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<h2>Sneaking across the lake in the middle of the night, counselors making out by the canoes, stealing midnight snacks from the mess hall, brutal games of cabin truth or dare--summer camps are full of scandal...</h2><p>So, when Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/clhubes" target="_blank">@clhubes</a> asked former campers of the internet about the juiciest scandal that went down in the cabins, dining halls, or tetherball pole, people were ready to share their favorite camp gossip. Yes, it was your bunkmate who was hoarding all the Oreos...</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ok I’ve seen the high school edition a million times before but what was the biggest scandal at your summer camp??</p>&mdash; Lucy Huber (@clhubes) <a href="https://twitter.com/clhubes/status/1617586675387101184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The second time I went to this particular camp a number of counselors got fired in the middle of a session because they snuck out one night to go to a bar in the nearby town.</p>&mdash; miranda_c (@caligirl2505) <a href="https://twitter.com/caligirl2505/status/1617596092585246721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I was a counselor and it was definitely what the older counselors were up to in the kayak shed</p>&mdash; sarah radz (@sarahradz_) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahradz_/status/1617587706594459648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I went to musical theater camp (oh the DRAMA) so all the girls were always fighting over the like, 2 straight guys out of 150 teens.</p>&mdash; Gretchen Nicholls (@GbytheBook) <a href="https://twitter.com/GbytheBook/status/1617589309770719232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I went to a camp at Bob Jones University one year and the skirt we’d bought especially to meet their crazy dress code rode up so my knees were visible at lunch. I guess That was a scandal and I had to go back to the dorm to change. … No, it was not reasonable.</p>&mdash; Abbey Bogost (@abbeyej) <a href="https://twitter.com/abbeyej/status/1617597406899470342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mine was when the director of the program embezzled funds and he was fired but never returned any money.</p>&mdash; Anna Gasaway (she/her) (@Yawp97) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yawp97/status/1617590231334793218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Not the biggest, but counselor one summer tried to mail weed to herself in a package w/shampoo and soaps. The local post office smelled it and called the camp. camp director made a show of dumping all of the weed in front of the whole staff. Counselor obviously was kicked out.</p>&mdash; lauren k (@laurencarly2) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurencarly2/status/1617590926158725120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cool girl at choir camp had a camp bf who knew about her home bf, but home bf didn&#39;t know about camp bf. Home bf came to our concert. She sang &quot;When I Fall In Love.&quot; Camp bf cried saying goodbye to her for another year behind the lodge. We were all sworn to secrecy.</p>&mdash; Lily S. Axelrod (@LilySAxelrod) <a href="https://twitter.com/LilySAxelrod/status/1617593637772066827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The big prank was always writing on the dining hall roof in shaving cream. The day after Half Blood Prince was published an older kid who&#39;d read it super fast wrote &quot;Dumbledoor Dies&quot; on the roof and all the little kids saw it the next morning and oh my god.</p>&mdash; Shani Silver (@shanisilver) <a href="https://twitter.com/shanisilver/status/1617596481082458112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My sister (pre-internets) had her friend send a letter to her boyfriend at the boys&#39; camp saying she lost her arms in a waterskiing accident and would never write him again, He was picked up by parents, inconsolable, and my sister was in Big Trouble.</p>&mdash; Perry Hewitt (@perryhewitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/perryhewitt/status/1617589131248566273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">a girl at girl scout camp was a serial pooper. she pooped outside behind a cabin. she pooped on the bathroom floor. we had to do a polar bear slip-n-slide instead of a polar bear plunge because she pooped in the pool. <a href="https://t.co/72QMD9vjHi">https://t.co/72QMD9vjHi</a></p>&mdash; trashcannah (@hannahhargitay) <a href="https://twitter.com/hannahhargitay/status/1617593757045764098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At band camp, people were hooking up in the instrument storage room... <br><br>... and the whole camp was mostly outraged that they were changing the temp and humidity level that the instruments were stored in. <a href="https://t.co/OtCk1bFIjV">https://t.co/OtCk1bFIjV</a></p>&mdash; Casey Stockstill (@CaseyStockstill) <a href="https://twitter.com/CaseyStockstill/status/1617603756786618369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">convinced a bunch of girls i was a vampire during my first emo phase and they absolutely unequivocally believed me <a href="https://t.co/IhOYn83cf5">https://t.co/IhOYn83cf5</a></p>&mdash; slutty vampire enjoyer (@meatprison_) <a href="https://twitter.com/meatprison_/status/1617611386271707137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My ~personal~ scandal was that I ate too much before the swimming test and failed it so I was the only 8 year old required to wear a life jacket and no I did not go back.</p>&mdash; flop era (@TheNorax) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNorax/status/1617603956502597632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A girl brought a pocket knife to girl scout camp when we were like 11 and used it as a threat to get what she wanted from other campers. She was quickly sent home when the adults caught wind of it</p>&mdash; Brittany 🌜 (@bee__amaral) <a href="https://twitter.com/bee__amaral/status/1617592255711436800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I went to Interlochen Center for the Arts summer camp. One guy (who really irked me ftr) got caught smoking the LAST NIGHT and was told he wasn&#39;t allowed to put the camp on his resume. Interlochen is BIG in the arts world so that was a big deal.</p>&mdash; Folk Magician 🦚♌♏♒ (@Janeisntmyname) <a href="https://twitter.com/Janeisntmyname/status/1617593828600602624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Some girls stole another girl’s bras and ran them up the flagpole before dawn. It was a pretty shockingly cruel act to the rest of us, and the girls that did it were probably punished (socially) more by the rest of the campers than by the leaders tbh 😬😬😬</p>&mdash; mike wazowski (@courtsaysnoice) <a href="https://twitter.com/courtsaysnoice/status/1617588122514247680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mine was when my friend McKenzie, who was in 8th grade, tried to sneak to the high school camp next door in the middle of the night to see her boyfriend and cut open her leg on barbed wire and refused to tell anyone until it got super infected and she passed out.</p>&mdash; Lucy Huber (@clhubes) <a href="https://twitter.com/clhubes/status/1617587271519342592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 people reveal the biggest scandal that happened at their summer camp.

