When it comes to lying, it's best just not to do it. Sure, lying can be beneficial for all kinds of reasons, but rarely do those reasons outweigh the potential of being exposed for lying. Being called out for a lie is one of the most embarrassing things a person can go through. It's bad enough when someone is called out because they messed up, it's even worse when someone is called out because their lie was simply just that bad. People tell fake stories on the Internet all the time.

Some people do it to feel better about themselves, to make themselves look better, some people do it to push an agenda, and some people do it just for the attention. All in all, seeing these clearly fake stories is just cringe. The people who tell them don't go unpunished, they get posted to Reddit's sarcastically named subreddit, /r/thathappened. This subreddit has all of the worst stories that have been told online in hopes the masses would believe them. Here are 25 terrible ones that we are calling out today.