What is the most idiotic lie you have told and that has been believed?

I told this girl that I had surgery done, and they used cheetah blood for a transfusion, and now I could run really fast, and she believed it completely

We were driving by this mill and the smoke stacks had these HUGE plumes of smoke making their way up and I told my sister "that was a cloud factory." I backed that statement up with "otherwise we'd have a drier climate here."

She had this look of amazement. She was 17. Haha!

One time I had a friend leave for Korea to teach english there after graduating from University. She kept in touch with all of us via email. During the next year of studies, her brother ended up at the university and would hang out with us on occasion.

One of my friends ended an email with a 'ps. jim (name changed) is gay', which is kind of funny cause the guy is almost a creep when it comes to picking up girls. He would hit on every one at the bar until it closed. In fact, the other girls living in residence had come up with the nickname 'Creepy Jim' for him.

So I decided to go with it. I emailed her and said "isn't it crazy that Jim is gay? I never would have guessed it! etc etc".

She responded with the expected doubt and references to his womanizing.

We countered with it just being a sham and cover so that no one would ever guess the truth.

Of course since her brother was at school, she tried to use him to get the truth out of us. I had warned our group of friends what was going on and if anyone asked just to say yes, but that they weren't supposed to tell anyone so keep it secret.

So her brother approaches me first and I tell him the story. Yes, he's gay. The womanizing is a sham, but he doesn't want everyone in residence to know cause he's not ready to be out yet.

He didn't believe me, but asked our other friends. They responded just like me. Of course, once the seed of a rumour like that is sown, it kind of took off.

Over the next month or so random people would come up to us and start to ask about Jim and if it was true. We would all relunctantly offer little tidbits of information, usually not much more beyond the "yes, but please PLEASE don't tell anyone."

Much like the friend in Korea, there was a lot of skepticism surrounding the whole thing. Everyone had heard, but no one was really sure if they believed it or not. However, the rumour was so big that it was just about credible.

Then, one night, everyone went out for a beer or two at the on-campus bar. It was a slow night as it was probably a tuesday or wednesday night. However, that night also happened to have a GLASS meeting at the bar. GLASS is the Gay and Lesbian Association of Students and Staff at the university. They were there having some beers together and having a good time.

Jim, however, was drunk.

Jim, completely of his own accord (my friends and I had no part in this), decided to run to their table, steal their flag (the token rainbow flag) and hold it around his neck like a cape and proceeded to run around the bar with it on.

Instant credibility.

Of course, many people say him do this and the word spread like wildfire.

Less than a week later, I was approached by Jim. Apparently, he had been approached by many people telling him congrats and that it was good to see he was so comfortable being out of the closet. He had talked about it with our friends, but no one would own up to it. They just said 'you'd better talk to mendicant about it'.

Naturally, he was a little upset about it. However, like the rest of us, he did see the humour in the fact that I (with the help of some friends) was able to convince the entire population of our residence that he was gay. I think he was most understanding because he realized that his antics of stealing the rainbow flag were the entire reason it was all believed.

I don't think he ever messed with GLASS's flag again.

I told my brother (his name is Brian) that his full name was Brianathony.

I once told a girl I was chatting up that my dad invented broccoli - I said he just crossed the DNA of cabbage and cauliflower. At first I thought she was just humouring my bizarre attempts at being funny, but it became clear later that she really did believe it and I was dumbfounded...

That I had acute hymphonimia.

Yeah, you know what? I don't even know what acute hymphonimia is (probably because I made it up), but it got me out of gym class in middle school for awhile...

The most idiotic lie that I ever told was that 'if you spike me through the middle on a stick, I'd look like a sprinkler system'. (Nice way of saying it comes from both ends.) I told that to my boss in order to lay out of work for a day that I wanted to go fishing. Little did I know his brother-in-law who also knew me, liked that same fishing hole. Well, needless to say I don't lie anymore and being docked a day's pay is no fun.

well, one summer day my bf came to my window and i snuck out to go hang out with him. When i got home, my mom saw me coming in the house and asked where i went. So i told her i jumped out my window for fun and coudent get back in.
She told me that i was crazy, laughed, and went on with what she was doing.

