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40 People Are Sharing True Stories About Themselves That Sound Completely Made Up
Ever had an unbelievable coincidence happen to you? Ran into a celebrity while grocery shopping? Were you on the edges of a scandal that made national news? How about a close brush with the supernatural?
If so, writer Aidan Moher wants to hear from you. A thread he started on Twitter asking for his followers’ wildest stories has attracted responses that range from goofy to chilling. Bored Panda asked the author what he learned from the viral thread and you can see what he said, along with the stories themselves, below. You can also browse all of the responses by searching the tweet’s permalink to find tweets quoting it, but here's a handful of our favorites.
The sci-fi and fantasy author shared some of his own experiences that he’d had in mind when he started the thread, but he admitted that the people of Twitter had him bested. Some of these stories are a little stranger than fiction, whether they're just odd scenes or the whole movie pitch.
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"There are a ton of amazing stories to inspire writers," Aidan Moher, who started the thread, told Bored Panda. "But it's important to make sure you remember and acknowledge where that inspiration came from, and go through the appropriate methods of getting permission to use those stories."
"I think the big takeaway for me as a writer is that life is full of coincidences and just as weird, unusual, and wacky as anything an author can come up with off the top of their head. So, writers should go big, but also think about how those stories impact the people in the moment and later into their life."
When asked if he'd gotten any stories that went beyond unbelievable and were just... not very believable, Moher said there was one rather risque trend.
"I've had... more than a few men making outlandish claims about the size of their sexual anatomy. Those are probably the most obviously fake. Otherwise, while I'm sure there are lots of embellishments and outright fake stories, I'm having fun because I think the majority of these stories are genuine."
Another reason Twitter trends like this take off so hard (see all the beginning vs. end of the decade posts plus any meme asking people to share facts about themselves) is because they tap into people’s penchant for talking about themselves.
Harvard researchers looked into what it is about talking about ourselves that lights up pleasure centers in our brains, and found that we enjoy not just sharing information about ourselves with other people, but self-examination in the first place.
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Blue Shadow 4 years ago
Aww its so sweet that the firefighters would go out of their way to save the presents!
Basically, there’s a reason why asking people questions about themselves is one of the most popular pieces of advice for being a good conversationalist, said to make people more likable. Try asking the same question Moher did next time you’re at a party—some of your acquaintances might have their own stories that they’ve been waiting to share.
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heidi holmes 4 years ago
YoyoSthlm, I believe you need a class in manners. For it appears you are a troll and a worthless waste of human flesh to act superior to someone who may not be a native English speaker due to jealousy and ugliness. What exactly did you contribute to the situation other than your nasty attitude?
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Katinka Min 4 years ago
I assume this was in the US? Because arresting an upset woman at the ER whithout giving her the chance to hand over her dying child sound like American cops to me.
Sophia Watson 4 years ago
Yep, does sound like it, I'm ashamed to live here
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I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 4 years ago (edited)
Woah, how very frightening for you. Hope everything worked out in the end and the boy recovered.
Water Bottle 4 years ago
Uhh if you’ve ever been in an incident like that you’re pretty impulsive
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ADHORTATOR 4 years ago (edited)
Respect.... I go very often to the BarberShop, so I got a discount and I have my own button with my name on it on the cash register :-)
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Berit-Bärbel Rebane 4 years ago
I would have just joined him/her. Weird cats also deserve love.
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Daria B 4 years ago (edited)
Being an introverted and shy adolescent, and, frankly, the opposite of popular with the boys, I was one of the rare kids that weren't in a romantic relationship. Random people would put random pressure on me in this regard with questions like "Why don't you have a boyfriend?", "When you gonna get a boyfriend?", "I know someone nice, maybe I can introduce you?" etc. So, being famously crazy for east Asia and sci-fi, half jokingly (half wishinly) I'd reply in my typical fashion: "I'll find myself a nice and tall Korean guy who will build me robots". My husband is Korean, over 180cm tall and holds a PhD. in robotics. ♥ (And, yes, he's nice too)
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago (edited)
So all your dreams are fulfilled... My french wife always wanted to marry an exotic foreigner and all she got was an Italian-german :-)
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Thomas 4 years ago
I have a unique one: I got kicked out of my room because Nancy Reagan wanted it! (That was in a hospital)
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
@Ana J Republicans threw huge fits about Ms. Obama. Every first lady has a cause, and Michelle's was healthy eating. Republicans would say horrible things about planting a vegetable garden at the White House, say Michelle Obama wanted to take away their french fries, and continuously acted like kids eating healthy and nutritious food was affront to their Constitutional rights. They called her "an ape in heels." Melania's cause is anti-bullying. No one has said that anti-bullying is a stupid cause. Just that it's ironic considering how much her husband bullies others.
