"She Was Cheating On Him With His Dad": 45 Real-Life Plot Twists That Almost Made Me Fall Out Of My Chair
Recently, we wrote about plot twists that happened to people IRL, and members of the BuzzFeed Community chimed in with their own answers. Here are more real-life plot twists that feel straight out of a movie.
We also used replies from the original thread as well as these threads.
1. "When I was in college, my parents and two of my siblings were hit head-on by a drunk driver. Both of my parents ended up in the ICU. Thankfully, everyone eventually recovered. However, in a twist, the nurse assigned to my Dad in the ICU was the MOTHER OF THE DRUNK DRIVER. She asked to be reassigned."
—Anonymous, 55, F, Texas
2. "I was engaged to be married to a guy when I was only 20. We broke things off at 22, and I met my now-husband. Fast-forward 13 years. My husband works in construction, and we became very good friends with his foreman and his wife. We had kids the same age, shared some interests...except the wife was more than a little unhinged. She was really fascinated by everything I did. She constantly asked about my ideas on parenting, makeup, movies, housewifery, ***, etc. Then she started copying things my husband and I did. I told her about a fight my hubby and I had, then she and her husband had a similar fight right in front of us. My sons were long-haired little skater dudes, so her son grew his hair out. I went to see The Lord of the Rings ; they were suddenly really into LOTR . She read the books I love, tattooed things I admired onto her skin, started to mimic my mannerisms, and even flirted a little too much with my husband. It started to bother me."
"I tried to bring it up politely, but she blew up. We didn't talk for months.
One day, my husband came home from work and said he heard our friend's marriage was ending. I was curious, so I sent her a supportive email thinly disguising my curiosity.
She called the next day. We talked. It took her a while, but she eventually admitted to infidelity. She started apologizing to me for betraying our friendship by sleeping with the man I loved.
I hung up in fury, drove straight to my husband's workplace, and accused him. He was astonished. Then he was ****** and tried to deny it. Together, we crossed the job site and started in on the poor husband of this woman.
The man was horrified that his wife had told me what had happened. I screamed at my husband and started to run away in hysterics. The foreman stopped me because he didn't understand why I was angry at my husband.... after all, my husband didn't introduce his wife to my old fiancé!
Yep, she had become so obsessed with me that she tracked down my ex-fiance and seduced him. And she thought I would give a single **** about it.
Now I hear she is on drugs, living in the high desert with a different guy that I also went to high school with."
3. "I met my aunt on a dating website. My mother passed away when I was six. My mother's side was apparently unfriendly, so I didn't really meet a lot of the family on that side. Fast forward a decade and a half, and I signed up for a dating website. A 26-year-old woman who liked the way I looked messaged me. I went straight for it, and we messaged back and forth, talking about random jazz. Family came up, and she told me about her mother. Because I knew nothing about my grandma, nothing really registered."
We then planned on meeting up for some wine and a stroll through the park. She called first to make sure I was normal, and we talked for a little while, again getting into the topic of family. I mentioned my siblings, and once I said the ages and my sister's disability, she asked whether my older sibling's name was [ insert fake name here], and she started screaming, 'Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, I am your Aunty!!!'
I do have to say it is the strangest sensation when a potential date says this. Probably something that few will ever get."
4. "Mine was in high school. It started with me being dumped by my then-first girlfriend. We ended up both essentially hating each other, and we got into an argument where I was rather mean. She got ********** at me and said she was going to get her cousin to beat me up. I went on MSN a few days later and saw he had added me. He didn't really seem to want to hurt me and just wanted to find out why his cousin wanted him to beat me up. I explained; he laughed it off, and we ended up talking for a while. I met up with him and some other friends, and we hit it off a little too well. Within a few days of hanging out with him, the guy who was supposed to beat me up ended up having *** with me (I assumed I was straight up until this point). I realized I was bisexual and got into a semi-serious relationship with him."
"My ex thought we made a nice couple, stopped hating me, and we became friends. I ended up breaking up with him, but I like this story because if people find out I'm bisexual (which no one ever guesses) and ask me how I came out, I get to tell this gem of a story."
