48 People Share The Secrets They Accidentally Discovered About Someone And Can Never Unlearn Again

My great grandmother had 16 children. All the boys (9 of them)- just the boys- died "unexpectedly" in infancy. All the girls survived to adulthood.

Was friends with a couple. One night, we all got drunk at my house and for some reason, signed the inside of the cabinet in my kitchen, date included. Couple breaks up, she finds out shes pregnant, tells everyone its new guys. She comes over one day and is telling me how far along she is and I showed her the cabinet to prove she was still with her ex when she conceived. She swore me to secrecy. They (her and new guy) now have another kid together who looks nothing like the first one.

A girl I knew in law school got diarrhea so bad on a first date that she had to sit on a tire in a vacant lot and do her business there. In front of her date. Who had to go to a nearby business and ask for some cocktail napkins and a cup of water to go.

A place I worked at was owned by a married couple until the husband had an affair with a significantly younger employee who was also dating his son.

My childhood dentist thought I was completely out for an extraction, but I was not. I explicitly recall them talking about their affair and how she (the assistant/hygienist) didn't want to leave her husband and dogs. He was annoyed. I sorta woke up and he said "s**t s**t s**t" and then I was knocked out. I did question my brain, but shortly after she quit because people found out. She adopted a Dalmatian my mom rescued.

A friend of mine in Christian home school told me she’d had a baby and put it up for adoption. We were 17. She swore me to secrecy and almost 30 years later I’ve never told a soul til now.

The affair partner of a prominent business owner checked herself into the psych hospital at which I worked after the wife of the man with whom she was sleeping was m******d.

My mom was a nurse on an urology floor at a bougie hospital. She told me all the local celebs who had vasectomy reversals.

My grandmother was 17 when my 24 year old grandfather got her pregnant and had to hurry up and marry her. My uncle was born 6 months later. Apparently we aren't supposed to know all that. My uncle was "born early" yeah ok.

there is an entire s*****r neighborhood in my area. adjacent to the local mega church and a lot of them are members. i’ve been propositioned, i know others who have, and i dated someone who lived there and was involved so I absolutely believe it. the ick i feel about the whole deal is TREMENDOUS. incidentally i’m sure, herpes is a big problem around here.

My great-grandmother on my mom's side was not her parents' biological daughter. The details are a little sketchy, but someone told her on her wedding day that the parents she'd grown up with were not actually her parents; she was so upset that she almost didn't get married that day.

A friend of mine from over 10 years ago was a property manager for an apartment complex. She bounced around living in the ‘empty’ units for over a year because she couldn’t stand her mother. She wanted to officially move out but didn’t have the money/credit for it or something like that. We lost touch after I moved but I still wonder how she’s doing and if she ever got caught.

I used to do reception/scheduling in a family medical clinic. Back then we were developing a new program where patients could email providers. I read the emails for the first step of the whole process. One married doc received an email from a woman about their rendezvous the coming weekend, not knowing that his work email was no longer private & was now opened up to others’ eyes. I printed the email & deleted it, put it under his desk blotter, told him there was something private under.

Family friends never told their adult children that the father had a previous but short-lived marriage before theirs. Even when their son was going through a painful divorce of his own. My mom, confounded by their choice, shared the story with me and now she’s gone so I’m the Keeper of The Dirt. Everyone else is still alive.

I have a family member who takes pills to prevent hallucinations. I was young and dumb and snooping in the medicine cabinet. Never told that relative that I knew nor anyone else in the family. If they wanted us to know they would have told us.

I know someone who has a “cousin brother”. This cousin is also his brother as his Dad cheated on his Mom with her Sister which resulted in his cousin/brother being born. They are a year apart and in their 40’s. The cousin brother doesn’t know he exists and believes his moms husband of 40+ years is his father as they chose to remain married despite the infidelity and raise the baby as their own.

In college, I was in a bathroom stall at a party and heard two people getting at it in the next stall. Like full on. I’m nosy too, so after I finished, I hung around and drank until they emerged.

It was my boyfriend and my roommate. I held onto that little bit of info for a while.

I know about a guy who cheated on his wife while out of town at a conference. He went to his grave with his wife not knowing. I know. I wish I didn’t know.

I work for a Fortune 500 company; a man in a leadership role suddenly left the company and so did his admin. Someone saw on the news in his home state that he was arrested for human trafficking, i.e. pimping out his admin (she was also arrested) to customers of the business, which I assume is how the police got involved, he apparently offered her to the wrong person, a customer who was not amused and reported it..

My former best friend likely faked breast cancer right after I cut her and her enablers off, to get pity from them and distract from other messed up s**t she’d done. I was contacted in the following weeks and months by several random other mutuals who saw her posts about it, didn’t realize we weren’t still friends, and were trying to delicately find out if it was real because her story wasn’t adding up. I was also the only one she had told that she was planning breast augmentation surgery…