Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - Betrayals, Madness and Court Battles The Decade That Nearly Ended Me Before College #22

Episode Date: August 21, 2025

#horrorstories #reddithorrorstories #ScaryStories #creepypasta #horrortales #familyhorror #courttrauma #mentalbreakdown #realhorrors #toxicrelationships  Before college ever began, a young person endured a decade of psychological warfare—marked by betrayals from those closest to them, spirals of family-driven madness, and years entangled in brutal court battles. What should’ve been a coming-of-age turned into a survival story. This haunting narrative explores the trauma of custody wars, emotional manipulation, and the mental toll of growing up in a battlefield disguised as a home. A raw, deeply personal horror based on real scars.  horrorstories, reddithorrorstories, scarystories, horrorstory, creepypasta, horrortales, familydrama, betrayal, custodybattle, psychologicalabuse, emotionaltrauma, toxicfamily, survivalstory, courtchaos, childhoodhorror, mentalhealth, reallifehorror, personalstory, madness, trauma

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This was meant to be merely a short delay in my schooling, but before my grandfather passed, my grandmother developed Alzheimer's, and I ended up staying with them close to 10 years. I was also doing professional theater work and was acting and directing in a place that I overly optimistically thought might one day turn into a gig one could live off of. My father and brother were also involved in caring for my grandparents, so I wasn't needed 24-7. Then one Saturday night, the place went out of business, owing me $1,000, the next morning my grandmother died, and later that week I was mugged, leaving me injured enough that for a few weeks I couldn't lift my left arm above my head. I had planned to return to school after I was done

helping my grandparents, but after that week I decided I deserved some time off, so I just decided to relax for about a year, do some theater elsewhere but otherwise just mellow out. Unfortunately, I squandered my free time, by falling or stepping, in love, thinking that I had found the one or some such idiocy. But there were just too many people that she had to meet without her clothes, so after about a year, the relationship fell apart. As did I. After all that, I was a little.

more than ready to head off to college, but a new problem arose. The family home had had a reverse mortgage put on it in my grandmother's name. A bit more than a year had passed, and they were preparing to take the home. My father and I were still living there. My father was getting up in years, so I felt he needed help, either fighting the seizure or with the move, so I hung about. Shortly after, I discovered why the reverse mortgage was necessary. For 10 years, My father had been draining the family trust dry to give to a stripper. He stole at least a quarter of a million, very likely more. This trust was created by my grandparents and was meant to go down to their grandchildren,

my brother and myself. Before it passed on to us, our father had control of it. He was allowed to use some of it for himself, but only for genuine needs, not for giving it away to a stripper. This was bad enough but on investigating his crime, I discovered something else. else. In emails to others, he repeatedly claimed to be caring for his parents and me. I have quite mild Tourette syndrome which both my parents have used as an excuse to presume that I have other things wrong with me as well. Basically, anything about me they disagreed with was a symptom. So, in all likelihood, my father genuinely thought I was incapable of caring for myself. This was

quite upsetting. It would be bad enough to have one's father steal from one and then say, He's perfectly capable of supporting himself. He doesn't need this money. It is quite worse for him to say, he's incapable of even caring for himself. And I'm leaving him nothing. And it wasn't even his money. In this troubled time,

I reached out for support to an old friend, one I'd known since middle school. He'd come close to even being adopted into our family, so I felt he'd be especially supportive. This was foolish and I was wrong. I found out that he had turned against me because I didn't like his movie. He didn't put it this way, admittedly. He was upset that I had the nerve to suggest ways it could have been improved.

In my defense, I'll say that the only reason I made suggestions was because he insisted on a long conversation in which he tried to convince me to like the film. The conversation stretched out so long that, out of lack of anything else to say, I offered some suggestions. If he had simply accepted that I didn't like it and then moved on, I would have two, and no suggestions would have been made. I hadn't prepared them ahead of time. The conversation ended amicably enough, with words about keeping in touch. I sent messages every now and then, but he rarely responded. Eventually I asked, are we no longer speaking?

He claimed that he was just too busy to reply lately. It was later, during my time of need that he could. chose to stick the knife in. I subsequently discovered that he had reached out to my father, so I suppose he chose his side. We lost the home. My father and I moved into an apartment. I'm still gathering evidence and scraping together money for lawyers. My brother and I finally file suit while I am still living with my father. This is potentially quite dangerous. Let me explain. Years and years before, after the family business, created by my grandfather, then run by my father,

when under, my father went a little funny in the head. Just a little funny. He decided he was a mystic, with mystical powers. He claimed to be, with the aid of his mystic friends, using those powers to overthrow a dark force which held dominion over our world. Once this dark force was gone, everything would be... There's so much rugby on Sports Exeter from Sky.

