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He texted me a week later and I did some research. Knew a guy at the other exchange. Had my theory confirmed. 2 months and tons of back and forths later the funds landed back on his Binance account. He could barely believe it.
The odds of me helping someone out so randomly yet significantly still makes me smile to this day.
We’re not saying the stories on this list are lies. And we’re not saying they aren’t… Afterall, who are we to question what someone believes to be their true life story?
However, if you ever meet a person who clearly tells you a blatant lie about their wild and wonderful life, don’t be too quick to judge them. They might just be dealing with something known as confabulation.
Not to be confused with con-FIB-ulation, a word that we completely made up on the fly, confabulation is an actual disorder, often caused by an injury to the brain.
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“Confabulation is an intriguing disorder of memory and thought,” explains Dr Armin Schnider, a professor of neurorehabilitation at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. “Patients tell stories about their recent doings and plans for the future that are blatantly incompatible with reality.”
Schnider says that confabulation is not considered lying because it is not intentional and, in many cases, not even consciously perceived by the confabulator. The person has no intent to deceive and they have nothing to gain, and this is why confabulation is sometimes referred to as “honest lying” by experts.
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I was called a "late bloomer" by every doctor I saw until I was 23 years old.
At 23, I started work in a London hospital, I am a biomedical scientist. One lunchtime I went to find one of the endocrinolgists who worked at the hospital in his office. After a quick description of being a "late bloomer" he asked if I had a sense of smell. No doctor had ever asked me that before.
He just happened to a specialist in the condition, one of very few in the country. He had even done his MD thesis at Cambridge on Kallmann syndrome.
This led to an almost instant diagnosis, hormone replacement treatment and a totally different life knowing I was not the only person who had not gone through puberty correctly.
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Guy looked perplexed.
As we mentioned earlier, confabulation usually happens after a brain injury. This might be from trauma, a stroke, or a tumor. Interestingly, many confabulations often contain shreds of truth. The person may include details they got from a conversation, a photograph, or a television show. It may even be drawn from past events in the person’s life - something they experienced before the brain injury.
“Most confabulations become obvious in a discussion about recent doings or plans for the day,” Dr. Schnider says. “They reflect a confusion of current reality. Subjects perceive themselves in another time, place, and situation—often related to their near or distant past—and act according to this feeling.”
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I went home terrified. My dad looked at it and started laughing, it was just some random guy.
The “ticket” literally said: “BUY A BELL.”
I bought one anyway.
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Experts warn that confabulation isn’t easy to spot because the person speaks with such sincerity and conviction. Interestingly, earlier this year, Adam James, a geriatric specialist suggested that U.S. president Donald Trump may be exhibiting traits associated with frontotemporal dementia, and in particular, confabulation.
“According to the specialist, this behaviour could explain instances where Trump has made detailed but factually incorrect statements during speeches and interviews,” the International Business Times reported.
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While I was washing the dishes lightning came through the window (didn’t break the window) and hit the sink right as I took my hands out of it.
I flipped and got my grandma. She calmed me down and said to finish the dishes cus lightning never strikes twice. As she said that lighting came right through the window again and hit the same sink. (Maybe 10 min after the first strike).
We both left the room immediately and got grandpa to shut the sink off.
James reportedly pointed to a 2026 interview example where Trump allegedly made multiple inaccurate claims in a single response. The expert suggested that this could reflect more than simple exaggeration or political rhetoric.
He listed a number of other “tells,” including unusual posture, repetitive speech patterns and fluctuating clarity during Trump's public appearances. But since James hasn’t directly examined Trump, who is in his seventies, the expert's claims or suggestions cannot be taken as fact.
Confabulation or con-fib-ulation? We'll leave you to ponder that in your own time...
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One of our neighbors was a local physician, turned up drunk 30 minutes later with no instruments in his bag except a stethoscope, he was rummaging through our kitchen drawers looking for another knife to do a tracheostomy just as the paramedics arrived (we lived in a rural area).
Paramedics left the syphon hose in place because it was working.
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vice_queen:
I don't know why I need to know this and I apologise but - which family members?
Lucky_Ad_1318:
1 aunt and 4 cousins.
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He said, “A snake will hit ya’ right above that boot.”
“I’m wearing long pants.”
“Don’t matter. They know where the top of the boot is. You’re better off getting hit lower ‘cause you can slow the poison with a tourniquet. Look here.”
He opened the door on his truck and above his worn out Ked low-tops were snakebite scars. “I’ve lived our here my whole live. I know what I’m talking about.”
I ignored him. Laughed him off as a dumb old codger.
Not long after, Scientific American published an article about how many species of snake are heat-seeking. They will hit the warmest spot they can reach. I got lucky. I saw alligators, wild boars, and some snakes in trees, but never up close as far as I know.
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