Found a phone in my garden - isolated property - shit scared

[ScarredBunny]

Name changed for this - Sorry if this seem trivial, I know people are dealing with far bigger things at the moment.

I found a phone lying on the ground, about 5 yards from my house.

We live in an isolated property about a mile away from the first road. We have not have any visitors , maintenance people for many weeks (obviously). Delivery drivers, yes, but they would not have any reason to go to this part of the garden/couldn't access it during daytime without us seeing something.
At first I assumed it belonged to one of us, but no!
Phoned the police, have a ref./case number, etc. but they're busy and will get back to us when they can.
The police said to take the phone indoors and wait for their call/visit.

I am worried that the next visit is going to be from whomever the phone belongs to.
The phone is dead as a dodo but I assume it still can be found?

What should do?

@Peridot1 Certain areas of our garden are fenced off that's exactly how I should have phrased it; it was in a fenced off area of our garden, near the house. The police said it probably was used as a torch.

How terrifying your experience must have been! I can't imagine. Was your DS awake?

That's a shame, I wouldn't mind at all.
This thread is probably done (unless we do have a break in, or the police comes up with some really exiting info).

Hope you can get a lie in this morning op and catch up on your sleep .

Previous post was to you@AvalancheKit

@ScarredBunny...id totally be shitting it too-found a collection of fag buts on our old acreage home,newly smoked and using my Poirot-like skills ascertained the perp was lurking behind an outcrop of shruberry poss having a rumage in his pants.As a single mum with a vivid imagination and a love of crime drama went into overdrive imagining the possibilities-didnt sleep right for weeks... I never got to the bottom of it though so all i can say is if you dont have a proper weapon keep yourself armed with a something basic you'd be willing and able to use without injuring yourself(but that could also look like you just pulled it from somewhere so no pre-med)if you're out and about alone on your premises and goes without saying padlock the switchbox/check exterior bulbs for floodlights etc...

@Barbararara thanks I think I will. You people are up very early, small cubs?

DS didn’t wake up thankfully. He was around 7 at the time.

It was scary. I was very glad to see the security guy I can tell you. He called the police and they came out and drove around a bit but the burglars were long gone. It was fairly common there hence the alarm linked to security. All of the downstairs windows had metal shutters like shops have so they were all down. So they went for the only window they could which was in the downstairs bathroom but up high.

It is possible to get too involved in a thread. I did that before and actually got inside the internet and webpage. It took a long time for people to click i was missing in real life and the Mumsnet technicians actually had to track me down and free me. While I was gone, thankfully nobody moved my phone.

I think this is what could have happened with the phone you found. Someone from the estate had transferred directly into the internet while sitting down in the woods. A fox saw the phone and thought it belonged to your household and dropped it in your garden.

The problem is, there is no a soul wandering around the internet trying to get back to Earth, but in until the phone is taken back to the exact same place from where it came they will wander forever.

There is only one solution now. A hedgehog needs to find it and carry it back. They do that.

But firstly you and other Mumsnetters need to get the phone back from the police.

And you have to do it quickly. The phone was removed on the New Moon and must be returned by the night of the Full Moon. That is 7th May.

Only the hedgehog must go. All others may not follow.

I just Googled fox steals 'phone. Loads of videos of it happening.

@AvalancheKit

Are you having some kind of delusion?

I mean this kindly, I think you need to seek help.

You sound boar-ing Patrick.

@theBelgranoSisters Ooooh not nice at all that - The you go back and think how you went about your business blissfully unaware and what it might have looked like t some weirdo watching outside. ouch. Did you have dog?
Floodlights have been checked and repaired today, but we're going to have to go round the whole place and find solutions. What sort of items then, heavy lamp, something like that? So not a golf club or cricket bat then?

@AvalancheKit You've said you have a similar scary story to tell but must wait for the OP to confirm something.
You now say you don't want to detract from the thread and now you're writing a bonkers story.
I'm not sure if you're joking but to me something sounds off.

@AvalancheKit - I'm on it.

No, just a story. Let that stiff upper lip relax a bit Patrick.

I was going to say a fox, too. Are you far from woods which people can walk in?

Brilliant OP!

I will start to summon some hedgehogs your way after dusk.

@CalleighDoodle people wouldn't walk in the woods that next to us but with lockdown we have seen more people than the bridleway that borders the garden.

@AvalancheKit
What about your similar real story?

@AvalancheKit oh but do tell us your story first

I will put that on the next spooky generic thread one evening. Though I have posted it before a few years back Patrick. I will recount what happened as it happened to me and what others recounted. Then will leave it to readers to reach their own conclusions, but it’s not for this thread.

@CalleighDoodle That made no sense!
No one walks in the woods next to us - but they could if they wanted. On the other hand there is a bridleway close by with usually 2/3 set of labs and owner a day on it, now since lockdown, quite a few more peole.

I guess it is feasible that someone has wandered and dropped their phone and either an animal or even your dog picked up the phone?

If I was casing a house, I don’t think I would use my phone torch to do it. Too fiddly.

but @AvalancheKit you did say you would post it here if I answered your question? and now no?

Why isn't it for this thread?