5. "I was seeing a guy from Tinder for a couple of months, but it fizzled out, and we stopped talking. I was on Tinder again shortly after and matched with a girl (I'm bi) who told me to follow her on Instagram. I noticed the Tinder guy also followed her, so I asked how she knew him. She hit me with, 'He was dating my best friend for ages, but they broke up a couple weeks ago because he was ******* some girl from Tinder.'"
6. "I was out with a friend of mine, who ran into her dad...and his OTHER family."
"How did he explain that?"
"He didn't; she saw him kiss the other woman, and a kid yelled, 'Daddy,' while grabbing his leg. My friend yelled her father's name. He walked over and said, 'We will discuss this later.' He seemingly couldn't have cared less. It was a sobering moment of reality to say the least."
7. "I met a girl at a bar while with my boyfriend of four years and a group of friends, and this girl and I hit it off. We became FB friends and ended up hanging out fairly often. I considered her one of my favorite people to be around. One day, she blocked me on Facebook and stopped talking to me. I was hurt and confused. My boyfriend and I lived together, and I told him about it, and all he really said was, 'Oh, weird....well, **** her.' PLOT TWIST: She had gotten pregnant with my boyfriend's baby."
"Me and the BF split (obviously!) and now she, my ex, and their kid live with his uncle in a trailer park in Bumfuck, TX. Second PLOT TWIST: After we split, I was depressed, went on a drinking binge, met the lead singer of my all-time favorite band at a show, we hit it off, I quit drinking, and now I am happily married to a guy I've had a crush on for 10 years. HA!"
8. "Because we have the extra space, sometimes my mom will rent out rooms to people. We once had a roommate who was 18 years old at the time, and she was dating this 40-year-old loser. He'd feed her lies, saying, 'I have this million-dollar idea that's in the works' — just b.s. after b.s., so she would continue to spend her parents' money on him. He was living out of his car and would always try to sneak into our house so he'd have a free place to stay. He'd eat our food from the fridge as well as kick our dogs when he thought no one was looking. The girl's parents (who were paying her rent) told my mom she WAS NOT to see this person. Despite our attempts, she kept seeing this loser. Every time we'd catch him with her, we'd have to tell her parents. PLOT TWIST: Right before the 40-year-old was seeing my roommate, he had been having an affair with her mother."
"The mom had stopped seeing him when she found out all he did was lie and couldn't support her, let alone himself. When that ended, he started dating her daughter.
What weirded me out was that the daughter knew that her boyfriend had been banging her mom right before he started dating her."
9. "I met this guy down by the internet cafe where I worked and discovered he didn't have a place to live (he was 16 or 17), so I convinced my parents to allow him to stay at our house. Fast-forward several months: he had been depressed for a while, had no job, and no girlfriend. My parents decided to sit down and talk to him about what he planned on doing with his life. They started asking him about his family, where he'd lived in the past, etc. When he described his grandparents' house, my mom blurted out her name. He was like, 'You know my grandma?' She proceeded to tell us that his grandmother was my grandmother's sister that we didn't see too often. TL;DR: became good friends with an unhoused teen, and found out he was my cousin. We've been best friends ever since."
10. "A new friend named Kay was dating a woman named Jen (both were bisexual). Jen was clingy, demanding, and always accusing Kay of being shady. One day, I asked Kay how she met Jen. She said they'd met on a study abroad trip. Jen was romantically interested in Kay, but Kay wasn't really reciprocating. Jen was totally cool with it, and they became good friends. In fact, during the trip, Jen introduced Kay to her cousin, Andre (male), via email. Andre and Kay totally hit it off and started an online relationship, complete with exchanging pics, etc. Andre sent Kay gifts when she returned home, including expensive jewelry. Andre also hooked up Jen with his friend Brian. Everyone was happy...until one day, Jen found out from a mutual friend that Andre and Brian were dead."
They had been having an affair, ran off together, and ended up overdosing on drugs...just weeks before Andre was supposed to come meet Kay in person for the first time.
