People Share The Most Messed Up Secret They Know About Someone Close To Them

It's human nature to keep secrets, yet doing so may make matters more complicated, especially when the news is this earth-shattering and disturbing. Take a look at the most messed up secrets people know about someone close to them.

Seriously Unnerving Revelations

1) “My younger sister was assaulted by her boyfriend, forced to give birth to his daughter, and then later killed when she tried to leave. Their daughter is 17, currently acing her tests, and believes she’s mine and my wife’s daughter. I will never tell her.”–

2) “A friend I grew up with and recently reconnected with fooled around with his wife’s sister. He got her pregnant and she had the baby. The wife doesn’t know the ‘niece’ she’s babysitting daily is her husband’s child.”–

3) “My mother starved my grandmother to death for her inheritance. I know that if I were anywhere near her, I would lunge for her throat. My mother is a psychopath. I can’t be what she is. I truly believe she was born like that. She is not able to feel sympathy or empathy or love. That’s not me. I’ve thought about it but I won’t do that.”–

4) “My best friend was assaulted continuously through her childhood by her brother, who is ten years older than her. Her parents have no idea, and they’re constantly pressuring her to write to her brother, who’s currently in prison for use of illegal substances.”–

5) “In the 8th grade, one of my friends was out sick with mono for a few weeks. She came back for one day, then left again for a few days. She told everyone she was just having more trouble with mono. But in reality, she had tried to kill herself, she was behind in school, and her parents were trying to divorce but they couldn’t afford one.”

6) “I have a friend who had an affair with her older married boss and got pregnant. She didn’t realize it until she was too far along to get an abortion. Her boss tried to get her to agree to get an illegal abortion, claiming he ‘knew a guy.’ It turned out this guy was not an actual doctor but working out of an actual clinic, so she flat out refused. Her boss then ended up pressuring her to give the baby up for adoption, saying threatening things to her like, ‘I’ll fire you and ruin your life if you don’t,’ and ‘I’ll have you thrown out of your apartment.’ This guy was a big name in our town so she took the threats seriously and she eventually agreed. He’s been sending her money every month since to keep her quiet about it.”

Truly Traumatic

7) “Back in college, I overheard some of the grad students talking about how one of the married professors had been having an affair with one of his female grad students, who was engaged at the time, while his own wife was pregnant. Several months later, I heard that he divorced his wife and had a quick marriage to his grad student. Her ex-fiancé, also a grad student, understandably went into a funk and had to transfer out to another school after supposedly going through a lot of therapy. Oh, and somehow the professor ended up keeping his job. What?!”–

8) “One of my high school friends recently died from an overdose at the age of 30. News spread fast. Everyone knew he had a problem, so it wasn’t such a surprise. Talking to his dad at the bar, he told me that his son accidentally overdosed that morning and the dad gave him Narcan, saving his life. They went to the hospital, got out that evening, and he was so embarrassed by the whole thing that he intentionally overdosed when he got home. His dad had no Narcan left and had to watch his son die a second time in one day while waiting for the EMT’s.”–

9) “I know this guy murdered our friend, but because of a loop in the law he got off scot-free and I need to keep pretending we’re friends because I’m scared he’s going to kill me too.”–

10) “An old friend of mine fooled around with his sister. When he was 14, he convinced her and she got down to town with it. She was almost 16 when that happened if I’m not mistaken. They did it almost daily. After that, I never wanted to hear stories at parties again.”–

11) “One of my childhood friend’s mother’s died when he was about 12. The cause of the death was not really revealed at the funeral. People generally didn’t know how she died and avoided asking for obvious reasons. My mother had told me a few months before her death that she just got off the phone with my friend’s mom and talked her down from drinking a glass of bleach she had just set in front of her. She had called to tell my mother to ‘take good care of [my friend’s name].’ The two of us didn’t tell anyone else; only us two and her husband that found her knew the cause of her death. My friend doesn’t know that his mother committed suicide and I do. It seems like a bit of a trespass on my part.”

Fairytales Aren’t Always What They Seem

12) “My very best friend had a little sister who was born with a lot of birth defects. She had a cleft palate so she had to be fed through a tube and she had frequent seizures where she would stop breathing and you would have to administer gas to get her to stop seizing. Her mother was a psychotic narcissist in other ways, but she was really not prepared to care for a disabled child. So one day, the little sister is having one of her seizures and my friend at age 12 goes to get the gas. Her mom stops her and my best friend watches her little sister die seizing because her mom wouldn’t save her.

