What is the biggest BS story someone has told you?

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In school a friend claimed he was sat on the side of the road and a guy in a car drove past and took his DR pepper.

When I was a teenager my friend and I used to blaf our way into local clubs despite being under aged. One guy once told me he was a dancer in Hot Gossip - the black one, he wasn't even black. Claimed it was make up and I must have a crap telly.

Friends ex boyfriend said he worked in Syria for the special forces, was also in mi6 & mi5.
Was found to be total bullshit & he was actually known to the police but he's still out there on local dating sites spinning his lies & stalking women.

Uni friend told lots of half truths & lies, at first I believed what she said but each thing was more unbelievable until 9/11 when she claimed an English male friend of hers had just happened to be traveling in New York on that day and had been killed. It just didn't ring true as his name wasn't on the news at all.

I used to tell people that my great uncle invented a famous chocolate bar & is a multi millionaire which is the truth! He's a very clever man.
But no one would believe me as I'm not rich (I've only met him twice).

Some of these are so shocking, the cancer and dead relatives 🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm so sorry that happened to you @MeltedCrayons I hope you can find some peace

He's got no one on his friends list he's slept with previously - then had a very quick and thorough mass friends deletion. Smooth.

I was once running an induction course with about 40 participants. One eighteen year old asked if she could speak with me and went on to apologise if she seemed distracted but her parents had been killed in a car crash three weeks earlier. I spent much of the week supporting her as did the other participants. Over the following couple of weeks she told me that the family dog had to be euthanised which was very sad following on from her parent’s death.

Then one day she strolled into my office and said very casually, ‘oh by the way, my grandma died last night’. She was living with said grandma since she had been orphaned. Now at this point I suddenly smelled a whole load of BS. Sure enough I phoned her home and had a very interesting conversation with the dead grandma. Apparently, her parents had thrown her out as they couldn’t cope with her persistent lying and other undisclosed behaviours.

She obviously needed help and I contacted her GP but we had to terminate her employment as she was in no fit state to be working with vulnerable people. It caused a lot of anger among the other staff who felt they’d been duped.

@JammyGem I have no GCSEs or A levels but have a BSc and am about to start an MSc when I choose which university to go to.

Something about a bus and Brexit

has managed an Asda (was a shelf stacker), piloted a plane (visited the pilot back in the day)

Reminds me of a girl I went to school with. I saw her a couple of years after we left and she said ‘Yes, I’m with Reebok now’, like she had some high-flying job at their head office. I knew very well she worked part-time in her auntie’s trainer shop

A colleague was scammed by a bloke who said he was ex-Marines, been to Afghanistan etc. Once he'd seen her a few times he started cancelling at short notice with family emergencies - mum ill, son needed picking up, that sort of stuff.

Then he said his brother had been in a car crash abroad and he needed £1500 to go and see him, but he didn't have the money. You can guess what happened. She never heard from him again.

A colleague of mine who had form for BS stories told me his dad was a former world champion in an international sport. I was skeptical to say the least until I came across a reference to him in the biography of a very famous athlete in the same sport. I have since checked further and confirmed my colleagues claim. In addition they have a rather unusual name so not too many about to be confused with.

A boy I once knew made up he had cancer (which is awful) but he wanted people to be sympathetic because his dad died in house fire (true story, himself, mum & siblings were in IC for weeks) but no one cared that his dad wasn't around due to passing because it was seen as 'normal' to be from a one parent home in my area :s

Also, a bloke said "nah that's rank could never sniff gear or anything like that" he sounded convincing but clearly off his nut with his gurning, buzzing around & dilated pupils! Lol

woman i work with has claimed she’s not married for about 25 years as she said they got a divorce but they didn’t. everyone knows they are still married as he rings up and asks to speak to ‘his wife’ and they still live together and go on holiday together. we all have to go along with it to save the embarrassment

I rehomed a stray cat through a friend I used to work with. I ran into friend a couple of years later at a mutual friend’s party (small world!), she asked how cat was and I told her that I had taken in a second cat and they got on so well, showed her pics on my phone etc. She looked shocked and she told me that an office junior that we both worked with had told her, shortly after I’d left, that I had got rid of the cat?!?! Really weird? Why would she say that and how would she know even if I had?

