A Collection of Deep and Dark Secrets Shared by Anonymous Individuals
Every person has their own set of secrets, some of which are too heavy to share with others. However, the internet offers a unique space where people can anonymously confess their deepest, darkest truths. Recently, I asked members of our community to share their most personal secrets, and here are some of the stories that came in:
- In 2023, my younger brother died in a single-car accident at age 22. The year before, on his 21st birthday, he and I were waiting for an Uber, and he started telling me he was going to die young. We both started crying, and I told him not to say that and that he was going to live longer than me, only for him to continue insisting he was going to die young. Lo and behold, a year and a few months later…I’m never going to tell anyone because I know it would destroy them. Luckily, he lived every day to the fullest, and we always joked that he was the older sibling because he had more life experience than I did. The car accident happened because he had an unknown heart condition, and something medical happened while he was driving in the mountains. He wasn’t being reckless or anything.
- “I secretly believe my mom killed my dad somehow. I believe she was sick of taking care of him, wanted the money, and killed him.”
—Anonymous, 55, Female, Kentucky
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- “Once, I met this girl at a fancy restaurant. Long story short, we ended up in bed, and she tried to stab me. She failed, but I went and pushed her out the window. I ran, and to this day, no one knows.”
- “I’m gay. I’ve literally never said it out loud before, or told anyone, not my friends or family. I’m super scared my family won’t accept me. I also made most of my friends at a Christian school, and they’re pretty openly anti gay. It’s hard to make friends who I know will accept me living in a very Republican-leaning state. My extended family is also super anti gay, so I know they won’t accept me either. I am planning on coming out to one of my closest friends (not religious) in the next few months, but I have to finish up the process of accepting myself first.”
- “In college, I got asked by a popular classmate if I would ever help with body disposal if she ‘ever found her boyfriend cheating on her.’ This was because she noticed I was a fan of true crime and assumed I’d know multiple options on how to do this. She was too detailed on how she’d kill him if that happened. Reasonably, I told her ‘Hell no.’ I choose to avoid her afterward rather than warn her current boyfriend.”
- “My best friend’s ex stalked him for the past three years. They had dated since the start of high school. Then, they had a big breakup where she cheated on him with his DAD. She apologized to him every single day through texts and voicemails, and it got so bad that he blocked her. She started texting ME, telling me to tell him that she was sorry, so I also blocked her. When she got blocked by both of us, we thought she got the memo, but she didn’t.”
“She would follow him to Starbucks or to his job. He always avoided her, but then things escalated when she somehow copied the key to his apartment and lived there for about a month without him knowing. He realized something was up after he saw misplaced items, food wrappers in weird places like under his coffee table, misplaced items, and he felt like he was being watched every night. One time he woke up because he heard creaks around the apartment. He got up and looked around the apartment and went into his closet. Guess what? He found his ex hiding in there.”
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“She immediately ran out of the apartment as soon as he saw her. The weird thing is that he didn’t call the police on her. I asked him multiple times why, but he always said, ‘The police would never believe me.’ That always left me perplexed, as there was evidence of another person living in his apartment. I don’t know if they might have a secret relationship or what, but something is not adding up. I thought this was the typical stalker ex story where things escalated, but him not calling the police after he found her hiding in his apartment makes me think there’s gotta be a bigger picture to this. Change your locks, everybody, if you’re being stalked or if you don’t feel safe.”
—Anonymous, 23, Male, Chicago
- “No one in my life knows this, but my entire life has been paid for by benefactors (aka sugar daddies — ew) since 2014, and I’ve earned approximately $100,000-plus year-over-year from them. My most lucrative recent benefactor is a PhD-level clinical psychologist and executive coach who sent me $60,000 in a single transaction in January of this year and has become my mentor and business co-consultant over the last three years. Another has paid me $2,000 per month since 2016. The list goes on and on, but to everyone around me, I am a consummate career professional. It’s such a salacious secret that sometimes I smile to myself quietly, knowing how deviously naughty I am. Maybe one day I’ll write a book.”
- “I never sent wedding thank-you notes. It’s been over a decade. Still feel guilty about it.”
—Anonymous, Middle-Aged, Female, Midwest
- “I cheated on my now-husband with my now-boss over 20 years ago. My now-husband was then just a new summer-fling-turned-boyfriend living 6,000 miles away, and my now-boss was just a coworker. As things got more serious with my husband, I quit that job and lost contact with my coworker… until he found me almost 10 years later and hired me at his new company (in the tech industry, with slim pickings for good employees in our small town). We are both happily married now and pretend like the past never happened (it will NEVER be repeated), but my husband can never know. He is a wonderful man, and this would crush him.”
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- “I wish I could actually connect with my parents and talk to them about stuff, but it’s really hard for me. I feel like it’s really difficult for me to have a genuine connection to a person, it doesn’t matter who. I feel so detached from society, and it’s kind of killing me. It’s extremely hard for me to admit my true emotions to anyone, and to ask for help. I’ve kind of convinced myself that it’s better to be alone because eventually, all people hurt me. It’s getting too hard.”
- “I’ve been actively bisexual for over 40 years. More sometimes, less others. I’ve never had romantic feelings for a man.”
—Anonymous, 71, Male, Florida
- “I only admit to having one child, my youngest. If someone remembers my oldest, I simply say, ‘She is no longer with us.’ I will politely smile and nod when receiving condolences. My oldest is alive, just dead to me. I am too ashamed that I somehow raised a white supremacist.”
- “Definitely not as juicy as some might be, but something that lives rent-free in my head. When I was little, there was a kid in my school who was labeled the Bad Kid. Everyone knew it. One day, I had one of those gel ice packs from the teacher after a fall on the playground. I wanted to touch the gel inside, so I cut a corner off. When the teacher noticed, she was upset. Panicked, I told the teacher the Bad Kid had taken it from me and done it. Of course, she believed me, because he was the Bad Kid. Instead of pulling him aside, she made all of us sit in a circle and called him out in front of the whole class. I can remember him looking at me across the circle as she grilled him about it. He tried to argue for a minute, but then just gave up and took the blame. I still remember the defeated look on his face. I wish I could go back and slap little me for that.”
—Anonymous
- “My parents met and had me in college. They were engaged to be married while in a long-distance relationship. My mother got pregnant by her gay best friend and didn’t tell anyone he was the father. Once reunited, my father realized she was pregnant and that he couldn’t be the father because they were living in separate states when she conceived. He later called off the engagement. My sibling was born and has no idea their father was gay. A few years later, their father died during the AIDS epidemic. There was a story told explaining how he contracted the virus, while excluding his sexuality. I know the truth and will take it to my grave as it’s not my place to say anything.”
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- “I still pick my nose and occasionally eat my boogers. I’ve hidden it from everyone in my life. I’ve been trying to stop since I was a little kid, but it’s just something I haven’t been able to. I feel absolutely disgusting when I do it, but nothing I’ve tried has helped me stop.”
—Anonymous, 31
- “I dated my first boyfriend for 10 years, and we never, ever even kissed. I lied to friends and family that we had, but the truth was that both of us had so much Catholic shame about being intimate that it never happened. Catholic school scared us both to the point we felt like we couldn’t. Eventually, I got therapy and realized how messed up this was, broke up with him, and had my first kiss at 26 with some guy at a bar. I was like, THIS is what I’ve been missing!? What a waste of 10 years!”
- “My wife used to travel for her job. When she was away, I would perform ** on men I contacted through the old AOL.”
Have a secret of your own that popped into your head? Feel free to share it in the comments. Or, if you prefer, you can write in to this anonymous form. Who knows — your answer could be included in a future article.
Please note: some comments have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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