35 Kids' Lies That Started Off Silly And Got Way Too Real

Not me but a classmate in like 2nd grade was always bragging about the fact that her mom was Xena Warrior Princess in real life. Constantly telling literally everyone as if she truly believed it herself....and then parents day at school happened and everyone was clamoring to see this girl's mom and uh, yeah she was *not* Xena.

Trying not to laugh. In 4th grade I told a girl new to our school that she had to say the word 💩 or nobody would like her. Oddly enough, we became best friends for years. Lol.

When I was 7, I told my neighbor that my family had a pet monkey. No idea why. Just blurted it out one day like it was totally normal. She got super excited. She wanted to come over and meet it immediately. I panicked and I made excuses. It turned into this whole soap opera of a story. She told her whole class about it. Eventually my mom found out because someone asked her how the monkey was doing. She made me go back and tell the truth. It was so embarrassing and my neighbor looked so betrayed.

My friend (let's call her Eva) lived in Germany for a year and thought wild boar were a myth or extinct. Her sister went to visit and they decided to go for a hike, so Eva started winding her sister up like "Beware of the wild boar, they will get you!" just joking around, until her German housemate told her "Wild boar aren't a joke, they're pretty dangerous and can be quite aggressive." in an almost-chastising tone.

This was a shock to Eva. She can be quite anxious so the idea of having been hiking many times completely unaware of a legitimate reason to be cautious was a bit of a shock to her 😅.

I once told my cousin that eating watermelon seeds would grow a watermelon in her stomach. She didn’t eat watermelon for 4 years.

For the record, I really was a twin.
HOWEVER, I was a fraternal twin. Boy-Girl pair. We had a substitute teacher one day and one of my bullies was picking on me for something or other again. I decided that I had enough and I poured clear glue on her chair. She sat down on it and her skirt got all sticky and stiff. Her tights stuck to the chair, it was a mess. The substitute asked who did it and obviously someone ratted me out. When I was asked about the incident I said "I'm not Phantom, I'm Maria. I'm her twin. We switched places today, I'm supposed to be in the other 4th grade class." The substitute left a note that said "Phantom's twin switched places and glued a girl's skirt, no complaints about Phantom except that she was not in class like she was supposed to be, but another teacher said there was no issue for one day." My teacher was back the next day and she pulled me aside, telling me it wasn't funny to switch places with my twin because there are a lot of safety issues and school rules we are breaking by switching. She went next door to the other 4th grade class and told the other teacher about the glue incident. He got in trouble for it.

My twin was already a troublemaker while I was the nerdy, goody-goody twin. When we got home and argued about me getting him in trouble our mom marched right up and asked us to explain. She, of course, did not believe that a teacher would fall for the twin switching story because we were a fraternal Boy-Girl pair. He got grounded at home too. From that moment on, whenever I did something I wasn't supposed to he would sarcastically say, "Oh, was it MARIA?!" which just ended up backfiring because our classmates ended up thinking I had a twin named Maria and that my twin brother was a really year older but got held back. It wasn't until high school that one of our classmates, who was also part of a Boy-Girl twin pair, was complaining that she never got to pull the twin switch thing and he got snarky and said "Ask Phantom how to do it, I bet she'd looooooove to share." I had to confess because he sounded so upset and he had my back about something earlier that day. ^^;;;.

6 year old nephew.

We had a bonfire in the back yard, he wanted to go play on the edge of the yard, but there's a lake on that side and we didn't want him over there in the dark.

Came up with a monster known as Frog Man (human sized frog) that lived in the lake, and were known to populate other swampy areas.

Now he is terrified of dark swampy water a bullfrog croaking.

Imagine lying about knowing karate as a kid and then getting challenged to a fight on the playground... hypothetically, of course.

When I was 7 I would make my lips look super dry because I just wanted to be allowed to wear my mom’s lipstick. My parents thought the extreme chapped lips were a sign of something and took me to the doctor and that led to me having surgery to get my tonsils out (and something else too, I don’t remember). I didn’t have the heart to tell them I just wanted to wear lipstick.

Not me but my sister. This was around 1991 in Chicago, so we were 7 and 9yrs old respectively. There was this hysteria at the time about “Homie the Clown”, which was a character on TV but supposedly there was a man in the area dressed as him and trying to lure kids with candy into his van. There were “sightings” reported all over the city by children’s, and the cops and local news was all over it. One day during class my sister claimed she saw “Homie” hiding in a bush by the school, so they put the school on lockdown until the police could investigate.

She did not in fact see Homie, or any other clown, lol.

So my dad was super strict about me leaving the house. In high school, my friend and I wanted to go to the nearby 7-11 and get some cards, and I was under strict orders to go straight there, but then and come right back.

We get to the store. Sold out. But another 7-11 is a few blocks away. Just a few extra minutes. We speed walk there, get the cards, come home.

That was too late. My dad yelled at me for being up to something. Now the problem is he asked how I got to the store, and I actually described the wrong street. So it got even messier. But I refused to admit I went anywhere else. Friend was sent home, and I was grounded until I confessed. This is about five minutes beyond his expected travel time.

I was grounded for a month, with him mapping out his theories on where I went. Just absurd ideas. I finally told him. He was clearly humiliated it was so simple, so I got another month of no leaving the house besides school.

In elementary school, I told one of my friends that I had a dog and would hold the phone away from my face and make barking noises in the background to keep the lie up when she’d call. It was awfully awkward the day our teacher asked me about my dog in class.

I was 15 and over the course of a few weeks started stealing some of my parents alcohol and replacing it with water. A few months later my mom mentioned that her and my step dad were seriously worried about my step brother (who was older) and his drinking problem and were having an intervention due to his stealing their alcohol. She said “it’s almost as concerning that he was dumb enough to think we wouldn’t notice all of the alcohol was half water” sorry bro.

I was little and may be misremembering terribly, but I think I pranked my parents by faking passing out like I'd seen in cartoons which may have resulted in my having an unnecessary spinal tap.

So my grandparents used to live one street over from us so we (my brother and I) used to walk to their house every morning to be driven to school by my grandparents, at some point by brother was old enough to ride his bike to school so I was on my own anyways so one morning I was walking and a neighbour (who my family hated and he didnt like us either, nothing major just clashed) pulled up next to me and asked if I need a lift anywhere and I said nah because my grandparents house was just up the road. When I got to my grandparents I told them some guy asked me if I wanted a lift somewhere and they brushed it off and I didnt think about it again until that night my parents found out and took me to the police station and made a report and idk why but I double down and just described some random dude like I made it up as I was talking and yea it became a whole thing about me potentialally being kidnapped and now like 20yrs later my mum still says how I lucky I was to get away etc.