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"
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
Totally agree with you. The tinfoil hat brigade comparing what's happening in Australia now to the holocaust is just so VERY wrong. But they can't see how horribly disrespectful it is and they really do think that being in lockdown and having to wear a mask is "the same" as what happened in WWII!
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"Hi, I'm [name] and I haven't got the first goddamn clue what real oppression and government mandated murder is actually like, and have never suffered in any meaningful way in my entire privileged, small-minded life".
Sure, wearing a mask means some people can't breathe properly. That is way worse than breathing in Cyclon B or work yourself to death or starve to death
Or being raped and beaten at the camp brothels by both guards and prisoners :(
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Conseratives comparing minor inconveniences to the Holocaust really piss me off.
I can't decide if it's better or worse than Holocaust deniers
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yes I'm sure they said that much worse than being rounded up and gassed treated like you're not even human having your life stolen family killed oh yes all much worse than being vaccinated or having to wear a mask much worse
Said no Holocaust survivor ever. And your medical freedom is like your anger management freedom ----- it stops where it harms others.
Thats so f****d up im genuinely pissed at this person. Being an anti masker/vaccination is one thing but THIS IS DISGUSTING.
This is an unacceptable insult against all the victims of this horrible crime.
Jesus, that's offensive, someone's parents failed the world miserable on their little shithead.
I'll always remember what a Holocaust survivor, Eva Kor, told my class, to always question what people like that op are telling you. Smartest woman I've ever met.
I really lose the respect for people who compare covid rules to what people went trough in ww2. Saying it is even worse is just disgusting. You're not discriminated because you won't get vaccinated, it's a choice and choices have consequences. Don't compare them to the horrors people went trough just because of something they didn't even choose to be.
Thank you to all here who acknowledged the Holocaust happened and was an atrocity. With so many Holocaust deniers and revisionists, it is very meaningful to read there are still caring and rational people here.
As a Jew, this is incredibly enfuriating. Yes, 6 million people tortured anf killed is worse than wearing a mask to protect others safety. GrRRRrr
This is disgusting. You have no conscience to post something like that. You should be so ashamed.
Yes, because slapping a piece of cloth on your face is equivalent to being marched by force to a concentration camp where you'll more than likely be killed. Stop. Just stop.
Okay all of the other ones were just stupid and cringe but this one is a whole new level of stupid, and it’s incredibly disrespectful smh.
I've seen a LOT of comparisons between the pandemic restrictions and the holocaust. These people have no shame and are that desperate to be warriors and martyrs. The less forgiving part of me would really like to give them their wishes. "Does this gas smell like vaccines to you?"
Never has a post pjssed me off so bad! Tho Holocaust was real and doent come close to the mask and vaccine. DISGUSTING AND WORNG!!!!
But if you consider that a great many of these folks are Holocaust deniers, it makes sense to them. to talk this way.
Sincerely doubt this asshole even knows a Holocaust Survivor. Idiots tend to gravitate to each other, because they’re only into confirmation bias, and can’t handle associating with anyone different from themselves, because of the risk of new ideas.
Wow, a vaccine and masks is worse than the deaths of 21 MILLION people?? Please find me this 93 year old woman (who lives in your head).
When the Seventh Army reached Dachau and liberated it, they were horrified at all the prisoners wearing masks. "The Horror! The humanity!" one of the generals is recorded to have said. "But sir," asked the Aide de camp, "they are malnourished, living skeletons". "No", responded the general, "it's the masks doing that, the guards told me they served Filet Mignon every day, but the masks, look at what they have done. The bastards." All the prisoners clapped. Those that still could and were not yet starved of oxygen. True story.
This is just so wrong. It's not even funny it's an injustice to so many people. I can't even begin to explain how wrong this is.
The Holocaust survivor said that the idiot Covid deniers and anti-vaxers were worse than what she went through.
literal genocide isnt as bad as a couple needles and a facial accessory?
Hiding for your life is better than having a "microchip" in your mask? Entitlement.
How DARE you denigrate and disparage the horrors the Holocaust survivors endured. No. NO ONE told you a mask was worse than being in a concentration camp. You are an absolute lying PIECE OF SH*T. I hope your Mother is completely ashamed of you.
there was this german teen who compared herself to Anne Frank in hiding, during the first lockdown
I saw the video of this actually. It's ignorant and completely offensive to people who experienced the holocaust.
Ok, you compared masks to the fricking Holocaust???? I’ll let you know now, you disgust me. Thousands of innocent people being murdered and tortured and experimented on is nothing compared having to wear a mask. And this is coming from someone who isn’t sure they do much. Just suck it up and wear it.
🙄 🔪 💀 🤦🏾♀️. I don’t want to live in a world where f***s like this live. I hate it here.
How dare whoever said this breathe the same air asHolocaust survivor ! This is such a despicable thing to say! This person has no heart and very little brain!
Let's not use real tragedy to describe an imagined one. How DARE you!
Everyone who says masks are worse than the Holocaust does not believe there was a holocaust
Imagine being that selfish and deluded that you compare COVID to mass murder
Since we're all going "blast to the past" nowadays, i'm going to use this speaker truck to tell the general public exactly how much of a c*nt you are. speaker-tr...93-png.jpg 
Yeah, because she lived in Chicago during the holocaust. Wassa matta?
She was a capo and given all the privileges? She slept with the head of the camp? She was in a camp for 1 day and then liberated? Alternative explanations abound!
If you survived a war, I would think you don't complain so easily anymore, but instead, some people think it makes them insanely valuable and better than others
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
And then he cited Marx and refuted his argument with Hegel's counterargument!
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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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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!"
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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.
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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...
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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"
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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...
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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
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... 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... 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
