KAG25
"More importantly, what about the turtle THAT turtle is sitting on?"
- Hym3n
Intentionally Divisive
"That our governments are turning us all against each other to distract us from the blatant wealth manipulation, corrupt practices, nepotism, cronyism, among hundreds of other big issue things. Their plans working a treat and the people as a whole can't see what's happening and start working together against it."
"We are losing our privacy, our rights, and our sense of connection with one another. We drift away while they get more and more powerful. People hand away their rights like they're going to get them back and never question it when it's not."
"Our planet had to deal with another of the world power's attempts at control and that's the pandemic or should I say the reaction to it. I was always a believer it happened naturally but as time goes on it becomes more apparent it wasn't."
"We are bodies hanging from the roof being bled dry slowly but if this keeps up we aren't just f**ked like a world war or nuclear war, if we don't do anything we will lose whatever control we have and we will never get it back."
- Magic_Kushroom
From interesting and wowing to deeply troubling, there's truly no shortage of conspiracies and conspiracy theories out there for people to puzzle over and research.
The most troubling thing about them, honestly, has to be the stigma surrounding a person's interest in them. As soon as someone expresses interest in one of these theories, others are quick to discredit them.
The earth is flat.
The moon in hollow.
Evolution didn't happen.
These are only some of the wild, laughably ridiculous theories that a disheartening number of people actually believe.
In spite of ample scientific evidence proving them wrong.
Nonetheless, they go on believing these ludicrous theories.
Some of which are creepy enough even to make those with the toughest skin have trouble going to bed at night.
"What is the scariest/creepiest theory you know about?"
How It All Began...
"This isn’t a theory, but I just think it’s cool."
"Y’know how movies and shows always have this ‘ancient alien race’ that came way before us, and we’re the new species?"
"Well technically, most likely thats wrong."
"We are near the beginning of the universe, if the universe was a person, we would literally barely be a cell, not even formed
In reality, we are the ancient species, we are the ones that come before, we are the ones some future civilization may see."
"Just a crazy thing to think about."- Podomus
A Whole Other Life
"I have a sleep disorder that causes nightmares and dreams that are often indistinguishable from reality."
"I live whole lives with partners and kids or work jobs in strange places for decades in full technicolour details and reach old age before waking."
"Sometimes it’s so intense that I sob and grieve for the lost relationships as if my real life partner has died."
"I am confused to be my own age and be here, now."
"The theory that this life is a dream/simulation type thing feels pretty real to me."
"My brain seems to create whole viable realities anyway."- Isolampg
Tired Season 4 GIF by The SimpsonsGiphyIt Just Doesn't Add Up...
"I find numbers stations to be pretty creepy."
"Their purpose is technically a theory, as the groups that broadcast them won't officially confirm even their existence for the most part."
"Essentially, spying is still a very real thing for most world governments."
"One of the most foolproof ways of delivering a coded message is through a one-time code, a code used just once before being discarded."
"Your spy has the key, you have the message, and once the key is used it is discarded and the next message is sent using a different key."
"Additionally, shortwave radio is an extremely secure way of sending these messages."
"It sounds weird, that a radio station anyone with a shortwave radio can listen to, would be considered 'secure'."
"But the beauty of the method is that shortwave radios are ubiquitous, cheap technology throughout most of the world."
"What looks more suspicious, a person traveling with a radio, or a person traveling with a sophisticated computer or satellite phone?"
"While the signal can be received by anyone, it leaves no record of who received it and can't be intercepted and traced by a middleman."
"They don't care if you listen, because the stream of numbers is nothing without the code, and because you're using a one-time code, it can't be cracked as it's randomly generated and used once."
"The only time a one-time code has ever been broken was an instance where the code was re-used."
"So your spy just tunes in to the radio at a specific time on a specific day, writes down the numbers."
"Decodes the message, discards the key, and no one is any the wiser."
"Most stations are identified by a call sign or little jingle, and these can range from kind of cute and cheerful to pretty eerie sounding."
"If you listen in frequently, you'll hear messages repeated over and over until one day they change up - it's believed they'll repeat the message until their spy can communicate they've received it."
