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A picture has appeared under my bed. Neither me or DH think it's ours. Wtf?

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WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 07:49

We're moving house. DH said to me, what do you want to do with the pictures under the bed?
I had no idea what he was on about. I never put pictures under the bed.

Sure enough, 7am this morning he drags out two dusty old frames from under the bed. I've never seen them in my life. One of them had a charcoal drawing of a woman called Rachel.
I've never clapped eyes on it before.

DH says they aren't his. He thinks I've lost my marbles and have a shit memory.

But I swear I've never seen them before. The picture was made in '92. I was 10.

How the fuck did they get there?!

When I moved in 5 years ago there were no pictures here. No other adults have stayed here and I know he kids wouldn't come up with massive frames with glass and a picture of a naked woman.

How did this happen?!

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omione · 14/07/2019 07:51

They have to be his, he knew they were there and you didnt

Julykthat · 14/07/2019 07:52

I came on to suggest they could have fallen out of a library book Blush.

In light of the frames and size I have no idea OP. Shock it's a mystery!

QOD · 14/07/2019 07:53

Rachel lives under your bed and skitters across your ceiling at night

Oblomov19 · 14/07/2019 07:54

John Lyton presumably knows who Rachel of 92 is?

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WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 07:55

No!! Fuck!! I will have nightmares now!

He knows they are there because we moved the bed a few weeks ago to push it up agains the wall after the baby fell out the bed one night 😱

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WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 07:56

Omg does anyone remember "the ghost pushed my baby off the bed"

Was that a Bounty Debates thing? Or MN? I can't remember.

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Greenolivesorblackolives · 14/07/2019 07:57

Ooo that’s weird.

Greenolivesorblackolives · 14/07/2019 07:58

Ooo thats weird.

madcatladyforever · 14/07/2019 08:00

Is the woman in the picture getting older everyday?

Soola · 14/07/2019 08:01

Was the bed there when you moved in?

Ellabella989 · 14/07/2019 08:01

How strange! Is it a rental accommodation? If so are you 100% certain they weren’t left behind by the previous tenant?
If they definitely weren’t in the house when you moved in then the only logical explanation is that they belong to your partner. Has your landlord visited recently and cheekily stored them there? So weird!

Squirrel26 · 14/07/2019 08:01

It’s not your house and he’s not your DH. You went back to the wrong address by mistake a few weeks ago. He didn’t like to say anything. Rachel’s wondering when you’re going to go home. Grin

Thistles24 · 14/07/2019 08:01

I’ve previously bought pictures from the charity shop purely for the frames, which I’ve cleaned and painted, and discarded the original artwork. You didn’t have the intention to do that many moons ago, then forgot about them?

LauderSyme · 14/07/2019 08:02

It must have been the baby then Wink

To be serious, they must have been in the house when you moved in and you've simply never noticed.

GettickledGETTICKLEDbyspiders · 14/07/2019 08:03

Sleep drawing?

Soola · 14/07/2019 08:05

Could they have been attached to the underside of the bed and then when your husband moved the bed they came away?

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WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 08:05

Was the bed there when you moved in?

No, in fact that's our third bed. So when DH gets back home from the gym I need to find out at which point he actually discovered them for the first time.

are you 100% sure they weren't left behind by the previous tenant
Very sure. My landlady bought it. She gutted it ripped out the carpets, decorated and recarpeted. It was plain and bare walls and rooms with nothing in. Not even curtain poles.

You didn’t have the intention to do that many moons ago, then forgot about them?

With three rowdy boys I would never in a million years bring home something that had massive sheets of glass in.
Absolutely definitely didn't bring them home and forget about them. Which is exactly what DH thinks I've done and won't beat otherwise.

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WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 08:08

I wouldn't have even been able to carry them up the stairs because I couldn't lift them into the hall way earlier.

There's no physically possible way I would have been able to lug them up two flights of stairs into the flat.

It didn't come with the bed. The bed is just metal frames. It doesn't have drawers or anywhere you could store scecret naked Rachel's.

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EleanorReally · 14/07/2019 08:08

would another adult, your mother, his mother, have put them there for safe keeping?

EleanorReally · 14/07/2019 08:09

oh perhaps the landlady stored them there without you knowing.

IWantMyHatBack · 14/07/2019 08:09

"Is the woman in the picture getting older everyday?"

Brilliant.

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WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 08:12

Noooo the landlady hasn't been here since I moved. We use an agency.

No parent or other adult has bought them in and stored them under the bed to my or my husbands knowledge.

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Signhereplease · 14/07/2019 08:12

DH got them in a charity shop last week & wants to keep them - classic gaslighting you.

His OW sent them via Yodel.

*Both lighthearted theories.

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WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 08:13

Maybe DH is John. Shock

Who the fuck is Rachel?!

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PancakeAndKeith · 14/07/2019 08:15

Has someone asked you to hold onto them?