Some secrets get taken to their graves…others get confessed in the most shocking way possible.

My dad and stepdad were (and still are) friends.

I wanted to die.

Two women in conversation, one distressed with text "IT JUST CAME OUT, I DON'T KNOW WHY I SAID IT."

Any time they’re together, it creeps into my head at least once."

anonymous

2.

My friend left the guy bleeding and unconscious on the ground in the middle of winter in New England.

Two side-by-side images of a woman expressing shock and then amusement

If he wasn’t beaten to death, there’s a good chance he succumbed to hypothermia."

(This was about 10 years before my husband was born.)

My mother-in-law was very sleepy, and her guard was definitely down for a moment.

Screenshot from "My Friend Dahmer"

No one ever knew that they were having problems at all.

My mother-in-law never elaborated or brought it up again."

“I’m a hairstylist, and years ago, I did the hair of a nice family.

Man with a slight smile, looking sideways, subtitle text reads "Somebody took him."

Apparently, he had a balloon or something implanted to help him get hard and stay hard.

This was information I did not want to know.

He was so proud of it that he would not shut up.

Chanel in "Scream Queens" saying "I'm rich."

All I could think was, how am I going to face his wife without cracking up?

That was the fastest I ever did a haircut.”

chillwalrus88

5.

The image shows a still of a woman with a surprised expression and text overlay reading "THAT'S CREEPY."

Then she walked away."

moonlitrat

6.

THEN she told me she was Jeffrey Dahmer’s prom date."

Woman appears surprised on a talk show with subtitle text revealing a personal health disclosure

nastymule22

7.

She told her parents, and they all met to discuss the situation.

He broke down crying.

Screenshot from "The Good Place"

He talked his parents into letting him go to therapy after that."

“I have a coworker who WAAAAY overshares.

I’ve reported him so many times… saraho4a20298d2

9.

They were well-known and well-loved by basically everyone for being kind and generous neighbors.

He was never seen or heard from again.”

“There was a bare-bones investigation, but nothing ever came of it.

It’s that she told me the story so calmly, so evenly, and so unapologetically.

I still think about her.”

“I’m 52 and just found out that my brother and I have different mothers.

I mean, we grew up in the same home.

Had pics together as young kids.

I just thought we were full brothers and ignored it when folks said I looked nothing like my brother.

It made sense after the fact.

My mom and I both had kidney failure, and we needed transplants.

So did two of her siblings.

It was solely from my mom’s side.

My dad and my brother never had those issues at all.

So, it made sense except for the fact that I was lied to my whole life.”

magicalknight55

11.

He sheepishly told me that he couldn’t.

I asked why not.

He decided to renounce his beliefs and go to college when he got out, and he did."

AXJ66

12.

“I worked in a gift shop in a swanky neighborhood.

So now she’s left with all the money.

It was very creepy.

I was 18 and alone in that shop.”

“My mom got dinner with a high school friend, his brother, and his father.

I had to delete those records.”

That was all my first year teaching."

“I am very open-minded and interested when it comes to alternative lifestyles and hobbies.

I’m still mind-blown 20 years later.”

problematik

16.

She said she sticks a finger in her vagina and dabs the secretion on her neck like perfume!

She says it works like crazy!

It was hard to keep a straight face when I saw her after that."

He claimed that he refused and sounded a bit traumatized by the incident."

ericmcauliffe

18.

“When I was a teacher, several teachers disclosed, unprompted, that they had incurable STDs.

Mostly, cancer-causing strains of HPV or warts.

Get your HPV vaccine, y’all!”

“I accidentally found out that my uncle was not my uncle by blood.

So she and my grandfather decided to adopt a boy.

Then, she ended up having another son after this.

I dont know if my other uncle (the youngest brother) knows.

But Ive been sworn to secrecy.”

And it took a couple of tries to kill her."

allierowling

21.

“After I had my son, we didn’t get him circumcised.

“At my first job, a new coworker started who kind of struck me as a partier.

They said it so casually and actually said it was an ‘overreaction.’

Sure, I’m the unprofessional one.”