Warning: These Hair-Raising Deathbed Confessions Will Surely Linger In Your Thoughts For Days

By Sughra Hafeez in Bizarre On 4th December 2015

Deathbed confessions are essential for someone who is about to die. It helps one’s soul to be free from all the shackles that hold him imprisoned while he’s still alive. Other people might choose to bury their secrets with them believing that it becomes irrelevant to the world when they’re gone, but there are few individuals who hide extremely horrifying and troubling secrets that they prefer to let go before they part. Here are 12 hair-raising deathbed confessions that will surely haunt you for days.

#1 Geraldine Kelly murdered her husband and hid his dead body in this freezer for seven years.

Geraldine Kelly was a victim of domestic violence who shot her husband and hid his dead body in this freezer for seven years. She managed to pull it off unsuspiciously until she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. She confessed to the killing of her husband in front of her children and the police later on found his husband's mummified body.

#2 Lieutenant Walter Haut confessed that he actually saw aliens in Area 51.

Lieutenant Walter Haut was a public information officer in New Mexico site where alien spacecraft crashed in 1947. This data was successfully kept secret from the public until his confession before he died on December 2005.

#3 James Brewer finally confessed to the killing of his neighbour after 30 years of hiding.

James Brewer thought that forgetting his past was easy when he started with a clean slate together with his wife. But things didn't go as planned when he suffered from a fatal stroke, which drove him to confess to killing his neighbour, Jimmy Carroll. After 30 years of keeping his secret, James didn't die but instead he was taken into custody by police authorities.

#4 David Niven revealed on his deathbed that he was an illegitimate child of a popular British politician.

David Niven was more than an award-winning actor; he was also an illegitimate child of a popular British politician, which he revealed soon before he died. The truth was kept hidden to avoid damaging the father's political career.

#5 Alexander Gartshore confessed to killing a missing girl who was never found even after the confession.

Moira Anderson was a simple girl from North Lanarkshire but attention was drawn to her when she went missing in 1957. After forty years, just when the crime was considered hopeless, Alexander Gartshore confessed to his daughter the very gruesome murder of Anderson. Her body was never found.

#6 C.I.A E. Howard Hunt recorded his deathbed confession which detailed his involvement in JFK Assassination.

Could it be possible that C.I.A Hunt was not only involved in the Watergate Scandal but also took part in the JFK assassination? Days after his demise, Hunt's sons revealed a recording which detailed his participation in the crime with the inclusion of those who conspired. Rolling Stone picked this story up but it didn't shed light to the murder.

#7 Naaman Diller was the notorious Israeli thief who stole Marie Antoinette’s Watch

Who stole Marie Antoinette's $30 million watch? This was the 25-year old mystery solved by police when Naaman Diller confessed to his wife that he was the man behind the huge watch collection heist. The wife, then returned, the pricey items to the museum where the famous collection was displayed.

#8 Christian Spurling divulged the truth behind the monstrous loch ness.

Fortunately, Nessie was just a product of Christian Spurling's deceiving imagination, which was created out of a toy submarine. This was divulged by Spurling himself on his deathbed in 1994.

#9 Julian Altman was a famous violinist who stole Bronislaw Huberman’s most-prized possession.

Using his stolen Bronislaw Huberman's violin, Julian Atlman had later on become a successful violinist who performed for important people such as politicians and dignitaries. This was confessed to his wife on his deathbed. Eventually, she sold the violin for $4 million.

#10 Fritz Moen was arrested for a crime he didn’t do until someone’s deathbed confession freed him

Fritz Moen was accused of raping and killing a girl he didn't know. He was a vulnerable man, deaf and was suffering from speech impediment. Moen nearly paid for a crime he didn't do until Tor Hespo's deathbed confession to committing the crime, freed him.

#11 Diane Crawford confessed to killing two women who made fun of her gender preference.

Diane Crawford was a lesbian who shot Carolyn Hevener Perry and Constance Smootz Hevener in 1967. This was a crime she confessed to, in 2008 shortly before she died. Crawford made the confession to a woman she lived with in Staunton

#12 Margaret Gibson admitted to killing William Desmond Taylor, 42 years after the crime was committed.

William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born prolific director who was murdered during the 1920s. No one was convicted until Margaret Gibson, an actress who was once linked to Taylor and was then on his deathbed, confessed to killing the film director. The motive was never revealed.

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