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Thread: Skeletons In Your Closet
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08-09-2019, 11:46 AM #51
That tops my story of dad having an engagement ring made from gold teeth found in the Nazi Treasure mine.
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08-09-2019, 11:48 AM #52Registered User
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Not as exciting as some that others have posted but...the first owner of our house died about 6 months after moving in (100+ years ago). His wife died about 2 days later; we assume they both died in the house, which may or may not be haunted in a low-key way. The first owner, Charles, was a Scandinavian immigrant (based on immigration records) and lived most of his life on the OR coast -- we assume he was a logger or fisherman. He was in his 60s when he moved into this house (based on the original old-ass occupancy permit that Portland has digitized), so we assume this was his retirement -- too bad he didn't get to enjoy it.
Charles and his wife had an adopted daughter who got married to a much older man (like 20+ years older) in her teens, had 5 kids, and then one day vanished -- we always assumed she skipped town, but I guess it could have been foul play(?). All the kids went to orphanages -- we got that piece of the story from one of her grandsons. I think there's a screenplay in there somewhere.
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08-09-2019, 11:51 AM #53
My grandfather on my mom's side, now 87, found out on his 80th birthday that he was not, after all, the son of a rich Paris industrialist. My great-grandma admitted as much to him on his birthday. She was 102 at the time, perfectly lucid, and still one of the meanest people I've ever met. He has Alzheimer's and I guess he pissed her off because he couldn't remember something that happened in the 50s, or simply because he spent 80 years not living up to her expectations. She threw the truth in his face and called him a "bougnoule" for good measure, an old timey racist French term for people living in colonized parts of Africa. Turns out the copper skin tone that runs on that side of the family comes from a Lebanese grounds keeper great granny used to fool around with.
She was an OG gold digger, born in 1910, married an ironworks baron 30 years her elder, and apparently took some serious liberties in her marriage. She shipped my grandpa out to a religious boys school at the start of WW2 and forgot about him for 6 years. He escaped several times, almost making it to Paris once (he was 12). When the war ended and he was sent back home she had remarried and lived in a private hotel. She proceeded to get divorced/remarried a couple more times, getting richer and richer in the process, and was a widow at 40. Her antics are legendary. She owned a Fabergé egg at some point which she gave to one of her maids. Last time I saw her she still had priceless Persian rugs in her assisted living facility. She had a picture of herself as a little girl, taken during WW1 when the Germans were getting close to Paris. She's on a horse riding in front of a German officer in full regalia, sword and all.
She led a crazy life and stayed classy AF to the end, disowning us all after squandering every last penny she had. She died at 107 with all her head, venom still in her fangs.
My other great grandma was a direct descendant of the Duc du Maine (Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine), an illegitimate son of king Louis XIV. Not so much a skeleton in the closet as this was fully known even at the time but it makes from an interesting lineage...
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08-09-2019, 11:54 AM #54Registered User
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08-09-2019, 12:29 PM #55
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08-09-2019, 01:33 PM #56Registered User
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My grandmother was on the team of researchers that made KFC coleslaw that odd shade of green.
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08-09-2019, 03:17 PM #57
Skeletons In Your Closet
My great grandpa was an abusive drunk. Died penniless and no one would claim his body so he was buried in some public cemetery in Iowa. His daughter, my grandma never married and had three kids from different fathers, never married. Which was a huge deal in the 30s and 50s when her kids were born. My mom spent a good portion of her life telling people her dad died when she was little, etc. I remember telling a school age friend and his mom that my grandma never married when I was a kid and my mom being upset when she found out I said that. She was over it by then but it was reflex.
On my dads side his mom apparently went to go visit my grandpa right before he got shipped off to Korea, he was engaged to his high school sweetheart but he couldn’t turn down a lay right before he went to war. She got pregnant and his Dad wanted to buy her off to get an abortion or give up the kid. However he broke off his engagement and married her. They couldn’t get married until after he returned and their first daughter was born. That was improper so they had a fake marriage license made up that showed them getting married one year earlier than they actually did, that hung on the wall until he died. They had a miserable marriage and she got Alzheimer’s at 68, lasted until 78 and he took care of her the whole time. Never put her in a home and was her sole care giver. He was apparently a womanizer and not a great husband for most of his life and she certainly had her flaws.
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08-09-2019, 03:26 PM #58Registered User
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Maternal great grandparents lived in Chicago thru prohibition. Believe he was a butcher or grocer. The story is that one night he came home and told his wife to pack the 13 kids (yes, 13) into the two cars they had and start driving west until she couldn't drive further. My grandfather was one of the oldest and drove the 2nd car, they drove for several days and ended up in Hoquiam, WA - obviously hitting the coast. I can't remember how long it was until the grandfather showed up, but the family never talked about it again. The family story is that he was involved with a front for the mob and something went sideways. Wish I knew more about it.
Edit: not really a skeleton, but a cool story. No way I'm telling my skeletons...
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08-09-2019, 06:26 PM #59Registered User
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My cousin has 3 kids from 3 different dads. One dad is dead from an OD, another dad is in jail.
Does that count?
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08-12-2019, 11:35 AM #60Registered User
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No one has actually posted something horrible they have done that is completely unknown.
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08-12-2019, 12:02 PM #61
Re: "Skeletons in the Closet"
It has always been my understanding that while the term can refer to something you personally have done it also refers to family scandals.
If you say that someone has a skeleton in the closet, or in British English a skeleton in the cupboard, you mean that they are keeping secret a bad or embarrassing fact about themselves.“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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08-12-2019, 12:20 PM #64Registered User
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08-12-2019, 12:45 PM #68
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08-12-2019, 12:51 PM #69Registered User
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Nope, I have buried any trace of evidence, well other than this.
My wife uses guilt on me for things that don't call for it. That and she constantly accused me of cheating for years, with mountains of proof that I hadn't. I got to the point of "If you irrationally tell me I have, then what do I have to lose."
I would have left but I love my kids and I'm scared she wouldn't raise them well (she's very short tempered) without me there to calm her down.
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08-12-2019, 12:54 PM #70
sounds like a recipe full of win; really, what could go wrong?
Move upside and let the man go through...
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08-12-2019, 01:00 PM #71
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08-12-2019, 01:12 PM #72
Is this where we guess who you are?
I’ll go first.
Deepsouthmafia/4plyI still call it The Jake.
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08-12-2019, 01:16 PM #73
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08-12-2019, 01:33 PM #74
We had a buddy in college we called Buckethead.
"Oh good, Buckethead is here..." we used to say, which was usually followed shortly by amazing displays of drinking by Buckethead.
He would have fit in great here. Lots of skeletons in his closet.
Probably in his trunk too.I still call it The Jake.
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08-12-2019, 01:46 PM #75
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