20 people share stories of experiencing a major 'plot twist' moment in their lives.

In most movies, there is a point where the protagonist faces a major plot twist: life as they knew it has crumbled and a previously hidden truth is now shoved in their face.

These moments are often theatrical and shocking, and can feel like they only exist within the fictional framework of a script, but real life presents plot twists just as wild, if not wilder.

People who've faced major plot-twists in their lives jumped on a Reddit thread to share their stories, and it confirms that secrets are everywhere.

1. From OP:

My grandmother passed away just over two weeks ago. The family all went to see her for the last time. She was surprising aware of everything around her, and telling stories/joking.

I went and sat by her, and we talked for a little while about various things. Out of nowhere she said 'Do you know who your real mother is?' Now, I have only ever known one woman to be my mother, and had never considered otherwise. I was shocked, and asked her to repeat herself, thinking I misheard her.

She said it again 'Do you know who your real mother is?'. I looked over to my aunt, with a confused look on my face, who addressed my grandmother '*** is his mother Nanny!'. My grandmother laughed for a second and said 'Oh yeah, I guess I know who your mother is too!'.

Now, I'm fairly certain my mother is actually my mother. Since then, I have been trying to justify her saying that though. All I can think is either, she was very out of it and didn't know what she was saying. Or, there is someone else in my family who doesn't know their real mother, and she mistook me for them.

I'm not sure I should pursue this any further with my family, as any reason to keep it secret is probably a decent one. And I'm not so sure I want to know the answer.

But it also has me wondering, has anyone else had a major 'plot twist' moment in their lives, whether it turned out true or not?

2. From daslobo:

My Grandfather was dying of cancer. He was a big, tough man and gradually just wasted away. Sometime near the end, he asked my Grandmother to bring him a piece of paper and a pen. He wrote down all the names of his 27 grandchildren. Next to my name was a check. Nobody else had anything next to their names. My Grandmother showed it to me after he died. She had no idea what it meant. I still think about that every once in awhile.

3. From FFandMMfan:

When I realized that my mom wasn't always 'sick', she was completely wasted on drugs all the time.

4. From YOLOResponsibly:

The last thing my grandma said to me was, 'See you tomorrow!' and as I walked out her hospital room she said, '...NOT!' I heard her laughing from down the hall at herself. She died four hours later.

5. From pleasehelpfamily:

When I was 15, my siblings and I were put into foster care. We had no idea why until the social worker told us that:

Parents were using drugs.

Our after school 'jobs' were helping them pay for drugs. (They said our money was being saved)

My dad wasn't my real dad and 3 out of 5 of my siblings were half-siblings.

My real dad kidnapped my brother and I when we were babies. We were returned to my mom when he confessed to murdering a woman and then went to jail. He had since been released and we visited him to discover that he had started another family.

It was quite the mindf*ck.

6. From sailorsara:

My grampa was having trouble hearing and it took us a while to convince him to get a hearing aid. In the meantime he got a phone call saying his uncle John had died. He asked about a funeral and was told their wasn't one. That was 2, maybe 3 years ago. I really only saw John when he came up for Christmas, but he was quite the character and my whole family has missed him.

A couple weeks ago, my grampa's cousin came to visit. Grampa was talking about how he missed John since he died. His cousin said ' what are you talking about I just saw him two weeks ago!'. Turns out my grampa misheard the phone call. We figure someone else died but we still don't know who. John's probably been wondering why no one invites him for Christmas anymore, or visits, or calls.

TLDR: my relatives come back from the dead.

7. From mlacey916:

My twin sister and I were born through in vitro fertilization. Our mom wanted nothing more than to have kids, and her circumstances led her to use a sperm donor. When we were three years old, our mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. when we were six, she passed away. My sister and I were taken in by our aunt (our mom's younger sister). she already had two sons and a husband. It was a crazy and emotional time for all of us, but we have become an amazing family unit, and I consider my mom, dad, and brothers as much my immediate family as my sister.

You might think this was the major plot twist in my life, but it gets crazier. About four years ago, I learned that not only did my original mother have sperm donated to her, but she also had eggs donated to her as well - by her little sister. I lost my biological mom only to be rescued by my genetic mom. All those years I had laughed at the people who said I looked like my brothers and my mom, but the joke was on me. When I think about the sacrifices my two mom's have made for me and my sister, it blows my mind.

8. From carriegood:

I was looking for my social security card in my parents' desk and I found their marriage certificate. It was dated one year later than I thought, 6 months before I was born. All of a sudden, the years of thinking my mother resented being stuck home with kids, the terrible resentful marriage they had, it all made sense.

9. From hazywakeup:

I actually found out shortly after my grandmother died that she and her husband adopted my mom.

