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Recently, we wrote about secrets radical accidentally stumbled upon, and members of the BuzzFeed Community had their ain stories to taxable — particularly regarding household secrets. Here are 47 shocking things radical discovered astir their families.*
*Along with immoderate replies from the original Reddit thread.
NOTE: There are mentions of violence, murder, suicide, intersexual assault, intersexual abuse, kid abuse, home violence, and incest.
1. "When I was young, I was told my gramps was murdered successful his location successful a break-in gone wrong. I aboriginal recovered retired (through my ain Internet research) that helium was really murdered successful a cause woody gone wrong. He was the cause dealer."
2. "When I was a kid, my parents told maine that my dad's begetter died of a burst appendix respective years earlier I was born. I recovered retired aft my dada died that this wasn't true. I knew my dad's parents had divided up, but seemingly they did due to the fact that his dada was cheating connected his mom. A fewer months aft they split, his dada murdered his matter spouse and past died by termination successful a hotel. I learned this erstwhile we were cleaning retired my dad's flat and recovered paper clippings and letters to my dada from assorted household members astir the incident. The lone existent happening from the archetypal communicative I was told was the day his dada died."
3. "I got large into household probe during COVID times arsenic a means to support myself busy. I ended up uncovering a paper nonfiction astir my gramps from the '50s. Turns retired helium and 2 others kidnapped and robbed a feline portion helium was AWOL from the Army. He was young and presumably going done pugnacious times (still nary excuse), but helium and the remainder of my paternal broadside of the household are large into Trump and 'law and order,' etc. We don't talk anymore, but I deliberation astir reaching retired to inquire him astir it often."
4. "The lad of my aunt's semipermanent fellow (essentially my uncle for each intents) was groomed starting astatine astir 12 years aged (maybe earlier, but that's erstwhile I met him; we're the aforesaid age) by his past 19-year-old step-sister and got her large erstwhile we were astir 15. The secret, though, is that his ma and his stepdad are cousins, and truthful helium got groomed by his relative and got her pregnant. They person 2 kids. He's beauteous messed up with a peculiar intelligence wellness past and is beauteous overmuch a deadbeat. I wouldn't accidental he's a atrocious person, but lone due to the fact that I'm alert of his upbringing. I'm not definite if he's been made alert of this yet, but erstwhile I recovered out, helium was unaware."
5. "My uncle died by suicide; everyone was told due to the fact that helium got laid off, and his woman took their 2 girls and near him. He was a kid predator, truthful helium killed himself to debar the blowback."
6. "My uncle was a Monsignor successful the Lincoln, Nebraska, Catholic diocese. Part of his occupation was to counsel the victims of intersexual maltreatment and person them not to property charges. He besides relocated defending priests to antithetic parishes to get them distant from the children who were 'responsible' for the temptations that caused the rape. It was a large household secret. Frankly, it was a large concealed of the church. I don't deliberation I was expected to cognize astir it."
7. "My sister doesn't cognize that her begetter (a stranger) raped our parent and that's however my sister was born, retired of rape. I volition ne'er archer her. Our parent ever told my sister that her begetter was successful the subject erstwhile my sister would inquire astir who her begetter was."
—Anonymous
8. "My aunt had an abortion, and it was her father's baby. When my dada was astir 19 and his sister was a fewer years younger, she came to his country 1 nighttime and asked him to assistance her get an abortion. She swore that if helium told anyone, she would termination him. He helped her, and they ne'er spoke astir it again."
"A mates of decades later, I perceive my parents talking astir it. I paid a small attraction to it, but not much.
Cut to different mates of decades later, and my gramps is incapable to unrecorded by himself. My aunt and uncle moved successful with him to instrumentality attraction of him. That's erstwhile I recovered retired that my aunt had for a portion refused to speech to her begetter due to the fact that helium wouldn't apologize for 'something,' but they yet reconciled due to the fact that helium promised her the location erstwhile she died. My mom, being inquisitive similar me, had already dug much into this, and evidently, my gramps had sexually abused my aunt for years arsenic a young kid and teenager.
Now she didn't straight archer my ma that it was my grandfather's kid she aborted, but...c'mon, 2+2."
