Tell us your family secret

I Heart Internet · 02-10-2013 02:11PM #1

As the title says - tell us your family's shameful secret that nobody speaks about. Leave out any details that may identify you or the family.

Mine is that my mother's cousin (who I've never met) was convicted of murdering 2 people in the US in the 1980s.

Gone Drinking · 02-10-2013 02:12PM

My Dad likes... MARMITE

KKkitty · 02-10-2013 02:14PM

Have a half brother out there somewhere that I've never met.

kowloon · 02-10-2013 02:15PM

I'm distantly related to a famous Nazi sympathiser who was executed for treason after the war. Might be a family secret but I'll tell anyone who'll listen.

KeithM89 · 02-10-2013 02:15PM

KKkitty wrote: »

Have a half brother out there somewhere that I've never met.

Have a half sister out there somewhere that I've never met. . . .

wuzziwig · 02-10-2013 02:15PM

My Dad was born out of wedlock in the 40s. They tried to force my Gran to give him up but she fought tooth and nail and kept him. She's Catholic and when he was 5 she married a Protestant. 2 huge scandals at the time in her community. Nowadays it's practically the norm!!

lahalane · 02-10-2013 02:16PM

Third Rock from the Sun :O

Hilly Bill · 02-10-2013 02:18PM

I dont know if we have a family secret as nobody as spoken about it.

KKkitty · 02-10-2013 02:19PM

Keith wrote: »

Have a half sister out there somewhere that I've never met. . . .

It's not me I hope :pac:

stefan idiot jones · 02-10-2013 02:19PM

Sssshhhhhhhhh.......we're Welsh.

maximoose · 02-10-2013 02:19PM

My dad is DB Cooper

Muise... · 02-10-2013 02:19PM

kowloon wrote: »

I'm distantly related to a famous Nazi sympathiser who was executed for treason after the war. Might be a family secret but I'll tell anyone who'll listen.

Lord Haw Haw?

sadie06 · 02-10-2013 02:21PM

Until I was 18, I held the coveted position of eldest grandchild on my mother's side. One hasty announcement later, I was slouching up to bed reassessing all that I thought I knew! :-)

It was quite dramatic twenty years ago, but we laugh about it now.

sadie06 · 02-10-2013 02:22PM

wuzziwig wrote: »

My Dad was born out of wedlock in the 40s. They tried to force my Gran to give him up but she fought tooth and nail and kept him. She's Catholic and when he was 5 she married a Protestant. 2 huge scandals at the time in her community. Nowadays it's practically the norm!!

She sounds like some woman!

castletownman · 02-10-2013 02:22PM

My brother Billo lives in a cage in the attic. My sister always taunt him by showing him her vagine and keep saying "you will never get this".

One day, Billo escape. He got this.

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-10-2013 02:23PM

Uncle did a ten year stretch in prison

Seachmall · 02-10-2013 02:25PM

Some in our family have gotten on the wrong side of a man convicted of planting pipe bombs for some Dublin gang.

It's more of an inherited problem, and I think it has fizzled out at this stage.

Never got worse than threats and slashed tires but it still had a couple of extended family on edge (and rightly so, they were the ones being threatened).

Lola18 · 02-10-2013 02:35PM

Also have a half brother who's mother swore an Affidavit to say her now husband is his father so my half brother would never know!

metaoblivia · 02-10-2013 02:35PM

One of my great aunts was thought to be barren, so she and her husband adopted a little boy. A few months later, she ended up pregnant and gave birth to a little girl. All of this was out in the open - everyone knew her son was adopted and her daughter was her biological child, including the two kids.

The secret came when the two kids were teenagers and started having sex with each other. The daughter got pregnant with twins and was sent away to give birth and give them up for adoption. No one knew about it until my great aunt started going senile and talking about decades later.

BeerWolf · 02-10-2013 02:36PM

Still trying to find it - got a map that supposedly leads me to €700m worth of Spanish doubloons!

The Backwards Man · 02-10-2013 02:36PM

I was very close to being Billy Connolly's love child.

Muise... · 02-10-2013 02:40PM

I'm 1/8 Protestant. Found out in a bookshop while browsing a biography of a slightly famous relative. Great-grandad kept that one quiet. Even worse, he was from Cork. :eek:

Hoop66 · 02-10-2013 02:48PM

My aunt Mary was born out of wedlock in the 30s in rural Ayrshire. My grandparents had to leave the village they lived in.

They got married and were allowed back. Fucking weirdos. The "village elders", not my grandparents.

What's worse, when my sister had a kid about 20 years ago, Mary was the one that didn't want the granny told about her first great-grandchild, as my sister wasn't married.

Oh, and Hitler was my maternal grandfather.

General General · 02-10-2013 02:48PM

My great-great-grandfather on my mother's-mother's-father's side was the one who triggered life on this planet... thing is, he only stopped off here for a piss (the spaceship john was blocked by an enormous sh!t he'd done some days earlier).

Hilly Bill · 02-10-2013 02:51PM

General General wrote: »

My great-great-grandfather on my mother's-mother's-father's side was the one who triggered life on this planet... thing is, he only stopped off here for a piss (the spaceship john was blocked by an enormous sh!t he'd done some days earlier).

The Captain's Log?

General General · 02-10-2013 02:53PM

Hilly Bill wrote: »

The Captain's Log?

No, a Black Forest, thing was completely jammed up.

Jester252 · 02-10-2013 02:54PM

Apparently I'm related to the British royals

aaabbbb · 02-10-2013 02:54PM

I've a cousin who was in the joy for dealing a serious amount of cocaine. It was in the papers and everything , I was so embarassed I wouldn't let anyone near a newspaper for ages without ripping out the story first.

I think it's funny now though

My Mum's sister also "drowned" on Sutton beach back in the early 80's . Back when suicide was still taboo. My mum still insissts she drowned but it seems very unlikely given the story I've been told by her and others....

Family Mystery perhaps ??

GreeBo · 02-10-2013 02:57PM

My dad runs a meth lab from the secondary school where he works as a chemistry teacher.

BeerWolf · 02-10-2013 02:59PM

GreeBo wrote: »

My dad runs a meth lab from the secondary school where he works as a chemistry teacher.

That's just bad... breaking secrets like that - some things are best kept to youself! :mad:

MonstaMash · 02-10-2013 03:08PM

My grandfather & his twin brother arrived from Sicily to Ireland in 1897, they were on the run, accused of a vendetta killing arising from a feud between two families.

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