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This Online Community Shares “Totally True Stories That Definitely 100% Happened” And Here’re 30 Of The Most Hilarious Ones
I'm fine. What are you talking about, you do not look fat in those jeans. I'll give you a call.
We lie all the time. And we get away with it quite often, too. But some folks push their made-up narrative so far, it's hard to imagine anyone actually believing them.
So they end up on the subreddit r/thatHappened. Its members share evidence of "people telling outrageous tall tales that would make Walter Mitty proud" and they have compiled quite the archive since the creation of this online community in 2012.
Here are some of its best gems.
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#1
From Cursed Comments
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#2
Jesus Christ. What An Idiot
Sometimes people lie just to inflate their image—some think this motivation is the reason behind President Donald Trump's demonstrably false statement that his Inauguration crowd was bigger than President Barack Obama's first one. But people also lie to cover up bad behavior, as American swimmer Ryan Lochte did during the 2016 Summer Olympics by claiming to have been robbed at gunpoint at a gas station when, in fact, he and his teammates, drunk after a party, had been confronted by armed security guards after damaging property.
We can find similar examples even in fields that are dedicated to the search for eternal truth. And one doesn't have to look far, either. Take the physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, for example, whose purported breakthroughs in molecular semiconductor research proved to be fraudulent.
#3
Imagine Getting Called Out Like That, By Harry Styles Himself
Serial pacifist 3 years ago (edited)
He swore to God. Imagine 'god' profile also replying: Stop using me for your lies, Mike.
#4
Not Really Sure What Is There To Brag About Anyways
#5
Running A 5k In 10 Minutes
Lying is something many of us are very good at. We do it while interacting with strangers, co-workers, friends, and loved ones. Turns out, our capacity for dishonesty is as fundamental to us as our need to trust others, which ironically makes us terrible at detecting lies. Being deceitful is woven into us, so much so that it would be truthful to say that to lie is human.
The ubiquity of lying was first documented systematically two decades ago by Bella DePaulo, a social psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. DePaulo and her colleagues asked 147 adults to jot down for a week every instance they tried to mislead someone. The researchers discovered that the subjects lied on average one or two times a day. Most of these untruths were innocuous, intended to hide one's inadequacies or to protect the feelings of others. Some lies were excuses (one subject blamed the failure to take out the garbage on not knowing where it needed to go). Yet other lies, such as a claim of being a diplomat's son, were aimed at presenting a false image. While these were minor transgressions, a later study by DePaulo and other colleagues involving a similar sample indicated that most people have, at some point, told one or more "serious lies", like hiding an affair from a spouse, or making false claims on a college application.
#6
How Does She Expect Anyone To Believe Her? My Mother Sent Me This From Our Neighborhood Facebook Group
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
What I read here is "I fantasized about committing assault on strangers to to promote my snake oil"
#7
The Entire Sub Is Like This
#8
And Then The Coronavirus Clapped
Researchers suggest that lying as a behavior arose pretty soon after the emergence of language. The ability to manipulate others without using physical force likely conferred an advantage in the competition for resources and mates, akin to the evolution of deceptive strategies in the animal kingdom, such as camouflage.
"Lying is so easy compared to other ways of gaining power," Sissela Bok, an ethicist at Harvard University who's one of the most prominent thinkers on the subject, told Nat Geo. "It's much easier to lie in order to get somebody's money or wealth than to hit them over the head or rob a bank.
"Experts are learning that we're prone to believe some lies even when they're easily contradicted by clear evidence. These insights suggest that our proclivity for deceiving others, and our vulnerability to being deceived, are especially consequential in the age of social media.
So in the case of r/ThatHappened, it's nice to see that we can still retain our ability to distinguish truth from fiction.
#9
Antivax Jesus Made Me Want To Die
#10
Lady Who Lives In Massive Fantasy Land Goes To Disneyland
#11
Woman Finds Microchip In Her Son’s Mask!?
