Since my replies are awaiting moderation, I am not sure if I already made the following point, but in any case, I am sure that I did not make it as strongly as I should have, and it seems to me that this may be the crux of the issue:
You wrote in your second to last post: “but now that I know it to be true”
The point is: You do NOT know it to be true. In fact, you know that it is false. According to halacha, we are not allowed to believe any L”H that we hear (EVEN if it was said l’toeles, which was apparently not the case here).
Halacha is reality. There IS no reality outside of halacha. If the halacha says you can’t believe it, that means it is NOT true. You have no more reason to think it happened than you did before someone told you it did. So it is just a random story that you made up.