A teenager went on a spearfishing trip with 4 friends. The tides swamped their raft and they were forced to abandon it. A body eventually washed ashore with no injuries, just drowning. The sole surviving teenager made up a very detailed story about how a dragon (which bared a suspicious resemblance to a cartoon dragon from a then recently-released show) appeared out of ''dense fog'', ate his friends one by one, and only he escaped. He became invested in his story well into his adulthood, and he became very depressed that people didn't believe his made-up story.

He told the mainstream press the real story, about how tides swamped their raft, they developed cramps, became separated, and also that he never actually saw any of his friends go under. There was no mention of a dragon or a thunderstorm at all. It was only later on he changed his story, saying ''the mainstream media told me to lie about what really happened''.

Why would he make up such a story after his friends died? The made-up story seems much more terrifying than what really happened.