" I regain out my don was a spy by record a Washington Times clause . "
Recently, wewrote aboutsecretspeople accidentally stumbled upon, and members of theBuzzFeed Community* had their own stories to submit. Here are 39 shocking things people discovered that they weren’t supposed to know.
- We also used some answer from theoriginal Reddit thread .
banknote : There are mentions of violence , murder , suicide , sexual ravishment , intimate abuse , child abuse , and incest .
1.“My sister told me that she felt bad for our pastor, who just went through a divorce. I think she was like 19 or 20 at the time. Anyway, she told me she slept with him because he was so sad and she wanted to comfort him. I mean, I know she clearly wanted me to know the secret, but I’m guessing he 200% did NOT want me to know. He was the same age as our parents. Technically, she was an adult and off at college and was just visiting home at the time, so I felt like it was her adult decision — and I felt like telling my parents would do nothing but hurt them.”
" After she enjoin me , I was so mad at the pastor for being so out or keeping that I rarely interacted with him again . My total family was invited to his wedding party to some lady a few years after , and I belong , but I drank nonaged just to sort of drown it out . He essay to annotate on it , and I say , ' Well , sometimes we all do something speculative and underage when we ’re in a eldritch spot . ‘And I call up he realize I sleep with . We did n’t really talk ever again after that . "
— u / spikerwebz
2.“A friend of mine in high school was fucking the PE teacher. I knew they were ‘friendly’ or whatever, but then she started to tell me about it, and it escalated to them going away together for a weekend (her lying to her parents about where she was going, of course) and that sort of thing. Wild. For those wondering ages: she was 18 and he was, like, 40. They got caught when he was dropping her off at home, and her dad came out and punched his wing mirror off. The wild part is he didn’t even lose his job…the school just reprimanded him or whatever. She was due to graduate from high school in a month or two anyway. She and I have never discussed it again!”
— uranium / Fast_Cheesecake2766
3.“My husband’s stepfather was his idol and the person who influenced him the most, even though he passed away when my husband was just 13 (over 30 years ago). His stepfather is also the love of my mother-in-law’s life. I learned he sexually abused my sister-in-law repeatedly during her childhood, and to her, he is the person who most negatively impacted her life. I will never tell either of them. They would be incredibly devastated.”
— Anonymous , 49 , Florida
4.“I learned one of my beloved older aunts on my dad’s side was raped by her youngest son and his friends. He got into drugs and used to bring his drug-addicted friends home. They lived in an isolated area with hardly any neighbors around or traffic. On that day, all three of them were high on drugs. My aunt locked herself in her room for protection, but they kicked down the door. After being raped, she walked to the nearest neighbor, who called the police. All three men went to jail. Months later, my cousin died while in custody. One of his older brothers was traumatized by the whole incident and died by suicide. My aunt lived to be 92 and eventually died from Alzheimer’s-related issues. I wish I had never known about it.”
— Anonymous , 57 , California
5.“My ex-fiancé told me after a few drinks one night in South Beach that his uncle on his very rich mother’s side decapitated a girl on a boat in high school. His uncle took his dad’s speedboat out without permission with some friends and forgot what time high tide would roll in and that they had to cross under a bridge to get back home. Well, after many drinks and partying with substances, they made their way back, and his uncle thought it would be fun to gun it down the canal. With high tide, the boat had very little clearance under the bridge, and when they got to it, everyone ducked except this one girl who was standing. He got off because his parents were extremely wealthy, and they pulled strings and paid her family off, and it was filed as a simple boating accident. I’m not sure if he remembers telling me, but I will never forget it. His uncle was super cool, but I never looked at him the same at family functions.”
— Anonymous , 32 Palm Beach FL
6.“As a bit of a computer geek (privately and professionally), I am the fixer for a lot of family and friends. One friend asked me to help with his computer as it had crashed, and everything was on it — including every digital photo of their kids growing up, with no backups. He handed me the disk (mechanical) and said that everything he needed was on the main account. He had two other accounts, but they were password protected, and he didn’t care about what was on them. He said it was mostly work and banking stuff.”
