Some stories took darker turns. A nanny discovered a mysterious man living in a family’s basement without her knowledge, and another learned that the woman she thought was the mother was actually the aunt with emergency custody after the child’s real mom passed away.

In one case, a young boy revealed his father told him the nanny would “be Mommy soon,” explaining his mother’s coldness. Another nanny had to talk a troubled child down from a tree after he ran away, believing no one loved him.