Imagine discovering that your grandfather abducted your grandmother when she was 12. He got her pregnant, married her, and they later had another two dozen babies.
It might sound like something from a Netflix horror or drama. But it’s actually a deep and dark family secret that someone found out long after their grandparents had died.
Many families have skeletons in the closet. Buried beneath the surface of happy photos, summer holidays, and long-held traditions are lies and secrets that could be turned into best sellers. Sometimes, they come tumbling out – often by sheer chance. Extra-marital affairs, criminal activity, people living entire double lives – it’s the stuff that can make or break a family.
Someone recently asked, “What’s the worst family secret you’ve accidentally found out?” And netizens didn’t hold back. From eternity collars to eternal regrets, some of the replies might leave you wondering what your own family is hiding. Bored Panda has put together a list of the top stories shared by people who found out things they were never meant to know.
We also explore how common secrets are, and what harm they can do to individuals and families. You’ll find that info between the images.
#1
my mom wanted to abort me but my grandmother stopped her then my grandmother proceeded not to help me when i was homeless to escape my mom’s abuse (don’t make people who don’t want kids have kids if ur not gonna step up)
#2
my dad is bisexual and had multiple secret boyfriends in my childhood even tho he was a homophobic republican. 😇 I tell everyone I can bc I know he wouldn’t want it that way
#3
My grand uncle died of Covid, and his eldest son went to get his house ready, and found his sister’s body in a rug in the garage. She was thought to be couch surfing on the west coast for three years.
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#4
😤 my mother hadnt heard from her brother since 2002 and asked me if I’d help her find him. I couldn’t find him online, no fb, no social media, it was like he didn’t exist. so because the Internet was pretty new when he went missing I assumed he had died and that’s why I couldn’t find him. so for about 8 years off and on I’d look up John Doe pictures trying to help identify bodies…but none with pictures were him. so, one day I asked her what the police had told her or her sister when she had reported him as missing. apparently she had never talked to the police.
so to save a lot of boring details the local PD contacted him after talking to me and gave him my number, we reconnected. I found out why he went “missing” and it was because both sisters essentially took the jewelry off my dying grandmother when she was in hospice and made her cry. after the funeral he cut them out and they still don’t know I found him.
#5
The kid who lived next door to my mom & her siblings turned out to be their biological brother. My grandparents had 7 kids back to back, meanwhile the neighbors couldn’t conceive so my grandparents just gave them one of their kids. He didn’t find out until he was 18.
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#6
When my dad passed away, some of his siblings thought they won the inheritance lottery. They scoured our house for his will and brought our insurance guy over to discuss god knows what less than 24 hours after his passing. They thought the businesses were under his name but were shocked to find out that they were under my moms. We still don’t talk to most of them till this day.
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#7
My grandpa was sick and thought he was dying so he confessed to having another family, he didnt die btw 😂
#8
my grandma is a die hard christian and is against abortions but I later found out she had one herself cause she didn’t know who the daddy was 💀
#9
My dad got remarried and they were trying for a kid, but never told her he had a vasectomy. They were trying for about 8 years. One night she was venting to me and I said maybe it’s cause he had a snip snip… she had no idea 💀
#10
My grandpas a pastor (83) and was having an affair with like 15 of my grandmas caregivers all ranging from 19-60…. Stole my grandmas money to pay for women… I hacked all his accounts when I was suspicious… he literally spent hundreds of thousands that she inherited… so I sent out a mass email to all his pastor friends… exposed him to everyone in the family… he ended up Married one of the caregivers right after and tried suing us for defamation lmaooo
#11
I always thought I was special having a video of my birth when we didn’t have one of my sister’s……. Only when I was pregnant with my own child and mentioned having a birth video for my child too, did my mom tell me that the only reason we had a video of my birth was because my dad was in federal prison at the time of her delivery. 💀
#12
My great grandmother wasn’t actually my great grandmother. She kidnapped my grandmother when she was younger and just made everyone think she was her daughter. So I have a secret family somewhere
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#13
My great grandfather left one of his kids out of his will. The siblings and children all divided their portions of the inheritance so their other sibling wouldn’t know they were deliberately left out.
#14
When I was little my dad hid in the crawlspace under our house after my mom got a restraining order against him and he was plotting to unalive us all
#15
my cousin was kidnapped by his father after his parents divorce. The dad took him from Russia to Spain and my aunt hasn’t seen or heard from her son in 30 years
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#16
i have precious family heirlooms that my grandma gave me while fighting cancer and everyone thinks they’re missing…. it’s been 8 years…
#17
When I was 7ish My mom brought me to Kentucky to meet her friends daughter. Once we landed she gave me Benedryl for “allergies” and I literally slept into the next morning. I woke up in a random room and started crying because I didn’t know where I was or where my mom was so I sat there for a few hours until my mom came back and we immediately flew back home. When I was 17 I asked my dad about it he said “ I was deployed and she cheated that weekend while she was supposed to be watching you” 🙂
#18
My dad drunk told me i was named after his first love and my mom doesnt know 😭😭
#19
My uncle, a full blooded indigenous man, tried to join the Kkk 3 seperate times and was upset that they rejected him AND that we weren’t supportive. His mom was on the tribal council and we lived on the Rez.
#20
I was almost aborted but when my mom went to the clinic and they did an ultrasound and saw that there was two of us she decided not to go through with it simply because she thought it would make her popular to have twin babies 😭
#21
My mom was murdered when I was 7. Two men did it. One got life the other got 7 years. When I was 14 I met my “long lost uncle” and spent three years with my moms killer with out knowing. 😳
#22
I just found out my grandpa married my grandma when she was 14 years old and he was 28 years old 🙃 they ended up having 8 kids together
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#23
my “uncle” is not my uncle but my grandpa boyfriend
#24
I took an Ancestry DNA test. I found out that my grandpa had an affair 60 years ago and got another woman pregnant. The other woman was also married, and she raised the kid as her husbands. We all only found out when we the Ancestry results came back. Surprise half uncle and cousins!
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#25
my great grandmas family was in the KKK….. they are all full blooded cherokee
#26
Someone who is super conservative in my family had an abortion when she was a teenager and NONE of her children or family knows. Same person who would blast me for being pro choice
#27
Two of my cousins can’t be left alone when they drink because they are kissing cousins 😭
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