There’s something to be said about being humble and keeping your accomplishments and blessings to yourself. If you’re living well and doing good things, you technically don’t have to tell anyone. But sometimes it’s hard to resist the urge to show off. Throughout history, there have been people who have said or done things so remarkable that they couldn’t help but be seen as bragging, and some of them were more believable than others. That’s not to say that all of these people were lying. But we’re not saying that they were all telling the truth, either.
10. David Ingram claimed to have walked from Florida to Canada in 1568.
Feats of strength and endurance are always impressive. We hold the Olympic Games every two years, alternating between winter and summer games, so that the best athletes from around the world can compete against each other and see who is truly the best at any given time. But these games are very structured, and also limited in scope. For a truly epic feat of human endurance, we can go back to 1568 and look to David Ingram.
Ingram was a British sailor who landed in the Gulf of Mexico with a crew of 100 men after losing a battle with the Spanish. According to Ingram, most of the men headed south, and Ingram and a few others headed north They stayed within 30 miles of the coast and walked. And walked. And then walked some more.
It took the men almost a year to walk 2,000 miles before they were rescued. By then, only Ingram and two others were left alive. They traveled to Florida and found themselves in Nova Scotia , on the east coast of Canada. Pretty incredible, right?
Ingram shared details of his journey after he was rescued, and history has frowned upon some of them. For example, when he said he saw herds of elephants in the desert. It’s worth noting that Ingram was illiterate, so his account was in the form of answers to questions asked 20 years later. So the details may have been unclear, exaggerated, or completely made up. We’ll probably never know for sure.
9. Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with 20,000 women.
It's hard to overstate how great Wilt Chamberlain was. The man beat dozens of records in professional basketball, including scoring 100 points in a singles match. On the court, he was so brilliant that few players can even hope to match him, and many of his records are considered unrivaled.
Off the court, Chamberlain was somehow larger than life, so to speak. His most notable claim to fame off the court was that he slept with 20,000 women .
Chamberlain made the claim in his 1991 book. He was born in 1936, making him 55 years old at the time. No one knows exactly when Chamberlain might have become sexually active in life, but let's say he started in his teens (most people do the hypothetical calculations with him at age 15 to make the numbers easier to deal with) and then say he had about 40 years to reach those 20,000 accolades. That means he'd have to sleep with 500 women a year for 40 years straight. That's about 1.4 women every day of his adult life, plus a few teenage days.
Many people have doubted this claim over the years and have claimed that it is completely unrealistic. What is known is that his friends and teammates knew that he was a fan of threesomes, so he often slept with two women at the same time. Teammates also said that at one point they saw him with at least 23 women during a 10-day trip.
Was the number really fake? Only Chamberlain knew for sure, and he died in 1999.
8. Alan Shepard claimed to have hit a golf ball several miles across the Moon.
Alan Shepherd was the first American in space and the fifth man on the moon. His contributions to space exploration are enormous, and he will go down in history as an inspiration. As remarkable as his life and career were, even Shepherd was not above hiding the odd details of his accomplishments, or so it seems.
One of the most memorable moments of Shepherd's trip to the moon was when he claimed to have hit the moon with a golf ball and it flew " miles and miles and miles "Now, as you may know, the gravity on the moon is only a fraction of what it is on Earth, and a human astronaut could jump onto the moon and float above the lunar surface as if he had wings. But how far can a golf ball fly?
Turns out, it wasn't miles and miles and miles. And let's be honest with Shepard, that quote was made as a joke. He later downgraded his skills to 600 feet with the help of the moon? gravity. That sounds more reasonable. But it's still a long way off.
Photographs showed that the distance between Shepherd's footprints and the ball's location was only 120 feet. Not bad if he had used a sand wedge.
7. A Texas veterinarian claimed to have collected Bigfoot DNA.
Humanity loves mysteries, especially those that tantalize with the discovery of something that might be both terrifying and beautiful. That’s the great appeal of UFOs and aliens. But there are also homegrown mysteries. Bigfoot, for example. The legendary monster is said to roam almost the entire world under one name or another. This not-quite-man-beast has fascinated people for centuries. But no one has ever found the real thing. However, that doesn’t mean no one has tried.
Aside from photos and videos, which are more or less convincing depending on your predisposition, some have used science to try to prove Bigfoot's existence, and no one has tried harder than Dr. Melba Ketchum (no relation to Ash), who claimed to have taken a sample of Bigfoot's DNA and analyzed it in 2012, thus proving that the creature was not only real, but partly human .
