Most Shocking Confession Booth Secrets

1. "I faked my own death"

imagesource/Reddit'Tomgoldaccount' from Kenya cut off all contact with everyone he knew from the United States before moving to Kenya. He now uses a fake name and tells people about a fake 'background', telling people his family died on a boat trip in the Pacific. He is 'dead' in the USA.

2. "I run an extremely successful Wedding Cake business using store bought mix"

imagesource/reddit"iGotYouThisCake" owns a cake making business and charges hundreds of dollars for cakes. But this user confessed to not knowing how to bake... at all! Instead, they use a Pillsbury cake mix I buy for $1 a box at Walmart, their whole life is a LIE.

3. "I tricked someone into marriage"

imagesource/reddit'ThrownAway2389' confessed that when he was younger, he helped their friend out cat sitting. Every day for a week he would go round and feed the cat, etc, all the while reading every last entry in his friend's diary. He used this information to get his friend to like him - they're now happily married.

4. Sick girlfriend in a dead relationship

 imagesource/Reddit'Morningandamazing' confessed that he didn't want to be with his girlfriend anymore but before he got the chance to split up with her, she found out that she may have cancer. He confessed, "I feel like I need to stay in the relationship."

5. "I faked my college degree"

imagesource/pinterestForum user 'HalfEducated' confessed that their parents put so much pressure on them to go to college when it wasn't their ideal situation... so they faked the whole thing! A combination of the pressure, depression, and anxiety left them leading a complete double life.

6. Some sad final words

imagesource/redditAn anonymous reddit user confessed that when they were 17, they had a pretty strongly worded argument and later that day, their father ended his life. Their argument was the last time he spoke to anyone before he died, and this reddit user has to live with that guilt for the rest of their lives.

7. It's all an illusion

imagesource/reddit"Throngsong" confesses that everyone in her life thinks that she has a good job, and roommates but in reality, she's actually been homeless for a full year before saving up a bit of money from prostitution to get herself a little place to rent. She's still a prostitute.

8. Keeping everybody else's secrets

imagesource/reddit'yesthisisthrowaway23' has all of the work gossip, and I mean ALL of it! They know who's secretly romantically involved, doing funny business in the bathroom, and who's cheating on their spouses with a work romance. Not to mention their access to all of the company's banking details and passwords! Be careful when you are next in the office, you don't know who has the power!

9. The Incest abortion

 imagesource/reddit"One night my sister who was 19 at the time came home pretty drunk from a party. She was acting goofy and fell on the couch next to me. She started grabbing my leg and laughing and we started fondling. We ended up having sex right there. Needless to say she ended up having to have an abortion." - throwaway3708

10. "I killed my husband"

imagesource/redditA nurse in New Jersey once confessed to her priest about how this old Russian lady would relay the same story  to her over and over about how her husband drank and hit her. One day she leaned over and whispered in her ear "he was a bad drunk, so I pushed him down stairs. Dead." 

11. Another incest confession

imagesource/redditThis forum user was told a very dark story of a woman who had s*x with her brother throughout her childhood. Even now, she is head over heels with her brother and despises his wife because of the life she shares with him.

12. The New Jersey cannibal

imagesource/redditA local who regularly comes to church, is married and lives a seemingly very 'normal' life, confessed that he has had cannibalistic thoughts almost his entire life and fantasises about eating his own wife. I'm not sure whether to inform the authorities or not.

13. Never trust your twin

imagesource/countrylivingmagazineA terminally ill American ex-soldier confessed to killing his brother during the Vietnam war, so he could blame the death on the war, steal his brother's identity and return to America to be with his brother's wife. After his death, a handwritten confession was found in his home.

14. The old crazy lady

imagesource/redditThis anonymous user is a nurse who had an 86-year-old female patient who confessed something pretty gruesome to her! The lady would put crosses up around her room, and was asked to take them down for health and safety reasons; when she refused and they asked why, she responded 'It was one cross for each soul she took.' If she was as sinister as she sounded, it meant that she took 14 souls.

15. The saddest deathbed confession

 imagesource/reddit'Reginaalloway' works in end of life care and has been the subject to many deathbed confessions, but this one stuck with them. A woman had delivered a stillborn baby at home and on her own. As it was out of wedlock and she couldn't deal with the shame from her community, she put the baby's body in the basement freezer.

