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HowDairy · 11/09/2024 13:47

Cue spooky music...

Is there anything you've read on here that's stuck with you, or you'd like to get to the bottom of?
I'd like to know what happened to the two Microsoft laptops which were delivered to a MN's daughter I think a week or two ago?
Also the woo one about the missing clock chains.

What are your unsolved MN mysteries?

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wheo · 11/09/2024 23:34

Boswell

BibbityBobbityToo · 11/09/2024 23:43

I always wondered it the weekend kids club (was it dance or ballet?) shitting Dad ever managed to find somewhere else to shit after the staff finally put a keypad on the toilet door?

More seriously though, all the ladies who come on here for advice about their awful abusive husbands and then go radio silent when we suggest LTB. I do hope at least some do finally leave and don't bring their kids up in an abusive household.

ThisPresetIsSelected · 11/09/2024 23:44

@NotKatherineRyan don't suppose you can post an update?

DrBlackbird · 11/09/2024 23:45

MissEsmeWatson · 11/09/2024 16:03

I still (against my better judgement) want to know about the dreadful Ginny!

Ah the dreadful Ginny! I’d forgotten about that one but was quite mesmerised at the time. Hopefully the OP got the new job!

YesitsBess · 11/09/2024 23:45

Watercoloursky · 11/09/2024 23:32

You can see the deletion message for the spooky music thread here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4638968-creepy-music-in-my-garden

ARGH! Now I'm going to be thinking about it again.

But thank you for that.

Snowontheroof · 11/09/2024 23:48

BibbityBobbityToo · 11/09/2024 23:43

I always wondered it the weekend kids club (was it dance or ballet?) shitting Dad ever managed to find somewhere else to shit after the staff finally put a keypad on the toilet door?

More seriously though, all the ladies who come on here for advice about their awful abusive husbands and then go radio silent when we suggest LTB. I do hope at least some do finally leave and don't bring their kids up in an abusive household.

Some things it is easy to joke about, but those poor women in such awful domestic circumstances with abusive husbands - I am in tears sometimes. I have no idea how to help and it's awful.

HMW1906 · 11/09/2024 23:51

DottoTrain · 11/09/2024 16:44

This one! She was so excited and it was really sweet and funny but the thread got derailed by idiots and we never got the ending. I'm dying to know for sure he did propose!

He did propose in the swimming pool on the last
day I believe. She started a new thread about the proposal.

HashtagShitShop · 12/09/2024 00:17

One where a mum was worried about her son and his incredibly possessive and controlling girlfriend who would snap her fingers and expect him to come running or be on the phone to her. She hated it when he was at work and would kick off and already made him drop football and drift from his friends (he was abiut 17 I think) he even ended up moving in with her for a bit and the girls parents were encouraging that as it meant they didn't have to deal with her and her moods.

Occasionally he got to come back home and even admitted to his mum he wasn't happy about her behaviour but loved her.

Ineedwinenow · 12/09/2024 00:19

DrBlackbird · 11/09/2024 23:45

Ah the dreadful Ginny! I’d forgotten about that one but was quite mesmerised at the time. Hopefully the OP got the new job!

Yes Ginny! That’s the thread I was referring to in my post (took a while for the cogs to kick in) I hope she got the new job and is happy

Chaoseverywhere · 12/09/2024 00:59

Something about a painting under a bed!

Nearlyspring23 · 12/09/2024 01:09

A recent one where her parents had got really obsessed with a young woman they met at the gym. She went round most evenings for dinner and had started calling them mum and dad.
I can’t remember seeing any updates for this one?

DBSFstupid · 12/09/2024 01:11

gmgnts · 11/09/2024 17:58

I remember one where the OP lived quietly in a very remote area and found a mobile phone in the depths of her back garden, where no one would ever go. It stuck with me because I also live remotely and I would freak out if that happened to me. Some of the PPs clearly didn't understand and kept saying things like the postman must have dropped it, when it was nowhere near the path to her front door.