That a scar on my arm was from a knife fight. (I'm a 5'2, 100lbs girl)

The city of New Orleans (where I lived at the time) was collecting women's used panty hose to use in the city's water filtration system.
And that incense was made from dried camel sh*t.

I told a friend that I had breats implants. He believed me for a long time until I finally told him I was lying.

"I'm not a liar."

When I was a little girl I was invited to eat supper at a friends. We were getting ready to sit down and my friend noticed they were having beets, she started to whine. Her Mom asked me if I liked beets and I said I did, and the Mom went on and on about what a good girl I was and gave me a mountain of beets. I had to eat every one.

my woodshop teacher said why did you sand against the grain werent you paying attention? i said no i have ADD. he believed me even tho i was laughing

ok right i was at school and i forgot my homework in my locker so i told my teacher that i felt sick and she said how i told her my finger hurts she told me to go to the office so i went to my locker got my book came back. she said o are you feeling better i said yeah i just ran it under warm water. lol

It's snowing right now (it was a sunny summer day when I said that)

One time, I laid on a hot iron and when the guys saw the bandage on my back in the locker room, I told them I got shot.

kinda 2 things, a girl asked why he blinker wasn't working and why her brakes squeeked, i told her to oil her brakes and get some blinker fluid. She came to school the next day saying she couldn't find blinker fluid. Second was telling a sub-teacher my name was bruce wayne. She was like bruce wilis! go to the office for giving a false name Mr. Wayne.

i can't remember but i'm sure it was stupid but i'm sure i had a really good reason for telling it.

that i could pick locks with my tongue... i showed them by hiding a key in my mouth and open a lock with it.
you should have seen the looks on their faces!

That I was a musician in a band called the B-Sharps and we made an album 25 years ago!

I once told a couple that MN was going to allow blind people to drive because they could judge distances etc. by smell. I really think they believed this. Much more to this of course and I was in prime shape for doing it.

That I saw a UFO that hovered very close to the ground....in the high mountains on a camping trip. I hid and watched. No beings appeared, but a prong reached out from the craft and took some plants and trees up by the root. The thing rose and disappeared in a "flash". I told it with a straight face. (smile) I think those who wanted to believe it did. Oh, I have seen UFO's, but none ever landed or came close to me. What they were, I have no idea.

I jumped off a 4 story building in college
And I was the owner of the pub where I used to work. People are stupid!

Great question! When I was in high school, my friends came over when my Mother was out of town. We proceded to fill up the backyard birdbath with gasoline and burn it into a black smoldering pile of melted plastic into the grass (we wanted to have an olympic torch). To explain this black charred circle in the yard, I told her that lightning had struck the backyard and had turned the dirt into glass! She believed me and I never got in trouble, haha

I told a lady I work with that i used to eat a lot of fish and just swallow the small bones but a lot of them got stuck in my throat. The bones would eventually work their way outside my throat and I ruined my razor trying to shave them off.

My friend and I walked into a frat party in South Carolina, and convinced everyone there that both of us owned a Ferrari 360 Modena, each. Mine was blue, I actually mistakenly told 3 different people the colour of my friend's Ferrari, changing it every time.

They were absolutely convinced that we showed up in my busted up Ford Explorer, because we didn't want to put miles on our Ferrari's. We were taking girls back for a spin our high performance sports cars, when we just ended up going back to a motel......... I love the south.

You guys open this door right next to me, im too lazy(the door waz locked!)

we were just watching a movie(i told it to my parents when they asked why the lights were off in my room when i was with my g/f)

I told my husband that I had breast implants when I was 16...he totally believed me. It was awesome.

theres a ghost fisherman living in my house

theres a ghost fisherman living in my house

Me and one of my friends once told another one of our friend that we seen a story on the news about a guy who had a prosthetic arm implanted to his elbow,...but they put it on the wrong elbow, and he had a prosthetic arm, growing off of his real arm.

