I once told my friend I was allergic to sand. I have no idea what brought this on, but I milked it for about a year, when she found out I spent my summers in Ocean City, NJ.

Megh

My mum used to tell me that there was a a camera on the ceiling fan, and if I lied, she could check the tapes and see. This worked until I was eight. My mother accused me of lying about something I didn't do. She 'checked the tapes' and said that she saw me doing it. When she found out I was innocent, she could never use the tapes again.

Kady

I used to believe and tell kids that my chicken pox scar was caused by an accident I was told about but had forgotten - running smack dab head-on into a coffee table. I was embarrassed of my lie when I found out what really caused the scar.

Lisa Travis

I once told all my freinds at primary school that my dad was an explorer and he was going to the moon. I was the most popular person that dinner!!

Stewart Hulme (Manchester)

When my sister and I were little I told her that everything was made of newspaper. She believed it for about two years.

Lindsay

about when i was 8 my brother and his friend said if i dress up like a girl ide get a free wish and i did and they tied me up to a chair and took my picture and still havent got my wish

Kaeleb

I once convinced my brother that I was an alien that had come to take him back to my home planet as a lab creature. I had him convinced for quite a long time that I had a zipper in the back of my head, so convinced that he tried to find it more than once!

Abbey

My aunt told me once that a six-legged woman had escaped from a circus in a nearby town in Mississippi. She carried this on for months. Telling me the woman had been clocked by a Highway Patrol running down the highway at 125 mph. Also she hated men but didn;t hurt women, I won't say what awful things she did to men. I believed this, not really thinking about it after awhile, until I was in my early twenties and told my husband about it. He thought it was hilarious and asked me just how many tampons this woman used.

cj

When I was 5, my 10 year old sister told me that our family was once so poor, we had to live in a matchbox. I believed her!

Kate

When I was about seven years old, my cousin convinced me that my "real" cousin and her best friend had been abducted by aliens when they were younger...and she said that she was my cousin's "alien" replacement... It took me a few years to figure out that she was lying to me!!

pixie-chan

When I was little my brother told me there was a house for sale for 3 dollars. I spent years dreaming about what I could have done and when I was 9 I finally realized he was lying.

Elle

My friend, a rabid liar, told me in the first grade that he had tied up my dad in his living room. He tols me he put his baby brother on his head to make him look taller and put on a disguise. He also explained that our computer was having trouble because his baby brother had drooled on the keyboard. I half believed him for a while.

Scott

I have known my best friend for about 20 years but when we first met I couldn't stand her. I thought I was quite a clever child and I knew that 'twins' meant 'identical' so I was always angry with my friend because she used to say she and he brother were twins and I knew that was a lie because she was a girl and he was a boy. I couldn't understand why she lied so much or how she thought anyone would believe her!

Anon

When I was little my older brother used to tell me that I was mintally retarted and I believed him for the longest time...and then one day I asked my mom if I was and she told me that I wasn't and my brother got in trouble for making me believe it!!!

Brandy

I used to believe that lies can get bigger and bigger if you hold them in. So when my sister went up to me and asked if i forgot to flush the toilet. I said "YES! I AM SORRY! I PROMISE I WON'T DO IT AGAIN! I WON'T HOLD IN THE LIE ANYMORE! IT WILL GET BIG AND I WILL BLOW UP!!!"

caraboo