What's the most ridiculous of astonishing lie you've ever heard?

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Just genuinely interested! Mine is that a colleague of mine told us her dad had died. So good she go home early? Of course we said he's who wouldn't say yes to that.. shame she didn't tell her dad he was meant to be dead or that she'd left early to grieve him as he picked her up as usual. Came in to ask where she was... we were like umm.. she's grieving you ? 😱

@Flufferbum my daughter is allergic to 'the sun' UVA actually, but yeah she really is.

colleague thats outstanding i dont know how u carried on working somewhere where they didnt have your back yu should have taken them t a tribunal

as for him you prob dont have anything concrete to go to police with anymore i assume

Actually just realised the biggest lie I’ve ever been told...that my mother’s first husband was my father. He wasn’t and I still don’t know who my real dad was 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Travis1 , I know who you're talking about , met her a few times

I knew a guy once (we were about eighteen) who claimed he’d sat on Fred West’s lap back in the killing days (when said Guy was a lad), that he’d worked for Google (he barely had GCSE’s at the time) and that he’d been on tour with Nine Inch Nails.

He also said he was great at snogging. Lying bugger.

My housemate at university claimed she had swum from India to Sri Lanka but just as she was about to get to Sri Lanka the coast guard spotted her and denied her access so she had to swim all the way back to India. Sadly as this was before smart phones we couldn't check and call her out at the time but when I checked online I saw that this was definitely impossible. At least if you are going to lie make it believable.

Knew someone who said she couldnt work late because she had a gp appt at 4pm. 4pm came and went and she was still there. When I reminded her she'd said she had a gp appt to rush off to she said "oh, it's ok, my boyfriend will ring the dr and tell him to wait"!!!

Our old cleaner’s grandmother died 3 times, poor lady. And yes, it was the same grandmother who lived in a very distinct place.

I had a weathly client in her 40s who went abroad and somehow obtained a baby but claimed it was her biological child and she had delivered in Russia. She was very very thin and had absolutely no signs of pregnancy in the weeks leading up to the "birth". "I never show " was her answer.
Apparently the baby came early. So what I understand was she went from washboard abs to delivering a baby and then was at back training shortly after with a strapping 10lb "premature" baby in a pram. Miraculous !

Someone saying they had gone to LA on holiday, they'd actually gone to Blackpool.

I suppose they do have certain similarities when you've had a few....

That politicians actually care about the general population.

Just remembered another. I worked in a place where we each took our half hour lunch one after the other. This one guy was often really late back pushing everyone else's lunches back and messing up the afternoon. Everytime he was confronted about it he had a different story the first time he had witnessed a crash, the next he'd stopped a mugging, the third a man was having a heart attack. I swear if his contract had of been renewed he'd have run out of stories at some point.

I went to university with a really weird bloke who latched onto our friendship group.

He had a “girlfriend” who we always seemed to miss. Her name was Judy, she was an old childhood friend. They even got as far as arranging their wedding. One day she was tragically killed in a fireball multi car pile up at a notorious motorway junction.

None of this was ever in the news and he never spoke about it again. He was his joyful and cheery self just days later!

A year later I actually discovered that Judy was real...however not quite in the way he had been leading us to believe. I started a job and worked with her and we became good friends! Turns out he had been totally besotted by her for many years. His face was a picture when I brought her to the pub...I never saw or head from him after that!

@habibihabibi, why were you quizzing her? If she wants to refer to her adopted child as hers, surely that's her business.

My DD was told at 14 that she couldn't have children without intervention. She's now got two, only one she had hormonal treatment for. After her second she's once again stopped regularly ovulating, but doesn't want anymore anyway. I think the best practice for consultants is to give the worst case scenarios.

I've miscarried and gone to work around eight hours later to a sitting down job. It wasn't my first miscarriage. Not every loss needs intervention or complete rest.

I knew someone who "had" cervical cancer. Among the many, many yawning holes in her story, the best must have been the time she came out of the loo in a nightclub pretending to cry. When asked, she dramatically revealed that "the cancer is back". Apparently her consultant had just had the results in and had texted her. At 1am. On a Saturday night.

Her other great story went like this (over the course of a number of weeks):

Us: Your ring is lovely.
Her: Yes it is my engagement ring.
Us: Oooh - you're engaged back home? You never said. (she had recently come to the country with her parents)

(a week later)

Her: (sobbing) My fiance has been killed in a terrible industrial accident. He was crushed by falling something-or-other on the factory floor.
Us: OMG
Her: (nobly) I am sending my engagement ring back to [my country] to be buried with him.

(a week later)

Her: (wearing engagement ring)
Us: Weren't you sending that back home to be buried with nameless fiance?
Her: (long pause)
Us: (agog)
Her: Yes, his parents appreciated my gesture so much, that they had an exact copy made of it before it was buried with him, and sent it back to me to remind me of him.

Apart from that she was completely lovely. She's apparently an estate agent now though, which would worry me!

I am quite admiring her ability to think on her feet @crosspelican

@NumbersStation I know, right? But I think she was used to it with all the inventiveness needed around her cervical cancer. We were all about 19/20 at the time, which is an age where you tend to be very up in each others lives, with little or no respect for privacy, so she had to think fast quite a lot, I imagine!

I have a friend who is always making up rubbish for attention, they were dying on holiday one time because their leg needed amputating, post pictures of a tiny cut!! Lost them once in a club, went mental I left them for over 3 hours when in fact it was 20 minutes, would not accept even with proof, had sex countless times in the toilets on a night out when we all knew they were gay.
Also a work member who tried to get me fired lied about having ivf at the age of 19 knowing I’d had to have fertility treatment myself, then lying about getting pregnant naturally then had a miscarriage the weekend of a staff party which she still attended but in skimpy shorts. Did end up getting fired as I was a threat to a few people but was the best thing to happen to me

I dont know how i could have forgotten when around 20 our friend brought out one day a new friend of hers fine-turns out she was a cimpulsive liar was obsessed with our mnnutual friend and wa sjealous, so told her we let her car tyres down we always used her for lifts (even though we paid) and we were generally spreading lies about mutual friend or that we actually hated her

Had it out with her flat denied it all and mutual friend believed her!

Havent seen either of them for years but if theyre still friends id be very surprised

(why would i want to let someones tyres down?)

@Travis1 I was told the exact same lie, and also don't know the truth to this day

Dont know if anybody else has posted about it on this thread, but take a look at author Dan Mallory's little lying habit.

why were you quizzing her? If she wants to refer to her adopted child as hers, surely that's her business
I wasn't , she told me volunteered the elaborate story about giving birth early on a visit to Moscow possibly forgetting I had seen her a few days before she went.
It could have been biological through a surrogate but I didn't ask.

I had a colleague call up and say she got run over by a car on her way to work. She wasnt in for a few days as something was wrong with her leg. She was spotted the next day after she called and was absolutely fine. When she came back she admitted to a few people that she had lied

@Tvtvtv do you remember the sitcom 'My Family'? The actor who played the youngest son Michael was pipped to the post to be Harry Potter