" My parental granny sold her 8 - year - old boy for a bottleful of whiskey . "
Families are complicated, and often you’ll be surprised about the dark secrets everyone knows but no one talks about.
1.“My dad married the woman who was supposed to get married to my brother”
– uranium / Visual_Finance_644
2.“Well…. My dad’s brother married my dad’s other brothers ex wife. So now my cousins have a Duncle (dad uncle).”
– u / jg2889
3.“My wife’s cousin was The Boston Strangler (Albert Desalvo). We don’t talk about him.”
– uranium / Zippy_994
4.“A relative hired a hitman to kill his wife. Killed the wrong person. Same relative hired a hitman to kill my father. Never got the chance, was spooked by law enforcement. Relative died a few years after that.”
– u / jimmyb1982
5.“Apparently, my great auntie admitted to killing three of her husbands on her deathbed…”
– atomic number 92 / ssordid - evelynn
6.“I had a cousin (actually my dad’s cousin) who was a serial bank robber.”
– u / Cut - Unique
7.“My cousin’s dad faked his own death to get out of paying my aunt child support. She found out when she walked in on two of his family members discussing going to visit him. Turns out EVERYBODY on her dad’s side knew and were in on it. She cut that entire half of her family out of her life forever.”
– u / pinkelephants777
8.“My (half-)siblings and I are also cousins. Our father was married something like five times, and wives number two and four(?) were sisters.”
– atomic number 92 / Mustard_of_Mendacity
9.“My grandmother was one of the most notorious witches in East Africa, to this day people think of us as a demonic family.”
– u / Mos - Val
10.“My Dad’sbest friendhad sex with my older sister, so for revenge, my Dad had sex with his wife (my mum’s best friend). Safe to say it broke the whole family apart.”
– u / Absolute - Madman420
11.“I never knew much about one of my uncles on my mother’s side. He died when I was young so I only met him a few times, but turns out he was a black sheep for a good reason. On a drug-fueled bender in the ’90s he hijacked a car.”
" Not just any car either , a hearse . A hearse with a body at bottom . Apparently , he end up rolling it in a high - speed Salmon Portland Chase , and just like that , one dead eubstance became two . I only acquire about this much later in life . "
– uracil / Signor65_ZA
12.“My paternal great-grandmother served time in prison during WWII. She was giving illegal backstreet abortions to women whose husbands were away fighting and had got busy in their absence with the US troops based at the nearby aerodrome.”
– u / ohnoheforgotitagain
13.“My maternal grandmother sold her 8-year-old son for a bottle of whiskey. I was a teenager before my mother could finally track him down.”
– atomic number 92 / Slade0001
H/T to R/AskReddit for having the discussion.
