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The story is told of a man who was running a zoo which had a very active Gorilla and demonstrating lion. The Gorilla particularly attracted so many visitors and of course was a money spinner for the owner. One day, the Gorilla died. The Zoo keeper carefully skinned the gorilla and dried the skin. One…

In January of 2015, believers and non-believers were shocked to hear an admission from Alex Malarkey that he lied about going to heaven and coming back to tell about it while in a coma after an auto accident. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond…

Anthony Rackley called the Oklahoma City Police to tell them that he had escaped from the Maryland prison system more than 30 years ago. Why would he turn himself in? Extortion. A close “friend” Rackley, demanded payment for his silence after Rackley unburdened himself to him. When the demands increased,…

There remains a warm place in our hearts for truth. NBC Anchor Brian Williams has lost his position with NBC’s Nightly News. NBC relieved Williams when his viewers discovered that he was not truthful in personal anecdotes he told on air about adventures in Iraq and other stories. –--Jim L. Wilson and…

Some people are bad liars. A Nebraska man was fined $100 for marijuana possession after police searched his car and found his stash. The sheriff said that his deputies stopped the 21-year-old man on suspicion of driving drunk and did a quick search of his vehicle. Under the passenger seat they discovered…

A social experiment put teens in a room by themselves to play a bean-bag toss game. After they played the game researchers asked the teens to report on their own scores. Unknown to the youngsters there was a hidden camera to verify the results. They found that eighty percent of the participants lied,…

As the season for fireworks approached in 2015, the state of Ohio eliminated part of law that made many residents lie. The state’s governor signed a provision that eliminated a requirement that required anyone who purchased fireworks to sign a form promising to take the fireworks out of the state within…

Pennsylvania police say a man was arrested and charged with passing counterfeit money after he tried to use phony $20 bills to purchase items at a garage sale. They say the reason 40-year-old Gregory Douglas was caught was that he tried to give the money to the wrong person. The woman running the sale,…

A museum in Iowa was shocked to learn that an African leopard Tortoise they owned might have been stolen. They were more surprised a few days later, when they discovered that a misguided employees had later found the turtles and then lied to keep up the story about ti being stolen. Authorities said,…

No one seems to worry about telling a few “white lies” during the course of a day, but research indicates telling the truth improves both mental and physical health. Researchers from the American Psychological Institute recruited 110 adults and asked half of them to stop lying for ten weeks. The participants…

With the help of a user, Wikipedia recently deleted a story about the “Bicholim Conflict” because it turned out the story was a hoax. For nearly five years, the site had posted an article describing the conflict as a year-long war between Portugal and the Indian Marath Empire which took place in 1640.…

I have a couple of riddles for you today. If someone tells you that they’re telling you the truth, should you believe them? Not necessarily, a liar wouldn’t mind lying straight to your face, while claiming to be truthful. Then if someone tells you they are lying, should you believe them? Of course, it…

On January 11th 2014 Major League Baseball suspended Alex Rodriguez for the use of performance enhancement drugs (PED). Defiant, Rodriguez would not admit that he used steroids, and maintaining his innocence throughout the league’s investigation. It wasn’t until he was under oath in front of prosecutors…

According to a 2012 survey of 23,230 men and women by TODAY.com and SELF.com, 56% of married women and 37% of married men admit to keeping money secrets from their spouse. “At the same time, honesty about money is a value many married men and women say they prize in relationships. Sixty-three percent…

Unmarried women living in Beijing are under great pressure to find husbands. That pressure has created a burgeoning industry in rental boyfriends, especially around holiday seasons when they go home to the countryside to visit their families. Boyfriends cost about a month’s salary for a visit home posing…

Star linebacker Manti Te'o relationship with a former Stanford student named Lennay Kekua turned out to be a hoax! She never existed! A relationship we heard about for the last year is mere fiction. Manti had us all caught up in the drama of his alleged girlfriends battle with leukemia, and finally her…

An election season calls forth charges and then countercharges. An army of fact checkers head for the news to verify, fact or lie. “Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.” As believers we ought to value truth very highly. After all, it is…

Lance Armstrong, the legendary cyclist recently stripped of seven Tour de France titles for doping, appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show to “come clean.” During the interview, he revealed the condition of his conscience during the time he was cheating. Oprah asks, “Was it a big deal to you? Did it feel…

A study conducted by the Josephson Institute of Ethics has found that the number of high school students who admit to cheating, lying or stealing has dropped for the first time in ten years. The survey is conducted every other year and includes a sample of 23,000 students from around the nation. The…

When a temporary job staffing firm surveyed employees they sent replacements to cover, they found some interesting results about taking time off. Approximately one quarter of workers said they were willing to lie about a death in the family, an illness, or jury duty in order to avoid going to work. Twenty-six…

Gregg Allman told a lie. He can’t quit thinking about it even though it slipped his lips in 1971. His brother Duane asked Gregg, “Did you steal my coke?” He wasn’t talking about a soda. Gregg had snuck into Duane’s house and snorted a half a gram of the illegal substance but he told his brother he didn’t…

A survey by CareerBuildercom found that nearly a third of workers called in sick to their employer to get a day off. One in six ditched work just to catch up on sleep. Some of the more creative fabrications include a botched hair-dye job, a grandmother who was being exhumed for a police investigation,…

Researcher in the United Kingdom say they are developing new technology that could help interviewers detect when a person is lying. The technology, developed at the University of Bradford uses a thermal imaging camera to detect variations in facial temperature in response to questioning. The thermal…

Lance Armstrong was one of the greatest cyclists in the history of the game. He won Tour de France 7 times. However, the USADA recently exposed his lies. He did not play fair. The USADA has strong evidence that Armstrong used dope. Doping ruined his career as a cyclist. He lost all his medals and past…

Jessica Vega funded her wedding and honeymoon by dying of cancer--well sort of. As it turns out she wasn't really dying, she was just scamming her neighbors. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said, "To prey on people's emotions by pretending to have a terminal illness is unconscionable. . ." -- http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-23/news/sns-rt-us-usa-crime-newyork-bridebre84m1gb-20120523_1_victims-jessica-vega-terminal-illness…