Redditor Lost-Warning-2588 wanted to hear about everyone's craziest school stories.
So they asked:
"What’s the worst scandal to happen at your school?"
My school was pretty tame. At least in the public news.
I have no idea what was behind closed doors.
Throwdown...
Slap Empire GIF by FOX Nederland & BelgiëGiphy"Girl A decided to fight girl B in class. Girl A ripped girl B’s real hair out, broke her nose, and crippled her. Girl B was sent to the emergency room. Girl A was suspended for 2 weeks. They were both in 7th grade."
Apollo_xo3
After Graduation
"The math teacher left his wife of 18 years for one of the graduating seniors."
blunt_dissect
"Had a history teacher do the same thing. Left his wife for a student he had in freshman and sophomore year and they married the year after she graduated."
2faKilledmymain
"Happened with an English teacher in my school. He didn't leave school until a couple years after she graduated, but he left his wife and kids for her, and she dropped out of an Ivy League school for him."
ianisms10
Prevention
"One year in exams days they were trying to add a new method to prevent cheating where a man from the administration comes to every class before every exam and collects students phones while sticking a sticker with a number on each phone and giving the same sticker to the student."
"So he can get his phone after school without anyone taking someone else's phone that looks alike or something. This was working at first and a bit 'preventing cheating' until one day some guy sneaked into our high school and came as the man who collects the phones while he wasn't, he stole the whole high school phones and went. lol."
Crazy
"A student that was in the grade above me (I was a senior, he had graduated) killed his girlfriend and buried her by the train tracks right behind the school. Yeah it was crazy. He seemed like a cool guy I guess, I’d run into him at a few parties and had a couple classes with him. The girl went to school in a neighboring town so I didn’t know her."
macadamianacademy
Hold Me
Best Friends Love GIF by TV LandGiphy"My middle school banned hugging and hand holding during course changes because it blocked the hall. In protest all the Eighth Graders stood up and hugged each other during their lunch period. A bunch of students got detention. Made the cover of the Charlotte Observer."
bcarol99
Hugs make the world better. Hug it out.
Good Lord
Keith Morrison Wow GIF by Dateline NBCGiphy"The caretaker killed two local girls and hid them in the school, he tried using the clay kiln to burn them. He later dumped them a few miles away."
jofive
The Super
"We had a computer teacher/football assistant coach who was just blasted all day, had so many DUIs he had to get rides to work, but was the cousin of the Superintendent so he kept his job. Let’s just say that when he crashed a student’s car in the parking lot because he convinced them to let him borrow it that that was the beginning of the end of it."
"It was a small town. The scandal is that the Super tried to cover it up by trying to convince the kid to take the heat for it. To no one’s surprise, the kid was not convinced. They let him stay on as Super for another two years."
TheMCM80
Crazy, man...
"A kid in my senior year short story class (who sat directly behind me) was charged with the stabbing, beheading and burning of one of his friends/drug dealer."
"I remember the day like it was yesterday, sitting in my short story class when my teacher came in, in tears because she just heard the news."
"Students didn't find out about it until later. I actually have a friend who testified in his trial because he purchased the murdering materials at the hardware store she worked at."
"Crazy, man."
Supersmaaashley
Targets
"One weekend a couple of kids from the hockey team had a sleep over."
"One of the older boys from high school targeted them. He tied them up, slit their throats and set the house on fire."
"One of the boys survived and is an incredible person. He’s the chief of a fire department and has done motivational speaking."
"The murderer is now out on full parole."
Ed_Dantes35
BOOM!
New Girl Facepalm GIF by HULUGiphy"Kid made a chlorine bomb and threw it in the trash can at lunch. Lockdown, bomb squad, every single kid and faculty member out on the field in 95° weather for 2+ hours until parents could show up to pick up their kids."
Specifilly
Socks
"Kid in my class sent an email to the White House, threatening to kill Socks, the Clinton's cat. Secret Service showed up a few days later after they tracked down the computer."
Goombaw·
Swim Class
"First week of high school. PE class, the first section was swim. wasn’t my class, but the class after. This kid was playing a game with his friends in the water—who could hold their breath the longest. He was going up for air and hit head on the pointy part of the gutter, and never made it to the surface. Friends didn’t notice, teacher didn’t notice. Eventually, football players coming back to the locker rooms noticed. He ended up dying. Teacher was fired although I wouldn’t fully blame him as he was attending and teaching kids who didn’t know how to swim or weren’t strong swimmers. One adult for over 60 kids?? That’s the school's fault."
millennial_dad
Pardon Our French (Teacher)
"History teacher disappeared in the night with the French teacher's wife."
