Top 20 Most Startling Confessions in History

These confessions will send a chill down your spine. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the world’s most depraved and surprising confessions. Our countdown of the most shocking confessions in history includes Israel Keyes, Tiger Woods, Ted Bundy, Lance Armstrong, Jeffrey Dahmer, and more! What do you think is the most shocking confession in history? Be sure to let us know in the comments.
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[@infamouswickedjokestar]

I think there is no superior shocking confession than any other. Every has its own distinct way of story

[@TimLoyalToWifeHaterFreeZoneA]

Love It WatchMojo.

[@marbieocampo-buat6736]

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[@Genghisstudios]

Only at WatchMojo can you go from “#20-Man wears a wig” to “#19-Man kills at least 3 people.”

[@karendanquah622]

😂😂😂😂

[@progressty1869]

A person revealing their baldness is startling? Then y’all go str8 to Murder. That’s wild.

[@nhoongut4621]

1st confession: wig 2nd confession: murder☠

[@ads5663]

69 dude likes 😂😂

[@kweenkay757]

Yes! It escalated quickly.

[@LeetHaxxor]

There’s a mistake, my confession to my crush is not on this list

[@duh2042]

😂😂

[@infamouswickedjokestar]

What a way to put it out like that

[@Johnnycpublic]

it is called startling, not cringe.

[@victorwinters36]

❤

[@benwilliams4406]

Closet door creeks open

[@TheChimeraHouse]

18 - Serial Killer 17 - Tiger Woods Cheating on his wife 16 - Musician plagiarizes song 15 - Serial Killer This list is all over the place.

[@arttashfilms9816]

The Emmitt till murder confession should be number 1

[@gentlemannoir8092]

I was gonna say something too. After watching “Till” I hope that some form of justices comes out of it soon.

[@mshilah]

​@@gentlemannoir8092The woman who made the claim has since died. But hopefully there is still some justice on the men who attacked him

[@gentlemannoir8092]

@@mshilah Amen.

[@XxGreymoonxX]

Emmitt's cousins who were there said they heard him whistle

[@mariafox9226]

That poor kid. Why the hell did ANYONE think it was ok to execute a 14yr old boy in the electric chair?

[@ManicSV3]

where does Usher's confession rank?

[@SombraCheeks]

1

[@2CanSam1000]

Part 1 or 2?

[@dazeddyke]

Top of my list. Along with Tiger Woods, both incredibly surprising to me at that time. 😮

[@frenchieoverlord5159]

​@@2CanSam1000was gonna ask the same thing

[@paraboladad]

It does not

[@Dvdkllm3]

why did y’all attach a screenshot from Sam Asghari’s instagram post when news that him and Britney Spears separated under confession 7?

[@commentatorxyz5514]

The Gulf of Tonkin incident confession is not on the list. 700,000 Vietnamese & 70,000 Westerners perished.

[@fjodorcornelisson6874]

Or that there were no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq ...

[@commentatorxyz5514]

@@fjodorcornelisson6874 Exactly.

[@philipkoekemoer4705]

LBJ didn't admit it was lies

[@nurlagrande]

Eileen did not deserve what happened to her.

[@user-ye5ku2ws6s]

Yes she did. 💯 Percent.

[@KingJaeEspiritu]

Yep, I am in no way downplaying her murders, I believe in myself she deserve whatever punishment she gets but I just can’t help but feel sorry for her as a human being. The world has been so unfair to her, she’s one of the best example of “Every villain was once a hero.” She was a loving sister to her brother, a wonderful friend to a few unfortunately, all her traumatic experiences catch up with her and eat her alive.

[@steves1015]

If you mean the execution, then yes she did. If you feel sorry for her because of her back story, then you'd also have to feel sorry for several other serial killers. I don't understand why so many channels that report on her are so slanted towards her "sad back story" when they don't do the same for other killers with equally (or worse) backstories. Own up to it, you only feel sorry for her because she is a woman.

[@Gentledegenerate]

Tiger woods holding a press conference about cheating is a bit much

[@thornescapes7707]

Remember when a president lying under oath was considered a big deal? Considered to be completely incomprehensible? Worth removing from the presidency? Good times, good times.

