Babysitters Are Sharing The Wildest, Weirdest, And Most Disturbing Secrets They Discovered About The Families They Worked For

If there's 1 happening babysitters and nannies know, it's that you tin larn an atrocious batch astir a household from conscionable a fewer hours wrong their location — and sometimes, what you larn is genuinely unhinged. After we precocious rounded up 17 of the wildest secrets babysitters discovered astir the families they worked for, adjacent much existent and erstwhile sitters came guardant with their ain stories. Here are 12 more, ranging from absorbing to profoundly unsettling:

Note: This station contains mentions of kid abuse, home violence, substance use, and murder.

1. "I utilized to babysit for 2 families connected my block. Family A had six kids, and the dada was a long-distance motortruck driver. Family B had 5 kids. Mom A was having an matter with Dad B. They went distant camping and took 3 oregon 4 of the babies, leaving Family A's kids with me. Then Mom B took disconnected — supposedly for the time — sent her kids down to me, and told maine to telephone her husband! I was astatine Family A's house, truthful I had six oregon 7 kids, ages 6 to 12. Dad A was supposedly coming location to beryllium with his kids, but helium would not. He told maine helium was sorry, but I made the woody with his wife. He past took disconnected connected different motortruck run. Meanwhile, the matter mates kept extending their camping travel each day. The kids were OK, but the 12-year-old — helium acceptable his furniture connected fire! I was making Kool-Aid, truthful I dumped it connected the fire, past kept going backmost for h2o successful the pitcher to enactment it out."

2. "I babysat for a household successful precocious school. The small miss was possibly 3 and loved Barney. The ma said they kept VHS tapes of episodes successful the VCR (yes, I'm old) and to conscionable propulsion play whenever she got bored. One day, I pushed play, and it was … not Barney. It was a VERY big film. I instantly stopped it — I don't deliberation the kid saw thing — and recovered the close tape. I near the incorrect portion connected apical of the VCR and conscionable ne'er said anything. The parents were bully people, but seemed beauteous scatterbrained astir kid safety. I sometimes recovered random over-the-counter meds connected the level oregon different tiny objects similar coins (choking hazard), and erstwhile a switchblade, arsenic if it had fallen from a pocket."

—wanderingstorm

3. "This isn't dark, but I deliberation it's a amusive story. I utilized to nanny done an bureau successful the Silicon Valley. I was a temp nanny, truthful I would spell wherever I was needed. There was 1 household that requested a temp nanny portion the ma was retired of municipality for a fewer days. When I got to their building, I was told to spell up to the penthouse. Their location was immense and beautiful. The dada told maine helium didn't spot maine unsocial with his 10-month-old. It was thing personal; they conscionable ne'er had anyone ticker the baby, fto unsocial a stranger. So helium told maine we were going to spell to enactment with him. I thought that was weird and wondered however his enactment would beryllium good with it. Turns retired helium worked astatine the Google field and gave maine a impermanent pass. I was capable to research the campus, and if anyone questioned me, I would conscionable say, 'I'm [dad's name]'s nanny,' and they would permission maine alone. We had luncheon astatine the cafeteria there, and it was steak! It was an awesome experience."

4. "I've been a nanny for a mates of decades, moving with the aforesaid families for years, positive their friends and referrals from different nannies. It's a close-knit group. They astir ever archer you to 'make yourself astatine home' and consciousness escaped to drawback immoderate you request — food, a ablution if it's overnight, or, successful this case, Advil. It's not uncommon (and really precise harmless and smart) to cognize wherever the medicine furniture is successful lawsuit of emergency, oregon if you conscionable person a headache oregon allergies. But successful this case, the Advil was sitting close connected the countertop by the room sink. My friends, 'twas not Advil. Let's conscionable accidental determination was a rolled-up dollar measure with different worldly successful their fucking room and surviving country — not adjacent connected a shelf! That wasn't adjacent adjacent to the scariest concern I've encountered successful that aforesaid location — it was conscionable the astir blatant."

"Thankfully, the begetter yet near with afloat custody of the children. I've had to attest successful aggregate custody disputes, and I'd bash it again successful a heartbeat to support those kids safe." 

—promisingyoungwoman

5. "With big eyes, it's really beauteous bittersweet to deliberation about, but erstwhile I was a teen, I babysat for the fittingness teacher of our community. We're talking a existent Ms. Fitness type. I was determination erstwhile the kids got location from schoolhouse and had to springiness them their snack. She was precise adamant astir what they were allowed to devour — precise steadfast food, similar they had to person an apple, etc. Well, I was looking successful the room cupboard for thing and opened a precocious cabinet, retired of scope for her elementary-aged children. This cupboard was packed to the brim with junk food. All the bully stuff. Cupcakes and cookies, etc. But the kids weren't allowed to person immoderate of it."

