My Secret Bio Dad

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

When little Marie was abruptly told she was adopted, it sets her on a decades long quest to discover her origin story. Along the way she uncovered long hidden truths, but there’s one truth she learned that she cannot tell her adopted mom. What that truth is, and why it’s a secret is what brings Marie to the secret room today.

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0:00.0	Hi, Ben. My name is Marie, and my bio-mom lied to me about who my birth father was.
0:05.5	My secret is, there was some serious digging and some serious help, I figured out who he is, but I have to keep it to myself.
0:13.1	Today, the secret room presents my secret biodead. Did they have the name that your bio mom had given you?
0:29.6	No, not even close.
0:32.6	So she's potentially lying?
0:35.6	Oh yeah, yeah, that's when I realized that, oh my God, this guy is a fake name, a fake story, and
0:41.9	he doesn't even exist.
0:43.2	Such a mystery.
0:43.8	Yeah.
0:48.2	Hey, everyone. Today on The Secret Room, we meet Marie, whose adoption story begins in the summer of 1978 in a small town in British Columbia.
1:02.6	When little Marie was abruptly told she was adopted, it set her on a decades-long quest to discover her origin story.
1:09.2	Along the way, she uncovered long-hidden truths, but there's one truth she learned that she cannot tell her origin story. Along the way, she uncovered long hidden truths,
1:11.5	but there's one truth she learned that she cannot tell her adopted mom. What that truth is,
1:17.2	and why it's a secret, is what brings Marie to the secret room today. Let's get started.
1:29.7	Hi, Marie, and welcome to the secret room. Thanks, Ben. Thank you for having me.
1:32.0	It is great to have you here. Thank you so much for joining me.
1:35.7	Yeah.
1:36.9	Your secret is about circumstances surrounding your adoption, right?
1:41.6	That's right.
1:43.0	And who does not love a good DNA ancestry story? I know I do.
1:47.5	Yeah, that's true. Me too. Okay, so we're going to dig in. I guess we have to roll back to your birth
1:53.8	to get the full story, right? Right. Can you tell me when you were born and when you were adopted?
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