"Essentially, if you have a shortwave radio, you can listen in on highly secret spy communications from countries all over the world."
"You can also listen in on countries jamming the communication, either by broadcasting state radio on the same signal, or trying to jam it with noise or static."
"You'd think the frequency of these transmissions would have gone down after the Cold War, but they're still going strong!"
"The very first numbers stations appeared in the very early days of radio, during World War I."
"I find it fascinating, but also super creepy, that all of this secret communication is happening right out in the open, for us to tune in to at any time, without any way of knowing who it is intended for or what is being transmitted."- Tintinabulation
loop numbers GIFGiphyBefore There Were Even Dinosaurs...
"Not much of a 'theory', more of a conjecture but:
"Fossilization is actually quite rare."
"It takes extremely specific set of circumstances for a dead organism even to become fossilized let alone survive intact to the modern day to be found by humans."
"Because of this, there are likely millions of species we will simply never know about because none of them ever fossilized."
"For all we know, we might not even be the first intelligent species to evolve here on Earth."
"There could’ve been a species that formed a civilization at some point and then went extinct later on, but we’ll possibly never know that because there are no fossils that formed/survive today."
"It probably wouldn’t have been an advanced, industrialized civilization like the kind we have today as we would’ve surely found evidence for it by now, but I could easily see something on par with Ancient Egypt disappear completely after millions of years."- DannyBright
"How Can I Remember Things That Never Happened?"
"Telling this story makes me feel uncomfortable, even today, so I will tell it here."
"I don't know how much this story fits into this thread, but I've never had a platform that seemed appropriate to share it, so here we go.'
"When I was 20 (14 years ago), I moved from Iowa to Boulder, Colorado with my best friend Cory."
"We moved there during the month of August, and shortly thereafter I got a phone call from a number I didn't know."
"I answered it, and it turned out to be this girl that had attended the same high school as us, Ashley."
"Ashley had heard that Cory and I had just moved to Boulder, and she was calling because she, too, had just moved to Boulder to attend CU."
"She wanted to know if we wanted to get together some time and hang out / party."
"Ashley was a couple years younger than us and we didn't run in the same crowds, so we didn't hang out much."
"But I remember her coming over to our apartment to smoke and chill once, then I remember asking her to get us weed--she did."
"She came with us to a party once, and I also remember us asking her for weed a second time, and her texting me back saying 'You guys just message me when you want weed, so no'."
"After that I don't think we talked to her again."
"Fast forward 3-4 years, Cory and I are living back in Iowa."
"One night, I was out with a couple of people I'd gone to high school with, and we went to this dive bar called Thumbs.'
"In the back of Thumbs there is a single pool table, which is where my group went because we had planned on playing."
"We got to the pool table, and there's Ashley, racking a set of pool balls."
"I was super surprised to see her there, so I walked right up to her and said something like 'Ashley, long time no see! What are you doing here? Did you move back from Boulder?'"
"Ashley just stared at me for a second and then said 'What?'"
"So I repeat myself and say 'Did you move back from Colorado? I haven't seen you since we hung out in Boulder!'"
"She looked truly confused, and then she said 'Um.. what are you talking about? I never lived in Boulder'."
"At this point I thought she was f*cking with me because I specifically remembered hanging out with her more than once. So I laughed and was like 'You're f*cking with me, right?""
"She shook her head no, and one of the girls I was with, who knew both of us, actually overheard it and butted in to confirm that 'Ashley had lived in [our hometown] the whole time'."
"I completely dropped the subject to save face, but the experience was so unsettling that I made a bee-line for the front door."
"I walked out onto the sidewalk, pulled my phone out of my pocket, and called Cory."
"I said 'Cory, do you remember when we lived together in Boulder and Ashley came over and hung out with us?'"
"And Cory said 'No man, that never happened'."
"He was my best friend so I knew he wasn't f*cking with me, plus there was a zero percent chance he and Ashley had ever talked to set something like this up."
"When I pressed the issue, he insisted that no one we had gone to high school with had ever moved out to Boulder, and that we certainly hadn't hung out with them."
