Something just happened and I have no explanation for it

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Six years ago I was in Belfast (I live in the North of England) and I lost my debit card, I cancelled the card and got a new one. I know for a fact I lost it there because it was in my purse (It was my only card and the one I had been using on my trip to Belfast) and I left my bag on a bus and never got it back.

Today I had a new couch and chair delivered, When the delivery guys left I took the seat cushions off the couch (It’s the kind you can move the cushions and swap them around etc) and there was a debit card there, Picked it up and its the exact one I lost in Belfast six years ago.

Never even sat on this couch yet so it’s not like it fell out of my pocket, because I don’t have any pockets and I don’t have the same clothes I had six years ago, Since losing the card I have decorated my entire flat, All the rooms were empty with no furniture etc as I got it all done room by room, The couch arrived today and the debit card was in the couch.

I’m trying to figure out how this happened and to be honest I'm stumped!

Anything strange like this happened to someone else? Did you ever figure it out?

what happened to you?

you can link to your thread if easier.

It must be bank cards that are susceptible to disappearing/reappearing. Around 20 years ago our joint account debit cards arrived ready to be activated before the old ones expired. I opened them and placed them propped up just inside our bureau to remind us to activate. DH arrives home from work and I go to hand him his card but they've gone. We searched high and low, methodically checking everywhere even though they were only in the bureau. I admitted defeat and cancelled them a few days later,new ones arrived,all good. About 3 years later I went to put some paperwork in the bureau and there in front of me were the 2 missing debit cards,plain as day. Not concealed but just where I propped them years before. 😱 A few years after that I picked up a urine specimen bottle(exciting stuff) from my dad's doctors on my way home from work and the plan was to cook the tea then visit dad,taking him the bottle. I'd put it in the bureau ready to grab on my way out. It was gone,never to return. That bureau is now in the garage holding various tools etc but we never put anything we'll need in the near future in it, in fact we still say something like "don't put it in the haunted bureau,I'll want it later in the week". Just in case.

I lived in Whalley Range many years ago and decided I'd save the bus fare to go into Manchester by walking as it was a nice day and I was a bit skint, although quite a long walk and not one I'd done very often.

So walking along Clarendon Road and spotted a letter upside down on the floor. Intact. So I picked it up planning to put it in either the post box or the bin.
Turned it over and it was addressed to me.
I assume the postie had dropped it but the odds of me actually being the person to pick it up must have been slim.

'the haunted bureau'

Sorry I have tried but can't make it work

Here you are LesserSpottedFlamingo
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4970026-something-woo-happened-to-me-today?reply=131700746

I would very much like to find the ring I lost last year, I believe left in a pocket of a dressing gown I wore at a day spa after I took it off when I was having a beauty treatment. I shall now maintain a tiny sliver of hope that it will turn up in the future when I purchase a new item of furniture...

You need to ask the delivery men for their side of the story.

Thanks for linking to the thread

Nothing as exciting but years back we donated a teddy to the raffle drawer... And we won it back!

I don't understand how it's bizarre you must have just dropped the card there right before you went to Belfast and you assumed you lost it in Belfast when really you hadn't taken it away with you.

Also how can you know for sure it's the same back card?

Because the couch she found the card in was new and only delivered today

@CustardySergeant cheers!

Would you mind providing a link, or pm it? I tried searching your username but the search function was quite confusing!

Ooh, didn't realise the thread had moved on and you have indeed supplied a link. As you were. lol thank you.

Thank you @CustardySergeant for the link. :) (One day I'll get my shit together.)

Reads to me like someone working on a plot for one of the 99p self published stalker thrillers on Amazon. It's a whole genre!

That's so bizarre 😬 I have a similar story of something turning up when it had been lost in a completely different country.

My husband lost his wedding ring when we were on our honeymoon and we looked absolutely everywhere for it but couldn't find it, he was upset but assumed it came off in the sea so not much we could do.

We flew home about a week later and when we got home we went into the kitchen to make some tea and toast and we saw his wedding ring perched ontop of the toaster. It still baffles me to this day because he definitely had it on when we were on our honeymoon because he's wearing it in pictures we took.

I lost a bank card, 10 years later found it inside a book

No, it would be 1 in 100m if neither of the cards had been received, and we chose a precise PIN, e.g. 2345 and asked what are the chances of both being the same. So 1 in 10,000 for the first card times 1 in 10,000 for the second.

In this case the Dad already has a PIN, the chances of the Daughter receiving 2345 is the same as receiving any other PIN, 1 in 10,000.

Sorry for being pedantic!

The chances of OP’s story being true, however, are even less than 1 in 100m.

Delivery men found the card as they removed your old couch and helpfully put it in the new couch, figuring that's where you keep it. Which means you've not cleaned under the sofa cushions for six years ...

Indeed. 1 in 10000 that it's the same as her dad's first PIN. 1 in 5000 that it's the same as either mum or dad's first PIN. If parents have had five different PINs between them, 1 in 2000 that it's the same as one of them.
Probability that it's happened to one family in the country - pretty near certain, since there are thousands of families.
(Probability that they've noticed - rather lower, since you are not supposed to tell anyone your PIN. None of this household know each other's PIN.)

Hi everyone - just to make you aware that the OP has since left the site and so those hanging on for an update will sadly be disappointed. Of course, there's always the possibility that OP has been swallowed whole by their glitch-in-the-matrix couch, and will pop out, six years later, in a random DFS.

In my family home when something like this would happen we'd blame Ethel. She was the spinster who lived in the house all her life with her brother until she died, in her 80s, in about 1965. None of us believe in ghosts but stuff happens and we need to explain it away.