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The truth comes out—sometimes, through people's last breaths. Deathbed confessions have long fascinated both psychologists and the public, offering glimpses into guilt, fear, and the pursuit of closure.
However, while these last-minute revelations might bring solace to those who want to take less baggage to the afterlife, they can also deeply agitate the ones left behind.
A few days ago on r/AskReddit, a user named Youreanouch said, "What is the most disturbing deathbed confession you've ever heard?" and the thread quickly spiraled, drawing 11,000 upvotes and more than 2,700 comments, many haunting, and some unforgettable.
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#1
My wife, a geriatrician, told me this story. She had a patient who was considered just the loveliest by all those who knew her and all of her children. Now her children and their families are also successful individuals here in Melbourne, Australia. Lawyer, doctor, university Dean etc. A group of very neatly presented people if you know what I mean.
As the matriarch’s dementia worsened she began having extremely violent hallucinations and began sharing unfiltered tales of great violence. The family was very confused but after she died, the oldest son explained to his siblings that mum was actually “taken” as a young teen in East London by a g**g leader and was forced into being his “wife” for many years. Throughout this ordeal, the woman actually studied and learned how to be a gangster and eventually found herself influential enough to stage a coup against him, take all of his money, and end his g**g. She then escaped to Australia with the money to start over and managed to lead and nurture a life of privilege for herself and for generations to come.
I admire this woman greatly.
Marsha Hultberg 5 months ago
WOW...just wow. Bless her amazing self. I want 1/8 of her strength.
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#2
I work as an er nurse, and a couple months ago there was a massive crash on the highway with around 20 cars. It was apparently a mystery who caused it but because so many people were hurt people and people didn't know who's fault it was they didn't know who's insurance was going to pay for everything. Because the treatments were super expensive for many of the patients most insurances would only partially cover the bills. There was one older man who was in the car with his wife and his wife died on impact. In his last moments he told me to put the blame on him, to tell everyone he confessed to causing the crash. He did it because his insurance was top tier and he knew it would help people. Not very disturbing but I think it's pretty interesting.
XenoMurph 5 months ago
Imagine a system so oppressive that the desperation makes that your dying thought!
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FranSinclair 5 months ago
I was in like 7th grade. I had a horrible home life bur my parents truly didn't care what i did and what happened to me (meaning i didnt get into trouble) that year wed had a dance and i was sitting out side by myself. I saw a group of 3 girls who were in similar home situations (but their parents were openly violent) walking through the school parking lot smoking a cig. They got busted, their moms were called and i watched 2 of them come in, one immediately grabbing a daughter by the hair and the other screaming in her face. I stepped out from my bush, took the blame, got suspended, got arrested, was put in placement, was taken from my family, ran away, started my own life. Married a cop, got a career, had 2 kids and we do family bike rides everyday. Weird how things work out.
Pollywog 5 months ago
It's a shame you had to go that route to escape your home life. Who knows where you would've ended up had you stayed. I'm so proud of you for having the courage to make your own path!! Good luck and many blessings for you and your family!!! 💜
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Saltypepper 4 months ago
What a man willing to take the blame even though he probably was not even at fault,just felt guilty because his wife died on inpact and he wasn't able to help her ,so he wants to help those he is able to. Great man ..
Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
That was brave of him to help the others in the pile up but hurt his own family in the process. So sad
Only Me 5 months ago (edited)
One of the many things about America that is shocking, that people can't get health care. So glad that it's all free where I'm from. If I break my leg (which I did when I was younger) it's treated very quickly and no payment required. Likewise if I'm injured in a car accident.
The tricky part with these stories is that when you hear someone admitting guilt, there's a chance the act might not have even happened.
Working on children's fabricated memories, cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Loftus gave a group of volunteers the rudimentary outlines of a childhood experience: getting lost in a mall and being rescued by a kindly adult.
She told the subjects, falsely, that the scenario was real and had taken place when they were young. (Loftus asked their parents for biographical details that she could "plant" in each case.) Then she debriefed the subjects twice, with the interviews separated by a week or two.
By the second interview, six of the twenty-four test subjects had internalized the story, weaving in sensory and emotional details of their own. Loftus and other researchers have since used similar techniques to create false memories of near-drownings, animal attacks, and encounters with Bugs Bunny at Disneyland (impossible, since Bugs is a Warner Bro).
#3
When I was 10 or 11, my grandfather passed away from cirrhosis of the liver (he was a happy, functioning alcoholic). I was in his hospital room alone with him the day he passed, scared because of how different he looked from the man I'd always known (he'd lost like half his body weight, and looked skeletal).
He held my hand, and told me that his father (my great grandfather) k**led 4 men in their beds with an icepick because they'd "r***d a colored girl" and the law wouldn't do anything about it. He went into gory detail that bordered on t*****e p**n. I still have mental scars 35 years later.
I didn't understand all of that at the time, and it wasn't until years later telling my mom about it that she confirmed and explained it in a more gentle detail. Apparently, my great grandfather and his brother may have also been professional (or maybe serial) k**lers, and supposedly k**led upwards of 25 K*K members across Alabama, Georgia, and Northern Florida.
Sara Frazer 5 months ago (edited)
K K K members?? No big loss. They múrdered uncountable numbers of African American people.
JB 5 months ago
Huh, I mean, technically I guess they're serial killers, but it doesn't feel like they're serial killers.
Auntriarch 5 months ago
Sometimes the line between killers and executioners is very thin.
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🇺🇦 PrincessPatton 🇺🇦 5 months ago
What the F*****K is t*****e p**n? Go F*****K yourself B***d P***a!
#4
Context: my mom was the last person I really had in my close family.
Sort of a deathbed confession.
My mom, after she died, left me her will - and a letter.
In that letter, she told me I was adopted.
After I’d asked repeatedly over the years if I were adopted. Functionally everybody that knew my parents - knew.
That f****d me up pretty good, not gonna lie.
So if you, my dear redditors - have adopted a child.
Please tell them before you die - and don’t lie to them.
Because that was an immensely s****y way to find out. .
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
I accidentally found out I was adopted when I was 6 or so because I was snooping through my parents' desk upstairs. Many decades later, my mother offhandedly mentioned to me that she wasn't sure she was "ever going to tell me" that I was adopted if I hadn't already found out. That's on par for my mother (textbook Main Character narcissist) but pretty sh!tty behavior overall. An adopted child needs to know they are adopted for medical purposes if nothing else. I was able to tell doctors that I did not know my familial medical history due to being adopted. It can be a serious thing if the child's family does have hereditary medical issues.
Midoribird Aoi 5 months ago
If you have to give up a child for adoption, either leave important details about medical history, blood type, etc, or agree to see your child at least once if they contact you as an adult, to give them this information. You may save a life later, even if you do not wish further contact (which should be respected).
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Kathy Wilbourne 5 months ago
I was blessed to have been told from infancy that I was adopted, that I was chosen.
Susan Wilson 5 months ago
I'm 62 and was adopted. My parents had a story book about adoption where they changed the names to ours. They started reading it to me when I was so young I don't really remember. I grew up always knowing I was adopted. I'm convinced this is the best way - there was no big surprise, no feeling betrayed, I was told it was special to be adopted. I have never once felt that I needed to find my "real" parents.
fmjmkry9ww 5 months ago
Same. My family is my family. Am I curious about my biological family? Of course. But I don't know that they are good people or not. I know the family I have are.
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Michael Largey 5 months ago
OP never states how old she was when her mom died. Not knowing at age 10 that you were adopted is different from not knowing at 40.
Eri J 5 months ago (edited)
I don't get why anyone would keep adoption a secret. It's one thing if the kid(s) come from a bad situation and you wait until they're old enough to understand the situation, but to never tell or tell on your death bed...? smh
Apatheist Account2 5 months ago
For the older generations, children born out of wedlock were often dealt with "quietly", and often given to relatives or others, but treated as legitimate children, for the sake of respectability.
