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

We found the top half of a human skull that had been missing for years. (We lived on the edge of state forest in Australia). The body had been a murder victim and the rest had been found, and been used to convict the murderer, we assume that the top of her skull had somehow been moved by animals, and the. Later dug up and dropped on our block. My dad didn’t believe my brother and I when we came in from the garden saying “Dad, we found a skull!”

We found an old car bumper and some car parts in ours...

Seems that burying your rubbish in the garden is quite popular.

Saw this on our local news this morning and thought of this thread. Man digs up 60 year old car in his garden.

A circuit board. Or it could be the brain of a robot!

It looks like a PC graphics card, all the data would be on a hard drive which isn't with it. So not remotely suspicious. I expect someone dropped it on the way to the bins. I think the scariest thing I dug up was a wasps' nest, it was in the evening and I got stung on my left nipple. It was excruciating. Unfortunately the Tesco chemist was shut by the time I got there so I couldn't get any antihistamines.

This just popped up on my Facebook, and I thought of this thread.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-52220174

Not long after we moved into our present house, we were digging in the garden. DH came across a thick grey refuse bag buried about a foot down at the end of the garden. He pulled it out, opened it...the smell knocked us both sideways! There was a dead cat still complete as unable to decompose being wrapped in plastic.
We went on to find another bag, that remained sealed, and a cat skeleton.
Called the council who came and took the two bags away for disposal.
We try not to dig too deep, as never know what we may find!

@StrangeLookingParasite - you should have gone to specsavers or maybe on a basic pc internals course perhaps?

Pcior even older isa cards don't have "pins" and use"slot in edge connectors" which are clearly visible in the photos......

Jim

Look out everyone, we have an "expert" here. One who hasn't bothered to read the thread, or even look very closely at the pictures.
No, it's not a PC card, because there are no slot connection pins of any kind on the board. And the likelihood of an ISA-era card having a USB Mini B connection (a standard introduced in 2000 - ISA was well and truly outdated by then) on it, are vanishingly small.
The card has already been identified, by people with much better knowledge than yours.
Perhaps you should work on your reading.

Ok, this will sound weird I suppose, but I also felt sick to my stomach when I read that, because I immediately thought that someone had been looking at things that (he?) shouldn't have, illegal things, probably about children. This person had maybe got a new computer, and knew that if anyone found the old one, it might have very incriminating evidence on it. I have read about this happening before. So this person decided to bury the part that he thought would hold the evidence. I think I would take it to a police station just in case, but I hope I am wrong!

The part that holds the data of any incriminating evidence is inside in the hard drive

This is the mother board which just controls the pc

However, not to say there’s not a hard drive in there

My ex used to build computers and whenever he disposed of an old one the only thing he would remove and destroy would be the hard drive.
He would take it out and smash it as much as possible to ensure no chance of data being recovered

I later found out his dad was a peado

maybe the icecream man topped himself!

It's still not a motherboard. It has no storage capacité.

Motherboards do not and never have had any storage capacity. Storage has always been removable and if it was a motherboard for a PC... which it isn't.... it would have been provided via a cable to a hard drive. I speak as someone who started in computing in 1983 and went via punched cards, virtual storage, DASD, tapes, hard drives, EPROMS etc.

@Bl3ss3dm0m if you read the thread, you will find it is a PS3 controller.

Not idea if it is a PS3 controller but it looks a little big to me.

Ignore me... just seen the scale of it against the hand holding it. I agree with the identification.

Motherboards do not and never have had any storage capacity

If this was in reply to me, I am well aware of this. They were two statements, indépendant of each other, in response to earlier posts.

No need to power level everywhere.

A PS3 controller? Did Kirsty Allsop take a hammer to one as well as her kids' kindles? Fair nuff. That's better than a paedo harddrive (my mind went same way bl155 as in literally burying evidence. Glad it's not).

People bury cars to claim they have been nicked and get the insurance pay out.

Look up Lord Brocket, he got caught doing it.

Someone literally found it to be a PS3 controller a few pages back.

You must keep digging OP and keep this thread posted ...

But WHAT ABOUT THE ICE CREAM VAN??