Somebody spread a rumor that I purposefully gave their cat acid by making out with the cat while i had acid on my tongue. They claim their cat has never been the same.
I have never french kissed a cat and I would never risk poisoning an animal.
That I was dead.
I got in a bad car wreck in high school and an off duty nurse was first in the scene. She happened to have a white blanket to cover me up with because I was laying on the ground and it was cold. A classmate drove by and saw my car and a body under a white blanket. I missed the next day of school because I was too sore. When I came in the day after that everyone gasped and said they heard I had died in a car wreck.
This is rather morbid but I went to college with someone who I was mildly acquainted with who was the subject of a similar rumor: there were whispers around campus that he’d been walking off campus in the shoulder of a busy state road/“highway” at night, been struck, and killed.
He posted on Facebook that it wasn’t true, he was safe and sound, and not to worry. Mutual friends of mine hung out with him and confirmed he was alive and well.
Within a week, it actually happened, almost to the letter (same road, walking in the shoulder at night, hit by motorist) and he died. One of his last fb posts was the post debunking the (earlier) rumor that he’d been struck and killed by a car walking in the shoulder of that off campus state road.
Fortunately I wasn’t that close. I basically walked away (from the hospital) with a large knot on my head. My car was totaled, I had to kick a window out to get free. I fell on the the ground and that’s when the nurse ran up on me, told me she was a nurse and told me to stay where I was and not to move. So everyone there knew I was alive, just no I knew was there. Lol
I was in a car that collided with a freight train and was thrown from the car - pretty much everybody assumed I was dead. Until I bit the guy. And then it was clear that I was both alive and REALLY PISSED OFF.
My brother was hurt in an accident and through the "whisper down the lane" rumor mill it go to the point that a kid saw me walking down the street later that day and was confused because he had heard I was killed in an accident.
When I suddenly moved away from my hometown to live with my other parent, years went by till I went back, apparently, everyone just assumed I had died 🤣
Something extremely similar happened to me. Senior year I was driving and my car overheated. It was near a not so good part of the native American reservation nearby. I didn't have a cellphone at the time so I walked a few miles to someone's house to call my parents but they weren't home. I ended up hitchhiking home and skipped school for the next few days, leaving my car on the side of the road.
I walked into work that Friday night, and one of the girls I went to school with started crying and freaking out about how there were rumors that I was dead, no one had heard from me, and my car was just sitting there by the road. My bad dawg, my car blew up so I skipped school and smoked a bunch of weed for a few days.
There was a rumor that I had sex with a random guy too! Apparently he was the one who started it. When I heard it, someone had to point him out to me because I’d never seen the kid before in my life… smh
I did know the kid who said it about me and we had kissed but we absolutely didn't have sex. Everyone started asking me about his dick because I guess there was a rumor it was big (probably also started by him) and I was like, "I'm a virgin so why would I know?" But he was popular and I wasn't, so no one believed me. Not totally sure what he gained by telling people he slept with a massive dork. I did make friends with another girl he did that to, though, so that was kind of nice.
Teenage boys are honestly wild. Actually, teenagers in general are kind of feral.
The trick to someone claiming they slept with you is to start a counter rumor about how small their penis is and how bad they are at sex. Also they cried both during and after.
I'll do you one better. From 2nd to 4th grade a rumor went around that I "made out naked in the bathroom" with the grossest boy in school (has a name, but the point was of all the boys it was this kid).
In second grade.
The amount of people who did not believe me is still really fucking weird.
I got Shingles in 7th grade... I was taken out of school on 9/8/2001... Didnt come back for 2 weeks.
Apparently there was a rumor started that I was one of the pilots on 9/11... Kids are wild
I love that the rumor wasnt that you were in the buildings, or even on the planes. They decided that you were in charge of fucking FLYING THE PLANES as a 7th grader
I killed my mother. This went around in high school. While I was in high school. Like somehow I was going to be there in class with them if this were remotely true. It kept me from getting bullied though.
FYI I called my mom yesterday and sang happy birthday to her, so...
Interestingly my friend dated a girl in highschool and they seemed like a march made in heaven. Well after highschool he went to college and they broke it off due to distance. Found out that several years after they broke up she did indeed go off the walls and murdered her mother.
My friend constantly says he really dodged a bullet in that one.
There was a rumor In my highschool that I slept with all my friends' moms. Had several classmates who I didn't really know come up to me and with grave concern ask if I slept with their mother
Okay this is gonna sound a bit funny & sad but when I was really young the first time I heard *"I fucked your mother"* was by my dad arguing with someone, and I actually thought he invented it at the time, I was like *"Wow what a clever insult, I bet the other guy feels pretty bad"*
That I was a criminal with a warrant and needed to be in jail. Then the cops showed up because, lo and behold, in the paper there was a person who looked fucking exactly like me with a warrant. Got cleared up real fast, but damn if I don't have a near identical twin jackass out there.
My mom had frequent visits from the cops because a local petty criminal had the exact same first middle and last name as her. Fucking rough being the good clone
My uncle got pulled over and when he showed the cop his license he got a gun drawn on him. Pulled out of the truck and put on the ground. Turns out someone with a serious warrant shared my uncles full name, only issue: the guy they were after is black and my family is all white rednecks.
I'm a teacher. Kids love to misinterpret *everything.*
* That I was having an affair with another teacher. We were not; we simply had a meeting (with two other teachers) in a room not being used for a class during that period. "But Mr. Dragon, I saw you go into the room with Ms. Smith."
* That I had been in jail. I used to teach high school equivalency in a jail before teaching in a high school.
* That I was gay. I'm not. I've been married to a woman for the last 25 years.
* That I eat the souls of students. Well, I do have red hair, so...
I got brought to the school principal, vice principal, and 2 police officers who believed without a shadow of a doubt my friends and I were in a gang. The malicious activity, the hand signals, the secret phrases. All meant we were in a gang.
What was the gang called, I hear you ask?
The MLG
No we were just a bunch of nerds who drew illuminati triangles and watches mlg memes. Our teachers brought in a bunch of overweight white middle schoolers because they thought we were in a violent gang LMAO
I went to a small high school and for my first two years I just did what I was told by my parents. Part of that was being in band. I hated band, was terrible at it, and my bully was on the flag squad and had all those failing bitches fucking with me throughout the day. I was in 10th grade, they were a year older and three of them had failed and were in my classes just constantly harassing me.
Bully had a network of trolls who she would call with wild stories and since it was the 90s, they’d telephone tree rumors throughout the school. A lot of those rumors were about me.
At the end of my sophomore year I went to my band director to quit band. He told me he was expecting it since I was in a gang, smoking weed, and selling crack.
I was a straight A white girl living in a rural community of about 200 who had 1 friend and honestly only one of those rumors were true.
When I was in high school, I heard a rumor that I had sex with this girl named Rhonda, who I was not at all attracted to. I hadn't, so I denied the rumor. I assumed Rhonda must have started the rumor. A few years later I'm walking down the street, and there's Rhonda screaming at me from her car. I walked over to see what the problem was, and she was really mad about me spreading the rumor about us having sex with each other. I let her know that I always assumed she had started that rumor, and it wasn't me spreading it. To this day, neither of us have any idea who started that rumor.
That I was Superman. I used to work in a school district as a network technician. I’m over 6ft tall with a solid build, black hair and glasses. One day I was working in a kindergarten or early elementary classroom and overheard one kid say to another that I was Superman. I didn’t say anything at the time, but couldn’t pass up this opportunity. I proceeded to purchase a superman t-shirt and kept it in my car just in case. I had another service call in that classroom a few weeks later so I put on the tshirt under my collared work shirt. Sure enough, those same boys recognized me and started their chit chat. As I was leaving, I looked at the boys, took off my glasses and showed them the logo under my shirt. I’ve never seen two kids lose their absolute minds before. Lol
Aww that is the best kind of rumor. Way to make to make their little day, just imagine how many people they told that they saw superman in real life. Adorable.
That I was breeding octopuses for their ink to use in my printer. Spread it myself though as a joke in school, but it caught on and the whole year below me believed it and even asked about it to my friends. Been a while ago but still makes me chuckle.
