" I could have go the balance of my biography without knowing that . I still do n’t be intimate why my baby felt the motive to tell me . "
Recently, Reddit userprismanianasked, “What’s a secret you found out that you were 100% not supposed to know?” and people had plenty to share. Here are 36 secrets people stumbled upon that range from shocking to pretty darn dark.
NOTE : There are mentions of intimate abuse , small fry revilement , domesticated abuse , drunkenness , training , and suicide .
1.“My Dad killed his best friend in a DUI when he was 22. My Dad spent years in a wheelchair and time in prison. He turned his whole life around before I was born: 30 years of sobriety, 20+ gallons of blood donated, and countless acts of selflessness. But I was never supposed to know. He became a different person before I was born. But he told my mom once while having a breakdown in his thirties. Then Mom told my brother because my brother was driving drunk. Then my brother told me.”
" I still sham I do n’t know . My Dad merit the life he has built now . He tries to be a honest mortal every day . I wish well I did n’t know ; it live in the back of my mind . "
— u / Raider_Scum
2.“When I was five or six, my older half-sister approached me around 3 a.m. (I had severe insomnia and often went several days without sleep) and made me swear to never tell our parents what she was about to tell me. She confessed that she, her mom, and her two half-brothers were unhoused and living down by an old railroad track. But I couldn’t tell my parents because they would take her away and never let her see her mom again. I kept her secret, but it probably would have been better for her if I had told someone. But I was very loyal and too young to consider long-term effects.”
— u / noeinan
3.“My dad had a secret family with his secretary, and they had a son. How did we find out? My dad was in a coma with a serious life-threatening infection. His condition was serious, and it was touch and go. One evening, we were all gathered around his bed when the door flew open, and a young man rushed in and threw himself on the bed. He was sobbing heavily and was screaming, ‘Daddy, daddy.’ His mother was following behind him, and when we saw her, we knew. Let’s just say what happened after involved the hospital security. There was a lot of shouting and pushing involved. The next time we saw them was at my dad’s funeral. We never saw or heard from them again.”
— u / Outrageous - Fault-689
4.“Someone I was super close to and totally in love with got wildly drunk and told me their darkest secret. Apparently, their godfather was essentially a mob boss, and he watched them murder someone right in front of him. He then was forced to help bury the body somewhere in the California desert. He said I was the only person he had ever told and had planned on never telling anyone. The next day, he blocked my number and socials. I pretty much never heard from him ever again after spending time together multiple times a week for over a year. That shit was dark, and I partially wonder if he did it more for my protection than his own.”
— uracil / ICDragon7
5.“My dad was in prison for manslaughter before he met my mom. How did I find out? A simple Google search of his name. Was it really him? Yeah, there was a mug shot. I haven’t told anyone in my family. But it sure explained a lot about him. My parents are both deceased. I wonder if my mother ever knew.”
— u / pool_and_chicken
6.“My Mom had a baby when she was 12. She was raped by her brother, who’s an absolute piece of shit (I knew this part), but the baby died from SIDS. I don’t know why my Mom has never told me. I came across a letter she wrote years ago.”
— u / cupcaketeatime
7.“My dad was involved in a gang rape at a party but acquitted on a technicality. In the first couple of years of my life, he was pretty MIA. Now I know why. I found out this last summer. For reference, I’m 35 now. I can’t look at him the same way.”
— u / Murdertramppp
8.“When I was in primary school, a friend of mine told me a secret I couldn’t tell anyone: something along the lines of her and her mother coming home and finding some lady and her dad in the bedroom and her father hitting them both and her toddler brother for coming into the room. At the time, I definitely thought it was weird — weird enough that I still remember her telling me this almost 30 years later. But I didn’t tell anyone because it was my friend’s secret, and she made me swear not to tell anyone.”
" It was only when I was in gamey school , and we had long lost contact , that I at long last realize that this six - year - sometime girl had witnessed her founding father cheating and then experienced him being physically scurrilous to everyone in his home . I wish well I had told my parents . "
— atomic number 92 / Carlitamaz
9.“I grew up in church and one day walked in on the associate youth pastor making out with the head youth pastor’s daughter. He was in his late 20s or early 30s, and she was 16 at the time. I never liked the guy, and he always gave me weird vibes, so I reported that shit to the head pastor immediately, which stirred up a massive shitstorm.”
— u / SoylentCreek
10.“My brother stole money out of my dead mother’s bank account two weeks after she died. I was the executor of the will and got access to all her bank details. He’d been taking money from her for years.”
