Put on your tin foil hat (but like, a stylish one) because we’re diving into the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories that don’t sound completely bonkers! Forget about typical “the earth is flat” or “lizard people run the government” theories – these are the kind that make you go “wait… that actually makes sense?” From corporate sneakiness that feels way too real (looking at you, suspiciously tiny women’s pockets) to tech companies playing puppet master with our relationships, these theories live in that delicious grey area between skepticism and “hold up, they might be onto something.“Whether it’s ancient mysteries, modern marketing manipulation, or the sneaky ways big industries maintain their power, these 35 theories have enough circumstantial evidence to make even the biggest skeptic scratch their head and say “well, maybe…” Don’t blame us if you start rethinking everything you thought was true…This post may includeaffiliate links.
Put on your tin foil hat (but like, a stylish one) because we’re diving into the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories that don’t sound completely bonkers! Forget about typical “the earth is flat” or “lizard people run the government” theories – these are the kind that make you go “wait… that actually makes sense?” From corporate sneakiness that feels way too real (looking at you, suspiciously tiny women’s pockets) to tech companies playing puppet master with our relationships, these theories live in that delicious grey area between skepticism and “hold up, they might be onto something.”
Whether it’s ancient mysteries, modern marketing manipulation, or the sneaky ways big industries maintain their power, these 35 theories have enough circumstantial evidence to make even the biggest skeptic scratch their head and say “well, maybe…” Don’t blame us if you start rethinking everything you thought was true…
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Everyone I tell about this tells me I’m overreacting and it’s just a conspiracy. But I strongly believe large companies who use eco friendly products around customers only do it to make themselves look good, and to make the customer feel like pollution is their fault when they use for example, plastic straws. When in reality using eco friendly straws barely dents the amount of pollution the company itself makes behind the scenes.
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Disney absolutely believed that Hillary Clinton was going to win the 2016 election, so they started building her animatronic for the Hall of Presidents well in advance, and after trump pulled off a victory, instead of starting from scratch they just kinda made a couple half-assed adjustments to the Hillary model and put it up on stage.
Planned Obsolescence (if it’s still a conspiracy theory). Why does my phone suddenly develop unseen issues when the new one is released? It’s not a coincidence. And who even asked for these tech companies to release a new phone every year? We live in a time where technology is now growing at a rather slower pace compared to the 2000s when there was rapid innovation. It’s not like my current phone is getting crappier in one year, but wait, IT IS!Applies to phones, tablets, smartwatches, basically most (rather expensive) internet-connected devices receiving updates.
That your phones microphone is constantly “hot” and its listening for key words to target advertising.Most glaring instance where this happened to me was when I walked into a colleagues office. He had just gotten a standing desk, but one that goes on top of his existing desk rather than a standalone (pun?) Model. That’s important to note.I said “Nice standing desk, when did you get that?”. “Thanks, just today.” He replied.That was literally all that was said about the desk. We talked about work related stuff and as I walked out and checked my phone, there was an ad on Facebook for that EXACT model of standing desk.I have never owned one, wanted one, or googled one before. Yet there it was on my feed. Tin foil hat be damned, they listen in.
That there are monsters in the ocean. We have only discovered 5% of our worlds ocean and I truly believe there is something hiding down there.Edit: turns out it’s like 9 or 10% now.
Human cloning has already been done or attempted. We cloned a sheep named dolly in 1996, and humans aren’t that much different to sheep in their early blastocyst or embryonic development. Some government agency has probably cloned a human and are watching over that person right now.
The reason Disney came out with a movie called “Frozen” was so that when you Googled “Disney frozen” you would get information about the movie and not websites talking about Walt Disney’s body being frozen.
The “Ballistic Missile Threat” that was sent to Hawaiian’s cell phones saying, “seek shelter this is not a drill,” that was later deemed a mistake, was a real missile that was intercepted before impact.
This is the smallest conspiracy ever, but - you know how when you pull a tissue out of a box, there’s this dust that comes out from the tissue when it scrapes the perforated edge? I swear it’s designed like that so that the dust makes you sneeze. And then suddenly you need more tissues…Rise up against BIG TISSUE!
That the CIA post this question every time so they know what the general public suspect.
One of my favorites is that the government was behind #ThrowbackThursday in order to get us to digitize and upload pictures that they would not have had access to in order to improve age progression/facial recognition algorithms.
Women’s pants pockets are significantly smaller than men’s pants pockets to encourage us to buy handbags and purses.
Consumerism is a massive hoax hiding in plain sight. A handful of sly and powerful exploiters have tricked billions of people into believing they need to constantly buy things to survive. For most Westerners, endless consumption has become an unqestioned state of being. Billions of people have voluntary enslaved themselves because they cannot stop craving “more.“If people abruptly stopped buying everything except the necessities, it would cause more damage than World War I and II combined. Most of the world’s countries would cease to be.
All those DNA ancestor sites are giving the government your DNA for their record
Cops go on Waze and leave random police sightings to cause people to slow without actually having to stay and check on people.
That in very ancient times people were gigantic and shrunk with the ages. And that those giants built mysterious structures such as stone henge. No real reason to believe it I just like it.
The Oil and Coal industries invested heavily in killing off nuclear power as an attractive alternative. These days we have reactor designs many times safer than other methods of generating power, and the waste issue is something that could be fixed with sufficient investment.
The government experiments on the mentally insane because no one will believe someone with that kind of medical history.
the art world is basically a lowkey way for rich people and companies to launder money, which is why the stupidest most odd of paintings randomly go for hundreds of millions of dollars.
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It came to mind that women’s makeup is actually secretly damaging their skin so when they see it, they’d be convinced to buy more makeup.Edit: This blew up. Now my highest upvoted comment is about women’s beauty products being a scam. Thank you all.
The Reddit search function is intentionally bad (or not purposely bad but they know how to fix it but refuse to) to encourage more new posts.
Apple started the meme about AirPods being expensive as a marketing ploy.
Lotteries are actually traps for timetravelers.
All the UFO sightings throughout history are just humans from the future on a time traveling safari meant to observe how we were in the past.They are supposed to keep out of sight, but because of human/mechanical errors there have been hiccups with their cloaking which have resulted in being seen. That’s why there have always been so many reports of them throughout history, but there has never been an attack. It’s just us.Also the reason why we don’t see many as many examples of UFOs now even through pretty much everyone has a camera is because people are not that interested in this time period since we already document aspects of human life all the time.
We live in a simulation, however, the code is constantly being upgraded. In ‘olden times’, there were plenty of bugs that were easy to exploit if you knew where to look, thus things like miracles and magic were basically hackers doin' what they do.(OK, I don’t really believe this is true. I just like it)
There’s an underground PR firm that helps celebrities fake their own death to escape the harshness of the limelight or if they feel like their life is in danger.i.e Tupac, Biggie, Paul Walker, etc.
There was a dude that invented a car that runs on water, he stated multiple times he would not die from natural causes and that if he dies to investigate it. A year away from putting his cars into mass production he died. Before he died he said that oil companies have threatened his life. (I got this info from my dad a couple months ago but look the dude up, search like water car or whatever)Edit: Amazing responses! From what some people are saying it might be a little bit of a hyperbole to say water car but still an amazing story!
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