In their shared grief, Kay and Jen started a relationship.
Wow, quite the ******* story! In fact, I decided it sounded fishy and started doing some digging. I found the picture of 'Andre' that he sent her in a random Google search. I looked for any stories of this torrid love affair gone awry in a hotel drug binge: nada.
So I said to Kay, 'Have you ever thought that maybe Andre doesn't exist?'
We got into Andre's old email account using Jen's password (yes, they shared passwords because Jen didn't trust Kay). Kay lost her **** after realizing Jen had created Andre and the whole story, complete with fake pictures, and PAYING A MALE COUSIN OF HERS to have phone conversations with Kay, getting **** pictures, etc. During the "Andre" relationship, Kay's mother died unexpectedly, and 'Andre' paid for all of Kay's expenses for her to make it home for the services, etc.
And it was Jen the whole time. This was a LONGGGGGG con, too. Over a year of this ****.
So Kay emailed Jen from the grave of dead Andre's account and forced her to confess. Jen threatened to kill herself, so Kay called the police, who took her to the hospital. Kay got a restraining order, and they never saw each other again.
BONUS DETAIL: Jen even had someone (it may have been Jen herself) call Kay pretending to be Andre's aunt to tell her how sorry she was that he had died and that he loved her, etc.
11. "I found out the woman I called 'Mom' for the first 16 years of my life was actually my grandmother, and that my older sister was my birth mom. Apparently, she got pregnant when she was 13, so her mum decided to raise me. Now I have no idea what to call either of them; calling my big sister 'Mum' just feels weird."
12. "I was at a college tailgate for a rival's football game and made out with this cute girl. Turns out, when my uncle was a kid, he got a girl pregnant and gave the baby up for (closed) adoption. Since she was 18, she could now look up who her biological parents were. My uncle's kid was the same cute girl from that party. TL;DR: I made out with my long-lost cousin."
13. "I'll preface this with the fact that I’m adopted. My grandma died in 2007. She had one sister, 13 years older than her, whom she did not speak to. Fast forward some years, and I'd been dating a kid from a different part of the state for two months. He hadn't met my family yet, and I ended up pregnant. Turns out his grandma was the sister my grandma never talked to. So our parents are first cousins, but being adopted, we are not blood."
14. "When I was in college, my father retired and moved to New Orleans. He moved into a cool apartment complex and met a retired army general. I'll call him Tom. My dad and Tom were the same age and both Korean War veterans. Tom had been to Ranger School and the Special Forces pipeline and was a country expert on Korea. He retired shortly before September 11th as a full colonel. After 9/11, the government expanded the Federal Air Marshal Service and asked Tom to come out of retirement to lead the restructuring. They promoted him to major general (two-star). Colin Powell pinned his second star on him personally in the White House. At this time, I was in the Marine reserve myself, about to graduate from college. I'd met Tom many times while visiting my dad. He was one of the kindest men I've known. We'd sit around the pool, and I would pick his brain endlessly about his military experience."
"Tom was a widower. His daughter had died in a car accident in Costa Rica in the 70s or early 80s. His wife died of cancer some years later. Tom's apartment was covered in photos of his daughter. The dated feel of the portraits, frozen in the 1970s, the quiet apartment, and Tom's outward sanguinity were all horribly tragic.
After the Iraq invasion, Tom left the Air Marshal program and worked on Condoleeza Rice's staff as a national security aide.
I was mobilized in 2004, and my father died shortly before I deployed to Iraq. I went to New Orleans on emergency leave to scatter his ashes in the Gulf. Tom wore his full dress uniform. Later, he took my sister and me to an expensive dinner and told us he was always there for us.
I fell out of touch with Tom after deploying and coming home. When Katrina hit, I called my sister-in-law Maggie to see if everyone was okay. I asked about Tom, and she said, 'Oh my God, you didn't hear about Tom?' I tensed up and said, 'No, what happened?'