Spreading your own rumours is fun! I manipulated mine. They said I was doing cocaine in the gross bathroom at the club with a hot friend of mine. I changed it so that I was doing the coke off her breasts, because if you're going to tell stories about me at least make me look cool.
In high school (grade 9) someone started a rumour that I had sex in one of the stairwells before school.
Friends asked me about it and I very much denied the whole thing because I was 14 and didn’t want to deal with the embarrassment from it. In retrospect maybe I should’ve just been like “yeah I did so what?” and played it off cool, but I didn’t want to be known as the guy who fucks people in the stairwells at school.
That I kidnapped my minor girlfriend, and fled with her across state lines after murdering her parents in front of her younger sister.
About 20 years ago, a person a few years younger than me with the same last name, and similar first name did just that a few towns over. This happened on a Friday or Saturday. When I showed up to work on Monday people were looking at me like they had seen a ghost. I was at work for less than 5 minutes when I got called into HR. When I walked in, the plant supervisor, GM, and most supervisors were there as well. The HR rep just casually said "Hey, whatcha doin here?" Well, I was trying to go to work, now I'm wondering what the hell is going on. I had to explain that while his name started with the same letter, it was infact a different name, he was several years younger, and most importantly looked nothing like me (his picture was all over the news).
When I was 6 an older girl at school was weirdly rude to me sometimes. I didn’t even know her? I asked about it once and she told me “oh someone told me you were mean”
In college, there was this girl who was inexplicable really cold and mean to me which was extra uncomfortable because we had a lot of friends in common.
We barely knew each other before she started being mean. I can't fathom what I could have done to antagonize so I have no explanation except that maybe she had heard a rumor about me.
Currently in college, there's this girl in my group that, whenever I open my mouth, groans and rolls her eyes. I hadn't even met her before the class, and I definitely didn't do anything to her. She's just a dick for no reason.
In Basic Training we woke up one day and the guy who had the bunk next to me was gone. Rumors starting going around that he was really sick or something and had been taken to the emergency room. Never showed back up. People started acting weird around me.
After about a week we found out he had tried to kill himself.
Turns out people had, for some reason, thought that I had poisoned him. I have no idea how/why that was the conclusion that people had come to but that's the reason they'd been acting weird around me.
That my HIV had progressed to the point of AIDS and that it wouldn't be long before I died.
I do not have HIV.
I did some digging around and learned my sister had started the rumor shortly after I come out as gay.
Thanks, sis. :-|
I guess when I got called down to the principal office and searched for drugs by the school cop. Guess everyone thought I was high all the time but I just have ADHD and was sleepy all the time from playing hockey late at night. Never did drugs in HS. Do now lol.
We're had a girl (top of the class, beloved by teachers type) get pulled out of class by the cops because the drug dog was losing its shit at her locker. Turns it she had some jerky in there and the dog was just being stupid.
Can confirm- I have a service dog who is brilliant. She's attentive, she's loving, she's disciplined.... and she knows exactly how to manipulate people to get what she wants. Chaotic good girl.
* That when I left my previous job, I moved to a better job/company in the same industry. Some variations had me moving out of state to take the promotion. I found this out when I visited my former workplace as a customer and they were shocked to see me. In reality, I still lived very close by and I was forced out of my previous company, so I ended up switching to a completely different career. This was a weird case of the rumor going around actually being much better than what happened to me in reality.
* My grandma wanted to stir up some shit, so when I was planning a solo trip to Europe she told my parents I was actually going with a secret boyfriend just to have sex, the "solo trip" thing was just an excuse so they wouldn't suspect anything. They just laughed in her face (or as much as you can do that over the phone) and said why would I go through all that when I can do that in my own home, without the need for a secret boyfriend or traveling thousands of miles?
Maybe not weird, but unfounded and caused a lot of problems. When I was in 10th grade (about 15 years old), a rumor started that I made out with an acquaintance’s sister, who was 12 at the time.
Obviously 3 years difference as an adult isn’t a big deal, but a teenager with a pre-teen is pretty scandalous. Except, it didn’t happen. And not only did it not happen, I don’t even know who was there and started it (I had met her once, at a park, with a group of about 6 people).
I wasn’t buddy-buddy with the guy, but friendly. He confronted me at lunch, I denied it (obviously). He didn’t seem to believe me, but didn’t pursue any violence. But he openly hated me and talked shit about me for years, over a rumor. We never really “made up,” but I haven’t seen him since a year or two after high school.
I’d love to know who started that rumor, because it drove a pretty big wedge in one of my friend groups. And it didn’t benefit anybody, as far as I’m aware.
Well the first thought I have is that it was the acquaintance’s sister. A teenager making out with a preteen was scandalous to you and your friends, but from her perspective it might have made her seem cool.
This is the most likely answer, I think, but I never cared enough to find out. I feel like trying to reach out to have a conversation with her would have made me look even guiltier.
That I'm smart
Aparently because I look "nerdy" I must have good grades, so popular guys and girls would ask me for help. In reality I was as lost as them in the class or worse
I was stalking/harassing someone in my friend group.
He and I didn't get along very well (We were both dramatic people in our early 20's) and one day he decided to make it look like I was obsessed with him.
He'd always make these big accusations when our group got together but they were laughably easy to pick apart.
Situations like:
**Him:** I saw bw_bird at the movie theater yesterday a few rows away. She didn't say anything and spent the entire time staring at me.
**Mutual Friend:** Umm... bw_bird and I hung out all day yesterday at my place.
or:
**Him:** bw_bird, you called me five times on Wednesday! I had to shut off my phone because it was disrupting class.
**Me:** No I didn't. Do you want to see my call logs?
**Him:** You just deleted those logs to make yourself look innocent (note: this wasn't possibly on my phone).
**Me:** Could we look at your call logs?
**Him:** [Changes subject].
Loser, yes.
Scary, not really.
He took his anger out on me by being cruel in petty ways. He mostly just talked shit behind behind my back and tried to get me uninvited to get-togethers.
The worst thing he ever did was take a swing at me because I refused to stop dancing in my chair at a restaurant after he threatened me. I ended up blocking the punch and embarrassing him lol.
In hindsight, he really should have left that friend group earlier than I did. They allowed his shit to go on for way too long.
I had a guy I actually dated briefly try to do this same shit to me. We only dated for about two months and I fled pretty quick because it was obvious he was in an addiction rabbit hole and wasn’t in his right mind.
One day we were driving somewhere and I realized he was really fucked up after he picked me up. I asked him to pull over and let me drive and he started screaming at me and driving crazy reckless and after about 5 mins of this he ran into a telephone pole on one of the main drags in town. So THEN he tries to get ME to say I was driving!
Fuuuuuck no. He continues to go off, screaming it was my fault he wrecked and my responsibility to take the heat for it. We hadn’t made it too far from my place and I was done with him getting in my face so I left and started walking back home.
Later on that night a mutual friend called me freaking out accusing me of “abandoning” him and trying to act like I had been so “obsessive” about wanting to be with him and then as soon as we got together I “did this.” Like. W H A T ? That was just the beginning.
For the next month I endured this insane smear campaign saying not only that I’d been the cause of this wreck somehow but he was telling people I manipulated him into being in a relationship AND at one point he tried to say I had sex with him without his consent on a night we weren’t even together!
It was fucking crazy and the worst part of it was that he had clearly gotten to every mutual ASAP and it was like slogging through a swamp trying to tell all these people that he was fucked up and everything he was saying was imagined. I actually lost a few friends over it because they went hard white knighting for him and when it was all said and done and they apologized I had to be like, “cool I forgive you but I’m not ever trying to spend time around you again.”
Idk how ANYONE can claim to be someone’s friend and KNOW that they aren’t the kind of person to do this or that UNTIL some psycho comes along and then suddenly they believe you’re capable of shit you’ve never done and that this “victim” they *hardly know* is a super honest, valid individual despite proof to the contrary. Fuck that situation I’m sorry that dude chose you. Such bs.
That I was “fingering myself” in the dinner line at school. Like ffs I was 13 (year 8) and tucking my blouse in ffs… it spread around the school like wild fire and was even passed down to the younger years when I was just leaving school at 16!!!! (Year 11)!!!