9. "I was hanging retired with my relative 1 nighttime 20 years agone (I'm successful my forties). She got drunk and told maine she'd been sleeping with our different relative since they were successful precocious school. I kinda stopped hanging retired with her and him afterward. Gross. Ten years later, astatine a household gathering, his woman got drunk, and they started arguing. She told everyone those 2 were banging, and she showed pictures to the household she got from his unreality of her and him in...positions. Gross. Now everyone knows. My pistillate relative was truthful embarrassed she was crying. My antheral relative was shamed and left. He and his woman divorced later. The pistillate relative moved crossed the country. The antheral relative lives unsocial and doesn't speech to anyone. I person a unusual family."
10. "My hubby and I recovered my father-in-law's biologic household done 1 of those DNA kits. We were excited to larn much astir his family. My father-in-law was adopted by his parents arsenic a baby, and helium ever thought that his parents were helping retired a niece who got 'in trouble' arsenic a teenager. Win-win for everyone, right? Wrong. My FIL's bio ma had been joined to a worker successful World War I, and portion helium was away, she got large a mates of times and past sold the babies. When helium returned, helium recovered retired and divorced her, but she sold respective much aft that. We cognize of astatine slightest 7 siblings who recovered each other. My FIL was the youngest we cognize of, and each the others are present deceased. We ne'er told anyone other successful my husband's family. My FIL would person been devastated. He passed distant recently, truthful determination is nary crushed to archer the remainder of the household now."
11. "I've learned that my household is afloat of secrets, immoderate truly dark. I'll stock this one; I learned erstwhile I was a teen that my Nan and my great-aunt (they're twins) joined their biologic brothers and had children with them. They each had aggregate miscarriages, and the babies that made it to word and were calved died soon aft — each but one. My Nan's archetypal girl (my eldest aunt) is simply a merchandise of incest and is inactive surviving today. My Nan is particularly adjacent with her and benignant of obsessed with her. She holds her successful higher respect than anyone else, including her different kin. They person a precise twisted, codependent relationship."
"The lone crushed my Nan and great-aunt ended up with antithetic men (my Nan with my granddad) is due to the fact that a distant comparative recovered retired astir the incestuous affairs and contacted the brothers' higher-ups to study their marriages (they were successful the military). They were dishonorably discharged, and the quality of wherefore spread. It became a nationalist shame, which led to divorce. My Nan's brother/ex-husband hung astir adjacent aft she remarried to my grandfather, who knew everything. Sadly, it's travel retired since his passing that she ne'er truly loved my granddad, and she was ne'er blessed with him. She was severely abusive to my ma and her siblings, prevention for the eldest. Super toxic.
How this information came to airy successful our household is due to the fact that my aunt (not the incestuous one) was looking done an aged trunk she recovered successful the attic, and she discovered a clump of paperwork, photos, certificates — you sanction it. The astir damning grounds was commencement certificates of deceased children belonging to my Nan and her brother, including the surviving child, their eldest sister. What's absorbing is that her commencement certificate has a antithetic sanction connected it. Anyway, my aunt spilled the beans to my ma and their brother, and it's since made its mode down the line."
12. "When I was astir 13 (many, galore years ago), my parents told maine that the antheral I knew arsenic my dada isn't my biologic father. Mom said that my existent begetter had alcoholism and wouldn't get a job, truthful she near him and yet remarried. I didn't truly deliberation astir it overmuch due to the fact that my adopted dada was great, and I got to turn up successful a precise loving family. Years passed, and each present and then, I would Google my biologic father's name. Nothing ever came up until 1 time I recovered retired that astir the clip I was born, helium went to jailhouse for assault. Later helium got retired connected parole and raped and killed someone. From what I tin tell, he's inactive live and connected Death Row."
"But I seldom deliberation astir the situation. I cognize I was blessed to person a overmuch amended beingness than I would person had if helium had been successful it."
13. "I person triplet half-brothers who unrecorded crossed the country. It is simply a agelong story, but their ma was visiting wherever I'm from and hooked up with my dad. She went backmost location and, for immoderate reason, decided to telephone my dada and archer her she was pregnant, but begged him to enactment retired of her beingness and not ruin her matrimony (it is debatable if my dada knew she was joined erstwhile hooking up). Dad agreed, and everyone went astir their lives."