#12
Of All The Things That Didn't Happen, This Didn't Happen The Most
#13
Mhmm, Yeah Sure It Was
Cecily Holland 3 years ago
This one really annoys me! These self entitled, self absorbed mental midgets really think they have it that bad. It’s disrespectful and disgusting
#14
This 2-Year-Old Must Have A Degree Already
#15
Everyone’s Worst Nightmare
#16
Oh Yeah. For Sure
Falcon dimi 3 years ago
but on the other hand she is probably still paying the hospital bills for the delivery of het son.
#17
Brags To All Their Friends For Saving Their Life With Essential Oils
#18
Discord Users Are A Different Breed
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
Because we all know when the universe began, the big bang and all that, monkeys were already well established 🤦♀️ not even apes, he said monkeys. Zero effort
#19
And All Vampires Clapped
#20
Sure He Did Aubrey
#21
While These Children Weren’t Oxygen Starved, The Poster Was At Birth
#22
Found This On A “People Who Think Liking Harry Potter Is A Personality Trait” Fb Page
#23
And Then Ben Franklin’s Image Clapped
Cecily Holland 3 years ago
No he offered her 100 then got a closer look and asked for a refund
#24
Well, That Saved Me A Goog!
#25
I Won't Remember Posting This
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Oh please, I have been killing dragons for a decade. And I´m a walking cat with a human husband.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
What a coincidence...so am I! What's your husband's name? Mine is Farkas.
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Now THIS one I KNOW is a joke from knowing plenty of military folks. "Using a pocket knife." BWAHAHAHA!!!
Tobias Rieper 3 years ago
you do get a special breed of gamer that plays COD a lot and thinks that they are a marine or special forces
Raven Sheridan 3 years ago
Is this the same guy who killed two guys in a bar, with just a pencil? 🤨
Kitty Jordan 3 years ago
Meanwhile, real combat veterans are posting, "Yeah, my name is Snickerdoodle because my girlfriend sent them in a care package..."
Marky Mark 3 years ago
I once jumped on an evil turtle and sent his shell hurtling at other evil turtles and then rescued a princes.
Ben Dreyer 3 years ago
You probably used that pocket knife to peel potatoes in the army kitchen, being assigned that post because you shat your pants every time you heard gunfire, didn't you?
Jerry Lane 3 years ago
A pocketknife? Wimp! I used a letter opener. Weak sort-of men like you are why the military can’t win
Paul Davis 3 years ago
What's even more amazing is that no one else remembers this twit doing anything interesting or dangerous with his pocket knife either.
Random Anon 3 years ago
I need to try really hard not to go into a hysteric state of uncontrolled laughter when I read really dumb sh!t like this.
TrixicBird(Any pronouns) 3 years ago
My dad was called swamp ass because of his farts and knew a guy called half-ass because a shark ate half his ass. So yea I don´t think they are gonna give you suck an epic name lol.
Karen Grace 3 years ago
Now, in real life that would have him pulled off duty in a heartbeat and likely given a discharge. A "blind rage" would mean he is a huge risk to his platoon as he might not know who he is killing. The idea that all that is with a pocket knife when the other side is using guns is one of the most absurd stories I've heard.
François Carré 3 years ago
The staggering part of this for me is someone who brags about having killed 100+ people. If this is not toxic military culture, I don't know what is. Some countries would rather stop glorifying the dirty wars they have waged around the world during the last decades.
Paul Werner 3 years ago
Nevermind all the other weapons at my disposal where's my pocket knife?
Droopsnoot 3 years ago
Because that's a guy the army would be proud of having... Doesn't follow orders, just kills everything. Didn't know scp-682 was in the army
David Beaulieu 3 years ago
Pocket Knife? So... in combat you chose a Swiss army knife? Did you at least use the knife blade, or were some of those "recorded kills" with the scissors or tooth pick?
YoyoSthlm 3 years ago
Tooth picks kill 100 people a year. It's not a laughing matter.