Ketchum's press release said the Yeti was a member of a species that split from humanity around 15,000 years ago, when another species mated with human females. You may be surprised to learn that none of this has been peer-reviewed, and no one else has seen evidence for these claims.
6. Nokia sold 400,000 of its N Gage gaming systems.
Handheld gaming has had its ups and downs over the years. The Gameboy revolutionized modern gaming, but then the Atari Lynx failed. Among the many offerings in the space was the Nokia N Gage system, which debuted in 2003 and gained a large following. Nokia claimed to have sold out in just two weeks. 400,000 devices This would have brought him resounding success.
If you're struggling to remember what the Nokia N Gage looked like and how it could possibly be such a hit, don't worry. It wasn't a hit. Nokia later admitted that their boasts were less than truthful. They shipped 400,000 units to stores, but that didn't mean consumers were buying them. In fact, they managed to sell only 5000 units for the first week.
5. Hulda Clark made millions by claiming she could cure cancer
Hulda Clark was a fraud, and her lies took advantage of some of the most vulnerable people in the world. Clark claimed she could cure cancer. And when people are desperate enough, when they know they are going to die or that a loved one is going to die, they will believe almost anything. They will also pay almost anything, and Clark took advantage of that.
Clarke claimed that she created low voltage electrical device , which would cure not only cancer, but AIDS and many other deadly diseases. She wrote books and sold supplements and her devices to the dying. She convinced them that the root of all these diseases is intestinal parasites , and that with the help of her car and diet everything can be fixed.
Needless to say, Clarke was a fraud from top to bottom, and ironically, she herself died of cancer.
4,700 people claimed kinship with the prince after his death
Have you ever heard of someone winning the lottery and suddenly discovering all these distant relatives they never knew they had? It happens, and in different ways. For example, after the musician Prince died without leaving a will, suddenly appeared as many as 700 people , who call themselves his relatives.
Prince's estate was valued almost 1 billion dollars , so anyone hoping to prove he was their long-lost brother would need scientific evidence, but that hasn't stopped people from trying with stories as weak as "we lived in the same neighborhood."
3. Terrence Howard claims to have invented new mathematics
Many people have claimed to have invented remarkable things over the years, including cold fusion or a water-powered engine. Actor Terrence Howard claimed to have invented a new kind of mathematics.
In the Howard system 1 x 1 = 2 . This was a big, fundamental tenet of his belief system, and also the reason why people widely ridiculed him online. His explanation is hard to understand because, well, it's obvious. But it has to do with his belief that if square root of four equals two, then the square root of two must equal one, otherwise two means nothing and therefore one times one equals two. Did you get that? Not many other people. At best, this seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of what exactly "time" means in the multiplication equation.
Despite his stupidity, Howard is a strong and sincere supporter of what he calls Terryology, and believes that geniuses like Tesla, Einstein, and Pythagoras would have been shocked if it had not been for what he did.
2. Matt Hoffman says he's had 100 concussions
BMX racer Matt Hoffman was one of the biggest names in the X-Games crowd around the time Tony Hawk rose to fame. He can also lay claim to another noteworthy, albeit less enviable, claim. Hoffman says , what for your life suffered more 100 concussions .
Like football players, BMX riders fall hard and hit their heads often. Dave Mirra, another track star, was suspected of having committed suicide after personality changes caused by too many concussions.
As for Hoffman, after a blow to the head he once forgot that his wife was pregnant . It wasn't a memory that seemed to return. He simply had to relearn that he was about to become a father. He also claimed that at one point he had complete amnesia for eight months and couldn't taste food for seven years.
While his claims sound ridiculous, it is worth noting that such head trauma has been linked to serious, as well as violent, personality changes. Suicides and homicides have been linked many times to athletes who have suffered too many concussions, so this is a serious issue with life-altering consequences.
1. Writer Barbara Cartland proposed marriage 49 times.
In the world of romance, there are few things a person can brag about. We've already seen Wilt Chamberlain's claims about sexual partners, but what about a more common-sense boast? Author Barbara Cartland, once called queen of romance , claimed that 49 men proposed to her before she got married. That's a lot of courtship.
The story she told was that she had made a rule that she would never kiss a man until he had formally proposed marriage. This gives a little more insight into why so many, although it still takes a lot of effort for a man to go through with a kiss, especially if there is a ring involved. Needless to say, Cartland must have been an amazingly charming woman.
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