"Since then, I've brought this up to Cory several times, and his position has never changed."
"To this day, I don't know what happened."
"I specifically remember hanging out with her."
"She wore a tie-dye t-shirt when she came over the first time."
"And we hung out with her multiple times, I remember it so clearly."
"I still have those memories, but apparently they never happened."
"Even though the timeline matches exactly; she would have graduated high school that year and moved to Colorado in August for school."
"I know that the human memory is super unreliable, and I'm sure that's all this is, but that doesn't change that I am absolutely 100% sure that this happened."
"14 years later and I still stand by my story, wrong as it may be." - morbowillcrushyou
black and white love GIFGiphyThey Can Hear Us From Beyond The Grave...
"The last neuron in the brain can fire up to 72 hours after clinical death."
"What is classed as still being alive?"
"Your heart stops or your brain activity stopping?"
"As a nurse this plays on my mind, I always talk to the recently deceased as I would usually do."
"Hearing is the last sense to go anyway so chances are people can still hear for a short time after death."
"I have to confirm death on a daily basis, we check heart sounds, breathing, eye response, and pain response, but part of me knows that electrical activity is still going on in there."
"I’m a hospice nurse and morbid thoughts are what I do best."- jowiejojo
Life Goes On...
"Some smart people I know say life extension tech will exponentially explode in the next century, transforming adult life spans the same way antibiotics, vaccines, and sanitation irrevocably transformed childhood survival rates."
"If we hadn’t blocked stem cell research, we could be the ones living youthful, nearly disease-free lives but we’ve missed our chance by one or two generations."- Lemontreelumur
What The Government Doesn't Want Us To Know
"The Vela Incident."
"September 1979, a US Vela satellite detected a double flash of light over an area of the ocean between South Africa and Antarctica."
"The prior 41 double flashes observed by the satellite were from nuclear explosions as this is what they were designed to observe."
"There also happened to be a typhoon happening in the area at the time so it seemed like someone wanted to detonate it without being caught."
"Carter administration reported that it was a natural occurrence due to a small meteorite hitting the satellite."
"However many other independent sources and even other countries have reported that they did indeed find traces of fallout and radiation."
"Because of the geopolitical climate of the times, there’s very strong evidence that it was in fact a joint nuclear weapon test carried out by South Africa and Israel, and the US scrubbed the information regarding it because they didn’t want to paint their allies in Israel in a bad light for working with apartheid-era South Africa."
"Strangely enough, Israel and South Africa have never denied having nuclear weapons programs, nor have they ever denied a joint test being responsible for the Vela Incident."- DJCJ42
nuclear explosion bomb GIFGiphyWas He Ever Really There?
"The man from Taured."
"He was going through an airport and when asked for his passport he gave the people a fully legitimate passport."
"Except the country he was from didn’t exist."
"He argued that it was right between France and Spain and had been there over 200 years."
"Since the passport was legitimate but the country wasn’t on the map they put him up in a hotel for the night with guards outside his 4 story room."
"He was gone, along with all his things the next morning."
"Not a trace."- 1122Sl110
When The Stars Align...
"Not a theory but a matter of fact."
"The Milky Way and many other nearby galaxies are hurtling towards the same point in space, being attracted by something."
"We don't know what because our view in blocked, but it's pulling GALAXIES towards itself."
"Big ones too, the Milky Way is a rather large galaxy."
"Whatever this 'Great Attractor"'(as it's been dubbed) is, it's insanely massive."- Lui_Le_Diamond
Surely, none of these things ever happened, right?
Depending on who you ask, who knows...
In this world, there are many things that don't have a rational explanation. Why is it we don't have any of the original footage from the moon landing? What happened to Amelia Earhart? How many of the things we believe to be true are really cover-ups?
Not having the answers to questions like these lead to conspiracy theories. I have always believed that the Bermuda Triangle sucks objects into other dimensions. Why else would there be so many disappearances in that area?
Some conspiracy theories are really crazy, but others are pretty plausible.
Curious about those theories, Redditor Meddling_Pickles asked:
"What conspiracy theory do you genuinely believe?"