My other best friend was one of those girls who was in competitive figure skating, ballet and gymnastics and spent all her free time practicing as a child. Her wealthy stepdad paid for all of this and he was manipulating the mom so he could assault my friend. They then had two more girls once my friend got too old for him. The mother was in deep denial, or just trying to keep them in a house because she didn’t have a job. Finally, my friend came out about it to save her little sisters, disrupting their fairytale home.”

Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun

13) “One of my relatives was a musician with a very successful band. Then one day, he suddenly dropped dead. The family put out word that he died of a heart attack and that story stuck. To this day, his fans and even his fellow band members think that’s how he died. In reality, he dropped dead of an overdose in his bathroom.”–

14) “When we had a ‘problem employee’, my boss had one of his kids call in death threats to the employee to keep them from coming to work.”–

15) “I know a woman who was dating a childfree man. He was adamant about not ever having children while she was crazy about the opposite. She punctured rubbers, stopped birth control (while pretending she never stopped) and lied about her period dates. The poor guy thought her birth control and the rubbers he was using would keep him safe, but she got pregnant anyway. He doesn’t know and he’s miserable.”–

16) “A friend of mine wants to marry her boyfriend after a long time of dating. Her father told her they can’t get married because her boyfriend is actually her brother because he cheated. My friend’s mother got wind of it said they can go ahead and get married and that it’s no problem (because she cheated as well). They didn’t get married to each other, but have been steadily going out even after marrying other people. So yeah, the cheating genes run deeper than you think…”–

17) “My good male friend fooled around with his female best friend’s boyfriend and she doesn’t know. Her boyfriend is who help my friend realize he’s gay, but I’m the only other person who knows.”

An Appalling Secret That Could Tear Up His Family

18) “My dad’s side of the family is huge. I have 9 aunts and 4 uncles from his side (some of his siblings are half-siblings) and dozens of cousins. Anyway, one of my aunts is the only one who really has her life together. She is married and has five kids but one of them isn’t her husbands. I overheard her and my mom when I was around 6-years-old and my aunt was crying about something. All I heard was, ‘tasted funny’ and ‘don’t remember’ and my mom telling her to take a shower and we’ll deal with it after. I brushed it off and later asked my mom what happened. She told me that my aunt was very sad and that was it. I don’t know how it got brought up but when I was 12, my mom told me the full story.

My aunt had invited over her husband’s best friend and his girlfriend since she was a bit lonely with her husband gone on a trip for work. Only his best friend came over and they started drinking some sodas together. He offered to get her another soda and soon after that, she felt tired and fell asleep. The next morning, she woke up and her shirt was inside out and she felt gross. There was also a note on her nightstand that said, ‘I owe you.’ He assaulted my aunt. She called my mom since they were best friends at the time and they never told anyone except me. That secret could tear up my entire dad’s side in a second, mostly because everyone is super close.”

Um, What?

19) “My friend’s mom fooled around with an off-Broadway actor and got pregnant with him. She married her boyfriend and played him off as the boyfriend’s kid. My friend doesn’t know, but my mom does. She told me just in case something happens to her, so someone else knows the secret and can tell my friend if necessary sometime.”–

20) “I’m very close with a friend’s family and was over at their house for a cookout. It was late and everyone had been partying for a while when my friend’s stepdad confessed to me that friend’s brother was assaulted his biological father when he was a child. He was crying and saying it was his stepdad’s and friend’s mom’s fault because they lost custody of friend’s brother to the biological dad for a few years. I tried asking him about it the next day, but he had no memory of telling me.”–

21) “One time at a friend’s house, I went into his closet to jump out and scare him when he came back to the room. I found out he has bottles and jugs stored in there for peeing. I think he was just being weird and did this while gaming and it got to the point that he can’t go unless it’s in a bottle. Gross.”–

22) “I had this friend, John, for years. He was one of my best friends. We rode the same bus and I would walk to his house across the train tracks. We grew up together. The first night I ever tried illegal substances, I tried it with John. One night around 5 AM, we’d been talking for hours. John disclosed that he’d had homicidal ideations for years and fantasized about assaulting women. He told me about how he used to torture small animals and that when he was 11 or 12, he was intimate with the family dog several times. When he told me, he’d had this ‘friends with benefits’ who liked being pretend-assaulted, and didn’t mind being humiliated by John. We never spoke again after that night.”–

23) “A friend from growing up’s older brother recently came out of the closet. Little does my friend know, his brother is a gay adult film star.”

His Secret Followed Him To The Grave

24) “My grandma on my dad’s side of the family died when I was still very young, but my grandpa lived until I was in my early 20’s and we were pretty close. At one point when I was about 13 or 14, he got very sick and we all thought it was the end. I was sitting and talking to him one day while he was in bed and he fell asleep. He was under a lot of medication so this wasn’t a shock. A few minutes later, he woke up but was disoriented and talking to me like I was someone else. He was making no sense, apologizing to me about not being there. I put together the pieces and suspected he thought he was talking to someone he had had an affair with.

