There are times when our mouths get the better of us and we can’t help but spill the beans. But be careful who you reveal your secrets to—because they might just head to Reddit and blab to the entire internet like these people did!
1. That Crazy Ex
I was once friends with a girl who told me that in order to get back at her ex-boyfriend, with whom she had been having an affair, she did something truly monstrous. She sent an email to his suicidal wife detailing their affair. Her intention was not just to break them up, but to have the wife end it. She eventually attempted it, and was found unconscious by her husband as he opened the front door. Thankfully she survived it all.
To make things worse, my "friend" wasn't even 100% into the guy.
2. It’s Classified
As a medical professional, I had a patient who was passing from cancer. During his career, he had the highest level of security clearance at Area 51. His family called it Cosmic Clearance. I asked him what anyone else in my situation would ask, which was, “Are there aliens there?” He replied, “I can’t tell you that, but I’ll tell you that I’ve seen things there that I wish I knew didn’t exist."
What does that mean?? This was 25 years ago, and I still think about it. I’ll never know.
3. My Strange Obsession
I’m an English teacher. Last year, one of my students wrote a personal essay about his doll obsession. The essay was very revealing and he told me it was the first time he’s ever shared this information with somebody other than his family and doctors. At the end of his essay, he talked about how he’s worked with his therapist to find the root of his obsession and has stopped buying dolls.
Well, I have him again as a senior, and I’ve already overheard him mention these dolls, in passing/to other people, three times. The comments he has made about the dolls have been very subtle, but enough for me to be concerned. "Obsession" barely even begins to describe it. I mean he sells everything and anything he has to get money to buy the dolls. He will even swipe things to get money for the dolls.
I plan on making a call home tomorrow when I get to work. I will admit this is the weirdest thing I’ve ever been told in confidence, but I care about this student a lot and am concerned.
4. Sweet As Pie
I had a neighbor who was an old man in his 80s. He confessed that he hated apple pie, but he ate his wife's apple pie with a smile on his face every time she made it because "she's so proud of it and it was her grandma's recipe."
5. Nice To Meet You Too!
He liked to take off the clothes from Barbie dolls, dip them in the bath, and suck the water off their chest. This was when we were in third grade together and it was the second thing he told me after his name.
6. We Have A Comedian Over Here
I had a regular who was from Ireland. One time he confessed his most disturbing prank. As teenagers, he and his friends slipped a tab of acid into a heavy drinker’s cup at the local tavern, then hung around to watch him literally lose his mind. He still seemed to think it was hilarious.
7. That Didn’t Go According To Plan
One guy had just come from watching a funeral from afar. He wasn't invited. He confessed to me that his job was to "hurt people for money.” A few weeks ago he had gone round to the wrong address and seriously injured the wrong man. Later, when he found out his mistake and the guy had been released from hospital, he decided it was a matter of honor to go back to the same address to apologize. That was a fatal mistake.
The address was a fourth-floor apartment. When the door opened, the victim was so terrified at seeing his former attacker there again that he ran through the flat and jumped out the rear window. He fell badly, smacked his head, and later passed in hospital. The guy at the bar was getting inebriated now realizing that he had, though not directly, ended this person for no reason.
8. Not So Happy Accident
I had a housemate in college who, several years prior, had accidentally shot his friend in a hunting accident. The friend didn't make it. He went to trial and was acquitted of all charges. But that's not the chilling part. He confessed to me that it wasn’t an accident.
9. Unhappy Hour
A coworker told me she went all Angel of Mercy and smothered her elderly, dementia-ridden, grandmother while she was sleeping. The next Monday in the office was definitely a weird one after that particular happy hour confession.
10. Sellout
Many years ago, I had an airport officer come in. As he got progressively inebriated, told me about his lucrative part-time job. He was paid an absurd amount of money to visit certain arriving aircraft and seek out certain baggage handlers. He’d put suitcases full of illicit substances in his patrol car, which he'd transfer to his private vehicle at the end of his shift, and deliver to his employers.
11. Guess We’ll Never know
I had a neighbor, she was young and a serious drinker. She'd been a nurse before I met her but was under some type of investigation because pills at her job had gone missing. One night she was super tipsy and told me that she had put pillows over some of the elderly patients' faces. She suffocated them because she couldn't stand to see them suffer anymore from bedsores and pain.
