My mom just admitted indirecrly during an argument that she was the anonymous call to the CPS saying my dad was beating me, same mother who pinned me and strangled me on a couch and psychologically mistreated me for years, worst part is i found out 15 years after

Ex-wife was most likely sleeping with her bio dad. They kept sneaking off to closed bedrooms to be alone.

I calmly confronted her about it and she got extremely upset and crashed out. The next morning she woke me up with my pistol pointed at me. I snatched it from her, and field stripped it. She then ran across the street with my kids (Not hers) and had a neighbor call the cops on me. She filed a restraining order while the cops were processing me before they let me go.

People don't behave like that if there's not a deep, dark secret to hide.

Side note, our justice system is a joke. Male victims seldomly see an form of justice. Attorneys and judges make many decisions based purely on emotion.

So my grandmother had a lot of kids. Her first baby ever was stillborn, then she had 8 kids successfully, and the last baby she had was also stillborn.

That was the story until someone in our family added their DNA to an ancestry type website and found that BOTH of those babies had actually lived, been adopted, and are actually still alive with large families of their own. The youngest actually lives just a city away from us.

All of this was found out after my grandma had passed and while my grandpa was receiving end of life care, so no one ever got any answers about why these two were given up for adoption. We met the youngest at my grandpa's funeral, and she looks the most like my grandma out of all of the siblings.

Not quite as "dark" as some stories here, but it's the biggest family secret (so far)

My brother accidentally let slip that our grandad didn’t go to (and pass away in) hospital but went to prison.

My mother is a public figure and uses a “stage name” for her last name. For decades the story has been that back in the day, her then-director came up with the name because it sounded better and provided more safety than people knowing her real last name.

A few months ago, I signed up for a family tree website because my grandmother on my dad’s side has done a ton of research spanning hundreds of years in our family, and I was interested in doing the same thing for my mom’s side and my grandmother wanted to do it with me.

When I was adding my mom to my tree, a few documents populated for me to review. I almost didn’t even look at them because it’s my mom and I figured there’d be nothing new.

No.

I found a marriage certificate showing she married a man with the last name (the “stage name”) that she has kept all these years. I’m not sure when they divorced but she married her second husband (who I have known to be her first husband my whole life) a few years later so a few years max. I know two things for certain: my dad doesn’t know this, and she doesn’t know I know. What I don’t know is why she would lie about it.

I haven’t told anyone.

That my 66 year old Mom absolutely hated me and also writes erotic stories for some kind of erotica websites.

A few years ago she kinda had a mental breakdown and went missing for a week or two. This was shortly after my Dad had passed away and she hadn't been taking her meds or taking any care of herself. Her house was destroyed, every room filled with brand new stuff piled up. My brother and I filed a missing persons report and were asked to look around the house for any evidence of where she might have gone.

That's when I found a whole stack of notebooks filled with notes and stories. Multiple log-ins with words I never in my life heard her say, words I was surprised she even knew existed, all for erotica websites. Tons of stuff about her being used by men and enjoying it. I read about a dozen pages out of the whole stack because I hated violating her privacy, but then I found the book about me.

Page after page about me, how she thought I was manipulating my Dad in the months before his passing (he had moved in with me and had filed for divorce). She thought I forced him to file for divorce, had lists with things like: check accounts, were any pain meds filled at pharmacy, did I tell ER Drs to stop CPR, did I tell them not to contact her. It went on and on. I had no idea she felt this way about me, it was heartbreaking and infuriating. Makes and models of cars, license plates and the info and who was driving them and where. All people she suspected I hired to spy on her. She thought her car was being scanned by the government and had bought some magnetic panels to out in it's doors. So much paranoia and all of it based around me.

Even scripts of phone calls she wanted to make to me or others, detailing things like "say Hi then start to cry, tell story about... Then laugh"

suddenly every conversation with her that I could remember felt disingenuous and fake, I still have no idea who my real mom is because it was so bizarrely calculating and written out for me to find.

The cops ended up finding her a few days after I saw all of this. We tried for a guardianship but she was really good at evading every attempt made by professionals to be mentally evaluated, and we dropped it when she finally started seeing a psychiatrist and was stabilized.

She nor my brother have any idea I saw all the awful things written, and I can understand that she was in psychosis so I'm trying to move past it. She has since moved out of state and we talk every few months, she's totally pleasant with me, so it's really strange and I don't think I'll ever bring it up.

Edit: thank you everyone for all the responses, I didn't expect this to help me so much. I've realized I really need to look for a therapist, I've internalized a lot of th in ngs that will only snowball. I've cried a lot reading these comments, it's something I've held in for way too long, thank you so much for listening.

That my late father was actually alive, but imprisoned. I found out when was 13. He had been out of our lives since I was around 4.

Terry Kath, guitar player for Chicago. Playing with a weapon that he thought was unloaded he put it up to his head and pulled the trigger.

Gerald Irving Ratner. He was formerly chief executive of the British jewellery company Ratner Group. Ratner achieved notoriety after making a speech in 1991 where he jokingly denigrated his company's products as "total trash", leading to the company's near-collapse and his exit from the business in 1993. The notorious speech led to the creation of the phrase "doing a Ratner", meaning to make ruinous comments about your company or products.

A woman I went to grad school with...she had just landed a job doing data analysis for this organization when covid lockdowns started.

She got drunk and started DMing Asian students from our University (some who graduated with us and some still finishing their degrees) telling them to go back to China, along with other much worse stuff I won't repeat.

They took screenshots and emailed them to the director of our graduate program as well as the organization where she worked. In less than 24 hours, she lost her job and all ties to our graduate institution, and gained significant infamy in the field.

You guys are all talking celebrities and social media scandals.

William Kampiles had always wanted to be spy and he was lucky enough to end up working for the CIA after college. Unfortunately, his job was not being a spy, it turns out that takes training. His job was boring and he didn't have time for training, so he hatched a plan.

He would steal a spy satellite manual from the CIA and quit his job. He would then fly to Greece, walk into the Soviet embassy and sell that manual. Now here comes the brilliant part: he would then call the CIA and let them know he had done this so they would be impressed and give him a job as double agent.

For some reason, the US government was not impressed and sent him to prison instead.

Prince Andrew

He had the opportunity to do nothing or anything with his life and either way he'd still have been wealthy and lived an extremely comfortable life. All he had to do to secure the most comfortable life ever was to not be a a freaking pervert.