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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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alittlebitdemented · 14/07/2019 10:05

@kateandme That's what I'm trying to do. And Rachel. I love a mystery that needs solved.

kateandme · 14/07/2019 10:09

oh god you see people are seeing it as one person.im still only able to see 2 people: a person 'rachel?'being either sexual or standing bum to someone else front bum Shock

WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 10:09

I have googled yes. To no avail.

Brighton.

And MIL doesnt know where it came from
and my mum just said "what is it? A squashed cat?" Hmm

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kateandme · 14/07/2019 10:09

alittlebitdemented oh good let me know!

Inniu · 14/07/2019 10:11

Is your current bed new or second hand? If second hand they could have been stored between the slats.

Could someone else have been in the flat. We had issues in a flatshare years ago. Flat mate stealing my bread and denying it. Her accusing me of eating her expensive marmalade, Random things going missing.
One day I was off work sick, came downstairs to make a cup of tea and the landlord was having tea and toast in the kitchen.

SarahTancredi · 14/07/2019 10:13

Do you have a well in the garden?

TSSDNCOP · 14/07/2019 10:15

DM clearly doesn’t share your gift OP. Are you perhaps adopted? Could Rachel be.,...your real DM???????

WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 10:16

No the slats folded up into one long line about 4 inches wide. That's impossible.
It was second hand though.

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WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 10:21

Fucking hell DH has just come home from the gym. I grilled him.

He said he discovered it yesterday when he got something else out from under the bed. That's the first time he saw them.
Not all the other times when we got new beds or moved the room around (although when we moved the room around we did just kind of shuffle the crap across).
He now believes me that it's not me. I think it was the "you know I wouldn't have bought those upstairs by myself without asking you to help."

He said he must have bought them up for me then?

I said no you didn't though!! Neither of us have seen them before!

He said "I dunno then" no longer cares and now he's gone to cook bacon. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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JustMe9 · 14/07/2019 10:26

How old is the house you live in? Has anyone ever died in there? Also have you checked the attic when you moved in...?
My only suggestion would be to clean the house with salty water (this removes bad energies in case there are any).

Bwekfusth · 14/07/2019 10:26

Oooooh

HeronLanyon · 14/07/2019 10:27

This is reminiscent of the lost iron thread - what a mystery. Was going to suggest they had been stored in some kind of divan type drawer without your knowledge but that’s it right.
Could a relative or friend or housesitter have put them there for safekeeping at any stage (with or without (forgotten) permission??)

HeronLanyon · 14/07/2019 10:27

Ironing board not iron sorry.

Cherrysoup · 14/07/2019 10:27

@TSSDNCOP 🤣

WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 10:29

No relatives or house sitters, no.

It's not a house it's a flat with no loft and it's 1970's build.

I fear I'm never going to get to the bottom
of this which is bloody annoying.

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Bwekfusth · 14/07/2019 10:30

I don't think OP's husband is the secret 'artist' surely nobody could be thick enough to store something that size under the bed where it's easily found.

TSSDNCOP · 14/07/2019 10:31

Secret inter-connecting door to —another dimension— next door flat?

It has to be the landlord.

QueenBeex · 14/07/2019 10:31

I can see 2 people, one standing behind the other.

Very strange thing to just appear though.

BoredToday · 14/07/2019 10:35

Place holder

Awrite · 14/07/2019 10:36

Your dh is lying to you. He has too much pride to admit it.

Please don't accept blanket character traits like having a bad memory. It means others can win arguments against you.

IsolaPribby · 14/07/2019 10:36

Did you not say that there were 2 pictures? What was the other one of?

Soola · 14/07/2019 10:37

It’s the new Banksy!

John Lynton wanted to be a cat burglar but during his first spell in prison he was introduced to life drawing.

He now travels around the country unable to curb his desire for breaking and entering but doesn’t steal, just leaves his art work for people to find and admire....

alittlebitdemented · 14/07/2019 10:39

@WTFthatsweird and @kateandme
Google and Facebook reveals nothing. Contemplating resubscribing to The Times online but maybe that's a tad excessive. Wink

CheerfulPotato · 14/07/2019 10:47

I don’t see a person. It’s Cthulhu.

WTFthatsweird · 14/07/2019 10:47

No my memory can be a bit shit. He's not gaslighting me. He questioned his own memory as well.

There weren't two pictures no, sorry I mean there are two frames. One picture.

Definitely not the LL unless she let herself in when we weren't there and tucked them under the bed. Which just seems daft?!

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