I asked her about it when she'd sobered up and she denied saying that to me. She passed about three years ago, so I'll never know if what she said was true or not.
12. You Did What?!
Bartender here. So many stories, but the most terrifying is the woman who came into my work years ago and had three drinks. She was real quiet for the first hour. Then she called me over, and asked if I could call law enforcement. I asked what was the problem. She then told me that she had just sliced the neck of a mugger in the alley.
She wanted to make sure he didn’t make it first before she reported it. The officers were called, the mugger was found deceased, and the woman wasn’t charged. She denied ever telling me that she wanted to wait an hour before calling the officers. She claimed that she had passed out in the alley and woke up then came here in shock.
13. I’m Not Crying, You Are
My dad loves small-town auctions, and over the years he collected all those boxes of stuff that would go for the lowest bid. He amassed quite a collection, filling the garage, and a workshop out back. He always promised Mom he’d sell it all someday in some big garage sale or auction of his own. One day, my mom's cancer returned, and the doctors told us this time it wasn’t a fair battle.
Two weeks before she passed, I was sitting with her in the hospital. We’d run out of things to say. She looked up at the ceiling, trying to ignore the pain, and said, “Thank god at least I won’t have to deal with your dad's stuff.” Me and mom burst out laughing. Don’t tell my Dad.
14. Can’t Unsmell It
At a family gathering, my grandma got tipsy and started to tell stories from her childhood. While she does this every time, tipsy or sober, this time it took a dark turn. She told us a story that explained the reason she hates going to the dentist and particularly the drilling part. She was six years old. During WWII, my family lived in Hamburg, Germany right next to the harbor.
In 1943, the city was continuously bombarded for a week. Over 35,000 people didn’t make it. More than 100,000 people were injured. The damaged houses mostly burned down. This created a huge fire, with such force and strong winds that it sucked not only oxygen in, but also people. The fire created such heat that people running out of their burning houses got stuck in the molten asphalt on the streets, and burned to their ends.
As it was all happening around her, that particular smell was present for over a week in her part of the city. Drilling in your tooth creates exactly that smell. My grandma had to stop the dentist, as she recognized the smell immediately. This story shook us to the core, as it came out of the blue. It still sends chills down my spine.
15. They’re Out To Get Me… Or Are They?
I was on a night out and ran into a good friend. While we were catching up, he told me that he'd stopped using his phone because he thought someone had bugged it to take his identity. When I asked why someone would do that, he told me, quite cheerfully, that it was probably something to do with the people that had been following him for the last week or so.
He hadn't seen them out tonight, but he was sure they were around somewhere. They were very good at popping in and out of sight. Then he left, saying he had a train to catch, and told me to take care and keep my eyes open. I reported this whole conversation to his brother, who I also knew quite well. I found out a few days later he'd been in the middle of a manic episode where he'd only been sleeping like two hours a night, and he'd eventually had to be sectioned for his own safety.
16. What Are The Odds?
A lady I used to work with married an old boyfriend after she divorced her first husband. One of the triggers for that divorce was that her husband's personality changed after he was involved in a serious accident. He was trying to fix his truck on the side of the road when it was rear ended and crushed him. Not life-threatening injuries, but a lifetime of pain.
Years later in an inebriated conversation, the second husband started talking about an accident he was involved in. He'd lied to law enforcement about the circumstances. He got off lightly, and bragging about how lucky he was. That's when it finally hit her: Yeah, turned out he'd been the driver who rear-ended her first husband's truck. Divorce number two came soon after that revelation.
17. Man Of Mystery
My best friend disappeared for a while, presumably left town. We were both in our mid-20s. He came back after a month or so and he’d take me out every night drinking and partying. I wondered how he was able to waste so much money on drinks and illicit substances, but he wouldn’t tell me. I saw him pay our tab one night and he must have had 12 or 15 grand on him.
After coming back to town, he basically stayed inebriated at all times and wanted to hang out with me whenever he could. He’d come over to my place after closing the bars down and we’d often keep partying until morning. He would usually end up breaking down and crying to me about how he can’t live with himself over what he did. He wouldn’t give details.
Night after night, this would happen until he broke down again one night. He told me he was paid a lot of money to do some bad things to bad people. He confessed that he was paid by someone in his dad’s gang to burn someone’s business down over a money dispute. Then he told me he shot a couple of guys who were thought to be touching children. He said he was paid $10,000 after each man was executed.