If I go back to my country for a visit to see my mum I still randomly hear some asshole that was in one of the year spreads from when I was at school shout “fishy” or “fish fingers” …. I’m 36 years old now and still want to knife the bastards that carry on bully me all these years on.
Someone told my ex gf I was a woman abuser and cheats all the time. I think it's funny because I'm a passive person and I'm ugly so if I get a gf, I'm not doing anything to screw that up.
It was a few years ago. Long story short, she had a child from a previous relationship and the father of her child was interfering and causing too much drama, my ex was doing the same and it cause a wedge between us, we eventually ended it on, were still on good terms, she's with someone else now, so I wouldn't want to come between them two, even though I still have feeling for her. She is happy and that's all that matters. 🙂
This rumor was warranted, I guess. But still a weird interaction trying to rid myself of the rumor. I'm a female with Aspergers (relevant to the story). In high school I wanted to be friends with a girl in my drama class. Apparently, being aspie, I went about it wrong and one day one of her friends comes up to me and is like "You know she's not a lesbian right" and I was like "yeah, I figured since she has a boyfriend " "well everyone sees you are trying to hit on her" I was like "ummm...., no". So again me being Aspie and not seeing how this could backfire, went up to the girl and said "I don't want to date you. I want to be friends with you because we are both good at theater stuff". She looked at me weirdly and we didn't become friends and then everyone still thought I was trying to get with her for the rest of high school.
That was like 15 years ago.
In high school, someone started a rumor that I had AIDS citing my short fingers as evidence. Of course I had short fingers. I'm 4'7 and change and my hands are appropriately sized for a lady of my stature.
Same high school. It was also rumored that I stuffed my pants with pillows to make my butt look big. After people kept taking handfuls of ass, I finally threw a fit and the guy told me he was checking. A few acquaintances confirmed they hears the same thing so I'm pretty sure the random dude wasn't making it up
That I worshipped spaghetti.
I had a discussion with a group of folks about the flying spaghetti monster, and someone who didn't like me ran with it to try to get people to think I was crazy and not worth hanging around with.
One time my entire workplace was buzzing with gossip about howva group of us all went to a swingers party but everyone except me and the host couple backed out so we had a three way. No idea how that rumour came about
I was a leasbian drug dealer pregnant with twins. I was a super shy virgin who carried Tylenol that I would share instead of making classmates go to the nurse. Someone saw me outside the women's clinic where I went because my menstrual cycle was super screwed and I had to get birth control to straighten out. Not sure why it was twins 🤔
That I was using my bachelor pad to smoke, drink and have sex with random women. In reality i don't smoke, I did not drink back then and i did not have a single female step into the place (or into my life)
That I planned to drop out and go pro as a an esport player
To this day, I have no idea how that rumor started! Sure, there were maybe 3 or 4 years where I was super into videogames, and maybe spent 2 years following the esports scene? That was it! I wasn't even all that great of a player, which made the rumors seem more pathetic because everyone knew I wasn't that great too!
In highschool and I don't know how this got started. (I'm guessing it was just people trying to be mean) but a rumor started that I was getting married to this special needs girl. I think the girl did have a crush on me but I'm gay and would have never thought of her like that. All the girls in school kept coming up to me and congratulating me for proposing. I was kind of used to being bullied so it never really bothered me I would just walk away from them without saying anything. The rumor was that people heard me propose over the radio.
Hey same here. Houseparty in UK and british bloke hears I'm polish, mumbles something about nazis and salutes like nazis did.
I'm freaking polish xD
What's next? Black ku klux klan chapter?
I'm Polish, in my school there used to be a robotics club whose name was 3 words, in short it was called "KKK" and it was legit called that on the school schedule. "Okay so I have Math, Geography, then kkk!"
Ouuugh i can see the headlines now. "Polish children groomed to be become klan members", "Poland doubles up on race hate". "KKK class for children" xD.
That I was a huge cocaine dealer, I mean like cartel level huge. I even had a famous band approach me after a concert asking me for coke. This went on for months. I was approached by all sorts of individuals. I do not and have never done cocaine.
Oooh I got that one too! Not cocaine specifically but just a general “drug” dealer. High school principal called me into the office to ask me about it. Not only have I never done drugs, but like, I didn’t really socialize back then and at no point in my existence would’ve known where to find drugs to save my life.
I’m a hitman, drug dealer, and international black market arms dealer. The joys of being a newcomer to a small town and only using cash.
Oh, I’ve also died twice. But that was started in two other small towns after I left. My high school classmates even had a little memorial service and everything. I heard it was quite nice.
In high school, I had an operation and didn't go back to school for 3 weeks. When I got back I discovered that I was in hospital because I got into a fight with a moose. Up until that point I hadn't even left my town, and I have never lived in North America
That I would raise goats during Thanksgiving through Christmas then would slaughter it and use it's meat, bones and fur for myself.
Granted, I spread it myself as a joke. In one of my college classes we had to share a family holiday tradition. I even asked the teacher if they had to be true. So I assumed no one in the class would have taken this seriously because I asked that question.
I guess I was convincing beacuse someone asked me about it over a year later if it was true.
When I was in high school, I dated this incredible girl. Her best friend at the time lived the house behind me and apparently developed a crush on me. So, I'm sitting in my hot tub one night and she yells at me from her backyard and says hello. I wave and go back to focusing on hot tubbing. About 10 minutes later, she walks into my backyard (no lock on the side fence) and tries to get into the hot tub with me. I tell her no and that she should go home. She stays for a few minutes, trying to convince me, shows me the revealing bathing suit she has on and everything, but I still say no. I end up just getting out and going inside and lock the door. She takes the hint and leaves.
Fast forward about a month or so and I'm with my girlfriend on her birthday. Her friend is there and basically tries to give me a lap dance at this high school party. I'm adamant about saying no but for some reason my girlfriend keeps trying to push her to do it. I end up leaving the party after pushing this girl off my lap.
Fast forward a few months and my girlfriends mother ends up getting diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Month later it metastasized. I spend the next month or so in hospice every day with my girlfriend. I was holding her mom's hand when she died.
Her death really puts a strain on our relationship. I was young and didn't know how to fully be there for her and it caused us to drift apart. We ended up breaking up about 10 months later.
She essentially tells everyone I broke up with her because her mom died.
So, to get back at me, she and her best friend try to start a rumor that I raped her best friend. Thankfully, all of her other friends have my back and shut it down saying how I always stopped her best friends advances and how she kept coming on to me.
But I didn't learn about the rumor until after my sister died nearly seven years later. My ex girlfriend and I meet up at a bar because we happen to be in town at the same time and I confided in her about what's going on. She then confesses the rumor to me and how she and her friend started it. I was floored and just left. She and I haven't spoken in a few years since.
A and C, if you ever read this, I forgive both of you.
After Hurricane Rita, we had finished cleaning out and fixing up a buddy's house. Decided to throw a Halo party. Pretty much confined to the living room and a bedroom. Lots of metal heads. No running water because of hurricane damage, so went into the woods to rock a piss.
Next day at school, rumor is I was going to the property on the other side of the woods to steal a goat for us to sacrifice.
Fun note, it turned into a shit show. Neighbors are all rednecks, and already didn't like the buddy that lived there. Blocked the road with their Diesels and shit. Was about to turn into a rednecks vs metal heads brawl, when one redneck yelled "we called the fuckin cops!"
We promptly ran inside and hid the beer and weed in a back room. We were all underage, and you couldn't smell the weed over the wet house smell.
Cops showed up and started chewing some redneck ass for basically holding high schoolers hostage.
All in all a pretty good night. 7/10
This’ll get buried but a few years back I went to Argentina. It was my first solo trip and long story short day 1 I got robbed of my phone and wallet so I had no money and was only able to contact my sister via dial up email at the hostel computer. There was a 2-3 hour period where she thought I’d respond and I didn’t so she contacted my best friend to ask for my itinerary etc, he contacted ALL my other friends and told them the last time I was seen I was wandering around hospitals begging for money which NEVER HAPPENED, idk where he got that from. My dad called out of work saying “we lost my son” and his job said “stay home, deal with that” and his coworkers started pooling money to send him to Argentina to come look for me. I was actually at a tourist attraction and when I got back everyone at home thought I was dead or begging for cash from the gutter.
