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30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
As sinister as it sounds, there is a reason a lot of horror focuses on families and their interactions. There is something about a “familiar” setting (in the most literal sense) that makes creepy and eerie actions and words hit that much closer to home. As it turns out, this experience might be more common than we might think.
Someone asked “What's the creepiest thing a member of your family has ever said?” and netizens shared all the strange things they’ve heard. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the worst examples and be sure to add your own in the comments section below.
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#1
My mom would always remind us before big family gatherings "Don't go sit on Uncle Vern's lap. Don't be alone with him either. He has a history"
As a kid I was like wow that's kinda scary. As an adult with kids my question is "Why the f**k was this dude invited back?".
Brazen 1 month ago
My step mom was an American, and every holiday we had we would go visit her children (grown) in the U.S. I was warned once that her ex-husband was coming over to my step brother's house and that I should in no certain terms leave any of the children alone with him. I was 15 at the time and for some reason I didn't quite get why she was saying it, until he walked into the living room and looked at me. I felt soooo gross/dirty and immediately understood why she said what she said. I later learned that this was the reason for her divorce....my poor step-sister.
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#2
My grandfather told me not to dance at a wedding because I might “tempt” the men. I was 13.
#3
When my cousin was 14, my uncle (her father) said her first boyfriend would be very lucky to have her as a girlfriend. I agreed, saying she was becoming a wonderful young woman. My uncle looks me in my eyes and says "yeah, but he'd also get a go on her fantastic t**s" 🤢
Guess which uncle is never going to see my daughter (who is now a teenager).
General Anaesthesia 1 month ago (edited)
Does your uncle's skin have an orangey tint, perchance?
#4
We were all gathered around the dinner table. My 1 year old daughter was sucking on a corn on the cob and my boomer father saw her and said she’ll make a man very happy one day. It was quiet for a second and I told him to stop sexualizing my infant child. He quit drinking shortly after that but I still keep an eye on him and he isn’t left alone with my children.
#5
My stepbrother and his wife were visiting my bio father and stepmom, while I was temporarily living with them. Their baby wasn't too happy about being in a strange place with strangers, but somehow me and the kiddo hit it off. So I would often wake up when they asked me to take him during the night when he was fussy, babysat, etc. I adored it.
My bio father was "helping" me babysit, then suddenly his mood changed and he looked down at the baby, roughly pushed him over. I managed to grab the baby before he fell off the bed. Meanwhile, my bio father was chuckling and said "what are (his parents) going to do about it? They are staying in my home and financially dependent on me." He then made a faint like he was going to smack the baby in my arms, then walked away.
I left a few weeks later and haven't spoken to him in 30+ years now.
#6
My alcoholic uncle at my 12th birthday party: "You grew up real nice. If we're ever alone I'll take it as a yes."
I had no clue what he meant until I was older.
#7
I was going through a divorce, I was staying with my sister. I was sleeping on the floor in her spare room.
I woke up and she was standing over me with a knife in her hand.
She said: "IT awakes!"
I replied: WHAT?! What is going on?
She blinked and turned and walked away.
I began to look for a different place to stay after I locked the room's door and stayed up for the rest of the night.
She struggles with paranoid schizophrenia.
#8
My youngest son was about 4 and playing by himself. After a bit i realized he was talking to someone or pretending to. I asked him who he was playing with and he said “an old man.” I asked him what the old man’s name was and what he was doing and he said “grandpa and he’s walking with his cane.”
My kids call my dad “Papa” so it was weird to me, and my husbands father they called Papa Launery. I asked him who is grandpa, what does he look like? And my son says “my grandpa, he has a red shirt and brown pants.”
It creeped me out but I didn’t think too much about it. I posted on my facebook page about the interaction and my grandmother posted a picture of my great grandfather who I never met in an old family photo, wearing a red shirt and brown pants. He had a prosthetic leg from the war so he walked with a cane. Id never seen that photo before and my son certainly never had either. My family is convinced he was visiting to say hello. Still the creepiest thing my kid has ever said.
Peeka_Mimi 1 month ago
My now 8yo granddaughter kept saying she's talking to Nany when she was 4yo. No one had ever talked about Nany and there's no way she could have known my Nany's name. My niece when she was about 4 or 5 said the "lady with the glasses keeps me awake." We showed her a picture of Nany and she said, "that's her." I firmly believe she's been hanging around since she died. She'd never leave her family behind.
