At-home DNA testing kits like 23 and me and ancestry DNA give you the once-in-a-lifetime chance to spit in a tube,

wait a few weeks, and learn all there is to know about your family history.

But what happens when you get more than what you bargain for?

Unerthing buried secrets, unwanted truths, and shocking relations,

here's some serious DNA test regrets.

You're listening. You're listening to be amazed.

A reproductive biologist under the pseudonym George Doe took a DNA test for a course he was teaching on genomes and decided to buy kits for his parents too.

But little did he know this would be the worst gift ever.

Doe discovered that he shared a 22% DNA match with someone he didn't recognize and learned that a 25% match usually indicates a grandfather, uncle, or half-siblings.

Curious to find out more, he asked his father to check his results, and surprisingly, the man, named Thomas, didn't show up at all, until Doe selected an option to view close relatives on the site which revealed a bombshell. George Doe's father was a 50% match to Thomas indicating that he was

his son. Though freaked out, contacted Thomas and discovered he had been adopted at birth and was

searching for his real parents.

Doe tried to set the wheels in motion, but his plan backfired as the revelation ripped his own family apart,

causing his parents to divorce. He posted his story online to draw attention to the unseen risks of

DNA home tests. Next up, Lydia Fairchild was a single mother of two with another baby on the way when she found herself in a sticky financial situation and decided to apply for government assistance.

As part of the process, she needed to DNA test her existing children to prove that they were hers, but when the test came back,

she was dumbfounded to learn that it indicated she was not their mother at all, but likely an

aunt. Still reeling from this impossible information and facing potential fraud charges,

Fairchild requested a government witness at the birth of her next child and an immediate DNA test. Only that one came

back negative too. Some seriously baffled scientists eventually concluded that Fairchild was what is

known as a rare medical chimera, meaning she had absorbed her twin in the womb, and it was this twin's

DNA that was showing up on her results.

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