I’m fine. What are you talking about, you do not look fat in those jeans. I’ll give you a call.

We lie all the time. And we get away with it quite often, too. But some folks push their made-up narrative so far, it’s hard to imagine anyone actually believing them.

So they end up on the subreddit r/thatHappened. Its members share evidence of “people telling outrageous tall tales that would make Walter Mitty proud” and they have compiled quite the archive since the creation of this online community in 2012.

Here are some of its best gems.

#1 Jesus Christ. What An Idiot

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#2 From Cursed Comments

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#3 Imagine Getting Called Out Like That, By Harry Styles Himself

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#4 Not Really Sure What Is There To Brag About Anyways

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#5 How Does She Expect Anyone To Believe Her? My Mother Sent Me This From Our Neighborhood Facebook Group

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#6 Running A 5k In 10 Minutes

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#7 Oh Yeah. For Sure

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#8 This Has To Be A Joke, Right?

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#9 The Entire Sub Is Like This

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#10 Everyone’s Worst Nightmare

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#11 Lady Who Lives In Massive Fantasy Land Goes To Disneyland

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#12 And All Vampires Clapped

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#13 And Then The Coronavirus Clapped

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#14 Woman Finds Microchip In Her Son’s Mask!?

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#15 Mhmm, Yeah Sure It Was

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#16 This 2-Year-Old Must Have A Degree Already

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#17 Brags To All Their Friends For Saving Their Life With Essential Oils

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#18 And Then Ben Franklin’s Image Clapped

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#19 While These Children Weren’t Oxygen Starved, The Poster Was At Birth

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#20 Sure He Did Aubrey

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#21 Hate When People Underestimate The Condoms I Use In A Night Smh

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#22 Of Course They Said That

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#23 Discord Users Are A Different Breed

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#24 Then The Toys Clapped

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#25 Found This On A “People Who Think Liking Harry Potter Is A Personality Trait” Fb Page

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#26 Of All The Things That Didn’t Happen, This Didn’t Happen The Most

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#27 That Totally Happened

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#28 Anti Vaxxers Are A Gold Mine

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#29 Her Jaw Dropped

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#30 “Lone Wolf” Beats Up 6 People

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#31 I’m Sure They Jumped Another $15 An Hour For No Reason

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#32 Ye Right And Cats All Clapped

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#33 I Won’t Remember Posting This

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#34 The Professor Is 16?

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#35 Sorry, What The Hell Did I Just Read?

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#36 The Waiter Literally Cried

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#37 Kids Think He’s Walt Disney And He Can’t Bear To Tell Them Otherwise

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#38 Cos A Dentist Has Enough Time To Watch An Entire Film Instead Of Working

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#39 Became A Bird Person

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#40 Well, That Saved Me A Goog!

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#41 Hear Me Roar

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#42 Antivax Jesus Made Me Want To Die

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#43 Highly Doubt It

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#44 Real Gamer Girl

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#45 Did The Whole Cafeteria Clap As Well?

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#46 She Also Happens To Be A Wannabe Travel/Wellness Influencer

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#47 “Accidentally Gave Myself The Vaccine” Via Twitter! Riiiiight

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#48 No One Liked That

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#49 Must Be Pretty Rich Huh?

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#50 Le Epic Protest

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#51 Of Course It Did Deer

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#52 A Bunch Of People On The Comments Said That They Had Done Something Similar. Is This A Common Thing?

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#53 Mlm Huns Need To Come Up With Better Lies

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#54 Woman Convinces Everyone At CVS To Take Off Their Masks – No Really This Happened I Was The One Clapping

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#55 Another Clueless Nitwit Who Thinks They’re Smarter Than The Teacher

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#56 I’m Literally Non-Binary And Have Never Felt Like I Was Misgendering A Fckn Chess Piece

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#57 Yes I’m Sure That’s Why You Uploaded It

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#58 Maybe Believe If He Wasn’t Complete Vermin

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#59 Sure Thing Bruh Bruh

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#60 And Then People Around The Neighborhood Clapped

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#61 Stunning And Brave

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#62 Woah Great Job, Kid

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#63 Then The Whole House Clapped

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#64 It’s True Guys, I Was The Sign!

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#65 A Kindergartner Can Definitely Say That

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#66 Youtube Comments Are A Goldmine

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#67 Gay Shakespeare

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#68 Even Some Of The Commenters Are Feeling Sus

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#69 Wise Worlds From A Wise 7 Year Old

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#70 Very Likely Story

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#71 I’m Sure Ya Did Buddy

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#72 No Such Thing As Conflict Of Interest!

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#73 Docs Know You Are Educated

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#74 And Everyoone Started Cheering

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#75 A Mom Walking Up To A Stranger Toddler At A Playground To Call The Toddler Out As A Poser About Their Favorite Band

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#76 Found This On Some Investment Entrepreneur Instagram Account

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#77 I Don’t Think So

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#78 Does This Belong Here?

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#79 Posted By A “Influencer” Do People Honestly Believe This S**t?

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#80 A Girl Posted In My Pe Class That Her Mile Run Was 4 Minutes And 39 Seconds… What?

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#81 You Can’t Take Crack Orally And It Doesn’t Prevent You From Blinking

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#82 S**t Break Snacks In Fantasyland

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#83 Teacher Quits Because Of Camo Jokes

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#84 Freestyle Rapping During An Interview… Hmm!

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#85 Target Will Miss Them

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#86 We Divorced Because My Kid Lied

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#87 Give Me A Break

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#88 Man Ran Because Of A Belt

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#89 Found This On Instagram Today And Thought Of You Guys

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#90 I Believe You

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#91 “Accidentally” Accessed The Dark Web

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#92 I Vibe With Wanting Live Childfree But This Is Just Sad

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#93 Proud Mama Bird

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#94 Because That’s Totally Something They Can Do

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#95 Yeaaa Okay. I’m Not Too Sure About This

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#96 And She Was Never Bullied Again

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