The Most Shocking Discoveries From A Private Investigator

1. Cheater caught in the act!

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Private investigators are renowned for discovering unwanted truths, but when that discovery is that your mom has been cheating on your dad, you probably wish you never knew. For one poor guy this nightmare become a reality after a private investigator his father had hired had video evidence of the affair. How shocking is that!

2. Woman's long lost sibling is... herself?

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One American woman who had been adopted as a child hired a private investigator to find her estranged biological father. After some digging, she discovered he had a daughter, which meant she had a sister. Astonished at this news, she payed for more digging to be done. What shocked her the most was her supposed long lost sister which she had spent thousands to find was in fact herself!

3. Strip that down!

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This story comes from a private investigator who's job was to do surveillance on a nurse claiming she was disabled and couldn't work. After surveying her for a few weeks, he had noticed that she was visiting lots of strip clubs across town. It Turned out she was actually working in them!

4. Cool car show for a cheater

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One of the coolest private investigator stories comes from one man who was hired by a wife over suspicion of him cheating. The husband worked at a corvette museum, and the private investigator got to spend all weekend watching Lambos, Porches and over 50 500+HP cars race all weekend. After all this it turned out the husband was just going back to the hotel and sleeping.

5. A strange form of revenge

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A couple were in the stages of a divorce, but the wife became suspicious of her husband for a bizarre reason. She hired a private investigator on him as she believed he was sticking random items of her up his butt. Shockingly, the worst part about it all, she was right!

6. The world's best blind driver

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A private investigator was hired to follow a women who claimed she was completely blind. She would collect insurance as a compensation for her disability. However, the company became suspicious of her, and rightly so as she was caught driving herself around from store to store in a church van.

7. In the middle of the parking lot!

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After following a guy claiming to have a back injury, this private investigator discovered that he has been meeting up with another woman, not his wife! What makes this weirder is he met her at the mall, where they later went on to have it off, in the middle of the carpark!

8. Not just a mans best friend

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Warning, this one could be disturbing! Ever had a suspicion your wife is cheating on you? Well this one man hired a private investigator to track his wife. Luckily for the man his suspicions were right, but the investigator made a rather disturbing discovery. The wife had been cheating with the household dog - yes, the dog!

9. The old con man

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One family hired a private investigator after there widowed grandmother claimed she had been exchanging messages with a new man. The guy claimed to be a retired cop and veteran, and the real shadiness started when he bought a new car in her name, despite her not driving anymore. The private investigator discovered the guy was notorious for shacking up with widows and bleeding them dry.

10. This didn't go to plan

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This private investigator had been hired by a famous author to test the security of his home system. His job was to simply try and break in, but there's a twist. Unfortunately for the investigator, the caretaker of the house thought he was just an intruder, and set his two big dogs on him.!

11. Double trouble

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Ever thought your grandmother was crazy? Well this person's grandmother makes yours seem normal. After showing signs of strange behaviour, one man and his grandfather hired a private investigator to check her out. The weirdest part of the story is the private investigator recognised another person watching her. It turns out she was under surveillance by the D.E.A!

12. Where's my horse?

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This case comes from a retired private investigator who had been assigned the task of finding a missing horse. While investigating he managed to find himself almost on the receiving end of several bullets from a group of angry rednecks. We wonder if he thought about a change of career after this?

13. It's a small world

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It can scare you sometimes how small the world seems, especially for this one certain guy. The mans grandfather worked as a private investigator, and he was asked to trail a well known truck that had made suspicious journeys. It most likely came to a shock when he discovered the man he was trailing was his other grandfather! Christmas dinner was probably pretty awkward after this.

14. Energy drink bandit

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One private investigator claims his weirdest ever investigation took place on a supposedly disabled low level criminal. The criminal would go from Walmart to Walmart loading up a shopping trolley full of monster cans. He would then briskly leave without paying. It wasn't until he was caught on camera selling a truck load of monster cans to a corner store and leaving with a stack of cash that he was caught.

