People Who Knew Pathological Liars Are Sharing The Wildest Lies They Tried To Get Away With, And My Jaw Is Still Hanging Open

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Recently, I came across a Reddit post from user Difficult-Mix-2337 on the popular Ask Reddit page asking, "People who've known pathological liars, what's the craziest lie they tried to get away with?" and wow, people did not disappoint. The answers were pretty juicy, so I figured I had to share. Here are some of the best:
1."A girl I met in college told everyone a different backstory about her life. One day, I was hanging out with a group of people and her name came up. Turns out she told every single one of us something different — where she was from, who she was dating, her upbringing, etc. Her stories ranged from having to sell cows to attend college to being raised in the hood. She ended up getting kicked out of nursing school. Why? For lying about serious situations during clinicals."
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—u/wild-guard26
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2."He told everyone he was an undercover CIA agent while working at a gas station."
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—u/deleted
3."My mom tried to pretend like she died. She made a Facebook page pretending to be some random man and posted about how she had a funeral and none of her kids showed up. Nobody in our family believed her but she had some people who were really sad. A few weeks later, she came out and said that her friend stole her phone and made the Facebook page."
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—u/Mammoth_Town1159
4."In the US-based medieval reenactment group, we had the occasional European immigrant. In one case, this new Irish guy turned up. He was pretty charming, and he had good potential, so he was taken in by the group. Only there were these two drunk dudes who would follow him around, waiting for his 'fake Irish accent' to drop."
"You see, despite people pretending to be medieval Europeans in costume, nobody put on a fake accent, or if they did, they certainly didn't have it 24 hours a day, including when they weren't at reenactment events. But these two party animal bros were completely convinced he was just faking a 'Pippin' accent from Lord of the Rings. I thought they were obnoxious; here is a real Irish guy, with a real family in Ireland, and these two drunk Americans are teasing him and calling him a faker."
"Well, fast forward a few months, and this Irish guy has met a woman in the organization, they've gotten serious, and they're going to have a baby. Then all of a sudden, it comes to light that those two drunk dudes were the only ones who saw through him right from the start. He was totally an American guy who faked an Irish accent, got caught in a lie, doubled down, and found his whole life revolving around this fabricated personal history of his...and those two guys really were good judges of character."
—u/AveryCloseCall
5."Oh man, I have a few but my favorite was that they have no fingerprints. They 'wore off' from years of gardening, hahaha."
—u/sparklynails
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6."A guy I was in a serious relationship with told a ton of lies. Took me a while to figure it out. When I did, I had a debrief with his sister, who had more stories."
"He dated a woman before me, who he told he was a professor on sabbatical from England. He carried on an English accent the entirety of their six-month relationship. She only got wise when she met his sister, who didn't have one. He's from Wisconsin.
He'd also convinced his sister he needed an organ transplant.
When he met me, the story was that he was doing coastal research in the Yucatán with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Later, I was told he had brain cancer (but he got better)."
—u/False-Impression8102
7."An old coworker of mine made it to 40 after three heart attacks, four different cancers, two dead mothers, a deadbeat father, a Wall Street father, a single father, a single mother...god, who is to say what else? He got fired for doing something that cost our company $2.5 million and lying about it even though he was on camera."
—u/ItsAllKrebs
8."I had been told that somebody was a 'story-topper' type who always had to have a bigger story, no matter what the subject. One day, the subject of fishing came up, and he bragged about catching a 20-pound bass out of a nearby lake. I didn't think anything of it."
"Later, I was told by somebody else how ridiculous that was, that there had been less than 10 bass of that size ever recorded in history, and half of those have been contested, fabricated, or otherwise manipulated with things like adding weights into the fish's stomach before weighing."
—u/MiteeThoR
9."I knew a guy who was active military, a really strange guy. He used to tell us some of his so-called 'sea stories.' One that particularly stuck was that he went off on a weekend bender, somehow ended up in the desert in Saudi Arabia fighting a penguin, but was able to make it back to report for duty on Monday morning. He was stationed stateside at the time. We tried to call him on it, but he swore up and down it was true."
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—u/Luking2thestars
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10."I once witnessed a group conversation about feeding babies, and they were talking about breast milk vs. formula. One person related that they knew someone whose mother fed them goat milk as a baby. Immediately, this other person said, "I was raised on mouse's milk," completely straight-faced, as though nobody would even think to question it."
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—u/perldawg
11."I had a weird experience in a grocery store back in 2009 or so and I told a couple of people about it. Fast forward to 2022 and one of those same people relayed that exact story to me, only in their version, it happened to them."
—u/RancidVagYogurt1776
12."Someone I used to be acquainted with recently was exposed for faking stage four brain cancer. She had her entire family convinced, including her parents. She faked doctor's visits, lab results, etc. Posted videos in tears about how she was dying and was trying to qualify for clinical trials as her 'last chance.' I started smelling smoke when she would talk about how difficult it was to be balding when she still had a full head of hair."
"She had a GoFundMe with about $20k in donations. All of a sudden, her fiancé called things off with her, which seemed very shocking and out of the blue. A few days later, she ended up in the hospital for unrelated issues and her parents found out she never had cancer to begin with."
—u/imeatingbees
13."I knew a girl in high school who lied about being pregnant. A couple weeks later, she lost the baby after her boyfriend pushed her down the stairs."
"I knew from the get-go that she was a pathological liar, but she had a lot of my friends fooled. I always warned them about her. She actually became obsessed with me because I didn't like her, didn't talk to her, and tried to warn people about her. She has tried to add me on Facebook easily 15 times in the last 15 YEARS; each time I decline it. She even tried to add my husband, whom she didn't even know…like, girl…
I've noticed they tend to obsess over people not believing them. Their need for validation and approval is wild."
—u/rayvnmaxx
14."My mom lies about what she's had for lunch. She lies about the dumbest stuff that doesn't even matter. I call her out on it and get gaslit. So effing weird."
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—u/Ginger_is_a_silly
15."My sister got pulled over after she got a DUI. I was a passenger. I asked her previously if her license had been revoked, and she had told me no. I asked her again as the police officer walked up to the car, and she said, 'No, my license is not revoked.' The police officer got to the car, and through the rolled down windows said, 'Ma'am, you are driving on a revoked license.' I don't really talk to her anymore, because of this situation and many, many others."
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—u/Bianchi-Birder
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16."Oh. I got a good one. He said he was part of a secret military experiment where his DNA was bonded with cougar DNA."
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"Like he was literally part cat. Honestly, we weren't sure if he was lying or if he actually believed this stuff."
—u/marshmallowgiraffe
17."My sister put makeup bruises on so she could tell people at school she was being abused at home. Why? No idea. But it led to CPS getting involved and ultimately concluding no wrongdoing. Afterward, my mom sent her to live with our alcoholic father. From what I heard, it was not a pleasant few years for her."
—u/GearsAndBeers2
"Okay yeah, that's wild of your sister, but that's an even wilder thing of your mom to do."
—u/nintendosbitch666
18."I was in a band that had just formed. We had like three songs and hadn't played a show. This guy in the band claimed he got us a gig opening for Train and a $100,000,000 record deal. He said a lot of things."
—u/According-Fun-7430
19.And finally: "My mom could not retell a story without embellishing it to save her life. Each time she told the story, it would get wilder and wilder. Occasionally, she would try to tell me some wild tale. I'd listen carefully and at the end I'd simply say, 'Mom, you forgot that I was there when it happened.' She'd just go quiet for a while before starting again."
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—u/fastfood12
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