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<p>Most of the time, it&#39;s safe to assume other people aren&#39;t talking about you. We&#39;re all living inside the feedback loop of our own neuroses, which means many of us walk around paranoid about other people&#39;s ideas about us, all the while, they&#39;re stuck in the same thought loops about themselves.</p><p>However, there <em>are</em> times when our names are stuck in the mouths of others, and while it can be hurtful, it can also be entertaining when the rumors are completely unfounded.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/q5k174/whats_the_craziest_rumor_that_you_have_ever_heard/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people shared the craziest rumor they ever heard about themselves, and it&#39;s a good reminder to question everything we hear.</h2><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ManyRanger4/" target="_blank">ManyRanger4</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m of Arab descent and my parents are from a small town in Palestine so rumors run rampant. I was walking around in the major American city where we live and saw my father&#39;s cousin who came up to me very animated and excited to see me and smiling. After hugging and exchanging pleasantries he asked 'So how long have you been out?' And when I told him I didn&#39;t understand he said 'come on we all know you&#39;ve been in jail for drug dealing, nothing to be ashamed of, we are just so happy you&#39;re out and free.'</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>When I tried to tell him that I&#39;ve never dealt drugs nor been to jail he got angry that I wouldn&#39;t validate his rumor and walked away pissed off. To this day I don&#39;t know where this rumor started but when I saw him again with my family I tried to bring it up but he said it wasn&#39;t him and that it never happened.</p> </blockquote><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/reptilhart/" target="_blank">reptilhart</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I lived in a small town overseas and worked on a small military base. There were only a couple thousand Americans, so most of us knew each other, at least by sight.</p> <p>I lost a lot of weight by walking around town and eating right. I wasn&#39;t a fitness nut by any means, but everyone had seen me walking around town because everyone else had cars.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>One day, the rumor was that on the weekend, I was leading a hike up a good-sized hill. I don&#39;t know how that rumor started. I hadn&#39;t walked up that hill before. But so many people asked me about my hike, I had no choice but to organize one. I was also a people pleaser.</p> <p>So I led eight people up a hill in Germany, and then we all got ice cream. One of the weirdest experiences in my life.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Assignment_General/" target="_blank">Assignment_General</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>That I punched a girl in the face in high-school (I&#39;m a guy).</p> <p>What really happened is I was at a friend&#39;s house party, his ex-girlfriend was there being a real bitch to him. At one point she started getting in his face and grabbed him. I foolishly intervened and pulled her off of him. She told her friends I hit her, next thing you know word is around I clocked this girl.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I later got into a fight that night with some other kid, punched a street sign out of anger after it went down. This lead to me fracturing a bone in my hand (important for later).</p> <p>So I walk to school on Monday like always, except this time when I cut through the trail I see about a dozen guys running at me. One of them is the girl&#39;s boyfriend. They knock me down and I curled into a ball, while they kicked and punched me. Thankfully it didn&#39;t go on for long, I didn&#39;t move until they were gone.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>After that, I went home, ended up going to the clinic to get checked out. I honestly can&#39;t even remember how I explained my injuries to my parents (this was about 20 years ago). Anyway, turns out these guys had broken one of my ribs, and this is where I found out I fractured my wrist as well. So they put a wrist brace on me and send me home.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I go to school the next day, and everyone is silent and staring at me all day. I looked like shut and had my wrist brace, so I think they thought those dudes broke my arm. I had a few guys tell me when my wrist healed they were gonna fight me, but luckily by the time I was healed the entire thing was forgotten.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Taractis/" target="_blank">Taractis</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was in high school when Columbine happened. At my 10 year reunion I found out that the reason people stopped bullying me as much wasn&#39;t because they grew up, but because they were afraid of me. There was a list going around of who was most likely to do the same thing at my school. I was on top of the list.