Maggie's neighborhood was underwater, and she, my brother, and her kids went to a friend's house on high ground. Tom's older sister was there. She and Maggie knew each other by name but had not met. Maggie asked after Tom. His sister was worried, as she hadn't heard from him since the storm. Maggie said, 'Well, I wouldn't worry. I bet the government has a list of VIPs to check on, and Tom is surely on it.'
Tom's sister said, 'Maggie, I don't know what Tom has told you, but...'
Not a general. Not a Ranger. No Air Marshal program. No Condoleeza Rice, no Colin Powell, no nothing. Tom was, in fact, a penny-ante lawyer. What was true was that Tom's sister's deceased husband was a Korean War vet. Tom grew up admiring everything about his brother-in-law. At some point, Tom's dreary, real-life lawyer job faded from his reality, and his fantasies replaced it. The truly sick and disturbing thing was that his daughter and ex-wife were very much alive; they'd just written him off when his detachment became too much. So he killed them off in his narrative. Still, his daughter had the heart to take him in after Katrina destroyed the apartment building, we later found out.
I'm just glad my father passed away not knowing the truth. He would have been bereft and possibly would have beaten the **** out of him."
15. "My high school boyfriend and I broke up after 9/11. It was a tough time all around. We went our separate ways. A year or so later, I was dating this guy, and I got pregnant at 19. We had a baby at 20; eventually, we got married and had another baby. I thought we were in it for the long haul. Nope. Fifteen years in, my husband told me he didn't love me and wasn't sure he ever had. He wanted a divorce asap. I was blindsided. (I did find out he was ******* our seven-year-old's Girl Scout leader). I was reaching out on social media for recommendations for divorce attorneys. My high school boyfriend responded. I used the lawyer he'd used in his own divorce. Fast forward to the present— we've now been together for eight years, married for four, and we have a mini Brady Bunch (I brought two daughters, and he brought one son). Oh — and we're having the best *** of our lives!"
—Anonymous, 43, F, NY
16. "My friend who had pretty ****** luck with men finally found a fantastic guy. Jeff was sweet, smart, and really just great to be around. Kind of quiet but good company. We all adored him. They didn't work out romantically, but we all stayed friends. When his dad's girlfriend was murdered, everyone was horrified. We all felt terrible. Jeff was accused of the crime, and literally NOBODY thought he did it. Turns out they had DNA evidence, and Jeff confessed that he murdered her. He's spending the rest of his life in prison."
17. "For years, my sisters and I were told our dad died of a heart attack. Once we all started to get concerned about heart disease in our 30s, our mom did some digging. Turns out our dad died by suicide. She's got accounts from his friends all these years later that he had talked to them about it, but it seemed nobody took him seriously. At the time of the suicide, my parents were divorced, and I had no contact with him because he was abusive. His passing away took away our looking over our shoulders and being worried he might do something to us kids. It's a weird feeling to be relieved that your parent suddenly died, just to learn years later it was suicide and most likely covered up by my uncle."
—Anonymous, 39, Male, Maine
18. "When I was 15, my siblings and I were put into foster care. We had no idea why until the social worker told us that A) our parents were using drugs. B) Our after-school jobs had been helping them pay for drugs. (They said our money was being saved.) C) My dad wasn't my biological dad, and three out of five of my siblings were half-siblings. D) My biological dad kidnapped my brother and me when we were babies. We were returned to my mom when he confessed to murdering a woman and then went to jail. He had since been released, and we visited him to discover that he had started another family. It was quite the mindfuck."
19. "My grampa was having trouble hearing, and it took us a while to convince him to get a hearing aid. In the meantime, he got a phone call saying his uncle John had died. He asked about a funeral and was told there wasn't one. That was two, maybe three years ago. I really only saw John when he came up for Christmas, but he was quite the character, and my whole family missed him. A couple of weeks ago, my grampa's cousin came to visit. Grampa was talking about how he missed John since he died. His cousin said 'What are you talking about? I just saw him two weeks ago!'"
"Turns out my grampa misheard the phone call. We figure someone else died, but we still don't know who. John's probably been wondering why no one invites him for Christmas anymore, or visits, or calls."
