30 Incidents In Small Towns That Nobody Talks About Because Of How Horrifying They Are

Back in in the 80s. Had two married couples who played cards together every week. Suddenly both couples got divorced, then remarried the other's partner. They kept playing cards every week.
Source - knew their kids.

The high school history teacher who exposed himself in the park and was arrested. Was “on leave“ for six months and then came back and taught like nothing happened.

For senior slideshow, students put up a picture of him and played the Police song “Don’t stand so close to me.“

There was a very large mentally disabled man who would spend all day every day sitting on the steps in front of a store. I asked about him once as a kid and my father told me he was waiting for his mother to be done. She ran the store. I was surprised because they looked very similar in age. Turns out the woman was impregnated by her father when she was 12. It was one of those things we weren't supposed to talk about. Just pretend it's all normal.

Fatal hunting accident with a school kid in a village with a pop of ~ 5000.



A dad and his son took the boat out to hunt birds with a two round rifle. Dad sitting in the back, kid in front. Dad fires the first shoot and just before firing the second round the kid jumps up to see if the bird got hit. Hit right in the back of the head. Was instant. Couldnt stop thinking about what the father experienced while rowing back for awhile. This was before cellphones as well.

I was his classmate, not close but we hang out sometimes. a skater kid with punk hair. The school and community came together and held talks with us kids so that was a light during that time. Now its decades ago, so I dont think it counts as a common story, but I dont live there anymore so cant say.

There was a secret gay population in our small town. The dentist had a secret apartment near his office. His wife and my mother were great friends. Not a word was spoken about it

There was a girl and her beau who went for a night on the town, they were seen arguing with a man at the end of the night. The next morning the guy was found dead from gunshots in one location, the girl was found a couple days later in another location. No one was ever arrested and the main suspect was her married chief of Police ex. 40 years later, they dug the fella up to try and run some tests as part of a cold-case investigation, when they opened his casket, his head had been removed and replaced with someone else's head.

We in the town don't talk about it much, but that show The Dead Files did an episode about it.

A guy [unalived] his son for the insurance money. Put a truck up on a jack and then dropped it on his kid and went to a party while he died. After that happened it came out that he had [unalived] his wife for insurance money out in California. He boarded up some windows "to do work on the house", locked her in the bathroom, and set fire to the house.

The High School health teacher kept getting students pregnant. All brushed under the rug.

10 year old boy gets out of the house and runs to a neighbor for help. Him and his siblings were being severely neglected and a***ed. Four children were rescued, the house was in squalor. Garbage and feces everywhere. The kids were emaciated.

Upon further police investigation, three dead infants were found in the house as well. One, still attached to the placenta, was found stuffed in a backpack. The other two were skeletons and still had diapers and clothes on. The family's pet dog was found dead as well, presumably from starvation.

Blackstone house of horrors for anyone who wants to know more, it's a really sad case. Apparently the mother was trying to hide the children from her boyfriend that did not want anymore kids. They tore the house down, but I drive by the lot frequently and always feel sad for those babies.

Minor teen girl had a much older adult boyfriend and he convinced her to [unalive] her whole family. It was big news when it happened and now it’s just a quirky history fact

This took place in Wayne, Nebraska in the 80’s. After graduating, two football jocks beat the suspected gay kid and broke both of his legs. They run banks there now. Everyone knows they did it. They were never arrested.

A chiropractor from the next town over used to dress like Elvis. He [unalived] a 15 year old girl from our town in 1978 and burned down a barn with her body in it. Everyone knows he did it. For 10 years after, He used to sit outside the city pool and watch the teenage girls in their swimsuits. Nobody said s**t to him. Her murder is a cold case that got very little attention in our small town.

My high school ROTC teacher who was a senior master sergeant in the Air Force, well loved by everyone, and one of the best teachers (so we thought) got caught sleeping with an underage student. Nothing happened outside of him just not being allowed back to teach. No charges against him, nada. He was extremely wealthy, even for a teacher, because of his family’s generational wealth so everyone knows he paid it off. The girl never showed back up to school either and apparently moved away

There was a thrift shop that opened and closed very suddenly, maybe open 6 months, that we found out was a police sting operation to catch d**g dealers. A police officer was caught/identified as a major dealer, he was the former D.A.R.E. officer that came to the school, and is now the Chief of police. I think they even said he was selling old seized d***s.

Guy shot his wife in his neighbors driveway then shot himself while teenage granddaughter (I was only a year older than her) was on 911 call. News played that call on tv and I was so pissed and sad for her. Grandma was a nice lady. Grandpa had some psychiatric issues and I didn’t really know him.

Pleasant Grove, Utah, April 13, 2014: Darren West began cleaning out the garage at the home he once shared with his wife, Megan Huntsman. Nothing could have prepared him for what he would uncover.
Inside a small, white box, wrapped in plastic, was the tiny, decaying body of an infant.
West immediately called the police. They searched the home and found six more dead infants, all in boxes, stashed away in the garage.
After questioning, Huntsman admitted to k*****g the infants between 1996 and 2006 (one was stillborn, as confirmed at autopsy). She was heavily addicted to m**h and alcohol at the time, and said she [unalived] them because she couldn’t afford to raise them. Apparently bearing, birthing, and [unaliving] multiple children was easier than using birth control.

This shut our childhood town down! Cops quit from the trauma, the extended family was a mess. And the cherry on top was she gave birth to 3 girls she kept. The infant deaths were woven between the daughters she kept. So gnarly but no one talks about it anymore. It became the town shame.

Nobody in blue ridge Georgia talks about how many people go missing up here never to be seen again. We’re right next to the cohutta wilderness, a massive plot of federal land that is very wild and undeveloped. It is creepy camping up there…

The person that almost [unalived] his grandchild with an axe while being in an alcohol-induced delirium. When this failed (the grandchild hid behind a wardrobe and he couldn't get him out), he opened all the valves on the stove, poisoning himself to death as a result. His grandchild escaped and survived

Our local physical therapist was committing insurance fraud. Things like billing patients for multiple visits, but they only come once per week. Well the police got involved and interviewed him. He stopped paying his employees and just vanished. Turns out he fled to his house in FL and [unalived] his entire family and the dog. Very shocking for our small town in CT. He’s serving life in prison in FL now.

Google “Todt Family Murders” for the full story. Stephanie Harlowe covered it well on her YouTube channel.

The m****r. This man [unalived] his wife. Threw her out of the second floor window. Put her body in the family van. Took his kids to daycare. Told the daycare his wife was missing. Went to the car wash. Washed the blood out of the van. Dumped the body. Then called the cops and said wife was missing.