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Don't Look 3 years ago
Well, when you aren’t doing something and it’s all in your head you likely wouldn’t remember….
Mayrene Chester 2 years ago
Erm....it actually means power outage or loss of consciousness, both of which does not make one very active.
BisexualBaddie 3 years ago
Holy s**t I loved this guy in Infinity War lol. This person was seriously like "ok we're thinking Winter Soldier on this one"
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
He blacks out so badly that he goes back in time to when nobody had guns and therefore couldn't shoot you you long before you were close enough to try and stab through somebody's body armor like a f*****g moron...
#26
Her Jaw Dropped
#27
Hate When People Underestimate The Condoms I Use In A Night Smh
#28
This Has To Be A Joke, Right?
#29
Anti Vaxxers Are A Gold Mine
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
I'm positive this is the same person who would be convinced dihydrogen monoxide is super toxic too.
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Jo Choto 3 years ago
There are way too many pathological liars and sad attention seekers on the internet. I know this because I invented the internet and everybody clapped.
Colin Matthews 3 years ago
And their jaws dropped open at your awesomeness...
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
The leprechaun tells me to BURN things. That is more realistic than this garbage. The leprechaun did say not to read it, I should have listened
Caro Caro 3 years ago
I stopped after a few, I didn't want to spoil my good mood.
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Steve Kenney 3 years ago
Where are all these groups of people clapping? I'd like to find them please.
Julie Harden 3 years ago
In order to have everyone clap and cheer you, your jaw must first drop.
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Mike Beck 3 years ago
That comment needs more upvotes. I've abused the language a lot but I do believe "didn'tiest" beats the lot of them!
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tuzdayschild 3 years ago
This is real. My mask jumped off of my face and started singing "Achy Breaky Heart" knowing full well I hate that song.
Corey Smith 3 years ago
It's amazing how many people's jaws dropped and how many started clapping.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Well, my jaw dropped, in the "Wow, who let the third-graders' fantasy writing assignment get on the internet!"
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Mark Fuller 3 years ago
You know when there's a BP post and you could honestly comment on every single one of the entries, then realise that a single comment at the top will suffice? Surely, it cannot be beyond the wit of humankind to make devices explode the moment these idiots submit such shite to social media? You know, a small, controlled detonation that just takes them and their single brain cell out of the gene pool, so the rest of us can get on and enjoy our lives?
Caro Caro 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, a single comment would suffice. We should make a keyboard that goes bzzzzzzzt and gives you one hellova shock when you post that kind of sh!t.
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Moosy Girl 3 years ago
Monday morning I ‘fixed’ an interactive display by plugging in the power cord and everybody clapped! TWICE! (It was a class full of first grade students)
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
It goes along with the using of (real name) apparently...
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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago
Wow... It is so cringe when people try too hard to look cool and edgy and interesting.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
As the saying goes: "May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Social Media"
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Rosemary Booth 3 years ago
There's an awful lot of jaw dropping going on in these posts. In fact, there's a jaw dropping amount of jaw dropping.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
And to think, I thought my kids were special for knowing a few words at the age of one to three years old. These kids can cook, remember, talk politics, etc. Amazing
Jason Doakes 3 years ago
This is not really funny. Imagine all the crap these guys and gals believe themselves... Gullible is an understatement. These are the votes that make it possible to dismantle education even more. It's a vicious cycle, and we passed the zenith some time ago, it's only getting worse. And it's spreading to the rest of the world.. We have flat-earthers and creationists in Central Europe now, where accessible education-for-all is taken seriously and doesn't bankrupt you. American stupidity is a virus spread through social media. If only 10% of all the money these idiots donate to their con-men politicians was used to give these people psychological help, we could "save the world"...
Jason Doakes 3 years ago
Yes... psychological help, because they're crazy, isn't that clear? The whole world sees it. Only in America people believe the gop's position is worth debating, they are being exploited and abused by their own party, but they argue for it! And they believe every senseless crap they are fed. If that isn't crazy...