When I was 8 my friend told me her mum was Boyzones' hairdresser. I believed her and kept trying to get her to pass messages to Ronan.

A new friend told me her Dad was a very famous author and was dying.

I asked his name. I had never heard of him (I consider myself reasonably well-read) She said he wasn't all that famous in the UK but was in the US (she was American).

I thought, um er yeah ok . . . took it with a massive pinch of salt.

About a year later the Sunday paper arrived and taking up literally half of a broadsheet Front Page was "famous US author has died" and a whole broadsheet page obituary inside, where it mentioned his DD, Friendsname.

Obviously I was not as well-read as I thought I was.

In my defence I hadn't thought she was lying but perhaps exaggerating his fame.

@JammyGem I hadn't thought of it like that! But no, he was about 35 (I was 19!) with long greasy hair and a beer gut. At least Del Boy had a bit of charm!

Bloke I knew through my DS's nursery, who liked to do the whole international man of mystery thing to impress women at social gatherings. Was trying to persuade my friend that he'd been on a forces expedition to K2 and had Osama Bin Laden as one of his porters!!!

I am an (ex) climber and mountaineer (certainly not good enough to climb K2, but plenty knowledgeable enough to know when someone's bullshitting) and asked him a few questions about how he'd found it... He high-tailed it off to tend to the barbecue .

My ex P was a complete fantasist, but a good one and I believed his lies for quite some time.

He claimed that his mother had been pregnant with his twin, but she had had an abortion (this was mid 70s) and they had only "killed" his twin and not him because they hadn't seen him on the scan. His mother had then gone on to have an exceptionally long pregnancy and had been pregnant for a year.

He also lied about having worked as an Escort.

The sad thing was is that he claimed to have been abused by his father, but given the other lies he has told there was no way of knowing whether or not this was true.

My friend has a stalker that I refer to as the 'skinwalker.' The skinwalker hates my friend with an absolute passion but also desperately wants to be her. She obsessively watches my friend's Instagram and then tries to copy everything she does. She even copied a youtube video my friend made, word for word.

The most batshit insane thing that she's done, however, has to be when a group of us went to a big event together. The skinwalker actually photoshopped my friend out of the pictures and shopped herself into them, posing with all of our friends and pretending they were her friends. She posted them all over her social media, saying what a great time she'd had with her besties.

I had met her exactly once.

College mate was blind, also well gorgeous and no problem pulling women. His girlfriend went round and found him with a naked woman in his bed. His excuse was he hadn't known she was there!
It was a single bed, too.

When I was at high school (30 years ago) I had a really good friend who came in one day and said that her DM had died. I was really upset as I’d met her DM on a few occasions and she was a really lovely lady.

Friend ended up getting lots of support, special dispensation from school etc, off for funeral and grieving etc. I supported her as best as a 15 year old can. She came to our house loads and may as well have moved in with us.

Anyway, fast forward twelve months to GCSE time and (I’ll never forget) we came out of our English exam and we got to the gates and a woman was over the road waving to my friend and she said,”Oh I’ve got to go my Mum’s over there”!!.

Turned out she’d lied and lied, the school had just sucked it up and believed her. I, on the other just cut her off there and then, wasn’t interested in her bollocks excuses.

Faking your Mums death is unforgivable.

DH had a fling with a girl before he got together with me. She started sending me emails saying she was still shagging him, with times and dates - so I'd reply saying I think I'd have noticed if you were in his bedroom too...
Then she told everyone except us that she was pregnant by him. Five months. There was no way she had even been in the same city during the month of conception. Once she was about 12 month pregnant she obviously had a miscarriage.

She went on to claim to have cancer a couple times, distressing the lovely husband she'd acquired. And then got cancer and died, partly because it was spreading by the time anyone believed her.

I used to work in a pub many years ago. We had the usual bullshitters who'd say they were in the SAS and stuff but we also had quite a number of ex special forces and marines. Some quite amusing conversations followed.

I actually told this story in primary school 😳 I had been living abroad so I guess some kids were interested in that. I told someone that we had lessons in the pool with little inflatable chairs and desks 😂 as I recall she believed me but she probably didn't.

We only had swimming lessons once a week and the pool was a couple of miles away!