"20 Years Later And No One In My Life Has A Clue Except Me": People Are Anonymously Revealing A Secret They'll Take To The Grave, And I Wasn't Expecting Thiiiiiiissssssssss
While it's totally normal to keep certain secrets close to the chest, sometimes, sometimes we just have to share them with the world in an anonymous way. So when Reddit user Several-Director5804 asked: "What's a secret you'll take to the grave, but would tell anonymously on Reddit?" I thought I would share their answers. Here's what they said below:
1."My mom confided that she had an affair with her mom's second husband. They planned to start a life together, but he died first. Jeez, Mom, you couldn't find ANYBODY else?!?"
—Wise_Yam_1414
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2."One of the times I told my parents I was going to spend the weekend in a sleepover at a friend's house, I instead had that friend drive me to the airport, where I'd booked a cheap flight to the UK so I could go watch a musical I'd also bought a ticket for. While I waited for the show, I ate lunch and also bought an illustrated edition of The Silmarillion. Once the show was over (worth every penny), I went back to the airport and waited there for my flight back. It was a very early morning flight back, but I was young then and figured I could pull off the all-nighter. Took the plane back home, my friend picked me up from the airport, spent the rest of the day at her house sleeping... and at night, my parents showed up and drove me home none the wiser."
"I was 19. The musical was Les Misérables. I'm European, and this was before Brexit, so no need for a passport (although I did bring it just in case). I spent under 300 euros of my own savings, which I got from working part-time, on the whole thing. One flight was 22 euros and the other 47. Flights were about three hours."
—Pterry_Pterodactyl
3."I never actually graduated from culinary school. I was short a math class, and they let me walk at graduation anyway. 20 years later, and no one in my life has a clue except me."
—Purple-Adeptness-940
4."My biological grandpa was a war criminal. A school teacher in Japanese-occupied Korea during WW2, he forced his students to become Kamikaze pilots. Some survived the war and formed a lynch mob to hang him. Grandpa hid in the mountains and came back a year later as a dedicated communist guerrilla executing those former students, claiming they were colonial sympathizers....and many more. He didn't survive the Korean War."
—hwangleegta
"My great-grandpa was one of the Nazis responsible for managing train schedules. He was imprisoned after the war for war crimes, but his pregnant wife attempted to die by suicide, so he was allowed to visit her. He fled, and his wife packed up the family and followed. They never faced any consequences."
—mnbvcdo
5."I knew my husband was going to propose the day he did. He was acting 'off' as we were about to leave the house, and while he was in the bathroom, I felt his coat, and felt the ring box. He later refused to go without his coat even on a warm day as we were walking around, and I had to hide that I knew why. I still acted surprised and legit cried (no acting there!) when he did it and was beaming the rest of the day (week, month, year...still today). But I will never tell him I knew beforehand that he was going to do it."
—Azhchay
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6."It just feels wrong to say out loud, but losing a close friendship has impacted me more deeply and for far longer than my dad's death."
—batwingsandbiceps
"I'm going through cancer testing, and my best and only friend just ghosted me three weeks ago. I'm struggling."
—FrogsAndFerrets
7."When I was 18, I helped my grandmother move into a nursing home. In her old house, tucked away in the back of a cedar chest, I found a small, locked metal box. The key was taped to the bottom. Inside were letters and a few faded photos of her with a man who wasn't my grandfather, along with a birth certificate for a baby boy I had never heard of. The dates showed he was born just a year before my own father. My grandmother passed away a few months later. On her deathbed, she was in and out of lucidity, but at one point she grabbed my hand, looked me dead in the eye, and said, 'Don't let him ruin them.' I knew exactly what she meant."
"I did some digging online. I found him, her other son. He had a family, a good career, and seemed happy. He had his own life, completely separate and unaware of ours. My father has always idolized my grandmother, viewing her as a saint. My grandfather, who passed years earlier, was a good but difficult man, and my dad's relationship with him was strained. The image of his mother was the one constant, perfect thing in his life. I took the metal box out to a bonfire one night and burned everything. Every letter, every photo, and the birth certificate. I watched until it was all ash.
I didn't do it for her; I did it for my dad. He deserves to keep the one perfect memory he has — And I condemned a man to never knowing his mother or his brother. I chose one family's happiness over another's truth. I don't know if it was the right decision, but I would make the same one again."
—Big-Reporter7078
8."That I found out purely by accident that my ex's dad killed himself. Ex was a baby when his dad 'died of cancer.' That's what everyone was told. Through work, I met someone who grew up on the same street as the ex's family. I said, 'Oh, you must know the Smiths,' and the customer replied, 'Yes, very sad when he jumped off the railway bridge.' The customer, on seeing my shocked reaction, tried to backpedal, but it was too late. I will never tell my ex (we are good friends and share a son), it would destroy him."
