In an age of photo manipulation, misinformation, AI and blatant bull, it's not unusual to think, "Yeah right!" at least a couple of times a week. Some people love to tell tall tales just for clout. They fib with their chests out, and lie unprovoked.
It's becoming more and more difficult to separate fact from fiction. But sometimes, the strangest tales actually do turn out to be true. Someone asked, "What is something that happened to you that is 100% real, but nobody believes you when you tell the story?" and you could be forgiven for thinking that we're living through the revenge of Pinocchio.
There's the nurse who swears a man came back to life, the person who claims to have been hit by the same drunk driver twice (two years apart), and others who have been called liars for telling what they know to be the truth. Bored Panda has put together a list of some of the most unbelievable encounters. And while we don't have receipts, we've decided to give these netizens the benefit of the doubt. Upvote the ones you think are true.
#21

I was only 19 and already married. We went to my in-laws house for dinner, met their friend Eric. After we hung out, and played pool with him in their rec room. In the mid 90s I had no idea who Eric Clapton was. He was really nice too.
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19points
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"Instead of asking them if they did something, ask them why they did it. The subject will probably reveal some kind of contradiction. Also, you can surprise them with unexpected or irrelevant questions. This disrupts a rehearsed story and makes it difficult to maintain a lie."
#22

My uncle was babysiting me one day and he put a movie on and told me to sit and watch it and said he was going to the toilet five minutes went by he didn't come back so I went to look for him to find him in my mum's room wearing her high heels and dress with lipstick on. Told my mum when she got back from work but she didn't believe me even now when I tell her she still thinks I'm joking. That was 15 years ago.
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19points
#23

While I was on vacation I stopped to get groceries for our rental house - a woman was asking for food for her 4 kids in a grocery store parking lot I didn’t have any cash but told her I would pay for groceries she shopped and her total was $164 dollars (kind of a lot) but it was my good deed. Later that evening we went to the casino and I don’t gamble but I put 20 bucks in a slot machine and won $164 dollars exactly on the first spin.
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16points
#24

I found the same photo of a random Guy, 3 years apart and in différents places.
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15points
#26

I was approached by Israel Keyes at a gas pump at night right before he arrested. My 3 little dogs popped out and started going [crazy] and he backtracked to his car.
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13points
#27
I was in a horrible car accident in the pouring rain at 1am. A cab driver pulled up and got in the car with me through the passenger door. He was so calm and comforting he handed me my phone for me to call 911 that had gone flying. He stayed and held my hand till he said “I see lights coming to help, I better go, you are safe now.” When the police and EMS arrived they couldn’t open any doors and had to use a machine to cut the doors open. The same door the cab driver had easily just opened and closed when he got in. I told them a cab driver had just left when they pulled up and they said no cars were parked by my and no one had just left as the road was wide open and not a car in sight. I think he was an angel and he saved me.
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13points
#28

When my dad was 70 he passed from a major heart attack. They brought him back to life but said he would be a mental vegetable for the rest of his life because he was gone for too long. He had to be restrained to the hospital bed because he kept trying to leave because he was mentally gone. He woke up two weeks later totally mentally back to normal and went back to work that same year. He lived another fifteen years and passed in 2024 at 85.
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13points
#29
When I was 38 weeks pregnant I told my obgyn that I had a bad feeling the umbilical cord was wrapped around my unborn babies neck. My OB did an ultrasound and said everything looked normal. 3 weeks later I went into labor…36 hours of labor and nothing he ever dropped and the nurse said let’s go another round I said no this baby isn’t coming out that way. I DEMANDED for a c-section and my baby had the cord wrapped around his neck 3 times. He would have been gone if I didn’t have a c-section. That baby is now a handsome, thriving 26 year old man.
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13points
#30
My mom had my sister too early and she passed away an hour after birth. I never got to see her. I was 6. She weighed 2lbs. When I was older, I had a very clear dream of her. Even though I never saw her. She was sitting on a log in the woods. She had a crayon in her hand. it was orange. She was coloring a green leaf orange. I asked her why and she said " Ask mom" I asked my mom and she burst into tears. My mom went in to labor painting green walls... orange. I never knew that. It was walls at her job she had painted.
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12points
#31