[@zumis1011]

He wasn't under oath but I see your point

[@Adam.Langton]

Haha, I remember seeing that Loch Ness picture in a magazine when I was about ten, and thinking "Well, that sure looks like an arm sticking out of the water." The fact that anybody was fooled by that one is pretty incredible.

[@Avaa-vanilla995]

Some of these are silly, though. Wig confessions in the same video with serial killers?

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Lance Armstrong admitting he took steroids.

[@dasiareed2708]

He denied it in the beginning

[@shirlaanacoleman5644]

Not only are some of these shocking but chilling as well

[@WinsberryEntertainment]

You could also say they're startling.

[@joshuamohlman]

Jeffrey Dahmer’s confession, accompanied by his emotionless and unfeeling voice, never fails to send chills down my spine

[@2CanSam1000]

He's a little misunderstood due to being on the spectrum

[@katywhite6370]

Was he ever diagnosed or is it speculation?

[@BassMaster.454]

​@@2CanSam1000 Bro? 💀

[@thurgathevi7068]

​@@BassMaster.454😂😂😂

[@shaunwordplay3111]

A man cheating is put next to a serial killer and a wig. SMH 🚮

[@subzero308]

A man wit a wig and another man cheating is put on a list wit damn serial killers Tf we talking bout 😂😂... Idc if tiger cheated that ish aint got nuttin to do wit me just go out an win. Get a prenup and keep it pushin...

[@shaunwordplay3111]

@@subzero308 exactly

[@paulnorton2885]

An Australian cartoonist depicted Clinton saying "I let down my wife. I let down my family. I let down my country. I let down my trousers."

[@edward0383]

That Clinton confession meaninglesss these days. 😂😂😂😂

[@sm_91]

😂😂yes

[@Siya.M24040]

Emmitt Till’s Story is so heartbreaking 😭 to this day we learn about it in the history ❤️ that poor INNOCENT LITTLE boy

[@jeromepinson5729]

Missed the biggest one…David Grusch confirming we have recovered craft of non human intelligence!

[@jojomations2596]

Conspiracy theorists already knew that. It was only a matter of time that it became televised

[@dietotaku]

when & where did that happen outside of the national enquirer or jerry springer?

[@sauceymcsauceyjr]

How we go from a guy wearing a wig to a guy murderin folks😅

[@sinsearjones6081]

Not one of the most famous dope fiends that's wild ta say 😂😂

[@w.i.n.k.4]

how do you get parole for killing your grandma!!?

[@AwfulDog1]

You were a teenager.

[@tugboattrash2934]

Dennis Raider’s confession on live tv how he killed people was very shocking

[@truscottelli]

Denis Nilsen didn't dispose most of the remains by flushing them down the toilet. At this address there were, three bodys. At his last address he killed thirteen or fourteen men.

[@traviskurtz1244]

To be fair, I wouldn’t be able to resist a bagel either, no matter the situation 🫠

[@paulforryan4253]

Why are they putting thieves fraudsters and liars with serial killers. Sort it out.

[@subzero308]

First one they had was a man wit a wig and right after was a damn killer i was blown away like o Ight we just gettin the wig then deep diving.

[@milla0722]

Okay, but Aileen Wuornos's confession is a little more complicated than that. When she was arrested and during her trial, she always claimed that she killed in self-defense. Then she got death sentences and stood on Death Row for many years. After 10 years on Death Row, she claimed on camera that she lied about the self-defense claims and all her murders were cold-blooded (this is the video we see here). This confession was recorded by Nick Broomfield, who was making a documentary on her. During another day of shooting, when Aileen thought the camera was off, she whispered to Broomfield that the killings were, indeed, self-defense, and that she pretended the killings were cold-blooded to accelerate her execution, as she was exhausted being on Death Row for so long and couldn't stay any longer. So what is the truth?.... hard to say. I do believe she may have developed a psychopathic disorder due to her years of abuse (when she was a child and young adult), but that doesn't mean she couldn't have kill in self-defense. Or maybe her years of abuse made her have a hard time differentiating a harmless remark from a threat to her life, and she truly believed she killed in self-defense... my point is, this is complex, and we'll never know the whole truth about her. What we know is she was broken and she broke other people, and the system was never there to prevent that from happening. This is an incredibly sad story.