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Melia Janssen 3 days ago
I have a cousin who was adopted. The adults around him knew, but didn't tell him. It wasn't until his mother died that the truth began unravelling. He lost his mind afterwards and has never been the same. So yes, children should be told where they come from, as uncomfortable and as awkward as it may be.
#5
My grandma told my sister and I that our Uncle (her oldest) was not actually our grandpa’s son.
She was r***d by her brother in law’s brother and met my grandfather soon after. He didn't care that my uncle wasn’t his, he raised him just like he was his own.
She asked us to never tell anyone. We never have.
glowworm2 5 months ago
Good grandpa though. Basically, that was his son, even if not by blood.
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
ive always held the belief that it isn't blood that matters - it's the relationship so good for him
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Motivated sloth 5 months ago
Probably should’ve posted this from an anonymous account. Ashluvsburritos doesn’t sound like a throw away but hopefully I’m wrong.
Melancholy Kitty 5 months ago (edited)
Uh, all the shame should go to the Rapist, no?
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They tested a method for implanting false memories, not of getting lost in childhood but of committing a crime in adolescence.
They modeled their work on Loftus's, sending questionnaires to each of their participants' parents to gather background information. (Any past run-ins with the law would eliminate a student from the experiment.)
Then, Shaw and Porter divided the students into two groups and told each a different kind of false story. One group was prompted to remember an emotional event, such as getting attacked by a dog. The other was prompted to remember a crime—an a*****t, for example—that led to an encounter with the police. (At no time during the experiments were the participants allowed to communicate with their parents.)
#6
My Grandmother confessed to me that her oldest brother was the product of incest. My Great grandmother had him when she was 14. To be clear her dad, my great great grandfather r***d her.
I was 17 when she told me this and I said I wouldn't have been able to raise that baby.
She said, "She had no choice".
And d**n if that didn't scare the ever livin s**t outta me in 1997.
Xenia Harley 5 months ago
And the lovely people who want to do away with legal abortion want to bring this back. Horrible.
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
And they'd tell us either "She must have tempted him" or "It was God's will"...
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JoMeBee 5 months ago
Unfortunately, it is not unheard of especially back then when men had complete legal authority over their wives and children. And as some else who mentioned abortion, yeah, we're on a trajectory back in that direction...
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#7
My gran was on her deathbed and was convinced she was going to hell because she stole money from the church rectory 50 years earlier to help feed her 10 young children. I think gran saying that was more upsetting to my aunts than her actual death. Not because of the stealing, because we all agree that a decent God wouldn't care when someone stole to feed children, but just how adamant Gran was that she was going to hell because of it. Made for some drama before she passed, for sure. RIP Grandma.
Kira Okah 5 months ago
Don't know what someone told her, but they definitely weren't a good Christian. God forgives all sins, and certainly forgave this long ago, so would the priest and pretty much everyone who knew. Grandma is certainly in heaven.
Marnie 5 months ago
It doesn't even make sense that determining if you go to hell or not is based on sin, because if that were true, every single person would be in hell. There is nobody who has never sinned.
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Catlady6000 5 months ago
This is so sad. In the scary, vengeful Ol Testament of the Bible, stealing out of desperation is treated very differently than stealing out of greed. There still consequences, but much easier. God knew she was trying to take care of her family. I hate the fire and brimstone, no forgiveness apostasy of these types of churches. They are anything but Christian and are the cause of a lot of grief
Cynthia Christie 5 months ago
F*****g religion. This poor woman spent the last moments of her life in fear of something totally not real, and all over making sure her kids got fed. People who spread that awful belief should get a savage f*****g beating.
Bewitched One 5 months ago
Or actually go to hell 🤷🏼♀️😂 really tho I agree with you
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Day Andie 5 months ago
A real Christian church would have been assisting the poor to begin with, and then that sort of thing wouldn't have happened. When families in the congregation are going hungry and there is money in the rectory sitting, then f**k that church and that pastor/priest.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
Some Christians believe their God to be one nasty son of a b***h. Not surprising given the character of the people who claim to speak for Him.
Colleen Glim 5 months ago (edited)
Some Christian’s only believe their god is nasty if it’s something they personally don’t agree with
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Cindy Brick 5 months ago
...and if you wanted to do something nice in her memory, you could reimburse the church for that amount. It would probably help your aunts feel better about the whole affair. (And yes, Grandma would not be Going to Hell just because of this action.)
G A 5 months ago
Fvck that. Churches prey on people like that. They have so much fvcking money and they don't even pay tax in many countries. They are revolting con men.
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Kay Christensen 5 months ago
At that time there was no reliable birth control. Plus men have never been able to keep their little friend in their pants for any length of time.
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nuberiffic 5 months ago
Teres nothing to repent for and no one to repent to
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I watched a video and this super old granny in Alaska talked about how she l**led her a*****e husband in Tennessee or wherever. So she thought about it for months, was abused during and before that, then she asked him to fix something up high in the barn, hid some rakes under hay, and straight up pushed the ladder and made him fall on the rakes, k**ling him.
So she calls the police (I think it was like 1940-1950’s times) and they investigate it and find he fell on accident, she moves to Alaska and lives a loooonnnngg fulfilling and happy life.
zzbc6m22fq 5 months ago
she loiled? laeled? lailed? luuled? lxzled? I think the asterisks can somet**es g* t** **r.
Freddy M. (He/Him) 5 months ago (edited)
I think it's meant to be killed but is misspelled and censored, a combo for the ages
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JusticePanda 5 months ago
I hate the asterisks in place of letters. As I said before if these words trigger you may I suggest medication and therapy. They are words. And people please read before post.
Bewitched One 5 months ago
It’s not for people. Atleast not exactly. They do it because the people advertising on the site do not want “their brand associated” with that language
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Parmeisan 5 months ago
I checked the original Reddit comment, the word should have been "k1lled"
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What Shaw and Porter found was astonishing. "We thought we'd have something like a thirty-percent success rate, and we ended up having over seventy," Shaw told Douglas Starr. "We only had a handful of people who didn't believe us."
After three debriefing sessions, seventy-six percent of the students claimed to remember the false emotional event; nearly the same amount—seventy percent—remembered the fictional crime.
So if you hear a hard-to-believe confession, fact-check it. There might not be a reason to.
#9
My great-grandpa came home from WW1 and his family had a great big party. He noticed his 13 year old sister was missing so he went and looked for her. He found their neighbor r**ing her. He yanked the man off of her and told her to go to their mom.
We don't know if he beat him or k**led him immediately but on her death bed, my grandma said she hid his bloody clothing buried in the front yard from that night and the body is long gone. Where the clothing is supposedly buried there is a beautiful patch of iris's that grows.
Sara Frazer 5 months ago (edited)
Everything here the r@pist deserved, except the burial spot should have became a septic tank
Jan 5 months ago
It was the brother's bloody clothing she buried to get rid of the evidence of what the brother had done to the rapist I say the flowers show nature's approval.
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Bewitched One 5 months ago
How did grandma hide his clothes in the yard? Or did they mean the great aunt did? Or was great grandpa a little older and already had older kids when this happened?
Michael Largey 5 months ago
I like to suppose that the rapist attacked great-grandma, and she killed him in self-defense. "Not guilty, your honor!"
Renaissance man 5 months ago
Always plant some protected plant that is against the law to dig up on top of evidence you don't want found.
#10
A nurse once shared that an old man confessed to sabotaging his brother’s parachute during WWII because they were in love with the same woman. His brother died, and the woman married someone else anyway. He said he lived with the guilt every single day.
Nadine Debard 5 months ago
My granny had dementia and she told us amazing stories of travels and she would tell the same story regularly, except she never travelled there. She was adamant she went to Egypt but she didn't. Maybe this story has been invented.