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Oral Tradition
"My high school Guidance counselor screwed a science teacher's wife and everyone knew about it. They got a divorce. Both teachers still work at the same school to this day, and students will never ever let it go. The story has been handed down from year to year."
tiyeyo
Kids are crazy. I'm glad I chose to only have pets.
Through the lens of an angsty teenager, unrequited love, a cheating boyfriend or girlfriend, academic pressures, and not making an athletic team, are all big problems that make for compelling viewing pleasure.
And through it all, gossip is the accelerant that fuels the drama, regardless of whether or not rumors are true.
Curious to hear about the real-life rumors that ran rampant in school halls, Redditor Le_Bayou_Cochon asked former students:
"What high school conspiracy turned out to be true at your school?"
The following recollections sound as though the scenarios were right out of something from Riverdale.
Mental High
"I attended a newly opened high school that apparently used to be a school for troubled kids. Someone told me there were padded rooms somewhere in the school so I skipped lunch with a friend one day to walk the halls and find them!"
"They did exist, but by next year they were renovated into offices and storage rooms. I thought that was pretty interesting and seriously wondered what went on there before it was turned into a 'normal' high school."
– E-macularius
Ex-Staff Member
"It was rumored a staff member helped a student run away and slept with him. Unfortunately it was true."
"Unfortunately this same staff member after she was fired, had a graduated student at 19 ask to be her roommate. The then ex-staff member agreed and ended up getting into legal trouble."
– clinicskeleton
Something Sinister
"There was a girl freshman year who went missing. She ended up being found dead in the river. There were rumors that she was seen on a bridge with her boyfriend the day she went missing. Nothing was ever found and they assumed it was suicide/ an accident."
"Fast forward 25 years and the boyfriend murdered his best friend of several decades, set a fire to cover it up, and went on the run. Couple days later he killed a woman at a rest stop in the bathroom to steal her car. They reopened the case about the high school girlfriend. That rumor was correct all along. He will be in prison the rest of his life."
– pomegranatepants99
Forbidden romance seemed to be a recurring topic.
Racy Romance
"That one of the cheerleaders was dating one of the teachers (in his 40s). A year after graduation, they got married and had a baby. Still together 11 years later."
– Trailmix99
The Music Teacher
"There were rumors about a music teacher and a student, but they were both pretty dramatic people and did very little to dismiss the talk. So half the school wanted to believe it for the salacious thrill and half just waved it off as attention seeking and sh*t-talking."
"Teacher got canned without explanation. Most of us just figured it was budget-related. A math teacher filled in on his music/theater roles."
"Years later I randomly caught up with the student and she said the rumors were true, she freaked out and tried to end things to shake off the reputation, and eventually the teacher showed up trashed and naked on her family's front lawn, in the rain, yelling out for her."
"Like a really f'ked-up version of John Cusack from Say Anything but with less boombox and more drenched wang."
– Dangercakes13
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"We had a Student Teacher, so a reasonably attractive guy who was about 22 or 23. The rumor was that he was dating a girl in our class, a senior who was nearly 18. It turned out the rumor was wrong, he was dating her younger sister who was in 8th grade."
– Drulock
These troubled adults were former educators for our future leaders.
The Dealer
"For years before I got to my high school there was a rumor that the Admin Assistant (guy you went to when you got in trouble) was doing drugs, selling drugs, and confiscating from students without turning over to the police. Well about five years or so after I graduated he got busted a couple towns away for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute."
– TheBuschels
Conditional Promises
"There were stories about the music teacher having sex with some of his students, in exchange for solos, better grades, prestige, or jobs after graduation."
"They later turned out to be true. He was found guilty in 2018, and was given a six month prison sentence. He's barred from teaching, and lost his pension. The news his my dad rather hard, since they studied together at college, and were good friends. Dad had no idea."
– TedMeister88
The Trusted Role Model
"A good family friend of ours (knew him for over 10 years), went to tons of BBQ, painted our walls alot, did some housework, had tons of other mutual friends with my Dad and their work friends; ended up getting into drugs or something. He kidnapped a woman and murdered her."
"It was a huge deal in my hometown, and when they said they finally found the guy and the mugshot and name came up, we all were in shock and just couldn't believe it. We trusted him, I shook his hand a few times as a kid too, im sure my parents and everyone else would've trusted him with thier kids or family members or what have you."
"We still have no idea what led him down that path, but the mugshot looked brutal and its like his whole soul was drained from his face, it wasn't the same smiling happy face I remembered."
"Just goes to show how much you really know someone, and how close all humans are from a breakdown, anyone can change, It surprisingly doesn't take much."
– PandaCatGunner
The Inebriate
"That my high school history teacher was putting whiskey in the 2-liter bottle of Pepsi he carried around everyday. He was caught trying to buy liquor for some senior girls and it resulted in a car chase we all watched. The police had to pull out the spike strips to catch him."