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mad_fishmonger/" target="_blank">mad_fishmonger</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I got a panicked call from an old friend concerned about me. I was very confused. She told me 'Pat' told her I&#39;d been caught doing cocaine in the gross bathroom at the club and told my friend I was an addict. I&#39;ve never done cocaine, it&#39;s not my thing (no shame), and if I would I wouldn&#39;t do anything off that gross counter. Mostly we didn&#39;t understand why Pat told her this. Later we heard Pat had added another club regular 'Jay' to the 'doing cocaine in the bathroom' story. Jay and I laughed about it, and I said wait if we did coke together I&#39;d rather do it off your breasts than that counter, so we decided that was a better story and if Pat was going to make up rumors she could do better. Years later someone told me they had heard that I had been caught doing cocaine off Jay&#39;s breasts in the club and I laughed so hard. I improved my own rumor.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Raging_Bullfrog/" target="_blank">Raging_Bullfrog</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was told I was dead.</p> <p>Apparently, I had committed suicide in my bathroom about 4 months ago...</p> <p>My silly a*s just forgot to stay dead.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DumDumGimmeYumYums/" target="_blank">DumDumGimmeYumYums</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I worked at Target during my senior year of high school. While working after school one day, a middle manager approached me and we had a conversation somewhat like this:</p> <p>MM: Why don&#39;t you work days?</p> <p>Me: Because I&#39;m in high school.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>MM: No you&#39;re not.</p> <p>Me: Pretty sure I am. I&#39;m 17.</p> <p>MM: No. You&#39;re 30 and have 3 kids. You need to start working days.</p> <p>Me: Ummmm no, still in high school. If you need me to work days, I guess I quit.</p> <p>That&#39;s how I learned there was a rumor that I was twice my age and had 3 imaginary children.</p> </blockquote><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Back2Bach/" target="_blank">Back2Bach</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>The strangest rumor being circulated (during college years) was that I had <em>the biggest</em> organ in town.</p> <p>Actually, it was true - except it was referring to a musical instrument.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/albinochicken/" target="_blank">albinochicken</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was a kid, my beloved cat died. Kids at school made up a story that I cooked him to death in the oven, then threw him in a pond in my neighborhood. That s**t made me so sad.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MapleWayfinder/" target="_blank">MapleWayfinder</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>It&#39;s not a rumor, but everyone I meet thinks I smoke pot. I&#39;ve never done any drugs at all, I just look like a stoner I guess.</p> </blockquote><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/H4j1m3H1n4ta/" target="_blank">H4j1m3H1n4ta</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>That I kissed a girl at a football game. That was my sister, we were hugging, and I&#39;m gay.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AgentBarb/" target="_blank">AgentBarb</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>That I was gay, my sister was my lover and we had adopted a baby.</p> <p>Truth: after our mother died, my sister moved in to give me support, and I wanted to help raise my nephew/God child since his father wanted no part. FYI we had lived in the same community for 30 yrs.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/advantagecp/" target="_blank">advantagecp</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>In 2019 during a solo tourist trip to Morocco in the non touristy city of Tetouan I was staying in an inexpensive hotel. I found out that the rumor around the hotel was that I was an archaeologist.</p> <p>Where that came from I have no idea. FWIW I am a white American man in his 60s, active and in good physical condition.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ludoludoludo/" target="_blank">ludoludoludo</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;ve been living in the same flat for 3 years with my gf, and don&rsquo;t really know people in our block that much besides the usual &laquo; hi &raquo; here and there when you inevitably cross them in the hallways or elevators. A few weeks ago, we had an exterminator came in to check for mices, since we tought we had seen one scurrying up one night. We&rsquo;re both germophobea, and I am hypochondriac on top of it. All in all, there was f**k all in here, the exterminator even jokingly said if any critters would&rsquo;ve been wandering around out place, it would have died right here and there from all the cleaning products and bleach we use almost daily to (obsessively) clean the place. However, a neighbor saw said exterminator came in and out, and a few days after, crazy downstairs neighbor knocked our door to investigate about it.