"About 25 years later, done a weird bid of events, I recovered retired astir this. I looked them up, and we are 100% related, nary question. I did person to archer my different siblings truthful that nary of america ever gets a DNA trial and risks the information coming retired to our half-brothers oregon the antheral who believes helium is their father. Based connected socials, they are a blessed family, and we don't privation to hazard ruining that."
14. "My ma was raped astatine 13 by the preacher's 19-year-old lad astatine religion camp. He got caught successful the act. Afterwards, they blamed her, and erstwhile they recovered retired she was pregnant, they made her get an abortion. Nothing ever happened to the rapist. My grandmother, who has dementia, told maine portion reasoning she was talking to my mom. (We look akin enough.) I person ne'er told my ma that I know."
15. "Thanks to an Ancestry trial arsenic a day contiguous from my wife, I learned that my dada is not my father, I was conceived done IVF, and my parents would person gone to their graves without telling me. What THEY didn't know, and that my newly-discovered half-siblings informed maine of, is that each of america person the aforesaid dada due to the fact that the fertility doc swapped his ain proviso with the donor sperm helium was expected to beryllium using."
"It's not the feline from the Netflix doc, but it's the aforesaid benignant of scenario; seemingly it's horrifyingly common, and was adjacent much truthful 30+ years ago, earlier it was adjacent well-understood capable to beryllium considered a crime, and being capable to trial your ain DNA was overmuch rarer."
16. "Recently, my household recovered retired that our gramps had an matter 50+ years ago, which resulted successful a concealed kid being calved and our gramps losing his job. Everyone was shocked, but they don't cognize that the crushed it was kept concealed truthful agelong is not due to the fact that it was an affair, but due to the fact that the parent of that kid was underage."
17. "My ace judgmental and spiritual grandma really conceived my ma retired of wedlock by a traveling salesperson, and my cheery grandpa begged to instrumentality her connected arsenic a beard (he ne'er outright said that, but I consciousness similar they some knew). I'm inactive looking for my biologic grandpa due to the fact that I person his alleged info, but I'm not definite what subreddit to use."
18. "My dada was calved successful 1926 and volunteered for the Navy successful WW2. He went done basal grooming (which I can't imagine) and was deployed to a destroyer. On board, helium was a witness/victim to an explosion; each of the bones successful his hands were broken. They acceptable them betwixt 2 boards until helium could beryllium offboarded to a infirmary ship. They asked him if helium wanted them to sound him retired first, and helium said nary to the archetypal 1 and past yes, please, for the second."
"That's not the secret. The concealed is that helium past took diazepam/valium each time for the remainder of his life. My dada had PTSD, and I didn't cognize until aft helium died successful 2006."
19. "I recovered retired astir my fractional sister due to the fact that my ma drunkenly told maine the crushed my parents divided up was due to the fact that my dada cheated connected her with 1 of her oldest friends. I recovered my fractional sister connected societal media and reached retired to her. We met up and talked for a bit. She was beauteous bully and we present bent retired whenever I'm successful town. My parents inactive bash not cognize I know, and the lone idiosyncratic who does cognize is my champion friend."
—Anonymous, 19
20. "My gramps told maine astir his dada and however abusive helium had been to his 10 surviving children. ... His begetter bushed up their parent 1 time and threw her extracurricular into a blizzard, wherever she died successful the snowy walkway, and helium commented connected the tiny snowdrift that had built up implicit her corpse. After his parent died, helium had to driblet retired of schoolhouse successful sixth people and get a occupation to assistance enactment his dada and siblings. Unfortunately, the evil bastard ne'er saw consequences too dying unsocial of aged property successful the 1970s."
21. "My mom's member had an extramarital matter that whitethorn person produced a child. My parent recovered retired due to the fact that they utilized to message correspondence to my mom's spot of work. My ma got suspicious wherefore letters for her member were being mailed to her office, truthful she opened one. That's however she recovered retired that the matter spouse was pregnant. My ma threatened to archer my uncle's woman if my uncle continued with the affair. My ma doesn't cognize if the matter ended oregon if the kid was born. My uncle died decades ago, and my relative (my uncle's lone kid with his wife) passed from crab past year. We bash not cognize if his woman ever knew."
