Sharing secrets with friends and loved ones can be a great way to strengthen relationships. Trusting someone with hidden information about yourself is an incredibly vulnerable thing to do, but it can be worth the risk if it deepens the bond between you two. However, it can also backfire, if your confidant decides to spill that information on the internet for countless people to read…Below, you’ll find some of thewildest secretsthat Reddit users have ever been told. From confessions to crimes to family secrets that have been concealed for decades, we hope you enjoy reading all of this juicy information, pandas. Feel free to snack on some popcorn as you scroll along, and be sure to upvote the information that you find most shocking!This post may includeaffiliate links.
Sharing secrets with friends and loved ones can be a great way to strengthen relationships. Trusting someone with hidden information about yourself is an incredibly vulnerable thing to do, but it can be worth the risk if it deepens the bond between you two. However, it can also backfire, if your confidant decides to spill that information on the internet for countless people to read…
Below, you’ll find some of thewildest secretsthat Reddit users have ever been told. From confessions to crimes to family secrets that have been concealed for decades, we hope you enjoy reading all of this juicy information, pandas. Feel free to snack on some popcorn as you scroll along, and be sure to upvote the information that you find most shocking!
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Someone confessing a murder. I’m a nurse and she was recovering from being unwell and it triggered her PTSD to be immobile in bed. When she was 11 she pushed her uncle down the stairs after he sexually abused her. She’d only told her husband. She was in bits- thought her illness was God punishing her. She needed a lot of TLC.
It was me. I mentioned that my mom, my daughter’s grandma was coming to visit.My then five year old was shocked to the core: “IS GRANDMA your MOM???“I didn’t know it was a secret.
My whole life growing up, my dad told me my mother was a drug addict and didn’t want me. When I was 21 I met my mom for the first time and as it turns out, my dad kidnapped me when I was 4 and she never knew where we went. Yup. I should be in therapy. Both are dead now and my dad and I never reconciled after I found out.
I was like 5 so it was less jarring, but I went to my grandmother’s house, ostensibly to show off the first tooth I ever lost (I was so excited lol), and there was an old man there I’d never seen before. My mom and grandmother were basically like “Tada! This is your grandfather!” I was just like ok, I guess he just fell from the sky and now I have a grandfather ¯_(ツ)_/¯.When I was a teenager I learned the full story, which has a pretty wild component. My grandparents were very Catholic, like truly didn’t believe in divorce. And my grandmother, as wonderful as she was to have as a grandmother, was a very hard person to have as a wife or mother. So my grandfather had an affair. My grandfather and mother had a close relationship, and his mistress was jealous. I assume she saw my mom as the reason my grandfather wouldn’t leave his wife (they could have been childless, neither would have been willing to divorce). So she started stalking my mom. Would call the house and her work and hang up or whisper weird shit and threats in the phone to her, etc. My mom got suspicious, eventually found out, and told my grandmother. Both were pissed as hell. My grandmother kicked him out, and both of them cut all contact with him. This happened like 10 years or so before I was born.But here’s the wild part: HE LIVED NEXT DOOR THE ENTIRE TIME. My great uncle (grandmother’s brother) lived right next to my grandmother, and my grandfather moved in with him. It must say a lot about him respecting boundaries, because I never heard him or caught sight of him whenever I was at my grandmother’s or my uncle’s house. Although I imagine it was really hard for him. My uncle’s windows looked right into my grandmother’s yard. I can’t imagine what it’s like to watch your children and grandchildren exist right under your nose and not be able to talk to them.Anyway, at some point, they all decided to reconcile. The day I met him, he had already moved back into the house. And I’m glad, because he was amazing. He passed when I was 8, but in those three-ish years he became (and remains to this day), one my favorite people on the planet.
My brother had his appendix out when he was about 13. 5 or 6 years later he confessed to me that he made it all up to get out of doing some homework. He made all the right noises at the doctor’s surgery who sent him to hospital, where he fooled them again.After the operation he says the surgeon spoke to him and said it was odd because there wasn’t any inflammation. I am amazed that in the days before the internet he knew where his appendix should be.He is 50 next year and my parents still don’t know…
When I was 11 I had a friend reveal that her step mother was abusing her.. she made me promise not to say anything to my mom or any other adult. I agreed, we had weekly therapy sessions with a guidance counselor if you wanted it so it was my day to go and I just felt like I needed to tell… so I did. The counselor ended up reporting it and CPS got involved and my friend was made to live with her mother. She was so angry at me for telling but I felt it in my soul that I should. We are still friends to this day.. both of us 29 years old.