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I greeted her, talked to her, explained the situation, and invited her in. And she goes to tell me that there were rumors going around in the block between all the old gossip ladies that I had 3 huge dogs, were living with half a dozen bums, my place was trashed and that I was growing weed in here and on my balcony. Needless to say, when she saw the quiet, empty (beside for me and my gf) sanitized white out apartment with no pets whatsoever, she seemed shook and apologetic, but it goes to show when you don&rsquo;t wanna give into the gossip and just love your life, people will still make it a mission to imagine all sort of stupid shit about you.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MickeyRipple/" target="_blank">MickeyRipple</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was in high school I fell off the hood of a moving vehicle. It was pretty bad. I was out for 15 minutes. Firetruck, etc all came. I was out for over two weeks. Whiplash, severe concussion, cracked my skull, right before prom too. I was so f**ked up that for a week the room would spin when I stood up.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>My date for prom knew I was alive, and I told her so, but the rumor was that I died. I went back to school right before prom and people were in shock. Everyone was telling me that they heard I died. When I asked my prom date, she told me that no one believed her. So she stopped trying to tell them. I guess it was more exciting to think I was dead.</p> </blockquote><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MisanthropicCunt/" target="_blank">MisanthropicC*nt</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I moved into a tightly knit old neighborhood and lived there for about four years without talking much to my neighbors aside from a passing &#39;hello&#39; or little exchange here and there. Basically kept to myself, wasn&#39;t invited to BBQs or neighborhood things, but didn&#39;t really mind. We were packing up to move and one of the neighbors came by to wish us well, and said <em>&#39;good luck with your treatments, you&#39;re gonna make it, I know you will.&#39;</em></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>So obviously I&#39;m like &#39;wait, what?&#39;</p> <p>I was a woman with a buzzcut at the time, and apparently, they had collectively decided I had cancer or something, rofl.</p> </blockquote><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/blackbettiepage/" target="_blank">blackbettiepage</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>That I was sleeping with the male staff at the Home Depot I was working at. Small town Alberta, only black girl in the whole workplace. Everyone wanted to think that I was some kind of seductress. If you saw the people I worked with, masturbation was the better option in the middle of the store, than f*cking any of them.</p> </blockquote><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ShadoeCrewsArt/" target="_blank">ShadoeCrewsArt</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Terrorism. When I was a kid, I had a friend who wrote an edgy death list and showed it to the kids who genuinely bullied her. Apparently, she wrote a name of a person who didn&#39;t exist on the list, scratched it out, and it said 'dead' next to it. When the police investigated, like a scared kid, she told them her friends, including me, was involved. I was suspended from school for a year to go to court with her. It genuinely was horrifying to go to court as a child with the investigation of said 'terrorism'. The absolute most embarrassing story was that when they searched me, the only thing they found as evidence of my involvement, in my book bag, was a manga that had an ad in the back for that live action of 'Death Note.'</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>My mom hired a lawyer so I could continue my education, I begged for a lie detector test to prove my innocence, the request was refused, and the case was thrown out. Judge knew my evolvement was a waste of time. It ruined my life for a long time, because I lived in a small town in the south, so word spread even out of the state. Radios talked about, it was on new papers, and even though our names weren&#39;t legally allowed to be mentioned on news, word spread everywhere of who we were and where we lived. I was a child being shamed for something even the girl didn&#39;t do.