It's All His Fault
"That Adam ate the apple first and blamed it on Eve, thus the Adam's Apple."
– keirden
Cause of Death
"Dorothy Killgallen, the only journalist who had an interview with Jack Ruby, was killed by the CIA in her sleep"
– crazeyawesomettv
"It wouldn't surprise me at all. It wouldn't surprise me if Jack Ruby turned out to be hired by the CIA. Or Oswald, for that matter."
– KidsTheseDaysYknow
"Marilyn Monroe was murdered, or it was involuntary manslaughter"
– PersonalityLost5228
It Was Rigged I Tell You!
"Ever since Alex Trebek left Jeopardy, there has been this sudden and convenient "rise of the superstars" where contestants are getting very long win streaks, far more than what we used to see on the show. I think Jeopardy is rigging their contestant selection process to artificially increase the likelihood of long win streaks in order to boost ratings."
– Firree
Dangerous Ego
"Trump never wanted to be president. Looking at it through the lense of a man who doesn't want to be there, but has far too much ego to admit it, makes the way he handled his time in office make waaaay more sense than any other explanation. And his ego is so big he'll still run again."
– chariotherr
Cookie Thief
"That despite what my roommate says, she’s eating my food when I leave the house. I had 17 Oreos when I left, I came back to 15."
– Apprehensive_Oven924
Hard Truths
"gogurt is just yogurt"
– Thugger4L
"no. no….. i refuse to believe this. source? citations? please send me your bibliography in MLA format"
– TheGoddessHylia
The More You Use
"Chapstick provides instant relief, then makes you lips more chapped so that you have to keep using it."
– LorryToTheFace
"This is accurate and similar to pledge furniture polish that actually increases the amount of dust on the furni"
– Pow4991
Disney Is A Snowman
"Earth is flat"
"Just kidding"
"Probably the one I could believe is the one that says that Disney is frozen until they can find a cure for him, and that the movie Frozen was only made so if people searched Disney Frozen, the movie would appear instead of the theory"
– kcyccyck
Aliens
"Roswell New Mexico crash was in fact aliens."
"Only conspiracy I believe."
"But maybe cause it was the first one I discovered as a kid. And I loved aliens."
– Champion-of-the-Sun5
"Idk if this is a conspiracy theory, but I believe aliens could be real. After all, if our planet can support life why can't others? I think if they are real then we have a way greater advantage due to our advanced technology and stuff like that. But who knows."
– SpencerTheMenace
"That aliens exist. Now I know that makes me sound like some buffoon but hear me out. The Universe is 46.507 light years and there’s still more out there, out of the trillions of planets in the universe we are the only life forms? Sound crazy to me."
– DarthGolrath
The Never-Ending War
"Cold War has never finished and is still going on to this day."
– Mrgray123
"I believe that the Cold War never ended. Otherwise we wouldn't still be spying on each other. You think that the Russians hacked the election just for shits and giggles? No, they wanted us to get into a civil war, and Trump was the perfect candidate to divide our nation. Our military budget is the highest in the world and if Russia were to cause a rift between us, it would be that much easier to either take us over, or make sure we didn't interfere with whatever plans they have, including expanding its borders. If their plans for invading Ukraine and attacking Finland would succeed, there's the chance it will attack others until it eventually took over Europe. With their country getting bigger and bigger, we would get smaller and smaller until Russia delivers the killing blow. When they say, 'divide and conquer,' they mean divide and conquer!"
– N0nethelesser
That last one is so true to modern life!
The term conspiracy theory has a negative connotation, but they are around to explain the unexplainable. To give us an answer when no one else can provide one.
And who knows? These could all be true.
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Have you ever had an itching feeling about something happening, but no one else believes you?
All owing to the fact that you can't prove it.
It's a terribly frustrating feeling.
And while, more often than not, these suspicions we carry do not, in fact, turn out to be true, on some occasions they most definitely are.
Making it all the more frustrating that we were unable to prove our suspicions in the first place.
Redditor TheRedLego was curious of suspicions being held by other members of the Reddit community which they, at the moment, are unable to prove, leading them to ask:
"What’s a suspicion you currently hold, but can’t prove right now?"