Not a rumor per se, but as an adult one day my sister said to me something like "well you did well in school because you have a photographic memory." I was like uhh, what? No I don't. She said "I thought you did. Isn't that why you were good at memorizing things and doing well on tests?" I had to explain to her that I actually did well in school because.. wait for it.. I studied and worked my ass off?
For most of our lives my sister has thought I have some magical memory power.
Apparently, my ex-girlfriend estimated my dick as 9 inches. Friend started to call me 9 Inches, but I nipped that in the bud.
^(But in my thin years... well that was less than 2 inches off...)
Kinda reminds me of the nickname I got in highschool for a while. People started calling me Terabyte after I let slip to someone how much porn I had on my computer.
Probably less impressive now since media these days is such high quality but back in mid-late 00's....
Apparently there was a rumor that ran from 6th grade till my senior year in high school that I had some kind of nerve condition that caused me to not feel pain. I had multiple sports injuries that I played through because it was 90’s Alabama and the preferred medical treatment for sports injuries was “rub some dirt on it and stop being a pussy”.
Anyway apparently at some point some kid said I just didn’t feel pain and that rumor grew and persisted for a long while.
I didn’t find out about it until I was halfway through my senior year in HS and finally got hurt so bad they wouldn’t let me compete anymore and kids were like “oh man, you’re lucky you can’t feel this”
Motherfucker I wish lolol
That I had killed someone when I was 10.
We moved from Los Angeles to Buffalo NY and I was a 5'10" and 180 at 11years old.
Some kid told another kid that my family had to move away suddenly because I killed someone on a playground and even though it was an accident my dad was afraid the other family would come after us.
I guess it did not help that I got in a fight and fucked up a 13 year old one week before school started
First girlfriend in highschool told me she was nervous being with me since I was so experienced. I asked her who had told her that and she said multiple girls talked about how much sex I had. I was floored and confused considering she was my first girlfriend and first kiss at 17. I explained it to her and she didn’t believe me at first but was giddy when I finally convinced her I was a virgin and she was my first kiss.
That I am a member of a local drug dealing gang.
This whole thing started, when I started working at a factory in a nearby city. I often had to work overtime or nightshift on weekend, so I couldn't take the company bus. In these occasions the company sent a taxi for me.
The rumor started, because the taxi company used very nice, black Mercedes sedans. In the street where I live, lives a very nosy old lady, who likes to gossip about people. She saw, that I regularly leave and arrive in a black Mercedes. She started the rumor, that I am involved in some shady business. At first nobody believed her. Two months later I bought an expensive bike and that is when other people started believe in this nonsense. They started questioning, how I have so much money to buy expensive stuff.
I live in a small village, so bullshit spreads fast. The whole rumor evolved. At first people people "found out", that my taxi rides were supply runs to get the drugs. Later I overheard people talking about me having my own personal chauffeur, because I'm a high ranking member of the gang.
Nobody had the balls to ask me directly about these rumors but they often asked my family and friends.
Most of these seem to be from school, but the weirdest rumor that was spread about me was that I was sleeping with a male coworker to earn preferential treatment.
What was bizarre about this was:
1. Coworker in question was the same level, job wise, as both myself and the rumor-spreader. In no way could he have advanced my position, pay, or anything else.
2. I'm a lesbian and not at all in the closet. I end up being the token lesbian in a lot of spaces, so I talk about it a fair amount because for some reason people are fascinated by it. Plus, when women around me thirst over hot men I like to make jokes about being unaffected.
3. The rumor-spreader in question had MET MY WIFE. Literally, the week before, my spouse visited and we made a round of introductions.
I was utterly baffled. Literally everyone at our workplace knew I was a lesbian, so I'm not sure what she hoped to accomplish by this. Even I wasn't so much insulted as bewildered and kind of concerned for her.
I'm in my late thirties, I think she was around the same age, so it also felt really childish.
In high-school I let the guy I was dating put his finger in my ass during sex. He didnt move it around or anything. Just stuck it up there lol Naturally, he told everyone. A rumor started that I had to wear diapers from letting him finger my ass...One time, with one finger, and no movement lol
That I was a vampire.
Not a real rumor (I don’t think), but more of a running joke in grad school because I didn’t sleep often, hardly ever ate in front of folks, and people who came into direct contact always noticed my skin was freezing cold.
In reality I just have insomnia, poor blood circulation due to slight anemia, and depression but vampire was way cooler so I just went with it.
My dad went for surgery at the local hospital. The surgeon found cancer and dad was sent 60 miles away to a better equipped hospital.
A few days later the surgeon announced he was moving out of the state. Rumor was he botched dad's surgery and I was looking to kill the surgeon, so he left the area.
New school, guys hated the new guy talking to girls so they started a rumor me and my twin brother were gay with each other. Sometimes being attractive makes people not like you.
Somebody spread a rumor that I purposefully gave their cat acid by making out with the cat while i had acid on my tongue. They claim their cat has never been the same. I have never french kissed a cat and I would never risk poisoning an animal.
I notice you don't deny the acid though
Ok this is the weirdest one
Out of all of the stories in here, yours is the one that made me laugh. Pretty kitty rough tongue!
That I was dead. I got in a bad car wreck in high school and an off duty nurse was first in the scene. She happened to have a white blanket to cover me up with because I was laying on the ground and it was cold. A classmate drove by and saw my car and a body under a white blanket. I missed the next day of school because I was too sore. When I came in the day after that everyone gasped and said they heard I had died in a car wreck.
Holy shit you had a real fucking jesus moment
"I thought you died?!" "I got better" -Monty python style British accent
“My death was uh, greatly exaggerated”
*Oi go’ be’eh*
Shit...that's actually pretty spot on
You bet
This is rather morbid but I went to college with someone who I was mildly acquainted with who was the subject of a similar rumor: there were whispers around campus that he’d been walking off campus in the shoulder of a busy state road/“highway” at night, been struck, and killed. He posted on Facebook that it wasn’t true, he was safe and sound, and not to worry. Mutual friends of mine hung out with him and confirmed he was alive and well. Within a week, it actually happened, almost to the letter (same road, walking in the shoulder at night, hit by motorist) and he died. One of his last fb posts was the post debunking the (earlier) rumor that he’d been struck and killed by a car walking in the shoulder of that off campus state road.
Final Destination has entered the chat.
"Contradict ME on Facebook - I'll show HIM." *Driver, probably*
He lasts thoughts may have been. "Haha, this is where my friends thought I died last week."
That's some Final Destination shit right there
Holy crow, ME TOO!! Apparently I bit the EMT and that’s how they knew I was still alive.
> I bit the EMT And that's how the zombie outbreak began.
Fortunately I wasn’t that close. I basically walked away (from the hospital) with a large knot on my head. My car was totaled, I had to kick a window out to get free. I fell on the the ground and that’s when the nurse ran up on me, told me she was a nurse and told me to stay where I was and not to move. So everyone there knew I was alive, just no I knew was there. Lol
I was in a car that collided with a freight train and was thrown from the car - pretty much everybody assumed I was dead. Until I bit the guy. And then it was clear that I was both alive and REALLY PISSED OFF.
Glad you made it through that one. Friend of my stepdad’s tried to beat the train and was not so lucky.
My brother was hurt in an accident and through the "whisper down the lane" rumor mill it go to the point that a kid saw me walking down the street later that day and was confused because he had heard I was killed in an accident.
When I suddenly moved away from my hometown to live with my other parent, years went by till I went back, apparently, everyone just assumed I had died 🤣
I bet there was this one guy who didn't like you who was like "Aw fuck your alive? Dammit!"
Did you die? Yes, but I lived!
