Wildest Things People Learned After Taking DNA Tests

“My father and his whole family have always been a mystery. My mother had two potential men, this could have been the case. We managed to track one of them down and did a DNA test, but it wasn’t a match.

When I was 28, I did a 23andMe and was matched with a biological uncle! I contacted him and long story short, we were able to determine that his younger brother was my father. We did a cheek swab to confirm and it was a 99.9999% match. My father is not one of the people my mother thought he might be; they met once, bonded, and never saw each other again. His whole family accepted me with open arms and luckily I have an awesome stepmom, two other younger siblings, and an amazing extended family. But the craziest part? My father lived in the same town as me for the 15 years I lived there. At one point we even lived on the exact same street, but missed each other by about a year. SO CRAZY.”

—Abby