What on earth have I found buried in our garden?!

[bunintheoven88]

Recently moved house and due to lockdown and decent weather have finally decided to tackle the garden.

I was digging up the very far corner of the garden and found whatever this is buried about 2 inches under the soil and covered in leaf litter, my DP thinks it is part of an old radio but I think part of an old computer as I spy a USB port, and I cant fathom why somebody would bury an old radio. Can anybody shed light on what this is?

Iv got a horrible feeling about it

I was being slightly tongue in cheek :) We still have a working one too, but it sounds like a jet engine when you turn it on. DS1 has it and the PS4 is in the living room. I would imagine most PS3s are either consigned to the junk heap or being used by children to play old/cheap games nowadays.

I am also curious as to why posters would be creeped out by finding computer components buried! Hard drives that store potentially sensitive/dodgy information don't look anything like that, and are extremely easy to destroy without needing to bury them anyway. But possibly living with a DH who strews our house with random computer parts has made me blase to such things? It wouldn't in any way bother or confuse me to come across an old graphics card or stick of RAM in a dusty cellar or half buried in the garden - that seems quite a normal thing to happen. The thing is these components date extremely quickly so they are effectively worthless about 10-15 years after manufacture. But because they are made of plastic and metal they stick around much, much longer than that. There aren't really many easy ways to recycle them either.

I had a very strange experience last year. About 15 years ago I had my bag stolen from work. I got a message on Facebook last year to say my bag had been found buried in some waste land at the back of their garden. Bit if a mystery as it wasn't accessible from the road. They said the family had lived there for 50 years so no chance it was previous owners. Didn't like to say but must have been someone known to the family. Properly freaked me out getting that message so many years later.

By the way I had ID cards in the bag which had not rotted and that's how they were able to trace me.

Ah, the old MSU VX4. It's from a Playstation 3 controller - www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/File:MSU_VX4_0.10_(Bottom).jpg

It’s just a graphics card or motherboard, someone probably chucked some rubbish out the back, don’t be a wet wipe

Very impressed with the people who got it!

I think usually it's not people burying it. Likely it was just discarded, and over time the soil accumulates, or maybe an animal buries it or something. I often find litter and artificial objects buried in my garden.

I have to know how an ice cream van was found, buried in the garden.

I have so many questions.

Please come back @LadyMonicaBaddingham I can't deal with another sleepless night wondering about buried ice cream vans!

Not that I usually lie awake wondering about buried ice cream vans... but now I have to know!

Motherboard of old pc if it has a USB port on it

My friend's parents found an entire ice-cream van buried in their garden

Are you writing the kids' book based on that story, or can I have dibs on it?

What about the buried Chinese takeaway? I want to know more about that

There is a small bit of woodland behind my fence that’s accessible only from my garden. I pulled a fence panel out to trim some overhanging trees last year and found an old printer sat there with paper still in it. Assume old owners couldn’t be arsed so lobbed it over the fence instead.

My step dad used to own a farm with his two brothers. They dug up several old cars, not ice cream vans. Apparently was some sort of scrap heap and they'd just decided to bury the cars a long long time ago. Off

*odd

My husbands uncle moved house about thirty years ago and didn’t want to take the upright piano, so he buried it in the back garden.
He didn’t want to leave it for the new owners as they were vile, apparently, and couldn’t be bothered to sell it, but he could be bothered to dig a 6’ hole to put it in

My Grandparents buried a swimming pool in their own garden. They stopped using it, was too expensive to maintain

Yup. Had one of those too for much the same reason except it had been trashed by marauding cows who'd escaped from the neighbouring field. Previous owners, not us.

As for the Chinese takeaway, DH was digging up some raised beds which it turned out were basically covering rubble from some building works the previous wankers owners had done (themselves). DH discovered a white carrier bag, looked inside and behold a Chinese takeaway! It was in plastic containers and was still clearly identifiable as sweet and sour chicken (Hong Kong style), beef in black bean sauce, egg fried rice and chop suey. It would have been there for at least eight years and looked, um, "pristine". DH was tempted to try it

You had to drive to pick up a Chinese where we lived so WHY WOULD YOU WASTE IT???? We'll never know...

I've never loved a thread as much as this - birdbath knickers, sex people, ice-cream trucks, motorbikes, buried teeth. Everything I love best in one thread!

The buried Chinese takeaway makes me think of Skellig.

Maybe it was an offering to a deceased pet also buried there??

OP is not unreasonable to have a bad feeling about this. I still think about the mobile phone buried somewhere in a forest in the UK that has all of Baby P's abuse recorded on it, and was never found. Maybe thats whats in her mind? Maybe discard it or have a look.

You still think about it? Really?

As for ‘have a look’, the OP didn’t know what the item even was. How is she going to somehow ‘have a look’ at what’s stored on it (in the unlikely event anything is) without knowing what the part actually is? Is she also somehow going to find another machine to access this hypothetical information? Why would she want to if she thinks it might be something disturbing? Oh, and spoiler alert - it probably won’t work because IT’S SPENT YEARS BURIED IN THE FUCKING GROUND!!

In my teens I was acquainted with a gang of ‘bad’ lads. Never got into trouble myself, but was aware that they would go on the rob for bikes, motor bikes and the occasional car. They’d use the motorbikes them for a day or two and then bury them on a piece of wasteland owned by the family of one of them. The bikes would generally be resprayed and sold. The cars dumped.

I moved away in the early 90s and lost touch with most of them. At the start of the millennium I got a call from another friend telling me that ‘Bob’ was in a panic because his parents had sold the land to developers.

“Bob‘s” Field is now a housing estate and pub. As far as I can remember Bovis dug up around 30 motorbikes and an Escort van!

A game console (play station etc.) controller circuit board judging by the semispheres off of it. Likely unbranded one given there's no PS logo.

My mother in law had a hile in her garden for an in ground trampoline, they decided to fill it in. Before they did they chucked loads of old electronic bits in there. I dread to think what will eventually get found in her garden.

Lots of people bury old laptops in the garden

Really?

Are you going to show the epolice?

Definitely NOT a motherboard - definitely NOT Dangerous to handle or dispose of - Definitely NOT playstation controller board - Definitely IS a PC card probably either PCIor PCI-E interface - hsrd to say what it's function is without better/more photos of the card and the other connected bits but initial thoughts were a graphics card though not sure why it would have/need an internal USB port.....

Jim