Yes this^
Whatever happened? Was the mystery solved?

SnowFrogJelly · 12/09/2024 01:12

What happened to the tiny Korean lady

Boiledbeetle · 12/09/2024 01:40

The Ginny thread (The OPs original thread was deleted)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4845145-ginny-an-update?page=1

To save you reading all 1000 posts though...

Written using the details the poster gave us

DECISION TIME

Work was great, a happy horde,
the other staff thought so too.
But then a new face came aboard,
and followed me into the loo.

She overstepped that invisible line,
the one that makes life good.
She acted as though she was so benign,
yet talked of sex whilst showing wood.

She treated us poorly in her fantasy,
ignored the uneasy interaction,
whilst she overstepped so absently.
(Only Mumsnet brought distraction.)

Then she threw an epic strop,
screwed the mainframe at the office.
So, we all sloped off to the shop,
as all locked out by the Apophis.

The woman seems to be Teflon coated,
the boss oblivious to the unrest.
The woman’s self-image so overly bloated,
the rest of us so bloody stressed.

We have to put up with all this shit,
we dare not voice our growing dissent,
and so, our teeth we’re forced to grit,
our freedoms lost without consent.

Our boundaries have been obliterated,
our feelings given not a thought.
Our toilet trips are now dictated,
by an edict the boss has brought.

We have been admonished, in front of all,
for our bad behaviour in these matters,
because the boss is so in thrall,
whilst our mental health is in tatters.

All of us are being bullied,
by this woman, and our boss.
If we speak out, we will be sullied,
not that the woman gives a toss.

We have been forced into silence,
so as not to be labelled a transphobe,
scared of if this ramps up to violence,
we’ve had to have the patience of Job.

It’s not the fact this woman’s a man
that has us all in pieces.
It’s the fact that since she began
we’ve been treated worse than faeces.

So now I have a choice,
do I stay or do I go?
Do I speak out and be the voice,
or jump ship for better dough?

Boiledbeetle 14th July 2023

I don't think the OP ever came back to say whether she stayed or left.

Ginny - an update | Mumsnet

Massive apologies for the delay in an update. It's been tricky to know how to word it so that I don't get into trouble or have to ask for it...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4845145-ginny-an-update?page=1

Peaky18 · 12/09/2024 02:22

philippass · 11/09/2024 20:07

What happened to trinityrhino? Mumsnetters visited and helped her out a few years ago.

Builders building somewhere they shouldn't. Someone called Spangran in the mix.

What happened to Amazonian? Ex living in Vietnam or somewhere.

Trinity was gifted so much from mn me included, she could hardly cope with the stuff.
Like an Angela's ashes destitution story. She remarried quite quickly and the story went that he died too all within months.
I never heard the end of her story but do feel she's still around under similar names.

scaredrabbit · 12/09/2024 02:46

Hi there @cunoyerjudowel and @gmgnts amazed you remember!
I was the scared rabbit that found a phone in my enclosed courtyard.
The police came and said the intruder probably dropped his phone trying to get away from the dog and probably was hiding in the corner the dog was barking at (note to self: never put yourself between dog and whatever he's barking at and never turn your back to whatever he's barking at).
They had a look around, spotted a patch of trampled/flattened grass on the other side of the house and thought whomever was here had probably been watching the house from there.😱
I asked why the phone had no sim card and they said it was common - I don't understand this.
They took the phone with them and we never heard anything more.

A week later, late afternoon (daylight) I saw a man exiting our field, adjacent to the garden. I could only see his back, all dressed in black. DH went and caught up with him, eventually - the man was ignoring DH calling after him and was walking fast- couldn't get anything out of him, he wouldn't even stop walking, so DH just warned him off. Apparently he was quite old, dressed in 'city' suit and shoes, but not smart or anything, weird enough for DH to notice. Maybe it was our intruder coming back for his phone?

