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

My DH is the secretary of a local club and the hall where they meet has no postbox.

My parents received a letter to their house (about 10 miles away) with the club name and address (not my DH name) and C/O DF name handwritten on the envelope.

strange who knows our goings in the the post service!

What are the orange blobs thag appear on my bed linen and othdr clothes a few days after washing

Rust? Something metal in your washing machine, or rust or iron in your water?

What are the orange blobs thag appear on my bed linen and othdr clothes a few days after washing? I have spoken to older ladies knowledgeable in household mattes. They said washing machine. I spoke to the washing machine engineer and hecsaid, no idea. It has been years now. They only come once in a while and nothing, not even bleach, gets them out.

What are the orange blobs thag appear on my bed linen and othdr clothes a few days after washing? I have spoken to older ladies knowledgeable in household mattes. They said washing machine. I spoke to the washing machine engineer and hecsaid, no idea. It has been years now. They only come once in a while and nothing, not even bleach, gets them out.

ihearttc - surely if you could sneak out of the room, someone else could have sneaked in....

I have a mystery that I have been trying to solve for four years. No-one that I have spoken to has come up with any reasonable solution.

I was with my ex for nearly 15 years. He was a waste of space, more into smoking weed than anything else. Why on earth did it take that long to leave him?

What are the orange blobs thag appear on my bed linen and othdr clothes a few days after washing? I have spoken to older ladies knowledgeable in household mattes. They said washing machine. I spoke to the washing machine engineer and hecsaid, no idea. It has been years now. They only come once in a while and nothing, not even bleach, gets them out.

I also had a mysterious valentines card when I was about 14. It came via the post, so whoever sent it knew my address. I didn't recognise the writing and all of my family and friends swore blind it wasn't them playing a joke on me.

We recently moved house. After unpacking most of our belongings and re-assembling our beds and other furniture that had been dismantled, we were left with one long white metal pole. We have no idea where it came from or what it's part of.

A few nights after the move I dreamt that I remembered what the pole was for, remember thinking that it was obvious, but by the time I woke up I had completely forgotten. I didn't mention my dream to anyone before DD woke up, came into our bedroom saying she had a strange dream and then went on the describe the exact same dream about the pole!

We both vowed to take a pen and notepad to bed in future but unfortunately have never had the same dream again.

I used to work in a supermarket. Every single morning, an elderly man would come in for the store opening and buy exactly the same things - a pack of eggs, a pint of milk, a loaf of bread and a huge bag of potatoes.
Every single morning, he would wait until everything had been scanned, then put the eggs into his bag first, then the bread, then the milk, and finally laying the potatoes ceremonially over the top.

I was always intrigued to know:

• did the eggs break?
• if so, did he not work out that it was best to put them at the top of the bag rather than underneath a huge bag of potatoes?
• how on earth was he getting through that number of potatoes on a daily basis?

Still baffles me now.

One university holiday I was staying at my parents' house and found a heavy silver ring on the floor. It was very unusual, with some sort of Arabic inscription on it. I gave it to my dad, asking him if one of his friends might have dropped it (his best friend is Muslim and their family would often drop in to see my parents.)

My father asked his friend, but it wasn't his, or anybody else in their family. My mother had seen the ring around the house a couple of times and assumed it was mine as I tended to wear a lot of very heavy silver jewellery.

Twenty years later we still have no idea how a ring with Arabic engraving ended up in their house.

When I bought my house the controls for the central heating had a little flap attached to it with operating instructions. One day the flap vanished.

I searched everywhere. This was befor DCs and neither DH or I would have broken it off. We didn't know how to change the timer on it after that. It was a real pain.

Five years later the flap reappeared in the middle of the kitchen floor. Weird.

The Victorian I would guess that it's something to do with the military, as it's not a million miles from Chilwell barracks and I'm sure there used to be an army base on Toton sidings many, many moons ago waves to another local person

On a side note, there was a former Cold War bunker sold fairly locally at auction yesterday and I really wanted to buy it Had visions of turning it into a holiday home!!

myroom - you bought the house after that?! I'm not sure I would have.

When I decorated DD's room before she was born a few years back, I took up the old carpet to replace it, noticing that one of the floorboards was squeaky. It wasn't fixed down properly so I pulled it up (just out of curiousity).

Underneath it was a small cardboard box. I got all excited then, thinking it was treasure. It was empty.

Why was it empty? What was kept in there? And why didn't the person who put it there leave something for me to find?

(I put a pound in and put it back before fixing the floorboard. Hopefully the next person who finds it won't be as disappointed).