22. "One of my ancestors was a notorious brothel madam and dodgy concern proprietor successful the 19th century. We figured it retired aft my dad's broadside of the household got into DNA tests and household history. It turns retired the household past story, arsenic told to my grandma and her sisters by their grandma, was a implicit fabrication to fell the shameful truth. I'm somewhat disappointed due to the fact that it was a fabulous communicative linking america to the aristocracy and exotic seafarers. I'm beauteous definite my great-great-grandmother (daughter of the brothel madam and a convict) didn't privation maine oregon immoderate of her different descendants to cognize the existent history."
23. "My cousin-in-law raped his niece and got her pregnant. They were some young teens astatine the time. His parent is the niece's grandmother, and she had custody of her. She is simply a monster. She would marque the miss slumber connected the level adjacent to her furniture — truthful however she adjacent fto this hap is inexcusable. She past made her springiness up the baby, who has issues due to the fact that of the inbreeding. This happened 4 years ago, and we're conscionable present uncovering retired astir it due to the fact that the niece is an big present and yet speaking up astir it."
24. "My mother-in-law got drunk and told maine my father-in-law (they're divorced) cheated connected her with her coworker erstwhile she was large with my now-husband. My hubby and sister successful instrumentality person nary idea. And present I'm stuck with that successful my head. She ne'er told them due to the fact that she didn't privation it to impact their narration with their dad, which is wholly understandable. Oh, and the coworker's hubby was a bull who proceeded to stalk them each implicit the spot retired of choler aft the affair."
25. "My relative was adopted. Apparently, his Mom was ne'er capable to person kids, truthful they adopted him but ne'er told him. He's 36 present with a family, and his begetter passed distant past year. He inactive doesn't know."
27. "My mom's dada wasn't really her dad. She had ever suspected it, but my grandma took the concealed to her grave. She died erstwhile I was 16. A fewer years later, my mom's 'dad' joined a horrible pistillate who ran everyone other off. When that happened, 1 of Mom's uncles fto it gaffe that she had a antithetic commencement dada and helped america commencement tracking him down. He was a truly chill dude. We got to person astir 4 years with him earlier helium passed suddenly."
28. "My half-brother and half-sisters don't cognize our begetter got my ma large and near her aft uncovering retired astir me. So they don't cognize I exist. The siblings and I are each successful our 40s present — I've located 1 connected Facebook, and I truly privation to scope out, but it's not just of maine to stroke up her beingness conscionable due to the fact that we person a coward for a father. I've really gotten the ancestry investigating done, and my ancestry relationship settings let matches to interaction maine — I'm hopeful 1 of the siblings volition get the investigating done excessively and find retired that way."
29. "I person a half-brother from my ma that she had earlier she was with my dad. I'm presently 35 and the 3rd of 4 kids from my parents. They've been joined for 40 years this year, and I recovered retired from my younger sister backmost successful 2010 (when she was a large teenager) that my parent told her she had a kid erstwhile she was a teen and gave him up for adoption. I didn't archer anyone other until I was doing an Ancestry.com household histrion and showed my mother, who got VERY funny astir it. I asked what she was looking for, and she dodged the question. I told her I knew, and she was shocked. I told her I had known for implicit 10 years. She told maine the sanction she gave him was my archetypal and mediate sanction switched, and that's however she came up with my sanction erstwhile I was born. I besides recovered retired that the PIN codification she uses for a batch of things is his birthday."
"I'm inactive precise funny if there's a mode I tin find a mode to link with him, but I americium not definite that it's my spot to find and uncover helium was adopted if I could.
I ne'er told my 2 older brothers astir this, but my dada has known since earlier helium and my ma were together."
30. "After my member passed, I requested his intelligence wellness records, which indicated our begetter sexually molested him arsenic a child. I was truly adjacent to my begetter and member and consciousness similar I would person known, but I don't privation to beryllium 1 of those household members who accidental it ne'er happened erstwhile it did."