20. "My twin sister and I were born through in vitro fertilization. Our mom wanted nothing more than to have kids, and her circumstances led her to use a sperm donor. When we were three years old, our mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. When we were six, she passed away. My sister and I were taken in by our aunt (our mom's younger sister), who already had two sons and a husband. It was a wild and emotional time for all of us, but we have become an amazing family unit, and I consider my mom, dad, and brothers as much a part of my immediate family as my sister. Then, about four years ago, I learned that not only did my original mother have sperm donated to her, but she also had eggs donated to her...by her little sister. I lost my mom only to be rescued by my biological mom."
"All those years, I had laughed at the people who said I looked like my brothers and my mom, but the joke was on me. When I think about the sacrifices my two moms have made for my sister and me, it blows my mind."
21. "I found out at my Grandmother's funeral that she worked for MI6." [Editor's note: MI6 is essentially the UK's equivalent of the CIA.]
"I'm pretty sure my grandfather was also involved with MI6. He was a colonel in the British Army, did a lot of work for the 'foreign office', and was a special advisor to Margaret Thatcher on Northern Ireland in the '80s."
22. "Recently, I helped clean out my parents' basement. I found a box with a bunch of pictures in it, and went through them, reminiscing about how awesome my childhood was. Then I got to the last picture at the bottom. It was of my parents and some random chick that looked to be in her early twenties. The picture, judging by the hair, was taken mid-to-late eighties/early nineties. 'Hey Dad,' I called. (Mom was out of the house) 'What?' he yelled back from upstairs. 'Who is this in the picture?' I went upstairs to show him. He stared at it for a moment, blinked, and said, 'That is your half-sister, Andrea.'"
'Half-sister? What?'
I then discovered that he had been married when he was eighteen to a ******** from Vegas named Lorelei. They had been married for about a year before he realized she was a shopaholic, shoplifter, coke-dealer, heroin user, and was abusing their daughter. He got the **** out and gave the child to his parents to raise because he was nineteen years old.
My dad moved to Michigan to straighten out his life. He met my mom. They got married and had my brother and me. Andrea was still in Arizona, and Lorelei was in God-Knows-Where. My dad was ashamed of what he had done, and we were not close to his family. I have never met my grandparents on his side, nor anyone else in my extended family. We lived far away and could never afford to travel there. Three years ago, my Grandma on his side of the family died, and he flew out there for her funeral. Andrea was there and tried to get my dad to live with her because she is in a **** position in her life (basically the same as Lorelei). We have found out that Lorelei is actually alive. I personally do not plan to contact her, but I want to contact Andrea."
23. "I was best friends with a neighbor kid growing up; I had a major crush on him pretty much since I was old enough to walk. But it never seemed like he liked me back. We grew up, he started dating people, and I was jealous as **** over it. I figured he just saw me as a little sister (I was a year younger than him), and nothing would ever come of it, so I tried to put my feelings aside. Then, when he turned 16, his family moved out of state, and we lost contact. Fast forward a few years, and we reconnected online and started talking. He casually mentioned in a conversation about how he had a giant crush on me growing up and always wanted to ask me out."
"He told me that he even asked my mother for permission to ask me out, and she said no, so he never ended up doing it (my mom never told me about this, at all). My mind was blown. My entire childhood of pining after this guy — my first ever crush — felt like a lie. At this point, I'd long since put aside the feelings I had for him and kinda gotten over the crush, but I still felt a lot of residual nostalgia from being 15 and craving **** for the first time in my life. He was still into me, and I was debating whether I wanted to start something with him or not, mostly so I wouldn't have to live with the what-if of it all, tossing the idea around while we kept in touch.
Then, suddenly, he stopped messaging me. I was confused because our talk had been going well, and I didn't think I'd done anything to make him ghost me. I messaged a mutual friend of ours and asked if she knew what was up, and she told me the guy was arrested for beating a dude who owed him money to death.
He's in prison right now serving a life sentence. I never got that ****. The end."