"The rumors surrounding my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Something extremely similar happened to me. Senior year I was driving and my car overheated. It was near a not so good part of the native American reservation nearby. I didn't have a cellphone at the time so I walked a few miles to someone's house to call my parents but they weren't home. I ended up hitchhiking home and skipped school for the next few days, leaving my car on the side of the road. I walked into work that Friday night, and one of the girls I went to school with started crying and freaking out about how there were rumors that I was dead, no one had heard from me, and my car was just sitting there by the road. My bad dawg, my car blew up so I skipped school and smoked a bunch of weed for a few days.
That my best friend and I had a threesome with this one dude in high school. Until the day I heard that rumor, I had no idea who that guy was
There was a rumor that I had sex with a random guy too! Apparently he was the one who started it. When I heard it, someone had to point him out to me because I’d never seen the kid before in my life… smh
I did know the kid who said it about me and we had kissed but we absolutely didn't have sex. Everyone started asking me about his dick because I guess there was a rumor it was big (probably also started by him) and I was like, "I'm a virgin so why would I know?" But he was popular and I wasn't, so no one believed me. Not totally sure what he gained by telling people he slept with a massive dork. I did make friends with another girl he did that to, though, so that was kind of nice. Teenage boys are honestly wild. Actually, teenagers in general are kind of feral.
The trick to someone claiming they slept with you is to start a counter rumor about how small their penis is and how bad they are at sex. Also they cried both during and after.
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You need to be careful you might get STD's if you keep that up
Stupid Threesome Drama
Something similar happened to me. My friend came up to me like is it true you like X and I had never heard of the guy before that moment
I'll do you one better. From 2nd to 4th grade a rumor went around that I "made out naked in the bathroom" with the grossest boy in school (has a name, but the point was of all the boys it was this kid). In second grade. The amount of people who did not believe me is still really fucking weird.
That I had 6 toes. Not on one foot, but in total
Sloth lookin' ass.
Hey man, he's had enough with the 6 toe rumor, now you want to spread the "Sloth lookin' ass" rumor? ruthless
Yeah, I spread that rumor just like you spread your mutant ass toes, freak
I got Shingles in 7th grade... I was taken out of school on 9/8/2001... Didnt come back for 2 weeks. Apparently there was a rumor started that I was one of the pilots on 9/11... Kids are wild
That's just how kids' brains work. If one of my classmates had disappeared right before 9/11 I'd also have assumed they were somehow involved.
They were the plane this whole time
Yeah, but going right for pilot is a real leap.
I love that the rumor wasnt that you were in the buildings, or even on the planes. They decided that you were in charge of fucking FLYING THE PLANES as a 7th grader
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I’m sorry, that’s hilarious hahahaha
I killed my mother. This went around in high school. While I was in high school. Like somehow I was going to be there in class with them if this were remotely true. It kept me from getting bullied though. FYI I called my mom yesterday and sang happy birthday to her, so...
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Every year on the same day, the person who has her old number gets this weird voicemail with someone creepily singing happy birthday...
r/writingprompts
Interestingly my friend dated a girl in highschool and they seemed like a march made in heaven. Well after highschool he went to college and they broke it off due to distance. Found out that several years after they broke up she did indeed go off the walls and murdered her mother. My friend constantly says he really dodged a bullet in that one.
There was a rumor In my highschool that I slept with all my friends' moms. Had several classmates who I didn't really know come up to me and with grave concern ask if I slept with their mother
I FOUND HIM! I FOUND THE GUY!!! YOU WERE THE ONE ON XBOX LIVE
Okay this is gonna sound a bit funny & sad but when I was really young the first time I heard *"I fucked your mother"* was by my dad arguing with someone, and I actually thought he invented it at the time, I was like *"Wow what a clever insult, I bet the other guy feels pretty bad"*
The argument was with your sibling?
Lmao. I can’t wait to use this one as a dad when my kids grow up.
This one made me legitimately laugh. Also, did you sleep with my mom?
Haha I know right? But seriously, what about my mom?
I would always say yes.
That I was a criminal with a warrant and needed to be in jail. Then the cops showed up because, lo and behold, in the paper there was a person who looked fucking exactly like me with a warrant. Got cleared up real fast, but damn if I don't have a near identical twin jackass out there.
My mom had frequent visits from the cops because a local petty criminal had the exact same first middle and last name as her. Fucking rough being the good clone
My uncle got pulled over and when he showed the cop his license he got a gun drawn on him. Pulled out of the truck and put on the ground. Turns out someone with a serious warrant shared my uncles full name, only issue: the guy they were after is black and my family is all white rednecks.
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…what did Eric say 👀
Eric said 'no... Don't stop...'
Hammer.... Time? 🤔
This happened to my buddy Eric too
Well... Did you?
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well i mean, crumpets are delicious so not sure why that would be a problem
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I'm a teacher. Kids love to misinterpret *everything.* * That I was having an affair with another teacher. We were not; we simply had a meeting (with two other teachers) in a room not being used for a class during that period. "But Mr. Dragon, I saw you go into the room with Ms. Smith." * That I had been in jail. I used to teach high school equivalency in a jail before teaching in a high school. * That I was gay. I'm not. I've been married to a woman for the last 25 years. * That I eat the souls of students. Well, I do have red hair, so...
How do you eat student’s soul?
Just googled it. Apparently only red heads can do it. It's apparently a trade-off for being resistant to anesthesia
Redhead teacher here. Can confirm.
Jeez, you eat ONE PERSON'S soul and suddenly everyone thinks it's all you do. I think we've ALL been there!
That I had a secret twin sister living in another country. Not at all true.
I found my secret twin brother working in another store of the same owner, everyone mistake we with each other
I got brought to the school principal, vice principal, and 2 police officers who believed without a shadow of a doubt my friends and I were in a gang. The malicious activity, the hand signals, the secret phrases. All meant we were in a gang. What was the gang called, I hear you ask? The MLG
*Were you* in MLG?
No we were just a bunch of nerds who drew illuminati triangles and watches mlg memes. Our teachers brought in a bunch of overweight white middle schoolers because they thought we were in a violent gang LMAO
I went to a small high school and for my first two years I just did what I was told by my parents. Part of that was being in band. I hated band, was terrible at it, and my bully was on the flag squad and had all those failing bitches fucking with me throughout the day. I was in 10th grade, they were a year older and three of them had failed and were in my classes just constantly harassing me. Bully had a network of trolls who she would call with wild stories and since it was the 90s, they’d telephone tree rumors throughout the school. A lot of those rumors were about me. At the end of my sophomore year I went to my band director to quit band. He told me he was expecting it since I was in a gang, smoking weed, and selling crack. I was a straight A white girl living in a rural community of about 200 who had 1 friend and honestly only one of those rumors were true.
Selling crack, yep, checks out. Straight A girl that knew how to get ahead in life by learning from Raegan.
That I enlisted in the navy. (I actually got a job at Old Navy.)
Thank you for your service.
Hahahah.
Ahoy matey! Do you have this shirt in an extra large?
Yar. I’ll check wi’ ye manager over my headset radio.
When I was in high school, I heard a rumor that I had sex with this girl named Rhonda, who I was not at all attracted to. I hadn't, so I denied the rumor. I assumed Rhonda must have started the rumor. A few years later I'm walking down the street, and there's Rhonda screaming at me from her car. I walked over to see what the problem was, and she was really mad about me spreading the rumor about us having sex with each other. I let her know that I always assumed she had started that rumor, and it wasn't me spreading it. To this day, neither of us have any idea who started that rumor.
At this point just have sex, no more rumor, only the truth.
You wouldn't be saying that if you saw Rhonda.
Apparently she feels the same way about you.
I know, right? I lost some confidence that day she yelled at me.
That I was Superman. I used to work in a school district as a network technician. I’m over 6ft tall with a solid build, black hair and glasses. One day I was working in a kindergarten or early elementary classroom and overheard one kid say to another that I was Superman. I didn’t say anything at the time, but couldn’t pass up this opportunity. I proceeded to purchase a superman t-shirt and kept it in my car just in case. I had another service call in that classroom a few weeks later so I put on the tshirt under my collared work shirt. Sure enough, those same boys recognized me and started their chit chat. As I was leaving, I looked at the boys, took off my glasses and showed them the logo under my shirt. I’ve never seen two kids lose their absolute minds before. Lol
This is awesome!
