We’ve all been left shocked by that one high school rumor that just has to be false, only to learn that it was true the entire time. Well, we’re not alone. The great minds of Reddit have conjured up a crazy list of their own experiences with true rumors.
Here are some of the best, and worst, ones.
1. “That one of the gym teachers (very large lady) broke the diving board every year. I didn’t have her class but from what I understood it was true except it only happened once.”
2. “That an English teacher was using heroin.”
“It’s pretty sad actually. He was just a regular guy who destroyed his knee. So after surgery he got painkillers, got hooked on them, and then eventually started using heroin.
Nobody really believed it until he abruptly went on leave. He was gone for most of the school year and when he eventually got sober and came back, he told his story to the students to try to show them how dangerous that stuff is, and confirmed everything to be true.”
3. “That the English teacher had been sleeping with students.”
“I found out when I was a freshman in 2008. Fast forward 8 years later, the chemistry teacher got caught and decided to bring the English teacher down with him to get some heat off his back. A total of three teachers went to jail.”
4. “The softball coach in his 40s was dating one of his players.”
“It turned out to be a sophomore, so she was 15/16 at the time. He left his wife and kids for her, but she soon realized he was a creep and ended things. His “punishment” was a one-year suspension from coaching, but kept his teaching job somehow.”
5. “It was a few years after I graduated, but a student baked cookies for their entire history class and handed them out one day.”
” Several days later, the student informed everyone that she had actually baked her recent grandfather’s ashes into the cookies, and so everyone had eaten some of her dead grandpa. A lot of folks just thought it was a bizarre stunt until some of the cookies that hadn’t been eaten were sent to the local PD for testing, and sure enough, contained human remains.
I was in college and was seeing headlines about the school because it was briefly international news I think, and had to text some of my friends that still had younger siblings at the school so I could find out what happened.”
6. “That one of the students in our Junior year, who reportedly had a serious drug habit, was snorting cocaine.”
“Gym teacher found him in the boy’s locker room bathroom snorting a line off the toilet seat.
Kid spent his summer break in rehab, came back to graduate a clean senior, then started up the cocaine again. Haven’t heard much about him since.”
7. “‘Dr’ Palermo the band teacher never received his doctorate in music like he claimed.”
It was weird, he use to force all his students to address him as “Dr” but when he came back from his leave of absence we all called him by “Mr” like nothing happened.
8. “We had a Spanish teacher who was alleged to be a ‘big time’ drug dealer.”
“Lived in a huge house (that there was no way he could afford on a teachers salary), drove fancy cars (2-3x a teacher’s annual salary), took lavish international vacations (frequently to South America), etc. When I was a freshman, I heard these rumors, and they kept up all the way until midway through my Senior Year when he was arrested at school by the FBI.
Turns out when he was younger, he had run several flights of pot into the country and made a bunch of money, and then got out (so, that part was true) and became a teacher. Turns out he was involved in all kinds of mail and wire fraud to sustain his lifestyle. Last I heard, he had gotten out of prison after 15 or so years, and then, the rumor is he had murdered someone, and was back in prison for life.”