Was viewing an empty house, looked all around downstairs, then upstairs. Just as we were leaving I said we should check that we had locked the back door.

We could not open the kitchen door.

Luckily we could get out via the conservatory, we went round the back and into the kitchen to find the fridge freezer has moved across the kitchen door by about two inches.

It took some effort to move it back into place as well.

Been here now 12 months and it has not happened since although I am inclined to keep the kitchen door open!

Mine is a pair of pants.

Hung out on the washing line Sunday morning, looking normal and fully formed. Took from the washing line in a hurry and placed on a pile of washing. Went to put them away this morning and they are ripped/chewed /burnt through. I have no idea what's happened to them and I can't for the life of me work it out.

For almost 3 years I get flowers delivered to the house every Birthday and Valentines day and a tatty teddy on my daughters birthday. There is never a name and I know it's not any members of my family. It's lovely but wish I knew who it was so I could at least thank them.

Fry - that was one possibility that did cross the mind. The staff were all so lovely there and her engagement/wedding rings were still there though. My brother saw her last but he won't remember if she had it on tbh.

They did try to recusitate her - would they remove jewellery for that? She was hale and hearty until about 9pm, when she declared that she had 'had enough'. Bro took that to mean she was tired and wanted him to leave but she died before he got home. They worked on her for a while before she went. I suspect if someone nicked it, she would be haunting them for their cheek!

It is possible she took it off, wrapped it in a hankey and put it 'in a safe place'. She had form for doing this, then getting up to rifle through the bins to retreive various jewellery that she had thrown out as rubbish.

My engagement and eternity ring went missing for seven years. The day before a new couch was arriving we chucked the new one out. But first my husband tore it apart. Lo and behold - my rings. That was quite surreal. I'd long since given up on them.

This will completely out me if any of my friends are reading this but many years ago while I was at 6th Form we went on a residential trip and stayed in a Youth Hostel for a night. All the girls were in one room and the boys were in another (there were about 12 of us in total).

All the girls ended up putting the mattresses on the floor rather than sleeping on the bunk beds however in the middle of the night I sneaked down into the boys room to see my then boyfriend.

When I came back in the morning I found a really intricately drawn picture of all the girls sleeping-it was drawn on a piece of cardboard that one of my friends had left out which she was sorting out her contact lenses on so was definitely done in the room rather than placed there if that makes sense.

I have no idea how anyone could have actually got into the room without any of them noticing because there was so little room with all the mattresses on the floor-they were right up against the door. Yet all the girls were completely freaked out by it and non of them could draw as well as that.

nicename if your mum was wearing the ring when she died in hospital, there is a chance someone took the ring. A friend of mine who's a carer in a home has told me more than once that jewellery is removed from her charges before they go to hospital to avoid it being nicked. She said they were never able to prove it was taken in the hospital, so the manager decided on prevention by keeping the jewellery in the home.

I lost a watch that turned up, years later under the fridge. It probably just fell on the floor and got kicked under but still, I was pleased to be reunited with it!

We have had things go missing but that was when DS was in his 'posting items in the kitchen bin' phase (before we cottoned on). So when we can't find something its 'gone to be with the watch' (another one).

My mystery is also about a missing ring. An agate ring that belonged to my gran, and was left to Mum. It went missing and she never found it, even when they cleared the house to move.

If anyone ever sees an agate ring with an unusual rectangular stone with distinct brown and white stripes instead of the usual swirly muddy colours, set in silver, I'd love to hear from you.

It would be brilliant if I could reunite mum with this ring.

To people who lose stuff, small valuable stuff, especially on or around sofas, etc.

If you are getting rid of a sofa or chair, that kind of furniture, take it apart if you can, as you will probably find stuff inside linings, down the sides, etc.

I know a couple of blokes who are employed by a furniture firm who, when the order for new stuff includes taking the old one away, they get the item back to the depot and take it apart themselves, they find quite a bit of valuable stuff...........

When we got rid of an old chair, we found a missing ring, about £5 in loose change and a missing stylus for the nintendo. It really does pay to look yourself.

Lost rings - check your gloves! They often fall off when you take your gloves off (especially if you have lost weight).

My mystery is our mums eternity ring. It went missing after she died in hospital and we never found it. She always wore it, and dad chose it himself. In every photo she is wearing it - it was really beautiful and had strikingly coloured stones.

I spoke to a psychic just after she died (yes, I know, I know but she died suddenly and I wanted to speak to someone) and she suggested one of the grandchildren had it (most unlikely as they are all abroad). We turned her place upside down, looked in all the pockets, bags, boxes, cases, etc but never found it.