12 Story Twists More Shocking Than a Hitchcock Thriller

Get ready for a wild ride through some of the most surprising stories you may ever read. These 13 short stories may seem normal at first, but each one has a twist. Just when you think you know what’s going on, everything changes in a way you didn’t see coming. If you enjoy being caught off guard, these stories are sure to keep you hooked until the very end.

• I knew a couple who couldn’t conceive and couldn’t afford artificial insemination. They had a neighbor who already had three children. So, the husband approached the neighbor and asked if he would impregnate his wife for a smaller fee because they really wanted a child. The neighbor agreed.
  
  Months passed, but there was no pregnancy. Eventually, the husband got tested and discovered he was infertile. At that point, the neighbor’s wife had to confess that she had cheated on him, and the three kids weren’t actually his. Afterward, the husband who wanted his wife to get pregnant ended up suing the neighbor for breach of contract. I’m not sure what happened after that. © ttouch_me_sama / Reddit

• I was a barista before the whole ’names on cups’ thing was big- or, at least, it wasn’t really practiced in my tiny store. There was this very cute guy who came in maybe 4-6x a week. A little often, but nothing out of the ordinary. I flirted like mad. He flirted back. It was all great.
  
  Then he comes in with his fiancée. I was betrayed and treated him coldly from then on. A month later, two of him come in together, and I find out that he—uh, they—are twins, and I’d shot down any chance I had with the single one. © mindovermacabre / Reddit

• First day at university in a new city, I met a great guy. We shared the same dark sense of humor and became pretty instant friends. Months later, my father died suddenly. I went home to my family and missed a lot of uni.
  After the funeral, I was sitting with my whole extended family when I got a call from my mate. I told him I’d been away because of a death in the family. He suddenly started asking loads of questions—who had died, if it was my father, what his name was. I was confused and asked him what was going on.
  
  It turned out his parents had been at my dad’s funeral. He was a cousin I didn’t know I had. It was a wonderful moment of connection in a really dark time. It felt like something out of a storybook.
  © drpepperofevil / Reddit

• My brother—we’ll call him Steve—had a fiancée named Samantha, and they share a son together. One day, Samantha started locking her phone, coming home later, and showing all the usual signs of a cheater.
  
  One weekend, she said she was going to a work event about 250 miles away and would be staying in a motel there. My brother Steve got suspicious and called the motel room late at night, around 1 a.m. A guy answered...it was our other brother. © Unknown author / Reddit

• I was the supervisor for a brand-new catering venue in our town. Our first wedding was your typical affair, pipe and drape, plenty of white everywhere, lovely people.
  At a year anniversary, our salespeople email the client.
  
  Turns out, the best man was having an affair with the bride the whole time she was engaged, and after they were married. So needless to say, they got divorced. © ManicFirestorm / Reddit

• I was telling a client about a guy I met where I spend my summers. A real piece of work who had a bad reputation in town because he was caught cheating on his wife more than once and flashed money around like he was rich. He blew all his money trying to develop some property and now was running out of businesses in town who would work with him.
  
  She asked his name. It was her fiancé. So now I’m on the phone with my client who is crying because she was planning her wedding to a guy who had no money but a wife.
  © designgoddess / Reddit

• I had a friend in college whose girlfriend got pregnant. He went all in. They didn’t get married, but he was super supportive. He was genuinely excited to be a dad at 19. He was making preparations to provide financially for their new family.
  
  When the baby was born, he was Black (both the mom and my friend are white). © HomesickAlien1138 / Reddit

• I met a guy online a few years ago, and we started hanging out and became good friends. In 2016, he received a Facebook message from a young man claiming to be his son. The young man provided his mother’s name and some other information as proof. My friend showed me the young man’s Facebook page, and there was a picture of his mother, who looked very familiar to me.
  
  I checked her profile, and sure enough, it was the older sister of my best friend from high school. She had a child when she was 16, and he lived with my best friend for a couple of years. I used to babysit him quite a bit. In fact, I have about half a dozen photos of me with him when he was a baby. © Hurray_for_Candy / Reddit

• I had a soap opera plot twist. One of my best friends started dating a guy who claimed to be from South Africa. About six months later, we found out he wasn’t actually South African.
  
  He had faked an accent and a whole backstory. He was American and had grown up just a couple of towns over. She stayed with him for a while. © melishka / Reddit

• My dad was adopted as a baby because his parents were both teens, and they were promptly sent to boarding schools on opposite sides of the country. That was the end of it—until many years later, when my dad started researching his genetics to check for potential hereditary health issues. This led him to begin searching for his biological parents. He eventually contacted and met with them separately, but in the process, his mom and dad also reconnected with each other.
  
  As it turns out, they both had grown children and had each lost their spouses, so they decided to meet up and eventually started dating. About five years ago, my brother and I went with my dad to a ’family reunion,’ where we discovered his parents had fallen in love again. They had invited both sides of their families to my grandpa’s farm for a big weekend party. © SharkWoman / Reddit

• When my son was 5 or 6, he used to call a news anchor on TV “Daddy!” My wife would smile and say that kids live in their own world. I just laughed.
  
  Years later, the same anchor, that guy, appeared on the TV screen. I joked, “Come see your TV dad!” My son turned pale, but before he could speak, my wife suddenly started to cough and asked him to bring her a glass of water. But my son turned to me and declared, “It's time he knows the truth!” and said, “Dad, this man is—or was—Mom’s boyfriend. When I was little, she used to go see him and would take me with her.”
  
  My wife broke down crying and admitted it was true. She said it was a brief fling that lasted a few months. She told me she was feeling vulnerable at the time, and I was so consumed by work. When someone famous and on TV showed interest in her, she got caught up in it
  
  I was shattered. It feels like the life I built with her was all a lie.

• I am a community firefighter. Last year, our deputy chief was getting divorced and wound up resigning from duty. Fine, we all figured he needed time to get his life figured out.
  Our female new recruit resigns 6 weeks later citing work responsibilities.
  
  Turns out she was having an affair with the deputy chief’s wife. She also leaves her husband and the two are now living together. Each have 3 kids.
  Now that everyone in the dept knows, deputy chief is coming back. © mojo4mydojo / Reddit

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