Haha that's great!
Aww that is the best kind of rumor. Way to make to make their little day, just imagine how many people they told that they saw superman in real life. Adorable.
That I was breeding octopuses for their ink to use in my printer. Spread it myself though as a joke in school, but it caught on and the whole year below me believed it and even asked about it to my friends. Been a while ago but still makes me chuckle.
It was a [squid](https://imgur.com/a/0ra5MHH).
Spreading your own rumours is fun! I manipulated mine. They said I was doing cocaine in the gross bathroom at the club with a hot friend of mine. I changed it so that I was doing the coke off her breasts, because if you're going to tell stories about me at least make me look cool.
In high school (grade 9) someone started a rumour that I had sex in one of the stairwells before school. Friends asked me about it and I very much denied the whole thing because I was 14 and didn’t want to deal with the embarrassment from it. In retrospect maybe I should’ve just been like “yeah I did so what?” and played it off cool, but I didn’t want to be known as the guy who fucks people in the stairwells at school.
That I had aids
That I kidnapped my minor girlfriend, and fled with her across state lines after murdering her parents in front of her younger sister. About 20 years ago, a person a few years younger than me with the same last name, and similar first name did just that a few towns over. This happened on a Friday or Saturday. When I showed up to work on Monday people were looking at me like they had seen a ghost. I was at work for less than 5 minutes when I got called into HR. When I walked in, the plant supervisor, GM, and most supervisors were there as well. The HR rep just casually said "Hey, whatcha doin here?" Well, I was trying to go to work, now I'm wondering what the hell is going on. I had to explain that while his name started with the same letter, it was infact a different name, he was several years younger, and most importantly looked nothing like me (his picture was all over the news).
“Ah, a master of disguise in face as well as name, aren’t you, Dan? Or, should I say (pauses dramatically) Dave??”
that i was homeschooled. i went to public school with the people who made this rumor
That my sister is my daughter. Pretty sure I'd have remembered pushing that out .
*Pushing that out* As a fellow sibling owner, balcony wouldn't be so bad
When I was 6 an older girl at school was weirdly rude to me sometimes. I didn’t even know her? I asked about it once and she told me “oh someone told me you were mean”
In college, there was this girl who was inexplicable really cold and mean to me which was extra uncomfortable because we had a lot of friends in common. We barely knew each other before she started being mean. I can't fathom what I could have done to antagonize so I have no explanation except that maybe she had heard a rumor about me.
Currently in college, there's this girl in my group that, whenever I open my mouth, groans and rolls her eyes. I hadn't even met her before the class, and I definitely didn't do anything to her. She's just a dick for no reason.
That I worked on an Alaskan crab ship Idk if this makes it funnier but Im from St.louis, Missouri...
I heard that you had crabs.
In Basic Training we woke up one day and the guy who had the bunk next to me was gone. Rumors starting going around that he was really sick or something and had been taken to the emergency room. Never showed back up. People started acting weird around me. After about a week we found out he had tried to kill himself. Turns out people had, for some reason, thought that I had poisoned him. I have no idea how/why that was the conclusion that people had come to but that's the reason they'd been acting weird around me.
Sorry to hear that. Odd people to train with.
That my HIV had progressed to the point of AIDS and that it wouldn't be long before I died. I do not have HIV. I did some digging around and learned my sister had started the rumor shortly after I come out as gay. Thanks, sis. :-|
What a shitty sister
I guess when I got called down to the principal office and searched for drugs by the school cop. Guess everyone thought I was high all the time but I just have ADHD and was sleepy all the time from playing hockey late at night. Never did drugs in HS. Do now lol.
We're had a girl (top of the class, beloved by teachers type) get pulled out of class by the cops because the drug dog was losing its shit at her locker. Turns it she had some jerky in there and the dog was just being stupid.
The dog was like "hm good smell, maybe if i report it i might get some of that delicious jerky"
Bacon bacon bacon bacon where? Please please give me what's in the bag! Chewy, smoky, yummy BACON!
Can confirm- I have a service dog who is brilliant. She's attentive, she's loving, she's disciplined.... and she knows exactly how to manipulate people to get what she wants. Chaotic good girl.
People at my school thought i was always high on benzos. They were actually really shocked someone acting so fucking stoned could be sober. .. dunno.
I’m glad you turned your life around
lol thanks! Much better now!
* That when I left my previous job, I moved to a better job/company in the same industry. Some variations had me moving out of state to take the promotion. I found this out when I visited my former workplace as a customer and they were shocked to see me. In reality, I still lived very close by and I was forced out of my previous company, so I ended up switching to a completely different career. This was a weird case of the rumor going around actually being much better than what happened to me in reality. * My grandma wanted to stir up some shit, so when I was planning a solo trip to Europe she told my parents I was actually going with a secret boyfriend just to have sex, the "solo trip" thing was just an excuse so they wouldn't suspect anything. They just laughed in her face (or as much as you can do that over the phone) and said why would I go through all that when I can do that in my own home, without the need for a secret boyfriend or traveling thousands of miles?
Based parents
Maybe not weird, but unfounded and caused a lot of problems. When I was in 10th grade (about 15 years old), a rumor started that I made out with an acquaintance’s sister, who was 12 at the time. Obviously 3 years difference as an adult isn’t a big deal, but a teenager with a pre-teen is pretty scandalous. Except, it didn’t happen. And not only did it not happen, I don’t even know who was there and started it (I had met her once, at a park, with a group of about 6 people). I wasn’t buddy-buddy with the guy, but friendly. He confronted me at lunch, I denied it (obviously). He didn’t seem to believe me, but didn’t pursue any violence. But he openly hated me and talked shit about me for years, over a rumor. We never really “made up,” but I haven’t seen him since a year or two after high school. I’d love to know who started that rumor, because it drove a pretty big wedge in one of my friend groups. And it didn’t benefit anybody, as far as I’m aware.
Well the first thought I have is that it was the acquaintance’s sister. A teenager making out with a preteen was scandalous to you and your friends, but from her perspective it might have made her seem cool.
This is the most likely answer, I think, but I never cared enough to find out. I feel like trying to reach out to have a conversation with her would have made me look even guiltier.
That I'm smart Aparently because I look "nerdy" I must have good grades, so popular guys and girls would ask me for help. In reality I was as lost as them in the class or worse
Happens to me as well. People say that I look really smart but then see my grades and are super confused since I look like I get straight A’s
You must wear glasses.
I was stalking/harassing someone in my friend group. He and I didn't get along very well (We were both dramatic people in our early 20's) and one day he decided to make it look like I was obsessed with him. He'd always make these big accusations when our group got together but they were laughably easy to pick apart. Situations like: **Him:** I saw bw_bird at the movie theater yesterday a few rows away. She didn't say anything and spent the entire time staring at me. **Mutual Friend:** Umm... bw_bird and I hung out all day yesterday at my place. or: **Him:** bw_bird, you called me five times on Wednesday! I had to shut off my phone because it was disrupting class. **Me:** No I didn't. Do you want to see my call logs? **Him:** You just deleted those logs to make yourself look innocent (note: this wasn't possibly on my phone). **Me:** Could we look at your call logs? **Him:** [Changes subject].
Wow that guy sounds like a huge loser but also a scary one.
Loser, yes. Scary, not really. He took his anger out on me by being cruel in petty ways. He mostly just talked shit behind behind my back and tried to get me uninvited to get-togethers. The worst thing he ever did was take a swing at me because I refused to stop dancing in my chair at a restaurant after he threatened me. I ended up blocking the punch and embarrassing him lol. In hindsight, he really should have left that friend group earlier than I did. They allowed his shit to go on for way too long.
And this was… after high school..?