16. "I accidentally killed seven people"

imagesource/theindependent'Amgpu' is a landlord, and rented his property out to seven people in total. One day, they put a rag into the new water heater exhaust to help keep any debris from the heater at bay, and then installed it into their rental. 1 week later, this user gets a call to say that there had been an accident in their rental and that all of the tenants, were dead.

17. Too scared to be alone

imagesource/redditWe all have that one friend who we just tolerate, and if we had met them now, we probably wouldn't be friends with them. However, this person confessed that they hate all of their friends, they don't even respect them! Their fear of being alone is what keeps them in contact with their 'friends'.

18. Could I be capable of a school shooting?

imagesource/reddit"I came very, very close to committing a school shooting. I was picked on A LOT in high school. I’m still terrified of people in general, and avoid having relationships because of what I fear I’m capable of - could I hurt these people I love if they reject me?" - reddit

19. The blackmailing son

imagesource/redditThis daughter has a blackmail tactic for life. Forum user 'a_blackmailer' explains the time she caught her father in bed with her 15-year-old brother's girlfriend, she was 13 at the time. Since that day, the girlfriend was never to be seen again, and she uses this story to blackmail her father...and she LOVES it!

20. The Accidental One Night Stand

imagesource/reddit"My grandad got really drunk once and I could tell he was feeling a bit emotional this one night. So after a couple of hours chatting he decided to admit to me that the one and only time that he 'accidentally' had sex with someone, it was with a man" - reddit

21. The secret divorce that happened years before

imagesource/reddit"When my grandad was on his deathbed he confessed to my mother that he had actually been divorced from my grandmother for years. And when I say years, I mean over 20. No one in the family knew, just my mother, who had to tell everybody else when he died." - reddit .

22. My Grandmother was a secret cheater

imagesource/ABC7news"My grandma once admitted to confessing to our local priest about how she used to cheat on my grandfather all the time. As in the whole way through our relationship. She then went on to tell me that she had encouraged my mother (her daughter in law) to do the same." - reddit

23. The World War II s*x worker

imagesource/redditA British lady who worked as a s*x worker throughout the second world war, confessed to sleeping with people 'very high up' in the government and how she had to abort five fetuses during her time. It wasn't her work that actually got her down, but the emotional drag from not being able to tell anyone.

24. Grandad the murderer

imagesource/NBCnewsA young man from California confessed once that he grew up thinking that his mother had committed suicide when he was 10. But when his grandfather passed away about 45 years later, he confessed to him that he was actually the one who killed his mother. OMG.

25. Grandma the murderer...

imagesource/reddit"My grandmother confessed to murder on her deathbed. She was completely sane in her mind and that fact that she was such an eccentric character made the story all the more believable. No one close to her died so we're a bit unsure if it is true, but sometimes I do wonder..." - reddit

26. The one night stand

imagesource/reddit"My mom never knew her dad, because she was the result of a one night stand back in the 60s when it was really frowned upon. My grandmother was going to give my mother up but her mom said no, and raised her herself. On my grandmothers deathbed she finally confessed that my mother's father was a sailor who visited the port nearby" - reddit

27. The hidden $$$

imagesource/redditAn old Cuban lady who had moved to the US cashed her security checks and kept her cash around her apartment. When she died her son confessed to going into her apartment and searching for the money when his siblings weren't around. He found a big bag full of money with around $12,000 in. He kept it...

28. HIV positive

imagesource/reddit"I'm a medical student and I had a female patient who was new to our practice who was HIV positive. I needed to ask her how she got the virus... She tells me it was [transmitted via intimate contact], and the only reason she got tested was because her partner of 3 years last words to her...in hospice was 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I wanted to tell you; forgive me.'" - reddit

29. The secret daughter

imagesource/reddit"When my uncle had been in a serious car accident, he told the paramedics 'Tell my wife that Wendy is my daughter and I love her (name changed for privacy).' before passing away a couple of minutes later. Wendy turned out the be our neighbours 5 year old child..." - reddit

30. The old man's true feelings about his wife...

 imagesource/Yahoo"My grandfather told me and my grandmother many times before he died that he had never loved her and that he was close to divorcing her many times but couldn't go through with it because of the family. It's safe to say my grandmother was quite upset." - reddit