“Three years ago, my uncle was dying.
He reached out to me and told me I had correctly figured out how grandpa died.
He waited until he was dying since there’s no statute of limitations for murder.”
and people had some wildly shocking answers.
Here’s what they had to say.
NOTE: There are mentions of sexual abuse and murder.
“My uncle was a spy.
But no one talked about it until years after he retired.”
u/ToomintheEllimist
2.
“That my grandfather poisoned my grandmother and that my mother knew.
My uncle (her younger brother) helped cover it up by getting rid of the evidence.
It hurt too much to see so many things that she saved or all the pictures of now-gone relatives.
She passed shortly after going into care.
He acted agitated, which my mom picked up on and pressed him about later.
He also got rid of the teacup and the spoon that my grandfather used to serve her every day.
My mom expressed a lot of guilt over it.
I’m not sure how I feel about it at all.
I ended up burning the letter just because I felt like my mom would’ve wanted that.”
u/skinflakesasconfetti
3.
“My dad was in jail for a few months when I was around eight years old.
He did HVAC work.
It made sense to me at the time, I guess.
When he came back, it was like nothing changed.
It turns out he was a drug dealer!”
u/send_me_jokes_plz
4.
I was a toddler at the time.
I was 17 when that call came."
u/Evening-Dizzy
5.
“My mom had a cousin she talked about a lot that died back in the ’70s.
She (the cousin) had married a man that abused her.
After she got away, she ‘died by suicide’ by jumping off a building.
Her husband and his brothers had been seen in the area.
Everybody knew they had thrown her off, but nobody could prove anything, so nothing happened to them.
For years, that’s where the story ended, as far as I knew.
u/IHadAnOpinion
6.
It wasn’t until he died that I found hisDD214(military discharge papers).
He was only in the Navy for ten months and was discharged ‘under honorable conditions.’
He never fought in a war.
He was never captured or shot.
He never shot anyone.
He was just a regular guy.
I wish he knew that we never wanted him to be anything but our dad.”
u/artsycraftsy626
7.
“My dad always told me that my birth mom left us when I was two months old.
My mother had apparently gone to Cali, then ended up in Florida, where she died of cancer.
So most of what my dad told me was horse puckey.”
u/-TheRealFolkBlues-
8.
“My grandpa was murdered by my uncle (married to my mom’s sister).
My grandpa sexually abused my mother and her three sisters.
He died when I was four.
I have vague memories of him.”
“Just after he died, my aunt divorced my uncle.
At 16, I figured it out.
The uncle who had murdered him was a jeweler and insulin-dependent diabetic.
He used cyanide in jewelry making.
Grandpa drank a 36-pack of beer every night.
I suspected he injected cyanide into a random beer.
His body was cremated, and my uncle vanished.
I mentioned my suspicions to my cousin, who relayed them to his father.
Three years ago, my uncle was dying.
He reached out to me and told me I had correctly figured out how grandpa died.
He waited until he was dying since there’s no statute of limitations for murder.”
u/Somerset76
9.
“That my parents were drug users.
Of course, I didn’t question it.
u/Itchy-Ad-4314
10.
My dad was the youngest of six.
They immigrated not long after.
The oldest, at 15, refused to come and stayed in England by herself.
He never saw his father be abusive at all; they had a good relationship.
But the oldest three siblings all have the same story.
We believe they immigrated to escape scrutiny.”
u/yotasandbikes
11.
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12.
No one in my extended family openly talks about it.
I’ve never heard my grandma even say their names."
u/JoeLou28
13.
“I was an accident.
I always felt like I was in the way or not welcome.
My feelings were confirmed when my dad threw me out right after high school graduation.”
u/SpidermanBread
14.
But I didn’t know the full extent of what else my mom had done."
u/EmbarrassedEye7745
15.
While we were out there, we met up with her for lunch one day in LA."
She wasn’t the only one either just the only one my dad really had feelings for.
He was a real piece of shit."
u/max_power1000
16.
“I found the identity of my biological father.
I grew up thinking he didn’t know about me or care about me if he did know.
I was definitely wrong and found out my family threatened him to stay away from me.
I also had siblings.
It really made me angry at the family I grew up with.
My biological father also died before I got to meet him.”
u/ExistentialWonder
17.
He told me (as an adult) that my mother fooled around with his brother.
The thing is, I’ll never know the truth unless my mother or my ‘uncle’ admit it.
Because DNA tests are useless when determining paternity in the case of identical twins.
Then I saw a picture of him with Uncle Freddy in their twenties.
u/Prior_Alps1728
18.
“That my parents cheated on each other.
My mom would always bring over my dad’s older brother.
And my dad would bring my mom’s younger sister.
They found out about each other’s affairs and laughed it off.
u/Silly_Storm_5515
19.
And that my dad isn’t my biological dad.
I know it all, but they don’t know I know.
I’d never hurt them by telling them, but at least I know I’m not delusional.”
u/WitchOfLycanMoon
20. u/godlessnihilist
21.
No one ever talked about it, but the whispers and hushed conversations always made me curious.
It was a shock to finally have confirmation of what I had suspected all those years."
u/Practical-Bend-1740
22.
“My grandfather had no past.
I 100% thought he had robbed a bank or killed someone.”
And the local paper made it the story of the fucking decade.
So my grandpa and his other two friends scattered and tried to hide from it.
He was the last of the group, so I reckon he did."
u/stryst
23.
The child would have been about three years old by that time.
My Nan and grandfather got together by default.
They were messing around with each other behind their partner’s backs, and Nan got pregnant.
They were forced to marry each other.
It was a marriage full of regrets, and Grandad eventually left her to marry another woman.
She died with her first husband’s photo in her wallet.
u/EnoughPlastic4925
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