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CelSlade 4 years ago
#3 - I was always a bit odd and strange. Never fit it. Didn't speak for the first 5 years of my life. Struggled in school (maybe because I was hardly ever in primary school, heh Mom and Dad???) Anyway, I digress. I just didn't fit in and didn't understand the world or people. I was repeatedly told I had a learning disability. Because I heard this so often I believed it. I'm 44 and this year I was informed I'm Autistic. Got tested by Mensa and turns out I have an IQ of 150, an eidetic memory, and am a super-recogniser. For weeks after I got the invite letter I'd just burst out giggling. I kinda feel like someone handed me a wand and said: 'You're a wizard!' XD
Nasha Izza 4 years ago
You are a wizard thats just discovered their magic! Wow
Load More Replies... Mohammad Azhaan 4 years ago
My mother was once in an airport and a bollywood director asked her if she would like to star in his film. My mum was so shy and embarrassed she said, "Sorry, I am married." and ran away. The directir used this scene in a film of his.
Melissa Smith-Bowles 4 years ago
In '73 my mom went to England to visit a friend. She arrived a little early for her flight so she decided to check out the duty-free shop. When she got to the register she realized the cashier had an American accent..So they started the usual conversation about where they lived in the US. Long story short, the house my parents bought in'65. Was built by the cashier's father in 1915 and she grew up in our house! They exchanged addresses etc. and a few weeks later the cashier sent pictures of her as a child in the house!
Hilliary Smith 4 years ago
I had an obscene caller call me at 1 in the morning. I tore into him about how I had to work in the morning. Didn't say anything about what he said, just that he woken me up and I had to work in the morning. He apologized!
Cathy Gaines 4 years ago
I have two brothers born on my parents' birthdays. You see my parents got divorced when I was 9. My mom remarried and had a boy born on my Dad's birthday (April 30th) and my Dad remarried and had a boy born on my Mom's birthday (Nov. 7th)
Seabeast 4 years ago
I was driving back from a hike with my sister years ago when I spotted a woman from a cycling club I belonged to, pedalling back to town close to sundown. I pulled over and asked if she wanted a lift, as it would soon be dark and she had no lights and was still a good two hours away. It took a while to convince her and she put her bike in the back of my car. As we turned from the hatch to get into the car, the skies opened up and a torrential rain started in about a split second. She stared out the window at the storm all the way back muttering, "I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't stopped". Just pure coincidence that I spotted and recognized her, as my sister and I were more than an hour late heading back than we'd planned to be.
Flisey 4 years ago
I owned a house that had had three suicides happen in it. I didn't know it when I bought it. One day a lady knocks on my door and asks if she could see the house, she grew up in it and her father cancer in his spine, he was due to go back to hospital where he would never leave. He shot himself in my bedroom. Then I had a friend visiting who grew up in the area, his mate used to own the house. and when everyone went out to get more beer the friend was in the bedroom and shot himself playing Russian roulette to pass the time. A lady who had lived in the area her whole life told me that a woman hung herself in the laundry. I lived there for three years and had never been more depressed. A guy my mum knew said he could get rid of the bad spirits but then he found out that the area was a no man's land for surrounding tribes and had been a place of many wars, there was nothing he could do, too many deaths in the area.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
First one. A girl from our school got into a car accident late at night. She missed a curve and ran into a yard destroying a picket fence. One of the slats of the picket fence broke apart and a long piece came through the windshield and lodged itself in her neck. First officer on the scene was her father. First EMT on the scene was her mother. I think both the police and emergency vehicles broke land speed records getting her to the ER. The girl made a full recovery.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Last story. When I was getting ready to go to my second day of training for a new job, I was in the bathroom trying to trim my bangs. My husband offered to help. He pulls my bangs forward with a comb and runs a set of clippers down the come. I was like "Did you just shave my eyebrow." He replies "No" moves the comb "Oops." Half my eyebrow was gone. Interestingly enough, my four year old son had gotten a hold of Grandma's razor while taking a bath a week earlier and shaved the same half of the same eyebrow off of his face. So instead of looking like an accident, it looked like it was a genetically inherited trait.....