" It ’s been six years now . I made him aware that I knew , but not in a confrontational way , to avoid a distinctive category words . The substantial kicker was when he admitted to my other chum about doing it just around one year ago , and he severalize them I was blackmailing him . I had told them before I confronted him six years ago as it was their inheritance , and I want to have it away how far they want to take it . They did n’t want the drama , so it was n’t taken to the police . I ’m from Ireland , and every death get dramatic event and fights over land and inheritance . He does n’t speak to me now and ignores the other brothers as much as potential , but I think that ’s out of shame . I feel sorry for him as he ’s now alienate from the family . I have n’t told anyone this apart from really stuffy friends that I experience I can confide . "
— u / Hereforthedung
11.“One of my friends adopted a kid. She accidentally let me see some of the paperwork during the process. I know the bio mum, and so do a lot of my family and friends. I’ve never said to anyone about the connection. The birth parents are not allowed to find out where the kid went.”
— atomic number 92 / Footelbowarmshin
12.“My mum told me that one of my half brothers doesn’t have the dad he thought he did. It kinda makes sense as he looks so different from my other brother, who is so obviously his dad’s. I never told them, as it’s not really my place to say. Also, my brother is content with his dad being his dad, and his dad is content with him being his son. My mum was very unwell, and I know she told me on purpose to fuck with my head and make me feel guilty.”
— atomic number 92 / airpressure
13.“My mum died when I was 11, and for the last two years of her life, she was involved in a love affair with my father’s best friend. Apparently, the affair had become somewhat known in their circles and included a pregnancy that was aborted. I knew nothing of this until my new stepmother told me this one night when she was drunk — about a month or two after she married my dad. I was 16 then.”
— u / wtf_amirite
14.“My ex’s uncle killed a guy, maybe two… He was driving on a highway, and these people tried to carjack him, but he was armed, so he shot at them and fled the scene, then just kept on living his normal life. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t supposed to be shared with me.”
— atomic number 92 / SaltyBox9239
15.“When we were teens or early 20s, I learned my best friend’s father had another family he never told my friend (or his mother) about. My dad was talking to a guy he knew through work and was saying something about my friend and me, and he mentioned him by name. The other guy was like, ‘John Doe? Jim Doe’s son? Small world — my wife’s sister is the mother of his other kids.’ I never told my friend, and as far as I know, he and his mother remain unaware.”
— u / pm_me_gnus
16.“My childhood friend lived on my street, and we grew up pretty close to each other’s families. When she was a freshman, her parents divorced, and she moved but not far, and we still went to high school together. Afterward, I worked at the same place as her and her mom, who was also a great friend at that point. I supported them with their new family dynamics, and over the years, they were there for me as I had kids and eventually through my own divorce after my ex cheated with one of our mutual friends. I was having a hard time dating after the divorce because I still felt married, and when I asked my friend’s mom how to get over that, she confessed something after having a little too much wine. While her daughter and I were still in high school and her older child (my friend’s brother) was in college, she slept with her son’s friend for, like, three months.”
" They snuck around and had sex several times a week until her girl nearly catch them , and then she called it all off . She would never have done that if she had been hook up with , so she said that was how she got by that ' feel wed ' affair .
I never told either one of her kids or anyone else who acknowledge her , and I never will . I still remain in touch with her girl , and I saw her last at her mother ’s funeral . She pass recently . She was a great booster . "
— u / Winter - eye
17.“I had a brief friendship with a girl in my middle school, who one day confided in me that her mother wouldn’t let her eat at home, and her younger sister attended the same school as us and would tell their mother if she ate at school and she’d be beaten for eating. She begged me not to tell anyone. I told my dad on the drive home, and within a few days, she disappeared, and I never saw her again. I don’t know if my dad called the police, or if someone else did, or if something much worse happened.”
— atomic number 92 / JazzyCher
18.“My dad was having an affair with his secretary for a while. I found out when I was about 10. My parents separated a couple of times over the ensuing years, but they finally stuck together permanently when my mom got pregnant again when I was in high school. He didn’t stop seeing the woman until around that time, and she sent a baby ‘gift’ to my mother consisting of all of the presents and letters and stuff my dad had been sending to her over the years of their affair.”
" To this day , I do n’t know if my dad bed I acknowledge . My ma tried to separate me about it when I was about 22 , but I told her that I already know . It was an worthless moment , and she was trying to tell me because she was trying to hurt me somehow . I do not know if my younger siblings know about the affair , and I do not make out if my young sib knows that our parents were n’t living together just before they came to be .
