A WOMAN has revealed her shock at finding out that the handsome guy she thought she was talking to was actually one of her female friends.
However, exposing her friend as the catfish was only the beginning of the strange surprise.
Clara Elizabeth is a digital content creator boasting over 150k followers on TikTok where she detailed a creepy catfish experience she had in college.
Once at university, Elizabeth made friends with a girl named Sarah who lived in the same dormitory hall as her.
"One day Sarah, my roommate, and I are sitting in my dorm room," she recounted.
"And she's like 'hey, this may be super weird but like I have a friend named Zach. I think you two would really hit it off. Can I give him your number?'"
Elizabeth asked to see a photo of Zach before agreeing to give him her number.
"She pulls up a picture of him," Elizabeth said. "And y'all, this man is gorgeous."
Stunned by his good looks, Elizabeth asked Sarah to give him her number.
"And I get a text from Zach," she said.
He called her stunning and the two hit it off via text message. However, Elizabeth noticed something odd about Zach's texting habits.
"I noticed that anytime I was with Sarah, Zach wouldn't text me," she said.
Elizabeth also noted that Sarah would mention specific things that Zach would say, such as calling him "the kind of guy that would text you 'good morning beautiful.'"
"Something is not adding up here," Elizabeth said.
She took to the internet to sleuth the identity of the name and phone number. Eventually, she realized that the number is from a texting app and is not a real phone number capable of voice calls.
She eventually found the real Zach on Facebook and confronted Sarah about it, to which she responded by running to her dorm room and locking herself inside.
Sarah allegedly threatened to overdose on drugs, leading campus security, local police, and Alabama state police to get involved.
Authorities searched Sarah's dormitory after the multiple allegations against her and found weapons such as knives in her dorm room.
Sarah's roommate also revealed that she endured verbal and emotional abuse by Sarah for months on end.
Commenters had questions for Elizabeth and the crazy catfish saga.
"How did she not get kicked out of school for this?" one asked.
"I think if it's a confirmed mental issue she may have been legally covered?" Elizabeth wrote. "I genuinely don't know."