– Tylerurby
Speculations and hunches were confirmed, and it didn't involve criminal activity for a change.
A Double Life
"My old math teacher was a WWF wrestler, i recognized him from my childhood days channel surfing and couldn't find anything about him on google, but i was so sure it was him I just asked. I was right lmao."
– TheTastySpoonicorn
Secret Underground
"That there were tunnels under the school that led to a hidden pool."
"Confirmed by my father who was a maintenance man for the school district. The tunnels were just utility tunnels, the pool is below the gym floor and was abandoned due to financial reasons."
– pondcypress
It's a wonder how students are able to focus on their studies when there's a lot of whispering going on about who did or said what.
Gossip and academic conspiracies can be distracting. But don't let those keep you from receiving your diplomas.
Stay focused, kids.
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They have a tendency to spread like wildfire, and once the momentum kicks in, the rumor is virtually impossible to stop because people will believe what they want to believe. Sounds familiar, right?
On the other hand, there are the kinds of rumors that are just so incredibly ludicrous, it's hard not to laugh.
Curious to hear from strangers online who were left in stitches over ridiculous gossip about themselves, Reddtor ad_ch asked:
"What is the funniest rumor you've heard about yourself?"
Announcements
People love hearing big news. So when none have been announced, just make it up!
Didn't Put A Ring On It
"Someone texted me congratulating me on being engaged. It turns out some girl back home that I saw while I was on leave brought one of her mother's rings to school and told everyone I proposed while I was there. That promptly ended any communication I had with her lol."
Love Is Love
"That I am lesbian. I guess it was because I haven't had a boyfriend till I was 20 and because I was openly supporting LGBTQ community. It was funny because people were counfused and were asking my sister about my orientation."
– MawaSawa
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It's Criminal
These Redditors were seen as really bad people who did really bad things.
The Maybe Drug Dealer
"In school someone spread the rumor that I was a drug dealer and some really believed it. I was such stiff who didn't even taste alcohol or cigarettes because I was underage."
Double Murder
"Started a new school. The reason...I killed my grandmother and mother and was forced to. You know...the typical punishment for a 9 year old who committed a double homicide. Switch elementary schools."
– Huck4108
Folsom Prison Blues
"That I murdered someone just to know what it felt like. I assume someone from high school overheard me singing Johnny Cash and didnt recognize it as a song."
School Rumors
Students love to gossip about anything. "Did you hear about...?"
Yes, we've heard them all. But maybe not these:
The Campus Resident
"That I lived inside the school i think this came from me wearing the same clothes every day but in reality i had a lot of the same clothes that were really cozy."
Undeserved Ranking
"I was ranked 3rd best fighter in high school before I'd even been in a fight."
– kido86
Snippety-Snip
"In middle school there was a rumor that went around about me needing an emergency vasectomy. It got so bad that the main office called to wish me well."
– kain378
The Feared Computer Nerd
"In the early 90s I was the stereotypical computer nerd at my high school. There were very few of us in my high school who knew anything about computers. I was into phone phreaking but didn't really tell most people. Mostly I was just the skinny kid who wore nerdy tshirts. I was sort of surprised I never got bullied and school was pretty uneventful."
"We had a mini five year reunion that some people went to. I mentioned the stuff about bullying and someone I'd known since grade school said 'Well everyone knew you got angry at someone and changed all their grades to F one semester so even the worst kids were afraid of you.'"
"This was a total shock to me. I never learned much about hacking much less knew how to change people's grades. But hey... kept me out of trouble so it worked out in the end."
– bg-j38
Oh, Brother
These things people said about brothers are just wackadoodle.
Dead Brother
"Not me but my brother."
"He collapsed at work and was rushed off to hospital in an ambulance. He recovered and was back in the office the following week and was talking to someone who asked if he'd heard about the guy who collapsed last week and was taken off in an ambulance? Apparently he died …"
"I suggested to my brother he should have offered to start a collection for the family."
The Flex
"My little brother told people I was Japanese and that I did boxing, because he thought it would be a flex
Turns out more kids believed him than what I'd expect and they all were deceived to find a skinny caucasian guy instead."
When I was in middle school, the rumor had gotten around that I held a black belt in Karate. I've never taken Karate.
Obviously, the origin of that rumor stemmed from me being Asian, and it was presumed that all Asians were martial arts experts.
My prepubescent peers were so racist. Yet, looking back, I do have to chuckle over the fact that the rumor may have protected me from being harassed.
They must've thought I could easily Karate chop their heads off if they ever antagonized me at school.
Why they stopped believing in the rumor by the time I got into high school is beyond me. I didn't get majorly bullied but there were occasions where I wished I was a martial arts master. Sigh.
