Tell me about a random unsolved mystery in your life....

cottonwoolmum - what a lovely but sad story!

I would like to know if any planes ever crashed on the beach near my childhood home. There is a local legend saying 2 planes crashed - Allied and German but no-one was hurt. The Germans were taken to the local POW holding facility which was Skegness Butlins!

However, I have never found any evidence despite my best googling. The reason I am looking is because I think I sensed one of the airmen and the tailplane sticking up out of the sanddunes when I was 5. Can't really call it a ghost because I knew nothing was there. I just imagined something and 20 years later got told about the local myths.

Juliet - I love that keys story. Bit spooky but so intriguing.

Last year I bought a purse from Accessorise - a new purse. I put all my travel and credit cards in the slots meant for them but one kept sticking and stuff wouldn't go in. After a while I decided to check if I'd accidentally pushed a receipt down into it.

Instead, I found a little love letter written on a yellow post it note and two passport sized photos, one of a young (handsome but old fashioned looking) man and one of three children. Again, it looked really yellowing and their clothes and haircuts were old fashioned, maybe from 70s. The children looked related to the young man - either one of them was him as a child or they were his children. The letter was written by someone whose first language wasn't English and it said something along the lines of: I think of you day and night and will wait for you forever.

How come these things ended up in a new purse in Accessorise?

My parents had a swede that rolled away while they were cooking and they never found it. They thought it was behind the cooker but when they finally pulled it out to check, nothing. Who loses a swede?

When I went on a school trip to Paris when I was 14 I had a cross necklace I had bought in Topshop - quite chunky, although flat, with largish round 'jewels' on it (meant to look like carnelian and jade, etc.). I was very proud of it and made extra-specially sure I laid it between some clothes in my suitcase when we packed to come home. Of course, I never saw it again.

I wish I had some more interesting ones like the missing keys and the drawing that mysteriously appeared.

latucha- orange that won't bleach out is rust or iron mould. Do you hang things over a radiator? Check your outlet pipe for a rusty hairpin or similar. Chlorine Bleach fixes iron stains into the fabric, it takes a specialist stuff to remove it.

Dc1 is now 6, I lost the record book of all his injections since he was a tiny tot. I have torn the house here apart and can't find it. I kept his and his siblings in a file here that holds birth certs etc in our home office, it was always put back and it just disappeared

WhoDat

You wouldn't be bitten if I was there. I went to Mauritius and slept under a mossie net, every night I got bitten, every single night, I flew home after a week and left my then boyfriend for another week (staying with his family) and that week he was bitten.

I had a mystery for ages but I think I have solved it.

I got up one morning and there in the middle of my sofa was an appointment card for an appointment that morning that I had completely forgotten about.

No idea where it came from.

More recently I found out that I sometimes sleep walk so the only thing I can think is that subconsciously I remembered and in my sleep I went looking for the card.

When I was little I had 3 Weebles (remember them?). One day I woke up and there were 4 of them. DF and DM both swear it wasn't them that put it there. The mystery of the magic Weeble is still spoken about over 30 years later!

Where did the extra Weeble come from?

Thanks, alabaster! It is at least somewhat gratifying to find out it's not easily find-about-able, if that makes any sense. Do let me know if your Glasgow colleague knows.

Now I really wish we had stopped when the sign was still there! It looked like a stone carved sign, with the words recessed, although as we were driving I suppose it could have been something else. When I did look, there appeared to be fresh scratch marks (lighter coloured than the other stone) all across the centre, which is why I assumed whatever it was had been chipped off. Now I'm starting to question that, as the Google view clearly shows no sign either. But I specifically remember a feeling that it was much harder to catch as in, I didn't see anything on that last time, whereas before I had always been trying to process words.

Nursey -

I'm another who received an anonymous Valentine's card in the post when I was a teen, and never had a clue who might have sent it, friends/family swore innocence.

the food left in streets: someone is feeding foxes.

mine is a wedding gift we were given. no tag or mention who it was from. we made a list of who gave us what so we could write thank you cards. through the powers of deduction there were 3 guests who hadn't brought anything so it was obviously one of them but i was too embarrassed to ask them in fear of embarrassing the 2 who had not brought anything. so now we have an elephant ornament that mocks me every time i look at it. one reason why i think putting money in an envelope as a wedding present is a good idea!

