Is there ever something that happened to a family member that you will ever know? Has anyone gone missing under mysterious circumstances? Is the place next to your great grandmother’s friend’s dad’s house totally haunted?
In the late 80s my uncle was heavily involved in Unix system administration and architecture at a major defense contractor. He was gay AF and smart as a whip. He had been hinting that he knew something important about the whole Iran Contra thing and then one day he just dropped dead. Like literally they had no explanation other than a sudden cessation of brain activity (there was a technical term I don’t remember). The family requested that his body be kept so that we could have a separate autopsy done, but mysteriously he was misrouted and instead was cremated. It was fishy as fuck. I’m not sure whether he was offed by the government or possibly entered witness protection. I just don’t believe the story that his brain just shut off.
Someone stole a 20 dollar out of a hollowed out crucifix my grandmother had and they found the money ripped in half in the driveway and I got blamed for it when I didn’t do it.
Someone ordered payperview porn on the TV and I got blamed for it even though I didn’t know the fucking code and I wasnt home on the day and time it was bought. I’m still salty as fuck over this one.
Mine’s a bit dark. Dad’s family is from China. They had 7 boys including him. It’s a “mystery” what happened to the girl(s) but not really… It’s not spoken about and I don’t think anyone has the balls to ask anyway.
Am I gay?
Yes.
Won’t know until you try it out.
My dad committed suicide when I was 5. I’ll never know why he did it.
If he had depression there might not have been a reason. It’s not uncommon for men to spend their lives silently fighting with depression, and when I was 5 a man going to a therapist would have been seen as a weakness and weird.
Remember that depression is a disease, looking for a reason makes as much sense as asking why someone had their heart fail. I recently watched “In Limbo” with my wife and I think they handled it very well (TW: Suicide). When the depression grabs you you’re not able to think clearly or reason your way out of it.
He did it because…
gestures to the entire world
This. All this.
Never thought I’d see an insensitive comment about one of the most traumatic events in my life.
You asked for an explaination of why your dad did it. I gave you an explaination. It’s not like the world was less shitty 20 years ago. The world is terrible, and it’s never going to get better. The logical thing to do if you’re suffering from being alive, is to not be alive anymore.
Doomerism. Not even once.
You asked for an explaination of why your dad did it.
They most certainly did not ask for anything.
No question at all, just a statement.
Nearly every sentence of this is wrong. Suffering is a part of life, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only part, and it doesn’t mean the “logical” solution is to die. Get real.
Supposedly my mother’s maternal grandfather (so, my great-grandfather) wrestled a bear. Also supposedly, there is a statue somewhere in West Virginia to celebrate this fact.
I’ve done some surface level searching online for this but haven’t found anything. Cool to think about, though!
There was apparently a family fortune in Britain that was swindled by a fancy Halifax lawyer, who was one of the fathers of Canadian confederation. I have no other details.
When my father was a child, he, his siblings, and his parents were traveling in northern Mexico at night and had missing time and vague memories of a weird light and being carried by lots of little hands.
pygmy festival.
pigmeos
This isn’t too exciting given the region, but I had a great-great-grandfather in the Appalachians who supposedly died in a domestic dispute. It was once mentioned, however, that said “domestic dispute” was actually my relative snitching on a bootlegging operation.
Am Appalachian. This sounds about right.
My uncle doesn’t drive nor consume pork anymore after returning from Canada, but every time we ask about that, he doesn’t say anything useful.
So my theory is he hit a pig with a car and felt sorry or something
Something about Al Capone. Originally I heard we were related, but I don’t think that’s true, but my great grandma did chase him out of her house with her cane at one point.
A picture of my grandfather standing next to a woman, taken before he met my grandmother, and she is holding a baby. It didn’t surface until after grandpa’s funeral. It was taken 500 miles away from where my family lives. I live in that other city now. I wonder if I’ve met my half aunt or uncle randomly in passing?
There is a guy looking like my grandfather and other members in my family, but is a part of the family next door (of my grandfather’s house)
How great-grandpa caught syphilis? Towards the end, doctors said a lot of his ailments were because of that one, little issue. You can speculate, but…
Syphilis can hang out for something like 30 years. Maybe they were on a break, or he got infected before they got together.
Some vague stories around my grandfather before they migrated that sound like a godfather film but which no one knitted anything about.
The last Yarnfather
Oops. lol. I’ll leave the typo now!
