Probably hard to believe this worked without knowing the lad in question but I swear he was convinced.
When I was 17, I shared a house with 4 other lads. One of them was a 19yr old named Tony. He was a nice lad and a good laugh but extremely gullible. He was a bit of a fantasist, the sort to believe in Big Foot, Nessy, Ghosts etc (bit like Adryan :p ) and was forever mentioning strange things that he'd seen such as furniture that had moved by itself.
So anyway. One evening Tony, Jon and myself were watchin tv and decided to go out for a pint. As we stood up, Tony said, "hang on, need a sh*t". This was a bit irritating because we were literally about to go. Me and Jon sat down and waiting as he went upstairs to the bathroom.
I've no idea what inspired us to do this but after a minute or two we grabbed every clock or watch and set it forward by 45 minutes then turned the electricity off at the fuse box. The house was pitch black and we sat in silence for a few minutes before turning it back on and continuing to talk.
Eventually Tony returned and we were saying, "f***in hell, where've you been? Must've been a good w*nk!" and so on.
He looked at the clock, glanced through the door at a clock in the other room and replied, "I just... I... I dunno... let's go".
We set off to the pub and Tony was totally silent all the way and white as a sheet.
It was nearly an hour before he mentioned it and said, "Guys, when I went for a sh*t earlier, I think I blacked out or something. Did you hear anything? How long was I gone?"
We told him it must have been nearly an hour.
He stared into his pint for a minute then said, "seriously, I know you won't believe me but I think I may have been abducted. You know, by aliens or something!".
We just rolled our eyes and ignored him.
It was 3 days before we told him and in that time, he hardly said a word and didn't go for a sh*t once!
Not the most elaborate hoax but it's all about knowing your victim. That could only have worked on Tony!
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