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Sandra Charlot 4 years ago
My husband's dog jumped from the 6th floor when he was young ... absolutely nothing happened to him and he lived 10 more years
ARTY6164 4 years ago
In 1989 I was living in a trailer in Cocoa, Fl. I had fell asleep on the sofa when I was rudely awoken about 2:00 in the morning. I felt something buzzing in my left ear and putting my finger in there I could feel the back end of a June bug crawling into my ear. After it hit my eardrum I had excrutiating pain and jumped up slapping the side of my head and screaming "There's a June bug in my ear" over and over. This woke up my wife and kids and she thought I was losing my mind. I was so desperate as the bug kept scraping againdt my eardrum I ran some hot water in the kitchen sink and started pouring it in my ear. Finally I killed it and we called the e.r. in Cocoa hosp. and they told us to come on in. My father-in-law who lived across the street drove me there. As I walked in holding my hand to the side of my head the nurse smirked and said "You must be the guy with the bug in his ear". Long story short, they couldn't remove it and I had to go to an ENT specialist later that day.
CelSlade 4 years ago
Ah, well, I don't often talk about my life because people do tend to think I've made it up. When I was 5 my parents bought a huge caravan, took us out of school and for the next 4 years we traveled through South Africa. My dad was an author and I guess he was chasing his muse. Well, he caught it. Became a best selling author and very wealthy television writer/producer. We went from living in a caravan to living in a 7 bedroom house. That's story #1
glowworm2 4 years ago (edited)
One time, when on a Norwegian cruise ship for our vacation, my brother won a raffle drawing in which he got a key chain and a postcard sized piece of artwork. However, they then threw in a giant painting for him as well. A few days later, my mother and I went to the art auction--not to bet on anything, just simply because we had raffle tickets for it. Suddenly, when the ticket number was called, I looked back at my mother and calmly stated "I won." That's right, two giant paintings got shipped to our house, and I'm no longer allowed to go to the art auctions on cruise ships. (Our house is too small for such large paintings, but somehow we got them up perfectly) 🤣 Also, that week was my mother's birthday--she wound up winning through a raffle a t-shirt and $20 worth of slots at the casino. Not nearly as awesome.
Ryo Bakura 4 years ago
I'll try to slim these down, but here goes. I was born on Friday 13th. On the same maternity ward that my mother was on, 12 others also had babies, so 13 babies born on the 13th in the same ward. The coincidence ends there as one of the other 12 was a girl, who completely ruined it. Also, myself and the three siblings I grew up with (me being the eldest), all four of us were born at XX:37 (I started it at 22:37, younger brother at 09:37, youngest brother at 03:37, and sister at 20:37). Also also, another Friday 13th coincidence, went out to dinner with a friend, placed our orders, and received a number for our table so the waitstaff knew where to go. The number was 13. Also also also, in the year I turned 21, my younger brother and a cousin both turned 18, my stepdad turned 60, his eldest son turned 40, my stepdad's dad would have been 100 (were he alive), and one of my uncles turned 50.
Adam Francis 4 years ago
A telemarketer called me once. The conversation ended with the cops showing up at my house and searching for the dead body.
Alexandra Hughes 4 years ago
Did you answer the call with, "Yeah, it's done. I'm just cleaning up the blood and I'll be right out." ? I did that once.