Typically, rumors come with a preconceived narrative about a person, whether or not that narrative is true. Here are some of the more ridiculous rumors jealous and unhappy people have come up with, courtesy of Reddit.
U/darky761 asked: What is the most ridiculous rumor you have heard about yourself?
The most hilarious rumors usually end up backfiring.
Technically the truth.
My parents have been happily married for 25 years, and when I was little, my mum was a law student at the same school where my dad was teaching (my parents are the same age, she just went to law school later). Someone saw them leaving together and a rumour started going around that she was having an affair with a prof.
So that's the story of how a whole bunch of law students got mad at my mother for sleeping with her husband.
RIP these guys.
mitsubishi business time GIFGiphyThat I was dead. About 6 months ago someone from high school that I wasn't even friends with reached out to me and said they were told I died years ago and couldn't believe they were talking to me. I felt very accomplished.
Same here but for a different reasons. I ended up switching to homeschool halfway through my senior year because of medical issues in my family. I don't use social media and I don't even really use my cell phone for anything other than work and emergencies. So fast forward like 5 years after high school and on multiple occasions, I've seen old classmates who told me they thought I was dead. I always tell em I am to go back to thinking that.
She tried.
In high school a girl who didn't like me tried to "save" other girls from dating me by telling them I had given her an STD. I never even dated her, nor did we have sex. It backfired on her pretty hard because it was widely known she hated me so when she started it her friends were like "Wait but you slept with him tho? lol"
That’s unfortunate.
That I was a murderer because someone with the same name and age as me made the papers after killing someone.
That's mad, that would actually be pretty hilarious tho if you told everyone you escaped from jail.
Sometimes rumors come with some really serious repercussions.
Poor seals.
massage bliss GIFGiphyWay back when I was in my early 20's I went to Alaska to work on a fishing boat. My best friend told my other friends that I went to Alaska to club baby seals. Sadly, a few of my more gullible friends believed him. It was pretty funny.
I should add that he told me that he was going to tell people that and I was ok with it.
Messed up.
My mother and her husband have what I can only describe as "mental Munchausen" or "psychiatric munchhausen." I am no longer in contact with them, but last I heard, I am a junkie sex worker who is about to be homeless. Apparently, I lie to everyone. When my grandpa drives me to my therapy sessions, I secretly go somewhere else and do drugs.
I cut off contact with my parents last year. I'm 28 now. I sent them a 26 page letter outlining things they said and did from when I was 12 until I was 25.
I developed alopecia in 7th grade and Lyme disease in 9th grade. They told people I was faking it both times. I got my driver's license when I was 16. Until I was 21 or 22, they said I never learned how to drive. I got accused of smoking tobacco and marijuana. Never did. I got accused of binge drinking, even drinking at work. Never did. My mom would tell our Catholic friends we were Catholic, our Protestant friends we were Protestant, and our atheist friends we were atheist in order to fit in. I worked five days a week starting at age 19. Until I was 24, she was still saying I was spending all day watching TV on her sofa and that she couldn't get me to look for jobs. I came out as gay at age 23. My parents still would tell people that I would meet the right woman someday. I lent my dad about $5,000 between 2015 and 2018 because he couldn't pay his bills. And then he would go around bragging about how successful he is.
I'm happy to be done with them. I've become very close to my aunts, uncles, and extended family who got tired of my parents' bullshit years ago.
Other times, rumors are just funny because they make zero sense.
I’m sorry, WHAT?
Dog Puppy GIF by TikTokGiphyWhen I was in high school, this rumor was going around that I stole pets from the popular people, dress them up like the popular people and hide them in my shed. Like, can you believe it? As if someone would actually do something crazy like that! Totally ridiculous.
D&D is a gateway drug.
That I was a massive stoner. A friend of mine's mother believed that when my friend stayed over, we were getting high all the time and it was because I was such a bad influence. The evidence was clear, he'd come home, stinking of smoke and very tired/out of it. The reality is that we were playing D&D until 3am with some friends who smoked... tobacco.
That rumor is kinda fun.
It was rumored that I had opened a Rolls-Royce dealership.
The rumor began circulating because I was seen driving a friend's 1957 Rolls-Royce "Silver Cloud." (He collects antique cars and thought I'd enjoy the experience of driving a Rolls.)
As someone who has had countless rumors spread about them, I can tell you firsthand that they are more confusing than anyone else. Like, I had a rumor spread about me that I purposely started a fire in my house because I wanted my husband to come home from game night. Like, what?
A lot of times, people spread rumors to feel better about themselves. My best advice is to just take it as flattery--they're obsessed with you and can't stop thinking about you, and that doesn't make them a hater. That makes them a fan