From where or why, we have no idea. Mom and I know that we have the same type of ethnic heritage as the people she thought were her parents, which probably indicates she was adopted from somewhere within the family or close friends.

Perhaps more interesting is the fact that on her deathbed, I was 100% convinced that my grandma was saying 'I love you' and gathered the whole family to hear...

Only to realize that she was desperately thirsty, and saying 'I want juice.'

10. From heresahug:

Back when I was in college I got a girl pregnant. When my mother found out she broke down crying and divulged that I have a brother out there that I had never met. She had given the boy up for adoption long before I came around. I still wonder to this day if I will run into him.

11. From Lzk_Omega:

Not me but I have a friend who found out that his sister that is 14 years older than him is actually his mother.

He hates his sister.

12. From yakimushi:

When I was a kid my parents took me to Universal Studios in LA. When we were there we met Mr. T and I spent the next 20 years telling my friends that I had met Mr. T.

Everything came crashing down when I had dinner one night with my parents and a girlfriend. The topic of meeting famous people came up, and I told my Mr. T story. My parents chuckled and corrected me, 'You mean you met a character impersonator playing Mr. T'

Childhood. Ruined.

13. From internet_friends:

When I was 12 or 13, my parents took me out to eat at a restaurant. My dad gave me some change to go play a couple arcade games there, and when I ran out of money, I sat back down. My parents had completely serious looks on their faces and my dad asked me, 'How would you react if we told you that you were adopted?' I freaked out a bit and then they moved on to a different topic. I wondered about it for YEARS until I realized that I act just like my dad and I look like both my mom and my dad.

14. From FustyLuggz:

When I was 7, I found my birth certificate in the basement of my childhood home. The name under 'Father' was not the man I'd believed to be my dad my entire life. I didn't tell anyone about it for years.

Edit : For clarification, I'm female. Also, thank you all for your responses.

15. From mr_majorly:

The largest one for me was finding out my parents were never married (although together for 15+years) because my father was still married to his first wife, who miraculously, got pregnant and had a child while he was in jail for a year for aiding and abetting a known felon.

He's a (converted) Kentucky Hillbilly that use to run moonshine back in the day. He refused to turn in his cousin.

Multiple things occurred to me that day:

• My dad is a felon.

• I'm a bastard.

• I have a 'not quite half sister' somewhere.

• My mother basically had long affair with my father.

• I hope like hell there is no inbreeding somewhere because this story is the epitome of the stereotypes I had heard.

16. From nomorefrizz:

I thought I was going to inherit my mother's boobs my whole life. I waited. And waited. Then I found out that she got a boob job when I was little...

17. From StupidPumpkin:

My dad is a real life superhero. He has graphic synesthesia -- he sees numbers as colors and shapes because those sections of his brain are connected in ways normal people aren't -- and he used that to catch a man who was skimming accounts when he worked at a bank. If anyone's interested, I'll write out the full story.

Alright, here it is. My dad worked at a bank and for fun he'd scroll down through the account balances and watch the patterns of color. He did this just about every day, and over time he noticed more and more zeroes. They stood out because they're empty space to him and it looks 'ugly'. He was noticing this in a couple thousand accounts too, just a few black spaces at the end of strings of color. He took it to the police because his boss wasn't listening to him. Turns out his boss was the guy skimming the accounts, but the police never took the investigation seriously until my dad compiled the evidence on his own and took it to them.

My dad's a cool guy.

18. From theothergirlonreddit:

While at a party about five years ago I met a girl who I really clicked with (friends-wise - I'm a girl). I started talking about my boyfriend, but not by that title, by name. She proceeded to tell me she knew him and had actually recently been on a date with him and how it was the most romantic date she'd ever been on. My boyfriend. Of a year. Sh*t just got real.

Yes, we broke up shortly afterwards. That girl ended up being one of my best friends. We are friends to this day.

19. From wordwaffler:

The day we found out that the doctors were going to stop being aggressive with my father's treatment was very difficult. My grandparents flew back from Florida to get his affairs in order. Apparently my dad (a near broke alcoholic) had not paid any of his life insurance premiums. My grandparents found out and paid all the late bills which allowed my siblings to collect on the multi-million dollar policy.

To this day I am grateful because I didn't find out until a few days after about the whole situation. Now I have enough money to pay for college and buy my first home.

TL;DR: My dad was broke when he died, found out he had nearly 3 million in life insurance so that my siblings and I could go to school and start our lives.

20. From dangerpigdancer:

One of my cousins does not have the same father as her sisters. Their father found a hand written note in which their mother wrote about her affair, the pregnancy, and then confronted her about it. They ended up staying married, and are currently married to this day. My mother and father found out, and told me a few years ago (it was more a slip up that I continually pursued until I got the answers.) There are only 5 of us in the entire family that know; me, my mother, my father, and the cousins parents. The girl and her sister's have no idea.