“Oh, the things you find out about the woman who would make you hot cocoa.”
We all have secrets some of them that we’ll take to our graves.
Here are some of the most shocking.
“[My] grandfather died when I was around 10.
Those men were his partners, and my family hated them.”
u/Accomplished_Cup_922
2.
… Well, he disappeared around the time I was 13.
Then when I was 26, my dad told me he died.
He was apparently on the run and was wanted for years…for several murders.
He was a hitman, apparently."
“He was never arrested, but he died in a shooting in Italy.
I always had a hard time picturing him in that life.
He always was really good to me and my siblings.”
u/kybergod
3.
“When I was a kid, my dad told me that his dad had died from being electrocuted.
My whole childhood, he raised me and my siblings to be very cautious around electricity.
It was the ’60s, so the fire department in their small town helped cover it up.”
u/melvilleismycopilot
4.
None of them were from me."
u/lunaburning
5.
“My grandfather was a member of the KKK.
My grandmother found all his robes and other shit hidden in the trunk of his car after he died.
She burned it all that night in the backyard, utterly mortified that he was an active member.”
u/msab79
6.
“My father fabricated an entire military career.
u/Ok-Entertainer-7904
7.
Days after the second one passed, the school released a report that named them both among others.
u/iSmellLikeTeenSpirit
8. aGirlLikesTacos
9.
My grandfather was in cognitive decline in his later years, and his health was failing.
She got him to sign all kinds of things.
… Over a five-year period, she was able to transfer close to $8 million.”
“By the time she died, my grandfather was in really bad shape mentally and physically.
We had to clean out her things, and we found all of the paperwork: every last detail.
Nothing could be done legally.
Her daughter was set for life.”
u/sitdolore
10.
He was known as a veteran soldier.
… His family used to be popular in our neighborhood, too, and they seemed pretty well off.
They had a female housekeeper who disappeared one day, and the story was that she eloped with someone.
u/mehehehehheheheheh
11.
“When I was about 10, my moms uncle, so my great-uncle, died.
I wasnt close with him, but my mom was.
u/nonchellent
12.
“I found out that my uncle somehow had a black market liver.
He went through the first via drinking himself nearly to death.
He wouldn’t stop drinking and drugging, so the implant folks wouldn’t put him on a list.
He then takes a trip to (I believe) India and gets a liver implanted.
He then found a shady doctor here for after-care.
After that, he drank through another liver in three years.
He died not long ago due to his liver not working anymore.
u/popemichael
13. u/thatsaSagittarius
14. u/beaniesandbuds
15.
A patriarch with several children and all his children have families who live in neighboring apartments.
u/Buttercups97
16.
“My partner’s grandfather died.
A week or so after his death, the grandmother started getting really sick.
She is in her ’80s, and doctors suspected it was a bad UTI gone into other organs.
Turns out it wasnt a UTI, but multiple STIs.
The grandfather was sleeping with a ton of women at the church he was a preacher at.”
“He left her and many members of the church with quite the parting gift.
We all knew he was a crappy guy, but didnt know to this new extent.”
u/RachelVonLee
17.
“My uncle died suddenly in a car crash when I was 18.
My aunt has schizophrenia and went off her meds after he died.
Eventually she couldn’t stay in the house anymore, and we went to help clean it out.
We found cameras everywhere.
Behind paintings, in the bookshelves, just everywhere.
In better news, my aunt now lives in Florida with a caretaker in a condo.
She paints for a living and is very happy.”
u/CassiopeiaFoon
18.
“My cousin died a couple months ago of a drug overdose.
u/BojukaBob
19.
I never knew, and it’s clear no one else did either.”
“She went through horrible stuff, and it disturbs me to this day.
u/Effective_River2639
20.
Before we could wipe it, her partner needed help getting some information to settle her accounts.
I saw so much homemade porn of her with all of our friends.”
Everyone we knew together and lots of people I don’t know.”
“My grandpa died in the late ’90s of a heart attack when he was about 65 years old.
… We asked my grandpa’s aunt, who was still alive at that point.
“They used the papers of their son who passed away just a few weeks earlier.
It still amazes me how they kept this secret for over half a century.”