" I did a whole disk data point recovery to get everything , specifically JPGs , which is how he save the exposure . The thing about earlier Windows versions is that password shelter was not done by encryption ; it was just a convention that Windows defined and espouse . Linux ignored those rules , and so I make everything from all the news report .
As I sifted through the photos to get disembarrass of the extra images like icons , thumbnails , game tile , internet site cached images , etc . , I discovered that he and his wife have many , many friends . Many of them seem very close friends — quite uninhibited , gymnastic , and very , very imaginative . There were thousands of effigy of everything from unaccompanied to chemical group of seven or eight , and every combination of men and women .
I recoup the photo of his kids and holidays , etc , put them on a standard candle , deleted the rest , and said nothing . None of my business sector ; they were all adult . I still see them to this day , and it ’s still none of my byplay .
… I never vex an invite to a political party though , I ’m not trusted how I would sense if I did . "
— uranium / Magnus_40
7.“My mom had put me up for adoption when I was just born. I spent about a week with the new family before she took me back.”
— uranium / demonchee
8.“When I was a kid, my mum was studying part-time. Every month or so, she would get together for study groups with some other mums who were doing the same degree, so I got to know some of the other kids pretty well. Two in particular — a brother (Adam) and sister (Sally) – were roughly the same age as my sister and me, so we hung out with them a lot.”
" Generally , I ’d pay heed out with Adam , and my sister would hang out with Sally . We ’d recognize them since we were about eight , and when we were about 12 or 13 , Adam said he had a mystery to tell me . The secret was that he ’d had sex activity . This seemed very odd , because I ’d never even seen him talk to a girl , get alone have any form of human relationship with one , and I say as much . Then he told me who it was … Sally . I did n’t acknowledge what to say , so I just said , ' Ah , yeah , okay ' and carried on as if he had never say it . In my mind , I was sure he was full of shit . That evening , I told my babe what he ’d say , and she choke wan . Then she told me that Sally had assure her the same matter .
Shortly after all this , my mamma graduated , and we stopped hang out with them as much . I still saw them from meter to sentence , and I ’m friends with Sally still on Facebook . But I ’ve never mentioned it to anyone . "
— u / sapperbloggs
9.“I think I have another sibling. My mom and I were drinking too much, and we were recounting regrets. As you do. I have two older sisters. She mentioned a brother. She said my grandpa made her have the baby, and she doesn’t know anything about who or where he is. I don’t think she remembers telling me. I don’t know what to do with this. I haven’t said anything to my siblings or even to her. I wouldn’t even know where to begin.”
— u / Sensitive - Divide-998
10.“When I was in second grade, my best friend and I were playing in the wood chips. We were telling each other stories, like if we had ever held hands with anyone. I told her that my dad hit me. She told me her father took her to his room and would touch her. I told her my dad did that, too. She got really scared and tried to tell me she was lying. I didn’t believe she had lied. I kept talking to her while she was crying. I told her she wouldn’t get in trouble for telling someone. She said she was really scared of not seeing her brother again or getting in big trouble with her dad. I asked if she would feel better if I told the nurse for her. I did tell the nurse later that day. I never saw her again at school. I did have to talk to a CPS agent at some point. I was forced to lie about what she later said about my dad. (I am thankful she said something about my abuse, even if in my case, nothing changed.)”
I trust she is ok . She was my only Quaker at that shoal . We move the next twelvemonth . Now that I ’m older , I remember other small signboard . She came to school with bruises , and she often got in trouble for light asleep in class . I judge until she suppose something , I felt like all that was normal . "
— u / PsilocybinCacti
11.“I was breaking up with a girl in college. I had known her older brother, who had since graduated. As I was breaking up with her, she sobbingly told me not only had her brother let his drunk friends sexually assault her when she was still under 18, but that he himself, while drunk, once assaulted her. I saw him a few weeks later and it was all I could do not to sucker punch him.”
— Anonymous
12.“A lifelong close friend got REALLY drunk and confessed to me that he’d always been in love with me but didn’t want to ruin the friendship, so he’d never made a move. But that he would leave his wife for me if I ever told him to. I was in total shock. I had been in their freaking wedding, for crying out loud! I’d babysat their kids! I never would’ve guessed he felt that way about me!”