Vinnie 5 months ago (edited)
My mother invented a story about her father. Luckily, it made her happy, didn't harm a soul, so I didn't correct her. If this man invented it, it's a terrible false memory.
Load More Replies... G A 5 months ago
Not sure how he would have had the opportunity seeing as they were packed in a factory and allocated per mission, not personal items.
Subaru645 5 months ago
Once handed out, a cable can be cut, or pin pulled…former parachute rigger.
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#11
My grandpa on his death bed. Hardened WWII vet, never cried in his life, finally broke down to my dad and my uncles, saying that ‘he’s always felt sorry for k**ling those German boys.’ That’s so sad to think that he had to bottle up those feelings for seventy years.
G A 5 months ago
Individual guilt flies in the face of state sanctioned mass murder fuelled by propaganda. The true face of the cost of war.
Sue User 5 months ago
Even worse, you can be tried and killed for not " doing your duty" of killing people whom the state has deemed enemies.
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talliloo 5 months ago
had a great uncle from germany who had immigrated to the u.s. before the war. was called up and fought over there. according to the family his drinking was a way to alleviate the guilt he had for killing any germans as he felt that they could have been family and he never knew
Jorie 5 months ago
My ex was a door gunner in Viet Nam. Once, and only once, did he described leaning out of the back door of a helicopter with a machine gun and looking straight into the eyes of kids with machine guns aimed straight at him. He simply said it was either them or me. I can't even imagine......
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
Nobody deserves to die, even in war. Except if their name's Adolf Hitler or smt
EJN 3 months ago
Fighting in wars is pretty tragic even when you feel you are fighting for something good. It's a good bet that many on the other side are in the same position you are, but you both are shooting at each other and know that you probably killed a few other humans. To not feel some regret about it is pathological. To keep going, you have to hold it all inside for now. It's good he had a chance to get it out.
#12
When my country was suffering a civil war, one little girl (around 6 years old) who lived near my grandmother got bit by a dog with rabies.
They could not vaccinate her and the girl started to show symptoms. As the disease is deadly in this stage, the doctor and the family decided that the most humane solution was to mercy k**l her.
My grandmother, who was a teenager then, still remembered that the whole family was crying while walking down the street to the doctors office. The father was holding the little and she was trying to eat bread but could not swallow it and had a little bit of foam in the corners of her mouth. She was haunted by the little girls story for her whole life.
BarBeeGirl 5 months ago
How awful! I was traumatized by the rabid dog scene in To K**l a Mockingbird so can’t imagine it in real life. Rabies is a horrible way to go and once you have symptoms, you’re already dead
Ahnjunwan 5 months ago
A mercy in this case. Getting killed by rabies is really not a goof way to go
Bewitched One 5 months ago (edited)
Literally an inability to drink liquids. Most people die from that. There have been a few cases, (like 1 or 2 I believe) that I read about fairly recently, of people getting through rabies because of the treatments we have now that can treat some of the symptoms, which are more likely to k**l you than the actual rabies is. I’ll have tonseenifnincaj find the stories. However I agree. Especially in those times.
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Judy Reynolds 5 months ago
I was told about a man who had rabies. People were trying to get him to the city, in hopes of getting medical assistance. They were canoeing along the river, so it was a LONG time ago. Eventually, they stopped in a small town and he ran off. They caught him, and smothered him between two mattresses. Another mercy killing.
Ahnjunwan 5 months ago
That is even more horrible than the original story since they had to do it pretty brutal. I have to admit, those men were pretty strong, i dont know if i could really bring myself to do something like that even if i know what will happen to the poor guy. Takes quite a bit and you have to live with that. And on that cheerful thought, i am going to bed 🥱
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I'll never understand why pets can get vaccinations against rabies but humans can't.
Auntriarch 5 months ago
We don't get vaccinated in UK because we don't have rabies (being on a small island it's possible to eradicate and control). But my boss was taking a gap year going to countries where there is rabies, and not only dogs carry it, so she got vaccinated before she left. Turned out luckily because she got bitten by a monkey (no she wasn't being silly at the time).
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#13
Not quite a confession, but near the end of my mom’s life, she asked, “where are my boys?” My twin and and I thought she meant “girls,” so we told her we were there.
After she died, the day before the funeral we got a call from a PI asking if they could speak to my mom. I told them she had just passed away and the PI shared that they represented a client looking for their biological mother. I was seriously thinking it was someone that somehow heard my mom had passed and was trying to get money. At the time I was grieving so it seemed that plausible.
I decided to hear her out and she was absolutely describing my mother and parts of her life that no scammer would have known. Come to find out, our mother had two boys from two different men prior to marrying our father. One of the men was from her hometown, the other was from Japan. So much of her life before our dad was an enigma suddenly. Both her sisters had Alzheimer’s so no information was ever shared with us.
The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
D**n. I want to know if she ever met her long lost brothers!
Gabby M 5 months ago
From OP post in Reddit "Yes! My immediate siblings and I met with both of them. Our mother’s first son didn’t know he was adopted when the other half brother’s PI contacted him. His mom had passed away and never told him, but apparently, he had suspected. He looks SO much like my older brother it’s uncanny. The other half brother bears a similar resemblance to my mother when she was younger, but he’s in his 60s now. We still stay in contact. It’s crazy, as our immediate family shrank, we grew again.
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#14
Before my grandma passed, she acknowledged that in 1949 at the age of 17, and a senior in high school, she became pregnant with my mom. Obviously not married to my grandpa… until 4 months later. I told her that we all could do the math, already knew her secret, and loved her anyway.
Auntriarch 5 months ago
My best friend said her cousin wasn't getting a big fuss for his 50th birthday, because it was much less than 9 months after his parents 50th anniversary. So their whitewashed wedding was more important than him. Shame is one thing, but why was he bearing the brunt of it half a century later.
G A 5 months ago
Happened to me. My parents 50th anniversary was after my 50th birthday. My Mum was upset we didn't celebrate it but they never ever made a fuss about it for all those years for that reason, and we didn't worry about it all.
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Michael Largey 5 months ago
Ronald and Nancy Reagan's first child, Patti, was born 6 months after their marriage. When political handlers said to Nancy "Oh, of course Patti was premature, wasn't she?", Nancy would always fix them with her deadliest stare and reply through gritted teeth "No". Probably the only thing I liked about Nancy Reagan, but I did like it.
Caroline Nagel 5 months ago
The same with my dad. He was born in March 1931 and my grandparents were married in october 1930.
WeeBitOfSumfin 5 months ago
My maternal grandmother had her first just seven months after the wedding. It would be absolutely fine for us, if only she wasn't the meanest, most sanctimonious, fake person ever. I still hate her even if she's long gone.
Dorothy Reiser 5 months ago
Why my parents never told us when they married, found out that they married two weeks before my brother was born.
#15
That old white lady admitting she'd lied as a teen about a black boy assaulting her. The boy was k**led and he was innocent.
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Emmett Tills entire story is horrible. I’ve seen the pictures of him, I don’t know how anyone could do that to another person. The people that were involved (somewhat excluded the other black people forced to be there, but not much) are evil and despicable people.
Edit: just a warning because I mentioned the picture. Don’t look at them.
C Hendrix 5 months ago
Awful as those pictures are, I give credit to Emmett's mother for having an open casket funeral. She said, "Let the people see what they did to my boy."
G A 5 months ago
Those pics will haunt me forever. And the fact that woman went on to have a long life without consequences disgusts me.
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Gracie Mae 5 months ago
I wasn't around when this happened, but I feel for the family for having to go through the horror of losing a child in such an awful manner.
Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
I saw the pics and what they did to that kid is horrible. I don't think the men that killed him were ever charged and neither was she!
