You’ve probably concealed some information from your family at one point or another. Whether you lied to Mom and Dad when you were in high school about going to “study” with your friends or you’ve kept something under wraps for years to spare your siblings’ feelings, most of us aren’t 100% honest 100% of the time. But one thing about secrets is that they love finding their way into the light…

Redditors have recently been revealing the darkest family secrets they accidentally uncovered, so we’ve gathered their most disturbing stories below. Good luck getting through these shocking discoveries that turned people’s worlds upside down, pandas, and be sure to upvote the ones that probably should have stayed buried forever!Read More: 41 Dark Secrets People Found Out That Changed How They View Their Family Members

#1

My dad’s not my real dad. I didn’t get confirmation till after he died so it’s not like he ever knew for sure. He raised me as his mini me. Never once did I ever question if he was my real dad & I was actually his favorite child.🤣

He died when I was 15 and I miss him everyday. He taught me what unconditional love is and honestly is the biggest reason I’m a great stepmom today. I honestly couldn’t care less to meet my biological father, it’s some random guy in Norway that my mom met when on a break from my dad.

To give a quick story as to how great my dad truly was, we grew up dirt poor but my freshman year of high school I wanted to try out for the cheerleading squad. I knew we couldn’t afford it but I wanted to see if I could make it anyways. He gave up smoking cigarettes after 53 years so we could afford it. 🤍.

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#2

My uncle was not biologically my uncle.

My grandmother had a still born son, and in the next hospital bed was a teen mum.

She asked my Nana to take her baby, she told everyone her baby had died, and went back home.

My uncle always knew, but could never find his mum as she didn’t tell anyone.
He tracked her down when she was unwell, and got to spend a few months with her before she died. He also had 3 younger siblings who didn’t know about him.

I’m glad he finally found his bio family before he passed away a few years ago.

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#3

Some of my ancestors emigrated to Austrailia because they got in the wrong line and were too stubborn to get out of line when they realized their mistake…that’s sounds about par for the course in my family.

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#4

My blood Grandparents sold my mother when she was less than 2yrs old to their friend and neighbor because they only wanted boys.

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#5

My uncle is my father. My ‘dad’ never once told me he loved me or showed me affection. I’m 67 now and realizing this has made his treatment of me clear.

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#6

Great grandparents (Grandmother’s inlaws)kidnapped my twin uncles when they were six months old, under the guise of helping my grandmother when she and my aunts (who were still toddlers) had the flu. Grandmother never saw her sons until they were almost adults and my mother, who was born yrs after the kidnapping was in her early teens.

Wasn’t really an accident finding out, my Mum was upfront about it when I asked her if she’d be ok with me doing an Ancestry DNA test (she’s had other very traumatic events happen and I didn’t want to proceed unless she was ok with it , in case something from those events popped up).

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#7

We always thought we were the main family and dad’s other family had him on Fridays.

It was only when I start taking an interest in family lines and realise that mum was actually the mistress as we were all younger by at least 10 years.

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#8

My grandfather had a child as the result of an affair. I never knew about him until after he had died. My mother told me about him and that he had asked to go to the funeral when my grandfather died and my grandmother refused. To be clear the affair child wasn’t what upset me, the fact that he couldn’t even see his father put to rest did.

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#9

My sister decided to do a genealogy test when my mum died (convinced we have some “ethnic” genes, she could pass for half Indian when she tans). Nope, just English Irish and a little Scottish, and a love child my grandad fathered 60 years ago.
Can opened, worms everywhere.

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#10

Using 23 and me, my sister found a lost first cousin. Turns out our (deceased) uncle, who had a perfect little family and can do no wrong, had an affair with a co-worker and they had a love child. We got in contact with her. She pressured her mother into admitting the affair. She doesn’t want an open line of communication, though, because her father thinks she’s his.

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#11

My great great great Uncle was a horse thief in Ireland and was hanged for stealing a horse.

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#12

My uncle, who died in his 40s, was a closeted gay man. I found out because my dad was arguing with someone on Facebook and decided to out his brother as a “I’m not homophobic” defense. My dad doesn’t know I’m in that group.

The secret itself doesn’t shock me. It’s the bonkers way I found out that did.

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#13

I took a DNA test 7 years ago on a whim. Found two things.

My maternal grandfather had a kid out of wedlock before he met my grandmother. Not really a surprise as he was in the Navy and I have a photo album of all his girlfriends from that time.

The shocker was that I had a biological father I wasn’t aware of. Mom had lied and sadly passed away years before so I couldn’t ask why.

Met my biological father three years ago. I moved back to the US to be close to him and his family so I could get to know them better. It’s so weird the amount of stuff we all have in common. I have two older brothers and four nieces and two nephews and now a great niece.

I do wish I could find out why Mom didn’t tell me.

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#14

My friends discovered a family secret that even my family didn’t know. I am a junior so I have the exact same name as my dad.

Back in the young days of the internet we would google each other for fun. My buddy was in school across the country and calls me to say I should google myself.

He had found a website of a young woman looking for my father. She knew he was ALSO HER FATHER!

TLDR my dad impregnated a working lady in the Philippines in 1977 and now I have a half sister I’ve never met.

