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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From Cursed Comments
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!?
I hate it when people say things like this. If the government wants to track you they only need your phone number, it's not that hard to get. And also why would they need to track you? Are you that interesting?
That's the stupid thing - people seem to think they're sooooo terribly important these days! I couldn't give a crap if "The Government" was tracking me, because I never do anything exciting anyway!
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Then she pulled out a camera from the mask and the strings started clapping
i bet she used her smart phone to take the picture to upload to social media , dumb ass
Hang on...she doesn't know where her son "picked up his mask from"? Does this kid go around picking up discarded masks from the sidewalk and putting them on his face? Because that right there is a good way to get covid, cold, flu, you name it.
That's one you are supposed to find, it's a decoy for the real one we've hidden in the coffee at Starbucks. My fellow Illuminati members and I are very fond of the decoy method!
No one cares enough about your kiddo's current whereabouts to be bothered to track his disposable mask. Truly.
I used one to make a small torch earlier this year
Load More Replies... Why would they even put tracking devices in disposable masks? After a few hours it's like "I have a location on the subject -- he's in a garbage can in the cafeteria!"
"...and he is not moving............................for 8 hours he hasn't moved!!"
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Why would you put a tracking device, or any kind of surveillance device in a DISPOSABLE mask?
"I am absolutely not the type to latch onto a conspiracy theory, but..." I am an effing moron with decomposed braincells who never learned basic science and lacks common sense. I repeat random BS NOT conspi-crazy theories I scavenge from the landfills of the internets like a maimed, brain dead parrot. To validate myself as a normal human being, I lie on the internet about having a family, which is nothing more than dreams I have when high as hell on drugs and alcohol
On another topic, the volume button on my remote is missing, does anyone know where to pick one up ?
It's a thing for cinching a drawstring. You press on the button to release the spring so you can adjust the cord. When you let go, the device holds the cord in place. Then Harry Styles asks you to marry him, you turn into a lesbian and everyone claps. Much of this is true.
It’s a pcb with a mic on it (it even says “mic” right on it). Ripped out of a cheap headset. Completely useless like this too. Needs to be wired to something that can use it.
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Alright, if this was really inside your mask, you can take it out, restitch the mask and STILL F*****G WEAR IT
that's pretty big to be in the seam of a mask or you have itty bitty alien fingers1
Where's the battery? Thing won't work without a battery. Or perhaps it got electricity from him breathing. Or this bitch is batcrap crazy.
You should ask your local photo center if they can develop the pictures! But be discreet...😏
Have you met your government (or any bureaucracy for that matter)? You really think they are capable of tracking every single mask? For what, targeted marketing? Oh, sorry, that's what your smartphones for, my bad.
If it is in a disposable mask, how do they know who they're tracking, and why would they want to track someone for a few hours at most before it gets thrown away? People who make this stuff up really don't think things through.
disposable mask - discard after one use, not very cost-effective is it?
Lady - lay off the meth. Seriously. Your child deserves an actual parent, not some QAnon freak.
A seam on that kind of mask is too small to hold that thing. Check your kid’s Lego box.
THE MILITARY CANT EVEN FIND IT SELF MOST THE TIME HOW THE F**K DO YOU THINK WERE GONNA FIND YOU WITH A PIECE OF A MOTHER BOARD YOU CLIPPED OFF
Also, the economics of putting a tracking chip into a disposable mask are inconceivable. Those who try this hard ought to try to learn harder.
I always know where I got a mask I’m wearing. This lady could have found this one in the street…
Why use stuff like that when you WILLINGLY have: -SSN -a car -a Phone -a credit/debit card -a bank account
I bet when she eats a salad at a restaurant, there's a sudden appearance of a cockroach
Your son was wearing a mask you picked up somewhere. Me I get mine from the local pharmacy. Why do you just randomly pick up masks and wear them? No wonder there's a pandemic.
If this is a true story I'd suggest it's a microphone chip that a reporter might clip inside his mask when doing interviews in the street.
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That seems awful big to fit in the narrow seams of a paper mask and would definitely be a noticeable bump in the seam.
ma'am that's called a capacitor they're used in cameras and stuff
Why in the hell would the government even care to know where we are and what we do every damn minute? Mandated monitoring? Psshh
Gee, that looks way too big to fit through the vaccination needle. How can they put it in the vaccine, then, & still leave room for those self-aware tentacled creatures in there, too?
It's either a button, a tiny "beep" speaker or a tiny microphone, likely from headphone buds. No tracking with that bad boy. WHere would the battery be?
That mask had been lying somewhere before, if it had an expensive chip in tgere it was likely to never work, as not all masks end uo being used
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
And then he cited Marx and refuted his argument with Hegel's counterargument!
Ye Right And Cats All Clapped
Highly Doubt It
Out of all the things so far this one seems slightly plausible just due to sense of humor
That Totally Happened
She Also Happens To Be A Wannabe Travel/Wellness Influencer
Because it wouldn’t be weird for a stranger to take pictures of you alone in a bikini without you being aware….not at all.
Sorry, What The Hell Did I Just Read?
Cos A Dentist Has Enough Time To Watch An Entire Film Instead Of Working
I wish this one was true. I'd love a lunch break where you just sit and watch full-length movies in your waiting room.