[@frenchieoverlord5159]

I agreed with u on all points. Once in Daytona beach my mother, gma, and I met her on the beach. She was nice to us but a bit abrasive/rude to the men around. We even shared our lunch wit her and took pics including 1 of her and i on a carousel. She rode wit us back toward our hotel. My mother has a few long letters she wrote her from prison. In college I was consistently and at random assigned her as my subject for multiple projects and I always included the pics. Shes the reason I became a forensic psychologist. I dont believe she deserved the death penalty. There was alot to learn about the impact trauma can have if she had lived and were studied.

[@steves1015]

Or like many other serial killers, she is an expert manipulator. I really don't get why killers like her, or Myra Hindley, or Rose West get people feeling sorry for them, just because of their backstories, or the lies they spin. Many killers have equally tragic backstories, and make up all sorts of reasons for the killings, do you feel sorry for them too?

[@mercedesdrake9113]

or she finally told the truth... also all 7 men happened to be rapists just by coincidence? she had to kill all 7? also charles manson had a tragic backstory too

[@peytonwestlake9181]

@@steves1015 It's only because she's female. Anytime a killer is a female it's always a sad and tragic story. Male killers also have horrible backstories, but because it's a male its simply evil with no complex overtones. Watch any doc/film about a male killer and then watch the ones about a female and see how different the two are treated.

[@marymarney3843]

I like that you started on a lighter note.

[@TheConorsmithusa]

Then went back and forward to lighter note

[@gamerhero9559]

I have a surprising confession, I didn't think we needed a top 10 list for this topic.

[@katywhite6370]

Good job it was a top 20 then.

[@RigoniAdventures]

It's the same top ten list constantly with maybe two different people and that's a big maybe lol

[@gamerhero9559]

@@RigoniAdventures Well they did admit they ran out of ideas so I'm assuming this was for fun lol.

[@cnotes1790]

"I killed Mufasa!" Most shocking confession of all time

[@YuckFouTubeX]

Mojo: Bald man uses wig! Now writhe in feaaaar!

[@aslofnaicslls5586]

13:59-14:14: Alleged? She straight-up admitted to Tyson that she falsely accused Till of sexually assaulting, which means that the murder began with a total lie! She even covered up her role in his cruel murder and went into damage control when her confession was made public.

[@juliehill8292]

What about BTK? His is one of if not the most bone chilling confessions ever. He talked about murdering women and children ,whole families nearly as if he were describing picking up the mail.

[@IDontBeKaren]

I’m going to start making bingo cards for your “nice guy” videos.

[@user-gi8pk9uc7q]

I couldn't confess to anything while eating!

[@RichPlayz.]

Apparently killing had been the killer's "bread and butter".

[@user-gi8pk9uc7q]

@@RichPlayz.Ugh, don't go there!

[@dietotaku]

i'm not sure that "(if) *I DID IT* " should count as "hypothetically" confessing but ok

[@elvisp116]

Lebron taking Performance enhancing drugs will be on this one day ..

[@chris55529]

You should not have included Israel Keyes in this video. He's *way* more evil than a mainstream video should ever present to a possibly unsuspecting public.

[@Sheistyscorpion]

They mentioned Israel Keyes though

[@jacelynncarter40]

Dope fein is wild haha😂😂😂 you ain't wrong tho lowkey

[@ryanrfc10]

watching this in 2024 makes some of these scandals look like high school drama lol

[@elizabethgracia6411]

With all the scandals coming out now, these are a walk in the park.

[@daveerk6573]

No jail or prison interviews by the PRESS. These prisoners don't need anymore publicity ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@THEpopelonergan]

He confessed hypothetically, hypothetically. He hypothetically confessed to his hypothetic crime.

[@rayrodriguez7367]

Can't Watchmojo re-record the dialog? The change in tone and voicing is off putting

[@siulnoredlac4951]

Omg dying of an insulin overdose must be so horrible. When blood sugar drops your body feels so bad. The anxiety the tremors. What a horrible woman.

