Weirdest Thing Found In Your Garden

[CharlyAngelic]

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 !

Oh, and a very angry vole which had got itself into the corner between a water butt and the wall - it was left to go on its way!

Years ago my dog was pestering to go for a wee in the middle of the night. For ease I let him out the front door rather than the back and whilst I was waiting noticed a massive knife glinting at me from the lawn. Long story short it had been used in a crime earlier that night and must have been got rid of quickly.

Oooh, we had a sheep in the laundry room once.
And plenty of bullocks in the lawn.
And a pheasant running round and round the sitting room.

Farm life :)

Looked out one morning to see a peacock.
It had gone later in the day. Absolutely no idea where it came from!

Next door's granddaughter's used tampon on the patio outside our patio doors...

I'm sure there was a thread on here a while ago about a MNer who found human remains in their garden. They had to get the police in and so on but it was from the graveyard next door.

Our garden backs onto a large park. We have had several lost looking dogs that have squeezed through the hedge, various footballs and frisbees. Half a takeaway left on the lawn by the fox which seems to live behind our shed.

@Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom is the tip magnetic? If so, it's a gadget mechanics use to reach down into inaccessible areas behind engines etc to pick up dropped bolts, washers etc.

When I was a child, we dug up most of a skeleton of a horse. A few years later we were just finishing lunch and there was a knock on the door, it was an old lady who as a child had lived in the big house next door. We lived in a modern house built on part of the orchard/kitchen garden behind the coach house and stable block (which were both extended to become another house) belonging to the big house. Apparently around the turn of last century, her father's favourite carriage horse which was also her favourite horse had to be shot and had been buried in the orchard.

A well. When we had our garden dug up, they found a well filled up with rocks and concrete slabs.

Also once, a bike in our front garden. We ended up letting the police know as we thought it could be a dumped stolen bike but no one claimed it after 3 months so they said we could keep it.

I've been re watching time team on 4 on demand, and really want to a hole in the garden, come the spring. I'm convinced I will find a roman villa, or a lost monastery.

This thread has only encouraged me even more, even though I will mostly find guinea pig and dog remains...

A 3ft by 3ft painting called "The Eye of Horus", in a frame, suddenly appeared in our back garden. The night before had been very stormy and it was bin day so we think it had been put out the night before and blown in with the storm. It was horrible.

A carrier bag with a very nice North Face jacket left in the corner of the front garden. We had it cleaned because it had been rained on and when no one claimed it my son had it.

The door from a range oven buried in garden.

Several hedgehogs - much to the dogs' disgust.

In the woods just outside my parents’ garden, we found a body.

A six foot by one and a half foot diameter iron pipe which led to the bomb squad being called. A bugger to dig out! Part of it now forms a large planter.

Not a garden but tarmac yard below flat very large with shared wall with church they found human remains . We presumed they had been buried outside the church grounds for some reason . I found this very sad

Broken clay pipes (the kind you smoke), various bits of old agricultural implements, a marble egg, a few TINY terracotta plantpots, less than 1 inch high. Most exciting was a piece of a carved marble slab, definitely hand carved I would say. Would love to know what it's from, but don't want it in the house at present in case it's from a gravestone ...

A herd of cows.

My last garden had a stinkhorn. Grew every year in the same place. A rather alarming sight when all I wanted to do was pick strawberries.

Most unusual sighting in this one is a visiting weasel. Not so unusual considering we live near woodland and have a regular squirrel, too, but not something it would ever have occurred to me to expect in a suburban garden.

A whole dead chicken buried upside down with just its legs sticking out the soil.

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.

"The Hexham Heads"

A flock of sheep, from the field next door.

A baby foxes decapitated head 🤢. When I sent the husband out later to dispose of it it had disappeared.

A herd of cows.
A couple of sheep.
A Shetland pony (kids were gutted when it was picked up!)
And loads of (full) bottles of spirits. Shame it was the day after the pub down the road had been broken into and cleared out, they'd obviously escaped through the gardens and dumped it in ours to collect later.

A giant plastic toy crayfish (?!). It wasn't there one day and the next it was on our patio table!

Someone nearby heard a "slapping" noise and discovered a live koi carp on her patio! She rescued it rapidly using the washing up bowl and posted on our local fb page. Someone in the next road claimed it. A heron had pinched it and dropped it while flying over!

Great thread by the way!