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Chatty, bored rednecks needed something to talk about, so I was guilty in their eyes, including my family and friends who supported me through it all. I learned very quickly how people were by nature by how they handled the rumor. It taught me at a very young age that even adults can be evil. Now that I&#39;m older, I know now that she was just trying to protect herself from bullies because teachers wouldn&#39;t help or listen. I knew she had a bad home life as well, so her life was unhealthy at school, and unhealthy at home. I genuinely hope she&#39;s okay.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/19southmainco/" target="_blank">19southmainco</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Some kids spread a rumor I was a Russian spy. I&rsquo;m not even Russian nor do I have an accent so I was shocked they figured it out.</p> </blockquote><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HawaiianShirtsOR/" target="_blank">HawaiianShirtsOR</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>That my house burned down, that my family got out just in time but lost everything we owned.</p> <p>The house <em>did</em> burn down. It was structurally unsound, so we moved all our stuff out except trash and a really old couch. The fire department came by and did a controlled burn and some practice exercises. We put in a prefab over the next three months.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Some girl who rode the same school bus I did (we were 16) spread the lost-everything rumor. I couldn&#39;t get her to stop. When it came back around to me, I tried to tell people the truth, but some didn&#39;t believe me, so I gave them this answer: 'Yeah, but it was a really slow-moving fire, so we actually had a few weeks to get most of our stuff out.' Somehow that was believable.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share the craziest rumor they've ever heard about themselves.

Bronwyn Isaac

Most of the time, it&#39;s safe to assume other people aren&#39;t talking about you. We&#39;re all living inside the feedback loop of our own neuroses, which means many of us walk around paranoid about other people&#39;s ideas about us, all the while, they&#39;re stuck in the same thought loops about themselves.However, there are times when our names are stuck in the mouths of others, and while it can be hurtful, it can also be entertaining when the rumors are completely unfounded.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the craziest rumor they ever heard about themselves, and it&#39;s a good reminder to question everything we hear.1. From ManyRanger4: I&#39;m of Arab descent and my parents are from a small town in Palestine so rumors run rampant. I was walking around in the major American city where we live and saw my father&#39;s cousin who came up to me very animated and excited to see me and smiling. After hugging and exchanging pleasantries he asked 'So how long have you been out?' And when I told him I didn&#39;t understand he said 'come on we all know you&#39;ve been in jail for drug dealing, nothing to be ashamed of, we are just so happy you&#39;re out and free.'  When I tried to tell him that I&#39;ve never dealt drugs nor been to jail he got angry that I wouldn&#39;t validate his rumor and walked away pissed off. To this day I don&#39;t know where this rumor started but when I saw him again with my family I tried to bring it up but he said it wasn&#39;t him and that it never happened. 2. From reptilhart: I lived in a small town overseas and worked on a small military base. There were only a couple thousand Americans, so most of us knew each other, at least by sight. I lost a lot of weight by walking around town and eating right. I wasn&#39;t a fitness nut by any means, but everyone had seen me walking around town because everyone else had cars.  One day, the rumor was that on the weekend, I was leading a hike up a good-sized hill. I don&#39;t know how that rumor started. I hadn&#39;t walked up that hill before. But so many people asked me about my hike, I had no choice but to organize one. I was also a people pleaser. So I led eight people up a hill in Germany, and then we all got ice cream. One of the weirdest experiences in my life. 3. From Assignment_General: That I punched a girl in the face in high-school (I&#39;m a guy). What really happened is I was at a friend&#39;s house party, his ex-girlfriend was there being a real bitch to him. At one point she started getting in his face and grabbed him. I foolishly intervened and pulled her off of him. She told her friends I hit her, next thing you know word is around I clocked this girl.  I later got into a fight that night with some other kid, punched a street sign out of anger after it went down. This lead to me fracturing a bone in my hand (important for later). So I walk to school on Monday like always, except this time when I cut through the trail I see about a dozen guys running at me. One of them is the girl&#39;s boyfriend. They knock me down and I curled into a ball, while they kicked and punched me. Thankfully it didn&#39;t go on for long, I didn&#39;t move until they were gone.  