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18. I’m Not Feeling 22
I took care of a WW2 veteran with dementia. He would say “22" over and over. The family never knew the significance of it. The number didn't line up with any significant events or dates that they were aware of. The day before he passed his mental state became incredibly clear, and he started telling the staff "22 men. I killed 22 men over there."
19. Ouch!
My married friend has three kids. He's always exhausted. While taking the train to work, a woman he always sees struck up a conversation with him. The woman said she knows him as "the tired guy" because he always passes out on the train. He explained why, so she reveals she is a hotel manager and can get him a room for free.
He took her up on the offer…sounds like an affair, right? Nope. My friend actually has an ongoing deal with this lady where she lets him crash in a hotel room if it's open. He tells his wife that he is visiting family, but all he does is sleep in a room, away from his wife and kids. At my urging, he admitted the truth to his wife because keeping that a secret will just lead her to assume he's unfaithful.
When he told her the truth, she replied "I believe you. You'd never cheat on me. You have no game."
20. Sharing Isn’t Caring
I once sat next to a guy on a plane who was returning home after 10 years in prison. He was still in sweats and was only carrying a mesh bag. He was very excited to start life again, and we started talking about jobs and stuff. After about 20 minutes, he took out three pieces of paper that were folded up in his pocket. He began showing me his art. It was quite good, but each depicted a deceased body. Very gruesome stuff.
He looked at me and said, “now that I am free I can finally get this off my chest. I went in for armed theft, but the truth is I shot three people. I can't get the images of them out of my head, so I carry them around with me everywhere.” It was haunting how relieved he looked telling me. He said he never admitted it to anyone, but now he felt safe as his sentence was up. It was the creepiest conversation I’ve ever had.
21. Life’s Greatest Mystery
"I'm not too much into pleasuring women. I'm like a marine: I get in, do my duty, and get out. That's how it's done!" Then later in the same conversation: "You know, come to think of it, I've never dumped someone, I've always been dumped.” Honestly, as a man, other men tell me things they would never say in front of women, and every time it's like theater for me. Get me some popcorn, tell me everything, let's go.
22. Let It Go
I sold cars. I had a customer whisper and show me photos of aliens he saw outside our lot on his phone. I’m 99% sure it was light spots in his photos from the sun. I would’ve ignored this guy except he had just taken delivery of a new vehicle. Months later, the guy shows up again trying to show me more photos. I no longer work there, but he’s still showing up to show me more photos.
23. Well That Escalated Quickly
My friend’s husband told me he was hiding bottles from his wife. This was weird, because they both drink and it’s not a big deal. I told my friend what he said. She confronted him, and all of his lies started pouring out. Cheating on her with multiple women, lying about his income, taking credit cards out in her name, racking up tens of thousands of dollars on them, taking from their kids' college funds. They are now divorced. That weird little lie he told me while tipsy is what started it all.
24. And They Were Roommates
I shared an off-campus apartment with a very cool older guy in college. He was a nurse. He got up super early every morning to do his shifts. Every night you could find him at his regular Irish pub. They let me drink there without ID because they knew I was with him. Basically, he was a super high-functioning alcoholic.
One day, I came home after finishing my exams. He brings out a bottle of Jameson to celebrate. It was nearly full. After a few drinks, he starts telling me about his time in Vietnam. I'd known him for two years, he had never brought it up, and I had never asked. I knew he was a vet, but assumed he had been a nurse. Nope.
Special forces. His demeanor totally changed after a few drinks. He started telling me about having to go on covert operations to carry out assassinations of civilians. He said he dreams of the faces of all the people whose lives he snuffed out. We ended up polishing off the entire bottle. He got up the next morning at 5 AM and went off to work. I spent the entire day moaning in bed and praying to the porcelain god. We never spoke about it again.
25. Consider It Handled
When my dad was 11, he was abducted and brutalized by three men. He was so terrified that he never told his parents. After my grandpa passed, my dad finally told my grandma what happened. She told him that they already knew. One of my dad's siblings knew and had told grandpa. She just said that he had taken care of it.