[@DreamBelief]

That "killed them all. Of course" sounded kind of sarcastic to me. I cpukd ve wrong though

[@antoniorodriguez-uw6oh]

Could someone share which is the background song used from 4:41 to 8:39?

[@SKF358]

I love this woman's narrative voice. I feel embarrassed I don't know her name.

[@giggityking6505]

Top 10 Ice Cream Toppings

[@nicolasrose3064]

How absurd can some people's thinking get : "I shot him because I thought he was stealing my Wife..". !? "Oh damn, look, I've been stolen....."

[@elijahgleaves5018]

The Jinx confession was insane

[@subzero308]

Na startin wit A wig, murder, murder, then tiger cheatin... Is crazy

[@blueconcretezebra]

Musician borrows tune? Hardly 'startling'.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

In my opinion, one of the most shocking confessions was that of Albert Fish, who molested and/or murdered dozens of children during the first few decades of the 20th Century. His last, and probably most tragic, victim was a little girl named Grace Budd, whose family he befriended around the year 1928. One day, Fish offered to take Grace to a children's party he was giving for his daughter, but what he did instead was take her to an empty house, where he strangled the child, then cut up her body and cooked parts of it in a stew, which he ate with carrots and onions. For the next few years after that, he wrote letters to the girl's family and this is what caused him to be captured by the police, who traced one of the letters to him. Fish made a full confession to the Budd murder and other crimes. The confession was shocking beyond belief, with Fish describing what he did to Grace Budd in the most gruesome details. For example, he said that Grace's "fanny" was the tastiest part of her body. He also said that he thought of "f***ing" the girl before killing her, but he changed his mind, adding that Grace had "died a virgin." Albert Fish was eventually convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. After he was executed in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Prison in 1936, one of the detectives who investigated the case said that he would never have Fish's confession released to the public, because, as he said, it was "the worst load of obscenities I've ever read."

[@user-ye5ku2ws6s]

Yes indeed, the serial killers back in the day did things that gave you nightmares. It's sad to know that they committed those crimes as they traveled so most of their victims will never be found.

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

Dahmer's confession reminds me of Dennis Rader's.

[@Croydon97]

What about my confession to my mother about eating sugar

[@AwfulDog1]

I am sure there are so many more startling and important confessions over the last 2000 yr apart from murderers.

[@lucypotato8793]

Kemper is so creepy, so huge, but intelligent & calm, all the more creepy for sure...

[@manoftheusajones5147]

TOP 10 Ugliest Robots

[@theblackbolt5514]

The tiger stuff was so stupid

[@danlove12k]

Give high 5s to Bill Clinton and Tiger Woods. They weren’t sorry for. Cheating they were sorry for getting caught 😅

[@mmmadiamond]

Israel Keyes absolutely killed WAY more people than he confessed to or got credit for. I will not give him the credit if saying he was smart, but up until the end, with the case that got him caught and the double murder he admitted to (which would have never been solved without him confessing) he knew how to not get caught. I think he basically admitted to about 11 before his suicide, but I’d honestly believe he responsible for a number much, much higher. He got caught because he got sloppy. But, he robbed banks around the times he murdered in the general area of his murders. If those bank robberies can be tracked, then murders within a day or two within 500 miles could easily be attributed to him. All the info he gives during his interviews is extremely illuminating. I hope that as many of his victims as possible can be found and identified. They are the ones who matter.

[@vincentfrusci7745]

Kuklinski was one of the most deadly serial killers of his time. I’ve believed for many years that he killed about 200 people for the Gambino’s as a hitman, but now I’m not so sure, but like his name, he was just cold blooded and wouldn’t think twice about killing you instantly when he had the chance.

[@henrymilles5744]

I don't what it is about Aileen Wuornos but she just fascinates me both as the most famous/well known Female Serial Killer and as a woman.

[@mshilah]

I think it's hard to not have a lot of sympathy for the little girl she once was. Not for Aileen the adult who made her own choices and needed to experience the consequences, but the little girl who had to go through all that abuse and neglect.

[@henrymilles5744]

True. @@mshilah

[@sageof346paths3]

Did yall really put a song and a golfer over the confession of an angel of death 😂😂😂

[@SunBunz]

IKR, I’m still trying to wrap my head around how bizarre this list is. I think an AI does it now.