—DustInTheMachine
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9."I destroyed the engine of a brand-new truck by pouring a bag of sugar into it. They lived a couple of miles from us in the country, but their son and I rode the same bus. My dog liked to stand by the road when I got home to wait for my brother and me. He was a pit bull/border collie and exceptionally sweet. Even though they were miles away, they didn't like that he was part pit bull. He was in our fenced yard when my family went to the store and gone when we came home."
"He limped home three days later, and it was clear he had been run over by an ATV because the tracks were clear on his little flank. His leg was broken and twisted, and he was in so much pain. We didn't have the money to get him fixed up, so he had to be put to sleep. Local cops said there was nothing we could do and that the family (who were the only ones in the area who had an ATV) claimed they were terrified of our 'vicious' dog. The son also smirked at us on the bus and pantomimed riding over something and made a dog yelping noise. We buried him in our yard, and my mom let me plant a lilac over his grave.
A few months later, those assholes got a brand new truck, and I decided to get some justice for Rex. They didn't have any cameras, so one night I walked through the fields to their shitty little hobby farm with a 5-pound bag of sugar and poured it into the tank of their new truck and into the ATV.
We did get a visit from the cops two days later, asking if we knew anything about some property destruction that had happened the other night. My mom told them no, that we had all been home. Pretty sure she knew what I did because the next time we went to the store, she asked me to go get another bag of sugar to replace the one I used, and she grinned at me. Haven't told anyone except my spouse what I did back then."
—Rainbow-Mama
"There is a special place in hell for people who abuse animals."
—ariesleorising
10."My anonymous secret that I'll take to the grave is this: I had a chance to save a very important friendship, but my pride got in the way. We drifted apart over a petty misunderstanding, and I was waiting for the other person to make the first move. I was so convinced I was right that I couldn't bring myself to text 'I'm sorry.' We never spoke again. Now, I realize that the minor argument wasn't worth losing a person who was so important to me. It's one of the biggest regrets of my life, and I think about it every single day."
—JustYourMuse
11."I stole that bag of Jolly Ranchers from the teacher's closet when we had a substitute in 6th grade, 35 years ago. Not a big crime, but when the teacher said our class would no longer get candy for doing extra credit, I joined in with the choir of kids arguing that it was unfair to punish the entire class. I was told that the principal himself stopped by to lecture the class about the situation the next day, but I was sick at home from eating too many Jolly Ranchers."
—Stabastian
12."I know a woman through friends of friends of friends (we are barely acquaintances). She is not very nice, and her husband is not very nice. Last year, I saw her husband at a nice restaurant, making out with a woman who was clearly in her early 20s. I initially noticed them because they were being so inappropriate with each other that they stood out. Everyone in the restaurant was a little creeped out. Then I realized who the guy was. Normally, I would say something to the wife — I'm that type of person — but not this couple. They are mean and weird. I just have a gut feeling that somehow they would come after me. So, I see them once in a blue moon, with their three kids, and I say nothing. But I'll never forget the husband publicly playing 'Where's the beaver' with a much younger lady."
—chaoticyetneurotic
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13."One time in high school, I told my parents I was staying after class to study with friends, but I actually hopped on a Greyhound bus to Vegas with less than $50 in my pocket. My only plan was to sneak into a Cirque du Soleil show because I was obsessed with acrobatics back then. I made it in by following a group of VIPs through the wrong door — no one checked me. I watched the entire show from the sound booth like I belonged there. Afterward, one of the tech guys asked me to help carry some cables (I guess he thought I was an intern), so I ended up backstage."
"Long story short: I accidentally ate dinner with the cast, got photos in costume storage, and even rode in their shuttle back to the hotel. I panicked at 2 a.m. when I realized I had no way home, but some of the performers thought I actually was a new hire and offered me a ride halfway back toward my city. I finally caught another bus home, stumbled into first-period math the next morning, and no one ever found out. To this day, my parents think I was studying algebra."
—Few_Channel_2294
14."While my ex-husband was dying, we fell back in love with each other. My kids don't know, and my current husband doesn't know that we carried on an emotional affair for the last several years of his life. Luckily, he had his cell phone locked up, so nobody found out. I quietly grieve him."
—throeinitallaway3
15.And finally, "I have risen through the ranks of engineering, IT, and now marketing with zero ability to code, program a router, etc, no background in finance, nothing. I was an English major. I'm just well-read, intelligent, and an excellent communicator. I am great at understanding concepts and can learn pretty much anything."
—MonicaRising
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