I ’m in my mid-forties now , and my mom is in the process of being formally diagnose with what we are all assuming is Alzheimer ’s . When we were home to visit last , my husband took her out shopping . As they drove by my dad ’s old apartment , she casually pointed it out and explicate to my husband that it was where my pop had lived when they were part up due to his social occasion . So I guess it probably wo n’t abide a prominent secret for much longer , and I am a bit at a loss as to how to go up it . "
— u / mrschukchuk
19.“My mum dropped me off to a sleepover and ended up having a few drinks with my friend’s mom and staying the night. A few days later, my mum got on the wines and told me (13 at the time) that my friend’s dad was, in fact, not her dad. Her real dad left when she was a baby after an affair that got another woman pregnant, and they never told her.”
" We plump to different school — my acquaintance was put in a different school because her crony was in my year at my school . When my friend finally detect out three years afterwards and confided in me , I had to affect I never recognise . "
— u / Suspicious - Coffee899
20.“In the early 2000s, my dad was on a gay online forum. People didn’t know how to properly hide their nicknames from everybody. I read some of his posts where he talked about how he decided to be there for his family and ‘decided against being gay.’ Three months ago, he died, and I’ll never be able to talk to him about it. I’m not gonna confront my mom because I might hurt her.”
— uracil / RelativeCode956
21.“I went for a drink with my lecturer as we did now and then. She got a bit wasted, which was unlike her, and confessed she hadn’t fallen down the stairs but that her husband, another lecturer I knew (but didn’t care for), had broken her arm. I learned a lot from her about feminism and trauma theory, so it was a surprise and a shock to hear this. She asked me not to tell anyone, and I never have. I don’t know if I would make the same choice these days or not. I should have spoken out, but at the same time it was her choice, she had young kids with him. Would they be okay if the family broke up? Would she and the kids be safe if it came out?”
— u / Blekanly
22.“When I was around 15/16, I went on my aunt’s computer to print something. I was nosy, so I looked at her IM history and saw loads of messages from another man (who I also knew). She was telling him she was in love with him and how unhappy she was with her marriage and life. I never told a soul. Not long after, she cut off all contact with the other man. She’s still married to my Uncle 20 years later, so I guess they sorted things out.”
— uracil / Queen_Banana
23.“The truth of how my Nana died. She died when I was about 10. The only thing I knew was that she was found in the bathroom. I never questioned it my entire life. People die and are found in the bathroom all the time. I figured maybe she slipped and fell or had a heart attack. Decades later, I was having dinner with my younger sister, and for some reason, she felt it necessary to tell me what she found out from my mother. My Nana had severe osteoporosis and was in severe pain all the time. One day, she decided she had had enough. She filled the tub with water, took all her pain meds, slipped under the water, and drowned herself.”
— u / HumpieDouglas
24.“When my mother was pregnant with me, she was inconsolable and crying to my grandmother about it — how she didn’t want to have kids but that my father forced this upon her. She was really close to getting an abortion as well. I found this out almost 30 years later when my grandmother let one detail of this slip by accident; I asked further questions about it.”
— u / stxxyy
25.“I have older brothers. One of the brothers got drunk and told me the reason he does not speak to the other brother is that the other brother slept with his girlfriend at the time. He only found out when he was using the other brother’s old laptop that he lent him, and the messages on iCloud were not deleted. He was confused when he found his girl’s name as a recent contact as he went into messages. My dad and mum have no idea this is what they fell out over. They thought it was over something else.”
— u / moodpschological
26.“My mom and dad didn’t split when I was one year old. He found his true love at the gym while his wife (my mom) was eight months pregnant. They both took off to Washington and had two kids, leaving my mom with a newborn (me). Times were really hard growing up as a kid, and finding out this was the reason at 34 years old was very hurtful. I’ve never brought it up to him because I don’t really know how and… well, he’s been with my stepmom for 30+ years now, so he wasn’t wrong to trust his instincts.”
" have shaver of my own and him being a supportive grandpa has made the topic harder to take up , and I feel like we ’ve all just sort of matured from it and gotten over it without in reality speaking about it . He mentioned once that he is happy life history reverse out the path it is , but I guess I would snap if he ever said the thing he did was for good because ' look at how we all twist out . ' "
— u / Spartan1088
27.“My best friend’s husband has a second family in Ohio. Accidentally saw his text messages pop up while fixing her phone. It’s been three years, and I still haven’t figured out how to tell her.”
— u / Lovelyy0Beauty
28.“My best friend’s husband was planning this elaborate surprise birthday party for her, but I accidentally walked in on him making out with the party planner. That was three years ago, and I still feel sick from keeping this from her.”
— u / Sweet - Sunflowersx
29.“I was almost an abortion; apparently, no one thought my mother should have a kid. It turns out they were right; she was the worst. I broke off all communication 20 years ago.”
