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What on earth is this? (Found outside my house)

709 replies

brooklyn66 · 10/02/2017 23:22

Yesterday came home to find a bit of folded-up paper wedged in a crack in the fence wall bit (pavement goes right past it). Opened it up to find 2x2p coins inside unrecognisable writing - see pic!
What is this?

What on earth is this? (Found outside my house)
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Tokelau · 13/02/2017 12:42

I'm pretty sure that's not Welsh. I know some Welsh but I'm not fluent at all. I don't recognise the letters even. The 'words' seem to be repeated again and again.

Elphame · 13/02/2017 12:43

Doesn't look like Welsh - I certainly can't read any of it

Superaspie · 13/02/2017 12:48

Geo caching?

EssentialHummus · 13/02/2017 12:49

I'd love it if this turned out to be some stray Welsh wiccan hanging around Bournemouth trying to get rid of a wart. Grin I can picture it!

MrWriter · 13/02/2017 13:20

Ooh, just place marking to hopefully find out what it is.

Intriguing.

spiderlight · 13/02/2017 13:25

That ain't Welsh.

CompanyOfCats · 13/02/2017 13:48

Definitely not Welsh. I am Welsh, the note is emphatically not

clairethewitch70 · 13/02/2017 13:49

Not Welsh, I speak a little and recognise no Welsh words here.

user1483699375 · 13/02/2017 13:53

Yes - Id say it a Geo Cache and the language is probably something known only to a specific LARP group..... You know - like Dungeons and Dragons or summink...

LeopardPrintSocks1 · 13/02/2017 14:27

Lol at Welsh

Mombie87 · 13/02/2017 14:44

Just putting my two pennies worth

No pun intended haha.
I work in a mental health unit and have discovered familiar looking cryptions that mean nothing but to the person they do (obviously when they are unwell)
I've met someone speaks in 'tongues' and codes and writes notes with special letters and symbols...it is fascinating!

This could be a language though....

I'm intrigued!

ChiefClerkDrumknott · 13/02/2017 14:47

Welsh! Grin Most definitely not

TizzyDongue · 13/02/2017 14:59

I think the chances of this has come about due to hypergraphia, possibly related to schizophrenia, are high. There's quite a lot of repetitions in the script too.

duvetdaysgone · 13/02/2017 15:14

It's not Geo Caching. Generally the cach's are hard to find for a non Geo Caching person and kept in a weather proof tub I.e an old style camera spool tub.

Very intriguing, I'm itching to know.

brooklyn66 · 13/02/2017 15:17

By the way I accidentally managed to email the first picture to a textile designer with the email consisting only of the letter 's'. I meant to email her asking for a fabric sample and my computer was being slow and somehow attached the photo to it and sent it before I knew what was going on!

I emailed immediately after apologising for the weird picture but God knows what she must have thought. If she's reading then this is why!

I think we've established:
It's not Welsh
It's not mirror-writing [sceptical]
It's not shorthand
It's not Hebrew

I'm fairly sure it's not a language; if you trace the writing it's like a 'comforting' doodle and the markings aren't distinctive enough to look like letters.

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Lostmysignal · 13/02/2017 15:25

Ooh Brooklyn maybe she will know. In the spirit if all things woo maybe you were meant to send it?! Smile

Lostmysignal · 13/02/2017 15:27

By the way I love this thread! I was sold on the spell thing or thought maybe a poem as there seem to be repetitions at the end of the lines but now thinking it could be hypergraphier (sp?!)

Babybubblescomingsoon · 13/02/2017 16:01

Place marking. This is freaky Grin

Yellowbird54321 · 13/02/2017 16:21

Having spent quite a while reading most of the replies I'm now invested in the thread and feel justified in place marking Smile

needalittleL · 13/02/2017 16:33

A while ago a guy found some codes on a piece of paper on the tube and posted t on twitter and it got a great response. Maybe you could post it on there? Lots of amateur code breakers were having a go.

marcopront · 13/02/2017 17:34

Someone suggested Hindi recently, definitely not as Hindi has straight lines above the majority of letters. It could be a South Indian language, which some others have said.

SapphireStrange · 13/02/2017 17:38

I've no idea what it is but I'm dying to find out!

CanuckBC · 13/02/2017 17:52

It kept me entertained while sick:)

originalbiglymavis · 13/02/2017 17:53

I'm trying to look on a crappy phone but it seems to be upside down and backwards. But I'm sure I can make out "leader, all are OK...' but my screen keeps pinging about.

eatpraylive · 13/02/2017 19:03

I can recognise the script of all 4 South Indian languages, this is definitely not one of them 😊