He brought it up about for years later, and we just laughed at him and told him we were joking.

I once made everyone believe that an ex-friend of mine was a total klepto and that she was extremely evil and untrustworthy. I wanted her out of my life because she was using me for rides to go out. Unfortunately, everyone believed me and I carry that guilt to this day.

I was only 17, i told a girl i was a helicopter pilot, she believed me and was very impressed.


since then I have aquired a light plane license.

I am Elvis' love child and am currently attempting to get my share of the estate from Priscilla and LisaMarie.

MY BEST FRIEND AND I USED TO TELL EVERY ONE THAT WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER HE GOT BITTEN BY A BEE ON HIS BALLS AND HAD TO UNDERGO SURGERY AND HE HAD HIS BALLS REPLACED WITH GOLD PLATED ONES AND WE USED TO TELL EVERY ONE AND EVERY ONE BELIEVED US AND TILL THIS DAY SOME PEOPLE STILL THINK ITS TRUE
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....SUCKERS!!!

someone once told me they had $50,000 buried in his front yard and we had been broke for months.

That my real name was Ryan, and that I couldn't explain why I went by my real name because I was in the Witness Protection Program of something.

And - I personaly did not tell this, but I went along with it. I have this kid... this, complete idiot in my chours class, I mean complete idiot... he must be doing something... anyway, while on a trip to Disney, we convinced this kid that my friend was over 365-1000-infinte years old, knew George Washington, painted the Mona Lisa, knew the Greek Gods, and was even Godric Griffondor.

Now, I know what you're thinking - no one is that stupid... I would think so too, but dear sweet god... you just have to meet him. There was alot of other things as well, but I can't remeber them all.

well one time i was failing english and i wasnt attending and i told my mom that the teacher hated me.. and she actually believed me.. i just couldnt believe that she fell for that..but that was like 7 years ago when i was in high school.

That I had breast implants. They believed me for a long time.

Officer, I'm speeding because I have to go to the bathroom really bad.

He pointed to Wendies across the street

Then waited for me.

I said my Dad was the voice of Snaggletooth, the Hanna Barbara cartoon character.

My partner saw some boneless chickens in a shop once and I said "oh isn't it terrible how they breed chickens speciialy now that don't have any bones and all they do is lie there on a ventilator being pumped full of steroids until they are big enough to kill", he was shocked and horrified.

that i was from paris and my grandma was the queen :/

i was tardy to class, and i say that i dropped my binder in the hall. when my binder was already in the classroom!!! she believed me!!!

that i am a perfect little angel. wait let me back up. i had a smoke, had a devils sunset, got in a fight, almost got arested, the cops call my dad, dad takes me home, and askes if i had any thing to do with it and i said no b/c im a perfect little angle

when i was 16 i told my parents i wasn't engaged, i married that guy 6 years later, we've been married 12 years .... i think they did believe me and i think they really think i got engaged only a few months before the wedding

Well, I was pulled over for speeding. Problem is, I don't have a license. I'm too young. So the cop said "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I said "It's because I'm black, isn't it?" Now I'm not black. I'm seriously the whitest person you've ever seen. So I don't know if that was a lie or not, but whatever. I sped off and never saw the cop again.

When I was younger I had trouble understanding how to tell time for a while, don't know why but I was still unsteady with it even after my peers were well beyond grasping it.

Well one day after school I'm standing outside with a group of people as one of the last ones waiting for our rides and since I'm the only one with a watch on, my crush (no less) turns to me and asks me for the time. I quickly set the hand dial to an obscenely incorrect time, tap the watch face, and mumble something about my watch being broken. o_O

And yes I know how to tell time now!