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 ? 😱

I can't decide because President Donald Trump, well, trumps, his lies daily. Hourly sometimes.

What I'm about to relate is God's honest truth. I went to school with the biggest tall take teller EVER. Amongst other gems, this was the best. On return to school after summer break we were all discussing where we'd been on holiday. Tale telling friend told us that her grandad owned a banana plantation in Barbados... so that's where they headed for hols. Big drama on the flight though...plane wasn't stopping anywhere near banana plantation so cabin crew gave her and her folks some parachutes and they baled out of the Boeing 747 and had a comfy landing in the bananas!! OMG...there much guffawing and splitting of sides that day!! 🤣🤣🤥

Tall take teller = tale teller

JustFor, My mates sister claimed she invented the phrase 'wicked' as in 'good' (big in the 90s)

My old boss told everyone he'd moved out of his fiancee's house as her DS aged 13 and his friends had stabbed a tramp.

Fiancee said boss was now in bedsit because he' was a serial cheat. When boss went off early every Friday for Life Coaching, to woke awwws from management, he was being treated for sex addiction. On the NHS, which makes you wonder quite what happened to get that free and urgently.

I'm a bit concerned after reading some of these posts. I had a hysterectomy about 5 weeks ago and it appears that after such major surgery and very painful recovery the bloody thing might grow back again and I could end up pregnant!!

God where do I start? so many people lie its unreal. A colleague of mine (I knew she was a liar but definitely didn't see this big lie coming) phoned in to tell us her dad was in a massive car accident and then days later she called in to say he had died. We were all sympathetic and supportive when she returned to work a week later and that was when alarm bells started ringing for me with the stuff she started saying. She told me he died from a ruptured spleen then another colleague said she had told her he died due to a brain injury in the accident. I knew she was lying when her next lie was to tell me that her dad's partner had gone behind her back (she was his legal next of kin) and changed it so her dad was down for cremation instead of burial and had had it done that day without telling anyone! I knew that was a definite lie having been through bereavements myself I knew exactly how a funeral is planned and once the legal next of kin has decided burial or cremation only they can change it. She did get found out because our managers boss never believed her and finally managed to track her dads number and not only did he answer he was so shocked when he was told what she had said he went silent and then put the phone down. My colleague then got a call on her phone and went into this self righteous rage saying she isn't being called a liar and tried to walk out but my manager made her face the big boss and she ran from the building when the big boss called her dad again. I was so glad to see the back off her she was a massive troublemaker who told countless lies like she had had a miscarriage over the weekend but was back in work Monday morning running round with kids, lifting heavy stuff and looked in good health she acted as if nothing had happened, I should've known better after this lie but I had no proof so couldn't accuse her of lying but never would I have thought she would do something this big! I ran into her a couple of years later at uni she wouldn't look at me and tried to avoid me.

An ex friend of mine who I did a lot of favours for like bailing her out of trouble in work when she hadn't met her deadline, doing bits of work for her despite my own heavier workload. I then found out she was going round blaming things not being done on me! the last straw came when at Christmas the manager bought two boxes of chocolates for all the staff. This greedy bitch not only ate the lion's share but had the brass fucking neck to lie and blame me! I went mad but it came down to my word against hers. Another colleague I later found out starting to take credit for the work I had done. Whenever I handed in my work she would always "offer" to do it for me as she was handing hers in. Turns she was telling management my work was hears unfortunately for her she happened to do this in front of my supervisor who didn't like nor tolerate this kind of shit so next time we were all in the office including me and management she asked this lying little cow questions on the work I did, stuff like what did so and so from this department say? what did this person tell you when you called for such and such information? the lying cow looked like a dear in headlights and was stuttering some bullshit that was nothing to do with the file I had prepared and completed I have to say I enjoyed watching her squirm when it became clear she had been telling lies

I worked with someone who was a serial liar, the truth always emerged slowly, I just used to listen and nod as I never had the energy to contradict her, and we all knew what she said was bullshit but no-one appeared to care, they were always to make her sound more interesting and to give her greater social standing.
We had a colleague "E" who had just bought a house with her fiance and her wedding was imminent, in fact we all got a little sick endlessly listening to her wedding plans. Anyway E's new house wasn't that local so she left the company getting a new job nearer to where she would live.
In due course I left the company, but ran into "liar lady" in the supermarket who told me she had run into E who told her all about her wonderful wedding and how happy she and her DH were to be expecting their first child.
I got a job working in a local YWCA and was amazed to meet one of the residents who was E. She told me that her fiancee had jilted her 3 days before the wedding, dumped her clothes etc outside the house and moved his new girlfriend in with her dc's. Her parents had rented out her room at home so she had taken a room at the YWCA.
The truth was far more dramatic than the lie I was told.
I could never understand the reason for the lie.

