These People Prove Just How Gullible You Can Be

The word “gullible” literally means to be like a seagull, following whatever is put in front of you without giving a second thought.

Actually, that’s a lie, but if you believed it, you might find yourself falling for some of these real life stories of people who were just a little too trusting for their own good.

Finnishing Late

When I was in college I was an orientation leader for new international students (I was the only American in the group). At some event everyone was introducing themselves and where they were from. I picked a country at random and jokingly announced that I was from Finland.

I didn’t realize that this girl took me seriously until months later when she introduced me to someone else as an international student from Finland. Story credit: Reddit / quesrah

The Hazard Bird

My dad drove me and my little brother to the store and left us there while he went to get groceries. I was about twelve at the time, and my brother was about seven.

We were both bored, playing I Spy in the parking lot and all, and my brother wanted to know what the hazard light on the car dashboard meant.

I told him that if he hit the hazard button, the Hazard Bird would come down from its roost and snatch him up and carry him away.

I also told him that he could never bring this up to our father, because he’d lost a grandfather to the Hazard Bird, and was very sensitive to mentions of the Hazard Bird.

My brother acted very careful to never mention the Hazard Bird when our dad got back in the car. He even looked kind of haunted. My brother came to me last year and told me he’d figured out the whole Hazard Bird thing was a lie. He was sixteen. Story credit: Reddit / daisy_chain

Made in Canada

For about 10 glorious seconds, I made my girlfriend believe that Canada was named after the Geese. You see, there are Canada geese in Europe, so I told that they’d always been called that, and they’d always been around.

Once explorers found Canada, the only thing they saw that looked familiar, were the geese, so of course they would name the new land after these geese, that were so like the ones found at home. Story credit: Reddit / Skulder

The Deadliest Harvest

I convinced my younger brother that the Discovery Channel was putting out a new reality show that was to be a companion to “Deadliest Catch” called “The Deadliest Harvest,” where they chronicled the dangers and horrors of harvesting iceberg lettuce…from the icebergs they grow on. Story credit: Reddit / sleepybrooke