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

When I was 5 I had a birthday party and one of the presents was a fuzzy felt,p. I always wanted a fuzzy felt. Even now I love.

I left it in the playroom, and after the party it was missing.

My mum insists someone stole it, but I am still devestated about it, almost 40 yrs later!

Okay, here's one maybe somebody even knows!

About two years ago we used to drive fairly regularly to Dumfries, and there is this strange circular brick building thing either right before or right after the town starts from the West (sorry, forgot) beside the road. It looked like it would be the start to a circular staircase which went down below ground. I could see that there were words in the cement across the top of it, which I assumed labelled what it was, but was never able to catch sight of it as we drove past.

On our last trip, I didn't even manage to see the words on the way into town despite trying very hard, and so I convinced DH to stop on the way out so I could get out and go look in person. I walked over to it, and it was clearly the top of a staircase, as there was a curved entrance bit that went to a door, and not even space for any sort of room in the rest. However, I could not find out what it was -- it was obvious that the cement sign had recently been chipped off. There was a burlap sack secured with a loosely tied orange rope resting in front of the door.

I always felt like I was turning down some kind of adventure when I left the sack as is and went back to the car.

Does anyone know what that was (or is, as I assume it is still there)? And why the sign would have been chipped off? And a sack left? My best guess is some kind of infrastructure water/sewer/power thing. But why remove the sign?

A couple of years ago I was reading in bed on a Sunday morning, cat lying on my lap. Dh and I both wide awake, no hangovers or anything like that.

The cat was asleep and curled up, suddenly he flew off my lap & landed on the floor, 3ft away on my dressing gown. He was asleep the whole time and only woke after he landed.

Freaked us both out but I'm really glad dh was there to see it.

I am the third of six children, to the same mother, but different men. My mother swears that I have the same father as my older brother and sister, though they were divorced before I could have been conceived. When I finally met my dad for the first time, at 25, he had no idea I existed, but apparently my grandmother knew I of me. Go figure.

I love this thread. Mrs welly boots post gave me goosebumps !

Um. Where is the bunker?

My mini mystery is there is a old bunker that is mostly boarded up, it was from the war but when ive tried to find any information about it, it seems like there is none, yet the bunker exists ?.

I bought a black dress for my grandfathers funeral and hung it in the wardrobe. On the morning of the funeral I went to get out the dress it check if it needed ironing, no dress. Searched high and low and couldn't find it! Since had new wardrobes fitted and still no dress. Mum joked maybe he didn't like it lol

Baby food once went missing from kitchen cupboard when ds was a baby, only me and dp in the house and he swears he didn't eat it ;)

breast your mystery is simple to solve - you obviously had a massive spider living in the sink who didnt appreciate your offering and chucked the tooth back at you. Spiders are ungrateful creatures dontcha know!

Mistletoe it was about 10 years ago now and I've moved house twice so the chances are slim but I'm now going to have to check all my big books just in case!

I was even still looking out for it when I cleared my mums house out.

It always felt like an injustice that I got into trouble for something I don't think it was possible for me to do - and the replacement phone I was bought was not as good either.

I packed my bag in a holiday cottage and put my address book in ( i am v geeky, but for some reason I like a nice leather bound address book) I remember doing it. In the inside, in the pouch bit. And left.

Couldn't find it when home. Searched the suitcase endlessly, scoured everywhere. Travelled all over the works with said suitcase, unpacking, repacking, stayed on the same holiday cottage the next year. When I went to pack the address book was in the pouch. Its large and has a soft leather pale green cover. You can't miss it!

What's with the food left laying about? So bizarre.

No, it was a very old fashioned one actually built into the wall. No gaps it could have fallen down. I only moved a few doors down and the man who bought the house used to call here and ask various questions about the house (where is XYZ kind of thing) and I actually mentioned it to him. The whole place got ripped out. We'd moved because of damp so floors and joists were replaced. So if it was still in the house it would have been found. He never did.

Porquoi I did that!
Found the phone INSIDE THE DICTIONARY! A big Oxford one.
Try checking in all your big books

Bottle - it probably slipped down the gap between the mantelpiece and the wall. It might still be there!

Bottleofbeer could it have fallen down the back of the mantelpiece? (Ours was a cheap one screwed into the wall so lots of things fell down the back, if yours was a proper one then this would probably have been difficult to manage though!)

Abandoned cakes: I think it is a religious thing.

1991: Valentine with hand drawing on front and inside, in cut out newspaper, "I think you're nice".
Who are you?

When I was 13 I lost my last baby tooth, it had been loose for ages as it was stuck to a piece of gum and was really annoying. I eventually managed to wriggle it free as I was standing by my sink (which was in my bedroom) one morning. I was bored and was idly colouring it in with some red biro when it slipped from my grasp and dropped down the plug hole. I even heard it clatter down the drain pipe and thought 'ah well, I'll never see that again, good riddance for being such a nuisance'. A week went by and I was hoovering my bedroom when I found the tooth (coloured in red biro) on the floor by the sink. It gives me the creeps as I heard it and saw it go down the plughole so how could it be on the floor next to the sink a week later?

When dd was born 8 years ago my mum received a 2005 royal mint coin thing and a newspaper cutting about those baby baths like a bucket. No card, no idea who from. Very odd.

My mum asked me to try and work out the identity of her mothers father. Her mum was illegitimate.
My mum had a surname she'd heard spoken of while she was hiding under the kitchen table as a child but no more.
I tracked down a possible through ancestry.co.uk but can never be absolutely sure. All the people who might know are dead now. Big gap in my family tree.

My parents 25th wedding anniversary. They go to Greece for the week. While they're away my grandad drops a card in and asks me to give it to them on their return.

It's bigger than an average card and in a bright yellow envelope. I am the last up to bed that night and the first up and I know that bloody card was on the mantle piece when I went up. It's gone. I ripped the house apart looking for it. Knowing there is probably money in it, I'm broke and my parents know it. Really not wanting them to think I've nicked it in desperation.

I even ripped the bottom of the couch open to make sure it hadn't gone down the side into the bottom.

Never, ever found it. Moved house since then. Wasn't under the carpet etc...the kids were only little and a stair gate would have stopped them getting down in the night. No sign of a break in. My mum was unable to thank them if money had been in it because we didn't know for sure if there was and it would have looked weird thanking them for money they possibly didn't give.

I'm sure they think I took it but I swear with every atom of my being I did not. It really did just disappear.

I lost my car and door keys in my house once. Pre dd, single and lived alone.

Let myself in with the keys, next morning they were gone. Checked the bin, so they didn't go out with the rubbish, but never found them, even when I moved.

Exactly the same thing has happened to dsis, although she does have a somewhat naughty child, and has a also lost a house phone, so we are less about hers!

The food could be a Buddist offering. We have a few shops around here who leave food outside their doors as some sort of good fortune offering.

Last night I left to go to the gym with dd1. DH and dd2 followed about ten minutes later. The living room was in tact with two lights and two light shades.

When I got home one of the light shades was on the living room floor, the bulb was still in the holder and the ring which holds the shade in place was completely missing. DH and I have looked everywhere but it's not there.

We have lost a couple of remotes. Absolutely no clue where they've gone, they have totally vanished. Ones the main one for the tv and we really could do with it back!