When Innocent Fibbing Snowballed into Unbelievable Truths: 35 Kids’ Lies That Took a Wild Turn

I had a friend who was an early teen back in the 60s. She went to summer camp and heard ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’ by the Byrds for the first time, and she taught herself to sing and play it on guitar.

When she returned home she was showing it to her friends (who had not yet heard the song in the radio)…and she claimed that she had written this song.

A few weeks later the song finally hit the radio in her hometown.

“Oh no SethrymirsFriend, they stole your song!”

Obviously they eventually figured it out.

“Nobody ever looked at me the same after that” she said.

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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.

PrinceOfPembroke Report

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 😅.

shrugea Report

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.

cutelyaware Report

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.

iwouldprefernotto344 Report

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.

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