People like to tell stories online, but people like to lie online too. Lots of people lie on the Internet for all kinds of reasons. Some people do it for attention, some people do it to push an agenda, some people do it to make themselves seem better, and some people do it just for fun. The attention is probably the most common reason, though. It's always so obvious when someone is lying about a story. The story is either just that unreal, or it ends with some miraculous, cliché ending like everyone clapping.

Everyone has likely read a story like this before; they are so cringeworthy that they're kind of hard to forget. There are so many of them online that there is a whole subreddit dedicated to exposing them. Reddit's /r/thathappened is a subreddit where users share the most insane and clearly fake stories they find online. So here are 25 stories that definitely happened … or so they want you to think.