We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the wildest lie they've ever heard someone tell. There were some reaaaal doozies. Here's what people shared:
1. "A friend of mine was seeing a correctional sergeant, and he told her a story about his dog dying of parvovirus. He said that he was training the dog, and one day, the dog was just gone. We found out through some friends that the real story was that he was going through the investigative services K-9 training, and the dog was passed on to someone else. Essentially, he failed the course, but the dog didn't. For some reason, he decided to turn it into a sob story about how 'his dog' died. We still cringe about how he decided to kill off a dog in a story when the reality was that he couldn't cut it in the K-9 academy."
2. "A friend of mine, who was a wonderful guy but a bit prone to tall tales, once told me that he had been in a 15-year postal and email pen pal relationship with Pope John Paul. We're just a couple middle-aged guys in the middle of Appalachia (there isn't even a Catholic Church in town), but he claimed that one day he wrote the Pope to commiserate about the state of the world, and he actually got a lengthy, handwritten response. Thus, their pen pal communications grew from there. I love the guy, but of course, I didn't buy it."
"Here's the plot twist: My friend did send regular messages to the Pope over that 15-year period, but was absolutely not receiving any regular replies from him. But, shortly before my friend died, I asked him to finally 'fess up. 'Come on, man! We're friends. You don't need to impress me. Just admit you made the whole thing up.' He sighs and walked over to his desk, pulled out a lockbox, and handed me a faded letter postmarked from the Vatican, handwritten and signed by who else? The Pope. Turns out it was the one and only response to his original letter. He was so amazed he got a response that he grew to believe that they were besties. When I asked, 'Well, did the fact that you never got any further replies not tell you something?' He shrugged and said, 'Well, he was a pretty busy guy.'"
—Anonymous
3. “'Britney Spears signed my cast!' said a girl referencing a poorly written 'Britney' on her arm cast, which she obviously wrote herself. She had the cast on her dominate arm, hence the poor and shaky handwriting. It was middle school in the 2000s, so I’m not even surprised. We all did something like that."
—Anonymous
4. "When a random woman found me on Facebook to tell me she had been talking to my boyfriend on Tinder (she looked him up and saw our relationship plastered all over his page and decided to reach out), my now-ex said that clearly he was being framed because he was definitely not on Tinder. He tried to convince me that someone was catfishing using his pictures, either as some sort of revenge ploy or as a wild coincidence. I was very young and had never used Tinder and had no idea how it even worked. I asked the woman if they'd talked off the app, and if so, what number was she texting. She said they had been snapchatting (of course, she was able to tell me his username), and he was obviously the guy in the photos from the Tinder account. He sobbed and told me he was being set up. Yeah, sure. Gotta love when the trash takes itself out."
—Anonymous