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To think that this kids puzzle is creepy (to say the least)!

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peanutbutterandmarmiteontoast · 30/10/2025 11:06

Posting here for traffic really! My kids were gifted this puzzle of Postman Pat's Greendale years ago and only when they put it together recently did I realise it seems to be pretty chilling... thoughts? Is it me, or do the empty houses appear to be surrounded by blood splatters?

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Lilyhatesjaz · 31/10/2025 18:09

I think it looks like one of those towns that are totally empty because the army use it to train in. Looks like blood to me.

DrapedInVelvet · 31/10/2025 17:28

TeaRoseTallulah · 31/10/2025 15:52

You do know it's not real life ? 🤣

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Yea but it’s a photo of the ‘set’ isn’t it! Those puppets(?) would never plant flowers on the threshold of their front door!

TeaRoseTallulah · 31/10/2025 15:52

DrapedInVelvet · 30/10/2025 22:20

Why would there be flowers right outside someone’s front door? They would fall right into them.

You do know it's not real life ? 🤣

Okiedokie123 · 30/10/2025 22:25

Well now we know what Pat really gets up to early in the morning just as day is dawning……. 😂

DrapedInVelvet · 30/10/2025 22:20

Why would there be flowers right outside someone’s front door? They would fall right into them.

whataweekImhaving · 30/10/2025 21:14

TeaRoseTallulah · 30/10/2025 11:43

Postman Pat massacre 😂🤣

I didn't realise until recently it is spatter not splatter. Splatter makes more sense, surely?

Spatter and splatter are two separate words.

CaptainMyCaptain · 30/10/2025 19:10

Obviously flowers.

BigGirlBoxers · 30/10/2025 19:07

Sensitive content?!GrinWas expecting at the very least to see Pat grinning maniacally with a bloodied knife in one hand and a headless black and white cat in the other.

Hoardasurass · 30/10/2025 18:46

Onlyinthrees · 30/10/2025 12:44

Why isn’t Postman Pat in it? Or any other characters? YANBU, it’s creepy because the town looks abandoned.

Because postman pat went postal and killed everyone 😁

JohnTheRevelator · 30/10/2025 17:19

Eh? I don't see any blood spatters!

ginasevern · 30/10/2025 16:57

So glad I opened this thread. The one with the Postman Pat massacre. Does Mumsnet Classics still exist?

Onlyinthrees · 30/10/2025 16:30

It gives off vibes of a model town, like the one in Beetlejuice, too. That contributes to the vague sense of creepiness.

CurlewKate · 30/10/2025 15:59

Mrs Goggins has justifiably murdered everyone because she got fed up of waiting for her delivery from TocTok Shop while Pat wasted time rescuing sheep and went beserk. Or postal, if you prefer….

topsecretcyclist · 30/10/2025 15:40

What's black and white and red all over?

Jess, after Pat has massacred the citizens of Greendale.

I always knew he was a dodgy one.

BauhausOfEliott · 30/10/2025 14:52

Honestly? I think it just looks like there's been an error during the printing with a few specks of red ink. Clearly, nobody is putting blood spatters into a Postman Pat jigsaw puzzle ffs.

TheKeatingFive · 30/10/2025 14:44

I don't think the red is supposed to be blood 😂

KimberleyClark · 30/10/2025 14:41

TeaRoseTallulah · 30/10/2025 11:43

Postman Pat massacre 😂🤣

I didn't realise until recently it is spatter not splatter. Splatter makes more sense, surely?

Yes it is spatter in the context of forensic analysis. Fascinating topic.

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peanutbutterandmarmiteontoast · 30/10/2025 14:38

Onlyinthrees · 30/10/2025 12:44

Why isn’t Postman Pat in it? Or any other characters? YANBU, it’s creepy because the town looks abandoned.

That is what I thought, and to those saying so, I really don't think the red signifies flowers! The red spot sized are too random and not positioned like flowers, e.g. outside the house back centre.. to me they really look like pools of blood in an abandoned town. Glad at least one other persons sees it!

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AstonUniversityPotholeDepartment · 30/10/2025 12:56

You're only seeing blood because it's Halloween. It's too pink for blood, and too widely spread.

But now that you've pointed it out to me, it looks like there are bloody footprints outside the houses in the centre, set back from the road. Cool!Grin

Shegotanology · 30/10/2025 12:53

Postman Splat.

FaitesVosJeux · 30/10/2025 12:51

Cleary there is rooster slaughter and spirit-summoning going on behind those exceedingly ordinary suburban houses. Probably bodies in the basements as well.

Unless you're trying to be funny in which case I can only offer my deepest sympathies for your misguidance.

Onlyinthrees · 30/10/2025 12:44

Why isn’t Postman Pat in it? Or any other characters? YANBU, it’s creepy because the town looks abandoned.

therewasafishinthepercolator · 30/10/2025 12:39

Ha. Love that that's where your mind went.

Have to say I LOVE it and want one now. The little houses...Where can I get one?

ErlingHaalandsManBun · 30/10/2025 12:31

Anyone else massively disappointed? 😂I half expected to see that Pat had been decapitated by his own van somehow, hence the spatter, and that his cat was eating his corpse😂

PixieandMe · 30/10/2025 12:25

They are so clearly flowers.