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.

Years ago when I was a manager, an employee came to me distressed as his parents were involved in a car accident. Over the next few weeks, their situation deteriorated and they died. I liaised with HR and he had a full paid leave of absence for a few months.
Fast forward a few years and we have both left the company and moved on, he adds me on FB and it becomes painfully obvious his DP's are very much alive and well. That, or his folks celebrated a milestone marriage from beyond the grave with all the children and grandchildren.

Years later I still remember these cause they are so fantastic. Knew a woman who said she'd taught Rudolph Nureyev how to ballet dance - She stayed in Glasgow. Same woman, when late for her work got an army helicopter to hover over the work roof so she could jump out. No parachute, mind you, just jump out onto the roof then straight into work. Must have shimmied down a drainpipe to get to the front door 😜
Just remembered another tall tale from same women - she had been in a terrorist bomb blast that had blown out her womb. I'm pleased to say that a few years later it must have regenerated because she went on to have two children.

I am so pleased that I'm not the only one who accidentally became friends with a compulsive liar. Although I'm not friends with her anymore because I couldn't take it. She lied about everything - from where her DC were at school (claimed private when it was state, and made up stories about how wealthy the other parents were) to being invited to various celebrities' weddings "because they'd met randomly and become really good friends" (she's never met them) to being related to people that she's not. And then just really weird unnecessary stuff - like lying about the age of her children ...

Not verified that this is BS but putting the pieces together i’m Pretty sure it is. My old downstairs neighbour in a 1 bed rented flat claimed to be a former Judge, lawyer, barrister and magistrate. When I told DH this he said that magistrates can’t have legal training so something was bollocks. He then said his daughter was getting married and this engagement went on for over a year with no date set. Finally, the groom to be ended it and I gave my commiserations to my neighbour who said it was ok but he’d lost thousands in deposits. I can’t think what he would have paid deposits on without a confirmed wedding date. Lastly, when I moved away, we would speak every Sunday until I didn’t hear from him for 6 months. I was really anxious as he was like a dad to me. I thought he might have died and contacted places I knew he used to go to see if they had seen him. Finally, I was in Sainsbury’s and my mobile rang. It was him. He said someone had chucked his phone in the fountain in town but his mate had retrieved it and got some of the numbers back. This took 6 months....

I wonder if he was in prison.

I also (fairly recently actually) worked with a lady who told us all that:

Her mum had never let her celebrate Xmas as Santa is an anagram of Satan

That she had had the starring role in a musical in the West End as a child, whilst going to school in Yorkshire

And that her son had cancer and was in the local children's hospital. She had loads of time off for this one and lots of sympathy. Until she was rumbled and fired when her son's school phoned for her to collect him as he was ill.

Horrific woman.

I had a flatmate who pretended to have leukaemia, when she was 'diagnosed' she moved back in with her parents in another city to have treatment. Our group of friends raised money for her as she wasn't able to work because she was so ill.

Then one day her mother turned up at our door to pick up a bag of things she'd left behind. We asked how her treatment was going, and her mother had no idea what we were talking about. She was perfectly fine, had just gotten the shits with her job and decided to move home to try her luck there. Her mother was understandably gobsmacked when we told her the story. We never heard from her again, unsurprisingly.

When someone is caught lying about one thing you can't help but wonder what else they have lied about

In pre internet days, urban myths were more a word of mouth thing. I was once told about a son of a friend of a friend who had had a kidney stolen when on holiday in Europe and was currently in hospital. She swore thisv was the truth.

She didn't know that I knew this "victim" very well and I'd been out drinking within the night before.

Given me lifelong scepticism for anything that happened to a "friend of a friend".

A girl from work who said she ‘almost died’ after a routine laporoscopy. Said her heart stopped and thet had to revive her. She was out of hospital the next day and still managed to go on her planned skiing holiday the next week (though I only know that cos she stupidly posted pictures on Facebook) . She took the maximum amount of paid sick leave before coming back. Her flat mate was a gp. I suspect she signed her sick notes. She came back for a few months and threatened to sue the company as she wasn’t ‘promoted in tg next round of promotions. Said she was discriminated against because she had been off. She was paid off eventually. I heard she did almost the same thing in her next job.