Kabuki Kitsune 5 months ago
Hate to tell y'all this... but this one isn't true. The only thing she ever said, was that she had made up the part about him grabbing her a*s... not the rest of the accusation. Until the day she died, she maintained her story.
#16
Had a 80 year old something patient tell me when his wife was dying, she admitted to having multiple affairs through out their long a*s ~60year marriage. She went as far to say she never loved him and his only son wasn't his. I was transporting him to ED, he likely only had months left to live, wanted to share with me. Still think about this often.
Helena 5 months ago
I will withhold judgement. Just because he was the last to die, doesn't mean he was by default a good guy.
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JusticePanda 5 months ago
Some people should take their guilt to the grave. I understand people have a need to tell people secrets to ease their conscience. Seriously that sùcks.
Rahb in Oz 5 months ago
What an absolute b***h! Why on earth stay with him if she felt that way?
Sue User 5 months ago
Because you couldnt leave. Women couldnt own a credit card until 1974. Single women couldnt rent, etc.
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My patient told me to tell her daughter she was right the whole time, so when she came in, I did. The patient had just passed. The daughter stared at me and became upset and yelled that I was lying so I just stood quiet and left the room.
Apparently the lady wasn't her biological mom and she had kidnapped her. The daughter did a 23 and me and found out about some relatives and the mom never admitted it. I wish I could've found out more.
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
Probably for the better that you didn't though. Some of these are really dark
Lizabeth 5 months ago
For medical purposes, it's actually better to know. Caused a lot of heartbreak for sure but could be a benefit later on.
Load More Replies... Sue User 5 months ago
Just because you find out about the relatives doesnt mean you contacted them. Even if you did contact them, not everyone is thinking " lets call the police and let them know we have the solution to a 40- 50 uear old cold case".
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Auntriarch 5 months ago
The patient told the Dr "tell my daughter she was right". Dr told daughter "your mum said you were right". Daughter understands that she was right in her suspicions that the woman she called mother wasn't her mother. I agree it could have been better written.
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Ours is a bit roundabout.
My dad passed away last year, and a month later, one of his cousins did. But, before she did, she informed my mom that my paternal grandfather had a secret second family. She was the last person who knew and felt that SOMEONE should know.
Turns out dad knew, and intended to take it to the grave. He'd been told HIS mom, when she was on her deathbed and swore him to secrecy.
The cousin only knew, because in the 50's, Grandaddy made a stop to drop off some cash with said other family, on the way home from my aunt's funeral and said cousin was in the car.
My mom and I managed to piece things together and track down this other, previously unknown, branch of the family. We've established contact and they were surprised as we were. Good folks, turns out my half cousin is a fairly successful gospel singer.
Not exactly dark, but it's my new exhibit A when I explain to people that Southern families are built on secrets and lies.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
"Gospel music" is also the name given to Southern white religious music, so there's nothing between the lines but space.
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A few years ago, my mum knew a woman who was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Before she passed away, she made a shocking confession to her husband. She told him that all three of their sons were not his biological children. Their real father was actually her own father.
The boys were around 10, 8, and 7 years old at the time. After she died, the husband had DNA tests done, which confirmed that he was not the biological father. The tests also showed that the boys’ biological father was indeed their maternal grandfather.
The woman's father, who was in his seventies, was arrested and later sent to prison, where he eventually died. Despite learning the truth, the husband decided to raise the boys as his own. He said he had noticed early on that there was something different about them. For example, they didn’t seem to feel pain the way other children did. At the time, he didn’t think much of it, but looking back, it stood out more clearly.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
"Miss Langford [the prosecutor in this case] said that a medical report concerning the three children had found various ailments said to be 'directly attributed to their !ncestual parentage', including an inability to feel certain kinds of pain, resulting in injuries such as burns during their childhoods." - so possibly a recessive disorder like congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) that the children all inherited because of the !ncest?
JB 5 months ago (edited)
Just to clarify. CIP is not tied to incest so much as both parents carry the mutation meaning offspring are more likely to have it as well. The incestuous rāpist and his victim both did but it’s unlikely the incest caused the condition, it dramatically increased the probability of the sons having it.
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Atom Bohr 5 months ago
There was a family like this at a school I used to work at. 4 kids, all the children of their mother's father. There was a lot of abuse involved, initially of the mother, later of the children, but the kids were never removed. The mother was an adult at the time the first child was born, and married, but... 🤷🏻♀️
Bewitched One 5 months ago
It’s called grooming and she thought it was normal more than likely. Atleast at first
Load More Replies... Melancholy Kitty 5 months ago
You don't by any chance say this when showing pictures of your kids do you? 😬
Load More Replies... JB 5 months ago
It’s impossible to fully explain to someone who hasn’t lived through and been deeply traumatized by abuse. Especially childhood abuse, which literally rewires how a child’s brain develops. You can educate yourself and gain a hearsay understanding, develop empathy. But you are unable to truly comprehend what is going on inside the victim’s mind because you’ve never been there. It’s highly likely the wife’s abuse started long before she got married.
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My grandfather looked at me when I was 16 and apologized for the sexual a*****t he committed against my mother when she was a child. Still f***s with me to this day that he did that and thought I’d be the person to forgive him.
Dread Pirate Roberts 5 months ago
Last thing he would've seen from me is a middle finger in his face.
#21
Not really a confession, but supposedly, my great grandmother’s second husband was a piece of s**t. Like kid-diddling, money-grubbing type POS.
And my dad and my aunt always told me when that man passed, he didn’t go peacefully. He kept seeing things on the ceiling, crawling on his legs, and was screaming, “Get ‘em off me! Get ‘em off me! Don’t let them take me!”
That story always creeped me out as a kid.
Beak Hookage 5 months ago
One of my grandfathers was an awful guy, and I'm told he went out scared too. (I wasn't there to witness it because for obvious reasons I really didn't care).
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
sometimes the brain dies in terrible ways. This has little or nothing to do with the person's previous life.
#22
It's nowhere near the level of what some of these are, but growing up my mother and grandmother had always been very estranged. They had an arms-length relationship and the only times we visited were generally a disaster, but to her credit my mom tried and wanted me to have a grandmother and the memories that came with it. She tried her best, but something was very off.
Small details trickled out over the years but they were vague. When it was time for my grandmother to die, I remember on her deathbed, I visited- my mother did not - and my grandmother told me right before she passed, "tell your mother I always really loved her, despite everything." That was a strange thing for her to say, because why would that have been something she needed to say?
I didn't tell my mom right away, because after my grandmother died she was oddly emotionless and I felt like it was not something my mom needed to hear just then.
A few years later, the truth came out when we were talking over the phone. My mom told me that when she was 5, my grandmother tried to run her over with a car because she found out her affair partner was molesting my mother. She wanted to get rid of her. It didn't work because a neighbour saw and intervened, so my mom ended up getting sent overseas to her father's mother's home to be safe while that got dealt with and my grandparents got divorced.
Times being what they were, however, when my mom returned her mother got custody of her. It ended up with my mother running away, being homeless, getting pregnant very young by a much older man, a secret sister I never knew about, and I was pretty floored. When she told me, I figured that it made a little more sense why my grandmother had said that, so I shared that with my mother finally. She just said, "well she had a strange way of showing it" and that was that.
Brian Droste 5 months ago (edited)
I am sometimes kinda of dense. I have to read some of these post numerous times to understand them. This is one of them.
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
ur not the only one bro, some of these really fry my neurons
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OK this one is a bit difficult to follow. Are they implying the grandmother was jealous of her child being abused by her own lover? Where was the father in all this? What happened to the ab user?
Littlemiss 5 months ago
Yes, the grandmother tried to k**l her own daughter because her affair partner was abusing the child. Hopefully both grandmother and her affair partner are rotting in hell somewhere
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Oh man, I finally have a story...
I worked as an MRI tech aide in college and my job was simply to bring people to and from their hospital room for an MRI.
