Dealing with pathological liars is a nightmare! You probably know at least one person in your life who lies way more than any decent person should. Maybe they make up tall tales about how amazing they are. Or, they might try to avoid taking any responsibility for their actions. Or, they try to manipulate you and the folks around them, whether for gain, fun, or out of habit.
However, not all liars are equally skilled. Inspired by user u/Difficult-Mix-2337, the AskReddit community spilled the tea about the very best and worst pathological liars they’ve ever had the (dis)pleasure of meeting. Scroll down to check out the most jaw-droppingly bonkers, outrageous lies they’ve tried to get away with.
#41
He told a lot of doozies, but this one takes the cake: As a kid, he won tickets from a grocery store to take a cruise that followed the path of the Titanic, and when they reached the spot it sank, they were raising it from the ocean floor for everyone to see.....*for the second time.*
He remembered his own birth.
He was deaf until the age of 13 so he has no regional dialect.
Him and his ex didn't work out because in the 1700's they had a falling out in a shipyard in Ireland and he left on a boat.
His b******t was so extensive that he had a song written about him called "Drivel Driver".
He remembered his own birth.
He was deaf until the age of 13 so he has no regional dialect.
Him and his ex didn't work out because in the 1700's they had a falling out in a shipyard in Ireland and he left on a boat.
His b******t was so extensive that he had a song written about him called "Drivel Driver".
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19points
#42
Knew a guy that insisted he was rapping on some song he played. Just wouldn’t admit he lied. Kept on over and over and over - “Nah, man, that’s me!” Completely serious.
It was a wu-tang song and the voice he said was his was Method Man.
Like… dude. It’s not even believable. MM is IN the f*****g group.
It was a wu-tang song and the voice he said was his was Method Man.
Like… dude. It’s not even believable. MM is IN the f*****g group.
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19points
#43
I was in a band that had just formed. We had like three songs and hadn't played a show. This guy in the band claimed he got us a gig opening for Train and a $100,000,000 record deal. He said a lot of things.
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19points
#44
A girl I used to work with told us she was a student at the law school part of our university. She was a year younger than she should have been for law school, but I didn’t give it much thought. She told me one day that school had been cancelled because someone had committed s*****e on campus. It was the olden days, and I was about to go to class, so I called the university to check. They didn’t know what I was talking about.
She told me she lived with her uncle who was looking for a research assistant in my program. She offered to give him my resume. Then she said he wanted to interview me. She gave me his number. I called him, and a very confused woman answered the phone - somehow she turned things around with what limited info I gave her and asked “Are you looking for K**** (my friend’s name)?” I still don’t know if her uncle existed, but he certainly never called me.
She told me she had cancer but was in remission. She told me that the summer before she had lost all her hair and four teeth. She had pretty short hair so I didn’t question it.
She told us that she was interning at a law office downtown that summer. Some of my friends were going to meet her for lunch. Turns out, that office didn’t exist.
I should have caught on sooner, but I was pretty gullible and tend to believe the best about people.
She told me she lived with her uncle who was looking for a research assistant in my program. She offered to give him my resume. Then she said he wanted to interview me. She gave me his number. I called him, and a very confused woman answered the phone - somehow she turned things around with what limited info I gave her and asked “Are you looking for K**** (my friend’s name)?” I still don’t know if her uncle existed, but he certainly never called me.
She told me she had cancer but was in remission. She told me that the summer before she had lost all her hair and four teeth. She had pretty short hair so I didn’t question it.
She told us that she was interning at a law office downtown that summer. Some of my friends were going to meet her for lunch. Turns out, that office didn’t exist.
I should have caught on sooner, but I was pretty gullible and tend to believe the best about people.
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18points
#45
I'm involved in a legal matter with a wackadoo wannabe celebrity guy who:
Was born in one city, moved to another city, then moved to our city as a teenager, but tells everyone in the news he was born and raised here, as part of his local brand "for the city".
He runs a business that opened in 2017 but tells everyone on the news that it's been open since 2012 - when he was 16 years old. He tells people he opened it AFTER running a coffee shop on his own for three years before that.
He's done interviews where he claims to be older than he is, and he thinks college is a waste of time and money which is why he became an entrepreneur at age 14. Then in another breath, he tells his audience that he went to a large university after high school and majored in business/marketing. In one news article, he claims to have earned his MBA before the age of 20.
Public records show investigations into him and his business and a fake charity scam he ran in 2020-2021, resulting in permanent cease and desist orders for his businesses and sales tax liens of over $30,000 but he tells journalists it never happened. He tells everyone (including the court) our team photoshopped the public records.
Public records obtained by a major newspaper in 2021 show he was implicated in funneling over $10,000 away from our city's municipal animal shelter with his business partner, who got fired for his role in it. He tells people this never happened, the city donated that money to him.
He opened a "nonprofit animal shelter" inside his tshirt store in a fancy shopping complex, which was shut down within weeks by authorities due to lack of registration and lack of zoning, and lack of any valid 501c3. He went on a press tour to advertise it, which is how he got busted, and he told a judge in 2021 that he never opened an animal shelter, never intended to, did not possess its website, did not advertise for one, and any news appearances wherein his tshirt store was misrepresented, and any newsprint calling it a "shelter" were typos that the news refused to correct. He also told the judge he never appeared in the news.
He claims he runs a marketing firm that doesn't exist anywhere on paper, and claims to have worked with international brands, the state's lottery, luxury designer brands as their marketing directors - and none of it exists.