A girl at school told us all she had a German man she was hiding in her attic. This was the day after a drama about a young woman during the second world war hiding a German soldier in her attic. Lots of the kids openly laughed at her, I just felt sorry for her.

A friend was going out with a guy who told her he was good enough to be on the international cricket team. Apparently the captain used to call and beg him to come and play (while my friend was there with him)...

I was once told by a fellow student/not-close-friend that he had partaken in a special psychological study as a child because he could “turn-off” his emotions. I asked him to demonstrate and he widened his eyes and stared at the wall behind me, while making a scary neutral face.

I was a psychology student writing an essay on the evolutionary basis of emotion at the time. I knew he was lying but he persisted with it and aswered all my questions and made ‘demonstrations’. He was a pathological lier but other than that he was neurotic-typical. It was bizarre and hilarious.

When I was young and gullible, my best friend convinced me he had a real live penguin that lived in his bedroom wardrobe. In my defence, we were both about five, but he kept it going for a good couple of months until the zoo came and took it away, and it only dawned on me years later that it was total nonsense!

I also at school knew someone who told me he had epilepsy. He then had a fit in front of me. I knew he was faking it. A few days later he confessed he had faked it and asked if I had realised. I said yes. No idea what was going on for him.

Not directly a lie but someone who could bullshit for England. His wife owned a shop and he hung around in it pretending it was his.

He had done everything, been everywhere and knew everything.

So a friend and I decided to try out his bullshit. My friend asked him if he knew that the capital of outer mongolia was called, 'My arse', not only did he know this but he added, "I think you will find it is pronounced 'my as'.

Then it was my turn, I dropped into conversation that mathematically an egg is a square. Apparently that's a 'well known fact'

"I filed the divorce papers online."

OK slight self own. I used to lie about pointless, trivial shit for attention, as a teenager. The best and most random was that I was allergic to a particular type of cooking oil.

Why just why?

I worked with a pathological liar. Can't out him, but one of the worst experience in my life. Just. Don't.

This is quite a funny one. A girl I went to primary school with said that she’d made up a new rap for Captain Planet, sent it in, and they were adding it to the theme song.

Sure enough, when I watched it next there was the rap she had sung to me!

It didn’t occur to me until YEARS later that it must have always been there... I’d just never noticed it before.

I once worked with a girl who had her heart utterly broken. Her fiancé faked cancer...for a YEAR. It was all very elaborate and bloody well done but also humiliating and shocking.

I was once called into the school when my oldest was about 7 and asked why I hadn't told them about her leaving. Turns out she had told them she was moving to another town, given the name of the school and my mum's address. They seemed shocked when I said it's the first I'd heard about it.

I also knew a woman who was off work for a month after a hysterectomy only to announce she was pregnant a year later.

@NotALurker2

I filed the divorce papers online

That one can't be used anymore as divorces can now be filled online...

I've mentioned my ex on here before. He apparently wrote "Hello" but Lionel Richie stole his notebook.
A woman I used to work with told us all she'd had an emergency hysterectomy. Then a year later she was pregnant. She said they'd left her ovaries in so it was possible. Not sure where she thought a baby would grow without a womb.

I worked with someone a few years ago who was clearly a liar, but very good at it and had most people fooled. People began to realise when she couldn’t come to work as she had 2 grandparents, 100s of miles apart, both in hospital on life support. She had to make the decision about turning their life support off as there was literally no other family, despite her telling us she lived with her mum and her sister!
She was another who could never get pregnant, after she left work we saw on FB that she had a baby!

@JollyAndBright

Your story has touched me, because it sounds just like my ex best friend (the one who lied about the rape). Just lie after lie after lies. Brothers who died (never existed) brothers who lived and got married in Vegas (never existed) and so on and so forth. I too finally found the breaking point when she was supposed to come and see me and lied about the death of a family
Member to get out of it. She just pulled back entirely and that’s it. Interesting how your friend did the same, and removed herself.

I think you are right and it’s to make themselves more interesting, but it’s very upsetting for people they know. Like you, she was a wonderful person and friend in many ways.