Oh also, when my grandma was found dead she'd been dead for quite a few weeks. :( but her post was opened.

When I was about 10 my mum came into my room all smiley saying 'thank you so much for the presents!' What presents?
A teddy bear and an orange had appeared at the end of her bed during the night. No one else lived in our house or had a key, the only explanation I can think of is that it was a guy she was seeing at the time, but he didn't have a key and it was not something he would've done at all.

Twenty years later she still doesn't believe it was me, and smiles 'knowingly' when I say 'no but seriously, it really wasn't me. You know me, I love getting recognition and thanks, why would I still be lying about this?!'

la tucha I had the odd gold blob on things including a lovely gap shirt.

my washing machine man who came out reckoned it was using the fast wash synthetic cycle and less water user in new machines I now use longer cotton cycle and less detergent.

murmur - ok, you have provided a real challenge. So far all I can tell you is what it is NOT! It's not BT/GPO, other telephone providers, gas. It can't be electricity otherwise it would have a warning on it. I can't access records for Scottish Water (so could be that?). It's not marked on OS mapping, even the detailed stuff I use. It is in public highway. Only structures that are either owned by the local authority or as licenced by a utility can technically be in such an area without a lot of legal hassle, so my hunch is still that it is something along those lines, but what?

My best suggestion, if you want an answer, would be to 'like' dumfries and galloway council on facebook, and post asking what it is! Or email the council, specifically the highways department! They will be able to tell you exactly what it is. They might want the OS reference of where it is, which is 299263, 579720.

I've asked a colleague in Glasgow! If he doesn't respond and you find out elsewhere, please let me know! If I get further info I will be back!

I lost 8 Tesco Finest beef burgers last summer - it still annoys me now when I think about it. They were in the fridge and then when I went to cook them, they were gone. I thought I had imagined buying them but checked the receipt, then I half expected to find them rotting in some strange place months later but that has never happened. DC deny cooking and eating them. DD remembers unpacking the shopping and putting them in the fridge. i'm embarrassed to say that i still half suspect one of my neighbours which is unreasonable (or possibly my ex DH - less unreasonable)

LaTrucha - do you hang any of it over doors to dry? We do this with sheets etc and realised the wooden doors were staining them. Has taken us a few months to solve this!

Need to add my food related one, and then I'll go back and read the full thread. When I was a skint student I was walking to work and nted a home made banoffee pie sitting on the pavement next to a kerb. It was a busy road so not a residential area.

On my way back from work 10 hours later, it was still there, totally untouched. No birds, foxes, cats or dogs etc of which there are plenty in the area had gone near.

It was however in a Pyrex dish, so I took it with me, chucked the pie, and still to this day have the dish

For those of you who keeps losing things - have you read 'A Place Called Here' by Cecelia Ahern?

It will explain everything

www.goodreads.com/book/show/588369.A_Place_Called_Here

Cupid5tunt- I thought of it but the engineer says no, and we live in a soft water area. There's no other evidence of anything rusty in the water supply.

Sorry, I didn't realise I had posted 3 times!

ihearttc that's given me the chills a bit. Reminds me of that awful case from a few years ago where the young English girl was abducted in the night from a French youth hostel.

NeverQuiteSure your story is like the start of a Barbara Vine novel. Your poor mother, she must have spent her whole life wondering what the hell happened.

Smoorikins...I didn't exactly sneak out cause they all knew I was going. I went and then they put the mattresses on the floor. Cause it was such a small room they ended up in front of the door as well if that makes sense so when I came back in the morning I had to knock on the door to make them move out of the way.

Logical explanation is that someone came in the room in the middle of the night but nothing was taken (it was 1990's so there was Walkmans etc there and purses with money in them) and instead a picture was drawn. It was so detailed as well...not a simple sketch. It wasn't any of the boys either as I was awake all night in their room and nobody left!