Found a phone in my garden - isolated property - shit scared

You say place phone found would be for ‘nefarious purposes’ .....so a break in was anticipated? Burglary ?

Near a garage,shed,ladder,car or exterior door/window/conservatory

Phone dropped indicates ( to me) that it was out of pocket in hand....someone was texting/calling or using it as a torch? Spooked by the dog and ran off having dropped it......amateur

A peeping tom type.... one of your teens a girl? Sorry, don’t mean to scare you further but I’d also be worried by this. Someone went out of their way to be on your property

Speak further with your kids

If this type of phone is out of your league, why did you have a charger for it?

How do you charge a phone while it's in an Aga?

If a crow dropped a phone, presumably the screen would at least crack.

We've just had a massive drug raid in our village so I do believe the police would come out for a phone found in a rural location, if they had other things going on in that area.

Hi op.....you say my questions are odd? I’m an ex officer myself, not sure why you think they are odd. This is what I said/asked

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so when was the dog barking? at the area you found it in? is it near door/window/shed ?*

I can definitely see why you are scared. I would be too. ...
Avalanch -please tell your story

I would be a bit freaked out too. But, unless you decamp somewhere else. Up security and put something with a small light on that looks possibly like a burglar alarm or even a camera on a couple of exits. Anything that looks vaguely convincing. That is too high for them to touch to find out. Leave lights on downstairs all night be erratically if possible.

One good thing, if they are a serious burglar they’d be not that organized to have lost their phone. A chancer rather than a professional. Or just some lonely old teenager wandering being stupid.

Good luck anyway. At least you’ve been alerted.

OP a tip to help with the double consonants: if the base is one syllable, ending in cvc (constant vowel consonant), then you double the last consonant.

Scar scarred -
Hop hopping -
Fat fatter -

vs.

Scare scared -
Hope hoping (lose the e before ing) - fate fated.

possible place marking

Beep.

I thought you could get lots of info from a phone?

People saying the police could get info off an iphone are not correct.

I had my doubts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_dispute

Fallsballs

Yes, it happens after a few joints

Can foxes use iPhones ?

Round here they can. Have to for deliveroo. Not sure about rural foxes though, doubt it personally.

People saying the police could get info off an iphone are not correct. A deceased relative who died in horrible circumstances had their iphone looked at by the police, but they couldn't crack it. It could be cracked by someone 'on the dark side' but this skill is not common. AFAIK. We had hoped for personal messages to us, and photos. The police wanted information.

OP, this is worrying. Good job you have a barky dog.

Can foxes use iPhones ? God it’s a weird night.

If you look at what's most likely from an outsider POV someone is lying to you and it's theirs or someone stole it and chucked it.

I'd be a bit freaked out by it too, OP.

Chocky “ I wasn't wearing the shoe at the time I'll just add.”

😂😂😂

Bloody hell - don't move to London! Probably an animal? postman/delivery driver dropped it? Apart from worrying that someone has lost their phone and wanting to return it what's the issue?

I can understand the issue. I live in London and stuff ends by our entrance all the time from passers by, deliveries going to other flats. But if you live in a place where there are no passers by and the only deliveries are for you it is more likely to worry you that someone may have been there for nefarious purposes. Hopefully not, I still think there is most likely an innocent explanation, but when you live in an isolated place these things can spook you.

Trust that dog tonight. I'd be scared too.

I wasn't wearing the shoe at the time I'll just add.

As others have suggested it could be a fox I remember sitting in the garden and a fox brazenly strolled up and took off with one of my shoes.

Could be someone has stolen the phone and chucked it there.
Most likely someone was nosing about or walking through the garden and dropped it or chucked it it may have not even been theirs. I know u said you live in an isolated spot but unless you are living in true isolation ie the outer hebrides lol there are always people walking about here and there even if you don't personally see them.

You were right to be worried considering where you live and how close to your house the phone was OP. I would have tried to put the sim into another phone to see if I could find anything out about it before phoning the police but I’m a nosey bugger!

I’d be extra careful with security for the next few days if I were you, especially tonight, if you think it was dropped last night. Whomever it was might be waiting until it looks like you’ve gone to bed tonight to retrieve it. In fact I’d be staying up keeping a lookout tonight just in case!

Bloody hell - don't move to London! Probably an animal? postman/delivery driver dropped it? Apart from worrying that someone has lost their phone and wanting to return it what's the issue?