The one I’d doubt if I weren’t, myself, the poster is about how I married the high school football coach a week after I graduated.
I didn’t post that here, though. Well, I guess now I have.
Given the level of skepticism around here I am surprised no one called me out on my descriptions of the two deaths I have seen up close and personal, car fire and shooting. They did happen exactly as I described, but not a single “come on man, you can’t be serious”. And so it begins…
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Ah, wow - thanks!
Oo! Discovering dead person, that reminds me. This one is pretty unbelievable:
The Dead Body I Didn’t Find OR Why Tapu Would Not Make a Very Good Detective
For a sec there I thought we were in the “what scares you” thread.
I was on a sailing trip that lost a young woman overboard. Her father was a famous hockey player, so it was a bit of a news story at the time. I mentioned the trip before the accident, though, which should bolster my credibility somewhat.
And a few more personal things. Never figured anybody was interested enough to use them against me.
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I’ve posted here (and elsewhere) a few extraordinary things about my childhood. That I was abused by my father, that my mom was so controlling she wouldn’t allow me or my sister to get driver’s licenses. I’ve never been publicly called a liar. I’m not always sure what goes on at the snark boards, of course. But I think (and hope) I come off as realistic.
The key, I think, is to not be a one-trick pony, and don’t blow your wad so early. I wouldn’t share that kind of personal information as my first post on the first day I joined a new message board–that is really why people like umkay and that frost guy come off as ingenuine. I also don’t troll for sympathy. I don’t bring my past up out of the blue, because that looks like a desperate bid for attention. I only bring up my own issues when I think they lend me credibility in a related, topical discussion. Anything else? Well, if it quacks like a victim card, and walks like a victim card…
On SDMB, I suppose it would be the fact that my wife died. That’s probably not so extraordinary in and of itself - I’m not the only widower in the world - but I don’t think I would have posted here about it if it had happened, say, yesterday.
Several years before she died, though, and before we married and I moved to the US, she was involved with AA. She got 13th stepped by a guy who was hosting meetings (or whatever you call it) while drinking a bottle of gin a day. There’s much more to the story, of course, faults on all sides and so on, but I did post on an AA forum to ask for advice, as she was living so far away.
Boy, did I live to regret that. I was told I must be making it all up, such things could never happen, I was obviously drunk, and so on.
I have posted what could be seen as contradictory things about my military career. Someone sent me a PM about it once. Easily explained by the fact that I’ve been doing it a long time (first full time then part time) and I have changed jobs several times. Since its usually not needed I don’t go through the whole story each time. So I might mention being a tanker, a combat engineer or being in army aviation. All have been true at some point but not currently.
I havent here, but I have on another forum. When I was a paramedic, I was held hostage at gun point for 4ish hours.
I’ve been really sloppy about my personal life here - it wouldn’t be much effort at all for a motivated person to identify me. Hopefully that motivated person won’t ever be the wrong one.
I suppose the most out-there stuff I’ve posted has been about my sociopath half-brother and his kids and his dead wife. Well, and then I was on Jeopardy. I guess I could have lied about that, but I’d have picked a skinnier, prettier player’s identity to steal. 
I posted that my birth mother was 12 when she became pregnant with me, 13 when she gave birth to me. It was in a MMP thread which, in retrospect, was probably not the place to share something like that!
That I used to fire roman replica siege weaponry on a semi-annual basis, sometimes with fireballs. I’m really not sure how to prove that part beyond any doubt, but I could make reasonable case. There are pictures and advertising posters and such. Though I suppose I could still be suspected of identity theft.
My childhood. The fact that I was abused is hardly earth-shattering, but the crazy instability of my childhood has resulted in me having a lot of interesting experiences, such as having 4 different ‘‘fathers’’ and legally emancipating at 17. The first time I posted about it, it actually ended with some folks believing I was a troll. I guess because I told a lot of details about my life, and at the time they seemed to contradict one another. I dunno. I guess if I was not me, I’d appear pretty farfetched, too. It seems like another lifetime ago… sometimes I have to remind myself that yes, all that crazy shit happened to me. And one thing I didn’t have back then was perspective, understanding that suffering is universal and there are way worse lives to live, so I tend to be a lot less melodramatic about it now.
I’ve tried to stay away from some of the wilder stories, on the basis that people are likely to not believe me, and I wouldn’t blame them. Particularly since my personal internet-safety rules would prevent me from verifying a lot of it.
I have told some crazy, totally true stories here, but there are also a bunch that I haven’t told.
A couple of crazy plane crashes too, right? (Or is that someone else?)
I think I’ve posted way too much personal info about myself (it’s all lies from here on out, folks), but I don’t think any of it has been all that unbelievable.
Oh yeah, I’d bust your ass. 
tapu if your real name is Denise, PM me…
Oh yeah, loving Nzinga but not just for this.
But I am loving your use of umkerfuffle!!!