People Are Sharing Their "What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas" Stories, And Some Of The Things You're About To Read Are Actually Unbelievable

Going to Las Vegas is like a promise from the universe: You will see or do something that becomes a must-tell story for years to come, or gain a deep understanding as to why the saying goes, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."

So, I asked the people of the BuzzFeed Community to share the most wild, outrageous, and completely unhinged stories from their Las Vegas adventures, and even I wasn't expecting the level of chaos I was about to receive:

1."I’ve got a GOOD one. My sister, my cousins, and I were there for a girls weekend. We had just had dinner, and we were walking down Fremont Street (which, if you know, is a kind of questionable area)."

2."My friends and I were looking for a casino, but we got lost and were also very, very drunk. After wandering aimlessly for about an hour, we thought we had found it and walked in. But it was not a casino; it was a church, and we were interrupting a funeral. We were escorted out by security, and I’m still not entirely convinced that it really happened."

—Anonymous

3."I slept with my sister’s husband, and no one has to or will ever know."

4."My husband and I were on our first trip after having kids. We were having an awesome night and met some people at a bar, and we were chatting away. My husband went to smoke with one of the guys, and when he got back, we decided to head back. This is at 12 a.m., so we were not having a wild night at all."

"As we walked back, my husband started acting strange and all of a sudden took off running. I was stunned and completely confused, so I walked back to our hotel, thinking I would meet him there. An hour goes by, and he is nowhere to be found, and his phone is dead. I ended up walking the streets trying to find him before finally calling local jails and hospitals. I found him at 3 a.m. at a local hospital, listed as John Doe. It turns out the guy he was smoking with had drugged him, and he ended up falling down the stairs near Caesars Palace and passing out, and they had to rush him to the hospital. He was banged up and had been robbed, but otherwise ok."

—ainy14

5."I call this story 'Cocaine Cowboy.' On my very first trip to Vegas, I knew that I would see and meet some interesting characters, but this gentleman surpassed all those expectations. It was 8 a.m., and on our second morning in Vegas, we were wandering the casinos for the best breakfast place we could find. We were walking through the Excalibur and heard some excessive yelling and chanting from a craps table, even by Vegas standards. There we saw this gentleman who stood about 5'10" wearing the biggest, white cowboy hat I had ever seen."

6."I ended up in my hotel room with a stripper I met at a club, and we both passed out before anything happened. Like, for real, absolutely nothing happened. Her phone woke us up at 8 a.m., and she dashed out with a sincere apology."

"Fast-forward five years. I’m at a place 2,000 miles from Vegas on a date, and this woman keeps looking at me. When my date went to the restroom, the woman came up to me and said, 'Is your name G****?' I kind of slowly said, 'Yeah,' and she says, 'I met you in Vegas five years ago. Don’t you remember? We went to your hotel room, and we both passed out. Sorry about that, by the way!' She slipped me her phone number before my date got back. I never called her."

—Anonymous

7."We got into a taxi, and the taxi driver was playing snake videos. We asked him to stop, and he refused, saying we needed to 'face our fears.' We only had a 10-minute ride, but still, two years later, and I still think about this."

8."I’m staying anonymous, and I won’t go into detail about this because it’s a little embarrassing, and also because my girlfriend doesn’t know and she might see this, but for me, what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas, and it came back to haunt me nine months later!"

—Anonymous

9."I got drunk as hell and married a mall Santa. He attended the wedding in his Santa suit. We got a divorce the next day."

10."It was our last night, and we had an early flight, so we packed up and got ready to go to dinner. As we were packing, we noticed we had so much alcohol left over from what we had bought. We knew we couldn’t take it on the plane, so we took turns chugging the bottles. We had dinner at our hotel, but just as we were seated, my friend started throwing up."

"We all drunkenly panicked and threw the water out of our cups and handed them to her so she could throw up in the cups. So now, the table is just filled with cups of throw-up, and out of nowhere, we have EMTs with wheelchairs and officers for us! They take us up to our room, and the EMTs help my friend while the officers grill us, asking if someone has given us anything or if we took something. We then had to explain that, no, we were just dumb and chugged a bunch of alcohol. My friend was sick for the whole plane ride, and we just told everyone that she had really bad motion sickness."