They've asked me to read the whole lad at the same speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end. Here goes. This winter sports extra is jampacked with rugby For the first time we've got every Champions Cup match exclusively live, plus action from the URC, the challenge cup and much more. That's the URC and all the best European rugby all in the same place.

Get more exclusively live tournaments than ever before on Sports Extra. Jam packed with rugby. Phew, that is a lot of rugby. Get Sports Extra on Sky for 15 euro a month for 12 months. Search Sports Extra. New Sports Extra customers only. Stand-up pricing applies after 12 months for the terms apply. Collini, did you know if your age between 25 and 65?

Well, you can get a free HPV cervical check. It's one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer. And you know what? I actually checked only recently when mine was due and no exaggeration. It took me less than five minutes. You go online to hse.com. Put in your PPS number.

Shekin the date of birth. And then they tell you when your next appointment is due. Oh my God. I know. I know. And you can check you on the register on the website so you can phone [phone]. If your test is due today, you can book it today

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In addition to having mystic powers, my father heard voices, was paranoid, and had lots of guns. And I was trying to keep him from supporting the woman he was delusionally devoted to. I may have been in some danger. I arranged to temporarily move in with my mother if things got bad. My father never became violent. He actually didn't give me credit for being capable of taking him to court, feeling that it was my mother manipulating me into it. Nevertheless, it became necessary to move out. Shortly before the move, my mother arranged a meeting.

At this meeting, she gave me a list of her demands. I can't remember much of it, but it mostly had to do with showing her sufficient respect. I remember something about never walking ahead of her when we were walking together. Oh yeah, and there was this other little thing. She claimed that in the past, when she had been living with my brother, that he had been plotting to rape her. She warned me not to similarly plot. This was concerning. The accusation seemed extremely unfounded, and she therefore seemed perhaps not the best person to move in with, lest I suffer the same slander. Unfortunately, all of my limited funds had gone to lawyers.

I tried to arrange something with my brother, but his wife wouldn't hear of anyone moving in. So, I moved in with my mother. My initial plan was to find excuses to be away. as much as possible, merely returning to sleep. But her car broke down for a couple weeks shortly after I moved in, and I felt I should stick around to help with grocery shopping and such. After her car was fixed, I had succumbed to inertia, and I never went through with my plan to be mostly absent. She was fine at first. There were occasional tensions, but nothing especially noteworthy. After a couple months of my living there, my brother and I won the case. We had control of the family trust.

But all we had control of was a couple pieces of land which we didn't want to sell because once the trust had liquid assets, our father could still potentially get a hold of them. We had one control, but our father was still connected to the trust. If he had real financial needs, he could still demand that the trust satisfy them. We realized that he could give all of his income to the stripper, and then try to force us to pay his rent, etc. her. Legal action could perhaps prevent this, but lawyers cost money, too. My mother became more tense after the win. Even though no arrangement had been made, I got the impression that she had been planning to take advantage of her lodger's newfound wealth. When that failed to come

through for her, she apparently ceased to tamp down her paranoia and neuroses. She started accusing me of hiding things from her to play with her mind. Finding these items didn't help matters. Even if she found the item herself, it was obviously because I had secretly returned the item to gaslight her. On one occasion, after screaming at me about some misplaced thing, she found it. It was perfectly obvious, even to her, that I had done nothing. She claimed that my, past behavior meant that it was perfectly appropriate to accuse me automatically. Even the appearance of wrongdoing was an offense. And anything I said in response just up the volume and anger.

And she continued all of this, night after night, week after week, knowing perfectly well everything I had just been through. Except the failed romance. I tended not to introduce my parents to many friends or lovers. Funny that. She was going to kick me out and I would have to move into a halfway house or such, but she eventually backed off from that. My daughter, Ellie, had this ankle pain and we went to see VHI Orthopedics. they actually picked up on her fatigue issues. So they brought in a rheumatologists,

and just a few small tests, they realised that Ellie was sediac. So what was brilliant was that VHI had a pediatric dietitian ready to help manage her diet. Really felt seamless. VHI, because your health means everything. I was going to apply a handy razor to whichever vein was most accessible,

but I eventually backed off from that as well. Ultimately, I returned to college, putting myself massively in debt due to having no choice but to live on campus for a time. A campus shared with my former friend, now a professor. Perhaps this debt could have been avoided but I was too broken down by everything to make good decisions anymore. I think that's a long enough read for now. There's more to the story, I didn't even mention the sex robots, but I don't want to try the reader's patients. The end.