Dear redditors, what's the furthest someone you know, has dug themselves into and continued to lie?

1. That my friend likes parsnips. Every weekend he’d come for Sunday dinner after Ice Hockey. My Dad was under the impression he loved parsnips because he had them once and used to make him extra every week. Rather than tell him ‘I’m not a fan of the food you’ve made me for years‘, he continued to eat them despite literally hating them. One day, he took them from the fridge and hid them just so my dad would think we didn’t have any in. My dad went and bought some so he didn’t miss out. This lie lasted for about 6 years.
   — KingAlfino


2. My husband works with a lot of military guys. One of these guys, who we've known forever now, has a wife who is the most fantastic liar I have ever encountered. Guy deployed for a year, wife moves in a different dude because they're "just friends" and she's "just helping him out while he looks for an apartment." Guy comes back from deployment (other dude miraculously found his own place just weeks before that). A month later, wife announces she's pregnant. Some time later, baby is born "12 weeks premature," but somehow weighs 7 pounds and is totally healthy. To this day, my husband's friend believes he's the kid's father and his son is some kind of medical miracle.
   — SandraVirginia


3. My name's Theo, but I went by Victor for a few months because I was too meek to say correct anyone. I never really got around to informing my friends that my name is Theo, and they still call be Victor. I answer to two names now.
   — tedfitzy






4. A student still maintains the lie that his younger brother was stabbed to death in the bedroom next to him and that he found the body the next day. He has told this story to many staff and students. He is, and always has been an only child.
   — alwayslurkeduntilnow


5. A good friend of ours has always had a crush on another guy we know well. unfortunately, early on in their friendship while talking about their families, second guy revealed that his father had passed away when he was young (true) and first guy, in that nervous attempt to relate to and impress a crush that I’m sure many people understand, blurted out that his father had also passed away (false). He felt horrible about it from the second he said it, but can’t figure out a way to explain himself without looking like a total piece of shit, and has simply accepted the reality that he can’t ever pursue a relationship with this guy. A couple years ago he slipped up and mentioned something about his dad to the second guy, who questioned it, so he now pretends his actual dad is his stepdad.
   — ilvostro


6. There was a lad at school who tried to convince everyone he was born in Spain, he even said he had a Spanish name that had been "angloised", so "Marcos Carlos Smith" had changed to Mark Charles Smith. Another student who lived on the same street asked his Mum were he was born and she said in the UK, the guy then claimed that he was born in Spain, and immediately traveled to a hospital in the UK were he was registered. Just, stop, it's over.
   — RYAN_BENJAMIN






7. When I was in elementary school, a kid made up a band. It was called 20 eyeballs. It was the best grunge band in the world, and I was apparently an idiot for not hearing about and loving it. For weeks he ramped this shit up, eventually making a fake cassette tape cover with the "band" logo, and recording his brother's garage band practice to play for me, saying that it was 20 eyeballs. He "went to a concert" one weekend where he got "so high" (we were twelve years old), got a signed t-shirt (in puff paint), and just kept hammering away at this shit. Eventually, after listening to the cassette I said something like "they don't sound terrible" and that lukewarm acceptance was enough. He shouted from the rooftops how I was SOOOOO gullable for believing in this lie (I said his brother's band wasn't terrible, but that was enough apparently), and what a fucking loser I was. For three fucking years he would bring this up over and over, in the classroom, at every recess if I got within 20 feet of him, when we'd run into each other outside school. Most kids didn't care, but he took the weirdest delight in tormenting me. If you're reading Kevin, you were a weird fucking kid and I hope you grew out of it.
   — tossmeawayagain


8. 20 years after my dad chose drugs over his family he's still denying it ever happened.
   — fueledbywd40


9. In a job interview at a major corporation there was a 3 person panel and after an hour or so someone asked if I had any hobbies, I said I like to play golf. "Whats your handicap?" he said. To which I responded, "I don't have a handicap." He then enthusiastically said, " oh so you're a scratch golfer?!" and of course I said "Yes". I'm not a fucking scratch golfer I don't have a handicap because I'm not good enough to bother keeping score. But this went on for about 10 minutes, "why don't you play for a living? You can making decent money being a scratch golfer". So I had to give a whole spiel about how my education was more important bullshit. In the end I didn't get the job which is probably a good thing because it would've sucked at that first company golf torunament. Edit: scratch golfer - "a player who can play to a course handicap of zero on any and all rated golf courses."
   — Jorricha






10. Heard about this person through a relative. A pathological liar over every little thing, to the point where he lied about having cancer in really obvious ways (description of treatment, timeline, etc.) It was even worse that his RA actually had a parent going through treatment and had to listen to his blatant bullshit. People continued to point out that none of what he was saying made sense and that he was hurting people actually affected by cancer, but he continued to double down with more bizarre and nonsensical lies.
    — AngelusCowl