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Whenever we hear that someone “took something to the grave” we’re usually very disappointed.
The things we could have known!
The questions we’ll never answer!
Luckily, some people are an open book during their dying days, which is what brings us
to today's topic, 10 weirdest deathbed confessions!
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10.
“You’re adopted” This is kind of like the “you’re adopted”
but you find out that it goes all the way to the top!
By that, I mean that this confession involves an old Chinese woman who confessed to having
bought her daughter from the black market.
This was a common occurrence in China back in the day.
She had tried for a long time to get pregnant and couldn’t and, well, what do you do before
IVF is even a possibility?
You buy someone else’s kid.
After buying her, they really did give her the best life, sending her to a university
in the U.S., after which she moved to Europe, so I guess she couldn’t be too mad.
9.
Abuse Our next confession comes as told by the person
who witnessed it, a worker in an assisted living home.
While working, they heard a man confessing to harming his daughter’s son and apologizing
just before taking his last breath.
Can you imagine hearing something like that?
Luckily, this apology wasn’t the first one, his daughter explained.
He had made amends and changed, getting close to his family again after the incident, but
it seems like he never quite got over what he had done because here he was, apologizing
as his last act on earth.
It must be a common occurrence in assisted living spaces, I imagine.
8.
Mistress A nurse witnessed this confession in the biggest
hospital in Copenhagen.
This man, dying of cancer, was surrounded by family: wife, kids, and other relatives.
Right before he dies, you know what he does?
He calls the woman he’s been cheating on his family with and asked her to meet him
at the hospital.
The nurse actually had to remove the family into another room because, of course, the
scene when she arrived was not a friendly or particularly quiet one.
7.
A Heist Now we’re going to get historical.
An LA woman named Nili Shamrat, widow of a man named Naaman Diller, said her husband
confessed to a serious crime to her.
No, not murder, but definitely more infamous.
Diller was a notorious criminal in the ‘60s and ‘70s, so it’s not like she was shocked
but, the degree of the crime is definitely shocking.
See, back in 1983, he had stolen 106 clocks worth millions from a museum in Jerusalem.
One of them was actually a pocket watch made for Marie Antoinette, valued at $30M. For
decades, the culprit was anonymous until a watchmaker in Tel Aviv gave authorities an
important clue.
He had paid about $40,000 to a man in exchange for 40 items, including the pocket watch.
The lawyer that negotiated the sale was interrogated and eventually, they found themselves at the
door of Nili Shamrat, who still held a large part of the collection and had been advised
by her late husband to sell it.
6.
Hey Neighbor!
Imagine if your neighbor called you over just to confess something that’s been on her
chest before she dies.
That’s what happened to someone in Delaware.
Their neighbor, Alice Mock, called them in to explain a story that happened in the 1970's,
where she had invited a man over to her apartment.
He came over and they drank and he passed out, which is when Mock stole money from him.
On top of that, she knew if her landlord found her, as a white woman, after a long night
with an African American man, she could get kicked out.
So what did she do?
She called the cops and accused him of raping and robbing her.
Facing trial, which could lead to a 45-year sentence or pleading out for 15 years, he
chose the latter and did time even though he was totally innocent.
Mock died a few days after making the confession, and the neighbor went to the police with the
information.
Cammile would end up being released from prison, but not after serving 12 years of his life
there.
Kind of a happy ending?
5.
Just Another Nursing Home Confession That’s going to be the title of my debut
album.
This confession came from a nursing home patient that needed to get something off of her chest.
It wasn’t actually her confession though, I’d say it was more like old trauma.
Her father had driven drunk when she was young and hit a little girl.
He unloaded the entire confession to her, in detail.
He and his friends had hidden the body under the porch steps and now there she was, living
with the guilt of someone else’s murder!
Can you imagine?
Now that nursing home worker must lay in bed at night wide-eyed unsure of what to do with
that information, and now you will too.
4.
War Confessions Are hard confessions softened by the blanket
of war?
Maybe not.
A man told the internet about his grandfather’s WW2 confession that may have been better left
untold.
What do you do with the new image of your sweet grandfather after he tells you the worst
thing you’ve ever imagined him doing?
After D-Day, sweet old grandpa was part of a 12-man squad fighting in France.
The squad was torn apart by a surprise ambush which left only two Americans alive.
As the last two men standing, he and his partner took out the last three Germans of the opposing
unit execution-style.
He finished the war with a deep hate for Germans and confessed to even more aggressive acts
we can't repeat here.
3.
Theft After war violence, this may seem tame, but
make no mistake, this is a hard crime.
Hall Huberman, a famous violinist from the early 1900’s, was playing at Carnegie Hall
in 1936 and decided to switch violins in the first half.
He had a new Guarnerius violin he was wanting to try out.
After intermission, however, the one he’d stopped playing, a valuable Stradivarius,
was stolen from his dressing room by a New York musician named Julian Altman.
For years, Altman performed in D.C. in the National Symphony Orchestra and even played
for presidents.
He went way beyond theft though, and while serving time for child molestation, he confessed
to his wife that his violin was stolen.
She found the violin in their home along with newspaper clippings about it.
Two years later, she returned it to Lloyds of London for over a quarter of a million
dollars finder’s fee.
2.
Faux Ethnicity Listen, if you need to fake an ethnicity to
have something interesting to tell people, you might be the most boring and the least
creative person anyone has ever met.
Some woman’s great-grandma seems to be that person.
She told her son that after decades of teaching her entire family rain dances and telling
stories full of cultural insights, she’d actually made it all up.
To add, her whole family had bought into it, one of her great-grandkids even getting a
college grant for being 1/16 Native American.
She had gone as far as to decorate her house with Cherokee-inspired designs and all of
it had been a lie.
Her mom, a woman of European descent, had left her at an orphanage at a young age, and
perhaps this was her way of coping.
1.
Our Favorite (fake) photo This one is the one that truly breaks my heart.
In the early 1930’s, a time for a lot of these crimes it seems, a man named Robert
Kenneth Wilson offered a photo to the Daily Mail.
He was a doctor, so a reputable man worthy of being believed, and he even refused to
attach his name to the photo, not wanting any credit.
The photo became known as “The Surgeon’s Photo”, and featured what we now know and
dream about as the Loch Ness Monster.
Later, in 1994, the lie came out of the shadows.
The son of the mastermind, Christian Spurling, came out with the full truth, even explaining
that a submarine had been used to start a model that could fool
the public.