24. "This happened to my boyfriend's subordinate in the army. Let's call the soldier Bob. Bob was deployed in Afghanistan and had a girlfriend at home who he had just had a baby with. The girlfriend and baby were back in the US, living with Bob's parents, while he was deployed. The girlfriend confessed to Bob one day over Skype that she had cheated on him. Turns out she was cheating on him with his dad."
— u/cms520
25. "While at a party about five years ago, I met a girl with whom I really clicked (friends-wise — I'm a girl). I started talking about my boyfriend — but not by that title, by name. She told me she knew him and had actually been on a date with him recently, and that it was the most romantic date she'd ever been on. My boyfriend. Of a year."
"Yes, we broke up shortly afterward. That girl ended up being one of my best friends. We are friends to this day."
26. "My mother is good friends with my friend's mother (which is how we met), and one day his mother told my mother that the man we all believed to be his father wasn't really his father, and even he (the supposed-father) doesn't even know it, because she was officially dating him back then but was cheating on him with the biological father of the child. My friend's biological father ended up dying before the child was ever born (I think in a car accident?), and so she raised the child as the son of the man whom she would go on to marry (and later divorce). TL;DR: My friend's biological dad is dead, and neither he nor his fake dad knows the truth."
27. "I found out when my uncle was on his deathbed that he had a secret family with adult children. He was the classic drunk uncle who lived alone or just had a live-in girlfriend from time to time. He came to EVERY family function...nobody knew. Not his sisters, not even his mother. When we asked my uncle, he just said, 'Eh, it's not a big deal.'"
28. "One of my cousins does not have the same father as her sisters. Their father found a handwritten note in which their mother wrote about her affair and the pregnancy, and then confronted her about it. They ended up staying married and are still married today. My parents found out and told me a few years ago (it was more of a slip-up that I continually pursued until I got the answers). There are only five of us in the entire family who know: me, my parents, and the cousins' parents. The girl and her sisters have no idea."
29. "The one guy I worked with was having a baby. He told me about his girlfriend, saying, 'She's amazing, she's the one for me.' I didn't know him very well, but as he talked about the pregnancy and I gave him encouraging words, we bonded a bit. His baby was going to be born right before Christmas, so he missed our work Christmas party because his baby was being born! We expected him to be gone on paternity leave, but he showed up a few days later. I feared the worst — that the baby had died. It turned out his girlfriend was lying about being pregnant to spend more time with him."
"She showed him someone else's ultrasounds, they talked about what they would name their baby, how they'd handle taking care of it, all that ****.
I don't know what she thought was gonna happen when nine months passed and no baby. I guess it's good she came clean, though. A more diabolical person would have faked a miscarriage or something. But that was seriously messed up. Shortly after the dude left, so I don't really know how he handled it."
30. "When I was seven, I found my birth certificate in the basement of my childhood home. The name under 'Father' was not the man I'd believed to be my dad my entire life. I didn't tell anyone about it for years."
"I'm 32 now, so it's an issue long resolved. I finally met my biological father about seven years ago. I haven't heard from the step-father since I turned 18, when he mailed me every picture of me that he had in his house. 'Daddy issues' doesn't even begin to cover it."
— u/FustyLugg z
31. "When I started school, I figured out that being raised by your grandparents wasn't normal. When I was a little older, I found out that my biological parents had given me to them. I was told that my biological mother was 'sick'. No one talked much about my biological father. I only started seeing my biological mother regularly when they divorced. Around ten or so, I was helping my mom (aka grandmother) with something, and it involved going through her lockbox of important papers. I found a paper pertaining to the custody case; it was dated two months after I was born. It turned out that my biological parents gave me up after a week; my biological father had wanted to throw me in a dumpster."
Lucky for me, my biological mother called her mom, and I was not thrown in the trash. My dad (grandfather) had been at work while all this went down, so that day, he came home and found out there was an extra person there for the indefinite future. After my biological father changed his plan to put me in foster care, my grandparents filed for custody because the thought of not knowing where I was was literally nightmare-inducing.
My biological dad popped up a couple of times when I was older, and the last time we were in contact, which was through email, he tried to claim that I had been kidnapped, which is dumb for so many reasons. We don't talk anymore, because he's the human equivalent of stepping on a Lego, and I already have a dad."