A few years later, a developer bought my grandparents' farm and turned it into a development. During excavation, they found three male skeletons buried in a single grave. I guess grandpa really did take care of it. Rangers really do lead the way.
26. Your Secret Is Safe
The second year after I graduated from high school, all 22 of us in the graduating class went on a camping trip. One of the dudes drank a ton. When we were just catching up, he confessed to the whole class that he shot his mom's boyfriend. He was always come and go anyway, was a truck driver, would regularly cheat, and often spent the week with the other woman. Rinse. Wash. Repeat. That meant him being MIA was no cause for alarm.
But he also hurt this dude's mother. We all just looked at each other, the dude who was sitting closest to him just patted him on the back and we passed him the joint. I don't think anyone has brought it up since.
27. Friends To Strangers
A friend of mine passed from an overdose. After the funeral, a mutual friend and I were getting tipsy when he broke down crying. He asked me if I remembered the time when he and our deceased friend told me about an accident they'd witnessed where they saw a truck driver perish. I told him I did. He then told me the most messed up stuff.
He said that our friend ran up to the dying man and took his wedding ring. The man couldn't do anything but look up, terrified, at our friend as he was being looted. I knew they were bad into substances, but I never thought they could do anything like that. I grew up with them, they were like my brothers. I don't really trust anyone completely anymore.
28. Motor Mouth
One day, my Dad went drinking by himself, got inebriated, and tried to ride his motorcycle home. He crashed it into our neighbor's mailbox, messing up both the bike and his knee. That's when the secrets started pouring out. As I was treating his wound, he confessed that he had been cheating on my Mom with a coworker over the last few months. He was drinking out of depression because the coworker quit her job and ghosted him after she got him to spend thousands on buying her expensive gifts.
He then cried his eyes out. This was my first time ever seeing him shed a single tear in my life. I was only 16 or 17 at the time. It was a lot to take in.
29. Goodbye Forever
I have a friend whose grandmother married her late husband’s friend. One day while tipsy, he confessed to offing her first husband. She packed up the kids and left.
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30. It’s What He Deserves
When I was 14, my mom took me and my sisters and a couple of our friends to the beach. My fifteen-year-old sister and I got our own room with our two friends. We wound up meeting some boys and getting tipsy. My sisters's old friend was really tipsy. She got super upset and confessed that her stepfather had been attacking her for years. Really, really, really horrible stuff.
It sobered everyone up fast. We rallied around her and told her we were there for her. When we got home from the beach trip a few days later, I knew I needed to tell my mom. After I told her, she got state law enforcement involved. There was a trial, and the man wound up sentenced to 8 years in prison. It turned out he was doing it to the younger sister as well.
31. Now That’s Dedication
My aunt and uncle have been divorced for almost a decade. They were having serious marital troubles basically from the time they were married until then. They also had some serious financial trouble right before they divorced. That’s no surprise, money is often the catalyst for a lot of breakups. Well, last month on vacation with the family, they explained that it was actually all very carefully calculated.
They had gotten a divorce so they could hide funds in my aunt's name, as my uncle was being sued and investigated for fraud. They made some extra money throughout the years by flipping houses. They were in trouble for ignoring code when redoing some of the houses, and lying to tenants about the state of the properties they were renting.
They purposefully faked marital problems so that if they ever were in danger of getting caught, they could believably get a divorce, move money into my aunt’s name, and feign her ignorance. This way, my uncle could declare bankruptcy and avoid paying serious fines and damages. They just recently got married again, having decided that enough time had passed that "her money" wouldn't be in danger if they got back together.
They say they've learned their lesson, but still...I couldn't believe how concerted and specific their efforts were, all in an attempt to make a few extra bucks on the shady side.
32. I’m Outta Here
When I moved to a new city I found a roommate, we'll call him M, on Craigslist. He was really cool. We ended up hanging out in each others social circles. M ended up catching feelings for this girl that became pretty close to me. When the feelings weren’t reciprocated, he started getting weird and almost resentful toward me.
Over time I found out that M had a drinking problem. I would get home from work around 1 AM, and it wasn’t uncommon he would be passed out on the couch after finishing off a big bottle. One night, I get home a little early, and I notice him sitting with his back against the couch in the total dark. I ask him if he’s okay. I can immediately tell something's seriously wrong.