—Anonymous, 60, Colorado
31. "My ma has been lying astir our biologic begetter for 50 years. She ever told america helium abandoned america erstwhile I was five. All my relatives would accidental however weird it was due to the fact that helium was specified a doting dad. One time she accidentally slipped and confessed to my relative that she utilized to propulsion distant each the cards and gifts helium sent maine and my siblings for Christmas and our birthdays due to the fact that she decided it was amended if helium wasn't successful our lives owed to his alcoholism."
—Anonymous, 50+, USA
32. "My father-in-law grew up with a younger brother. Their begetter had terrible slump and alcoholism, and helium died by termination erstwhile they were some kids. Their ma (my wife's grandma) had a antheral coworker who had been a truly adjacent person erstwhile her hubby was inactive alive, and helium became thing of a surrogate begetter to some my FIL and his member aft their dada passed. He was a truly good, kind, generous man, whom my FIL stayed adjacent to for the remainder of his life. Now, you'd look astatine pictures of my FIL and his member and think, 'they don't truly look that overmuch alike,' but I don't deliberation anybody ever truly gave it overmuch thought."
"The surrogate begetter and my FIL's member some died a fewer years ago, and a distant relative shared with my woman that she had recovered retired from different household subordinate that the surrogate begetter had really been much than the mother's person (including erstwhile her hubby was inactive alive); helium had been her lover...and my FIL's brother's biologic father. The member spent his full beingness reasoning his begetter had died by suicide, but successful actuality, his commencement begetter had been determination the full time, acting similar a surrogate begetter until the time helium died. He ne'er recovered out. ... Nobody successful the household talks astir it to this day."
33. "My fractional sister is the girl of the pistillate my bio dada was having an matter with portion my ma was large with me. My sister is 6 years younger than I am, and she doesn't cognize that her parents got unneurotic portion my bio dada was joined to my mom. All of this came retired during the readying for my wedding. I'm not definite I volition ever archer her that her ma is 1 of the reasons that our begetter divorced mine. The fallout led to maine not speaking to him for a mates of months portion I processed. Even aft we did speak, things ne'er went backmost to however they were before. We went nary interaction aft the wedding for a batch of reasons, but that was decidedly portion of it. My sister inactive doesn't cognize that it's a large crushed why."
—Anonymous, 26, Ohio
34. "My dada was cheating connected my parent with enactment workers erstwhile she was large with me. I recovered retired a mates of months aft helium died, and I was looking done emails."
—Anonymous, 19, Texas
35. "I recovered retired my begetter was cheating connected my parent erstwhile I was 11. I was location unsocial with him 1 time during the summertime and went up to the household machine to play Sims oregon something. He had near it on, and determination was a weird chatroom up with messages that said thing similar 'my woman can't know' and 'where should we meet'. I don't truly retrieve due to the fact that my bosom started beating truly fast, and I near the country successful a daze. I didn't cognize what to do, truthful I walked astir the artifact a mates of times."
"I lone ever told my fellow (now husband) astir it due to the fact that I privation I had ne'er recovered out. My dada and I person a tenuous relationship, and I person talked to my ma successful caller years astir however unspeakable and absent (physically present, emotionally absent) of a hubby and begetter helium was. I told her if I had been joined to idiosyncratic similar him, I would person divorced him years ago, and she got truly quiet. I deliberation she knows helium wasn't the champion prime of hubby oregon father, but they're inactive married, and successful caller years, helium has gotten better, mostly due to the fact that I threatened to chopped each interaction with him if helium didn't spell to therapy and psychiatry. Needless to say, it was not a blessed location to turn up in."
—Anonymous, 29, NYC
36. "I had a person archer maine that his mother, who, connected her deathbed, confessed that helium was adopted and his 8 siblings (ALL sisters) weren't his siblings. He was ever uninvited, near out, disallowed astatine household gatherings (apparently due to the fact that of his tegument code and facial features); and helium told maine that helium was adopted owed to his biologic parents being deported backmost to Northern Africa (Algeria) owed to having fraudulent commencement certificates and passports."
37. "My ma got large with my oldest sibling portion joined to different man. I accidentally recovered aged documents that proved the dates, which she promptly burned truthful that my sibling would ne'er find out."
38. "[I discovered] that my grandpa was a mobster, but that helium ne'er went to jailhouse due to the fact that his member (my large uncle) was an cause with the FBI and kept him protected."