[@sageof346paths3]

@@SunBunz Lol I can see that

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Aileen Wurnos won’t get any forgiveness once she meets her maker, but her confession is as cold as her crimes.

[@reggiefurlow1]

What is evil

[@Daniel_B_23]

Oh OJ confessed alright!

[@jaguarpaw4632]

Why do people think if they say "sorry" it makes it all better. Keep your fake apology for getting busted with no consequences.

[@RichPlayz.]

I was anticipating the landing on the moon to be at #1, don't know why I think that.

[@SKF358]

I find it hard to believe that Carolyn Bryant just out of whole cloth and unfounded malevolence just lied that this little black boy, Emmitt Till, sexually harassed her, even though he did nothing but buy a candy. It seems to me that Emmit did something probably trivial, perhaps blew a whistle at her. Nonetheless, Carolyn got offended and spread the word. Whatever Emmit did, in my assessment, it actually warranted nothing, let alone a torturous murder.

[@GaryAa56]

Clinton should have received jail time, any other ordinary person would have jail time for committing perjury.

[@TheConorsmithusa]

Hair loss guy then u showed a serial killer . Got dark real quick

[@kevimely7410]

Buzz aldrin should make a confession...its a wonder he hasnt got a nose longer than penokhio 🤣🤣🤣

[@shlomomark2275]

You got to be crazy! Naomi Shemer in the same list with murderers and criminals? Shemers "plagiarizing" wouldn't have been enough for a trail according to copright laws today, especially when the music had no known composer. The whole stort came because of her plotical views

[@eekamouse-js8lr]

Aileen Wuornos "cleansing her name in the spirit of Jesus Christ." You've fucking gotta be kidding.

[@oliviajohnjohnolivia8142]

The nurse is just doing her job.

[@habanerojones2169]

Pepsi admitting they lost the Cola Wars... #real

[@RockRockLover]

Wait… what is an instagram story from Sam Asghari (Britney Spears’ ex husband) doing in the Naaman Diller’s part?🤨

[@smile182blink]

My birthday is July 23rd 1991. I can literally never look at life the same now 😶

[@shattaredentertainment4782]

Your parents. For telling you santa was real!!

[@Catkittycatfairy]

Gypsy rose Blanchard

[@bellatrixdola1586]

I’ll never understand why they treated tiger woods like he was a serial killer. Like yes he cheated a lot, no that isn’t good but cheating isn’t the worse thing in the world so why did the media make a big deal of it an marked him as blacklist I’m confused???

[@paulcowlishaw]

Is this a list about serial killers.

[@gerardoarthur2249]

Man if you're cheating, let that shit be personal. That don't have shit to do with anybody but the couple.

[@Aivottaja]

I confess that this channel and its adjacents are like septic tanks of mental content.

[@ptor175]

you should have OJ on this list

[@anthonyhomer3288]

So many people bitchin bout the killers vs wig wearers and others but the reason obvious right? The story isnt "confessions about the most gory shit" its "most startling confessions" meaning its more important how startled people were by the confession than it is what the confession is about

[@lukekellerman3830]

What’s really startling is someone thinks that Andre Agassi’s wig/mullet confession can be counted as one of the most startling in history. WTF? Really? Jesus effing Christ that’s hilarious.

[@davidkim4869]

What about watergate

[@rosekay6655]

What did Sam Asghari's breakup post with Britney Spears have to do with anything?

[@ida_sriyaka]

Exactly. It's so confusing 😅

[@rosekay6655]

@@ida_sriyaka Someone is not doing a good job editing these videos haha

[@gregorkippa6399]

7:47 ....,any Hypocrisy fans out there .if you know you know

[@jorgeadairramos7469]

Hello good nights

[@Strangegloves]

Supposdly stone cold Steve Austin based his character on kluklinski.......not the murdering part.....

[@themastema1189]

In my honest opinion? the most shocking confession was.... an ex of mine who i *saw* her kissing another guy....6 months later she confessed.. yay..

[@christianb836]

Sorry, number 2 is not that significant to me. I get it was a big deal but some of these other confessionals totes beat that.

[@iiskashow4640]

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