In every household, there are probably concealed truths, some kept hidden for generations. Over time, these hidden facts tend to surface, often causing profound revelations that reshape one\u2019s life. In this compilation, 10 people recount startling mysteries from their family\u2019s past that have turned their world upside down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My step-grandfather had a completely hidden life in Australia before he met my grandmother. He had a family and kids in Australia, and faked his death by driving his car off a cliff then moving to America. His kids thought he was dead until my grandmother found out about them and reached out years later. His son actually became a famous comedian over there, and from what I know has a joke he does at his shows about his father faking his death to disconnect from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 10th grade, we were learning about blood types and their traits in Biology class. I raised my hand, thinking I was the smartest one, saying to the teacher, \u201cYour chart isn\u2019t accurate, Dad has AB negative and I\u2019m O positive.\u201d My teacher replied, \u201cI think your mom can explain this to you.\u201d It turned out that the person who I thought was my biological dad actually wasn\u2019t my dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I did a DNA test and found out that I have an aunt who I\u2019d never heard of. I sent her an email, and her reply was an absolute shock for my family. She said that her father\u2019s name is Tom (my maternal grandfather) and that she wasn\u2019t sure if he even knew about her. I was trying to decide whether to tell my mom, because it seemed like we had found her blood sister. When I finally told her, she was blown away. So was Grandpa Tom when we told him.
It turned out that my grandpa worked away from his wife and kids for a while and fooled around. He had no idea that he had another daughter! He\u2019s traveling to meet her
in a week and he couldn\u2019t be more excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both of my mother\u2019s parents had affairs without the other\u2019s knowledge. My grandmother had Parkinson\u2019s, and in one of her confused states, she told my grandfather that she had an affair. Suffice to say, my grandfather was not happy and put her in a home. He then started talking to my mother, trying to figure out when it could have happened. He speculated that it happened around the same time he was having his affair, which was around 1966. My mother was shocked, she was born in 1967.
So my mother may or may not be related to the man she believed to be her father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My mom has 4 sisters, all of them are married with kids, so I have around 20 cousins. Unfortunately, three of my aunts got breast cancer in their thirties. All three recovered, but years later the youngest, Maria, got it again and got it worse.
Maria needed a bone marrow transplant. All her sisters and children got tested, but no one matched. The family then revealed that Maria had had a teenage pregnancy. Her first child was actually my cousin John, who had been adopted and raised by my oldest aunt as her second child. None of the cousins knew about this including John. So he was asked to get tested and he was a match. John agreed to donate bone marrow to his birth mom, Maria. He was in his late twenties at the time and had had very little contact with Maria over his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My most beloved \u201cMom\u2019s recipe\u201d was actually \u2018Hamburger Helper. She was a from-scratch cook, and literally everything else we ate she made herself. She never told us, because it made her so mad that her kids would love a boxed meal so much. She did it once out of sheer desperation, because she didn\u2019t have time to cook one night. We ended up loving it.
I only found out in college because I begged for the recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My grandma and grandpa have been separated since we were all young kids. My grandpa would always fall asleep on the couch before we went to bed on holidays, and when we\u2019d wake up in the morning, he was \u201cout getting coffee.\u201d We never thought anything of it because they were still always together. However, looking back, I don\u2019t remember them ever being in the same room or ever really interacting beyond the age of about 5. They come from conservative families and don\u2019t believe in divorce, yet they both have new significant others who are pushing them for marriage\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My father always talked about how his brother lied to a doctor so he could get on disability. So I thought it was so easy for anyone to get a disability check: all you had to do was tell your doctor you were abducted by aliens. Years later, my father had a mental breakdown. He started telling stories about the government implanting a chip in his brain, and he would point to things that weren\u2019t there. My dad was diagnosed as a schizophrenic, and years later, he started collecting a disability check.
As an adult, it dawned on me when my aunt mentioned mental illness runs in the family. My uncle had never lied to his doctor. He told that doctor what he believed to be the absolute truth: he had been abducted by aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My mom, aunts, and uncle always called my grandpa by his first name, not dad or anything. When I was a kid, I thought maybe he just wanted them to call him by his name. Then one day, my mom
mentions something about her dad. I think she meant my grandpa, but nope \u2013 My mom was the product of an affair and both men (my grandma\u2019s first husband and my mom\u2019s biological dad) thought of her as their own and basically co-parented. This was in the early 1960\u2019s. Both men raised my mom as their daughter until my grandma\u2019s first husband passed away.
And it turned out that Grandma got married when she was 16. It was not a marriage of love but convenience. She fell in love with Mom\u2019s biological father and had permission from her first husband to peruse the relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My mom, aunts, and uncle always called my grandpa by his first name, not dad or anything. When I was a kid, I thought maybe he just wanted them to call him by his name. Then one day, my mom
mentions something about her dad. I think she meant my grandpa, but nope \u2013 My mom was the product of an affair and both men (my grandma\u2019s first husband and my mom\u2019s biological dad) thought of her as their own and basically co-parented. This was in the early 1960\u2019s. Both men raised my mom as their daughter until my grandma\u2019s first husband passed away.
And it turned out that Grandma got married when she was 16. It was not a marriage of love but convenience. She fell in love with Mom\u2019s biological father and had permission from her first husband to peruse the relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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