Sneaking across the lake in the middle of the night, counselors making out by the canoes, stealing midnight snacks from the mess hall, brutal games of cabin truth or dare--summer camps are full of scandal...So, when Twitter user @clhubes asked former campers of the internet about the juiciest scandal that went down in the cabins, dining halls, or tetherball pole, people were ready to share their favorite camp gossip. Yes, it was your bunkmate who was hoarding all the Oreos...Ok I’ve seen the high school edition a million times before but what was the biggest scandal at your summer camp??&mdash; Lucy Huber (@clhubes) January 23, 2023 1.The second time I went to this particular camp a number of counselors got fired in the middle of a session because they snuck out one night to go to a bar in the nearby town.&mdash; miranda_c (@caligirl2505) January 23, 2023 2.I was a counselor and it was definitely what the older counselors were up to in the kayak shed&mdash; sarah radz (@sarahradz_) January 23, 2023 3.I went to musical theater camp (oh the DRAMA) so all the girls were always fighting over the like, 2 straight guys out of 150 teens.&mdash; Gretchen Nicholls (@GbytheBook) January 23, 2023 4.I went to a camp at Bob Jones University one year and the skirt we’d bought especially to meet their crazy dress code rode up so my knees were visible at lunch. I guess That was a scandal and I had to go back to the dorm to change. … No, it was not reasonable.&mdash; Abbey Bogost (@abbeyej) January 23, 2023 5.Mine was when the director of the program embezzled funds and he was fired but never returned any money.&mdash; Anna Gasaway (she/her) (@Yawp97) January 23, 2023 6.Not the biggest, but counselor one summer tried to mail weed to herself in a package w/shampoo and soaps. The local post office smelled it and called the camp. camp director made a show of dumping all of the weed in front of the whole staff. Counselor obviously was kicked out.&mdash; lauren k (@laurencarly2) January 23, 2023 7.Cool girl at choir camp had a camp bf who knew about her home bf, but home bf didn&#39;t know about camp bf. Home bf came to our concert. She sang &quot;When I Fall In Love.&quot; Camp bf cried saying goodbye to her for another year behind the lodge. We were all sworn to secrecy.&mdash; Lily S. Axelrod (@LilySAxelrod) January 23, 2023 8.The big prank was always writing on the dining hall roof in shaving cream. The day after Half Blood Prince was published an older kid who&#39;d read it super fast wrote &quot;Dumbledoor Dies&quot; on the roof and all the little kids saw it the next morning and oh my god.&mdash; Shani Silver (@shanisilver) January 23, 2023 9.My sister (pre-internets) had her friend send a letter to her boyfriend at the boys&#39; camp saying she lost her arms in a waterskiing accident and would never write him again, He was picked up by parents, inconsolable, and my sister was in Big Trouble.&mdash; Perry Hewitt (@perryhewitt) January 23, 2023 10.a girl at girl scout camp was a serial pooper. she pooped outside behind a cabin. she pooped on the bathroom floor. we had to do a polar bear slip-n-slide instead of a polar bear plunge because she pooped in the pool. https://t.co/72QMD9vjHi&mdash; trashcannah (@hannahhargitay) January 23, 2023 11.At band camp, people were hooking up in the instrument storage room... ... and the whole camp was mostly outraged that they were changing the temp and humidity level that the instruments were stored in. https://t.co/OtCk1bFIjV&mdash; Casey Stockstill (@CaseyStockstill) January 23, 2023 12.convinced a bunch of girls i was a vampire during my first emo phase and they absolutely unequivocally believed me https://t.co/IhOYn83cf5&mdash; slutty vampire enjoyer (@meatprison_) January 23, 2023 13.My ~personal~ scandal was that I ate too much before the swimming test and failed it so I was the only 8 year old required to wear a life jacket and no I did not go back.&mdash; flop era (@TheNorax) January 23, 2023 14.A girl brought a pocket knife to girl scout camp when we were like 11 and used it as a threat to get what she wanted from other campers. She was quickly sent home when the adults caught wind of it&mdash; Brittany 🌜 (@bee__amaral) January 23, 2023 15.I went to Interlochen Center for the Arts summer camp. One guy (who really irked me ftr) got caught smoking the LAST NIGHT and was told he wasn&#39;t allowed to put the camp on his resume. Interlochen is BIG in the arts world so that was a big deal.&mdash; Folk Magician 🦚♌♏♒ (@Janeisntmyname) January 23, 2023 16.Some girls stole another girl’s bras and ran them up the flagpole before dawn. It was a pretty shockingly cruel act to the rest of us, and the girls that did it were probably punished (socially) more by the rest of the campers than by the leaders tbh 😬😬😬&mdash; mike wazowski (@courtsaysnoice) January 23, 2023 17.Mine was when my friend McKenzie, who was in 8th grade, tried to sneak to the high school camp next door in the middle of the night to see her boyfriend and cut open her leg on barbed wire and refused to tell anyone until it got super infected and she passed out.&mdash; Lucy Huber (@clhubes) January 23, 2023  

Sneaking across the lake in the middle of the night, counselors making out by the canoes, stealing midnight snacks from the mess hall, brutal games of cabin truth or dare--summer camps are full of scandal...  So, when Twitter user @clhubes...