06-08-2025
21 People Are Sharing The Ridiculously Wholesome Secrets They're Currently Keeping, And It's A Much-Needed Break From Doomscrolling
At any given time, there is someone around us who is keeping a secret. While many of these secrets are serious and life-changing, some of them are downright ridiculous (and hilarious); however, that doesn't mean it's not nice to get them off one's chest...
That's why when Redditor u/PandaBear905 asked "What's a ridiculous secret you've been keeping?" people flooded the comment section with their silliest confessions. From raccoon encounters to breakroom shenanigans, here are 21 of their best responses:
Some responses were also taken from this Reddit thread!
Are you keeping a ridiculous secret? Feel free to tell us about it using this anonymous form!
1."Every Christmas, I would write a fake 'Christmas newsletter' and send it to my parents. I invented this guy who was a huge blowhard, but believable enough that my dad thought that he had worked with him at some point in the past."
"I had a spreadsheet to keep track of his job, wife, children, grandchildren, holidays, etc., so I could stay accurate from year to year. My parents would get so annoyed at his arrogant writing style, but I was really proud of it.
It went on for six or seven years, but then 'his' twin granddaughters graduated from high school, and I stopped."
—u/Poop_OnMy_Kicks
2."I'm teaching my granddaughter to glue googly eyes on Mrs. Butterworth's and other packages with eyes when we're in the grocery store. She's only three, and we have so much fun!"
—u/Ok_Piglet_1844
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3."I hid my tooth under my pillow for the 'tooth fairy' to find and give me money — I knew it was my dad."
"So after he slipped cash under my pillow and threw the tooth away, I sifted through the trash, showed it to him, and said I lost another tooth.
I got an extra 20 bucks."
—[deleted]
4."When I was dating my now-wife, I told her I loved a dish she cooked for me. In reality, it was terrible. 25 years later, she's still cooking it at least once a month because it's my 'favorite.'"
"I've never been able to tell her the truth, but I have let my eight-year-old daughter in on the secret. Now, she'll prance up to my wife and say, 'Let's cook Daddy's favorite tonight!'
Then she turns around, looks me dead in the eye, and smiles a sh*t-eating grin."
—u/Rescuepoet
5."I'm Canadian, and in high school, I had a crush on this girl who was originally born in the US. To try and impress her, I pretended I was an American who immigrated to Canada, too."
"I was so committed that I even gave her the address of my old was a hotel I had stayed in while on vacation in Florida with my family. Since it was the early 2000s, she never verified.
We didn't end up dating, but to this day, I never came clean. I wonder if she still thinks I'm an American."
—u/taalleerling
6."My family and I leave plastic ducks all over our city, or my children ask people who appear to be having a bad day if they would like a duck. Nine times out of ten, they take the duck and walk away with a smile; the other times, they act confused and walk away."
"Because of this, my kids collect little rubber ducks and give them to me so I can add them to my ever-growing and heavily fortified foul military members."
—u/MeasurementFull3328
7."When I was about six years old, I had a pet turtle, and his tank sat on top of my dresser. The only way for me to reach the top of the tank was to climb on top of the windowsill so I could lift the top."
"My mother told me if I ever fell from there, I wouldn't be allowed to feed my turtle by myself anymore, and sure enough, one day I fell. It was bad, the top of my head hit the corner of the bed frame and bled. I ran to my mother, not in pain but in shock from the amount of blood. She screamed in horror, and an ambulance came and took us to the hospital.
When she and the doctor finally asked me how it happened, I didn't want to lose the privilege of feeding my turtle, so I lied on the spot: 'I was jumping and flipping on my bed and landed head first on the radiator.'
I'm 39 now, and to this day, my whole family believes that story, 'Remember when you flipped on your bed and landed on the radiator and had to get stitches.'"
—u/Workingclassjerk
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8."I like looking at my DVD collection rather than watching them, and I don't know why. I feel like I'd be called weird for just holding the case of my favourite show and happily staring at it for a while before putting it away."
—[deleted]
9."Every night, I fall asleep hugging a stuffed animal. I am 41."
"The secret is that I have many stuffed animals and each week I pick a new one to sleep with because I don't want any of them to feel sad or left out."
—u/spellbunny
10."One day, I came home late at night, drunk, and decided to walk my dog. Just when we arrived outside my house, my dog attacked a raccoon hanging around the area. I ended up wrestling my Malamute and freed the raccoon from his jaws."
"To reiterate, I was drunk and the raccoon just kept staring at me, so I decided to try to pet it. I petted it once and it bit a chunk out of my finger. I ran into the house and up to my brother's room for help, leaving a trail of blood. A sleepless night in the hospital and four consecutive rabies shots were the result of my raccoon petting attempt.
When everyone asked me what happened, I told them that while I heroically wrestled my dog to save the raccoon, I got bitten in the process. They still don't know the real story, and it still gets brought up 10 years later."
—u/August-thecow
11."I used to regularly hang out at a friend's house for parties. His downstairs bathroom's switches for the light and fan were opposite mine, and it annoyed me to no end, especially when I'd have a few drinks."
