Though honesty may be the best policy, it's not the only policy. Just ask the truth-spinning folks who decided to try and tell whoppers so spectacular, they'd make Pinnochio's nose grow by association. 

From a kid who claimed a bout of telekinesis forced him to take over his high school science class to Hilaria Baldwin's insistence on her Spanish ties ... despite being born and raised in Boston, here are 23 times people got caught in absurd lies.