One day, I was asked to get this nice elderly (big) Italian man. He was a big human, think 6'4" 260. I would have placed him in his early 70s. And he sadly had early onset dementia.
We had short but nice chats on the way to and from the MRI. On the way back to his room, he told me how he was the guy called when his buddies needed to take care of business. I believe my naive response was something along the lines of 'oh, what kind of business were your buddies in? '
" All kinds, but they would call him when they needed to take of a guy." So that's when it hit me what he was saying. I chuckled to myself, attributed it to the dementia as we got back to his room. When we got back to his room, his 3 kids and spouses (ranging 40 to 50ish) were all there waiting on him. You could tell they were saddened by the condition of their father, but nevertheless were kind and smiled at me as I began getting him hooked back up to his O2 and heart monitors.
One of his daughters asked how he's been. The gentleman said he was feeling OK and he had just gotten back from getting an MRI with me. It was that moment that he said to his family (very nonchalantly)...
'Yeah, I was just telling this young man how I used to take care of business back in the day..."
It was at that moment, all 6 faces turned somber in unison, and turned and looked at me... In unison.
"Ah, well, yes. What a great story. Well have a nice day everyone!" -> in the most cheerful voice I could muster...
Never mentioned a word. Don't even remember the gentleman's name. (Probably for the best).
tresgatos72 5 months ago
To quote Robert DeNiro in "The Godfather II": "I take no interest in things that are none of my business. "
Kathleen Pearlman 5 months ago
I once prayed for a god to "take care of" an individual I wasn't really acquainted with but had a lot of power in his community. 3 Days later he died. Needless to say, I've gone back to praying that god will "take care of" someone else who has a lot of power in his community.
Kabuki Kitsune 5 months ago
I have to wonder if the old fellow wasn't yanking her chain, and the family were in on it.
#24
Not a confession but as my grandmother was about to die, she rattled off a list of names of people who she owed a debt of favor or gratitude and a list of people who’ve wrong her. She made sure my father knew and remembered. My grandmother was tough as a nail and survived enough horrors for multiple lifetimes (Japanese occupation during WWII, Chinese Civil War, Cultural Revolution, etc.) I like to think it was her way of making sure that even death cannot save people who’ve wrong her from her wrath.
And if you’re a Trekkie, yes, this is very Cardassian.
Trisec Tebeakesse 5 months ago
Heh. It's Sicilian, too. I bear grudges and keep an enemies list.
#25
I didn’t hear it directly per say, but my great grandfather told my grandparents on his death bed that he had another family before even meeting my great grandmother post-WW2, but his wife and children died in a N**i concentration camp and he was the only one to make it out of there alive.
We don’t know about any other details than that.
I didn’t get to know my great grandpa sadly, but I still think about him and what he lived through sometimes….
G A 5 months ago (edited)
Very sad. A lot of families are torn apart by wars side effects, rather than directly by conflict.
Judy Reynolds 5 months ago
A friend's father had a family in Ukraine before the War. He was slave labour in Germany, so was able to come to Canada. His first family ended up on the other side of the Iron Curtain, but they were able to get back in touch when my friend was in her teens. My friend's mother was also slave labour, so she understood.
Tonyah Mcanelly 5 months ago
Some people who went through that were so traumatized they cant talk about it . I can't blame them .
#26
My grandma is almost 90. She had several brothers and sisters.
All of them have Blonde hair and blue eyes.
She has brown hair and brown eyes and a slightly darker skin tone.
On my great grandma's death bed she said "I need to tell you something. When i was younger, i had an affair with a Cherokee man."
My grandma had already pieced this together long ago.
She always told me that she was half Cherokee.
Anyways, a couple years ago my dad did this genealogy kit from ancestors.com
0% Native American.
I was told not to tell grandma.
Tae Cole 5 months ago
Yep, I'm half Cherokee but they have me as British from my father's side, no mention of any of my mothers family at all.
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Verena 5 months ago
However, it can happen. I have a Scandinavian colleague, he and his wife are blond with blue eyes, and all of his 5 kids besides one. His wife is from a little island, where a century or two ago a ship from Portugal shipwrecked. Most of the sailors returned home, a couple fell in love with local girls, married and stayed. In modern times it is and was quite common, that a darker skinned baby is born, with black hair and brown eyes.
Bewitched One 5 months ago
It can happen the opposite way too. My friend and her children’s father have brown hair, caramel or too much creamer in the coffee skin, and brown eyes. Their youngest son is blonde with light skin and blue eyes. Mom is mixed and her mom and 3 of 5 siblings are blonde with blue eyes, but she only shares a mom with all of her siblings so I guess that isn’t that relevant lol
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fmjmkry9ww 5 months ago
Sometimes the genetic matches go back so far that they come up as Russian steppe or similar locations instead of Native American. My dad's did, and he's at least 1/4 Native, or more.
Lizabeth 5 months ago
Her having an affair with a Cherokee would have nothing to do with her siblings. She was the one that was dark. Not the children. Am I reading this wrong?
Bewitched One 5 months ago
They were saying that their great grandma (grandmas mom) had an affair with a Cherokee man and great grandma believed grandma might’ve belonged to that man and not the siblings’ father/her husband. Dad of OP (grandmas son) had done a dna ancestry kit that said he was 0% Native American so they’re thinking that grandma and siblings might’ve actually shared a father after all
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Been a nurse for 40 years. At least 8 old women close to death but not demented have told me they were r***d and got pregnant by a man they dated. When family found out they were forced to marry the man who r***d them.
Day Andie 5 months ago
And now, even if the MAGAs can't quite force you to marry your rapist, they still can force you to bear that child and pressure you to raise it.
Shadow 5 months ago
But you can place it for adoption, right? What if birth kills the mother/baby? Wouldn't anyone demanding abortion be illegal be technically responsible for the mother and or/ baby dying? Just asking because I don't know about American rights/ law?
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Andrew Keir 5 months ago
I feel so sorry for all the women put in this terrible position, and I'm so glad that society has moved away from blaming the victim. Mostly.
Dread Pirate Roberts 5 months ago
The fact that this was (and might still be in some places) ever allowed and normalized is absolutely sickening.
#28
Not exactly a death bed, but near it. When I first started dating my wife her grandmother made a speech about making sure I would treat her granddaughter right and not ab*se her. She said she slipped extra Tylenol into her a*****e husband's coffee and he died of a massive heart attack. I thought she was just making up something to make me scared. At her funeral I brought that joke up and my wife said her grandpa died of a massive heart attack. I think she actually did it!
Rahb in Oz 5 months ago
He would have had the heart attack anyway; the Tylenol made no difference.
Tonyah Mcanelly 5 months ago
Unless this happened in the early 80"s when tylenol was Laced with cyanide
Load More Replies... Bewitched One 5 months ago
It would likely melt but Tylenol or a lot of Tylenol would really mainly damage the liver, not the heart
Load More Replies... Helena 5 months ago
don't abuse the person making all your food. It is shockingly easy to poison someone.
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
severe liver damage seems to be the main result, if Dr Google is correct - but then ...
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#29
My wife’s grandmother only learned the name of her real father on her mom’s deathbed (gma was in her 70s at the time). The guy was a traveling salesman and fell for great-gma and they eloped and had his friend who he said was a pastor marry them. She got pregnant and when she told him he confessed his friend wasn’t a pastor and then he skipped town.
Gma’s dad put a made up name on the birth certificate because they never wanted anything to do with him and Gma would never tell anyone his name. The family would blame every bad health problem on the guy with no name. Finally, they got his name when she gave it up on her deathbed. Turns out he was using a fake name and my wife’s uncle then did a ton of work digging and some DNA testing to locate the guy’s family. They finally figured it out and reached out and connected when Gma was in her 90s. The other family had no idea he had had this double life. Gma met her half-niece or whatever that would be called and they became friends and have had a few get togethers since. Gma is amazing. Still sharp as a tack and tough at 103yrs old. Love that woman.
