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

Or something else....!

Sorry to scare you!

Whenever I've thought of it before I thought it was a hallucination/dream but in fact I was old enough to know the difference between a dream and something I actually heard, in my room. The only other options would be maybe my dad sleepwalking (?) or someone breaking in.

Noooo! Oh god I've got all the children in bed with me tonight. What if it only says it to children?

LettertoH, I think you said, upthread, that you're in the US? It looks as though those buttons might be related to the War Of Independence?

Don't say it out loud anyone. You may unintentionally call whatever it was, back to you.....
Eeeek!!

matilda you've just scared the crap out of me! "Ar-gee" omg that sounds so scary!

That's utterly creepy!...

That's the first time I've ever typed it out. Applying Occam's razor, I'm wondering whether someone broke in. Jesus.

Here's my mystery: who was the ar-gee man?

When I was around 4-5, one night I woke up and heard a man at the foot of my bed saying, "Ar-gee" (with a hard "g").

Ar-gee. Ar-gee. Ar-gee.

It was pitch dark and I could tell it was the wee hours of the night, like two or three. He was saying it in a playful tone of voice, the way a man would talk to a child.

Ar-gee. Ar-gee.

I covered my ears. I was too scared to get out of bed. The next thing I knew it was morning.

At breakfast I told my mother and she said I must have heard ice falling off the roof.

WTF?

I am so sad I have finally got to the end of this thread... it's been keeping me company the past few nights (along with a glass of wine!)

I have 12 white soup bowls from M&S. I noticed a while back one of the bowls is an IKEA bowl. There is no ikea nearby. I've no idea where this impostor bowl came from.

This thread is great.
Mine is boring. Where the actual fuck have my Dh's socks gone? Packed them all for holiday. Got there,not there. Got back, not here. Where have they bleddy well gone?

Regarding the "rust" on clothes, I had this and couldn't work it out. I eventually worked out that a leather "label" on the waist of my jeans (that the belt goes through) stained things when it got wet! It drove me mad. It was a relief to find out.

My mystery is that I was going to Alton towers with friends, we were meeting another group of friends in a lay by ( they were following us). My friends mum got hysterical and begged us not to go/meet friends. We insisted on going but decided we'd meet at towers. On going to towers we passed the lay by where we were supposed to meet to find a lorry had over turned and was on its side by the side of the lay by. Chances are we would have been wiped out as one of us would have been waiting for the others there!

Services of supply?

Though I'm thinking it's something to do with Scotland because of the rampant lion. Scots of ....somewhere in the USA beginning with S?

Letterto- I think the SOS may be someone's initials, but given its current use it is rather poignant.

I like the wormhole theory best . Or maybe you know each other and have accidentally swapped bowls?

Loving the conclusion to the bowl mystery...now it is even more mysterious :)

Oh my god, catinthief and ischippy.... That is crazy! How odd!

LettertoH

RE:- the SOS badge. Is there a legend in the red scroll at the bottom?, because if there is, that would help quite a lot.

It "could be(?)" that the SOS badge a " Blood Donor Badge" connected with the Military or even a Union?. If not...maybe an early SOS Talisman?

Just noticed that there's a hole (with wear?) in the backing btw If so?, maybe a delicate chain was originally attached leading to a safety pin, and it's leading me to think that it's what a soldier might give to his Sweetheart/Wife/Mother/Sister during the "Great War"?

Sorry for the questions below
RE:- The Man...the material is puzzling to me!.
Is it wool or cotton?.
Does it smell?, if so...what of?
Have you looked at him with a magnifying glass/microscope to see if he's painted, enameled or even tessellated?

(please don't clean either of them, just leave them as be)

Is there an update regarding someone locked in the basement??

Just thinking it over, and am certain that they were all black to start with .

I bought them just before Xmas one year. Dm was here that year and there is no way either of us would have missed that one bowl didn't match.

Then a few months later I got them all out (usually only dh and I as dd has her own crockery ) and BAM! One had developed squiggly lines.

I am stumped. And that I have managed, by pure fluke , to find someone else this had happened to.

CatThiefKeith iirc I got mine from Wilkos too

You'd think we'd live near each other but no CatTheif and I are several hundred miles away!

LettertoHerms- that is a shirt stud, and a button. They do look some age. What is the flower with the lion? I wander if we can track down the crest. Can you do a census search for your house?

Ooh, that's possible, I can't remember where I got mine. Possibly IKEA or Wilkos

There are no markings at all on the black ones, but the infiltrator has 'Microwave and dishwasher safe' stamped on the bottom.