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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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.
Imagine Getting Called Out Like That, By Harry Styles Himself
He swore to God. Imagine 'god' profile also replying: Stop using me for your lies, Mike.
Not Really Sure What Is There To Brag About Anyways
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.
How Does She Expect Anyone To Believe Her? My Mother Sent Me This From Our Neighborhood Facebook Group
What I read here is "I fantasized about committing assault on strangers to to promote my snake oil"
I read "Attempted homicide". Inject essential oils into anything but a ball of cotton, and bad things happen. Never seen it, but read a couple journal articles on what it does to lab rodents. Yeah, no, don't. Just don't. Toxicity from overuse on skin is bad enough!
Load More Replies..."... and then some pigs flew over, and pooped solid gold coins all over me!"
and my unicorn and I flew away to find the pink elephant.
Load More Replies...Moral: inject randoms with the syringe you always carry in case you need to inject a stranger! Wtaf
Nobody. And I mean nobody would allow a stranger in a park to inject them and their child with a syringe full of unknown liquid! She also makes no mention of using two different needles, one for each person. So unless the woman and her kid were junkies desperate for a fix, there's a zero percent chance they'd let a stranger in a park inject both of them with same syringe full of an unknown liquid.
Injecting people with essential oils would probably straight-up kill them, too.
Load More Replies...Do people actually post this crap and expect people to believe them?! WTF!
Given all the stupidity around it probably worked, sadly
Load More Replies...Well if it is to be believed that she always carries a needle, maybe this is a case for the police, you know, public safety and all that.
Someone should actually report her to the police. She admitted to a crime. Police confront her, of course she has to admit it was not true or face going to jail. That should solve this idiot's problem.
Load More Replies...These MLM fantasies are getting out of hand. Those people are delusional.
ok so oil is apparently soluble in blood. Clearly this person didn't pass grade 3 science.
When oil is soluble in blood: america-li...c9-png.jpg
Load More Replies..."Are you literally a doctor?" - No, but I practically am. Also did this person just say they keep ONE neelde in their purse for occasions such as this? ONE NEEDLE FOR HOW MANY PEOPLE?? I'm calling the police
A total stranger would totally just calmly stand here while you are injecting them and then follow your command and eat an almond.
and it would totally "take effect" that fast...! not.
Load More Replies...Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
When I tell people of stories I read in BP, stories like this, they think I am lying. Really s**t like this cannot be made up hahahahahahahahah
...and a unicorn wandered by and s**t out a rainbow, which she stored in her purse, next to the syringes, for a rainy day.
Um, essential oils are not to be injected. Most should not even be put directly on the skin. Also, this is obviously untrue. That is assult first of all. Plus......not eve worth going on and on and on about.
I think this is actually a parody of the snake oil anti-vax people are peddling concerning COVID-19 prevention/cures.
Thank you! I cannot believe how many commenters are not understanding this. {facepalm} Talk about cringe...
Load More Replies...What I read here is an obviously satirical anecdote that no one with a triple-digit IQ would take seriously.
I thought the same thing but then I got to thinking that'd probably be the least of their problems if this were true. I'd be more concerned about who else she used that needle on!
Load More Replies...Who in earth has the time to come up with this, #1? And #2, who on earth would ever come close to remotely believing this actually happened?? People are beyond belief.
…and then Chris Hemsworth married me! And you were there…and you were there… and everyone clapped when the tigers kissed me! And Elon Musk insisted on driving me to my next 10 appointments and…and… my daddy loves mommy again and…and…
I cannot fathom how someone would expect people to believe this. Reminds me of a kid I went to high school with (middle America). I commented on how tired he looked one day and without skipping a beat and dead serious he told me he was up all night street racing in Tokyo. Then there was the time he told me his brother had been arrested and bent the jail bars with his hands and walked out to the Sheriff shaking and apologizing for arresting him. And then....come to think of it this guy had many pure gold stories like this. I'll share more if interested.
