42 Shocking Secrets People Uncovered

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Recently, Reddit user Scar2007X asked, "What's a piece of information you wish you never found out?" and people had a lot to get off their chests. Here are some of the most shocking.
"My sister ran away and joined a cult, and we thought she was dead or captive for years. Turns out, she is completely brainwashed and is one of multiple wives and thinks that my parents beat her and tortured her. My parents never laid a hand on us, not once. She wrote a letter to my wife describing the abuse my mom committed against her and how she was dragged around the house and tormented until she screamed for help, and 'no help would come.' None of that ever happened, but the cult she belongs to has convinced her that it did. They even contacted my family and said, 'Don't ever talk to her. She is scared of all of you.' It would have been better not to know what happened to her."
"That my uncle is a predator who molested his own son, which prompted him (the son) to try to take his own life. Everyone pushed it under the rug, but we all know he's still a perverted piece of shit. I was sadly left alone with him a lot, but he's never done anything worse than trying to kiss me."
"That I had a half-brother. I learned this when I was 75. I also learned my dad abandoned the mother and never provided a penny of support. I loved my dad and deeply respected him for his integrity. This was crushing to learn. There is no possible excuse."
"Finding out that I'm a biological father of only one of my two kids. It's too late now since I love both of my kids equally and I am their father."
"My mom cheated on my dad with one of her cousins before I was born. I look a lot like him and nothing like my dad or siblings. I've also had lots of health issues, and my siblings have had none."
"I just found out that a child I helped raise, now 24, recently tried to kill an eight-year-old girl. He was in a restaurant and smashed a bottle over her head and then stabbed her in the throat. She's ok. He's awaiting trial. He's looking at 25 years minimum. I only found out because people started harassing me on his Facebook page."
"Why my former 'best friend' was expelled from university. I thought it was because he failed his midterms or something. He was just gone the week after that, and no one heard anything. My RA (person overseeing our dorm floor) heard us discussing this, and he soberly broke the truth to us because my friend group and I were nice to the RA staff. Turned out he was a date rapist and was taking advantage of drunk girls at frat parties. His parents were rich alumni, so they paid the school and God knows who else to keep it quiet."
"That I am a product of rape. My mother had to stay with my father until I was five years old, before she managed to save enough money in secret to get out of that relationship. I knew my father was both mentally and physically abusive, but I really wish my mother hadn't told me how I was conceived — especially the part where she never wanted children."
"I found out that after a Christmas party, my ex drove a woman who had been drinking out of town and told her she had to give him head in order for him to take her home."
"I found out my father told his pastor he didn't know if he could love me anymore after I came out. Maybe I would have been less inclined to cut him out of my life after he went full-blown MAGA."
"I grew up on the poor side. I had a friend whose house I was invited to a lot from the second grade to the eighth grade. Her mom was always so kind to me. One day after school, I came through their back door, as I'd done for years back then, to drop off a school book. I overheard my friend telling her mom that I was stopping by, and her mom asked her why she still hung out with me, because I was obviously so trashy. I'd known this lady most of my life; I saw her several times a week for years. I was devastated. I knocked on the door, quickly dropped the book off in her smiling face, and never went over again. She broke my heart, and I felt like everyone secretly thought I was trash."
"I was told a story about my great-grandad before he died by my grandfather that he executed prisoners in the Korean War. I love the man dearly, and he was a pivotal part of my early life. It feels weird knowing that at one point in his life, he had things happen to him that pushed him beyond humanity to be callous enough to do that. I get that war is hell, but knowing somebody close to you has done that feels strange."
"That the awesome vacation my grandparents took me on when I was ten? Wow, I've cherished that memory for years. Turns out they only took me because they thought I was going to die."
"My boss told me that a long-time customer of ours that I've done work for is a double murderer. Killed two men, said during an interview, 'I aimed to kill those two gay guys', and only got four years. I'm speechless."