He's claimed to own and open several restaurants in town, but he doesnt actually own or work for or at any of them. He gets hired as an influencer to appear at the grand openings and post to social media about them, but on his resume and website tells his audience that (insert business, gym, restaurant, electric scooter, rideshare) hired him to consult on their business plans and blueprints and design/build-outs.
At one point he claimed to be part of a well known gang and that rappers Mozzy and E-40 were his marketing "clients".
There's more but this is long enough.
Was born in one city, moved to another city, then moved to our city as a teenager, but tells everyone in the news he was born and raised here, as part of his local brand "for the city".
He runs a business that opened in 2017 but tells everyone on the news that it's been open since 2012 - when he was 16 years old. He tells people he opened it AFTER running a coffee shop on his own for three years before that.
He's done interviews where he claims to be older than he is, and he thinks college is a waste of time and money which is why he became an entrepreneur at age 14. Then in another breath, he tells his audience that he went to a large university after high school and majored in business/marketing. In one news article, he claims to have earned his MBA before the age of 20.
Public records show investigations into him and his business and a fake charity scam he ran in 2020-2021, resulting in permanent cease and desist orders for his businesses and sales tax liens of over $30,000 but he tells journalists it never happened. He tells everyone (including the court) our team photoshopped the public records.
Public records obtained by a major newspaper in 2021 show he was implicated in funneling over $10,000 away from our city's municipal animal shelter with his business partner, who got fired for his role in it. He tells people this never happened, the city donated that money to him.
He opened a "nonprofit animal shelter" inside his tshirt store in a fancy shopping complex, which was shut down within weeks by authorities due to lack of registration and lack of zoning, and lack of any valid 501c3. He went on a press tour to advertise it, which is how he got busted, and he told a judge in 2021 that he never opened an animal shelter, never intended to, did not possess its website, did not advertise for one, and any news appearances wherein his tshirt store was misrepresented, and any newsprint calling it a "shelter" were typos that the news refused to correct. He also told the judge he never appeared in the news.
He claims he runs a marketing firm that doesn't exist anywhere on paper, and claims to have worked with international brands, the state's lottery, luxury designer brands as their marketing directors - and none of it exists.
He's claimed to own and open several restaurants in town, but he doesnt actually own or work for or at any of them. He gets hired as an influencer to appear at the grand openings and post to social media about them, but on his resume and website tells his audience that (insert business, gym, restaurant, electric scooter, rideshare) hired him to consult on their business plans and blueprints and design/build-outs.
At one point he claimed to be part of a well known gang and that rappers Mozzy and E-40 were his marketing "clients".
There's more but this is long enough.
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#46
My SIL lies about everything. Including her own “marriage” and “divorce”. They were never legally married lol. She ditched her kid too, for a “career opportunity”. She has lied about almost every single thing in the last 9years I’ve known her. We went no contact after she pulled some weird s**t a few years back. Life has been drama free since.
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16points
#47
I had a friend like this in Middle School. Among his lies:
His grandmother promised to buy him a box of yugioh cards for every duel he lost against me (this was like $100 back then).
One of my best cards went missing, and mysteriously one showed up in his deck the next day (Black Luster Soldier Envoy of the Beginning for anyone curious).
That 9-1-1 allowed him to call any time he wanted just to chat, which he then proceded to attempt to demonstrate but hung up, resulting in police showing up.
That at the same time I was awarded student of the month in our grade for volunteering to tutor the special ed class, he claimed to have also been awarded student of the year.
His grandmother promised to buy him a box of yugioh cards for every duel he lost against me (this was like $100 back then).
One of my best cards went missing, and mysteriously one showed up in his deck the next day (Black Luster Soldier Envoy of the Beginning for anyone curious).
That 9-1-1 allowed him to call any time he wanted just to chat, which he then proceded to attempt to demonstrate but hung up, resulting in police showing up.
That at the same time I was awarded student of the month in our grade for volunteering to tutor the special ed class, he claimed to have also been awarded student of the year.
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16points
#48
A guy I dated tried to say he’d had testicular cancer, twice. He had no scars, no surgery, no chemo or radiotherapy, etc, and two testicles! I spoke with his previous gf after we split, and she told me she’d drop him off for ‘treatment’, but never went into a hospital or Drs surgery with him, and he’d had no surgery, letters, or any other treatment. I obviously believed him at the time, but after we split I actually got cancer, and realised there’s no way he’d had it. It was one of many lies I caught him out in. He also had a vasectomy without telling his ex (who wanted kids), and boasted about her not knowing. He did it for the attention/sympathy I think. If I ever asked about it, he’d just say he didn’t want to talk about it, and I obviously understood that, but I could never understand how it had just … gone away!
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15points
#49
I worked at a Radio Station where one of the ad sales people told me she was going to sing backup on the new Eagles album, or maybe it was Chicago. They were going to record it somewhere in Connecticut but she was not allowed to say where.
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14points
#50
That she fell asleep on the sidewalk during a snowstorm to explain why she didn't call me after school. How the guitarist of our favorite band flirted with her at McDonald's (they were in our town that day and we were 13 at the time). How she was "best friends" with my crush and was passing along my messages to him (she wasnt, she was reading them herself and laughing about it). How she went to camp with him that summer and that she saw he had gotten a gf and had lost his virginity that summer AND she broke her leg at camp (he didn't do any of it and her leg wouldn't have healed fast enough to be truthful). I was really close with two of his best guy friends, I had told them what she said about "summer camp" and they told him. He came to ask me about it in person in front of her as a way to confrontate and she stopped being friends with me after realizing the jig was up and neither of us wanted her mediating anymore. She was a really fun friend and had a new bff every year after that, every time they would return from summer simmering about her being a liar and no longer wanting to stay friends 🙄.
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14points