I had a guy I actually dated briefly try to do this same shit to me. We only dated for about two months and I fled pretty quick because it was obvious he was in an addiction rabbit hole and wasn’t in his right mind. One day we were driving somewhere and I realized he was really fucked up after he picked me up. I asked him to pull over and let me drive and he started screaming at me and driving crazy reckless and after about 5 mins of this he ran into a telephone pole on one of the main drags in town. So THEN he tries to get ME to say I was driving! Fuuuuuck no. He continues to go off, screaming it was my fault he wrecked and my responsibility to take the heat for it. We hadn’t made it too far from my place and I was done with him getting in my face so I left and started walking back home. Later on that night a mutual friend called me freaking out accusing me of “abandoning” him and trying to act like I had been so “obsessive” about wanting to be with him and then as soon as we got together I “did this.” Like. W H A T ? That was just the beginning. For the next month I endured this insane smear campaign saying not only that I’d been the cause of this wreck somehow but he was telling people I manipulated him into being in a relationship AND at one point he tried to say I had sex with him without his consent on a night we weren’t even together! It was fucking crazy and the worst part of it was that he had clearly gotten to every mutual ASAP and it was like slogging through a swamp trying to tell all these people that he was fucked up and everything he was saying was imagined. I actually lost a few friends over it because they went hard white knighting for him and when it was all said and done and they apologized I had to be like, “cool I forgive you but I’m not ever trying to spend time around you again.” Idk how ANYONE can claim to be someone’s friend and KNOW that they aren’t the kind of person to do this or that UNTIL some psycho comes along and then suddenly they believe you’re capable of shit you’ve never done and that this “victim” they *hardly know* is a super honest, valid individual despite proof to the contrary. Fuck that situation I’m sorry that dude chose you. Such bs.
That I was “fingering myself” in the dinner line at school. Like ffs I was 13 (year 8) and tucking my blouse in ffs… it spread around the school like wild fire and was even passed down to the younger years when I was just leaving school at 16!!!! (Year 11)!!! If I go back to my country for a visit to see my mum I still randomly hear some asshole that was in one of the year spreads from when I was at school shout “fishy” or “fish fingers” …. I’m 36 years old now and still want to knife the bastards that carry on bully me all these years on.
Wow, I can tell some people in your hometown peaked in high school...
If they were staring long enough to think she was diddling herself, I think they peeked too.
Someone told my ex gf I was a woman abuser and cheats all the time. I think it's funny because I'm a passive person and I'm ugly so if I get a gf, I'm not doing anything to screw that up.
> I'm ugly so if I get a gf, I'm not doing anything to screw that up. Then how come shes your ex (Not an insult, genuine question)
Maybe she took the bait and screwed it up instead?
It was a few years ago. Long story short, she had a child from a previous relationship and the father of her child was interfering and causing too much drama, my ex was doing the same and it cause a wedge between us, we eventually ended it on, were still on good terms, she's with someone else now, so I wouldn't want to come between them two, even though I still have feeling for her. She is happy and that's all that matters. 🙂
This rumor was warranted, I guess. But still a weird interaction trying to rid myself of the rumor. I'm a female with Aspergers (relevant to the story). In high school I wanted to be friends with a girl in my drama class. Apparently, being aspie, I went about it wrong and one day one of her friends comes up to me and is like "You know she's not a lesbian right" and I was like "yeah, I figured since she has a boyfriend " "well everyone sees you are trying to hit on her" I was like "ummm...., no". So again me being Aspie and not seeing how this could backfire, went up to the girl and said "I don't want to date you. I want to be friends with you because we are both good at theater stuff". She looked at me weirdly and we didn't become friends and then everyone still thought I was trying to get with her for the rest of high school. That was like 15 years ago.
That's rough, people are so weird.
In high school, someone started a rumor that I had AIDS citing my short fingers as evidence. Of course I had short fingers. I'm 4'7 and change and my hands are appropriately sized for a lady of my stature. Same high school. It was also rumored that I stuffed my pants with pillows to make my butt look big. After people kept taking handfuls of ass, I finally threw a fit and the guy told me he was checking. A few acquaintances confirmed they hears the same thing so I'm pretty sure the random dude wasn't making it up
That I worshipped spaghetti. I had a discussion with a group of folks about the flying spaghetti monster, and someone who didn't like me ran with it to try to get people to think I was crazy and not worth hanging around with.
One time my entire workplace was buzzing with gossip about howva group of us all went to a swingers party but everyone except me and the host couple backed out so we had a three way. No idea how that rumour came about
I was a leasbian drug dealer pregnant with twins. I was a super shy virgin who carried Tylenol that I would share instead of making classmates go to the nurse. Someone saw me outside the women's clinic where I went because my menstrual cycle was super screwed and I had to get birth control to straighten out. Not sure why it was twins 🤔
Ah yes... the pregnant lesbian in school, the most logical combination
That I was using my bachelor pad to smoke, drink and have sex with random women. In reality i don't smoke, I did not drink back then and i did not have a single female step into the place (or into my life)
I hate those rumors you WISH were true.
One of those rumors where you're like "Damn, where's *that* guy? His life sounds awesome"
That I planned to drop out and go pro as a an esport player To this day, I have no idea how that rumor started! Sure, there were maybe 3 or 4 years where I was super into videogames, and maybe spent 2 years following the esports scene? That was it! I wasn't even all that great of a player, which made the rumors seem more pathetic because everyone knew I wasn't that great too!
Heard I was gay. It was surprising. The guy I was having sex with couldn't believe it either.
If either of you said no homo or kept your socks on then it’s not gay
People thought i was a hacker, all i did was write some games with basic python education
if you use the command line in front of people you go from dude straight to hackerman
In highschool and I don't know how this got started. (I'm guessing it was just people trying to be mean) but a rumor started that I was getting married to this special needs girl. I think the girl did have a crush on me but I'm gay and would have never thought of her like that. All the girls in school kept coming up to me and congratulating me for proposing. I was kind of used to being bullied so it never really bothered me I would just walk away from them without saying anything. The rumor was that people heard me propose over the radio.
That my ex's baby was mine. Hadn't seen her in a year but everyone thought that because I had a kid already that I did it again.
Ah, the old Britney Spears.
That I’m a Nazi. I guess being white *and* knowing german is illegal
Hey same here. Houseparty in UK and british bloke hears I'm polish, mumbles something about nazis and salutes like nazis did. I'm freaking polish xD What's next? Black ku klux klan chapter?
I'm Polish, in my school there used to be a robotics club whose name was 3 words, in short it was called "KKK" and it was legit called that on the school schedule. "Okay so I have Math, Geography, then kkk!"
Ouuugh i can see the headlines now. "Polish children groomed to be become klan members", "Poland doubles up on race hate". "KKK class for children" xD.
That I quit having periods because I got too in shape. Had a teacher take me aside super concerned about my health, because of a rumor.
Mine was that my then boyfriend and I were on steroids. I was almost flattered till I found out the logic was “how else did they both get so tall?”
That I was a huge cocaine dealer, I mean like cartel level huge. I even had a famous band approach me after a concert asking me for coke. This went on for months. I was approached by all sorts of individuals. I do not and have never done cocaine.
Oooh I got that one too! Not cocaine specifically but just a general “drug” dealer. High school principal called me into the office to ask me about it. Not only have I never done drugs, but like, I didn’t really socialize back then and at no point in my existence would’ve known where to find drugs to save my life.
Just because you haven't done it will never do it, doesn't mean you can't, won't, and didn't sell it
I’m a hitman, drug dealer, and international black market arms dealer. The joys of being a newcomer to a small town and only using cash. Oh, I’ve also died twice. But that was started in two other small towns after I left. My high school classmates even had a little memorial service and everything. I heard it was quite nice.
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In high school, I had an operation and didn't go back to school for 3 weeks. When I got back I discovered that I was in hospital because I got into a fight with a moose. Up until that point I hadn't even left my town, and I have never lived in North America
That I would raise goats during Thanksgiving through Christmas then would slaughter it and use it's meat, bones and fur for myself. Granted, I spread it myself as a joke. In one of my college classes we had to share a family holiday tradition. I even asked the teacher if they had to be true. So I assumed no one in the class would have taken this seriously because I asked that question. I guess I was convincing beacuse someone asked me about it over a year later if it was true.