" So I differentiate him , ' Dude , you recognize I make out you like a blood brother , but you ’re married and I adore your married woman . Thank you for differentiate me , but the feeling is not mutual . dark ! ' He then started at once rationalise and crying , begging me to forget he ’d enjoin it and to never tell anyone . I evidence him it was fine , I appreciated the compliment , and I would n’t tell anyone .
We then talked for another 20 minutes , just assuaging his guiltiness at both feeling that way and having confessed at all . We did n’t go back in spite of appearance until I knew he was fine .
He called me the next morn and was like , ' Dude , I do n’t know what I did last night , but I fire up up this sunrise feeling like I require to apologise to you for some cause ! And ( wife ) differentiate me that we stood outside for like 30 minutes talking . What the blaze did we spill about ? '
So I respond , ' I ’m not going to tell you what you told me because you ’re well off not remembering . But just get it on I ’m not mad , we ’re totally good , and you have no reason to justify . '
He pressed the upshot a couple of times , but I observe reiterating that it was for his own trade good that he did n’t remember . I call up if he had , he would ’ve been eldritch around me , and it would ’ve affected our friendship . As it endure , our friendship never changed , and I ’ve always acted like I did n’t recognise . It ’s been about a decennary , and we ’re still Quaker . "
— u / Songs4Soulsma
13.“When I was maybe about 12, a neighbor girl asked me if my brother ‘did it to me’ and said that her brother did it to her. Her brother was maybe 18 or so at the time. I was shocked, but it didn’t occur to me to tell anyone. Many years later, she had moved to a different state. I saw her and she was talking about what a good brother she had. I realized that she seemed to have suppressed the whole thing.”
— u / Accomplished - Race335
14.“My mother is a hoarder of old documents. My sibling finally got her to accept help getting things cleaned up, throwing out receipts older than we are, etc. I found documentation of my mother consulting a divorce attorney — the same year I was alone with my dad in the car, and he asked me if they should get a divorce.”
" I told him no at the time , because I was a child ( gravely , why ask your middle schooltime age child to decide the fate of your marriage ? ) , but as I ’ve get older , I realise they probably should have gotten the divorce . There ’s nothing more empty than ' staying together for the kids . ' peradventure they would have been more attentive parents if they were well-chosen . "
— u / GridlockRose
15.“I was in first or second grade. A neighbor friend (same age) asked if I wanted to see her parents’ money-making machine. I shrugged my shoulders and off we went; it was just one of many activities that day. And there it was, a bulky gadget in their basement, of no interest to me. I didn’t give it another thought until, a few months later, my parents started talking about how the XYZ neighbors got arrested for printing counterfeit money. I remember connecting the dots, but that’s about it.”
— uranium / lovegoodwill
16.“I have a work associate that I’m somewhat friendly with; we’ve gone out for lunch, and I’ve met her young adult children multiple times. Before I knew her, I was good friends with someone who knew her for most of their life, who blabbed that her kids are adopted, but said it was a secret because the kids don’t know. Every time I see her kids, it’s all I can think about, wondering if they suspect anything.”
— u / thesmellnextdoor
17.“My former friend of many years has a boyfriend who raped a child and is a registered sex offender.”
— uracil / Responsible_Ease_262
18.“I used to be a bartender, and a regular was crying and let it slip that she’d just found out that her ex-husband had been sexually assaulting their children for years before they divorced, and she never knew. She was wracked with guilt that she hadn’t done anything sooner. She hadn’t known they were in trouble, but she knew he was an asshole and was convincing herself that should have been enough. But like, damn, what do you even say to that?”
— u / Alternative_Wolf_643
19.“My friend’s dad killed his mom. He was raised by his aunt, who is his mother’s sister. He doesn’t know about it.”
— u / Bep0pC0wb0y
20.“My dad died suddenly, and while trying to get his affairs in order, we found his years-long forays into gay hookups via Craigslist. Then we found three burner phones. It was a strict Catholic household, too. My mom’s an awful, narcissistic woman who taught her kids to be anti-gay. Wonder why? She totally knew. But divorce is a sin! They lived miserable lives because of religion and worrying about how they’d look in their community.”