— u / Paymee_Money
30.“I found out when I was about 16 or 17 years old that my brother’s girlfriend, who I knew but went to another school, was 14 when she dated my brother. He was 19 years old. I remember my dad talking to my brother about the fact that he disapproved of my brother dating a ‘younger girl,’ but I didn’t realize that my brother and dad were having that conversation because the girl was FOURTEEN YEARS OLD. My brother did end the relationship with her. Years later, I saw the girl again and asked how she was doing. She seemed kind of super dismissive, so I apologized for bothering her. Her boyfriend and I went to the same school, and I knew him in passing pretty well. I guess he trusted me enough to let me know that the reason she was acting that way was because she knew I was my brother’s sister and that the relationship with my brother ended poorly, and through therapy, she realized that my brother groomed her when she was 14 and he was 19 years old.”
— atomic number 92 / AnalysisNo4295
31.“My mom was my dad’s second wife. His first wife had cheated on him after two kids, and they were divorced. This was a very big deal back then where I grew up (Nepal). My dad migrated to a different town just to avoid the noise and make sure I never knew. However, one day, my local shopkeeper accidentally told me. I felt so depressed that my brother and sister were only half-brother and sister. Every time they had a small argument with my mom, I used to think it was because they were not her real children. Now, it doesn’t matter to me, and we are very close as siblings. But when I was little, it affected me a lot.”
— u / Both - Ad1925
32.“My mum cheated on my dad when I was seven. I was sleeping, and they were fighting, but they used to fight very loudly in front of us all the time, so honestly, I was desensitized. I overheard their argument and found out my mum cheated on my dad. I was 13 during this time, and honestly, it affected me so much that I remember crying on the bus home from school. I’m 18 now. After years of tension in my household, my parents finally rekindled their marriage. They don’t know that I know, so I bury this deep within me, and it kinda sucks having to act like nothing happened when the world came crashing down on me when I found out.”
" I still do wish they had make split up during this period instead of book so much hatred towards each other because , throughout my childhood , they were so emotionally scatty . Sometimes , I question why my mum did what she did even though she had kid at home . I find guilty for think she did n’t handle about me enough . "
— u / crazycatlady123 _ _
33."[I found out] that my dad and his girlfriend couldn’t pay the mortgage and were falling behind on payments. They hadn’t been discussing a move for months. This wasn’t in the plans. The house is being foreclosed. They’re lying to me and my siblings, and since I found out, I’ve been hiding the truth from my siblings and hiding the fact I know from the two adults. I hate it. I 100% wasn’t supposed to know, and I wish I’d never found out."
— u / Jo - Jo_Binx
34.“In high school, there were these girls who were friends: Terry and Layla. Terry had let Layla use her old iPhone for a while because hers might’ve been broken, or her parents confiscated it — I can’t remember. Well, when Terry got the phone back, the girl was still logged in to her iCloud, and it was still receiving text messages. Once she took a look at the messages, she put two and two together that Layla was ‘dating’ our AP English teacher and that they were waiting until she was 18 to officially be intimate.”
" Terry confided in one of my close friend , who then told me . But we were n’t supposed to know , so we just forgot about it . This military man was always ' very close-fitting ' and flirtatious with his female pupil , and it was kind of always a known matter . I believe he had just gotten married or was engaged and had about five kids , admit a few daughters our age .
Fast forward literally correctly after commencement ceremony , I was hang my best admirer ’s commencement exercise from another high schoolhouse , and my phone started swash up . Her young man found out and reported him . Idk what happen legally , but I know he was supposed to be go to another big local high school to become head of the English section . I tend to look him up every few years … he ’s a realtor now . 🙃 "
— u / deathofavixen
35.“When my mom was dying, I flew up, and my dad picked me up from the airport and took me straight to the hospital. They’d been divorced ~25 years at this point, and he didn’t know if she’d want to see him, so he sent me up first to make sure. She said it was fine, so he came up to say goodbye. I was off to the side of the room, and he said softly, ‘I never stopped loving you,’ and she said, ‘Oh, [name].’ He had been married to my stepmother for ~20 years then, so I’m pretty sure it’s a secret I wasn’t really supposed to know.”
— u / Sufficient_Drama_145
36.And finally, we’ll end on one that’ll get you guessing…“I know that a well-known, very well-liked celebrity is cheating on his also well-known, well-liked wife. He came into our hotel checking into a suite for two without the second person present (which is fine and not even uncommon), gave him his room keys, explained where the room was, and wished him a nice stay. When I check someone in at night, I’ll always follow them through the cameras to make sure they find their room alright. Waiting for him in front of the night entrance was a woman who was definitely not his wife (different age, height, hair color, body type…). He kissed her, and they walked hand in hand to their room. Legally, I can’t talk about who without losing my job.”
— u / SadlyNotDannyDeVito
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