"oh i injected them with my home brew" "so you're vaccinated, right?" "eww no. i don't trust what they put in there"
you don't inject essential oils??? WTFH was she smoking to write this??
she keeps needle in her purse for random moments to inject people with her special blend. This sounds very criminal.
Q stranger allowed another stranger to inject her with medicine out in the open, in a park with not one question asked. Ya, ok 👌
I tend to allow random folks to inject me with unknown substances in the park . And hey , inject my child too with this single needle you carry in your purse.
Sounds like assault and possibly attempted manslaughter. Most likely weapons grade bullshit, though.
That is definitely assault. Essential oil’s not medicinal. Did you inject her with a used needle? That whole escapade could kill her. If you are not a doctor, do not ever inject anything into anybody.
News headline "Woman tries to stab mother and son with needle in the park"
The essential oil blend didn't work. they just spread their stupidity to the lady and her son.
She was eating, someone complained about her food as they had an allergy, she stood up and assaulted them, and they were instantly cured in seconds, and bowed to this hero like a god. I don't think I believe this story much.
This makes my ass twitch it's so stupid. Jesus Christ. I live on the same planet as you, ARRGGGHHHHH
And then I went to jail for 1. Practicing medicine with out a license and 2. Assault with a deadly weapon!!
N THIS is why i stopped using FB. BS stuff like this that cost brain cells reading
You'd think I'd be jaded with the idiocracy I read from people like them but they continue to surprise me
As a paramedic I consider it perfectly normal practice to just inject s**t into people at random. Cured a guy of cancer-AIDS just last week and everyone clapped.
INJECTED?! Trying to convince people that you can INJECT essential oil?!
It reminds me of my first grade when I used to write such beautiful but better fantasies.
OK. Show of hands. How many of you would calmly stand there while a nut eating loon reaches into her yellow purse and silently injects both you and your son with some mysterious fluid? I thought so. Also, why was it important that we know the purse was yellow?
I am curious to see the thought process of those people that post this s**t. Like, do you really think anyone will thing OH WOW THIS LEGIT HAPPENED or what
Reality: *injects essential oil into person with nut allergy* *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkDyVcE7w5g*
I feel bad that her name got crossed out, I really wanted to be in touch with her. I need her so bad to save my life.
Injected with a needle you keep in your purse.... hope you like AIDS...
Soooooo....she just injected this person (who LET her) with a needle, WITHOUT consent AND got paid as an apology?? Uh huh. Riiiiiiiiight
Wow, and aside from all the other nonsense here, she's implied she used the SAME needle on two different people. That's most unhygienic...
I'm suprised there were no red flags for the lady and her son when some random person pulls out a syringe and starts to inject some random liquid into her and her son
I'm going to tell this story in my parole hearing again tomorrow, and this time they just HAVE to believe me.
Yes, because 1, people just carry around needles (not for their own health reasons), 2, anyone can just inject them into strangers and a child, and 3, they won’t complain at all and actually approve.
More sarcasm.....I think most people actually got that this time.....
When a story starts off with a detail like that I really ought to just pick up on the bloody obvious and drop it.
Why would anyone self claim they were being 'smug' in something like this?
Would'nt giving someone vaccine-ish thing without a license illegal
So she injected two people with the same needle? And does she get a new needle every time she runs into a "situation like this" or does she use one needle to go around jabbing randos "more often than you might think"?
As if anyone ever would let you just inject them with a needle, let alone with an unknown substance, let alone a child, nevermind the rest of that BS. Major cringe, major eyeroll
The Entire Sub Is Like This
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.
Antivax Jesus Made Me Want To Die
Lady Who Lives In Massive Fantasy Land Goes To Disneyland
Woman Finds Microchip In Her Son’s Mask!?
Of All The Things That Didn't Happen, This Didn't Happen The Most
Mhmm, Yeah Sure It Was
This one really annoys me! These self entitled, self absorbed mental midgets really think they have it that bad. It’s disrespectful and disgusting
This 2-Year-Old Must Have A Degree Already
Everyone’s Worst Nightmare
Oh Yeah. For Sure
but on the other hand she is probably still paying the hospital bills for the delivery of het son.
