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Weirdest Thing Found In Your Garden

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CharlyAngelic · 09/01/2019 17:21

Inspired by a pre Christmas thread about Wonky Candles and a poster making a water feature out of a “minge” found in her garden.
I found male gay porn magazines ( in early 1990s ) and on a different occasion money ( 2 £20 notes , I think they were mine , to be fair , caught up in some till receipts for recycling bin )
I am sure Mumsnetters can better this !

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CharlyAngelic · 09/01/2019 20:03

It’s a headstone @palacepalace Grin

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VamillaSugar · 09/01/2019 20:05

A plant stand left by the previous owners. We call it The Concrete Erotica as it is a plinth surrounded by naked ladies. It’s almost as if the White Witch from Narnia stumbled across an orgy.

Hidingtonothing · 09/01/2019 20:07

Used syringes, complete with needles, loads of the damn things Angry Previous tenants were addicts but we thought bleaching the bedroom walls to remove the blood spatter was the end of it til we started sorting the garden Sad

TonsilTits · 09/01/2019 20:11

@PalacePalacePalace for god's sake Shock that is horrifying.

TattiePants · 09/01/2019 20:12

I dug up a dead dog WITH MY BARE HANDS!! I still shudder to think about it. I pulled at a deeply routed plant and up popped a small dog's skull. At least it was a long time dead so just the bones.

TonsilTits · 09/01/2019 20:12

@GissASquizz the image of a hedgehog eating a roastie makes me extraordinarily happy

Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 09/01/2019 20:16

I found this, it's an expendable baton sort of like the police (but obviously not a police one) use.

no idea where it came from!

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Iputthescrewinthetuna · 09/01/2019 20:23

I have found nothing interesting in my garden, so I am place-marking just so I can enjoy your finds

AuntGertrude · 09/01/2019 20:26

Got up one day and found a peacock in our garden. He scarpered mid-morning.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 09/01/2019 20:27

palace looks like Ian Duncan Smith

HarrietSchulenberg · 09/01/2019 20:28

About 50 vodka bottles under a tree, a 1940s Bovril jar and whay appeared to be nest of mummified chicks under some old ivy. Turned out to be a very cobwebby plastic decoration of a nest but I spent an entire winter gearing myself up for getting rid of it only to feel like a berk when I uncovered the truth.

Knittink · 09/01/2019 20:29

About £800, buried in glass jars!

MrsIronfoundersson · 09/01/2019 20:30

Victorian houses ... a cat skeleton in a black bag, about a skip's worth of broken pottery bits, the remains of an Andersen shelter, lots of marble bottle tops, Belfast sink, old garden tools (which clean up nicely), various hedgehogs. I love finding stuff!

elephantoverthehill · 09/01/2019 20:31

Mumthedogsbeensick Yes a real live human being. We were clearing up after Sunday dinner and something caught my eye. I went onto the garden and found a young man behind my shed. I not very politely enquired what he was doing in my garden. He said he was hiding from some people. I asked if he wanted to come in and use the phone for someone to come and get him etc. Meanwhile DS1 arrives in the garden and tells him where to go and he just slunk off into the night.
Palace when I was about 7 there was a really creepy news report on 'Nationwide' about stone heads being found. It was on youtube a few years ago. It gave me nightmares for a while so I checked if I was remembering it correctly. No watershed in the 70s.

brownmoose · 09/01/2019 20:34

A shovel.

Not mine. I don't own one.

Just in the middle of the garden propped up against a plant pot.

Raspberry88 · 09/01/2019 20:35

Started to dig flower beds into our current house some months after moving in and under the compacted mud was a whole, perfectly preserved slice of cheap white bread. It did make me think about what on earth is in the stuff!

QOD · 09/01/2019 20:36

A cats 🦵

Ifangyow · 09/01/2019 20:38

An elephant Tiger moth lava.
I didn't know what it was as I hadn't seen one before until my son told me.
Strange but fascinating looking thing, quite big too, around 4 inches long.

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Witchend · 09/01/2019 20:40

Dead pets in jam jars. I assume from previous owner.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 09/01/2019 20:44

Anyway, weirdest thing was a man, lying flat on his back, chest cracked open (like they do on Casualty), two paramedics working on him, an ambulance, an ambulance ‘car’ and my husband and a neighbour (who had called the ambulance when he saw said man fall about 40 foot out of a tree on our boundary). We have a very big garden/bit of land and I can’t see the end of it from the house as there is a wooded area. Turns out the guy was up a tree trying to cut branches down (not our tree other side of the fence), when he fell, landing our side of the fence. A neighbour had been watching him (thinking, that looks a bit dangerous Confused) and as he saw him fall came racing to the end of our garden, shouting for my husband, who was out doing gardening, they called the ambulance and waited with him. I wandered down to the end of the garden some time later to see the described scene. It was a surprise to say the least. Amazingly the guy was ok(ish) but had a long stay in hospital. The dogs were bringing in strips of blooded t shirt fabric for weeks after where the paramedics had cut it off him Shock

mineofuselessinformation · 09/01/2019 20:44

A pheasant (alive and kicking, just not willing to jump the fence back into the field behind) and a whole bag of cement (hardened) and a jumper buried in the front garden, I suspect from the people who built the house.

tilder · 09/01/2019 20:47

That stone head is creepy palacepalace.

We found a ring once. Always assumed it to be glass and not genuine but never checkedBlush

Have also found marbles, usual pottery, some beautiful buttons and some massive very rusty spurs. Poor horse. Plus a huge bone, probably cowConfused

Every time we dig we find something. Old house.

Ifangyow · 09/01/2019 20:49

Also found a baby ferret which was only a few days old, it didn't even have fur it was so young. I don't know what happened to his mother as she never came back. Maybe attacked by a predator?
Took him into the house, made a kind of incubator from a shoe box and a lamp and reared him with kitten milk via a dropper.
Twelve months on, he's thriving and very much part of our family ( and spoilt rotten ) 😀

DelurkingAJ · 09/01/2019 20:52

I thought we had some aggressive slugs. The garden gate (full height) was shut. It wasn’t slugs...

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whyameyehere · 09/01/2019 20:54

A sheep! It actually got into the back porch as we were trying to corner it, dm phoned a local.farmer she knew who realised where it had come from(one of the other farmers had had some escapees) so came to collect it