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30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”

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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.

#1

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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?".
105points

#2

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
My grandfather told me not to dance at a wedding because I might “tempt” the men. I was 13.
79points

#3

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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).
77points

#4

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
68points

#5

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
68points

#6

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
67points

#7

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
61points

#8

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
59points

#9

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.".
55points

#10

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
54points

#11

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
50points

#12

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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”.
49points

#13

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
47points

#14

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
46points

#15

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
45points

#16

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
- “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.
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45points

#17

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.
43points

#18

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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?”.
41points

#19

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
Once at a family birthday party, my FIL told his 15-year-old daughter "You're the sexiest woman here.".
39points

#20

30 People Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Heard A Family Member Say: “Jaw On The Floor”
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.".
39points
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