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?

OP I was really pissed off about Google Earth and Street View etc when they started.

I hope you feel better. Whoever it was likely won’t come back.

Genuinely interested to know if you’d feel better if you had a gun?

I've only the first three and last three pages of this thread, but it's rather bizarre. I hope you solve the mystery OP.

@ScarredBunny it did really freak me out at the time. Why was someone there - there was literally no reason for them to be? But I'd more or less forgotten about it, until this thread....thanks!!

An eagle would lift a phone, I’ve seen one lift a goat!

The police have nothing else to do in rural areas.

The people who say not to worry obviously didn’t see the thread about someone walking the dog & seeing a stranger under a tree in the lane. I’m sure the OP had to remove it from MN as it was quite a big police matter. We never did find out what happened, but I’m sure someone will put me right in no uncertain terms if I’m wrong.

Hope it’s nothing too sinister OP.

“ The police have nothing else to do in rural areas. ”

The police have nothing to do at the moment, full stop.

We have been house hunting, and as we are very rural, google earth is handy to look at the area around any house we like, alongside maps it gives a clear picture. Land features are what interest us, but every time I go on it , I get unnerved at how visible we all are now, to anyone at all.
Uncle owns a remote house, seven miles from a village. It has been empty for ages as the land is rented out. Last time we went to look at it, someone had been in and stolen both the floor, and the staircase.

FFS @Hennypenny95

@Ritasueandbobtoo9 no but i will at the 1st opportunity.

@SuitedandBooted if they were checking out the peasants they would definitely check us out .
The countryside looks peaceful there is a lot of things like that going on I know. I would love a goat! Geese are good guardians too but the would have it!

@Bumfuzzled Always a silver lining.

@rainbowstardrops We thought that could make us paranoid: there are a lot of animals roaming about, deers, rabbits, imagine the light/alarms going off all the time. Maybe after a while the animals wouldn't com so close/we will know how to set it up so its not Alcatraz on alert every night.

OP re-run last nights HIGNFY. It explains the hedgehog/police/breakout theory but you'd need to be in Staffordshire, unless the HHs have hitched a lift or hot-wired a car (which might also explain where they boosted the phone).

Somebody with a secret phone who was taking their daily walk and went to find a private location...tossed the phone in a broken hearted rage when their love affair broke up with them! (Oh my overactive imagination...)

@LadyEloise I know! That darling dog, not fair.

@TimeForChange123 you're mixing everything up to make it sound crazy. It's ok, have a nice day. And your grammar is atrocious.

@Hennypenny95 Tut tut you haven't read the thread -
I should have tried to dry it in rice but I didn't know it was dead, assumed it was one of our phones and tried to charge it.
That was yesterday morning. I got through to the Police, they told me to move the phone inside - that's why I wrapped it in foil - I was trying to make it not show it being inside the house. That foil trick doesn't work by the way, I tried it on my own phone and could still locate it perfectly.
The Police have come and taken the phone with them.
We'll probably never hear anything more about it.

Have one of your adult children try to sneak in their partners in the night ?

@Sennetti I was just thinking about that crazy thread with those poor people in that village!

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

@AvalancheKit

A brilliant piece of surrealism with helpful animals retrieving and returning phones....

@LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow You are right about posties.

@sunnyday1976- You're very welcome

@GREATAUNT1 - DH read somewhere the Police are catching a lot of drug dealers at the moment because they stick out like sore thumb apparently.

@SirVixofVixHall Totally unnerving. Orwellian. All very well to say if you have nothing to hide, blabla, but what is it for really, if things like what happened in your uncle's house, and many other crap things, can totally happen without hindrance?Ah don't get me started.

@ScarredBunny I'm more concerned that you posted throughout the night- do you not sleep? Are you a ghost??

@TSSDNCOP - what is the HIGNFY ?

What a mystery! I hope you get some clarification from the police.

@Yesterdayforgotten, I bet they look like Mr Darcy.

OP, it’s the TV show Have I Got News For You.

Haha yes the scene from Pride and Predjudice when he emerges from the lake then stumbles upon your garden for his phonecall...

@Amatsip - No way, see the posts.

@justtakeatowel - I do feel like one. I will pay dearly for this. That sleepy feeling never came, high on adrenaline I expect. Everyone else in the house slept just fine.

Thats why the phone was wet too I've solved it op

@LilacTree1 thanks! All will become clear then, good to know there is something relatable behind the fox/hedgehog theory.

HRTFT but used to live in a remote property & once found a balaclava & camo jacket hidden behind our haylage stack. Really worried me for weeks but nothing ever came of it. Still got the camo jacket as it happens! Had big dogs which helps I think. A lot of people are reluctant to tangle with a dog.