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Cori 4 years ago
We were in San Francisco when I was a kid. My 4 year old little brother had white blonde hair and gorgeous blue eyes. A random guy with an accent came up to my mom and asked 'how much for blonde haired blue eyed boy?' My mom was horrified, said 'he's not for sale!' and held my brother's hand way too tight for the rest of the day. I hope he was joking, but I really don't think that was the case.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
Every year since I started my career, 8 years ago, someone I know has died in the Fall.
Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
Sorry for your losses but I just really like your name
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Levi McMullen-Spangler 4 years ago
When I was ten I fell deeply in love with Harry Potter and wanted to be very much like him. I would dress up in black and then put on bath robes. I would then go to the kitchen, grab one of those long wooden spoons and walk around the house yelling, " YOU DUMB MUGGLES HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I CAN DO!" I would then get grounded because neither of my parents knew what the word "muggles" meant and always thought I was cussing at them in a native language. On my 12th birthday I got actual Harry Potter robes and one of those wands that are supposed to look like the ones from the movies. I got the Elder wand!!! I quickly dressed up, grabbed my wand and came back in the room. I just stood there in front of my parents and looked at them. My mom looks at me and goes, " Aren't you going to say it?" I looked at her and go, "What???" She goes, "YOUR A STUPID MUGGLE AND DON'T KNOW WHAT I CAN DO!!!" I look at them both and go,"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Salamiponi 4 years ago
Egyptian mafia tried to kill me and first police (National security or something, polices were educated with CIA in USA) thought I killed someone because I ran away from one city to another to escape the mafia. Some investigation and turns out there really was a mafia and I was in great danger. I had my own bodyguard and armoured police protection 24/7 until everything was clear. Finally they escorted me to the airport and I flew to two other countries first before arriving home, just to make sure the mafia can't follow me. (Try to understand, english isn't my native language :) )
Shane Chang 4 years ago (edited)
I got carjacked coming home from my dad's funeral, the day after Christmas 1992.
CelSlade 4 years ago
#2 - About 20 years ago I became ill with a series of strange conditions. I suddenly became violently allergic to milk, would randomly and out of the blue lose all strength in my body so that I couldn't even stand. I couldn't sleep. Lost my memory. I repeatedly went to doctors for help but was told there was nothing wrong with me. Or worse - 'lose weight and you'll be fine'. My husband and family told me I was an attention seeking hypochondriac. Took 15 years of asking for help to be diagnosed with PTSD and Amnesia.
Eggy Adopts 4 years ago
My mom told me that once I almost was abducted by a woman that had escaped from the loony bin and said I was her daughter and my mom kidnapped me!
Levi McMullen-Spangler 4 years ago
Turns out that they read all the books before my 12th birthday and I then got grounded for a long time. P.S. AVADA KEDAVRA is the killing spell in Harry Potter. OOPS!!!
Anne Flitton 4 years ago
Shia LaBeouf's nephew goes to my high school, and I have a crush on him and I've been on a date with him, his twin teases me. His mom has confirmed that she is Shia LaBeof's sister.
toldyouso 4 years ago
I was working and poured fresh brewed hot water into cups. I wanted to be nice and go bring my coworkers their tea but then I kinda tripped and 4 cups of very hot water burned my legs and feet. We rushed to the hospital and the diagnosis was 1st and 2nd degree burns on legs and feet. I called my friends and family that day and told them what just happened. I was 17 and pain meds took awfully long to work so I had to keep my mind off a bit. nobody believed me that I was in the hospital because of burns and I got angry until I remembered the date: it happened on the April 1st...
Anna Ledwońska 4 years ago (edited)
My story is so unbelievable that literally nobody believes me now. Though I have even confession on tape, witnesses, and analysis made by renowned psychiatrists with deep hypnosis knowledge - completely not connected to anyone involved. In a very big shortcut, I was involved with the man, he was my BF and he used very sophisticated psychological methods and his psychotronics knowledge to make me some advanced blockades in my mind to prevent me from leaving him and even say some particular words. During some creepy full moon, he was made to confess with 4 witnesses about his doing by my friend which was concerned an I suppose in love with me then. But happened to be even more skillful than my BF. Later my savior become my husband. It was almost 30 years ago. My savior finished psychology and he now helps people in really bad situations also victims of cults. He also crushed those blockades though it took almost 6 months of work.