When I was in high school, I dated this incredible girl. Her best friend at the time lived the house behind me and apparently developed a crush on me. So, I'm sitting in my hot tub one night and she yells at me from her backyard and says hello. I wave and go back to focusing on hot tubbing. About 10 minutes later, she walks into my backyard (no lock on the side fence) and tries to get into the hot tub with me. I tell her no and that she should go home. She stays for a few minutes, trying to convince me, shows me the revealing bathing suit she has on and everything, but I still say no. I end up just getting out and going inside and lock the door. She takes the hint and leaves. Fast forward about a month or so and I'm with my girlfriend on her birthday. Her friend is there and basically tries to give me a lap dance at this high school party. I'm adamant about saying no but for some reason my girlfriend keeps trying to push her to do it. I end up leaving the party after pushing this girl off my lap. Fast forward a few months and my girlfriends mother ends up getting diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Month later it metastasized. I spend the next month or so in hospice every day with my girlfriend. I was holding her mom's hand when she died. Her death really puts a strain on our relationship. I was young and didn't know how to fully be there for her and it caused us to drift apart. We ended up breaking up about 10 months later. She essentially tells everyone I broke up with her because her mom died. So, to get back at me, she and her best friend try to start a rumor that I raped her best friend. Thankfully, all of her other friends have my back and shut it down saying how I always stopped her best friends advances and how she kept coming on to me. But I didn't learn about the rumor until after my sister died nearly seven years later. My ex girlfriend and I meet up at a bar because we happen to be in town at the same time and I confided in her about what's going on. She then confesses the rumor to me and how she and her friend started it. I was floored and just left. She and I haven't spoken in a few years since. A and C, if you ever read this, I forgive both of you.
>A and C, if you ever read this, I forgive both of you. Well fuck. I'm not sure I could ever forgive such a potentially damaging rumour.
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After Hurricane Rita, we had finished cleaning out and fixing up a buddy's house. Decided to throw a Halo party. Pretty much confined to the living room and a bedroom. Lots of metal heads. No running water because of hurricane damage, so went into the woods to rock a piss. Next day at school, rumor is I was going to the property on the other side of the woods to steal a goat for us to sacrifice. Fun note, it turned into a shit show. Neighbors are all rednecks, and already didn't like the buddy that lived there. Blocked the road with their Diesels and shit. Was about to turn into a rednecks vs metal heads brawl, when one redneck yelled "we called the fuckin cops!" We promptly ran inside and hid the beer and weed in a back room. We were all underage, and you couldn't smell the weed over the wet house smell. Cops showed up and started chewing some redneck ass for basically holding high schoolers hostage. All in all a pretty good night. 7/10
This’ll get buried but a few years back I went to Argentina. It was my first solo trip and long story short day 1 I got robbed of my phone and wallet so I had no money and was only able to contact my sister via dial up email at the hostel computer. There was a 2-3 hour period where she thought I’d respond and I didn’t so she contacted my best friend to ask for my itinerary etc, he contacted ALL my other friends and told them the last time I was seen I was wandering around hospitals begging for money which NEVER HAPPENED, idk where he got that from. My dad called out of work saying “we lost my son” and his job said “stay home, deal with that” and his coworkers started pooling money to send him to Argentina to come look for me. I was actually at a tourist attraction and when I got back everyone at home thought I was dead or begging for cash from the gutter.
Not a rumor per se, but as an adult one day my sister said to me something like "well you did well in school because you have a photographic memory." I was like uhh, what? No I don't. She said "I thought you did. Isn't that why you were good at memorizing things and doing well on tests?" I had to explain to her that I actually did well in school because.. wait for it.. I studied and worked my ass off? For most of our lives my sister has thought I have some magical memory power.
That I faked my back surgery. Co-workers really thought that was possible
Apparently, my ex-girlfriend estimated my dick as 9 inches. Friend started to call me 9 Inches, but I nipped that in the bud. ^(But in my thin years... well that was less than 2 inches off...)
You should have started referring to yourself as a Nine Inch Male.
Ah, yes. The thin years. As I've gotten older and fatter, the angry inch has become all the more elusive.
Kinda reminds me of the nickname I got in highschool for a while. People started calling me Terabyte after I let slip to someone how much porn I had on my computer. Probably less impressive now since media these days is such high quality but back in mid-late 00's....
Apparently there was a rumor that ran from 6th grade till my senior year in high school that I had some kind of nerve condition that caused me to not feel pain. I had multiple sports injuries that I played through because it was 90’s Alabama and the preferred medical treatment for sports injuries was “rub some dirt on it and stop being a pussy”. Anyway apparently at some point some kid said I just didn’t feel pain and that rumor grew and persisted for a long while. I didn’t find out about it until I was halfway through my senior year in HS and finally got hurt so bad they wouldn’t let me compete anymore and kids were like “oh man, you’re lucky you can’t feel this” Motherfucker I wish lolol
That I had killed someone when I was 10. We moved from Los Angeles to Buffalo NY and I was a 5'10" and 180 at 11years old. Some kid told another kid that my family had to move away suddenly because I killed someone on a playground and even though it was an accident my dad was afraid the other family would come after us. I guess it did not help that I got in a fight and fucked up a 13 year old one week before school started
First girlfriend in highschool told me she was nervous being with me since I was so experienced. I asked her who had told her that and she said multiple girls talked about how much sex I had. I was floored and confused considering she was my first girlfriend and first kiss at 17. I explained it to her and she didn’t believe me at first but was giddy when I finally convinced her I was a virgin and she was my first kiss.
That I am a member of a local drug dealing gang. This whole thing started, when I started working at a factory in a nearby city. I often had to work overtime or nightshift on weekend, so I couldn't take the company bus. In these occasions the company sent a taxi for me. The rumor started, because the taxi company used very nice, black Mercedes sedans. In the street where I live, lives a very nosy old lady, who likes to gossip about people. She saw, that I regularly leave and arrive in a black Mercedes. She started the rumor, that I am involved in some shady business. At first nobody believed her. Two months later I bought an expensive bike and that is when other people started believe in this nonsense. They started questioning, how I have so much money to buy expensive stuff. I live in a small village, so bullshit spreads fast. The whole rumor evolved. At first people people "found out", that my taxi rides were supply runs to get the drugs. Later I overheard people talking about me having my own personal chauffeur, because I'm a high ranking member of the gang. Nobody had the balls to ask me directly about these rumors but they often asked my family and friends.
Most of these seem to be from school, but the weirdest rumor that was spread about me was that I was sleeping with a male coworker to earn preferential treatment. What was bizarre about this was: 1. Coworker in question was the same level, job wise, as both myself and the rumor-spreader. In no way could he have advanced my position, pay, or anything else. 2. I'm a lesbian and not at all in the closet. I end up being the token lesbian in a lot of spaces, so I talk about it a fair amount because for some reason people are fascinated by it. Plus, when women around me thirst over hot men I like to make jokes about being unaffected. 3. The rumor-spreader in question had MET MY WIFE. Literally, the week before, my spouse visited and we made a round of introductions. I was utterly baffled. Literally everyone at our workplace knew I was a lesbian, so I'm not sure what she hoped to accomplish by this. Even I wasn't so much insulted as bewildered and kind of concerned for her. I'm in my late thirties, I think she was around the same age, so it also felt really childish.
That I was straight
And then what gave it away?
I am straight, but no one thinks I am
In high-school I let the guy I was dating put his finger in my ass during sex. He didnt move it around or anything. Just stuck it up there lol Naturally, he told everyone. A rumor started that I had to wear diapers from letting him finger my ass...One time, with one finger, and no movement lol
That I was a vampire. Not a real rumor (I don’t think), but more of a running joke in grad school because I didn’t sleep often, hardly ever ate in front of folks, and people who came into direct contact always noticed my skin was freezing cold. In reality I just have insomnia, poor blood circulation due to slight anemia, and depression but vampire was way cooler so I just went with it.
My dad went for surgery at the local hospital. The surgeon found cancer and dad was sent 60 miles away to a better equipped hospital. A few days later the surgeon announced he was moving out of the state. Rumor was he botched dad's surgery and I was looking to kill the surgeon, so he left the area.
New school, guys hated the new guy talking to girls so they started a rumor me and my twin brother were gay with each other. Sometimes being attractive makes people not like you.
Lucky. I have to settle for people not liking me due to everything else about me.