"My mother-in-law told my wife, who then told me, that my father-in-law can't get it up anymore. He's on so much medication, like blood thinners and stuff for heart failure, that if he took Viagra, it would kill him."
"One of my best friends from high school dropped off the face of the internet without any warning and stopped returning texts. While trying to figure out what had happened to him, I found a police record for his arrest for a sex charge involving a minor."
"My in-laws used to be swingers back in the day. I found their AFF account when cleaning up their computer. My spouse confirmed when she admitted to finding photos of their parties when she was a teenager in the '80s."
"My grandma (my mom's side) and my grandpa (my dad's side) had an affair behind everybody's back. I unfortunately saw a message on my grandma's phone from my grandpa. It was a message going into intense detail about their latest meetup. No one knows I know."
"My current manager used to be just another member of the office team until he was promoted. For a while, I'd been saying he was probably going to be the best manager I would ever have. He was super chill, would go out of his way to do the work he knew we hated doing, and would listen to my coworker's podcast and talk to him about it every week. He was just one of us, despite being our boss. A couple weeks ago, I googled his name for shits and giggles and found out he used to work as a teacher until he got fired for posession of child sexual abuse images."
"A childhood friend of mine told me once she walked in on her parents and my parents all in bed together, and that my parents were at her house a lot when we were kids. I spent most weekends with my grandmother, and that was probably why."
"That my ex-husband is a predator. I knew that he was awkward and not good at sex, but finding out what he preferred just destroyed parts of me. I had no idea. We were going to have a child — we hadn't started trying, but we were close. In that moment, I thought about killing him. I'd never had those thoughts before or since, but it broke me. I wanted to end his life to prevent him from acting on his desires. I have spent so much time in therapy dealing with that urge. I had no idea that that was a part of me, but I have had several close friends who were molested, and I know how it can hurt a person. I was raped in my teens, but I never had those violent thoughts before. I didn't cope well with my feelings turning from loving to homicidal in the space of an afternoon. How could I ever trust myself if things could flip like that?"
"I wish I hadn't asked my dad about the circumstances surrounding my conception. My bio mom was 17. He was 21 and fresh out of prison. He told me, 'Well, you were a welcome home from prison, early merry Christmas present, from a needle through the condom.' My bio mom always left that condom information out when I was growing up, and I started asking questions. She always said she just 'knew she was ready for a baby at 17,' but finding out she sabotaged the birth control (I'm still unsure if it counts as statutory rape on my dad's part or rape on my bio mom's part since she non-consensually tampered with the birth control?) has made a lot of dysfunctional puzzle pieces fall into place over the years."
"My grandmother told me she never loved my grandfather. He was just there, and she needed his help with her six kids (none of my aunts and uncles were his, yet he took care of them like they were). She decided to tell me on my wedding day."
"I WAS a twin. They died shortly after birth."
"My dad's been secretly fucking his best friend, 'Uncle Kyle,' while still married to my mom since college."
"When my dad came home when I was really little with bandages around his head, it wasn't actually a car accident or a fall, but it was in fact my grandfather hitting him with a metal baseball bat over an argument about pie. This somehow caused my father to lose his taste and effectively caused him to lose his restaurant (he was a 5-star chef)."
"That I'm undocumented. As a kid, I thought that one day I would grow up and be able to travel, work a good job, and live life like an average US citizen. I grew up here. I was brought when I was seven months old. I'm honestly proud to be in this great country. Life changed when I turned 16, when I realized that I couldn't get a job due to having no SSN. I've worked underpaid, hard labour since I was a teen. Y'all don't know how important and privileged having an SSN is."
"It's not so much that I wish I never found out, I just wish I were a bit older and my mom didn't scream it out in a fight. My dad molested my half sister when she was younger. I was about three or four when she found out, and apparently, she got me tested to see if any harm had been done to me. (Nothing happened.) I remember my mom not allowing me to sleep over unless my brother came with me. Even if I was just spending the day with him, my brother had to be with me. If my dad were coming over and I was wearing something that showed too much skin, I would have to change, and I couldn't wear dresses or skirts. I started to resent her for all the rules when I just wanted to hang out with my dad...finally she broke and told me why, but instead of it being a conversation at a more appropriate age, it was yelled at me because my mom hated being hated for something my father did."