misteriosa 4 years ago
For 4 years I lived in suburbia, where I knew most people my age because I spent all my school holidays there with family. One day I was returning home from work by bus, when I spotted a girl, a spitting image of me.Same eyes, same eyebrows, nose, features, both with glasses and both with hair dyed red, she had a different haircut, her complexion was nicer and chin line was a little different. She even looked around my age, similar height and body type. First I thought I went nuts, then I wondered if she noticed anything too, she even got off at my station but afterwards went in different direction. I felt way too silly to approach and ask her sorry but do you think we look alike, tried to make myself do it, but I simply couldn't. Saw her on couple other occasions too, asked every single person I met in that suburbia, those who said they saw her thought we resembled a lot, but no one knew anything about her. I no longer live in that suburbia so I don't see her, but I still wonder.
pusheen buttercup 4 years ago
A true story that sounds like a lie... Yep, I got one. I am a mixed race sexually queer autistic female in a poly relationship. Yes, I know it sounds like b******t. And yes, people diagnosed with autism are more often than not male. But no, I'm not making it up- would ask to be someone more normal if I could! XD At least something that sounds less ridiculous. I'm also an honorary Scottswoman.
Amy 4 years ago
When I was 8 years old my father and I were driving home when we were almost hit by a drunk driver. The drunk then side swiped two cars without stopping. My dad decided he needed to pull the driver over so he took a gun out, pointed it at the drunk driver out through the window while yelling at him to pull over. We drove throw two red lights chasing the driver until the guy drove off an embankment at a dead end street into bushes. As we waiting for the police to show up my dad took the bullets out of his gun. The drunk must have been scared sh!tless.
Daria B 4 years ago (edited)
Being an introverted and shy adolescent, and, frankly, the opposite of popular with the boys, I was one of the rare kids that weren't in a romantic relationship. Random people would put random pressure on me in this regard with questions like "Why don't you have a boyfriend?", "When you gonna get a boyfriend?", "I know someone nice, maybe I can introduce you?" etc. So, being famously crazy for east Asia and sci-fi, half jokingly (half wishinly) I'd reply in my typical fashion: "I'll find myself a nice and tall Korean guy who will build me robots". My husband is Korean, over 180cm tall and holds a PhD. in robotics. ♥ (And, yes, he's nice too)
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago (edited)
So all your dreams are fulfilled... My french wife always wanted to marry an exotic foreigner and all she got was an Italian-german :-)
Load More Replies... Thomas 4 years ago
I have a unique one: I got kicked out of my room because Nancy Reagan wanted it! (That was in a hospital)
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
@Ana J Republicans threw huge fits about Ms. Obama. Every first lady has a cause, and Michelle's was healthy eating. Republicans would say horrible things about planting a vegetable garden at the White House, say Michelle Obama wanted to take away their french fries, and continuously acted like kids eating healthy and nutritious food was affront to their Constitutional rights. They called her "an ape in heels." Melania's cause is anti-bullying. No one has said that anti-bullying is a stupid cause. Just that it's ironic considering how much her husband bullies others.
Load More Replies... CelSlade 4 years ago
#3 - I was always a bit odd and strange. Never fit it. Didn't speak for the first 5 years of my life. Struggled in school (maybe because I was hardly ever in primary school, heh Mom and Dad???) Anyway, I digress. I just didn't fit in and didn't understand the world or people. I was repeatedly told I had a learning disability. Because I heard this so often I believed it. I'm 44 and this year I was informed I'm Autistic. Got tested by Mensa and turns out I have an IQ of 150, an eidetic memory, and am a super-recogniser. For weeks after I got the invite letter I'd just burst out giggling. I kinda feel like someone handed me a wand and said: 'You're a wizard!' XD
Nasha Izza 4 years ago
You are a wizard thats just discovered their magic! Wow
Load More Replies... Mohammad Azhaan 4 years ago
My mother was once in an airport and a bollywood director asked her if she would like to star in his film. My mum was so shy and embarrassed she said, "Sorry, I am married." and ran away. The directir used this scene in a film of his.