Nurse here! I watched a man on a motorcycle get hit 55mph by an Altima on a rural road. I saw him fly 20 feet in the air and land on the highway head first. Held his hand while he was passing away and I was on the phone with 911. Tons of “people” ran up surrounding us as I was assessing his vitals for dispatch. They began praying, some speaking in tongues. Heard the siren of the first emergency vehicle approaching. Looked up (still on the phone) and all the “people” were gone. His color started returning and his almost nonexistent heart rate began climbing. He ended up Vitalinked out by helicopter to a hospital an hour away. Followed up with his best friend I met on scene during the chaos. He made a full recovery. No head, neck or spinal injury…nothing but a broken femur. Physically impossible. I know those were angels that surrounded us praying.
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11points
#32

I got taken by a rip current when I was 10 years old and a voice told me that if I listened to it then I would survive. It told me to relax my body and to go with the water. I did and the water gently took me back to the shore.
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11points
#33

I’m a hospice nurse. I declared a patient, sat there with his family for over 30mins afterwards. My man popped back up and said God told him it wasn’t time. He lived another 8 months. I started believing in God after that.
11points
#34
it was 1996, I was waiting for the bus. A bus pulls up that said it was an express going right to the location I needed to go to.
The bus drive said I would get there 30 mins fastest. I got on the bus sat in the front talked with the bus driver the whole time. I was 7 months pregnant he was really nice. I was the only passenger on the bus.
I arrived to my stop and my beeper is going crazy. I called my mom. she asked me if I was okay. apparently the regular bus i took got into a horrible accident and a few people were seriously injured and some passed.
I told my mom and my friends I took an express. apparently via never had an express bus. I called and they said the never had an express bus to that route. I road a bus that never existed and avoided being involved in a crash.
The bus drive said I would get there 30 mins fastest. I got on the bus sat in the front talked with the bus driver the whole time. I was 7 months pregnant he was really nice. I was the only passenger on the bus.
I arrived to my stop and my beeper is going crazy. I called my mom. she asked me if I was okay. apparently the regular bus i took got into a horrible accident and a few people were seriously injured and some passed.
I told my mom and my friends I took an express. apparently via never had an express bus. I called and they said the never had an express bus to that route. I road a bus that never existed and avoided being involved in a crash.
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10points
#35

My husband was wearing hearing aides in both ears. One day on a work trip he returned to the hotel, went to remove the hearing aides and they were on the dresser. He hasn’t worn them in 23 years.
10points
#36

I went to a nightclub with a Russian billionaire when I was about 18. When I went to the toilet his two massive security guards came with me, cleared the floor where I was walking and both stood behind me with backs turned. They checked every single bottle the Russian drank making sure the seals hadn’t been broken. The looks people gave me as they walked me to the toilet… I felt like a god.
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10points
#37
A cabinet fell on my child and his head was sliced open to the point that his skull was exposed.. the hospital had to airlift him to the nearest PICU and we were told he probably wasn't going to make it, and if he did, he would probably have severe internal damage... He walked out of that hospital the next afternoon, with a scar and a concussion.
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9points
#38
I can calm ANY type of pain in my body by siting, closing my eyes, and order my brain and cells to [stop] the pain. It takes me 10 min. Pain goes. But yes, nobody believes me and it’s ok.
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8points
#39
Thought my boyfriend was cheating. Prayed in the car and asked for a sign… within 30 seconds… saw a big billboard in red with white lettering that said “this could be your sign” and then my bf and his ex drove in the opposite lane of traffic beside me… WITHIN 30-45 SECONDS AFTER I PRAYED.
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7points
#40

Before my son was born I had a dream about him, every single facial feature in the dream my son has. I literally saw his face before he was born.
7points


