I'm a bit skeptical with this kind of stories, because there are people who make up stories on the forums and we have no way to check if they are telling the truth or not.  I'm not saying the story is true or not, I'm just saying I have no way of knowing.

To me, what stories like this remind me of are the contrary stories, the stories of people who have been around all this time since Bitcoin was created, who bought high and sold low. Many of them are now Bitcoin haters, who after losing money decided they wanted nothing to do with Bitcoin, and are waiting for it to go to 0, as a way of confirming that they are right for not buying again.