After that, I went home, ended up going to the clinic to get checked out. I honestly can&#39;t even remember how I explained my injuries to my parents (this was about 20 years ago). Anyway, turns out these guys had broken one of my ribs, and this is where I found out I fractured my wrist as well. So they put a wrist brace on me and send me home.  I go to school the next day, and everyone is silent and staring at me all day. I looked like shut and had my wrist brace, so I think they thought those dudes broke my arm. I had a few guys tell me when my wrist healed they were gonna fight me, but luckily by the time I was healed the entire thing was forgotten. 4. From Taractis: I was in high school when Columbine happened. At my 10 year reunion I found out that the reason people stopped bullying me as much wasn&#39;t because they grew up, but because they were afraid of me. There was a list going around of who was most likely to do the same thing at my school. I was on top of the list. 5. From mad_fishmonger: I got a panicked call from an old friend concerned about me. I was very confused. She told me 'Pat' told her I&#39;d been caught doing cocaine in the gross bathroom at the club and told my friend I was an addict. I&#39;ve never done cocaine, it&#39;s not my thing (no shame), and if I would I wouldn&#39;t do anything off that gross counter. Mostly we didn&#39;t understand why Pat told her this. Later we heard Pat had added another club regular 'Jay' to the 'doing cocaine in the bathroom' story. Jay and I laughed about it, and I said wait if we did coke together I&#39;d rather do it off your breasts than that counter, so we decided that was a better story and if Pat was going to make up rumors she could do better. Years later someone told me they had heard that I had been caught doing cocaine off Jay&#39;s breasts in the club and I laughed so hard. I improved my own rumor. 6. From Raging_Bullfrog: I was told I was dead. Apparently, I had committed suicide in my bathroom about 4 months ago... My silly a*s just forgot to stay dead. 7. From DumDumGimmeYumYums: I worked at Target during my senior year of high school. While working after school one day, a middle manager approached me and we had a conversation somewhat like this: MM: Why don&#39;t you work days? Me: Because I&#39;m in high school.  MM: No you&#39;re not. Me: Pretty sure I am. I&#39;m 17. MM: No. You&#39;re 30 and have 3 kids. You need to start working days. Me: Ummmm no, still in high school. If you need me to work days, I guess I quit. That&#39;s how I learned there was a rumor that I was twice my age and had 3 imaginary children. 8. From Back2Bach: The strangest rumor being circulated (during college years) was that I had the biggest organ in town. Actually, it was true - except it was referring to a musical instrument. 9. From albinochicken: When I was a kid, my beloved cat died. Kids at school made up a story that I cooked him to death in the oven, then threw him in a pond in my neighborhood. That s**t made me so sad. 10. From MapleWayfinder: It&#39;s not a rumor, but everyone I meet thinks I smoke pot. I&#39;ve never done any drugs at all, I just look like a stoner I guess. 11. From H4j1m3H1n4ta: That I kissed a girl at a football game. That was my sister, we were hugging, and I&#39;m gay. 12. From AgentBarb: That I was gay, my sister was my lover and we had adopted a baby. Truth: after our mother died, my sister moved in to give me support, and I wanted to help raise my nephew/God child since his father wanted no part. FYI we had lived in the same community for 30 yrs. 13. From advantagecp: In 2019 during a solo tourist trip to Morocco in the non touristy city of Tetouan I was staying in an inexpensive hotel. I found out that the rumor around the hotel was that I was an archaeologist. Where that came from I have no idea. FWIW I am a white American man in his 60s, active and in good physical condition. 14. From ludoludoludo: I&rsquo;ve been living in the same flat for 3 years with my gf, and don&rsquo;t really know people in our block that much besides the usual &laquo; hi &raquo; here and there when you inevitably cross them in the hallways or elevators. A few weeks ago, we had an exterminator came in to check for mices, since we tought we had seen one scurrying up one night. We&rsquo;re both germophobea, and I am hypochondriac on top of it. All in all, there was f**k all in here, the exterminator even jokingly said if any critters would&rsquo;ve been wandering around out place, it would have died right here and there from all the cleaning products and bleach we use almost daily to (obsessively) clean the place. However, a neighbor saw said exterminator came in and out, and a few days after, crazy downstairs neighbor knocked our door to investigate about it.  