Sue User 5 months ago
Confused too. Is gma tge grest grandmother or the grandmother ? In the first paragraph, the narrator uses " great-gma" so the asdumption is gma is the daughter of the travelling salesman. Then the second paragraph say " gmas dad" and " gma would never tell" . Very confusing.
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#30
We thought my granny was dying, the hospital has asked us all (my mum and my brother and sister) to come and say goodbye. We are going in one by one with my mum and one of the things that my granny keeps bringing up is that she’s sad for me as I’m “single and won’t be having any s*x.” Good to know where her priorities were when she was about to die
Tonyah Mcanelly 5 months ago
My grandmother told me very funny inappropriate jokes on her death bed . Something that a 13 year old should not be hearing she wanted our last timne together to be funny not sad. The last Christmas we had with her she got me a Chippendales calandar for my locker . If I got introuble fro having it at school I was to call her . She always told me when I turned 21 we were going to a male strip show together . Sadly she passed before I turned 21. She was so spicy I miss that woman she was the best
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
Good for granny, thinking of others when she's about to cross the Rainbow Bridge herself
#31
Allegedly, my great grandfather (multiple levels of estranged, I nor my parents ever knew the man) confessed to running a con****ration camp in Poland during WWII. He claimed to have escaped to America changing his name in the process, and planned on dying with the secret, but decided otherwise in the last moments of life.
Is any of that actually true? Who knows!! Just the family lore. We know that he was a German immigrant and the time line ads up. Now we actively work to denounce and counter our ancestors on that side.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
First, who is doing the alleging here and on what basis? Second, it would be easy to find the names of everyone who commanded a concentration camp in Poland and what happened to each of them.
Billo66 5 months ago
I saw a real N**i flag and an American flag in my FIL garage. Probably souveniers I suppose. Not sure who ended up with his stuff after he passed.
Bec 5 months ago
A girl once showed me a Polaroid of her and her sister as kids with beaming smiles standing under two N**i flags and said her family were white supremacists... No, just kidding, it was from a production of The Sound of Music
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Huddo's sister 5 months ago
I am reading a biography at the moment about my favourite scientist. He said his dad, when working in HR interviewing people for jobs with the water board, he recognised a man who was prison officer in the concentration camp he was interred in during WWII. The man was using a different name, and the father still proceeded with the interview and hired him. Then at the end he told the man, 'I know who you are and what you have done. I'm not going to do or say anything about you as long as you live a better life than in the past, for your family's sake'. The author wasn't told about this until he was an adult and didn't understand how his father could do this. He didn't even stop the man's son becoming friends with him.
Dread Pirate Roberts 5 months ago
It's always important to know that you are not your ancestors. You can't help who you are related to and should not have to feel guilty about it. What matters is who you are and what you do as an individual.
#32
Man on hospice for cancer. Summoned his kids a day or so before he died to confess that he k**led his wife (the mother of the children), who he reported missing 30 some years prior. The dude planned it all out perfectly. Wife had some kind of trip planned. Man k**ls wife, rents wood chipper, dismembers wife, puts her through the wood chipper into a decent size stream on their property. After he's done, lights wood chipper on fire, lets it burn then turns it in to insurance a few days later. When wife fails to return home from trip he reports her missing.
Kids had absolutely no clue. Crime would have gone completely unsolved if he didn't confess. I didn't hear the confession, but was involved with some search warrants on the property after the kids reported it to state police.
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
geez! the level of planning tells me it wasn't a one time thing either
Taylor's Ferry 5 months ago
It's similar to the Murder of Helle Crafts - Wikipedia https://share.google/6q48HPuNzu6jlAtwd
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Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
D**n! Several years ago a man from either Raleigh or Durham, NC killed his wife and used a rented wood chipper to get rid of her body in Kerr Lake I think it was or maybe Gaston.
Leg less In Minneapolis 5 months ago
I found one but it does not 100%, Richard Crafts killed his wife Helle. The over above sounds like a b*********d version of the true one
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#33
Ex g**g guy who used to be the enforcer for a well known g**g in our area. He was dying of cancer with a prognosis of less than 2 weeks. He confessed that he made a few people disappear and wanted their families to find some closer by telling them where he buried the bodies. The police got involved obviously. Interestingly, it didn’t make the news, I think he might have insisted on keeping it under the radar as it wouldn’t have reflected well on the g**g.
Leg less In Minneapolis 5 months ago
The gang could make his living family pay for the betrayal.
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Rare case of regret. If it had become known, they would have retaliated on his own family.
David Jackson 5 months ago
I mean, the fact that the enforcer, the guy or girl in charge of hurting or killing enemies, was respectful to those families, it says some good things to me about the rest of the gang.
#34
One weekend, a demented patient kept repeatedly telling me about someone he and his friends beat up and assaulted after the war. I assumed it would have been around early 1950s. Apparently, they ‘took his wallet’ but what struck my attention was the undertone to it and the lack of panic in his voice. Usually dementia patients that think something is lost or stolen are very anxious; he wasn’t. He just kept saying he and his buddies ‘beat him up bad and took his wallet,’ and I’m 99.8% sure he was talking about a racial hate crime. The timing adds up and his details of the event were too clean. He was a respectful guy with a good family and wife and kids. A good, midwestern family man. Something happened with him and his friends one night and it wasn’t good. There was a regret to the story, but it really just seemed like he wanted to tell someone finally.
I’ve been a nurse 15 years. I worked a lock dementia unit at the start of my career. I did the week long dementia state certifications to become a trainer. I sadly know dementia well and I interact well with them. You just go to their world and live there with them.
This was different though. He kept repeating the same story all weekend and details didn’t change. That’s unusual for a dementia patient. It wasn’t a story or behavior he was known for telling over and over again either. I’m convinced that guy was reliving that night from 60 years ago and telling me something happened. It wasn’t a dementia false reality. I’ll never forget him. I still know what room he was in and everything about it. Only time I’ve been spooked and I’ve literally had 2000+ patients and called 100+ deaths. This was different.
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
"You just go to their world and live there with them." You are/were a good nurse and a great human.
#35
My ex’s grandmother told me that she hit someone with her car and kept driving thinking they were an animal, later finding out that one of her friends husband's was walking home drunk after spending time with a buddy was hit by a car and it was most likely him. He recovered but was permanently messed up and had issues walking/pain for the rest of his life. No one believed me when I told them she said that.
Sara Frazer 5 months ago
Even if it was an animal, who just keeps driving??! Also what animal did she think it was; people are a lot bigger than the average pet/racoon etc!
Isabella K 5 months ago (edited)
Not that she should have kept driving. But a deer is bigger than a racoon.
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My great grandmother fostered 9 children and adopted 2, she tried for 7 years to conceive. My grandmother was her only biological child. This was in the ‘40s and ‘50s. She got fed up of trying with her husband, and got pregnant with the neighbor who had 3 daughters. The families were very close and spent holidays together. I guess the neighbor looked an awful lot like great grandfather. Nobody ever questioned it, her husband died years before, and she had Alzheimer’s, so we didn’t get much of an explanation. We like to think it was agreed upon and my great grandfather was aware, since it was before surrogacy and IVF. But we truly have no clue.
#37
My maternal grandfather apparently confessed that he saw the ghost of his daughter (who had died a few years prior) the day before he had a major heart attack that took his life. It came to light that he had s**ually a**sed her as a child and my grandmother basically knew and did nothing to protect her kids. The revelation imploded my family but not until nearly twenty years after he died. Craaaaazy s**t.
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
I'm sorry this happened, but don't t*****e yourself about things done by other people, decades ago. Use your remaining time to do good things for others, instead.
