What's the weirdest lie someone has told you?

On this politics discord yesterdsy this gay liberal came in the room and I could tell he was lying about everything. He said he was gay, worked in the government, he has 8 adopted kids (which he said was easy to do in America), and one of his sons wears a dress to school somedays and thats ok, then he said one of his kids is on their death bed. Then we started talking about IQ he said he did an IQ test. Someone asked him his results and he asked them to read off the ratios of IQ (like 90 normal, 110 high, 120 gifted, 140 genius) then at the end he said "yeah yeah I am in the genius catagory"😂

I don’t think lies as kids count because all kids come up with wild stories like when we were about 12 a friend told me that his mother found a dead man in their attic. But when I was in my 20’s a friend told me that he was from Saudi Arabia and was very firm about it so I went to the library and learned some Arabic words and tried them out on him and some he understood and others he didn’t.

I'm gullible. Even when someone's being sarcastic i just swallow their sh*t.
Then when it's been cleared i just act dumb

That's messed up.

There was a kid I rode the bus with in school who was always making up whoppers, and he told a couple of similarly stupid stories, such as:

1. He and his friend were kidnapped and held hostage, and the kidnapper gave him the option of choosing who would be set free and who would be shot, so he chose for himself to be let free and his friend to be shot.

2. The jacket he was wearing was worn by a friend of his who died in a fiery accident, in which he was wearing said jacket. How was it not burned to his skin, let alone burned at all?

I don't get why people make up stories about tragedies happening to loved ones and people they care about like that. I guess to try to be "edgy" or like they've "seen shit"? I have no clue. The kid I mentioned always acted like he really wished he were living on the set of an action thriller movie, and like a wannabe "badass".

Also had a classmate in high school tell me he was in a gang as a 9-year-old and robbed a bank. 🤣

A kid I knew in middle school told me that he shot himself in the foot with a 9mm because his friend supposedly dared him to and offered him 50 dollars.

That my father who was a doctor apparently wrote in latin...

If he was from the 13th century maybe but no. This person was just incredibly wrong/stupid.

The weirdest lie I can recall wasn't told to me, but told about me.

Back in my mid-twenties, a guy at work - who I really only knew by his face and surname - casually asked me one day how it was going with Susan (I can't recall the woman's actual name). I was totally confused about who he was talking about, since I knew nobody of that name. This confused him, since the woman was his sister-in-law, and she'd been telling people that we were dating and I was a great guy.

A serious WTF moment for both of us.

As far as I could make out, I'd seen the woman once or maybe twice in a local pub. We'd never been introduced, and I have no idea how she learned my name. In fact, the only reason I'd gone into the pub was because I was doing a six month stint as USN Shore Patrol, and we were supposed to show our faces occasionally in the places where sailors might make a nuisance of themselves.

When I was 16 a friend told me that his parents were dead and that his little sister and himself lived with his poor uncle who was abusive.

I married his brother some years later and his parents are still alive and very well off.

I really dont understand why he lied. I wasn't questioning him, just happened that I was his desk partner at college.