He eventually pulled through his illness and a few years later, he and I went on a weekend fishing trip. On that trip, I asked him about what he was saying and what I suspected he was talking about. He confessed to me that in the late 1950’s, he and my grandma were going through a rough patch. He met this other woman and saw her off and on for about a year and she ended up getting pregnant. He would go see her when possible and gave her money to support the kid. My grandma, my aunt and my dad never knew about this and he asked me to keep this between us. Over the course of the weekend, he explained how his life was basically a nighmare of his own creating because he was lying to two different women and trying to basically juggle two different families. He told me to never do what he had done. I never told anyone but then a handful of years later, he died. The lawyer contacted me about his will and said there was a special clause in the will just for me. Basically I got control of his safe deposit box, but the lawyer was supposed to not tell anyone else about the box, it was private and just for me. In the regular will the grand kids (there were four of us in all) got $5,000 each. In the safe deposit box was a letter he wrote me telling me how he appreciated me keeping his confidence and how he was proud of the man I had grown to become. There was also $25,000 in cash. I wasn’t sure what to do with it. At first I was excited, but then it felt like I was being paid for my silence and it made me kind of ill. After much deliberation, I gave the money to a group that helps abused and runaway kids.”

Things They Didn’t Need To Know

25) My best friend’s boyfriend who I had known since I was 3 years old was going to break up with her one night. He got in a motorcycle accident that afternoon and passed away. This happened three years ago and she is still messed up about it because she loved him and they were still in a relationship when he passed. She still calls him her boyfriend.”–

26) “My boyfriend told me that at one point he was going to break up with his ex but then she told him she was pregnant so he stayed with her. Then she had a miscarriage but he stayed. One day they were arguing and she let it slip that she lied from the start and was never pregnant or had a miscarriage.”–

27) “I logged into a best friend’s PS3 web browser once only to discover they watch ‘Red Neck Father and Son Incest’ adult videos. It has been a personal rule of mine to not go into the web browsers of other peoples PS3’s now.”–

28) “This girl I know left her notebook in my car one day and I decided to read it and tell no one. The weekend before, she took a ton of pills and was kind of gone for a week or so while her boyfriend was out of town. It turns out that she fooled around with her boyfriend’s best friend and roommate at the time because she slept there while they just got messed up 24/7 for a week and a half on pills and illegal substances.”–

29) “My girlfriend’s little sister contracted herpes from another friend of mine. They’ve given it to over eight people and no one has said anything.”

A Dangerous Secret That Hits Too Close To Home

30) “My friend’s darling father is actually the head of an organized crime gang and organized the fatal shooting of one of the heads of a major criminal gang in Ireland. My uncle, who was in prison and who I think is somewhat involved in the crime, told me this. Apparently, it’s becoming common knowledge among gangland Dublin to the detriment of my friend’s father, who is a very respectable and kind man. According to my uncle, he’ll be killed within six months once someone else fancies being the boss. My friend constantly talks up her father and now I’m beginning to see it as some form of overcompensating. I wonder if should I come clean and tell her I know what’s going on? Or maybe she doesn’t know at all.”

Extreme Lack Of A Moral Compass

31) “My girlfriend’s mom seduced my girlfriend’s sister’s boyfriend, who was also hitting on my girlfriend at the time. Her mom sent nudes to my girlfriend’s sister’s boyfriend, as well as wrote smut about him and my girlfriend. In other words: mom sends nudes to daughter’s boyfriend, writes smut between boyfriend and the OTHER daughter. The boy she was sending nudes to was under the age of consent as well.”–

32) “One of my bosses, who is in his late 40s, was intimate with an assistant from our legal department. I can’t imagine she is older than 27-28. He’s married with three children. The security guard at work caught them and then quit because she didn’t want to be a part of it. He thinks no one knows. I figured it out within two weeks of working at the company.”–

33) “My grandmother married a divorcee. He developed Alzheimer’s and is now under nursing home care. She has since rewritten his will to financially exclude the daughters he had in his previous marriage and take all the money for herself. I know this because I overheard her talking with my aunt when she didn’t think I was in the house. I loathe her for doing it. It degrades her wholesome, grandmotherly status, and transforms her into an extremely immoral character in my life, but I can’t say anything or the entire family would spiral into more chaos than it’s already in.”–

34) “My girlfriend’s sister confided in me that her father used to assault her when they were little. She said she saved my girlfriend from it because she was old enough to know what was going on. My girlfriend doesn’t know and her dad visited recently and took us all out to dinner. It was super uncomfortable.”–

35) “My friend comes from a pretty conservative family, which is fine, but some of them can be pretty judgmental. Anyway, after knowing her for a few years, I found that her sister got pregnant at 16 and was shipped away to have the baby and have it adopted, and then she came home. They don’t talk about it and act like it didn’t happen.”

He Was Keeping His Family In The Dark All Along

36) “I worked for a credit union as a teller when I was younger. The town my branch was located in was very far from my town so I never ran into a familiar face. One day, however, a mutual friends father walks in having no idea who I am. This family is by no means well off, or so I thought. The father had 3 accounts that equaled out to almost a million dollars. Obviously I started doing my research and found out he was hiding his money from his family and they had no idea he had all this money. My guess was he inherited the money because they never had new cars, lived very middle class and had basic jobs. He purposely had this account almost an hour away from their hometown so no one would know/see him is what I imagine. Pretty messed up. If I’ve learned anything from being a teller for some odd years, it’s that people are very sneaky with their money.”

Dark And Devastating Truths

37) “My superior at my last job stole thousands of dollars from the company, which I found out after we did labor hire and noticed she added a dummy employee that linked to her bank account. I already wanted to leave because I hated it there, but once I figured it out I never said anything because I figured the two outcomes were; she gets fired, and I have to do her job (I was trained to do it to cover when she was on leave) which would make it way harder for me to quit when a better opportunity came up, or, she gets in trouble but doesn’t get fired, and would proceed to make my life awful until I managed to find another job. So I just left it. The auditor never picked up on it either. She’s still there and has been promoted since.”–

38) “Ashley was dating Ethan. Ethan had a twin brother named Justin. Ashley broke up with Ethan. Ethan killed himself. Ashley is now dating Chris. Justin is dating Lauren. Ashley actively sends suggestive texts and pictures with Justin because she’s convinced that Ethan was confused with Justin and that Justin is the one who died, and that she’s actually just talking with Ethan.”–

39) “I have a friend that I am not very close with but she confided in me some very dark secrets. My friend is currently abusing pills and mixing it with other illegal substances. Being mixed up in this stuff, she has become ‘friends’ with a lot of shady and scummy people. Her main secret though is her intimate experiences: she’s only had a complete, consensual intimate act with one guy who shortly after cheated on her. The others cornered her at parties and got her to drink a lot before asking her to fool around. In one case, multiple people watched. I’m one of her few ‘actual friends’ (the others let her party too much and encourage it) and I’m the only one aware of most of her scandalous behavior. The real thing that bothers me is that she was assaulted and told nobody; one of the guys responsible is going division one for football and continues doing this to other girls. The only way to stop this pain from happening to other girls or to herself is to report it but she doesn’t listen and I wasn’t present so I cannot press charges.”–

40) “When I was in my late teens, I found a fishing tackle box in our garage with some personal effects and a suicide note inside. I never told anyone but 30 or so years later, my mom confessed that she was given up by her mother as a toddler and raised by her dad. Her dad worked as a seaman on boats on the Intracoastal Waterway of the southern U.S. so she often stayed with friends and relatives while he was away. When she was about 14, she was orphaned and lived with whomever would have her. One time a foster family moved out of their house, leaving her behind, but the new owners of the home allowed her to stay with them. Eventually she settled in with the married couple that I came to know as my grandparents, Archie & Edith. They were relatives of hers and did not have children of their own. Archie was a Merchant Marine beginning in WWII and Edith was a homemaker. The next property over from theirs was owned by a good family friend that I called Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe & my mom’s real father, Benny, worked together offshore. My mom explained that the tackle box I found was my real grandfather’s, but she thought the suicide note was fake. She explained that Edith & Uncle Joe were lovers while Archie was sailing the seven seas. She found them out and told her Dad, Benny, who allegedly threatened to out them to Archie. She said that Uncle Joe probably killed my real grandfather to hide the affair. The people who I thought were my maternal grandparents were merely distant relatives. My ‘grandmother’ had an affair with an ‘uncle’, who was actually of no relation to me, which culminated in the murder of my real grandfather who was about to squeal on them. My mother was raised by the people who made her an orphan by murdering her father.”–

41) “I am the only one in my family who knows my mom was brutally assaulted by her grandfather her entire childhood. The abuse was so bad that my mom developed multiple personality disorder. She has over 20. My great grandma would also beat her and my mom’s mom knew this was happening to her daughter and would still take her over to her parents to babysit my mom while she went out and partied. My mom told me because she thought I was only one in the family who would understand since I had been assaulted and have a mental illness. She worked for many years with a therapist to integrate all her alters and she no longer splits. She was really awful and abusive to us as kids. She later apologized and told me that she had an alter that hated children.”