#38
Found out that on my grandmother's deathbed, she told a couple of my aunts that she cheated on my grandfather for years and the 3 youngest (out of 14 children) were not my grandfather's kids. I'm 35 and just discovered this information 2 years ago and it messed with me for weeks.
Catlady6000 5 months ago
Not to be facetious, but when did grandma find time. Even if all or most of the 11 were in school, she's cleaning and cooking for 13 people. At a time when convenience meals were not a thing
Auntriarch 5 months ago (edited)
By the time the youngest were born, the oldest were old enough to help.
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Moon Puppy 5 months ago
Okay, did everyone forget about the Milk Man? It's older than me and I'm old.
#39
We would have figured it out eventually with the DNA stuff, but back when my grandpa died he had told someone that he had a whole other family before he met my grandma.
He was 23 when they met and he had 4 kids and a wife. My grandma was 19. They had 6 kids together, including my mom.
But yeah, we got a bunch new family.
Parmeisan 5 months ago
My dad had a similar one. He was the secret first family, so he knew about and followed the lives of his half-siblings but for whatever reason, their dad never wanted them to know. Even though it was all legit, he was married, had a kid, divorced soon after, married again. My dad didn't feel it was his place to barge in, and the new wife respected the man's wishes until after he died. Now everyone knows about it and they are finally getting to know each other at 60+ years of age.
Parmeisan 5 months ago
A bonus fun part of this is that I have a somewhat uncommon last name. Say it was Barlowe. I was told growing up, "if anyone asks if you are related to other Barlowes in the city, tell them no". I didn't really question this since I'd been told as much from very young. (I do feel silly for not questioning the wording. My parents never said you AREN'T related, just say you're not, and I kind of assumed it meant I wasn't. But things you've always known are rarely questioned...) Anyway, at my first job there was someone who asked me about three times over 10 years if I wasn't related to the Barlowes. When everything came into the open and I learned that I was, with blessing from my dad, I told her the story. Turned out she was best friends with one of the girls, basically grew up with this family, and couldn't shake how similar I looked! It was interesting to talk to her about it and hear the other perspective as well.
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Sort of a death bed confession? It took place over a period of about a year before he died. My very smart, very secretive neighbor had a stroke and got a thing called "atypical aphasia". In normal aphasia, the victim can't talk. This man couldn't stop talking. And he couldn't just babble. He had to communicate with someone about something. And, it turned out that he used to work on the US military's secret germ warfare program! He had near perfect memory. He remembered names, dates, dosages, protocols, everything! And he was compelled to talk about it to anyone near him, all day, every day. The local TV station sent a camera crew over to record him. I listened to him for a while. But it was brutal -- I just couldn't listen to the desperate, nonstop stream of information for more than a few hours. I probably should have taken notes. I do miss him.
Atom Bohr 5 months ago
Aphasia often involves incoherent sentences. It sounds like this was that and that the OOP misunderstood the condition. In some types of Aphasia the person sounds perfectly coherent most of the time, but that doesn't mean they're saying what they mean to, or that what they're saying is the truth
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
what did he do at the germ place? was he injected with diseases illegally or smt for experiment? cuz that's just s****y messed up
#41
When my grandpa was close to passing away he told me how my grandma was mad at him for many years because soon after they married he made a pass at a battered woman from work that she let stay with them for some time to get on her feet.
I was appalled and never knew anything about it. I mean I get he was dying but he said it so nonchalantly and just said “I was thinking with my other head”. Like clearly!! Ugh totally understand why she resented him for that. That’s wrong on so many levels.
#42
Not exactly on her death bed, but towards the end of her life. My great-grandmother was born in 1904 and married a guy who died in 1936. She told us that he was a high-ranking member of the K*K in Springfield, Missouri, and had participated in at least two lynchings that she knew of. She said he kept the shoes of one of the victims because they were "too good for a n---".
My great-grandmother was weird. She was pretty bigoted herself, but introduced me to TV shows with a mostly-black cast like The Jeffersons, Good Times, Sanford and Son. For some reason she loved those shows and I can't square it with her Klansman husband and her open racism. She died in 1994.
Ellen Little 5 months ago
Racists don’t eschew all black culture. They do this psychological trick where they hate black people, but they still love Beyonce, Oprah and Michael Jordan. In their twisted heads, these are the special “exceptions” to their f****d up worldview.
Dawnieangel76 5 months ago
My grandparents were pretty badly racist, but they loved The Jeffersons, Sanford & Son, The Cosby Show, Eddie Murphy....but once I was looking through a Michael Jackson concert souvenir magazine and they acted as if I was planning a murder.
#43
I used to care for people who were disabled in some way, in their homes.
One man I cared for was elderly, (over 80 years old) and just needed help with the day to day things, like cooking and cleaning, driving places etc. He was a perverted guy, and always had something to say to the ladies. Some cognitive issues, with impulse control being the main thing he lacked - which led to lots of inappropriate comments to women, theft from stores, and random fast walks that he needed to be redirected back go back to the house.
One evening, we were sitting on his porch, and he asked me what the date was. After I told him, he was very emotional and sad, and shared it was the day he lost his family.
I knew he had no family who visited or cared for him, and that he had been being cared for by agencies for decades. I saw the obituaries he had hanging in the house, and only one mentioned him as a survivor. It was clear the family stopped including him when he was young.
He confessed that when he was a teenager, he touched his little sister. When she told, he strangled her to death. He shared details of how he buried her under a sign next to the road. He described the dress she was wearing, and how "mommy was never the same" and "daddy tried to k**l me when they found her".
I'll never know for certain if it was a false memory from his cognitive decline, or if he confessed the reason he had no family in his life and was not mentioned in any of the obituaries of his parents and siblings, and only in the one of his grandmother.
But I will say I believed him as he was telling me. It felt different than any other of his stories that you knew were probably not true or exaggerated.
He passed away a couple weeks later.
Judy Reynolds 5 months ago
Maybe it was the closest he could come to having family photos?
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
Makes you wonder what other evil things he may have done in his life.
#44
My parents smoked and my mum really wants to quit but felt she couldn’t do it by herself to talked my dad into quitting too.
He stopped 43 years ago (he’s 80 this year)
She tried and tried lasting a few days here and a week or two there. She died 13 years later unrelated to smoking never quitting.
One of her last confessions to my dad was, “all those times I tried to quit and made it for days and weeks…….I never lasted a day”
30 years and I miss her still, not disturbing but makes me cry to remember this every time, including right now.
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
omg that's so sad! i hope you're doing alright now! im so sorry for what happened to you
#45
My grandfather apparently told my mom that he thought he k**led his last wife (not my grandmother, but his wife after her). He had dementia at the time of confession. She died suddenly, but I didn’t know there was anything to it, but I then was told by my mom that he had held a knife to my grandmother more than once while they were together. He was a s****y person, but I didn’t know he was that s****y until he was gone.
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
Dementia is not a reliable witness, but maybe this story was better not passed on by your mom?
#46
I'm a nurse, a coworker of mine got a true death bed confession. She was actively dying saying they'll never find him...he deserves it...the. Went to sleep and passed an hour later.
#47
I worked with a patient with dementia for a few days in a hospital setting who was constantly rambling nonsense, but would occasionally say sexual things like “I love your breasts.” I’m male so assumed he was either hallucinating or reliving something from his past (or maybe I just do have exquisite breasts?). One day after we were able to get him to eat something, he went to sleep for a while and when he woke up a few hours later he looked me straight in the eyes and clear as day said “I used to make love to my mother and i can’t wait to see her again.” He then went back to rambling before falling back to sleep, quickly deteriorating, and he passed before the end of my shift. I always wonder if it was a truth or nonsense but it has always stuck with me.
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
Dementia patients do not have effectively working brains. They may use the wrong word in an otherwise correct sentence. I wouldn't hang a picture on evidence from a patient with dementia.