I’m Sure They Jumped Another $15 An Hour For No Reason
Became A Bird Person
Another Clueless Nitwit Who Thinks They're Smarter Than The Teacher
Le Epic Protest
Of Course They Said That
“Lone Wolf” Beats Up 6 People
Stunning And Brave
Hear Me Roar
Even Some Of The Commenters Are Feeling Sus
A Bunch Of People On The Comments Said That They Had Done Something Similar. Is This A Common Thing?
Woman Convinces Everyone At CVS To Take Off Their Masks - No Really This Happened I Was The One Clapping
No One Liked That
Why would they ask about salt? Raw means uncooked, not unseasoned.
I Don’t Think So
Very Likely Story
Must Be Pretty Rich Huh?
Mlm Huns Need To Come Up With Better Lies
The Professor Is 16?
The Waiter Literally Cried
Anonymous people posting their bribery attempts on the internet. Sure.
Did The Whole Cafeteria Clap As Well?
Real Gamer Girl
Maybe Believe If He Wasn't Complete Vermin
I’m Literally Non-Binary And Have Never Felt Like I Was Misgendering A Fckn Chess Piece
In a game of chess there are an estimated 1,327 named openings and variants. If each of those opening gambits created an alternate timeline, in precisely none of them would this story be true.
And Then People Around The Neighborhood Clapped
Of Course It Did Deer
She's like "OHHH I'm so happy to be grabbing my phone that's in the bathroom for some reason that is also oh-so conveniently propped up against something with the camera app on!! Wait, whoa, hold on, did it just take this really well-lit picture of me while I was reaching in to grab it??? :0"
Kids Think He’s Walt Disney And He Can’t Bear To Tell Them Otherwise
I'm pretty sure these children don't even know Walt Disney was a real person
"Accidentally Gave Myself The Vaccine" Via Twitter! Riiiiight
Sure Thing Bruh Bruh
I could see this happening. I'd certainly be tempted to do that as an employee. (Though I also don't put up with nonsense and send line jumpers to the back.)
Yes I’m Sure That’s Why You Uploaded It
A Kindergartner Can Definitely Say That
"How do countries come to go to war?" the little boy inquired, looking up from his book. "For various reasons," explained the father. "Now, there was Germany and Russia. They went to war because the Russians mobilized." "Not at all, my dear," the wife interrupted. "It was because the Austrians—" "Tut, tut, my love!" the husband remonstrated. "Don't you suppose I know?" "Certainly not—you are all wrong. It was because—" "Mrs. Perkins, I tell you it was because—" "Benjamin, you ought to know better, you have boggled—" "Your opinion, madam, has not been requested in this matter." "Shut up! I won't have my child mistaught by an ignoramus." "Don't you dare, you impudent—" "And don't you dare bristle at me, or I'll—" "Oh, never mind!" the little boy intervened. "I think I know now how wars begin."
I'm Sure Ya Did Buddy
Found This On Some Investment Entrepreneur Instagram Account
Docs Know You Are Educated
Youtube Comments Are A Goldmine
Woah Great Job, Kid
Gay Shakespeare
There's gay fiction. When I was a teen, I had literally read ALL LGBTQ fiction in my local library. Times have changed. There are now more options out there than any one person could possibly read. Ask your local librarian or a google a reading list for suggestions. (Or, legit, ask me here. Be as specific as you want. I've probably read one I can recommend for your interest.)
Posted By A “Influencer” Do People Honestly Believe This S**t?
No Such Thing As Conflict Of Interest!
And Everyoone Started Cheering
S**t Break Snacks In Fantasyland
Wise Worlds From A Wise 7 Year Old
Freestyle Rapping During An Interview... Hmm!
Target Will Miss Them
This doesn't happen. What actually happens is antimaskers throwing themselves onto the floor in a fit like a toddler.
You Can't Take Crack Orally And It Doesn't Prevent You From Blinking
Teacher Quits Because Of Camo Jokes
It's True Guys, I Was The Sign!
A Mom Walking Up To A Stranger Toddler At A Playground To Call The Toddler Out As A Poser About Their Favorite Band
Yeaaa Okay. I’m Not Too Sure About This
Because That's Totally Something They Can Do
Yeah, that's not a thing. Some of us white people just want to be oppressed so badly. *facepalm*
“Accidentally” Accessed The Dark Web
Yes, and you tell them "Please take me away, because I'm too stupid to be walking around free". It's not possible to access the dark web "on accident (sic)"
Man Ran Because Of A Belt
Is this really how conservatives think the Black Lives Matter movement works?
We Divorced Because My Kid Lied
Then The Whole House Clapped
Does This Belong Here?
I Believe You
If there was any way at all that this was true, it would be fkn hilarious!! 🤣
Proud Mama Bird
My son would say something like that. The part I don’t believe is the nurse kissing the kid.
I Vibe With Wanting Live Childfree But This Is Just Sad
Trust bp to post an article about childless people and this in the same day lol
Found This On Instagram Today And Thought Of You Guys
This is not far fetched. There are kids like that and I'm lucky when I get to teach them.
A Girl Posted In My Pe Class That Her Mile Run Was 4 Minutes And 39 Seconds... What?
Give Me A Break
A teacher trying to be encouraging, I could see that happening. I could also see an egocentric teenager taking it like this.
And She Was Never Bullied Again
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!
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!"
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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