I can smell it from a mile away.
"One of the upstairs neighbors is throwing dog sh*t out the their window at night."- ogresound1987
I'm telling you, Mom, my teacher just doesn't like me!
"That my English teacher didn't read essays, and based grades on how we were in class."- casshmg
GiphyIt Just doesn't add up.
"My father's caregiver, she named herself as domestic partner in the will, but my father always referred to her as his caregiver, coerced him to change his will making her the executor and removing his children 30 days before she killed him."
"His death was ruled a suicide and everything went to her."
"Properties, banks accounts, valuable items, everything."
"My sister tried to fight it, but at the advice of her lawyer, she let it go."
"I 100% believe the people who signed as witness and the notary were in on it and paid off."
"I found 2 of them on Facebook."
"One witness retired the same month my father 'committed suicide' and the notary went on an elaborate vacation the following month."
"The other witness called my sister two days after my father's death while on vacation in Hawaii to tell her he was dead on behalf of the caregiver."
"It could all be coincidence and I could be drawing conclusions from coincidences, but I know my father."
"After all he had been through in life, he wasn't the kind of person to give up and off himself for no reason."- BrilliantInfamous807
"The circumstances surrounding the death of my grandfather."
"First, he died in September of 2020, but we did not find out until January of 2021."
"His so-called best friend pushed an un-notarized will through the courts in order to get his hands on my grandfather’s estate even though my grandfather had rewritten his will so that everything he had would be divided between me and my brother."
"This first will cut my mom and her siblings out by name and there was no mention of us at all."
"Second, my grandfather was a stickler about his credit."
"He had the best credit score out of all of us, but when he was found there were tons of unpaid statements lying around his living room, which was incredibly abnormal."
"Third, I don’t even know where this man is buried."
"I know he was cremated, but I don’t know where his ashes are."
"There was no autopsy as far as I know either, his cause of death was listed as a heart attack."
"Lastly, that 'best friend' has a daughter, and I know she knows something."
"She spoke to my uncle and all she could talk about was how devastating the loss was to HER and HER family, and how she had such fond memories of coming over to play basketball and watch my grandfather put together cars in the 70s."
"My mom, her brothers, and my grandmother have absolutely no memory of these people."
"I don’t care about the inheritance."
"It was never even about that."
"I just wanted to be able to say goodbye, you know?"
"Why didn’t they call and tell us he died?"- User Deleted
It's all a scam!
"The ongoing construction on major city expressways is an embezzlement scheme."
"They’ve been doing construction on the same part of the expressway in Chicago for over 20 years."
"It’s never getting done."
"They’re just pocketing money."- oneder_them
construction crew GIFGiphySome people are too thin skinned.
"YouTube got rid of displaying dislikes for viewers because companies complained about being ratioed."- Hoppy_Croaklightly
A house of ill repute?
"My neighbor has 'friends' over every few days."
"They are all wealthy based on the cars they drive."
"I saw one guy pacing nervously before entering her house."
"I also saw a guy brushing his teeth by his car before going in."
"You know what I'm thinking."- lookssharp
We know what you're up to, Reddit.
"That over the past year or so, Reddit changed their algorithm to make sure more videos make it to the front page."
"And introduce their sh*tty video player."
"All of this just to increase key user engagement metrics to inflate their valuation prior to their announced upcoming IPO / stock market debut."- Volkovy.
Jimmy Fallon Smile GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonGiphyA sad cover up.
"When I was 15 a kid in my class died and the cops ruled it suicide."
"I have just discovered some information which led me to believe he was murdered by his uncle but I can't prove it."
"And they are somewhat big shots so nothing is gonna happen."- More-Masterpiece-561
Taking what isn't theirs.
"I think that one of my relatives cashed my tax return check, which was about a week’s pay for me."
"I’ve been dealing with one of my parents nearly dying for the last two months, so I haven’t had the time to sit them down and ask 'Where’s my money, honey?'"- OfficePsycho
Knowing something is amiss, yet being unable to prove it, is like having an itch that you just can't quite reach.