"So, at one party, I brought a screwdriver and, after a couple of drinks, I locked myself in the bathroom and swapped the switches.
For the next several years, it was glorious since it matched mine, and neither he nor his partner ever said anything or seemed to notice."
—u/Scoth42
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12."I don't like Pokémon. It was my brother's special interest growing up, and I saw so much of it that I started to hate it. My partner adores Pokémon. So, of course, I let them rant, watch the competitive videos, decorate my room with memorabilia, etc."
"I let them do any Pokémon-related thing they want because I'm not going to dull their sparkle."
—u/PuckDropPanic
13."When I was six, my older brother and I were pondering what the female versions of our names would be. I decided mine (Nate) would be Natalie, but before I could say it, my brother cut me off and said, 'You think yours is Natalie, don't you?'"
"I stammered 'No,' and refused to tell him the 'real' name I picked.
Fast forward over two decades to today, we're in our early 30s, and somehow that conversation still comes up, and he'll laugh and say, 'It was Natalie, wasn't it?'
In my head, the ancient pride of the kid in me roars and demands I refuse to acknowledge he was right. Every other part of my brain facepalms at how ridiculous a hill this is to die on, so I compromise by telling him, 'What argument? Sorry, I don't remember that.'
Oh, I remember, dear brother. But I will never confess!"
—u/Noobsauce9001
14."I've been very intentionally moving everything in the break room just slightly off-center — the coffee pot, the sugar container, even the wall clock — always about an inch to the left. Just enough to unsettle anyone with a shred of spatial awareness."
"It's been three months, and no one's said a word. But I know they feel it: the unease and the wrongness.
I sit there, sip my coffee, and watch the madness slowly blossom."
—u/Steelmode
15."For the longest time, I told my kids that the ice cream truck music was them telling us it was all sold out! They believed it until they were in their early teens."
"I wasn't a complete a-hole, though, we have a local ice cream shop, so we would go there for a treat!"
—u/Polythene_pams_bag
16."My friend is a MAJOR Death Cab for Cutie fan. The band came to our city a few years ago, and I knew my friend wouldn't be able to afford tickets. She was upbeat about it, but I knew she was devastated..."
"So, I bought tickets, and two days before the show, I told her that the friend I originally planned to take couldn't go, and would she please come with me? There wasn't another friend. I told her I loved the band and would be sad to miss them. She, of course, accepted and had the time of her life.
She's doing much better now, financially, but every couple of Christmases or Birthdays, she buys me some Death Cab merchandise because 'she knows how much I love the band.'
I can't stand their music. I literally have them blocked on Spotify, but now the lie is too far gone, I can't tell her."
—u/chernygal
17."When my son was six, he really liked to dig holes. He even had one that was three feet deep in our yard because he was convinced he was on top of old ruins. He kept bringing small, old things into the house that he was excited to display in his room after cleaning them."
"To this day, he doesn't know I would go to the flea market every Saturday and buy small bits of old-looking junk and plant them in the hole for him to find."
—[deleted]
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18."When I was a teenager, I threw a relatively small house party while my parents were on vacation. The wooden floor in one room got scratched during it, and when my parents came home, they noticed. I confessed by telling them I had tried using a skateboard on the treadmill, but it slipped and damaged the wood."
"My mom still brings it up as an example of how I'd be a terrible criminal and could never get away with anything."
—u/CodeExtra9664
19."I've been with my spouse for almost 17 years. He has no idea how much I love chips: Doritos, Lay's, Ruffles, etc. I can easily inhale an entire bag in one sitting."
"I only buy them when I know he's going out for the evening or he's away on a trip because he's a health nut and always has been. We generally don't keep any junk food in the house, except for a dark chocolate bar.
Little does he know, I'm face-deep in a bag of chips the moment he leaves the house."
—u/cpbunliveson
20."I helped a friend out with ad money on her blog and YouTube channel. I would regularly click on ads on different devices, so she could get the money from them and use multiple devices and accounts to help boost her. I would write in different ways and say different things to make sure they didn't sound too similar (being bilingual also helped)."
"She's gotten a big enough following, so she doesn't need it anymore, but to this day, she doesn't know it was me who left all of those encouraging comments, likes, and reposts."
—u/CODMAN627
21."My parents didn't want me to learn to ride a bike until I turned eight, but I wanted to learn earlier, so I snuck into the garage when they weren't paying attention and rode my sister's bike in circles, crashing into things until I figured it out. Then I would sneak out and ride around the neighborhood for two years, and no one had any idea I was gone (it was the '80s)."
"Then, when I was eight, they bought me a bike for my birthday, and I was so excited, I forgot the secret, jumped on and rode off expertly. My parents said, 'Wow, you're picking that up fast!'
I realized what I had done and pretended to fall off, then I had to 're-learn' before I could go riding."
—u/MagicC
Which one of these stories was your favorite? Do you have any ridiculous or silly secrets you want to get off your chest? Tell us in the comments or answer anonymously using the form below!
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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