A grandchild has been left feeling ‘sick’ after discovering their grandma’s ‘awful’ secret following their grandad’s death – and it’s left them questioning everything
A grandchild has been stuggling to sleep at night after uncovering their grandmother’s ‘shocking’ secret following the death of their grandfather.
They detailed how their grandfather was diagnosed with dementia and became unable to “keep track of reality” in his last year.
However, it wasn’t until after he passed away that the family discovered the truth. In an anonymous Reddit post, they shared: “Before he was placed into hospice he kept complaining about a man that was in his house, he would say that he would come around at night and that he was taking his things and using his stuff.
“Grandma of course kept reassuring him that she was the only one there. His doctor increased his medications because he was losing touch with reality so badly.”
The truth emerged at his funeral when an unfamiliar guest arrived to pay his respects. “Turns out he was an old friend of my grandmother’s who showed up to give his support,” they said. “In a small town like that it wasn’t exactly an unusual thing to have random people show up to the funeral home who knew the person at some point.
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“Well about a year later my grandmother lets slip that she is seeing someone, the guy from the funeral. At this point nothing too odd, they got to talking at church and we thought it was sweet. Then a bit later sweet innocent old grandma mentions that it’s their third anniversary. Grandpa died two years prior.”
It wasn’t until the family pieced things together that they realised the truth – the granddad had been right all along and the grandmother had been deceiving them. They revealed: “This man was the person that grandpa saw in his house every night. He was the reason that everyone thought grandpa was going crazy, he was the reason that my grandfather was medicated to the point of being a vegetable for the last horrible year of his life.”
Online reactions were a mix of shock and sympathy. One user exclaimed: “You sure grandma ain’t dead because that is ice cold.”
Another stated: “Most extreme case of gaslighting I’ve ever seen.” A third commented on the tragic situation, saying: “It sounds like a complete nightmare. Sure, he was slipping away from reality sometimes, but surely he must have had lucid moments. And in those lucid moments absolutely nobody believed him.”
Another added: “This is intensely sad. I feel for your grandfather, and your family.” While a final tale shared by a user said: “Similar story, my grandfather swore that his long time assisted living nurse or whatever was stealing from him and everyone though he was crazy. Well, turns out he wasn’t and she stole his £20,000 collection of gold coins and stamps among other things. We never did get most of it back unfortunately.”
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