With the bottle next to him, M begins telling me that when he first moved to the city he caught his girlfriend in bed with another guy and shot him. His girlfriend fled the state. Since it was in a shifty part of town, officers never paid it much attention, so he got away with it. He thinks about it all the time. I gracefully made my exit upstairs freaking out.
When I saw him the next morning he asked me what time I got home from work because he didn’t hear me come in meaning he has no recollection of telling me he shot someone. I had my dad help move me out the next week, and I never mentioned it to him.
33. You Only Live Once
I had a customer order a $15 drink. He gave me a $50 bill and told me to keep the change. He was a strange guy. He kept sneezing and rubbing his face while sitting at the bar. He downed his drinks. They were instantly gone. He asked me what I'd do if I found out I had two weeks to live. I told him I'd see my family and friends, knock off my bucket list, etc.
"What if your family hates you?" he says. I told him I'd do what makes me happy then. He asked where the nearest place was where he could score some illicit substances. I told him I wasn't really into that sort of stuff, but pointed him toward a place that might be a good start. He left me another $20 as he left and was on his way.
About an hour later, I was out and saw him in cuffs. The officers pulled out the biggest bag of white powder I've ever seen in my life. I'm talking like a full bag just bulging out. Never saw the guy again.
34. A Little Too Late
I'm a medical student. I had a female patient who was new to our practice and HIV positive. I needed to ask her how she got the virus, through fluids or injections. She tells me it was through fluids. The only reason she got tested was because her long term partner’s last words to her as he was fading in hospice was "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I wanted to tell you. Forgive me."
35. Wendy Who?
My uncle had been in a car accident. It was bad. In the ambulance on the way to the hospital, he said, "Tell my wife that Wendy is my daughter, and I love her.” He passed a few minutes later. Wendy was the neighbor’s five-year-old child. That caused a huge incident, I can tell you.
36. Daddy Issues
My dad was adopted from a woman who went to my grandparent's church and got pregnant out of wedlock. My grandpa confessed as he was passing that he had actually had an affair with that woman. He was my dad's real father, which was why he suggested adopting him in the first place.
37. The Truth Always Comes Out
Both of my grandparents served in WW2 and were lucky enough to survive. While growing up, we were told that they performed basic jobs during WW2. As each one came closer to the end, more truths came out. My grandfather on my mother's side revealed he was more of a black ops seal type, and not a cook as he previously stated. Grandfather on my dad's side was in charge of the army's computers for casualty tabulation.
38. Too Soon?
My grandpa’s uncle confessed to actually being his dad when it was his time to go. Or what he thought was his time. Turned out he made a full recovery and was alive 10 more years, with his wife knowing he impregnated her sister. My last name is the name of a wrestling announcer from the 30s instead of his name.
39. A Real-Life Nightmare
We knew that my grandpa was born in 1922, so he would've been of age for WWII. But my grandpa always insisted he never participated and tried to hush up our questions. Skip to him being inebriated one night. My grandpa told me to go into the other room with him. He pulls out a small chest and opens it, showing me a bunch of photos and old WWII gear, including his old helmet.
I was astonished, as he never talked about that time. Out of nowhere he asked for my confidence, and I said of course, safe with me. He starts telling me that he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day as part of the 1st Infantry division or the "Big Red One.” He started telling me the things that he saw and I was terrified. When he came off the landing craft, the door jammed and only went about halfway down.
That exposed the men inside without letting them out. Some guys panicked and tried to go over the side, but were targeted. As the crew member was trying to fix the door, the enemies turned on the exposed landing craft and pretty much wiped out everyone on board. My grandpa went up and over the side. He successfully made it into the surf without being targeted.
At this point, he started crying and he asked me if I knew what artillery does when it makes contact. Him and his friends made it up the beach miraculously, and onto a small bluff to take cover, but a shell lands about 10 meters (33 feet) away from them. It almost knocked my grandpa out, but when he started to recover from the shock, he realized that both his friends had been targeted.
He said that one of them was still alive, but had been cut almost in half, was squirming, and slowly perishing. The other friend–his best friend–had his face blown off. He tried to speak, but only made inhuman and awful sounds before he passed several minutes later. My grandpa was pinned, still trying to recover from the shock. The fire was heavy, so he couldn't go out to comfort or try to help his friends. He had to sit there and watch them perish.
