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

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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!
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What on earth is this? (Found outside my house)
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perfectlybroken · 11/02/2017 08:01

This is very interesting, I think the hypergraphia explanation is the most likely, I love a good mystery though so will keep checking to see if anyone comes along and recognises the script!

angeldelightedme · 11/02/2017 08:03

Whem i was a kid i used to have a paper round .Farms and peoplw witk long drives used to sometimes have a hidey hole like this to leave the money in.I think its a dementia sufferer 'ordering' something from a roundsman

NormaSmuff · 11/02/2017 08:04

I can read shorthand, but not that, it is too squiggly

PenelopeFlintstone · 11/02/2017 08:06

I think I've just spotted some Japanese hiragana letters in there. Has that been said already?

Ellisandra · 11/02/2017 08:07

If you read it horizontally L to R, the first symbols are mostly the same as each other, as are the last symbols.
Far too much so to be accidental.
Which makes me think it's totally made up by someone with a mental health condition, following their own patterns/rules.

leojohnsmummy · 11/02/2017 08:07

what on earth is it meant to say? its impossible to read, how odd! these types of things freak me out because the way our world is going you can always be sure its nothing! i'd leave it outside and see if anyone picks it up or pays any interest in it. it is very odd and why 2x2ps? whats that meant to mean? is it a symbol or something? hm this has my brain working over time! FREAKY STUFF RIGHT THERE! Shock Shock Shock

ShowMePotatoSalad · 11/02/2017 08:07

This is so intriguing. OP could you go on a walk round your neighbourhood and ask if anyone's found any other notes? Someone might have saved something. And check everyone's railings. Then say "hmmm". Go all Jonathan Creek

Ellisandra · 11/02/2017 08:08

Definitely not Hungarian as a recent PP wondered.

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ShowMePotatoSalad · 11/02/2017 08:09

Oh and I forgot to say, in true JC style start saying a sentence like "yes well I'd never found anything in the railings bef..." then look off in the distance with a shocked look on your face and say "the railings, why didn't I think of that before? He'd had to have been quick, and it wouldn't have worked every time, but.." then run off, leaving any helpers you may have looking stunned and confused!

ghostyslovesheets · 11/02/2017 08:10

coins/copper is often used as protection against witches ...do you have a black cat?

listsandbudgets · 11/02/2017 08:11

Thanls Ellisandra that rules that out

AristotlesTrousers · 11/02/2017 08:15

This is so interesting. Could you bring it to the language dept at your nearest uni - they may be able to help? Failing that, no advice - what a fabulous mystery though & I'm really intrigued to find out if you ever solve it.

ghostyslovesheets · 11/02/2017 08:15

wiccan ? wicca.cnbeyer.com/images/theban.gif

twinklefoot · 11/02/2017 08:17

No clue sorry

Ellisandra · 11/02/2017 08:18

I should say I don't write fluent Hungarian! But I spent 6 months working there so I think I'd recognise the script - and Hungarian is quite accented, which this is not.

Anyway, as PP have noted, there's just too much repetition for it to look like a real language.

Definitely got my 4p on a MH condition and these being symbols, that are meaningful only to the writer whilst they were writing.

Possibly the writer has a background with shorthand - it's not shorthand, but there are enough loops and curls that I can imagine a made up series of symbols written during an episode having an influence from that.

PovertyJetset · 11/02/2017 08:19

Shameless place marking!

SuperFlyHigh · 11/02/2017 08:22

Place marking as love a good mystery.

Kirriemuir · 11/02/2017 08:22

Very odd.

agedknees · 11/02/2017 08:23

It's zombie script - they're coming to get you.......

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 11/02/2017 08:24

Call 101. I think you should log it with the police OP.

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AutumnalLeaves38 · 11/02/2017 08:26

Ask one of the experts at Bletchley Park for a few pointers?

Thewolfsjustapuppy · 11/02/2017 08:28

DH doesn't know and he knows everything!

Waterlemon · 11/02/2017 08:29

It's written on lined paper with blue ink - no one has stated the obvious, the passing school kids. I don't think many adults would use blue ink and lined/margined paper to write with these days.

My 8 yr old son makes very similar parcels, but for some reason your note parcel makes me think of young teenage girls.

BIWI · 11/02/2017 08:29

Definitely not Chinese (or any other oriental language). And as PP have said, definitely not Pitman script (photo to show a sample)

And sorry but this did make me laugh:

The 2 X 2p's freak me out because they were used in times gone by to weight down eyes & pay the ferry man

I never realised that 1971 could now be described as 'times gone by' Grin

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