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A girl I knew in high-school thought she was Napoleon Bonaparte reincarnated.

She sometimes wore that French military coat and have her hand tucked. She would speak in what little French she knew.

I hooked up with her. She went on to do CS and is pretty wealthy

Not a supernatural creature, but I've never seen someone so committed to something, let alone pretending to be a character, like a friend I have.

So, for context, I have a friend who disagreed with his Dramatic Arts professor on how a character had to be played (or something like that) on the first class of the year, and apparently after some arguing, the professor challenged my friend to attend to any business he needed to do in the campus as normal, but portraying a character, any of his choosing, for the rest of the year. And god damn, he did. For the rest of the year, he bought a Victorian era costume, complete with cane and top hat, learned many quirks of the language at the time, and many of the behaviors of society. And Sir Marcus Godwin was born.

He went full in-character mode. He talked using the time's English, walked like a gentleman, and behaved like he was a Victorian era man who was time travelled into the present. It was really hard not to laugh, specially when he spoke, with professors trying REALLY hard not to laugh. I think the DA professor must have warned all other professors of the classes my friend had, because I'm surprised he wasn't expelled of any of them. But he made it to the end of the year nonetheless and not only did he get the max grade on that class (which apparently was nearly impossible with that professor), but also got a fuck ton of money on bets he made along the year.

I knew a guy that was CONVINCED he was a werewolf. He would refuse to go out on full moons and would bark/snarl at people in school if they got too close. He's in prison for CP now.

I dressed like a cowboy for awhile as a preteen. I try not to think about it too much. Though I still have a hat tucked away in my closet. Just in case.

I really, REALLY wanted to be a ninja turtle when I was like 7 or 8. I didn’t let anyone in on that, but I thought if I wanted it enough I might change into one overnight.

I had a kid in one of my classes in middle school who was trying to convince people The Undertaker (as in Mark Calaway, professional wrestler for WWF/WWE) was his uncle and that his powers were real and he had totally seen them and he was training him to do the whole lightning thing. Mmhmm yes'siree.

Pretty sure this kid ate paint too from the look of him.

I myself was enamored with vampire stuff and in high school met an online boyfriend who really committed to the shtick of being a vampire - though a significantly weakened in bloodline so he could walk in sunlight. I think at one point he was also claiming to be a vessel for the archangel Michael. Please know this was all happening in 2000/2001, so long before Supernatural!

I caught up with him briefly about 15 years after high school, and he's still claiming to be a vampire. A divorced vampire who smokes a lot of weed, but still a vampire.

there was a group of girls at my high school who self identified as witches
i imagine they grew up to moderate r/witchesvspatriarchy

Half the traffic of this post comes from people worried that they might've been mentioned.

I had a teacher with Vertigo so she had a couch in her room. Naturally, I would sleep on it of we had nothing to do.

He literally put in those fake plastic vampire teeth and bit me while I slept.....yeah.

I used to pretend I was bionic. Convinced the other kids that the visible blue veins in my wrist were wires, and would go above and beyond to exert myself so as to always appear stronger and faster than the other kids. I don't remember how long it went on, but it was for a while. I was like 7 or 8 maybe. I'm not sure how much I actually "believed" it, I think I was probably more like a method actor that took things way too seriously for a while, :-p

Not a classmate but when I was in 6th grade I discovered I could make a weird noise, idk I though I sounded like a whale or a dying cow or something. It was a weird sound.

Anyway I started doing it randomly in like the middle of class but it kept seeming like no one could even hear it like no one responded at all so I just kept doing it all the time in the middle of like dead silent math classes.

I think eventually the teacher like glared at me after one and I was like oh shit they can hear it and stopped? I don't remember.

Is not a supernatural thing but a girl pretended to be a cat. Apparently this is kinda common? Or at least since then I seen a few people online say a girl at their school also pretended to be a cat? I think we were 10. Anyway I don't know how she is now because she left about the year later and idk her last name to look her up.

I had a friend in primary school who, whenever challenged would go all raptor. Complete with a high pitched squawk and pretending to gut you with his claw. Then would walk away like nothing happened.

I did not have a classmate that acted like they had dark powers...

That was me.

I got past it before uni, thankfully.

I met a kid at a math competition who insisted that he was a robot. He told us all he was 11.8 years old, and he didn't bend his elbows when he walked. He didn't smile or laugh with the other kids, and just stayed to himself the whole time.

I only saw him that one day, but I can tell you he was fully committed to being a robot that day.

I was that classmate lol

Not so much supernatural, but a few in the less socially-included clique thought of themselves as rats. Grew nails long, scurried about, and most weirdly - hung out and ate lunch in the bathroom. It went on for a few years, well into sixth form, and ended up requiring a prefect to patrol the bathrooms at breaktimes to make sure they weren’t up to anything.

Oddly enough, I haven’t heard anything about them in school-reunion-type chatter.

I can only remember one girl in middle school who said she was a cat and would scratch and hiss at people.

No, but I've pretended to be cisgender in order to survive