Helen Rohrlach 5 months ago
Mother could mean his wife. Think about how you refer to your wife to your kids.
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
yeah but was what he was saying said with absolute certainty tho?
Load More Replies... #48
I don't think I'd call this a confession but it was just before he died. I volunteered at a hospice and there was a guy who had pretty severe dementia. Before he passed, he started reliving a moment from when he was drafted for Vietnam. He mistook me and another volunteer for his war buddies, and apparently they had m******d a man and his family when they got back.
From what he was saying, it wasn't supposed to be the whole family but things spiraled and they wound up k**ling the man, his wife, and her parents. He was unnervingly calm, not panicked, just calculated. He didn't acknowledge anything we were telling him either, he was stuck in that memory. He was in the middle of going over how to hide the bodies when he slipped back into his normal self and then refused to talk anymore about anything to anyone. He passed away shortly before dinner time the same day.
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
Dementia sounds scary! Remind me to not do anything too questionable in case I start confessing if I get it
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
Dementia being what it is, you might start 'confessing' something that, in fact, you didn't do. But in any case, avoid the questionable behaviour, I agree.
Load More Replies... #49
Rumor is a priest at our local hospital confesses HIS sins to the dying, whispering in their ears before they pass away…horrible things he did to little indigenous children in the 60’s 70’s.
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
stolen generation of australia? if it was then f**k him! history was made more horrible by him
Cathy Lemay 5 months ago
Sadly, it could also have been Canada or the US.
Load More Replies... Atom Bohr 5 months ago
In the words of Terry Pratchett: who are *they* anyway, and what *do* they say about Dwarves?
Andrew Keir 5 months ago
I don't immediately recollect that quotation ...
Load More Replies... #50
Now I’m not sure if I’ve got this 100% right cos it’s third hand and sorry if it’s not exactly “disturbing” but one of my aunt’s friends suddenly got told she had 3 months to live. Loads of people were visiting her in hospital and of course, so did her best friend. Once they were alone, as she lay in her hospital bed, she asked her best friend to close the curtains. She asked her friend to sit down and said she had something to tell her. The friend was confused but listened closely. The lady in her bed proceeded to tell her best friend that she had an affair with her husband for over 30 years and that they were still seeing each other now. She begged for forgiveness and said she had to get that off her chest before she dies. The friend apparently didn’t say a word and left the room.
Moments later a doctor came in and told the lady in the bed that they’d mixed her papers up with another patient and that she’s got the all clear and free to go home!!!!
😳😲😱.
urbeinghunted 25 5 months ago
I stopped buying it after the papers part... how could a doctor only just figured out the mistake when the alleged patient is on her freakin death bed?
adi cosmin 5 months ago
And then it turned out the first lady was her long lost sister. Siamese sister.
Christina A Davis 5 months ago
STOP, STOP, STOP with all the ******* on the words!!! OMG!!! MAKES IT SO D**N AGGRAVATING TO READ!!!!
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Lace Neil 5 months ago
Re: dementia "confessions". I've spoken to nurses who care for dementia patients and a lot of the time, they talk about disturbing things that they did or happened to them, but in fact it's something that they saw on tv or read in a book. For example, a woman who constantly talked about poisoning her husband to death. The husband in question was alive and well and sitting right next to her at the time. Sometimes it might be a true confession but there is no way of knowing cuz of the way that dementia affects people's brains.
UKGrandad 5 months ago
The first signs that Ronald Reagan was suffering from dementia came when he started telling tales of his exploits during WWII but was actually re-living the plot of a movie he'd been in.
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PunchinelloTX 5 months ago
I know it’s a moot point by now, but these lists become unreadable headaches after awhile from all the asterisks obfuscating normal words. I know why it’s being done, but d*mn it to h**l, all the f***king censorship is k*lling your content. If you can’t type it, don’t post it.
Paul C. 5 months ago
I want to go like my grandad, peacefully in his sleep. Probably not so good for the people on his bus! It's a joke! A bad one I'll grant you, but be nice.
Lace Neil 5 months ago
Lol I've heard a different version of this joke. I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming bloody murder like the passengers on his plane.
Load More Replies... talliloo 5 months ago
i wouldn't share a secret. my sins are my sins and would not want to cause stress to anyone for something i did. besides, after my 20s i tried to live a better life and for the most part think i have done well with not causing harm to anyone. before that - no excuse.
Annabelle 5 months ago
Too many people are selfish b@stards who only want to rid their own guilt or leave trauma and a.buse beyond their own death. You sound like a rare, compassionate person.
Load More Replies... Bec 5 months ago
A variety of medical conditions can make people delusional. We experienced this with a family member, some of the delusions like 'the government is tracking me ' were obvious, but the worrying over 'the family secret ' was awkward to follow up and confirm with his siblings that they weren't aware of any such thing. It was a thyroid issue and improved but I sometimes suspect he just kept some of the thoughts to himself.
marianne eliza 5 months ago
Dementia patients often say things that aren't true. My late father did. We know they never had a home invasion. Or armed robbery anywhere. He started incorporating news stories he watched and TV show storylines into his own life and dreams.
Tonyah Mcanelly 5 months ago
Wow some of these confessions are just down right disturbing. The secrets these people have been carrying are mentally taxing just reading them. I cant imagine what a hospice care worker mentally goes through.
Susan Wilson 5 months ago
Had to give up - the censorship is too extensive, don't know whaat I'm reading.
Lace Neil 5 months ago
Re: dementia "confessions". I've spoken to nurses who care for dementia patients and a lot of the time, they talk about disturbing things that they did or happened to them, but in fact it's something that they saw on tv or read in a book. For example, a woman who constantly talked about poisoning her husband to death. The husband in question was alive and well and sitting right next to her at the time. Sometimes it might be a true confession but there is no way of knowing cuz of the way that dementia affects people's brains.
UKGrandad 5 months ago
The first signs that Ronald Reagan was suffering from dementia came when he started telling tales of his exploits during WWII but was actually re-living the plot of a movie he'd been in.
Load More Replies... PunchinelloTX 5 months ago
I know it’s a moot point by now, but these lists become unreadable headaches after awhile from all the asterisks obfuscating normal words. I know why it’s being done, but d*mn it to h**l, all the f***king censorship is k*lling your content. If you can’t type it, don’t post it.
Paul C. 5 months ago
I want to go like my grandad, peacefully in his sleep. Probably not so good for the people on his bus! It's a joke! A bad one I'll grant you, but be nice.
Lace Neil 5 months ago
Lol I've heard a different version of this joke. I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming bloody murder like the passengers on his plane.
Load More Replies... talliloo 5 months ago
i wouldn't share a secret. my sins are my sins and would not want to cause stress to anyone for something i did. besides, after my 20s i tried to live a better life and for the most part think i have done well with not causing harm to anyone. before that - no excuse.
Annabelle 5 months ago
Too many people are selfish b@stards who only want to rid their own guilt or leave trauma and a.buse beyond their own death. You sound like a rare, compassionate person.
Load More Replies... Bec 5 months ago
A variety of medical conditions can make people delusional. We experienced this with a family member, some of the delusions like 'the government is tracking me ' were obvious, but the worrying over 'the family secret ' was awkward to follow up and confirm with his siblings that they weren't aware of any such thing. It was a thyroid issue and improved but I sometimes suspect he just kept some of the thoughts to himself.
marianne eliza 5 months ago
Dementia patients often say things that aren't true. My late father did. We know they never had a home invasion. Or armed robbery anywhere. He started incorporating news stories he watched and TV show storylines into his own life and dreams.
Tonyah Mcanelly 5 months ago
Wow some of these confessions are just down right disturbing. The secrets these people have been carrying are mentally taxing just reading them. I cant imagine what a hospice care worker mentally goes through.
Susan Wilson 5 months ago
Had to give up - the censorship is too extensive, don't know whaat I'm reading.
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