Why do people choose to lie online? Better yet, why do they choose to lie so badly? People lie online all the time for many reasons. They could be doing it to push an agenda, they could be doing it for the reactions, or they could be doing it for some attention. These are all reasons for someone to tell a clearly fake story online. It's always so obvious when people are telling fake stories, they are always so terribly written and way too farfetched to even be possible. As cringeworthy as it is to see these people try to play their stories off as real, it's also kind of entertaining, in a weird way.

Reddit's /r/thatHappened is a subreddit where people can share the worst, most terribly written stories they find on the internet. Some of them are just embarrassing. Here are 25 stories that have no business being this unbelievable.