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Phil Clarke 1 year ago
so i rode into a burger macdonalds king on the back of a velociraptor where john hammond was eating with Dr ellie and dr grant, so smitten with my prowess ellie jumped on the back and we had wild sex on a raptor in the middle of the grassy knoll while JFK rode by in his pope mobile. grant hammond was so impressed he took a semen sample from me and created a theme park of just me. i was given the keys to the kingdom of jade mountain. I ended up fathering humanity just by f*****g my way through school. I stopped the moon blowing up just by flicking a booger at it. i was davinci muse during the dark ages and funded the NASA space program with just sheer force of will. All the while the terracotta warriors of Antarctica all clapped
Fectiver Undercroft 2 years ago
These people still think they tell convincing stories when they end with everyone clapping? I wonder which one of his 100 kills #25 doesn’t remember. #26 I can see actually happening. At least one side of that conversation, anyway. #30 seems to understand both capitalism and socialism as well as his children.
Karen Lyon 3 years ago
Well, that's about five minutes of my life I'll never get back. What a load of utter drivel.
Cydney Golden 3 years ago
OMG these are more inane than the stories my first graders wrote about aliens. I would say they're supposed to be jokes but there have been people waiting in Dallas for JFK Jr to come back to life. There is a lot of stupid and crazy out there.
littlesaresare 3 years ago
I think these people need to go see an ENT specialist if their jaws are always dropping.
Paul Mitchell 3 years ago
The depths of true human stupidity come to light on the internet....
Camilla Koutsos 3 years ago
I can't get further than four posts in. It irritates me too much to go on.
Mystery Egg 3 years ago
I had to stop reading these half way through. The stupidity of some people was making my eyes bleed.
Pa4040 3 years ago
The lives of the people who made these posts must be trully sad. Anything to get more likes, to get that small high from seeing that people are noticing what you say ( no matter how fake or cringy). Unfortunately most of these people are actually real, and are set in their beliefs. Disgusting.
Kimberley McMillan 3 years ago
I read all of these in the voices of the pink and blue unicorns from Charlie the unicorn. "It's a magical liopleurodon, Charlie!"
marianne eliza 3 years ago
I wish people had to take classes, and pass psychiatric tests, before being allowed to breed.
Joran Quinten 3 years ago
I've a kid of 4 and 7 years old and it seems.these people have more fantasy than the 4 year old
Jo Choto 3 years ago
There are way too many pathological liars and sad attention seekers on the internet. I know this because I invented the internet and everybody clapped.
Colin Matthews 3 years ago
And their jaws dropped open at your awesomeness...
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
The leprechaun tells me to BURN things. That is more realistic than this garbage. The leprechaun did say not to read it, I should have listened
Caro Caro 3 years ago
I stopped after a few, I didn't want to spoil my good mood.
Load More Replies... Steve Kenney 3 years ago
Where are all these groups of people clapping? I'd like to find them please.
Julie Harden 3 years ago
In order to have everyone clap and cheer you, your jaw must first drop.
Load More Replies... Mike Beck 3 years ago
That comment needs more upvotes. I've abused the language a lot but I do believe "didn'tiest" beats the lot of them!
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 3 years ago
This is real. My mask jumped off of my face and started singing "Achy Breaky Heart" knowing full well I hate that song.
Corey Smith 3 years ago
It's amazing how many people's jaws dropped and how many started clapping.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Well, my jaw dropped, in the "Wow, who let the third-graders' fantasy writing assignment get on the internet!"
Load More Replies... Mark Fuller 3 years ago
You know when there's a BP post and you could honestly comment on every single one of the entries, then realise that a single comment at the top will suffice? Surely, it cannot be beyond the wit of humankind to make devices explode the moment these idiots submit such shite to social media? You know, a small, controlled detonation that just takes them and their single brain cell out of the gene pool, so the rest of us can get on and enjoy our lives?
Caro Caro 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, a single comment would suffice. We should make a keyboard that goes bzzzzzzzt and gives you one hellova shock when you post that kind of sh!t.