Brags To All Their Friends For Saving Their Life With Essential Oils
Discord Users Are A Different Breed
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
And All Vampires Clapped
Sure He Did Aubrey
While These Children Weren’t Oxygen Starved, The Poster Was At Birth
Found This On A “People Who Think Liking Harry Potter Is A Personality Trait” Fb Page
And Then Ben Franklin’s Image Clapped
No he offered her 100 then got a closer look and asked for a refund
Well, That Saved Me A Goog!
I Won't Remember Posting This
Her Jaw Dropped
Hate When People Underestimate The Condoms I Use In A Night Smh
This Has To Be A Joke, Right?
Anti Vaxxers Are A Gold Mine
I'm positive this is the same person who would be convinced dihydrogen monoxide is super toxic too.
Then The Toys Clapped
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.
And their jaws dropped open at your awesomeness...
Load More Replies...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
I stopped after a few, I didn't want to spoil my good mood.
Load More Replies...Where are all these groups of people clapping? I'd like to find them please.
In order to have everyone clap and cheer you, your jaw must first drop.
Load More Replies...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...This is real. My mask jumped off of my face and started singing "Achy Breaky Heart" knowing full well I hate that song.
It's amazing how many people's jaws dropped and how many started clapping.
Well, my jaw dropped, in the "Wow, who let the third-graders' fantasy writing assignment get on the internet!"
Load More Replies...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?
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...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)
It goes along with the using of (real name) apparently...
Load More Replies...Wow... It is so cringe when people try too hard to look cool and edgy and interesting.
As the saying goes: "May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Social Media"
Load More Replies...There's an awful lot of jaw dropping going on in these posts. In fact, there's a jaw dropping amount of jaw dropping.
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
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"...
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...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
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.
Well, that's about five minutes of my life I'll never get back. What a load of utter drivel.
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.
I think these people need to go see an ENT specialist if their jaws are always dropping.
The depths of true human stupidity come to light on the internet....
I can't get further than four posts in. It irritates me too much to go on.
I had to stop reading these half way through. The stupidity of some people was making my eyes bleed.
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.
I read all of these in the voices of the pink and blue unicorns from Charlie the unicorn. "It's a magical liopleurodon, Charlie!"
I wish people had to take classes, and pass psychiatric tests, before being allowed to breed.
I've a kid of 4 and 7 years old and it seems.these people have more fantasy than the 4 year old
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.
And their jaws dropped open at your awesomeness...
Load More Replies...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
I stopped after a few, I didn't want to spoil my good mood.
Load More Replies...Where are all these groups of people clapping? I'd like to find them please.
In order to have everyone clap and cheer you, your jaw must first drop.
Load More Replies...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...This is real. My mask jumped off of my face and started singing "Achy Breaky Heart" knowing full well I hate that song.
It's amazing how many people's jaws dropped and how many started clapping.
Well, my jaw dropped, in the "Wow, who let the third-graders' fantasy writing assignment get on the internet!"
Load More Replies...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?
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...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)
It goes along with the using of (real name) apparently...
Load More Replies...Wow... It is so cringe when people try too hard to look cool and edgy and interesting.
As the saying goes: "May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Social Media"
Load More Replies...There's an awful lot of jaw dropping going on in these posts. In fact, there's a jaw dropping amount of jaw dropping.
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
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"...
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...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
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.
Well, that's about five minutes of my life I'll never get back. What a load of utter drivel.
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.
I think these people need to go see an ENT specialist if their jaws are always dropping.
The depths of true human stupidity come to light on the internet....
I can't get further than four posts in. It irritates me too much to go on.
I had to stop reading these half way through. The stupidity of some people was making my eyes bleed.
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.
I read all of these in the voices of the pink and blue unicorns from Charlie the unicorn. "It's a magical liopleurodon, Charlie!"
I wish people had to take classes, and pass psychiatric tests, before being allowed to breed.
I've a kid of 4 and 7 years old and it seems.these people have more fantasy than the 4 year old