My grandpa started to cry uncontrollably and I just hugged him. I was absolutely terrified about what he had been through. I was only 12 or 13 at the time, but I understood why he didn't tell anyone. When he calmed down a bit, he told me never to tell anyone because that was his burden to bear. I haven't told anyone since.
40. Dad Of The Year
My cousin told me her father, a truck driver, picked her and her brother up to visit him for the weekend in his vehicle. They were six and three years olds. He was pulled over and taken away for driving while inebriated. He left the kids hidden in the sleeper part of the truck. This happened Friday. He came back for the truck when he got out of custody Monday afternoon. The kids were in the truck the whole weekend.
41. Can’t Catch A Break
A coworker, we’ll call her Ann, told me a story. Her dad was awful, so her mom took her and ran when she was young. Her father was not in the picture. Ann’s high school softball coach had become a father figure to her and she spent a lot of time with him. One of the girls on the team disappeared and her parents assumed she ran away with her boyfriend, since she was a troubled girl and the boyfriend was bad news.
One day, Ann rode to practice with her coach. When they were finished with practice, she grabbed his keys and was going to put her bag in his trunk because she was embarrassed about the smelly clothes in her bag. When Ann opened his trunk, she found the bare body of her deceased teammate.
She didn't say anything, quit softball, took up illicit substances, and brawled a lot. The coach eventually got caught and was locked up. She was mostly off the substances by the time I met her, but she was definitely not functional. She was still drinking and brawling a lot. It was sad.
42. Caught Red Handed
A student once accidentally confessed that she had been pretending to be chronically ill for a decade to get out of classes when they got too hard. She immediately tried to deny it, but her best friend told me later that strategies had included slicing herself in hidden crevices, like between her elbow so she could suck out the blood and cough it up.
This was in a country with a fairly rudimentary medical system that relied heavily on some odd superstitions, so the girl would “get better” as long as she had lots of bed rest and wasn’t “stressed” by things like homework. As a result, she only came to school after 10 AM. By the end of the school year, she would show up about 40% of the time. Her parents were wealthy patrons of the school so the principal changed her 13% in my class to an 80%.
43. The Kids Aren’t Alright
My aunt is a teacher. She once had a kid in her eighth-grade class who was very smart. He always raised his hand to answer questions, and helped the other kids in his class when they needed help. However, he would never even attempt to do his homework, and take tests or quizzes. He would always just hand them in as soon as he got it. He was failing the class and my aunt didn’t know why.
She tried to call for a meeting with his parents to try and find out what’s going on, but his parents never responded. Then she told the school administration. They sent letters and phone calls home. No response. One day, the student came to school injuries. She sent him to the school nurse. When he came back, he was crying.
He went to my aunt and told her that his father was hurting him since he was doing good in his history class. My aunt was confused. She told the school administrators, and they sent officers to the kid's house to check up on them. It turns out that the father never wanted that kid in his life, and only wanted his older son to do well.
So he always starved and hurt his younger son if he started doing better than the older brother. The father was locked up, and both kids went to an orphanage. Once his father got out a year later, he ended up losing full custody of his children. He then became an alcoholic. One night after heavy drinking, he drove into a sidewalk, wiping out an entire family. Two parents and three kids. He’s locked up again.
44. The Plan Man
This guy told me he had planned on ending someone’s life the upcoming Saturday. But now it was going to rain, and that would interfere with his plans for disposing the body. He explained his motives and everything. I tried to talk him out of it and mentioned law enforcement. That’s when he took out and opened a little box that he called his kit.
It contained some pharmaceuticals, a syringe, and some tubing. He told me he would take all these substances and also hang himself. He said that by the time the officers could get through his reinforced door, he would 100% be gone. He never wanted to be locked up again. This was his plan for any situation where officers showed up, no matter the charge. This was probably like a 30-40 minute conversation. This was six years ago and to my knowledge, he never ended the guy.
45. Haunted By The Past
I had a boyfriend who never talked about his past ever. He talked so fondly of his old state, but just about the place. Never about people. If you tried to prod further, he would just say oh well it doesn't matter anymore. While inebriated one night, he started talking about how much he loved going into the woods. He and his friends enjoyed playing in rivers and streams in his old state. Then he got very sad, and started to babble incoherently.