#9
After my twins passed away (shortly after birth), my sister said, "It's a good thing they died when they did, so you didn't get too attached.".
#10
My grandpa asked me if I was going to breastfeed when I was pregnant. I said I was absolutely going to try. He then gave one of my b**bs a little jiggle and said "With these little things? Good luck!"
I was left with my jaw on the floor.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 month ago
My grandfather would have ENDED anyone who did that to me. JFC.
#11
My grandpa said he’d marry me if I wasn’t his granddaughter.
Said I n front of my future husband the weekend of our wedding.
#12
I had an uncle buy me silk underwear for my 16th birthday and when I opened it said “you should try it on right now”.
#13
My half older brother is about 25 years older than me and obviously, we didn't grow up together. Never were close. But he once sent me a FB message to share a fond memory with me --
Apparently when I was 3-4 I had a dress with matching bloomers to cover my diaper. He said I'd laugh and giggle, looking at him while rolling around as if I "wanted him to look at my bloomers" in *that* fashion.
I blocked him and never looked back. I feel gross just typing this.
#14
He was my cousin. He found me on yahoo messenger. He said he was distancing himself from his side of the family. We would chat about once a week. A couple months in, he invited me to visit. I turned him down because I was broke. He said I could share his bed. I was just "wha?"
He then went into a spiel about we could move to Kentucky, he had researched it and cousins having sex was legal.
I just said "ew" and blocked him and deleted messenger
I refuse to ever attend anything he would be at.
#15
First girl I ever brought home (that I was interested in) when I was 13… my dad comes home from work, before I can even introduce them to each other, my dad says, “So, have you two had s*x yet?”
I was mortified.
She left.
My dad didn’t meet another one of my “girlfriends” until I was in my mid 20s, and my GF and I rented a place together.
#16
- “no one will ever love you”
- “I’m going to set fire to the house with us in it”
- “if you tell anyone, social services will take you away and put you in a children’s home where they’ll hurt you really badly”
- “drink the poison kid”
Take your pick.
#17
We adopted a baby from China 20 yrs ago. When I casually mentioned how my husband was in love with her, his uncle said, "just make sure he doesn't love her TOO much." This was around when people were still commenting on Woody Allen running off with Mia Farrow's adopted daughter. It was a pretty gross thing to say about a toddler. And my husband.
Xenia Harley 1 month ago
That adopted daughter was Allen's daughter too, that he had spent many years around! Makes it much more ew than just being Mia Farrow's daughter! He is total ick, and disgusting.
#18
My 33 year old cousin tried to “subtly” convince me to have sex with him the night before his wedding when I was 15.
When I was 17, I was at my family reunion and on the phone with my boyfriend and the same cousin grabbed my phone and said “why should she go across the street when she can go across the hall?”.
#19
Once at a family birthday party, my FIL told his 15-year-old daughter "You're the sexiest woman here.".
#20
When my son was three, his mom had to send him to a timeout for some reason. He didn't want to and threw a fit, so I reiterated he had to go and be by himself til he could behave. He started storming away, then turned, walked close to me, and hissed- actual hiss, like a villain- "They'll never find you."
He's 12 now and he doesn't remember it. But when I told him about it he just nodded and said "Yeah, that sounds like something I would say.".
#21
When I was a kid, my family got together with my closest Aunt and cousins to take a trip to the San Diego Zoo. We were split into two cars with the boys in my Aunt's Land Rover and us girls in my Mother's station wagon.
About halfway there, my Aunt turns around to address us kids in the backseat. She asks my little sister, who was a 5 year old angelic cherub of a girl with curly platinum blonde hair and a disturbing affinity for ruffled dresses, what she wants to be when she grows up.
"A witch doctor."
The grown-ups laughed awkwardly, then my Aunt asks, "Why?"
"Because I want to kill things."
The rest of the drive was silent.
#22
My dad once said to me, “If I could get you to eat half as much as you do, and your sister to eat half as much as you do, I’d have two perfect daughters”. Thanks, Dad. 🙌🏼.
#23
My nephew (who is several years older than me) called me and told me these utterly horrific stories of things he was forced to do in Afghanistan and he was clearly drunk and crying. I was like 17 and had no idea what to do as he talked about having to kill a little boy because he was shooting st them, just all kinds of horrors of war....