Melissa Smith-Bowles 4 years ago
In '73 my mom went to England to visit a friend. She arrived a little early for her flight so she decided to check out the duty-free shop. When she got to the register she realized the cashier had an American accent..So they started the usual conversation about where they lived in the US. Long story short, the house my parents bought in'65. Was built by the cashier's father in 1915 and she grew up in our house! They exchanged addresses etc. and a few weeks later the cashier sent pictures of her as a child in the house!
Hilliary Smith 4 years ago
I had an obscene caller call me at 1 in the morning. I tore into him about how I had to work in the morning. Didn't say anything about what he said, just that he woken me up and I had to work in the morning. He apologized!
Cathy Gaines 4 years ago
I have two brothers born on my parents' birthdays. You see my parents got divorced when I was 9. My mom remarried and had a boy born on my Dad's birthday (April 30th) and my Dad remarried and had a boy born on my Mom's birthday (Nov. 7th)
Seabeast 4 years ago
I was driving back from a hike with my sister years ago when I spotted a woman from a cycling club I belonged to, pedalling back to town close to sundown. I pulled over and asked if she wanted a lift, as it would soon be dark and she had no lights and was still a good two hours away. It took a while to convince her and she put her bike in the back of my car. As we turned from the hatch to get into the car, the skies opened up and a torrential rain started in about a split second. She stared out the window at the storm all the way back muttering, "I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't stopped". Just pure coincidence that I spotted and recognized her, as my sister and I were more than an hour late heading back than we'd planned to be.
Flisey 4 years ago
I owned a house that had had three suicides happen in it. I didn't know it when I bought it. One day a lady knocks on my door and asks if she could see the house, she grew up in it and her father cancer in his spine, he was due to go back to hospital where he would never leave. He shot himself in my bedroom. Then I had a friend visiting who grew up in the area, his mate used to own the house. and when everyone went out to get more beer the friend was in the bedroom and shot himself playing Russian roulette to pass the time. A lady who had lived in the area her whole life told me that a woman hung herself in the laundry. I lived there for three years and had never been more depressed. A guy my mum knew said he could get rid of the bad spirits but then he found out that the area was a no man's land for surrounding tribes and had been a place of many wars, there was nothing he could do, too many deaths in the area.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
First one. A girl from our school got into a car accident late at night. She missed a curve and ran into a yard destroying a picket fence. One of the slats of the picket fence broke apart and a long piece came through the windshield and lodged itself in her neck. First officer on the scene was her father. First EMT on the scene was her mother. I think both the police and emergency vehicles broke land speed records getting her to the ER. The girl made a full recovery.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Last story. When I was getting ready to go to my second day of training for a new job, I was in the bathroom trying to trim my bangs. My husband offered to help. He pulls my bangs forward with a comb and runs a set of clippers down the come. I was like "Did you just shave my eyebrow." He replies "No" moves the comb "Oops." Half my eyebrow was gone. Interestingly enough, my four year old son had gotten a hold of Grandma's razor while taking a bath a week earlier and shaved the same half of the same eyebrow off of his face. So instead of looking like an accident, it looked like it was a genetically inherited trait.....
Load More Replies... Sandra Charlot 4 years ago
My husband's dog jumped from the 6th floor when he was young ... absolutely nothing happened to him and he lived 10 more years
ARTY6164 4 years ago
In 1989 I was living in a trailer in Cocoa, Fl. I had fell asleep on the sofa when I was rudely awoken about 2:00 in the morning. I felt something buzzing in my left ear and putting my finger in there I could feel the back end of a June bug crawling into my ear. After it hit my eardrum I had excrutiating pain and jumped up slapping the side of my head and screaming "There's a June bug in my ear" over and over. This woke up my wife and kids and she thought I was losing my mind. I was so desperate as the bug kept scraping againdt my eardrum I ran some hot water in the kitchen sink and started pouring it in my ear. Finally I killed it and we called the e.r. in Cocoa hosp. and they told us to come on in. My father-in-law who lived across the street drove me there. As I walked in holding my hand to the side of my head the nurse smirked and said "You must be the guy with the bug in his ear". Long story short, they couldn't remove it and I had to go to an ENT specialist later that day.
