27 DNA Test Horror Stories

What was once a hot-button topic reserved for Maury guests has become commodified in recent years, thanks to the likes of 23andMe and AncestryDNA. Now, you can spit in a tube from the comfort of your own home and ship it off to a stranger in a remote location to find out your ethnic background down to the decimal. 

As positively enlightening as this information can be, you can naturally open yourself up to some hard truths and hellish nightmares in the process. Like the Redditor, who took a DNA test and found out that their dead grandfather was actually 100 percent alive and had faked his death, moved 1,000 miles away with his16-year-old bride and had seven more children. 

Other Redditors have also shared the horrors that were revealed after dabbling in genetic testing, and boy is there a lot of incest going on.