— u / SuperCheesePerson234
21.“I’m pretty sure my parents would have divorced if it weren’t for my birth. When I was around 13, I found a box of journals in my mom’s closet; being nosy and not understanding privacy, I read them. My mom talked about how my dad had anger issues and would yell and berate her a lot, basically verbally abusing her. She questioned if she would ever truly be loved. The journal entries stopped the year I was born. I’ve never gotten along with my dad, and due to him, I’ve dealt with depression and suicidal ideations all throughout my teenage years. I believe that my birth gave him someone to take out his anger on other than my mom and ‘saved’ their marriage.”
— u / dawn_lights
22.“When I was a kid, I overheard my parents arguing about money, which was normal since they had a restaurant. But apparently, the FBI and IRS came to their work asking for their accountant, who didn’t show up that day. She had stolen around $200k in taxes owed to the IRS and TABC, and did the same to other local business owners. They were saying we were going to lose the business and our house. My dad then started yelling about the expensive private school they put me in, and he said it was a waste of money because I was still dumb. That was a lot for a kid to take in.”
— u / Rabble_Runt
23.“My parents didn’t intend for me to know I was never vaccinated. Unfortunately for them, I have basic research skills and was able to get all my childhood medical records without their interference.”
— uranium / RaptorFamilyValues
24.“I caught a coworker having an affair with another coworker. We were at a bar, and when I went to the bathroom, they were up against a wall making out. He was married; she wasn’t. I ended up telling them I’d seen them, and they denied it right to my face. I told them there was no point denying it because I saw them with my own eyes, and after some time, they copped to it.”
" The whole thing was awful , and although I only brought it up in the promise they ’d do the veracious matter , I ended up being forced to keep secret upon arcanum . … I never mince words about telling him to end his marriage or at least confess . The worst part was the social event at piece of work when his wife would come . I expend a decent amount of time lie by deletion , but I did n’t need to be the catalyst for a fucking divorcement ! Even though it would of form have been them who were the catalyst . Basically , I sleep together I should ’ve told her , but it really did n’t feel like my place . It sucked . "
— u / Lettuce - type B - adorable
25.“I discovered that one of my (now former) co-workers was arrested for downloading thousands of child sexual abuse images onto his work computer when I Googled his name to check out his portfolio. Then he went to prison for it two months after I started. This is a man who designed children’s books for one of our clients. God, I still feel gross thinking about this. This is why I am super distrustful of middle-aged white Christian men.”
— u / Local - Skin8720
26.“I found out my father was a spy by reading a Washington Times article.”
" He had choke a class ago , and I was still obsessionally googling him . Looking back , there were … signs . Our childhood was weird . But kids temper everything . "
— u / Proper - Maize-5987
27.“My mother died of cancer when I was six and my older sister was eight. She left a trust, which I knew existed, but I had no idea what was in it. Due to a bunch of drama involving my older sister, my father mentioned being unsure of what to do with the income from the trust. When I asked what he was talking about, he got very defensive and cagey. I snooped the next time I was housesitting. I found out that my mother left a trust that is generating $30k a year in income. My father gets a retirement package of $105k. He owns four houses and a huge plot of land. His stock portfolio is worth a few million, and at least one bank account has over $850k sitting in it. I am on SNAP and Medicaid, having never made more than $24k in a year, between disability and bad luck.”
" The language of the trustingness place him in command of everything — when I need , he openly tell me he kept the income from the trust for himself . The copies that I bump do not advert me or my sister benefit until he dies .
The trust was signed two weeks before my mother went into a permanent coma . Her best friend was a Doctor of the Church , and he assured me she was scantily lucid at that degree . My own don con my female parent on her deathbed to keep money from his own children . Then again , he has never been a man to permit his children have more if it signify he would have less . "
— u / saintsithney
28.“My high school band director (I was in choir, but lots of friends were in band) got caught cheating on his wife with a student. She began divorce proceedings, and he left a note on the whiteboard for his eighth graders to find, telling them that it was their fault that he was going to off himself because they didn’t make regionals or something similar, and killed himself. His son was in my grade. The principal threatened to suspend me for saying that band teacher was a huge piece of shit and for telling people what had actually happened. I found out through one of the band kids who found the note.”
