Speaker 1: Family Secrets is a production of I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Danny Shapiro, and this is family Secrets, the secrets that
Speaker 1: are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others,
Speaker 1: and the secrets we keep from ourselves. I've heard from
Speaker 1: so many about your own family secrets and realize that
Speaker 1: what we are creating for each other on this podcast
Speaker 1: is a community, a community for those who are looking
Speaker 1: for a safe and supportive space to unburden themselves. To
Speaker 1: that end, we've created a number for listeners to call
Speaker 1: in to record stories to share here in this space.
Speaker 1: This week, I'd like to share a few of those
Speaker 1: stories from our community. Thanks for listening. Hi, um Mom
Speaker 1: would just want to share my family secrets. I was
Speaker 1: either four or five, and I'm fifty five now, but
Speaker 1: as I was a little girl, woke up milba night,
Speaker 1: went downstairs to go pee and was grabbed by some
Speaker 1: man in the dark. He put his hand over my
Speaker 1: mouth in the back of my head, so picked me
Speaker 1: up by my head and he walks me to my
Speaker 1: parents bedroom and says there's nothing they can do to
Speaker 1: help you, now, which I well. I he said this.
Speaker 1: I was looking in at down the sleep I just
Speaker 1: went lamp. Never remembered any nothing after that. Still to
Speaker 1: this day do not remember anything like that. So for many,
Speaker 1: many years I was haunted by this this what happened
Speaker 1: the spear at eleven? I asked my mom if this happened,
Speaker 1: I told her about it. She said no, so okay,
Speaker 1: so still terrified my whole life. About nine years ago
Speaker 1: I asked my oldest sister, who has since passed away,
Speaker 1: about it. She said, well, this is not the story
Speaker 1: that happened. She said, what how en was? Mom and
Speaker 1: dad had a party. She said, some man grabbed me
Speaker 1: and took off with me. And she says, Mom, Dad,
Speaker 1: somebody's got you know, said my name, somebody's got me.
Speaker 1: And she said they tackled him, got me away from
Speaker 1: this guy. So if that actually that version happened, then
Speaker 1: it happened twice. This man, whoever he was, came to
Speaker 1: get me twice. I had no one else to ask now,
Speaker 1: because both parents are dead. You know, Mom initially denied it,
Speaker 1: and my only school, you know, my older sister who's dead, said,
Speaker 1: you know what happened. But what I do remember was,
Speaker 1: you know, all through life, you know, if I would
Speaker 1: be so scared, scared of you know, leaving the house,
Speaker 1: you know, because he came into my house obviously twice,
Speaker 1: but I get so scared I would actually literally wake
Speaker 1: up and not know where I was, no talent, how
Speaker 1: much time had passed. I you know, my first memory
Speaker 1: of that happening with me missing time was thirteen. The
Speaker 1: last time it happened was probably you know, I think
Speaker 1: twenty five years ago was the last time. But it
Speaker 1: only happens when I get severely strussed, and I know,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever, you know, whatever this happened, whatever this
Speaker 1: guy did, I don't know, but you know, still to
Speaker 1: this day at fifty five, still haunts me, and this
Speaker 1: want to I guess actually voices Hi. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to share my stories. I had been told live and
Speaker 1: UM other stories to make me believe that I was
Speaker 1: the natural child of my parents UM and then also UM.
Speaker 1: I come to find out later, much later in life,
Speaker 1: that my mother, her mother that raised her, was actually
Speaker 1: her grandmother and she was born to who she believed
Speaker 1: was her sister. So that was kept hidden from everyone.
Speaker 1: It someone had brought it to my attention, and next
Speaker 1: boyfriend of mine UM had brought it to my attention
Speaker 1: that they look a lot alike, and I never really
Speaker 1: thought about it much. I had just kind of accepted
Speaker 1: the story that my grandmother was my grandmother, not my
Speaker 1: great grandmother. And then I saw a picture one of
Speaker 1: um my sister, well my aunts, sorry, and it looked
Speaker 1: exactly like my mom, and it just all kind of
Speaker 1: clicked to me at one point that yes, this is
Speaker 1: actually her her biological mother. Um. And so that's there's
Speaker 1: kind of a lot of shame and secrets and things,
Speaker 1: and my family, um, you know, include myself and my
Speaker 1: mother included, and my mom and my dad are both
Speaker 1: deceased now, so the secrets are kind of buried with them,
Speaker 1: and there's no more information than I can get about
Speaker 1: what had happened or anything like that. So it's my
Speaker 1: league story. Hi Danny, Um, I really first of all,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys for putting up this podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm a little late at the party and just now
Speaker 1: getting privy to it. But I want to also admit
Speaker 1: that I am the family's secret. I I don't know
Speaker 1: who my biological father is. I've never met him, and
Speaker 1: as far as everything goes, he doesn't know like this,
Speaker 1: and I've been on the search for him for about
Speaker 1: eight months now, I joined a DNA site and nothing
Speaker 1: nothing fitting. And it's really heavy to be that burden.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to cause them any trouble, but
Speaker 1: I just want them to know that I'm out there
Speaker 1: and I would like to know what they look like.
Speaker 1: I want to cause anyone any drama or anything. And
Speaker 1: you know, as far as like Frank's story goes like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to uproot anyone's I guess perception of
Speaker 1: what their reality is. I just want to kind of
Speaker 1: know a little bit more about me and maybe stuff
Speaker 1: relating to So thank you very much and I love
Speaker 1: your podcast and I will keep listening. If you'd like
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