Hopefully these suspicions are way off base, and there's nothing to worry about.
Otherwise, one can only hope some evidence comes to light, and soon.
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People Break Down The Most Outlandish Conspiracy Theories They've Heard
We've all probably heard of the "flat earth" conspiracy theory or something related to QAnon conspiracies. Well, some theories go far beyond anything we've heard before.
A conspiracy theory is defined as:
"A theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators."
Whether the theory makes sense or not, people who tout these theories have worked it around in their mind enough to believe it. Ask Reddit has shared some of the most outlandish conspiracy theories that people believe today.
Redditor mycarnage2000 asked:
"What is the single most ridiculous conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard?"
Some of these are lesser known but they have big followings.
Satan burned the dinosaurs.
"That Satan buried dinosaur bones to deceive humanity into believing the earth is vastly older than a couple thousand years."
"I have encountered people who wholeheartedly believe that."
- TheSmegmatician
"It's wild....I have a family member who is a born again Christian who used to be scientifically oriented. Now they truly f*cking believe the earth is only 6000 years old or some sh*t. Going with the morals and values in the Bible is one thing, but please use your f*cking brain!!!"
- throwingplaydoh
Dinosaurs aren't real at all.
"Idk if most ridiculous, but definitely favorite that I try to spread. The CIA invented dinosaurs to discourage people from trying to develop time travel."
- ColdHardPocketChange
"Dude. I'm MORE encouraged to develop time travel, and bring back a T-rex to guard my sh*t."
- CordialTrekkie
Sign language interpreters.
"The sign language interpreters at press conferences are actually brain washing us."
- Aloha1959
"🤛👆🤏🙌🤙🤛🤲"
- Azigol
Super soldiers on Mars.
"Secret Space Program - people believe that a Nazi group split off from the Third Reich and discovered super advanced technology in Antarctica. They then moved to Mars and have been fighting reptilian and insectoid aliens using time travel and genetic super soldiers. Most of the members believe that they are part of this super soldier group and have been alive for hundreds of years. It's absolutely bonkers."
- PocketBananna
"I wintered over in Antarctica with the US Antarctic Program. While I was there I had my Instagram set to public and would post cool pictures fairly often. You would be shocked how many people DM'd me legitimately asking if there were secret armies, secret blackout zones, etc down there."
- vocatus
"So they thought there was all this secret conspiracy stuff going on down there but also thought you’d just tell them it was there if they asked?"
- thylocene06
Earth is especially flat.
"Flat earth, all day."
- Jack_McFakey
"The craziest thing that blew me away was learning that there are some flat earthers who will admit that Mars is in fact..round as well as other planets. But Earth just...isn't one of them."
- justsound
"That's weird. The flat earther I knew simply claimed that space wasn't real."
- Trademark010
"This has some recency bias but the girl who thinks the roman empire is a big made up historical conspiracy has to be up there."
- elbapo
"I sent that to my Latin professor and he told me he would fail me if I made him see it every again lmao. Had a good laugh in the classics department."
- gentlybeepingheart
JFK Jr. is living.
"The one where JFK Jr. will rise from the dead in Dallas just to reinstate Donald Trump as the president."
"Actually these QAnon people believe that he never died in the plane crash and just lived in hiding for 22 years for unknown reasons."
- TheBassMeister
"My Gf’s mom believes JFK himself is still alive and will be Donald’s VP. I simply state 'wow I’m impressed he still has the cognitive abilities for such a role as a person who is 106 years old.'"
- cleatus_the_noodle
"Windmills cause cancer."
- chicken-bean
"Literally my local government believes this and a lot of the voters do. I've worked elections where other volunteers go on this conspiracy theory with the county auditor. I visibly shake my head whenever they go on the tangent cuz it's so ridiculous."
"The idea noise can cause cancer is like the whole backwards music thing and Satanism."
- Pfroggy1
The UN has a hidden army.
"A million man UN army was hiding in the mountains along the Idaho - Montana border getting ready to take over America."
