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

[brooklyn66]

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?

To me it looks like it should be read vertically from the margin downwards. When read like that, it looks like repeats of the same letter (or symbol) as if someone has been practising how to write it, over and over again. But then it looks like they've checked off each line with a sort of loopy 'X'.

If it was a Geocache it would have been in a weather-proof container and the paper would have peoples' usernames and dates on it along with something to say that it is a Geocache and should be left where it is.

Fascinating! I love a good mystery

It's really interesting but my first thought was the same as wunderingnow. It looks it could be the ramblings of someone suffering from some psychological condition.

On the other hand usually even when people write gibberish they follow the letter style of the language they know.

Have you compared it to the Voyniche manuscript, imagine if you stumbled on another example of the same writing!

Just confirming it isn't Hebrew (which does have vowels! They just aren't typically marked in adult written text).

I found a piece of cardboard covered in satanic ramblings tucked behind a drainpipe outside our shop once. It was fairly creepy but I assumed nutters are as nutters do and thought no more about it once I had finished shouting "oh my God we've been cursed!"

It looks Indian to me - Sanskrit, or perhaps Telugu, Tamil or Urdu?

Ooh how interesting. I'm not bad with languages and it doesn't look like any I recognise, not even the odd word. I've flipped it, mirrored it, swivelled it, zoomed in and out, etc and I can't solve it!

Ooh, this is intriguing, OP,

Watching with interest, as regards the written language code-deciphering.

Are we all more of the opinion that the coins themselves weren't significant, and merely to add weight?

Healers and Alchemists see copper as very positive. Kindly, ancient Wyse Woman looking out for you, maybe?

(Could well be an Urban Myth, but a retired Detective once swore blind that, decades ago, undercover police used to leave strategically placed "coppers" (geddit?) on the dashboard of unmarked cars. Thus traffic wardens etc. were discreetly made aware, but the general public remained none the wiser...).

Totally just placemarking - I need a resolution on this, so intrigued!

Place marking as I'm curious

Blatant place mark
Looks like adult writing to me....

I agree with the hypergraphia theory. Sadly.

How odd. Wonder who took it?

It looks Indian to me - Sanskrit, or perhaps Telugu, Tamil or Urdu?

No it doesn't! Doesn't look anything near 😆

It either looks like a dementia patient's scribblings, or some kind of black magic. I'd watch out if I were you op.

Right. So now we need the OP to post everyday so we know that she hasn't been turned into a mouse or something worse.

It looks a little like codex seraphinianus.

How bizarre!

I used to work with a man who had scizophrenia, and he would "write" notes over books he owned, all over the margins, bottom of the pages etc except it wasn't in any language apart from one which made sense to him IYSWIM. His notes weren't as neat as this, but it did sort of remind me of him. He was harmless, and the notes were his "work". He spent hours every day making his notes. There was a sort of pattern in that the same symbols or squiggles were repeated, but nothing which anyone else could decode. He refused to tell us what the notes said so I never did find out.

Whoever did this, it's certainly not kids as the writing is too neat.

It's a dead letter drop. Spy one leaves the letter, spy two picks it up. The pin holes in the paper correspond to a code or map or something.

Well, according to the Usborne book of spies I studied avidly as a child that's what is it.

So either you have stumbled onto a very serious and possibly dangerous spy/ terrorist cell....Or a bunch of 10 year olds have the same book I had

(If it looks like a real grown up thing rather than kids I would be tempted to report it, but would definitely start my report with "I have obviously been reading too many spy books but...")

Ooh. How exciting!
I guess there won't be any updates though because op said the letter has gone again.

Weird stuff!

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Ooh how intriguing?! I have absolutely no idea but my first thought was that it was an adult's writing. helpful
I'm gutted it's been taken now though!

Hopw odd. I will show it to dp when je wakes up he likes languages

Im reasonably sure its not Arabic, East Europeon, Hebrew or Japanese or Chinese. Its not Punjabi thats sort pf square shaped but n0 idea about other indoan languages

For some reason Mongolian is niggling at the back of my mind but would seem very strange.. that sits on same language group as Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish so could it be any of those?

Very odd. Really want to know now