Have you ever known an over-the-top liar?

Question

By that, I don't mean just someone who lies compulsively, but tells way over-the-top stories that have you wondering, "What makes him/her think we would even remotely believe it?"

I had one co-worker at an office job that claimed to have had 26 different girlfriends, a trust fund and a jetset lifestyle that included trips to Tokyo, London and the Bahamas.

Answer 1

Yes, I worked in a Psych hospital of all places and the Hospital Administrator was like that. OMG he was intolerable. He couldn't pass a mirror without looking in it, he told outrageous stories of how he was walking through a casino in Nevada, put a quarter in a slot machine and won 132,000 dollars. It went on and on. The Medical director diagnosed him with a Narcissitic personality disorder and we used to laugh about him constantly. He was pathetic.

Answer 2

wow! Yes I have. It was someone I went to school with. He was talking about how he has had so many girls and that he had 2 cars and blah blah blah. Come to find out he was a virgin and didn't even have his license. The thing is it was compulsive too. He honestly started to believe all the lies that he would tell! Oh and he had also told us that he was adopted and he actually had both of his parents and his father was just away on business alot. Some just don't know how to tell the truth. Or just start to believe that the lies are the truth. It also reminds me of my grandma. She goes on and on about all kids of things. If you tell her you have done something she has done something bigger and better. She talks all the time about how much she worked in her life when she actually has only had 2 and she didn't work at either one for more then 2 months. Oh I am Sorry she worked a toys r us for 2 months and 5 days! LoL.

Answer 3

That is so funny..Yes I have had a friend who just told the most outlandish lies. It was actually fun to create stories and see what she said to beat it. She always had been,done, something more fantastic than whatever you said. Or knew someone we used to mess with her just to hear what lie she would say next. And she was always tripping herself up. I don't know what makes a person lie to outlandishly where you just wonder about how she or he would think I would believe it..crazy

Answer 4

yes, i think they are attention seekers who have a psychological problem or deficiency somewhere and who try to surmount it through imagination, telling an imaginative story about heroism cleverness etc, for them makes the act or fact become real, i don't think they care much if you believe what they are saying is true or not

Answer 5

You could call them liars. Or you could say that they are drawing attention to themselves. They are trying to tell the world that they are so great. It is a fine line between normal people boasting about themselves and mental people talking nonsense.

Answer 6

Plenty of people, I hate liars. They are fun to bother because you can tell him a lie and he'll agree. One time I got in trouble and got a guy, like the one you described, to confess while I taped him. That way he took the fall.

Answer 7

My college boyfriend was like that. But he would sound so sincere & convincing that it wasn't until later you'd say to yourself, "No, that can't be true!" I really believe that he believed his own lies. Pathological liar? I wonder whatever happened to him.

Answer 8

A friend of mine knows all kinds of Hollywood celebrities, East Coast mafiamen, and knows what REALLY happened to President Kennedy because one of his relations was Jack Ruby.

I smile and agree, but........

Answer 9

i had a daughter-n-law that was so far over the top with her lies that she is no longer around i am sad to say...

Answer 10

yes, he attended the local bar in the neighborhood, everyone is happy he finally moved.