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#15

Was told all my life that my grandfather died in a fire but nobody ever told me he set it.

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#16

I have a relative, George Burroughs, who was executed for being a warlock in Salem Massachusetts by Cotton Mather in 1692. Not really a secret but it was an odd thing to have revealed at family trivia night.

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#17

My grandfather, who was EXTREMELY religious, molested a 16 year old girl (who went to the same high school as his children) while he was both the leader of a congregation and the mayor of a small town. When it was found out, he moved his family across the country and nothing charges were ever brought.

He was later so puritanical in his beliefs that he kicked out his own granddaughter for coming home smelling like cigarette smoke.

It completely changed how I looked at him, and it helped me escape from a cult.

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#18

That my parents were actually separated for a year when I was 5 or 6 years old. I didn’t notice my dad wasn’t living with us because he worked from the crack of dawn until the sun set (construction worker). So I never saw him much anyways. 

Made me realize how much I want to have a husband who doesn’t work that much someday because imagine your kids not realizing you aren’t living with them for a full year and not finding out until their 30s. 

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#19

My aunt died in the 1970s, years before I was born. The “official” story that I had always heard was that there was a car accident and my aunt drowned in the car whilst her husband survived.

When my grandparents sold their house in 2015, my dad and I were tasked with cleaning the house out. I found a box of letters in my mom’s childhood room, and started going through some of them. One of the letters was from the neighbor of my aunt and her husband, urging my grandparents to go to to the FBI about the “accident” because the neighbors knew with utmost certainty that my aunt’s husband had k**led her, and it wasn’t an accident.

I asked my grandma about it, but she said that the husband’s entire family basically ran the local police force at the time and there was nothing that my grandparents could do about it without causing more issues for themselves, and the neighbors didn’t have definitive proof, so they never pursued it.

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#20

My great great (great?) Grandfather was a doctor who bound a book he wrote in human skin, taken from a patient of his who died (Mary Lynch). UPenn ownes the book.

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#21

I have 2 stories thanks to my mom.

Found out that my brother in laws parents were actually half-brother and sister.

My mom also found out she had a half-sister thanks to my grandfather’s numerous affairs. My mom had never met this sister and only found out when her sister was 40 ( mom was 50 at the time).
My mom also discovered that her father had kept in contact with her for years without my mom knowing. or anyone knowing.
My mom found out when she got an email from the half sister out of the blue.
They met and never knew about each other at all.

Mom let it slip when she was tipsy.

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#22

My grandpa had a second family in the 1960’s. He abandoned them when he and his primary family moved to the other side of the US, we think because his wife (my grandma) found out about the affair.

My grandma and grandpa have both been deceased over 20 years now. My mom and her siblings had no idea that they had two bonus half-brothers until my aunt did 23andMe a couple of years ago.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that my seemingly doting grandpa had two kids that he walked out on and never saw or acknowledged for the rest of his life.

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#23

My mother and uncle were in an incestuous relationship with each other. Looking back on my childhood, it makes sense why my father hated him so much.

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#24

One of my uncles accidentally ran over and killed a kid that had decided to cut in front of the bus he had just gotten off of. He was exonerated and I seem to be the only person (other than my mom and dad) that know about it to this day. Please be careful around buses as people seem to be in a rush to get wherever……

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#25

My parents were first cousins because my maternal grandmother slept with my paternal great uncle while her husband was in Korea. All their parents knew my parents were cousins but never stopped them from dating or marrying because if anyone found out it would embarrass my grandmothers socially.

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#26

Never knew why my parents got divorced, just remember them fighting a lot (I was 7). When I was 23 my dad finally opened up and told me it was because my mom had a long-standing affair with my stepdad and when my dad found out and left, she ended up staying with my stepdad.

Pieces really started coming together after I was told this. Most specifically:

1. I remember my stepdad being introduced as a “friend” but we never got any context as to how they met and he was never around when my dad was.

2. my mom would pack us kids up (me, bro, and sis) and we’d go and stay at his apartment when my dad was away. Weird to connect these dots as an adult and realize these weekends was their time to be together.

3. After my dad finally left, my stepdad moved in immediately but was never introduced as a boyfriend, my mom said he was our new school “tutor”. I remember getting really defensive and upset when a friend’s mom referred to him as my mom’s boyfriend…lol

There were other things but he’s been in the picture ever since and it’s all water under the bridge. I definitely think my mom’s actions were selfish and irresponsible, particularly in the aftermath of the divorce and not being forthright about who my stepdad was. I hold no resentment but now that I have a child of my own I can’t ever imagine putting them through that.

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#27

My aunt & uncle were married for 30 years but apparently during their first year of marriage she got caught having an affair with a 21 year old. My Uncle caught them together when he got off work early one day. She got pregnant and my Uncle raised the child as his own. I guess that’s why they decided to stay together and work it out. My Aunt had another affair 10 years later but they still stayed married. For some reason they always looked happy. I didn’t know about all this until I was an adult.

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#28

My grandpa’s brother started sleeping with his wife while he was in prison. He didn’t learn about it until his children were adults. He wondered if they were his.

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