32. "After my Dad passed away, my brother did our Ancestry line for fun. He found out we have a half-brother whom my father didn't acknowledge. He was married before my mom, which we also didn't know. We started a relationship with the half-brother and his family, and all was well for a while...until we realized he was a complete tool who constantly borrowed money, cussed everyone out when things didn't go his way, threatened suicide just to **** with our heads, and just made our life miserable in general. I truly wish I had never met him."
33. "I worked at a small company during the summers while I was in college. Two dudes who worked there (Mike and John) had been best friends since high school, and Mike was getting married to his high school sweetheart. Nine months after the wedding, the girl had a baby. And it looked nothing like Mike but a lot like John. She revealed that she had *** with John on her wedding day before she actually got married."
"She divorced Mike and married John the next day. (The divorce took some time, but as soon as the divorce was finalized, she and John went straight to the courthouse and had a civil wedding.) Mike and John are not friends anymore."
34. "My parents got divorced when I was five. I don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember constantly asking my mom where my dad went. She told me each time I asked that 'bad daddy has left us for good.' I asked my mom one time when I was eight, why my dad left us. My mom told me that my dad was always angry, so she gave him the option to 'get help or get out.' Upon hearing this and constantly being told that my dad was a 'bad daddy,' I cut all ties with my dad (with the help of my mom). I didn't speak to my dad at all for six years."
"I can't remember what finally flipped in my head, but I reached out to my dad via email one day when I was 14. We got to talking, and I realized my dad wasn't all that awful. We talked more and more, and we built a new relationship.
One day I was over at his house and we were having a semi-serious discussion about the divorce and why he left. I told him that, growing up, my mom kept telling us that she gave him the option of either 'get help or get out.' The look of pure hurt and shock on my dad's face is something I'll never forget.
It turns out my mom actually went and got a court order to remove him from his own house (his name on the documents). She lied to a judge, claiming he was abusive, had him removed from the house, and then promptly declared bankruptcy on all their shared assets, screwing my dad over financially for about 10 years after that."
35. "I went to my brother's medical school graduation with my parents, only for us to find out he was never enrolled there in the first place. He'd been misleading us for four years straight. And it was one of the top medical schools in the country."
36. "I was looking for my social security card in my parents' desk, and I found their marriage certificate. It was dated one year later than I thought, six months before I was born. All of a sudden, the years of thinking my mother resented being stuck home with kids, the terrible, resentful marriage they had; it all made sense."
37. "I met a guy online. He was cool, and I found out he lived less than two hours away. We met up. It was the first time seeing each other's actual faces. We were ******* doppelgangers. It turned out his father was my biological father's older brother. Both our biological dads bailed before we were born. We both were sexually abused as kids by teachers (him at 15, me at 13). Both of us have soy allergies and Lysinuric Protein Intolerance (it's genetic). And both of us joined the army and failed out during BCT due to undiagnosed mental health issues. Our lives had run parallel to each other. He's only a year older than me."
38. "My high school sweetheart's best friend let me know that my girlfriend cheated on me with multiple guys at a party. I broke things off with her that same day. It was a very nasty breakup. Years and years later, I got a message on Facebook from her best friend. She explained to me that my high school sweetheart never cheated on me; she just wanted to break us up so that she could have me for herself because I seemed like the 'perfect boyfriend.'"
"Her plan backfired because I thought she was ugly inside and out, and as soon as I broke things off with my girlfriend, I wanted nothing to do with her. Between her plan failing and the guilt of ruining an otherwise great relationship, she decided to keep her mouth shut at the time. I don't know if she told her best friend, but I know that I never will."
39. "A restaurant/bar I frequented had a serial killer working at it. I spoke to the man many times. I had normal conversations with him. He would say things like how he regretted not staying in school, and how he hiked most of the Appalachian Trail. In November 2019, he was shot dead while working; to this day, his killer is unknown. Then, two months later, it came out that he was linked to no fewer than three murders as well as a missing child case."