CelSlade 4 years ago
Ah, well, I don't often talk about my life because people do tend to think I've made it up. When I was 5 my parents bought a huge caravan, took us out of school and for the next 4 years we traveled through South Africa. My dad was an author and I guess he was chasing his muse. Well, he caught it. Became a best selling author and very wealthy television writer/producer. We went from living in a caravan to living in a 7 bedroom house. That's story #1
glowworm2 4 years ago (edited)
One time, when on a Norwegian cruise ship for our vacation, my brother won a raffle drawing in which he got a key chain and a postcard sized piece of artwork. However, they then threw in a giant painting for him as well. A few days later, my mother and I went to the art auction--not to bet on anything, just simply because we had raffle tickets for it. Suddenly, when the ticket number was called, I looked back at my mother and calmly stated "I won." That's right, two giant paintings got shipped to our house, and I'm no longer allowed to go to the art auctions on cruise ships. (Our house is too small for such large paintings, but somehow we got them up perfectly) 🤣 Also, that week was my mother's birthday--she wound up winning through a raffle a t-shirt and $20 worth of slots at the casino. Not nearly as awesome.
Ryo Bakura 4 years ago
I'll try to slim these down, but here goes. I was born on Friday 13th. On the same maternity ward that my mother was on, 12 others also had babies, so 13 babies born on the 13th in the same ward. The coincidence ends there as one of the other 12 was a girl, who completely ruined it. Also, myself and the three siblings I grew up with (me being the eldest), all four of us were born at XX:37 (I started it at 22:37, younger brother at 09:37, youngest brother at 03:37, and sister at 20:37). Also also, another Friday 13th coincidence, went out to dinner with a friend, placed our orders, and received a number for our table so the waitstaff knew where to go. The number was 13. Also also also, in the year I turned 21, my younger brother and a cousin both turned 18, my stepdad turned 60, his eldest son turned 40, my stepdad's dad would have been 100 (were he alive), and one of my uncles turned 50.
Adam Francis 4 years ago
A telemarketer called me once. The conversation ended with the cops showing up at my house and searching for the dead body.
Alexandra Hughes 4 years ago
Did you answer the call with, "Yeah, it's done. I'm just cleaning up the blood and I'll be right out." ? I did that once.
Load More Replies... Cori 4 years ago
We were in San Francisco when I was a kid. My 4 year old little brother had white blonde hair and gorgeous blue eyes. A random guy with an accent came up to my mom and asked 'how much for blonde haired blue eyed boy?' My mom was horrified, said 'he's not for sale!' and held my brother's hand way too tight for the rest of the day. I hope he was joking, but I really don't think that was the case.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
Every year since I started my career, 8 years ago, someone I know has died in the Fall.
Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
Sorry for your losses but I just really like your name
Load More Replies... Levi McMullen-Spangler 4 years ago
When I was ten I fell deeply in love with Harry Potter and wanted to be very much like him. I would dress up in black and then put on bath robes. I would then go to the kitchen, grab one of those long wooden spoons and walk around the house yelling, " YOU DUMB MUGGLES HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I CAN DO!" I would then get grounded because neither of my parents knew what the word "muggles" meant and always thought I was cussing at them in a native language. On my 12th birthday I got actual Harry Potter robes and one of those wands that are supposed to look like the ones from the movies. I got the Elder wand!!! I quickly dressed up, grabbed my wand and came back in the room. I just stood there in front of my parents and looked at them. My mom looks at me and goes, " Aren't you going to say it?" I looked at her and go, "What???" She goes, "YOUR A STUPID MUGGLE AND DON'T KNOW WHAT I CAN DO!!!" I look at them both and go,"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Salamiponi 4 years ago
Egyptian mafia tried to kill me and first police (National security or something, polices were educated with CIA in USA) thought I killed someone because I ran away from one city to another to escape the mafia. Some investigation and turns out there really was a mafia and I was in great danger. I had my own bodyguard and armoured police protection 24/7 until everything was clear. Finally they escorted me to the airport and I flew to two other countries first before arriving home, just to make sure the mafia can't follow me. (Try to understand, english isn't my native language :) )
Shane Chang 4 years ago (edited)
I got carjacked coming home from my dad's funeral, the day after Christmas 1992.