Load More Replies... Moosy Girl 3 years ago
Monday morning I ‘fixed’ an interactive display by plugging in the power cord and everybody clapped! TWICE! (It was a class full of first grade students)
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
It goes along with the using of (real name) apparently...
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago
Wow... It is so cringe when people try too hard to look cool and edgy and interesting.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
As the saying goes: "May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Social Media"
Load More Replies... Rosemary Booth 3 years ago
There's an awful lot of jaw dropping going on in these posts. In fact, there's a jaw dropping amount of jaw dropping.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
And to think, I thought my kids were special for knowing a few words at the age of one to three years old. These kids can cook, remember, talk politics, etc. Amazing
Jason Doakes 3 years ago
This is not really funny. Imagine all the crap these guys and gals believe themselves... Gullible is an understatement. These are the votes that make it possible to dismantle education even more. It's a vicious cycle, and we passed the zenith some time ago, it's only getting worse. And it's spreading to the rest of the world.. We have flat-earthers and creationists in Central Europe now, where accessible education-for-all is taken seriously and doesn't bankrupt you. American stupidity is a virus spread through social media. If only 10% of all the money these idiots donate to their con-men politicians was used to give these people psychological help, we could "save the world"...
Jason Doakes 3 years ago
Yes... psychological help, because they're crazy, isn't that clear? The whole world sees it. Only in America people believe the gop's position is worth debating, they are being exploited and abused by their own party, but they argue for it! And they believe every senseless crap they are fed. If that isn't crazy...
Load More Replies... Phil Clarke 1 year ago
so i rode into a burger macdonalds king on the back of a velociraptor where john hammond was eating with Dr ellie and dr grant, so smitten with my prowess ellie jumped on the back and we had wild sex on a raptor in the middle of the grassy knoll while JFK rode by in his pope mobile. grant hammond was so impressed he took a semen sample from me and created a theme park of just me. i was given the keys to the kingdom of jade mountain. I ended up fathering humanity just by f*****g my way through school. I stopped the moon blowing up just by flicking a booger at it. i was davinci muse during the dark ages and funded the NASA space program with just sheer force of will. All the while the terracotta warriors of Antarctica all clapped
Fectiver Undercroft 2 years ago
These people still think they tell convincing stories when they end with everyone clapping? I wonder which one of his 100 kills #25 doesn’t remember. #26 I can see actually happening. At least one side of that conversation, anyway. #30 seems to understand both capitalism and socialism as well as his children.
Karen Lyon 3 years ago
Well, that's about five minutes of my life I'll never get back. What a load of utter drivel.
Cydney Golden 3 years ago
OMG these are more inane than the stories my first graders wrote about aliens. I would say they're supposed to be jokes but there have been people waiting in Dallas for JFK Jr to come back to life. There is a lot of stupid and crazy out there.
littlesaresare 3 years ago
I think these people need to go see an ENT specialist if their jaws are always dropping.
Paul Mitchell 3 years ago
The depths of true human stupidity come to light on the internet....
Camilla Koutsos 3 years ago
I can't get further than four posts in. It irritates me too much to go on.
Mystery Egg 3 years ago
I had to stop reading these half way through. The stupidity of some people was making my eyes bleed.
Pa4040 3 years ago
The lives of the people who made these posts must be trully sad. Anything to get more likes, to get that small high from seeing that people are noticing what you say ( no matter how fake or cringy). Unfortunately most of these people are actually real, and are set in their beliefs. Disgusting.
Kimberley McMillan 3 years ago
I read all of these in the voices of the pink and blue unicorns from Charlie the unicorn. "It's a magical liopleurodon, Charlie!"
marianne eliza 3 years ago
I wish people had to take classes, and pass psychiatric tests, before being allowed to breed.
Joran Quinten 3 years ago
I've a kid of 4 and 7 years old and it seems.these people have more fantasy than the 4 year old
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