People Discuss The Dumbest Lies They've Ever Heard

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
May 19, 2023 6:00 PM EDT

Who among us hasn't gone through a bit of a lying phase? I was never a pathological liar, but in my youth, I tended to stretch the truth a bit to make my life seem more interesting. I would tell my mom stories that never happened, like claiming I had a wacky substitute teacher that day when in reality, I had a completely normal substitute teacher. I would also lie about my dreams, making up wild scenarios about what happened in the realm of sleep. The best part about dream lies was that they didn't hurt anybody (except maybe God).

A level of skill goes into being a good liar, and some people don't have it. Whether you're a 3rd grader or a 75-year-old man, you've probably heard some obviously fake stories in your days. Redditors recently shared some of the dumbest lies they've ever heard, and they've got to be seen not to be believed. 

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    Font - ? r/AskReddit u/yapper5013. 1d 18 NSFW what's the dumbest lie you ever heard?
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    Font - BW_Bird Dude showed off his bad anime girl drawings to me when we were in high school. 20h ● I told him they looked OK (I was being polite) but he took offense and told me that they actually won him an emmy. ... Reply 9.6k
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    Rectangle - Skiddds 13h Kid in 6th grade told me his parents died on the titanic ... Reply 2.2k 2.2k
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    Font - tatorface • 21h My daughter spray painted my son's name on the side of my house. When asked about it, she claimed he did it himself, even though his name was horribly misspelled. Little shit lol. Reply 8.2k
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    Font - mogulina 18h Over the weekend my friend told my own story to me as if it was his and I just didn't know what to do but pretend to laugh. Reply 4.9k
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    Font - flapjaxrfun. 17h Me and my cousin were born on the same room on the same day. My mom and his mom are sisters. He lied to me about his age when we were both 24. Reply 42k 2k
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    Font - Hello_I_Am_Me_Again. 19h Kid in my sophomore (10th grade) class spread a rumor one afternoon that there were three bombs at our (rural) high school. One in the principal's office, one in the library (middle of the school), and one out in the area where the buses were located. The bombs were supposed to go off around 1pm. Not sure if he was ever investigated (or how far the rumor spread), but aside from freaking some of us out, nothing actually happened. This was pre-Columbine, which is pr
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    Font - PenaltySquare2414 • 19h Many many years ago I worked as a Nightclub bouncer. I carded a young looking guy, and he handed me my driver's license that I had lost 3 months earlier. Reply 3.9k
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    Font - A-D-H-D-AF • 20h There was this one dude on reddit that pretended he didn't know what a potato was and royally fucked up his relationship with his gf's parents. Reply 6.1k
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    Font - paper-machevelian • 1d ● When my sister was very little (like, 3 or 4) she used to idolise my mum. One of the things she would do is wet a paper-towel and wipe surfaces, to mimic my mum. Unfortunately, this method of cleaning would leave streaks of water and little bits of paper everywhere, which my mum had to then clean on top of already cleaning the surfaces. So one day she sat my sister down and explained that she shouldn't do this, as it's counterproductive. My sister said she underst
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    Font - Anyway, one day mum sees my sister quietly going upstairs in the middle of the day. She thinks that's strange so she asks, "where are you going?" My sister replies: "oh, I felt tired so I'm just going to take a nap" My mum says: "oh that's good. Ok, sleep well" My sister takes a few steps, pauses and says: "I'm not going to wet this paper towel and wipe the mirrors" My mum firmly calls her down, to my sister's exclamations of "how did you know?!?" Reply 3.8k
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    Font - Comfortable_Pen_7635 21h My coworker kept calling out for her grandmother's funeral. She did it six times, to six different supervisors. She tried a seventh time but Grandma had been shopping that morning and was already seen by my supervisor. I was like girl that is bad karma don't do that! Reply 1.8k
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    Rectangle - wenzdaynighter. 1d We can't afford to give you a raise. Reply 2.9k
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    Font - WrathsEntropy • 19h My son at 4yrs old. Cake on his face Son "I didn't do it." Me:"Son, you have cake on your face..." Son :"Some bad man came in by the vent and made me eat it. I didn't want too cuz it was nasty and I didn't wanna eat it!" Me :"..."
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    Font - Son "It was a turtle too!" Me:"A man or a turtle?" Son :"Yes. It was a... I DONT HAVE CAKE ON MY FACE!" (He proceeds to try to run, trips, then...) Son "Oh no there was cake on the floor and it got on my face." Had to give him props for creativity and thinking on his feet/face but not out loud. ... Reply 3.7k
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    Font - NOTO00 20h dude claimed he had 16 mill in bank and it gave him $20,000 bucks a day in interest Reply 555
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    Plant - GayNon-Binary Leo • 22h "My dad had his arm bitten of by a shark but luckely it grew back" Reply 1.2k
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    Font - StarlightStars 19h When I was in elementary school I had this friend who really liked to make up stories. Well after Halloween, she was telling me the "story" of how her mom made her give all her candy to her brother. Then she said- Her: And I was only allowed to eat one- *pause* What's the smallest candy? Me: A single nerd Her: Yeah, I was only allowed to eat one single nerd ... Reply 484
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    Font - AFuckinAtodasso • 22h 1 Award "I have a Lamborghini but it's at my grandma's house and no you can't see it." - Timmy in grade 3. Why the fuck did you have a car at 10 Timmy?! Reply 1.7k
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    Font - Henrywenn 22h ● "There's a new rule now that says that you're allowed to block the goal with your hand" -An old classmate of mine when we were playing air hockey ... Reply 427
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    Font - Jenny-24 1d ● The dumbest lie I ever heard was when someone claimed they were a professional ninja trained in the ancient art of invisible warfare. They insisted that they could turn invisible on command but conveniently couldn't demonstrate it because they were wearing their 'visibility cloak' that day. Needless to say, they disappeared from my life pretty quickly after that! ... Reply 1k
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