I had a patient who, on his deathbed, confessed to sexually abusing minors while he was a soccer coach for many years. He said he had no idea how many, but it was in the hundreds and he wished he could go back in time to do it again. I walked out and threw up.
My aunt murdered her second husband to marry her third, then she made the kids go to the lake and campground where their dad died every single summer for vacation.My cousin just dropped this bomb, like, “oh yeah, my mom isn’t a good person and I wish everyone would quit acting like she is.”
My brother owns a restaraunt that has an old school counter service. Same customers every day. Very popular place. This one guy, a city worker came in every work day religiously . One day he finishing his lunch calls my brother over and tells to call the Prosecutors Office. He admitted to killing a classmate in school 20 years prior. My bro said he was casual as could be . Just said it was time to be accountable. You never know.
That he watched his son die of an overdose and didn’t do anything to help. He told me that his son had battled addictions for many years and that he had called an ambulance in the past when his son had overdosed, but that he thought it was better this time to “just let him go since he made his choice”.
My mom used to like to drop things on me casually amidst a normal conversation. I called them Mama Bombs.One Christmas after my dad died, over breakfast she said, “Well, back when Stephanie and I were sexually involved…”It took a minute to sink in and it was like a series of puzzle pieces clicking in my head. So many things made sense.Stephanie was her close friend from work. They were both married to men. Stephanie was a good 30 years younger than my mom. My mom had never mentioned romantic feelings or relationships with women before. They were both in pretty lonely marriages and for a time made each other very happy.
Literally just happened to me. I have an almost two year old son with my ex girlfriend of over 4 years (we broke up not long after he was born). Come to find out she cheated on me throughout nearly the entire relationship with at least 5 different people and was even cheating on me well into her pregnancy. I am absolutely devastated and should probably get a paternity test.
I had an old girlfriend who was coming to Florida and wanted to hang out with me and my wife, she brought her mom, who I knew pretty well. A great dinner, drinks, fun stories, then when my ex went to the bathroom, the mom told me she (the ex) was dying of cancer. (I had No idea). It was sad, but yet felt so good she wanted to hang out. She died within a year. We were probably 35 years old at the time.
At the start of this year, my mom got drunk and let it slip that I was adopted. At 30 years old that was and is still a trip.
My wife and I went to the hospital so my wife could have an ultra sound. Found out she was going to have twins. As we were leaving we passed an open door and I saw my cousin sitting on an examination table. WTF. He had just been diagnosed with cancer. It ended up that the day the twins were born, my cousin passed away.
In the 70’s, my cousin died in a car crash that caught fire. I was very afraid that he was awake and felt the fire. My parents said he died immediately and didn’t suffer. My mother was on hospice at home in 2011. She told me the firemen were trying to open the doors and My cousin and the other teens were screaming for help when the cars caught fire. There were no survivors and my Aunt was never the same. It wasn’t until after his death that the jaws of life were distributed to our rural departments.
My grandfather was telling me about his father. My great grandfather was abusive and threw his wife around til she was incapacitated and dragged her out onto the lawn in the middle of a blizzard and locked the door. The 6 children were too young or didn’t dare help her or say anything or they’d be next. She ended up dying in the walkway during the storm so he spun a story of her falling and must’ve locked herself out. The same douche also accidentally burned their first house down because he was tossing lit matches at the family cat for fun. The cat caught fire and burned the whole house down.It was much easier to get away with s**t back then.
I was not told this secret but stumbled upon it after someone’s death. My wife is an only child and her parents were married for 30+ years. I’ve always known that they didn’t actually get married until a month or so after she was born, but they were dating and supposedly engaged for several years prior. After he died suddenly I was doing a family tree online and discovered that at the time of my wife’s birth, he was married to another woman in a different state. Their divorce was finalized shortly before he married my mother in law. I know my wife doesn’t know this and I’m pretty sure my mother in law doesn’t either. I’ve decided to keep it to myself to spare them any pain.