Worked with a woman who was just full of bs. Biggest was that her eldest son was ill with cancer and few months later had died. This was maintained for over a year. We discovered the truth when she moved the anniversary of his death by a month. A little look at social media found his picture watching England footie match in World Cup in that years football top.

When I was in school I had a friend who was becoming a bit of a pathological liar. She developed an obsession with a boy in her class and made on they were in a secret relationship. She topped it off with a story about how one night he had picked her up in a taxi, gone to the airport with her, flew to Heathrow and took her out for an amazing date in London. We were 16 at the time and could tell she was deluded. She carried on lying and people backed her up for ages, I have no idea why but we didn't stay friends long after that.

A family friend said that he was going into the Army & would be posted to Iraq after basic training. We all rallied round & gave him a good send off, packed him a box of stuff (food etc), got signed photos from his favourite singer. My DH, Sister & Dad all offered to drive him to his training. He got tearful & said he didn’t want a big fuss as he was emotional etc.
We eventually discovered that he’d taken a job on a construction site in Birmingham!

A (now ex) friend was always lying about having potentially life threatening conditions like cancer.

The friendship ended when, fed up with her bs, I pulled her up on the fact that she could not be still alive if she was only admitted to hospital 3 weeks after an ectopic pregnancy. She claimed there were no beds.

My new colleague told me she used to be an Olympic swimmer. Talked in great depth about it. My best friend who also worked with us was an Olympic swimmer. We both stayed quiet and listened to the BS spilling out.

My friends husband claimed to be in the new star wars movie that was being filmed, he got up every day, got read and left for training and filming. Changed his whole look. He said he had a leading role, when I checked the cast online he wasnt in it. He later got a hernia and was rushed to hospital leaving his phone at home, my friend took a call concerning a booking in a hotel room...

@BrainScience I wonder if we went to school together, a girl in my year used to say the exact same lie!

I met DH friends and they warned me that T was a lier and would tell me some BS storys and we would compare notes after. I thought surely it cant be that bad...
He told me he was incharge of tents at glasto, was going there the day before to put up all the commercial tents then was 'forced' to stay up for the whole 5 days to patrol the tents and make sure nothing bad happened. Went on to say how all the acts were always so greatful and they would come up to him and personally thank him for 'everything he does to keep glasto going'. Saw him in town the weekend of glasto.
Same bloke told me they were building a resteraunt on the moon that he had designed. It was just an accepted thing in their friendship group that you dont call him out, let him ramble on then compare notes after. If he was asked about it, he would firmly deny ever saying it

@Ca55andraMortmain are you from Dublin, we either know the same person or that story is just one that liars love

I used to know a girl who told me she found out she was adopted and was meeting her real parents. She also later told me her dad had foot cancer and was losing his leg. A lot of the lies she told cancelled another lie out.

She is the spitting image of her mum, and her dad is walking around on both legs. She was a pathological liar. I often wonder how she gets through life these days married etc, does she bullshit her husband all the time?

I worked with someone who said their aunt had a baby with someone in slipknot!

Anyone else struggling with this one? is it a typo?

A woman i used to work with was a fully paid up member of the bullshit club. The trouble is, she could never remember what she had said half the time and so would constantly trip herself up.
She once told us how her Father was very wealthy when he was alive and had built houses for the poor people in Romania, along with orphanages there that were like 5* hotels.
A month later she told us of how her family were so poor that her Father used to go out poaching at night in order to feed them.
She was a Billy 2 sheds too. Whatever you had done, said, was going to do etc, she would jump in and dominate the convrsation about how she had already done it, seen it, said it etc.
She was very tiresome.

My father claims that:

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall asked for his sausage recipe for the river cottage book.

My mum, brother and I, had apparently run down the runway to meet him off the plane when he came back from Iraq & he was captured and tortured there. (he's never been anywhere near the place)

He lied about having Pancreatic cancer in order to upset me and my brother when my mum left him.

& Countless other bits of bullshit along the way that I've managed to filter out.... 😅

Acis Slipknot are/were a band 😄 no idea if they are still around.

Can’t fathom the reasons by some of these.
Why lie about being HIV+ ?!?!