15. Is there a cult next door?

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One private investigator had been hired after a man was convinced the church next door set his house on fire. While it turns out it wasn't the church who set his house on fire, that was a psycho ex partner, but there was in fact a cult next door. This probably wasn't what the private investigator first expected!

16. Is my neighbour invisible?

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One private investigator had been hired to try and prove that a mans neighbour was invisible. The man claimed that somebody had been knocking over his trashcans at night. Most normal people could clearly see it's the wind after watching the video, but the client was adamant his neighbour must be invisible.

17. An unwanted discovery

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This case comes from a college student whose roommate previously worked as a private investigator. One day in spring break his room mate came back black and blue looking like he'd been at war. It turns out some guy he had been assigned to follow in a cheating scandal caught him and decided to teach him a lesson. By a lesson that means beat him to a pulp.

18. Awkward!

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You've probably realised by now that people in marriages aren't always happy their partner is being faithless. So when a wife hired a private investigator after her husband claimed he was working late, she probably was shocked to realise he actually had been working late and wasn't having an affair. Now that would be an awkward conversation.

19. "Bingo"

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This discovery comes from somebody who worked as an assistant for a private investigator. After being assigned the job of capturing a women who claimed she had been immobilised by a car accident, the pair manage to do so after watching her win at her local bingo. This doesn't seem like the best place to be caught for fraud.

20. A good excuse

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In another cheating scandal, a wife hires a private investigator after her husband keeps returning home late and smelling of women's perfume. After some investigation, it turns out the husband had started dance classes but didn't want to tell his wife.

21. This got much worse!

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Arguably one of more disturbing cases on this list, one private investigator found a shocking discovery. After being hired due to a wife's strong suspicion of her husband cheating, she was left rushing to the local authorities after discovering he was secretly "touching" his stepdaughter.

22. Did you even look?

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One of the more amusing cases on this list, one poor kid lost his dog in L.A. and spent two weeks searching for it. As a result his parents hired a private investigator to search for it. After spending $3 thousand, the investigator found it in one day!

23. A crashing case

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After a collision at an intersection, a private investigator got tasked with investigating the situation. After gathering some footage from a nearby business's security camera, he discovered his client was definitely in the wrong and could be seen attacking the other driver. The case was suppose to be an insurance scam where the client would hire a private investigator and claim they found nothing, I guess this wasn't the case.

24. Planning a proposal

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There seems to be no shortage of people being suspicious of partners, and there also seems to be no shortage of excuses. However, when one private investigator managed to not only prove that the person accused was innocent, but they been plotting their proposal the whole time, it was no doubt a nice surprise.

25. Not very injured to me

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In another case of fraud, a private investigator was hired to do some digging on a women claiming she was unable to work due to severe injuries. It didn't take long for the investigator to discover the abundance of pictures of her clubbing, dancing, and even horseback riding on myspace.

26. The real Ace Ventura

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Some guy really wanted to know what his cat got up to whilst he was at work, so he hired a private investigator to have a look. To his amazement, the cat would just walk around the streets, climbing trees and lick itself - pretty anti-climatic if you ask me!

27. College dropout turned ski bum

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One private investigator had a peculiar job of staking out a college dropout. The parents of the kid were extremely wealthy and began worrying after they stopped returning their calls. The parents had paid around $40 thousand just to discover their kid had now become a full time ski bum.

28. Catfished...kind of!

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After hearing their 13 year old daughter had an online boyfriend, the parents became suspicious and hired a private investigator to find out who this person really was. After thinking it was dodgy guy or a dangerous hacker, it was actually just some poor 13 year old kid - how amusing!

29. My dog's getting fat, help!

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One private investigator had been hired by a client after her dog started to gain weight. She hadn't been over feeding it so it was coming as a real shock to her. It turns out that the dog was being fed by almost every stranger it encountered whilst wandering around outside all day.

30. One way to stop a lawsuit

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After being sued for a knee and hand injury, one woman decided to hire a private investigator. She was probably less than amused after discovering the person trying to sue her had been spotted playing ultimate frisbee and smoking pot without limping.