6. "In the 1970s, my precocious schoolhouse champion person and I some babysat for respective years for a mates who had saccharine kids. They lived wrong walking region of my friend's house, truthful aft the parents got home, I could locomotion implicit and walk the nighttime there. He was a psychotherapist; she was a stay-at-home mom. Eventually, they moved, and though they were inactive successful Berkeley, I present needed a thrust home. One night, the dada confronted maine successful the car connected the thrust home, accusing maine of stealing their LSD. I was truthful flabbergasted, each I could deliberation to accidental was no, and that I was shocked they had LSD lying astir their location and hadn't told maine successful lawsuit their kids recovered it. I ne'er babysat for them again."

—Anonymous, Female, California

7. "I dated a miss who babysat for the section mortician. The household lived connected the apical level of the mortuary. They had 3 young kids, ages 4 to 8. The 2nd clip she babysat for them, each 3 kids disappeared portion she was cleaning up aft supper. She looked each implicit the location and extracurricular but couldn't find them. Right arsenic she was astir to telephone the police, she decided to spell downstairs. When she looked into the country that displayed the disposable caskets, the 3 kids popped up retired of antithetic models. She was terrified! It was the past clip she sat for them. It benignant of explains wherefore they were ever looking for sitters."

8. "I was a nanny for 15 years, and the weirdest household hired maine for day nights. The begetter ever had an off-putting energy. I felt similar they would person had enactment with maine if I agreed. One time, the parent near for an lawsuit and said the begetter would beryllium leaving soon to articulation her. An hr and a fractional later, helium came downstairs — with nary pants on! He wandered around, enactment connected pants, and left. They moved distant soon aft that. One twelvemonth later, an Instagram communicative popped up connected my phone. I checked it out, and the begetter had died from an overdose."

—Anonymous, 65, Female, Arizona

9. "I was a nanny astatine property 19 for a household with 5 kids — the 2 youngest were twins — connected their farm. Every time was jam-packed with chores, and feeding the workers and dad. One day, I came in, and the parents' country was destroyed! The oldest child, a girl, told maine that her dada had deed her mom, the ma had fought backmost (the ma was mode taller and stronger), and past they had 'made up successful their bedroom' and were 'in emotion again.' That's erstwhile I realized this mates would virtually bushed connected each different and person constitution sex. It was a weird vibe successful that location each the time. I ever wondered what yet happened to the kids, but arsenic acold arsenic I could tell, it worked retired OK."

10. "When I was 16, I babysat for a household connected my street. They had 1 11-month-old girl. The household was bully and paid well. All I had to bash was diaper changes and vessel feedings. I had been babysitting for them a fewer times a period for astir six months. At this point, the girl was astir a twelvemonth and a fractional old. One day, I was scheduled to travel babysit, but the dada called maine ace aboriginal successful the morning, similar 4:30 a.m., and said his woman and babe were sick and not to come. I was like, OK, went backmost to sleep, and didn't deliberation thing of it. Cut to astir a week later: My dad, who was a cop, came location from enactment 1 time and told maine helium needed to speech to me, and that I should beryllium down. My dada seldom talked astir his enactment with me, and helium seldom looked truthful serious, truthful I was precise confused. He went connected to archer maine that the dada from the household I babysat for had fundamentally snapped and murdered his woman and girl the week prior, and had been arrested and charged that day."

"I'm not adjacent kidding — I threw up. He explained to maine that the wife's sister had gotten disquieted and went implicit to the location the time earlier the apprehension and recovered the bodies and transgression scene, and the dada was obscurity to beryllium found, but they rapidly recovered him astatine his brother's house. I conjecture helium ended up confessing aft being interrogated and realizing determination was nary mode retired of this, and helium had killed them successful the aboriginal greeting hours erstwhile helium had phoned to cancel connected me. That made maine sick again, due to the fact that knowing they were murdered was atrocious enough, but knowing helium had called maine aft helium had done it to marque definite I didn't amusement up and spot everything earlier helium had a accidental to fly was excessively overmuch for maine to handle. I ne'er babysat for anybody ever again."

—Anonymous, 29

11. "My neighbour mislaid her babe to SIDS. Not agelong aft this devastating loss, I saw her cuddling a newborn. I wondered if they had adopted it, due to the fact that I ne'er noticed a pregnancy, and I was beauteous definite 9 months hadn't passed since the commencement and abrupt nonaccomplishment of their babe daughter. About a period later, she asked if I could babysit for a fewer hours portion they went somewhere. I agreed, and she explained the babe would slumber the full clip and not to disturb her. I didn't inquire immoderate of my burning questions — conscionable flopped onto their sofa and turned connected the tube. Eventually, I got funny oregon nosy and went to peek astatine the baby. Sound asleep, conscionable similar ma said. As I stared astatine this still, tiny baby, I abruptly realized she did not look to beryllium breathing, and my bosom leaped into my throat. Dear god, no, not connected my watch. I raced to the crib, scooped up the baby, and realized it was each wrong. It wasn't a unrecorded baby. It was a precise convincing Reborn doll."

Did immoderate of these stories punctual you of your ain babysitting stories? Current and erstwhile babysitters and nannies, what's the wildest, weirdest, oregon astir shocking happening you ever discovered astir a household you worked for? Share your communicative successful the comments oregon taxable anonymously utilizing the signifier below.

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.