"This was big after Bill Clinton was elected President; 'that a United Nations army was 'hidden' in different remote places all over America, training and getting ready to spring out and take over the country, thus removing all American freedoms and enslaving the American people.' It was supposed to be one of the final steps to create a One World Government - the New World Order. It was tied directly to the 'black helicopter' conspiracies."
- Viker2000
Vaccine's make you magnetic.
"The vaccine makes you magnetic. I thought this was stupid, but on my way home from getting dose 3 I got pinned to an old shipping container and I've been stuck for 3 days now... Please send help."
- Downvotecollectineur
"I feel like the conspiracy theories have been getting crazier and crazier over like the last decade or so. Flat earth, magnetic vaccines, 5G, etc..."
"I remember in the 90's reading about this theory that the big oil companies hire people [to] drive their cars slowly in major cities to cause traffic jams and make people burn more gas. THAT was just about the craziest thing I'd heard at the time. Sounds absolutely quaint in comparison."
- pm_me_your_taintt
Empires
"This has some recency bias but the girl who thinks the roman empire is a big made up historical conspiracy has to be up there."
elbapo
"This does remind me of an awesome book called Valis by Philip K Dick where like the last two thousand years didn’t really happen. It was mint."
and_so_forth
"I sent that to my Latin professor and he told me he would fail me if I made him see it ever again lmao. Had a good laugh in the classics department."
gentlybeepingheart
Binding
"That flouride is in the water because it not only binds to teeth, but also is visible from space. So satellites are able to see the flouride and then match it to your dental records to track you."
Melerann
"I’ve heard the one about fluoride being used for mind control. Combine that with this and fluoride sounds pretty versatile."
a-bit-of-a-*ickhead
Windy Life
"Windmills cause cancer."
chicken-bean
"Solar panels absorb all of the sunlight, causing the earth to cool, and geothermal absorbs necessary heat as well. Utilizing too much of these technologies will cause permanent winter. Windmills use up the wind causing the earth to warm up and will create global warming."
SyntheticReality42
"And climate change is a hoax in general. Like the scientists have more to benefit than the fossil fuel cos funding and spreading this ridiculousness."
PM-ACTS-OF-KINDNESS
Stargate
"Sadam Hussein had a Stargate. Not even so much that he had one, but if the most powerful military in the world is invading wouldn't that be the time to use it? Hell he even had a second chance to fire it up."
Dinosaur_Dalek
"The Iraqi Stargate is up their with the Kandahar Giant, Foo Fighters, and that British battalion that vanished into a cloud in Gallipoli or wherever, as well as the Angel of Mons. I guess a lot of weird stories come out of wartime cos a lot of secretive weird stuff goes on in wartime."
Mysterious-Slice-591
Disguise
"That the twin towers were hit by guided missiles disguised as planes using holographic images."
ChristPuncher31
"I forgot about this. Something about how you can see a spark or flash of light before one of the planes hits the towers. There was a show that explained it but it doesn't matter as they want to believe the missile thing."
wtbrift
"I saw something similar but the charges where already in the building. They just set them off as the plane hits. The video evidence is pretty convincing unless you know architecture."
Inkqueen12
“about 6,000”
"That there was really only 'about 6,000' Jews killed during all of WWII. Cuz I mean, never mind all the mass graves… and the gold teeth… and piles of shoes... and the pows that barely survived the camps.
"Oh! Let’s not forget that those weren’t death camps either. Those were just work camps."
"I have never seen my dad want to spit on someone so badly in his life… that was also one of the first times I heard the word 'f*ck' in a sentence."
Professor_Quackers
a certain age...
"That a girl in high school legitimately believed the shots all the girls had to get are the cause of why women’s bodies typically can’t have children after a certain age. And that it is the government trying to fight overpopulation. She believed that if you didn’t get a shot you could easily live and have a baby healthfully at age 60 or more."
Admiral-Shepard
Demons
"It would probably have to be 'Sky Demons.' There are nutters out there that don't think airplanes are real, but actually flying demons."
jehull24
A number of conspiracy theories have come true over the years, but it's not looking like the earth will ever be proven to be flat. And certainly none of the conspiracies in this list.
Hopefully, we never see a day where we see any of them to turn out true.