I heard him say something along the lines of his friend came to his house high. Then more incoherent babble about his friend getting shot in the face. Then, more incoherent babbling about that is why he can never go home again. He was so desperately sad and missed his home very much. You could tell every time the topic came up. I am pretty sure he shot a guy and was on the run. I often wonder if he ever had to face those demons.
46. That Was Unexpected
I was the manager of a pet store and this customer asked one of my team members if a ball python could eat a Guinea pig. The person answered "we only sell pets, not food here." All of our animals were only to be sold as companions, never food. It was store policy to deny anyone service who we even suspected of trying to buy a pet as a feeder animal.
Of course, the dude wanted to buy this adult guinea pig who was sweet, fluffy, and blind in one eye. She lived at the store for longer than usual so she was discounted. The guy was adamant he wanted that pig. But after the petcare specialist denied them due to suspicion of buying it for food, he made a huge fuss and got really upset.
Cue me coming over to back up my crew member and tell this guy no. He started shouting. Eventually, I calmed him down enough to tell this whole story of his kid needing a pet. I didn't buy it, and still refused the sale I was about to call officers to get him for trespassing him when he cried. He told me when he was a kid, his dad took his pet guinea pig’s life because he confessed that his uncle touched him inappropriately.
The dad’s logic was guinea pig equals my son is attracted to my brother. After his story of being mistreated as a child, he talked about how he would like to feed them to his snake because of that. I didn't know what to say. I just said, "well because of that we can't sell you a guinea pig." He finally accepted it and I never saw him again.
47. Real-Life Villains
A ex-friend once told me about how she and a few mutual friends got really messed up on pills one night. They went to the local elementary school playground and started tormenting a cat that was there. Smacking it, poking it, etc. They eventually tied it by its neck to the empty tetherball chain and "played tetherball" with it, smacking it back and forth until its neck snapped.
The worst part of all: they left the cat hanging there for the children to find in the morning. All the school kids lived in houses right behind the school, so there's a huge chance that was probably one of their cats.
48. Instant Remorse
A friend of mine was extremely scared of Michael Myers, and would freak out every time the Halloween theme music played. So our group of friends and I would tease her all the time by playing the music on our phones and playfully chase her around. It was all in good fun, and we had no malicious intent at all. Well finally, my friend just snapped. She pulled me aside and stated the reason why she was so fearful of the Halloween movies.
Her uncle used to put the Michael Myers mask on and attack her when she was little. She confided in her parents and they did nothing about it. They just told her to pray about it.
49. Not So Happy Accident
I had a housemate in college who, several years prior, had accidentally shot his friend in a hunting accident. The friend didn't make it. He went to trial and was acquitted of all charges. But that's not the chilling part. He confessed to me that it wasn’t an accident.
50. Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Wet
My mother once told me a story after having too many drinks. She had a pregnancy before me, but her boyfriend wasn't ready for a kid. So he kicked her in the stomach until she was no longer pregnant. For revenge, she had her friend seduce him, take him to a hotel room, and tie him up. My mom then described how she took a baseball bat and broke every bone she could.
She described how she had to throw water on him to keep him awake. She was never tried for it, so I'm assuming he lived. I had heard the miscarriage part before, the whole bat thing was a new detail. She hasn't mentioned it since.
51. There’s No Drink Strong Enough
I had a guy come in as soon as we opened at 11 AM. He ordered a strong drink. Downed it. Same again. He then said he cheated on his wife last night after 30-odd years of marriage. Yet it somehow got so much worse. When he woke up with the mistress, she was dead. He had one more drink, then left in tears.
52. Love Story Turned Horror Movie
There was a guy who confessed that he stalked a girl for a year and hacked her love interest's computer. He planted a load of evidence that her love interest had been stalking her and was into a load of weird and creepy stuff. He revealed it to the girl and helped her to get a restraining order against him. He used that as his way in with the girl. He eventually married her.
53. Life Isn’t Fair
My neighbor's third child was born with all kinds of health issues. I was trying to help out as much as I could. We were in the baby's room one day and she was looking at the baby. She seemed far off and said in a flat tone, "Sometimes I think about just letting her go. Even unplugging everything and just being done. I wish she didn’t survive at birth."
It really chilled me to the bone. I spent the day and night with the child, worried Mom might actually do it. The baby ended up passing at a year old. It was brutal to watch everything they went through.
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