"His affair partner was arrested and sentenced to 25 years for being an accessory. No one knows why he killed, or why he was shot dead at work. The police don't know whether or not the killer knew of his crimes.
In 2022, the affair partner, as part of the plea agreement, led investigators to a remote wooded area where they found several bodies. The man had taken advantage of vulnerable women, killed them, and collected benefits on them. Some of these women were believed to have been dead for almost a decade, but they were so isolated that no one ever reported them missing. Additionally, the affair partner told investigators she helped bury bodies beneath the basement concrete in a house about 20 years prior, but could not recall where the house was or who it belonged to. That's even more unsettling."
40. "I was telling a client about a guy I met where I spend my summers. A real piece of work who had a bad reputation in town because he was caught cheating on his wife more than once and flashed money around like he was rich. He blew all his money trying to develop some property, and now he was running out of businesses in town that would work with him. She asked his name. It was her fiancé. So now I'm on the phone with my client, who is crying because she was planning her wedding to a guy who had no money, but a wife. Did see that day coming. I'm too old for this drama."
41. "I met this girl out at a bar. I got her name and number, and we agreed to meet up for lunch. We were chatting before ordering, and we got to talking about who I knew from her small hometown. I told her that she had the same last name as my cousins who live there, just spelled differently. She asked who, and I couldn't remember their first names, but knew the two youngest were twins. She said their names (X and Y), and I said, 'YES, that's it!' (We aren't a terribly close family.) She curled up in the smallest posture and said, 'I was married to X.' I let out a tremendous laugh and said, 'I thought you sort of looked familiar, you were at grandpa's funeral, right?' She said yes, and I smirked, saying, 'I thought you were cute then, too.'"
"I hadn’t eaten yet and was starving, so we ordered a sandwich and tried to pretend it wasn’t weird.
When the date ended, I called my mom immediately and told her coyly about the date I had.
Me: 'Hey, Mom.'
Mom: 'Hey, honey, how’s it going?'
Me: 'I just went on this date with this great girl. We had so much in common, blah blah blah, I don’t know if we’ll see each other again, though.'
Mom: 'Why not?'
Me: 'You and Dad went to her first wedding!'
I couldn’t have made a story up this good if I tried."
Finally, we'll end on a few lighter ones:
42. "My roommate in college's story: He dated an identical twin in high school. He was walking down the hall and spotted her. He jokingly went up and grabbed her in a big hug and grabbed her ***. She pushed him off, saying, 'I'M NOT (Twin 1), I'm (Twin 2).' He obviously felt bad and started apologizing, but then she was like, 'Just kidding, gotcha.' They kissed, and she walked away. Plot twist: it WAS Twin 2! They were pulling a switcheroo so she could cheat and take Twin 1's test for her! She ruined her cover right in front of the teacher, which is why she quickly said she was just kidding and even kissed him to prove it. His girlfriend thought it was pretty funny, though."
43. "I had a manager at my high school job in fast food. She was overbearing, a micro manager, a suck-up to the GM, and a pain in the ***! She always walked around like hot **** because she was the youngest manager...like I give a ****. We've been happily married for nine years in December. We have two sons now."
44. "My little brother hitchhikes a lot. He was trying to hitch to Valdez, Alaska, to run a half-marathon there before hitching to my parents' house near Fairbanks. He gets picked up near Seattle by a woman. They're chatting, and my brother is telling her the story of how he rode his bike from Alaska to Argentina. The woman says her neighbor's son had done the same thing. Turns out she was my parents' next-door neighbor."
45. "I walked into a new job on my first day. I walked up to a guy and introduced myself. He said, 'No time to waste,' and assigned me a few weird tasks, and I started on them. I'd been working for an hour when my phone rang, and it was from the job that I had just started. I answered, and the guy on the phone said, 'You are aware today is your first day?' I said, 'Yes, I'm actually here. David gave me some stuff to do.' The guy on the phone said, 'Who's David?' Apparently, a complete stranger just started telling me what to do, and I didn't think twice about it. We had a pretty good laugh."
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