32 Snooping Parents Who Accidentally Uncovered A Side Of Their Teen They Weren’t Ready For

I once found a syringe and needle inside her Tickle Me Elmo doll.
Was the first proof I had my daughter really did need help.

I flew her to rehab out of state within a few months.

I couldn't legally buy alcohol so I was fermenting it in my closet. Unfortunately, my room reeked of yeast and Co2 so it's hard to say they 'snooped'.

A jar of pickles. I only found it because I was getting bedsheets ( after asking them to put them in the laundry for a week ). When asked about it my teen said he didn't want to share and liked the juice.

When I was living with my aunt in the fifth grade she found a baggie with a greenish hairy substance and immediately starts berating me for having weed. I was like 11 mind you. And I just started laughing because I had never seen weed but surely it couldn’t look like the dissected owl pellet and mice bones in that bag from school. LOL.

I continue fighting to forget when my dad discovered my explicit fanfiction in my desk.

You never do, though.

Food that had formed new life by the time I found it.

Found while cleaning: a Costco sized bag of grated Parmesan cheese with a spoon in it, sitting next to his bed.

My wife accidentally found a half rotten whole cucumber stuffed between my at the time 15 y/o step daughters bed and the wall.

She wasn't even snooping intentionally. She was sitting on the bed talking to her and her phone slipped down there so she reached in to grab it.

I wish I could have seen the look of horror on either of their faces in that moment. Three years later and my wife and I still announce "these cucumbers are for eating" whenever we are putting groceries away.

In my personal history, in high school I had a big, like 4 foot tall PVC type hookah for smoking weed that I kept hidden in my closet. My mom searched my room and threw it away while I was at school one day. However we lived in an apartment complex so I went and fished it out of the dumpster. A couple of months later she threw it away again and I went and got it back again. She kind of gave up after that.

A container of the cat's shredded nails.

I have 2 boys. I generally try to avoid going through their rooms unless it's absolutely necessary.

So background information is they're not allowed to take food in their rooms. They're allowed to snack or whatever, I just want them to do it at the dining table and clean up after themselves.

All the spoons disappeared. I found them and a bunch of pudding cups in my oldest's nightstand.

House started to stink. The air return goes through my youngest son's closet. I looked and found a suitcase full of half eaten food that was turning into a science project. He'd sneak food in his room and think he was about to get caught, so he'd stash the scraps in the suitcase and toss it in his closet

Oldest moved out for college, the stink arose. I found a pint of Ben& Jerry's sitting on a shelf in his closet.

My mom found a Tanya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan skit I was writing for my 6th grade class. She made a copy and she and my dad laughed about it for years.

A bucket full of snapping turtle eggs. My kid and their friend saw the turtle nesting, robbed the nest and stashed the eggs near the heater hoping to hatch babies. Wasn’t really snooping, was trying to recover some missing dishes.