anecdote

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anecdote /ˈanɪkdəʊt/

▶noun a short entertaining story about a real incident or person.

■ an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay.

– derivatives
anecdotal adjective,
anecdotalist noun,
anecdotally adverb.

– origin C17: from Fr., or via mod. L. from Gk anekdota ‘things unpublished’.