We got another, big, very scary dog and I started sleeping at night again.
This happened during lockdown and it was great to vent and get MN's take.

IhateHPSDeaneCnt · 12/09/2024 04:53

@florenceandthemac I remember that Thread - it was heartbreaking. The GF wouldn't let him communicate with friends let alone family and her parents were complete enablers; shrugging their shoulders and saying 'that's how she is'. It was the OP's description of how she smirked and basically cackled at her 'victory' of removing him from his family and friends - he stopped going to school and moved in with her family. His friends were so worried too. Poor mum bent over backwards to try and accommodate and I really wonder what happened.

Fraaahnces · 12/09/2024 04:56

The Aussie woman who had the teenaged son enthralled by the abusive teenaged narcissist controlling Mata Hari story ended well - eventually. He dropped out of school and his mates ended up keeping in touch. He did an apprenticeship I believe after moving back home. His mental health was in tatters but mum and mates worked with him to help get him in better shape to get life in order.

Mummyoflittledragon · 12/09/2024 05:38

HashtagShitShop · 12/09/2024 00:17

One where a mum was worried about her son and his incredibly possessive and controlling girlfriend who would snap her fingers and expect him to come running or be on the phone to her. She hated it when he was at work and would kick off and already made him drop football and drift from his friends (he was abiut 17 I think) he even ended up moving in with her for a bit and the girls parents were encouraging that as it meant they didn't have to deal with her and her moods.

Occasionally he got to come back home and even admitted to his mum he wasn't happy about her behaviour but loved her.

If this is the one, which went over several threads, the op’s last thread was deleted by MN. She then went onto post onto the end of a previous thread. Last we heard is that they broke up and he was home, doing ok.

Mummyoflittledragon · 12/09/2024 05:40

Oh just realised that’s what you were referring to @Fraaahnces

Mummyoflittledragon · 12/09/2024 05:44

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 11/09/2024 20:13

What happened to the woman whose cat had gotten into a neighbour's house, but they weren't living there because it was mid renovation and weren't going to be back for a fortnight or something. At one point she was lobbing bits of ham through a window that was cracked open but not big enough to climb through

I think they got the cat out ok but I may be misremembering.

As for the thread with Spangran, doors cut into a courtyard in a listed building onto the op’s property, I have read posters saying on other threads that this story was made up. Ditto the tarpaulin at the end of the garden. I have no idea as I lost track of these.

TruthThatsHardAsSteel · 12/09/2024 05:48

TheShellBeach · 11/09/2024 14:30

What happened to the weird woman whose boyfriend made her listen to everything he said and did, 18 hours a day.
He claimed he might die if she wasn't listening.
They even heard each other in the lavatory.

Ghosted the thread from what I remember. Posters were more and more expressing concern. I guess the op maybe found it difficult. I'm very tired so not explaining so good x

TruthThatsHardAsSteel · 12/09/2024 06:02

HashtagShitShop · 12/09/2024 00:17

One where a mum was worried about her son and his incredibly possessive and controlling girlfriend who would snap her fingers and expect him to come running or be on the phone to her. She hated it when he was at work and would kick off and already made him drop football and drift from his friends (he was abiut 17 I think) he even ended up moving in with her for a bit and the girls parents were encouraging that as it meant they didn't have to deal with her and her moods.

Occasionally he got to come back home and even admitted to his mum he wasn't happy about her behaviour but loved her.

I'm fairly sure she pops up every so often with an update. Is there purple in her username?

SherlockHolmess · 12/09/2024 06:33

AnxieTeapot · 11/09/2024 18:02

I can't remember the details fully but there was a poster who had gone on holiday to France. I think they witnessed a parent being horrible to their child and the poster stood up for the child, then the parent (or parents?) drove off leaving the child with the poster. I've always wondered what happened to the child and if they were okay.

This. The French police were called and were apparently being very good with this poor abandoned child. I’m assuming it got deleted as it would have been a massive police/SS investigation.

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