My now ex best friend told me she has stolen over 100 things from me over 10 years
My mother told me that my now deceased step-father told her of something he did in his youth. He got into a car accident and the old lady he ran into died on the scene. The first responding police officer told him to leave, that the old lady had lived her life and he was just getting started. So he got off scot free for killing an old lady with his vehicle.I feel that his self entitlement in life probably started there. He ended up later in life robbing a store, holding hostages, and then got arrested. While out on bail he took his own life.
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A friend revealed she was the product of incest..between father and daughter…so father was father but sister was mother and mother was actually grandmother
My buddy in college told me when he was little he was playing “bungie jumping” with his cousin. His cousin wrapped a rope around his neck and hung himself. Story still scares the s**t outta me.
My boss told me his mother has dementia, and that he feels like he’s experiencing it, too.Hearing your boss say “I might have dementia..” to you in private is real weird. Especially coming from such an aggressively confident man. He seemed so deflated and sad. In the past 5 years he’s gone from being a super fit 50 year old that you’d never guess was 50 to looking like he’s 70.
I found out at 10 years old that my dad is actually my step dad, funny thing he found out that day too
Husband and I recently learned that his kid’s grandfather (mother’s side) is a convicted serial killer. That was… fun?Given the caliber of his exes I would have thought this was a lie; however, the mother was interviewed for a documentary about it. Needless to say, kiddo slept over at our house while the interviews were taking place… they are way too young to process that kind of clusterfuck.
I worked with a very sober and intelligent woman with a background in biology. Once when she was drunk at the company Christmas party she told me about a very intense experience with a “UFO-ish” object when she was younger. A multicoloured, shimmering and incomprehensible thing that hovered above her for 30 seconds and gave her sensations of information she couldn’t make sense of. She swore me to secrecy and admitted to having needed a lot of therapy after. Her story was quite believable.
I had a random gal who was buying some furniture from me tell me her deepest secret. Apparently her and her four siblings were in a continuous fight over the cremated remains of their father, and she had possession of them. I guess all except her agreed to equally distribute them among the remaining children. However when it was time to share the remains she gave her siblings her deceased dogs cremated remains instead! I guess her dad is in her closet. When I tell you I gasped. I asked her if she thought she’d ever tell them and she said yeah some day. But she fully expects them to never speak to her again.
Not a secret i guess but when I was 16, my Mom announced at dinner that her sister was coming for a visit next week. I dropped my fork and said “YOU HAVE A SISTER?”
When I was 18 my parents sat me down and told me I had a half brother and half sister halfway across the world from my dads previous marriage that I knew nothing about. There was a picture of them on the wall in our house and we were told they were our cousins from Australia.
For a time, we kept a gravestone in our front yard. Since it wasn’t Halloween, I asked my mom why we had it out, and she told me it was for my miscarried older brother.
I was chatting with a detail cop, and he happily told me that he sold all the drugs he confiscated near a CVS in town.
My grandfather was adopted. I was trying to figure out some genealogical stuff and couldn’t get dates to line up so I asked him about it. He hemmed and hawed and misdirected and finally my grandmother actually told me for him while he practically broke down in tears. I’ve known my grandfather my entire 40 yrs of life and I’ve never seen him get that emotional. It’s a secret I was not expecting at all and that he is deeply ashamed of.
I’m 56 now but at some point in my early 40s while driving with my dad he says “you have a half brother somewhere”.
I have a friend who presents as euphorically happily married who told me recently that the reality is she married her second choice and that it will forever silently hangover and haunt the relationship. She said she wishes she had just been alone until she found somebody new all together. Not the most shocking, but the most recent shocking thing someone told me.
Dude with my last name pings me on Facebook and says he’s my half brother. Dad denies it and says the mom lied to her son and to the world. But he was obviously busy back in the day.
The mafia called my grandparents to threaten harm against my mother because she ripped them off.
My entire life I thought I was an only child only for my dad to admit that he’s had children with other women. He never said who but I could have bio siblings out there and I also apologize for my dad being terrible.
Casually dropped they’d killed someone then got really quiet about it. Like, sad quiet. Sounds like there was a case surrounding the ordeal but could never get them to talk about it more and I didn’t want to push.
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