CelSlade 4 years ago
#2 - About 20 years ago I became ill with a series of strange conditions. I suddenly became violently allergic to milk, would randomly and out of the blue lose all strength in my body so that I couldn't even stand. I couldn't sleep. Lost my memory. I repeatedly went to doctors for help but was told there was nothing wrong with me. Or worse - 'lose weight and you'll be fine'. My husband and family told me I was an attention seeking hypochondriac. Took 15 years of asking for help to be diagnosed with PTSD and Amnesia.
Eggy Adopts 4 years ago
My mom told me that once I almost was abducted by a woman that had escaped from the loony bin and said I was her daughter and my mom kidnapped me!
Levi McMullen-Spangler 4 years ago
Turns out that they read all the books before my 12th birthday and I then got grounded for a long time. P.S. AVADA KEDAVRA is the killing spell in Harry Potter. OOPS!!!
Anne Flitton 4 years ago
Shia LaBeouf's nephew goes to my high school, and I have a crush on him and I've been on a date with him, his twin teases me. His mom has confirmed that she is Shia LaBeof's sister.
toldyouso 4 years ago
I was working and poured fresh brewed hot water into cups. I wanted to be nice and go bring my coworkers their tea but then I kinda tripped and 4 cups of very hot water burned my legs and feet. We rushed to the hospital and the diagnosis was 1st and 2nd degree burns on legs and feet. I called my friends and family that day and told them what just happened. I was 17 and pain meds took awfully long to work so I had to keep my mind off a bit. nobody believed me that I was in the hospital because of burns and I got angry until I remembered the date: it happened on the April 1st...
Anna Ledwońska 4 years ago (edited)
My story is so unbelievable that literally nobody believes me now. Though I have even confession on tape, witnesses, and analysis made by renowned psychiatrists with deep hypnosis knowledge - completely not connected to anyone involved. In a very big shortcut, I was involved with the man, he was my BF and he used very sophisticated psychological methods and his psychotronics knowledge to make me some advanced blockades in my mind to prevent me from leaving him and even say some particular words. During some creepy full moon, he was made to confess with 4 witnesses about his doing by my friend which was concerned an I suppose in love with me then. But happened to be even more skillful than my BF. Later my savior become my husband. It was almost 30 years ago. My savior finished psychology and he now helps people in really bad situations also victims of cults. He also crushed those blockades though it took almost 6 months of work.
misteriosa 4 years ago
For 4 years I lived in suburbia, where I knew most people my age because I spent all my school holidays there with family. One day I was returning home from work by bus, when I spotted a girl, a spitting image of me.Same eyes, same eyebrows, nose, features, both with glasses and both with hair dyed red, she had a different haircut, her complexion was nicer and chin line was a little different. She even looked around my age, similar height and body type. First I thought I went nuts, then I wondered if she noticed anything too, she even got off at my station but afterwards went in different direction. I felt way too silly to approach and ask her sorry but do you think we look alike, tried to make myself do it, but I simply couldn't. Saw her on couple other occasions too, asked every single person I met in that suburbia, those who said they saw her thought we resembled a lot, but no one knew anything about her. I no longer live in that suburbia so I don't see her, but I still wonder.
pusheen buttercup 4 years ago
A true story that sounds like a lie... Yep, I got one. I am a mixed race sexually queer autistic female in a poly relationship. Yes, I know it sounds like b******t. And yes, people diagnosed with autism are more often than not male. But no, I'm not making it up- would ask to be someone more normal if I could! XD At least something that sounds less ridiculous. I'm also an honorary Scottswoman.
Amy 4 years ago
When I was 8 years old my father and I were driving home when we were almost hit by a drunk driver. The drunk then side swiped two cars without stopping. My dad decided he needed to pull the driver over so he took a gun out, pointed it at the drunk driver out through the window while yelling at him to pull over. We drove throw two red lights chasing the driver until the guy drove off an embankment at a dead end street into bushes. As we waiting for the police to show up my dad took the bullets out of his gun. The drunk must have been scared sh!tless.
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