It stuck with me for years, utterly haunting... a couple of years ago I found out none of it ever happened. He was a paper pusher because he injured his knee playing basketball.
Brian Droste 1 month ago
Maybe he got those stories from other soldiers and was passing them on as his own.
#24
My mom told me recently when I was ill that if I died, her neighbors would bring her free meals for a couple of weeks. She genuinely thought that sounded exciting and like an outcome she was hoping for.
Maggie Fulton 1 month ago
When I was little, my mom had to drive past an orphanage on the way to the grocery store. When we drove past she’d always say, “If I die, that’s where you’ll go.” My dad had just died. The orphanage was an ominous brick building. No one ever was playing in the playground. I was scared to death. My mom told me years later that she thought she was being comforting. She was a bit messed up.
#25
When my uncle told me how old his gf was when they started dating. He was pushing 30 and she was 15.
Gunný Petersen 1 month ago
My ex FIL started dating his future wife when she was 14 and he was 27! Ugh!
#26
I used to have a horrible recurring dream about an alien abduction while camping. Sometimes I would wake up in a light sweat, sometimes I’d jump out of bed into the corner of the room until I came to my senses.
No, I am not an abductee. It’s just a bad nightmare.
So….
My kid brother used to wake up and come to my room in the middle of the night to sleep there. One night I wake up from that nightmare and he’s just standing there at the edge of my bed.
I nearly jumped out of my skin.
He looks right through me and says, “they’re coming for you too”. Then he turned and walked back to his room.
I didn’t go back to sleep that night.
#27
Had a cousin who had done 2 deployments to the Middle East and had some real PTSD, during a family dinner he casually stands up walks to the front window and looks out it cones back a minute later and says nothing a minute later he says "God I miss k**ling the enemy".
Dont worry, he since has gotten a really good therapist and has gotten good help for his PTSD.
#28
My brother in law asked me what size bra I wore when I was maybe 15 or 16 and he was in his 20’s. He’s my EX brother in law now.
Brian Droste 1 month ago
Some of these gave me the creeps. Other ones ones were gross. There were a few that were decent.
#29
When I was 4, my mother told me she never wanted me. She tried to give me away at the hospital. I wasn't a boy, and the youngest of 7.
Never Snarky 1 month ago
When I was 4, my mom made me get a suitcase to pack my things because was fed up with me and taking me to an orphanage. Of course she didn’t, but I was afraid of her ever after. I was sure she wanted to kill me to get rid of me. I’m now 74, and still live with that trauma.
#30
I was babysitting my nephew overnight and he told me there was people on the stairs.
What do you think ?
Anastasia Beaverhausen 1 month ago
Most of these stories are disturbing and these men need to be in prison because they are pervs
Sky Render 1 month ago
So many sexual predators... Not that my situation is much better, given that the most creepy thing any family member said to me was what my father said after he SA'd me: "if you ever tell anyone, you'll die."
Amanda Fondaumiere 1 month ago
Its such a cliche thing, but they really do say it dont they? Also, I’m so so sorry.
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 month ago
To all uncles and other adults: never compliment an underage person on their sexiness and never imply anything sexual. She won't feel flattered, she will feel hugely uncomfortable. It's not a nice thing to hear from an adult. You may think it will make her feel nice to hear that she's desirable, but it won't, you saying it will make her feel so horrible and maybe even really scared. Don't do that to her. And don't worry, she'll get compliments from her peers, she doesn't need you for that.
Anastasia Beaverhausen 1 month ago
Most of these stories are disturbing and these men need to be in prison because they are pervs
Sky Render 1 month ago
So many sexual predators... Not that my situation is much better, given that the most creepy thing any family member said to me was what my father said after he SA'd me: "if you ever tell anyone, you'll die."
Amanda Fondaumiere 1 month ago
Its such a cliche thing, but they really do say it dont they? Also, I’m so so sorry.
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 month ago
To all uncles and other adults: never compliment an underage person on their sexiness and never imply anything sexual. She won't feel flattered, she will feel hugely uncomfortable. It's not a nice thing to hear from an adult. You may think it will make her feel nice to hear that she's desirable, but it won't, you saying it will make her feel so horrible and maybe even really scared. Don't do that to her. And don't worry, she'll get compliments from her peers, she doesn't need you for that.
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