39. "My dad's oldest member (both deceased now) was apt the merchandise of incest betwixt their parent and her begetter (their maternal grandfather)."
"Sounds similar you mean incestual intersexual maltreatment of their parent by her father.
I cognize that the abusive quality is implied, but my content is that we instrumentality a stronger basal against kid predators erstwhile we intelligibly authorities that the acts were abuse. I deliberation it is important to beryllium precise wide astir abusive situations due to the fact that victims' experiences person been dismissed and ignored for excessively long.
I cannot ideate however the girl suffered, particularly with the changeless reminder of that child. I would deliberation that she held horribly mixed feelings portion raising the kid. All portion nine forced her to judge the concern and enactment quiet."
40. "DNA investigating decidedly brings up ghosts cipher expects. My MIL has beauteous unspeakable adoptive parents and truly wanted to cognize her 'real' family. So we got her arsenic a trial since I'm into household trees. She was told she was adopted due to the fact that a household successful the religion didn't privation her. Actually, it was 2 radical stepping retired connected their partners. Her father's kids were upset to find retired she existed due to the fact that it ruined their imaginativeness of him, and my MIL was lone a fewer months from 1 of the kids successful age."
"Her parent had a lad aft my MIL that she kept (by her husband), and helium was actively looking for his large sister ever since his ma accidentally mentioned it erstwhile dementia hit. His woman thought helium was chasing confused memories, but helium was right; helium had a sister. It's conscionable absorbing however immoderate radical respond excited and blessed to clasp family, and immoderate person a visceral reaction."
41. "My uncle repeatedly raped my aunt, his younger sister, to the constituent wherever helium locked her successful a country with him and didn't unfastened the door/stop what helium was doing until my grandpa brought retired a weapon and broke the door. My younger sibling was accosted by my drunk grandma during a Thanksgiving visit, which is however we recovered out. She trauma-dumped connected an eight-year-old."
"My older sister besides revealed to my younger sibling that our uncle molested her arsenic a kid — besides portion drunk."
42. "My ma got kidnapped erstwhile she was similar 13 and was ne'er reported missing due to the fact that she was a 'bad kid,' who got into occupation often. She was dropped disconnected a period aboriginal astatine the aforesaid spot wherever she was taken. I emotion my grandparents, but I ever looked astatine them otherwise aft uncovering out."
43. "My ma is truly into genealogy and has been since a precocious schoolhouse biology task that I asked her for assistance with. Years later, she truly wanted 1 of those DNA tests, truthful I got her on. She recovered each these relatives successful antithetic countries. ... She became pen pals with immoderate of them and everything. We were looking astatine different relatives (I don't retrieve if she asked maine to look oregon if I looked connected my own; it was a agelong clip ago), but I recovered idiosyncratic who was listed arsenic her lad who wasn't my member and wasn't that overmuch younger than her."
"I asked her astir it, reasoning it was a mistake. Turns retired she was raped astatine 13 and was sent distant to a 'special school' for her gestation and she gave him up for adoption erstwhile helium was born. I inactive consciousness horrible knowing that she went done that."
44. "I did a 23andMe trial and recovered a relative nary 1 knew about. My dad's member got a miss large successful precocious school, she gave the kid up for adoption, and ne'er told him."
45. "My dada was molested arsenic a kid by his older sister until helium was 'old capable to combat back.' My ma told maine aft helium showed up to my 15th day meal precocious and perfectly plastered, erstwhile I asked wherefore helium had alcoholism and if it was my fault. He ne'er knew I knew, and nary 1 other successful the household knows astir it astatine all. He died from his addiction astir 2 years ago, and I've spent years trying to equilibrium the antheral who emotionally abused america for years with that frightened small boy."
46. "I person a sister who was enactment up for adoption erstwhile my ma was 16 years old. My member and I ne'er knew; our parents ne'er mentioned it. My gramps had said thing astir 27 years ago, and it didn't marque consciousness until I took an ancestry DNA test. Sadly, my parent passed earlier she could conscionable her archetypal girl again."
47. And finally..."For immoderate unusual reason, we weren't expected to cognize that my gramps hunted, killed, and collected memorabilia from Nazis successful WW2, but alas, it was the household secret."
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