—marisasbuzz

11."I got married in a strip club basement. My now-husband and I were eloping, but we couldn’t find a cheap enough location. So we called a wedding officiant we were friends with, got into a strip club, snuck into the basement (it was quite a luxurious basement), and got married. No regrets!"

12."So I met a cool, attractive girl on a dating app and took her to an awesome bar at a boutique hotel. Unbeknownst to me, the entire hotel was rented out for a swingers convention that night. The hostesses, who happened to be twins, invited us to stay, which we did for kicks. I mean, why not check it out?!?"

"Later, the twins, my date, and I went to this local speakeasy to watch a high-energy live band. We then met a very attractive couple, the wife having been invited to Vegas to topless bartend an earlier private party. After we closed down the speakeasy, the wife invited me, the date, and the twins back to her and her husband's comped 2-level suite, which had a pool-like jacuzzi. By then, it was like 6 a.m. Tuesday morning! I can only imagine what a wild Friday or Saturday must be like!"

—Anonymous

13."I had sex in my car in a Chick-fil-A parking lot. And during sex, I sharted. And then, the police showed up, so I had to explain the situation and pay a not-inconsequential fee while nude, with liquid poop pouring down my legs. I haven’t gone back to Vegas since."

14."I was 25 (M) at the time and relatively sheltered and naive, so I got wasted and lost my friends at one of the casinos. Fast-forward to me walking around trying to find them, and these two women come up to me, and our interaction was as follows:"

"Me *in the drunkest voice possible*: 'You guys are pretty!'

Them: 'Thanks! Do you wanna party?'

Me: 'Sure! In my room?'

Them: *smiling wryly*

Me: *smiling happily*

Them: 'Wait, you know what we mean by party, right?'

Me *non-plussed*: 'No!'

Them: 'We’re hookers.'

Me: 'OH! No thank you, but you’re lovely!'

They left ✨"

—Anonymous

15."This happened just outside of Vegas at Emerald Lake. I was in Vegas for my partner's birthday in 2021. We had gone out clubbing the night before, and I was violently hungover, but we had already bought tickets to go on a kayaking tour of Emerald Lake."

16."Like, seven years ago, I was there for a gay bachelor party. I made eyes at some cute 22-year-old across the pool, and he asked if me and my husband wanted to go to his penthouse suite with his 'friends' for a drink."

"We got up there, and it was like a scene out of a movie — 11 topless sex workers running around, dudes doing drugs off of some of their asses, and several orgies taking place. We finished our drinks and left!"

—Anonymous

17."I got a tattoo on my ass. The artist said it means 'strength,' but I looked it up, and it means 'cats.' I still like it!"

18."I had the joy of hearing my upper-midwest good-girl boomer mother say out loud, 'Was that a jewel-encrusted codpiece with rainbow feathers?' And you can never take that moment away from me! Oh, the answer to her question was 'Yes!'"

—kimsiedschlagp

19."This was my first time in Vegas. I separated from my group because I wanted to go see a show that they didn't want to go to. When I called them afterwards, I got no answer, so I had the brilliant idea of walking to the Mandalay Bay and getting a drink at every casino on the strip."

20."I had recently gotten engaged, which was very exciting, but I was under a lot of pressure at work, so I decided to clear my head and have a weekend by myself in Vegas. Over the course of those two days, I slept with 12 men, none of whom I knew the last name of. I still got married. My husband still doesn’t know. I regret it, but it feels almost like it was a dream. Like it wasn’t real. So I don’t regret it too much."

—Anonymous

And finally, this person shared the cutest story of how a trip to Vegas kicked off the rest of their life with their partner:

21."My then-boyfriend was going to Vegas on a work trip, and I went with him. We got married in between his meetings in a thrifted tux and dress. Celebrated seven years of marriage this year. I guess we didn’t leave that in Vegas. Best trip ever."

Are you just as absolutely shocked as I was? Do you want to tell your own absolutely outrageous Vegas story? Let us know your thoughts and stories in the comments!

Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity