'We found out they'd been arrested on the other side of the earth, trying to smuggle out close to one million dollars for an international drug cartel.'
I'm a Senior Staff Writer based in New York City, where I've been covering classic BuzzFeed-style content since 2020.about"Wow, I didn't see that one coming" moments in regards to relatives and friends, and the answers were truly shocking.
Here are 44 disturbing and unbelievable things people discovered about people they thought they knew."My big sister tried to kill me when I was an infant. She was 12 years older than me, and I never knew it until she died last year. Apparently, when I was born, she was wildly jealous of the attention I got and tried to stab me to death. When my mom told me after my sister died, I literally did not believe her, but when she showed me the medical records and the two small scars in my left armpit where she had stabbed me with an ice pick, I believed her. She also had files when my sister was institutionalized . I believed her." "This is something I never saw coming. As far as I can remember, my sister has always been my very best friend. She's the one I would contact first when I was in trouble or depressed, and she would always be there for me. If I had a million guesses, I would never have guessed this. Honestly, I'm now 53 years old, and I'm more confused about everything than I have ever been." "My sister gambled away around half a million dollars of our mom's money, leaving practically nothing. This is still very fresh. My mom refused to press charges and instead doubled down and went back to live with her and GAVE HER MORE MONEY. My other sister and I have been alienated because of this. My mom then passed away on April 22. I am not speaking to my sister, who is listed as the executor of the will. I'm sure that is the end of any inheritance I would have gotten, and I hope she has fun dealing with the legal and tax ramifications of what she did." "On the phone with my mom: 'So, your cousin P just got out of rehab for alcohol and cocaine use. Did you know he and your cousin B are in a romantic relationship?' P and B are my first cousins, but they are also first cousins to each other. No, I did not know. Yes, I still pretend that I do not know when I see them.""One of my very good friends from when I was 15/16 and his wife starved and beat his preteen son. I'm talkinglevel stuff. Never in a million years would I have thought him capable of that kind of stuff. He was sentenced to a maximum of 80 years. And, just a few months ago, I got a letter from a prisoner advocacy group saying he wanted to reconnect. No thanks!" "My grandfather is a child predator and rapist with several dead women attached to him and a victim he impregnated when he was 65, who gave birth when she was 15. He stole a lot of identities and was found with a whole bunch of cocaine and guns. He went to prison at 65 for 60 years, and was let out on compassionate release at 78. He's 82 and still kicking. My mother died of complications from her mental illness when he was first charged. I don't know if she knew it was coming out, but there was something hugely wrong with their relationship . I was never left alone with him as a child." "My youth pastor, who was a close friend of my mother, is also a child predator and rapist. My mother thought he was such a good 'father figure' for my brother, but he sexually abused him continuously from age 9 to 15. He presided over my mother's funeral and cried. I've always felt like he put some nails in her coffin." "My Girl Scout leader's husband killed his affair partner's husband, chopped him up, and put him in ice chests in their RV." "A couple that we have been friends with for a few years now are both very normal people with vanilla jobs. They took a trip overseas that was supposed to last a week — not unusual for anyone in our group of friends. No one heard from them for close to a month, until we found out they'd been arrested on the other side of the fucking earth, trying to smuggle out close to one fucking million dollars for an international drug cartel out of the country they were visiting. When we heard the news, we were just sitting there quietly in disbelief for about five minutes.""My dad admitted to spending my and my sister's portion of our mom’s life insurance policy on a brand new truck. When I say our portion, I mean it was in our own secure savings account that only he had access to, and we were set to receive access when we turned 21. He did this when we were nine and 11, only months after our mom passed, likely when he received his portion ." "My friend, who shall remain unnamed, has been trying to get with his step-sister's boyfriend. Well, not so much trying to get as trying to get into a relationship with. 'Cause the video he sent me of step-sister's boyfriend bent over told me he already 'got' him. But wait, there's more. The boyfriend is a very influential local pastor's son; the same pastor who drives around town with stickers all over his car like 'God will punish sinners. Only through Christ can you be saved.' But wait, there's more! The pastor is cheating on his wife with my friend's mother." "When I was a kid, a young woman on our block was assaulted. I was only like seven or eight, so I didn't completely understand what had happened. My mother explained to me as you might a child, but then went on to say that something similar happened to her when my parents were newlyweds, and then almost casually mentioned that my dad tracked the guy down, and now he can never bother anyone else ever again. I was like wait…. just hold on one…""My mom's first boyfriend turned out to be gay. Not really shocking so far. Later, he was arrested for purposely exposing other men to AIDS. He knew he had HIV, and still engaged in lots of unprotected casual sex. He also abused minors. He was charged with assault." "An old sports teacher from primary school was filming himself penetrating blow-up sex dolls with photos of students' faces stuck on the head of the doll." "Our pastor was having an affair with his cousin's wife. One day, while giving a sermon, the cousin stormed into the church, tackled the pastor, and started to throw haymakers at him. The cousin's wife is trying to pull her husband off the pastor. The pastor's wife quickly figured out what was happening, ran up, and clocked the wife from behind, knocking her out. People are trying to separate everyone. Total chaos." "A former coworker went on a bank-robbing spree. Like, she wasn't a very nice person, and I was happy when she left that workplace. But I definitely did not have 'bank robber' vibes." "My middle school janitor was a BIG drug dealer in Brooklyn in the late '80s. He was arrested when he stopped paying the police to look the other way. It never occurred to me as odd that he had a Mercedes, fancy name-brand clothes, and a ton of gold jewelry on a janitor's salary. Apparently, he was trying to get out of the game to switch to being a hit man…Great guy, super kind, and would give us money when we showed him a good report card." "Our milkman killed his wife, cut her up, and rototilled her into his garden. Told us all about his 'missing' wife and how he thought she ran off to a cult." "My uncle was a bank robber. He never seemed like he cared if he had money. But he got addicted to drugs and then went on a spree. I saw his grainy image on TV news from the CCTV and an eye witness sketch, and I was just like, 'Hey, that's Uncle Dave. That's weird." "My cousin, who is also my best friend, told everyone at Thanksgiving that he was divorcing his wife. I thought that sucked, but he didn't seem to be too beat up about it. He later confided in me that he was in love with the babysitter, and she just happened to also be pregnant with his child. He had been sleeping with the babysitter while his wife was at work. He got her pregnant, and they were going to move in together after he finalized his divorce. I just sat there in disbelief. I had no idea what to say to him.""One of my dad's good friends, who was called my 'uncle,' just stopped coming around one day. I was told he was always busy with work, away, etc. Turns out, he killed three people in a drug deal gone bad and got life in prison. What's scary is that we were over at his house for a weekend BBQ with a bunch of people earlier in the day of the night he did it, and it happened at his house." "My daughter was friends with a girl all throughout elementary school, middle school, and high school. We knew her parents well and had been to their house many times for birthday parties. The girl's father was very nice and just the kind of guy who was always upbeat. A few months ago, he was driving in the car with his wife and two of their five children. They got into an argument, and he shot her in the car, seven times. He killed her in the car with their three-month-old and thirteen-month-old in the backseat. Now these 5 children have no mother and pretty much no father. Those two babies will never know their incredible mother. He seemed like such a nice guy; everyone in the community knew and liked him." "When I was a kid, I'd spend part of my summer with my grandma in an Eastern European village. Our neighbors had two girls my age, and we spent a lot of time together. I remember my grandma randomly going over to their house to stitch up the girls' mother’s wounds. I thought it was farming accidents. I was too little to understand, so I was surprised when Grams told me not to ever play in their house anymore. Instead, the girls started sleeping over and even having every meal with us. Mind you, it was the '90s in a post-Soviet country, so no child services." "When I got older, I realized it was domestic violence. I asked my grandmother about it. Turns out, their father had severe PTSD from Afghanistan and would beat the living hell out of his wife in front of the children. A few years ago, I found out that he had horrifically murdered his wife. He went in to beat one of the girls right after, and her sister shot him. Some years later, she took her own life. I still have dreams about them. They were amazing, smart kids. I wake up in cold sweat every time. I haven't been able to find the remaining daughter on any social media. I hope she found happiness in life." "I found out that my mother had a sure-fire way to get sympathy from family and friends: fall down a flight of stairs to induce a miscarriage. I was born a month and a half early after my mom fell down some stairs.""Years ago , my mom got a call from either her mom or her great aunt asking if she'd heard about her great uncle. Turns out he was growing weed in his condo, got caught, and fled to Costa Rica. He ended up coming back and serving something like a year in prison." "I had an old friend from elementary school through high school. He ended up teaching in our old elementary school and was well known for visiting over 30 countries, going on scuba diving vacations, etc. He coached at our high school. He was single until 43, and recently married about two years ago to a woman with elementary-aged kids, and they had a baby. It seemed like he was one of the good ones. In May, he pleaded guilty to possession of child sexual abuse images, including 'At least one video portraying masochistic sexual conduct involving a child.' He will be sentenced in December. Now, all of those trips he took alone in summer and on spring break are just nauseating. His many trips to Asia to 'dive.' It's horrific." "A neighbour died when he was 30 . Police searched a trailer he owned and found weapons, bombs, and a list of people he wanted to kill. My uncle was on that list.""One of my best friends from grade school was being sexually abused by her father. I found out when we were in our teens after her parents divorced . My dad knew he had been fired from his job for sexual harassment problems with women, and that he was basically a slimy guy. I never knew why I couldn't sleep over at her house when I was younger, but my parents were fine if she came to our house. Glad my dad was paying attention and looking out for me!" "My best friend of 26 years was watching my kids this last Mother's Day, so my amazing wife and I could go out. My 11-year-old daughter found two cameras in the bathroom while she was showering. Turns out he had been doing it for over a year. I came home right away , and I took his laptop and cameras. He tried to deny it, then tell me it was a one-time thing, and that he just needed help, and it had all been deleted. He tried to blame me, bribe me, tell me that no one would believe us because it was all gone, and that I'm not as smart as I think I am. I had named my firstborn after him 15 years ago. We turned everything over to the police, and they found A LOT of bad shit on his laptop...You don't truly know anyone but yourself. If they seem too interested in your child, don't tell yourself it's because they are his child's age and he never gets to see his kids. Just never leave them unsupervised around your child." "I worked in a prison, walked past the section with child sex offenders, and saw my favorite teacher in there." "At our extended family's Sunday brunch with kids running around, including her own, my sister introduced her boyfriend of the past six months. After brunch, we took our coffees to the living room, and my sister asked if the kids could go downstairs to play for a bit because she wanted to talk to us about something. My dad had recently passed, so we thought it had something to do with that, and the kids went off. My sister's boyfriend starts to tell us a story about something personal that happened to him, then lets my sister finish up telling us that her boyfriend is a child predator, but she's been 'watching for signs of it' with her kids, so it's all good. I stood up, hugged my sister and told her I loved her, then collected my kids and left. I haven't spoken to her since." "My uncle had a heart attack, and both his wife and girlfriend turned up to see him. Turns out, for 30 years, he told his wife he was working away during the week but staying with a girlfriend. And told the girlfriend he worked weekends, which is when he stayed with his wife and two kids. 30 years! He divorced his wife and married his girlfriend." "My cousin has been together with his wife for 14 years and has had a girlfriend for just as long! Neither of them knew about the other. He got caught because of an image on Facebook. His wife's sister posted a family picture in which my cousin was, and he got recognized by his girlfriend's sister's acquaintance. He got away with that for FOURTEEN YEARS!" Similarly,"My boyfriend's father had two families for 20 years. One in Indiana and one in Texas. In 2005ish, my boyfriend's mom was cleaning out the attic, in preparation for her and her husband to sell their family home and move into a condo in their fifties. In the pocket of an old suitcase, she found a stack of Father's Day cards signed by two people she had never heard of. She confronted her hubby, and he confessed he has two kids and another 'wife' in Texas. She called Wife #2 and exposed the situation." "Wife #2 says: What are you causing trouble for? He has kept us both happy and housed, and sent my two kids and your two kids to college...quit causing problems."He spent every Christmas and every Father's Day with the Texas family. The Ohio family thought he played in an exclusive sports tournament every year, the last week of December, and that he went fishing in Canada for 2-3 weeks every June. Wife #1 divorced him shortly after. He moved to Texas, golfs daily, and hasn't spoken to her. My boyfriend and his sister have been to Texas several times to meet the half-siblings. They even celebrated a few Christmases and summer vacations together. Wife #1 is in her sixties now and has a severe drinking problem following the reveal. She is slowly deteriorating from alcohol related dementia. My boyfriend is her primary caregiver, and I feel so, so, so bad for how this lady's life played out." "My sister did Ancestry and found out my dad has a biological sister no one ever knew about, including him. My sister found her on Instagram or Facebook and said she looked pretty much exactly like her, and I was shocked when I saw it. She told Dad, who asked our Grandma about it, and she freaked out, so he dropped it. A little while after, my sister talked to our uncle, and he said he also found that out a little while before, but that he found out that 'It was better to let that topic go when it comes to Mom because she does"If that's not enough for people to believe, my sister initiated a talk with our secret aunt, and the latter confirmed that our biological grandfather was her dad, that Grandma was her mom, and that she was born in our home state. However, when my sister asked a couple more questions, she completely dipped out and blocked my sister and everything. Then, when my sister expressed doubt to Ancestry, they said there was no chance this person wasn't my dad's sister because the gene report showed such a strong match. We figure Grandma probably had an unexpected pregnancy, and it was taboo enough to essentially give her up for adoption and act like nothing ever happened. So I figure, given the time period, that Aunty was probably born out of wedlock." "My great-grandfather and his two brother-in-laws went to prison, and not college, for four years for robbing trains. They had sold the family dairy farm just a couple of years before the Great Depression and started a general store. But during the depression, Kraft Cheese started sending super cheap fake cheese and other dairy products into the area, undercutting all the local dairies. My grandpa and his brothers realized that they still depended on the local dairy industry as customers, so they robbed the trains of all the Kraft cheese and threw it into fields to rot. A reporter from Chicago was on one of the trains and got a picture of their faces, and they all went to 'college' for a few years." "When I graduated from college, my grandmother said I was the first in the family. I asked what about great grandpa, and she said, 'Oh no, he went to prison, not college.' But no one else in the family ever knew either, lol. When they got out, they were all voted in as town councilmen. They literally had customers for life. My great-grandmother ran the store while they were in prison, and she went on to run it until she retired at 93 years old. Edit to add: Mom says the 'reporter' from Chicago probably worked for Kraft because that’s where the parent company was from. And only one brother actually got his face caught on camera, but the other two confessed to get him a lighter sentence — and my great-grandmother was adamant that my great-great-uncle did not roll over on his brothers. The other brothers decided to broker a deal for a reduced sentence. And they did it to support a general strike by the dairy farmers, not just because of prices. They started shipping in Kraft cheese and milk to break the strike, so they robbed the train of Kraft cheese and milk. Problem solved. One of the brothers who went to 'college' asked his nephew to look after his wife while he was gone, and the nephew sure did! He got his aunt pregnant while my great-great-uncle was in Texas." "I was told that my great-grandfather kept the family farm in business by blatant and repeated acts of insurance fraud."hat was told to me was that the farming equipment and vehicles would 'just go up in flames.' In the middle of an empty field. My understanding is that most of this happened in the '60s and '70s, and I think eventually one of my great uncles took the fall for the family and did some jail time. But I already have a low opinion of the vast majority of the people I'm biologically related to, and I'd be willing to believe the true story could be even more depraved." "My uncle was a child molester. Even worse, he and others ran a newsletter for people like him. When they brought it all down, the arrests were international. I knew a little when I was a kid, as my parents told me why I needed to stay away from him. Once I was old enough and the internet got huge, I was able to find multiple newspaper articles about it." "Oh, and he raped my father when he was a teen. My aunt didn't believe him. He used to always be at family gatherings. My aunt refused to condemn him, saying, 'He's a good provider.' The family basically made her eventually divorce him." "My work requires everyone in our group to have security clearance. It's boring work and the most basic of clearances. On Wednesday, a coworker's desk was completely cleaned out. We were told she lost her clearance and was fired. Weird. Turns out she had met a man online, and they were madly in love. She cashed out her 401, her life savings, and got a second mortgage to send to him. She's 67. To no one's surprise, he's not a real person, and it was all a scam. He claimed he was royalty from Nigeria. Work found out when she started borrowing money from coworkers, and it made its way to our boss. It's very sad but still...she was around when the whole Nigerian email scam was around! She should have known better.""My grandmother told me a couple of months ago that around the time of her divorce from my biological grandfather, another lady in their small town had a baby. When grandma finally saw the baby, after friends suspiciously tried to keep her from seeing it, it looked exactly like her soon-to-be ex-husband. I was the first person to be told about this. My mom now knows, but my aunts and uncles have no idea they have another half-sister running around somewhere." "The reason the baby was easily identifiable, aside from suspicious behavior, was largely due to my biological grandpa being a redhead. There weren’t too many in town, apparently." "The head coach of my first club volleyball team turned out to be peeping on the girls. I literally begged my parents to let me switch teams because he gave me the creeps. I didn't know what he'd done until years later, when I saw him refereeing high school volleyball matches. Confused, I started chatting with people and found all this out. Apparently, it was part of his 'rehabilitation'…Sure. He wasn't allowed to coach, but could referee." "My grandfather and his family/friends robbed an armory decades ago. They kept the guns on the family farm until we cleared out the barn a few years back and found well over 70 different firearms in the rafters and walls. And this was only a year or so after we found over $100k in my grandma's cookbook in bonds, silver certificates, and sequential serial number notes. My uncle wants to look into local bank robberies around that time period." "After over 20 years of knowing each other, my brother and my best friend hooked up one drunken night. Six years later, they're married. I didn't see any part of that story happening at all.""I was a singer at my church as a teenager, and the sound tech was one of those guys that just made the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you were near him…a total creep. Nothing you could put your finger on really…just sort of an intuitive instinctual feeling, if you know what I mean. He and his wife adopted a daughter. I remember the whole church celebrating when the adoption was approved and how elated they were. Over a decade later, I found out he had been molesting and raping his daughter for years and years before she finally got up the courage to tell her mom. He went to jail, but not for long enough." "I have a coworker, who I'll call Jess, who always talks about her kids in detail and asks for favors because of her kids; i.e., picking up shifts, asking for rides, etc...One of our other coworker's sons goes to the same bar as said girl , and one night, she was spilling her guts about how she always takes advantage of her coworkers and that she doesn't even have kids. She doesn't know that we know." And finally, I don't know if this quite fits as an uncovered secret, but it's such a wild ride, I had to include it:"A year ago, my family member discovered that his fianceé of seven years, who he has two children with, had been having an affair with his younger brother, who just turned 18. His brother was living in his house rent-free at the time as well. His fianceé left him for his brother, and they had a fling for a couple of months. The younger brother was jumping from friend to friend to crash at their houses, working a minimum-wage job, while she was still living under her ex-fiancé's roof. She then decided she wanted to work things out with her ex-fiancé, so they got back together, which left the younger brother furious. Shortly after that, she found out she was pregnant, but she didn't know which brother was the father." "Her fiancé said he would raise the baby as his own, even if it was not his. So she decided to keep the baby. This made the younger brother more furious because she'd previously gotten pregnant with the younger brother's baby and gotten an abortion. So the younger brother verbally attacked her for aborting that embryo and keeping this one just because there was a chance it was her fiancé's. She was unemployed during that time, so her fiancé was paying for all of the expenses. Nine months later, she was still unemployed. She had the baby, and it ended up being the younger brother's child. They all tried to do co-parenting. The baby is three months old now, and my family member's fianceé left him for his younger brother again."What's the most shocking thing you discovered about a friend, acquaintance, or family member? Let us know in the comments or via this anonymous form.at 1-800-656-HOPE, which routes the caller to their nearest sexual assault service provider. You can also search for your local center If you are concerned that a child is experiencing or may be in danger of abuse, you can call or text the
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