— atomic number 92 / borderline_queer
29.“Through no fault of my own, I discovered that a couple I am close with suffered a miscarriage. I was browsing a subreddit discussing the pain of losing a loved one, and in the thread I read about them discussing it, and realized I knew the username after the fact. To this day, I’ve kept quiet about it and plan on keeping it that way. I do feel somewhat guilty because it wasn’t like I intended to find out about it, and to my knowledge, they never shared this with anyone in our friend group.”
— uranium / glissandont
30.“My dad’s second wife was showing me something on her phone. It rang as she was showing me a picture. The caller ID was ‘My Boo.’ My dad was NOT the caller. She panicked, trying to swipe it away.”
— u / ebonyxcougar
31.“I found out the company owner’s dad had another family. He was an old racist white guy in public, and he had a Black family in the next state over. His other family tried to show up to his funeral, and his white family used their money (police) to block them from attending. I’ve known about this since the ’90s, but they still tried to squelch attempts by anyone else from finding out.”
— u / Xenovitz
32."[I found out] that the owners of my workplace are swingers. We started getting personal messages on the work iPad detailing meetups.😭"
— u/99redwines
33.“I was reading through my mom’s texts to a former family friend one night. We used to go to their house every summer out of state and would spend a week together. … One year, we just stopped, and my mom wouldn’t talk about it. One night, I found a long text thread of their conversation. The lady essentially said, ‘You’re a bad friend and I don’t want to see you again.’ My mom was very unstable and traumatized after my parents split, and I have no trouble understanding her friend’s POV. One thing I didn’t expect to find was my mom dropping the fact that my dad cheated on my mom, and that was the reason for the divorce.”
— u / GroundbreakingPie111
34.“At my side job, we had a show that slowly turned more and more towards the far-right crowd over time. Eventually, it joined a far-right misinformation network (kinda like a YouTube-style site but with only far-right misinformation as its content). I wasn’t happy about the turn of events, but couldn’t find other work at the time. In one of the email chains between the boss and someone else, I was accidentally cc’d. I discovered that the financial backer for that network was one of the wealthiest people in Canada — not just regular wealthy, but ‘places named after him’ wealthy. And he was doing it through some shadowy accounts, to make the money less traceable. But here I was, accidentally cc’d in an email chain that could blow things wide open.”
" I was unable to do so , however . Mostly because shortly after , he discontinue being awake , and the whole web shut down as a result .
But man , oh humanity , it could ’ve been a huge scandal . ( He was a lawyer and last by gross ton of attorney friends , so I hesitate to release his name . ) "
— u / buckyhermit
35.“My former mother-in-law told me, while I was divorcing her son, that his father had cheated on her during the Korean War. She told me because she thought I might change my mind about the divorce. She asked me to never reveal it to any of their children. I’ve kept that secret for 40 years.”
— Anonymous , 70 , Arizona
36.And finally…“My ex-friend’s brother is Goatse.”
— u / shr2016
If you or someone you know has see intimate assault , you could call theNational Sexual Assault Hotlineat 1 - 800 - 656 - HOPE , which routes the caller to their dear sexual assault service supplier . you may also search for your local centerhere .
If you are interested that a child is experience or may be in danger of abuse , you’re able to call or text theNational Child Abuse Hotlineat 1 - 800 - 422 - 4453(4.A.CHILD ) ; serving can be bring home the bacon in over 140 languages .
The National Alliance on Mental Illness helpline is 1 - 800 - 950 - 6264 ( NAMI ) and offer information and referral services;GoodTherapy.orgis an association of genial wellness professionals from more than 25 countries who support efforts to reduce harm in therapy .
Dial 988 in the United States to reach out theNational Suicide Prevention Lifeline . The 988 Lifeline is useable 24/7/365 . Your conversation are free and secret . Other international suicide helplines can be found atbefrienders.org . The Trevor Project , which provide help and self-annihilation - prevention resource for LGBTQ young person , is 1 - 866 - 488 - 7386 .