I greeted her, talked to her, explained the situation, and invited her in. And she goes to tell me that there were rumors going around in the block between all the old gossip ladies that I had 3 huge dogs, were living with half a dozen bums, my place was trashed and that I was growing weed in here and on my balcony. Needless to say, when she saw the quiet, empty (beside for me and my gf) sanitized white out apartment with no pets whatsoever, she seemed shook and apologetic, but it goes to show when you don&rsquo;t wanna give into the gossip and just love your life, people will still make it a mission to imagine all sort of stupid shit about you. 15. From MickeyRipple: When I was in high school I fell off the hood of a moving vehicle. It was pretty bad. I was out for 15 minutes. Firetruck, etc all came. I was out for over two weeks. Whiplash, severe concussion, cracked my skull, right before prom too. I was so f**ked up that for a week the room would spin when I stood up.  My date for prom knew I was alive, and I told her so, but the rumor was that I died. I went back to school right before prom and people were in shock. Everyone was telling me that they heard I died. When I asked my prom date, she told me that no one believed her. So she stopped trying to tell them. I guess it was more exciting to think I was dead. 16. From MisanthropicC*nt: I moved into a tightly knit old neighborhood and lived there for about four years without talking much to my neighbors aside from a passing &#39;hello&#39; or little exchange here and there. Basically kept to myself, wasn&#39;t invited to BBQs or neighborhood things, but didn&#39;t really mind. We were packing up to move and one of the neighbors came by to wish us well, and said &#39;good luck with your treatments, you&#39;re gonna make it, I know you will.&#39;  So obviously I&#39;m like &#39;wait, what?&#39; I was a woman with a buzzcut at the time, and apparently, they had collectively decided I had cancer or something, rofl. 17. From blackbettiepage: That I was sleeping with the male staff at the Home Depot I was working at. Small town Alberta, only black girl in the whole workplace. Everyone wanted to think that I was some kind of seductress. If you saw the people I worked with, masturbation was the better option in the middle of the store, than f*cking any of them. 18. From ShadoeCrewsArt: Terrorism. When I was a kid, I had a friend who wrote an edgy death list and showed it to the kids who genuinely bullied her. Apparently, she wrote a name of a person who didn&#39;t exist on the list, scratched it out, and it said 'dead' next to it. When the police investigated, like a scared kid, she told them her friends, including me, was involved. I was suspended from school for a year to go to court with her. It genuinely was horrifying to go to court as a child with the investigation of said 'terrorism'. The absolute most embarrassing story was that when they searched me, the only thing they found as evidence of my involvement, in my book bag, was a manga that had an ad in the back for that live action of 'Death Note.'  My mom hired a lawyer so I could continue my education, I begged for a lie detector test to prove my innocence, the request was refused, and the case was thrown out. Judge knew my evolvement was a waste of time. It ruined my life for a long time, because I lived in a small town in the south, so word spread even out of the state. Radios talked about, it was on new papers, and even though our names weren&#39;t legally allowed to be mentioned on news, word spread everywhere of who we were and where we lived. I was a child being shamed for something even the girl didn&#39;t do.  Chatty, bored rednecks needed something to talk about, so I was guilty in their eyes, including my family and friends who supported me through it all. I learned very quickly how people were by nature by how they handled the rumor. It taught me at a very young age that even adults can be evil. Now that I&#39;m older, I know now that she was just trying to protect herself from bullies because teachers wouldn&#39;t help or listen. I knew she had a bad home life as well, so her life was unhealthy at school, and unhealthy at home. I genuinely hope she&#39;s okay. 19. From 19southmainco: Some kids spread a rumor I was a Russian spy. I&rsquo;m not even Russian nor do I have an accent so I was shocked they figured it out. 20. From HawaiianShirtsOR: That my house burned down, that my family got out just in time but lost everything we owned. The house did burn down. It was structurally unsound, so we moved all our stuff out except trash and a really old couch. The fire department came by and did a controlled burn and some practice exercises. We put in a prefab over the next three months.  Some girl who rode the same school bus I did (we were 16) spread the lost-everything rumor. I couldn&#39;t get her to stop. When it came back around to me, I tried to tell people the truth, but some didn&#39;t believe me, so I gave them this answer: 'Yeah, but it was a really slow-moving fire, so we actually had a few weeks to get most of our stuff out.' Somehow that was believable. 