"At 15, I suspected my dad was cheating on my mom, and I logged into his email and found an image of him balls deep in another woman, which sent me into a screaming, anger-filled panic attack. I never told him how I definitely knew, but I was insistent, and when he found me shaking when he came home, he tried to hug me, and I said 'don't touch me' over and over, and he ended up crying because he didn't know why I was losing my mind."
"I accidentally overheard that my dad didn't want me. He made my mom choose between having me or keeping him. She chose me, he left, and divorced her. He didn't meet me until I was a year old. Long story short, I stopped speaking to him when I became an adult. He also recently had two more kids. Now I'm 30 with two baby brothers that I'll probably never meet. I know now, as an adult, that he's a narcissist, but it still hurts sometimes."
"About two weeks ago, my dad came over to visit. We were having one of those long conversations about life. It somehow transitioned to him saying how my wife and I are doing a great job with our daughter (first child, six months old). My parents weren't great parents growing up, and they got a divorce when I was 15. Part of the reason they split was the way my mom treated my brother and me. My dad mentioned how my mom seemed normal at first until she had me. I get pregnancy is rough and it fucks up your brain chemicals and sometimes some peoples brain chemicals don't unfuck themselves. But then he hit me with 'I don't think she ever wanted you boys. I don't think she ever wanted to be a parent."
"My father was a pimp. He got a flat with sex workers who worked for him. One of them became his girlfriend. I knew her because my dad opened a bar and hired me, her, and a drug dealer too, who he fucked as well. Once the sex worker knew about the both of them, she came to me to explain all — how my father misstreated her, how he told her the ways he was going to fuck the other woman. She told me about him being her pimp and all kinds of shit I didnt need to know."
"I wish I hadn't heard my mom tell my Aunty on the phone that my grandad didn't technically die of a heart attack. He started drinking again, and he fell and hit his head. He did have a heart attack, but the doctors determined that's not what killed him. If I could erase that from my memory, I would."
"My best friend fucked my girlfriend, when we were younger. I wanted to find out about that. I didnt need to know that my other best friend watched them fuck through the crack of the door...Jesus."
"My dad once told us that he actually liked my mom's sister first, but she never paid him any mind, so he went for my mom."
"My biological father claimed to lose his virginity at 16 to a dead but 'still warm' doe 🤮 (as in female deer)."
"My dad isn't biologically my dad. I had a solid idea that was the case, but this was confirmed via one of the Ancestry DNA kits. He apparently knew and raised me as his own (he wasn't a great dad, but I give him a lot of props for that). The guy wasn't…great. There wasn't much fallout, per se, but let's just say I wish I hadn't confirmed what was in Pandora's box. He and my mother were/are peas in a pod, so it's just more people I need to block everywhere now."
"That my boarding school music teacher was a predator. A friend and I found out through a newspaper about six years after quitting said school. And given the information on the articles, some of the abuse occurred while we were still students of his. And most likely to a girl we knew back then. I don't regret finding out, but every time I think about that, I have to deal with violent urges and endless wrath."
"My mom told me my bio dad (when he went off the deep end into his alcoholism and pornography addiction) that he got a Prince Albert piercing. I literally could've vomited. I did not need to know that my father had his penis pierced."
"I found that my ex posted private messages on a few apps from when I was having a BPD episode, saying I was abusive and lying about mental disorders. I definitely could've lived my life better without finding out about that."
"I just found out my boyfriend had used a dating app two years into our relationship (we've been together for five). He outed himself when he made a comment on a post three years ago on a post about jokes, saying he's been using that joke on girls for the past few months."
And finally..."My parent's porn tape. No, no. Not a tape with just porn in it. A tape where THEY were the porn actors."
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Submissions have been edited for length/clarity.