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

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RevoltingPeasant · 15/04/2014 21:23

....inspired by the intriguing threads thread!

Does anyone have a mini-mystery, or a story they want to know the end to? We can all supply improbable answers Grin

Here's mine....

DH and I go for a walk around the block most nights before bed . Almost every night, at a particular point in the neighbouring street, there is an 'offering' of baked goods in the road.

Sometimes it is bread rolls. Sometimes, baguette. Once, about 8-9 Mr Kipling's Bakewell tarts. Just lying there in the road.

At first we thought it was for hedgehogs, but then the cakes? And in the road?? Confused

What's your unsolved mystery?

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MamaPain · 15/04/2014 21:42

Whats wrong with you? After a week I would have staked out the scene or at least done some re-con and worked out what time period they appear.

I now need to know why they are there too. Get on it OP.

My life is a mystery...

evelynj · 15/04/2014 21:42

Hmmm, interesting about the baked goods. If it's every night practically, I'd be sorely tempted to take a day off & hide out to see what's happening.

About a year ago we got a vase from m&s that we hadn't ordered. They didn't respond to an email query I sent about it.

Once I had a red rose left on my car at work car park. 99.9% sue I didn't have any admirers!

Also, there is a particular electric lines that all the birds line up on most days. There are about 25 different electric lines all in the same bit so why do they always go on the same one? There's about 20-60 odd of them all in a row. Every time. See them I sing 'like a bird on a wire' in my head.

OneLittleLady · 15/04/2014 21:42

once, when out for a walk, I found a whole dead chicken, feathers still intact in the middle of the path, no visible blood or animal bite marks, just there, dead on the path. About ten feet further down the path, there was half a rampant rabbit dildo. I have never worked out why either of those things were on the path or if they were somehow connected

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RevoltingPeasant · 15/04/2014 21:41

Ooh those are both lovely mysteries! Do you suspect anyone?

Baked goods all tumbled about, like they have dropped out of someone's bag. I have never eaten anything because I am too ashamed in front of DH

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Lj8893 · 15/04/2014 21:38

When I was about 14 I recieved an anonymous valentines card in the post. All my family swore blind it wasent them and didn't know who it was. Nobody else would have known my address including postcode. Bizarre.

WhispersOfWickedness · 15/04/2014 21:34

Interesting. Have you ever eaten any of them? What if it's raining?!
Am quite distressed at the thought of soggy cakes ShockGrin

My mystery is that about ten years ago, when I was a student, I bought a hamster and whilst I bought all the necessary things I needed to keep it, I couldn't afford any 'luxuries' like toys or treats etc. A few weeks later, I received a big parcel sent anonymously full of toys and other hamster related goodies. All friends and family denied sending it, and looked as surprised as I felt when I told them. Still nobody has owned up to it!

GrimbleGrog · 15/04/2014 21:34

But are they upright and placed, or tumbled about? (I have no reason for asking this beyond curiosity)

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RevoltingPeasant · 15/04/2014 21:33

Nope, just scattered there.

I would love to think that when I am dead, someone will regularly tip biscuits and bread rolls into a suburban street in my memory Grin

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crispyporkbelly · 15/04/2014 21:27

Maybe as a kind of rememberance for someone who's passed?

GrimbleGrog · 15/04/2014 21:25

Are the baked goods laid in the road or have they been tossed over a fence/hedge?

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