To want to know why my bracelet "exploded" in the middle of the night?

[MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack]

I have had a beaded bracelet for years... the kind with coloured beads on a kind of elasticated band. I haven't worn it for years tbh, or even touched it, but it was still hanging on a little stand which holds all of my bracelets and bangles.

In the middle of the night, I heard a small "explosion" in my bedroom. I put the light on but couldn't see anything amiss, and was sleepy so I went back to sleep without discovering the cause.

This morning, I realised that the elastic on my bracelet had snapped and the beads had "exploded into a little tray which was conveniently just under the bracelet stand. No big deal, I didn't wear it anyway.

But I'm curious to understand what caused the mini "explosion". Can anyone with a scientific brain enlighten me?!

Shhh, don't tell everyone else before I've had chance to stock up!

Old elastic can degrade even when stored flat. I had a plastic and wooden beaded bracelet I rarely wore and stored in a tray with other costume jewellery. I did a cull of the items in the tray and the beads were loose and the elastic crumbled. No explosion though

This happened to me, I examined the elastic and it looked stretched and worn so about to snap at any moment!

They are the beads of time, memory and fortune. Your elastic has snapped so it's all downhill from now on.

I suspect borrowers. Were the beads very small? Maybe small enough to be used as a tiny tennis ball?

Occam's razor. Clearly the only explanation is a ghost and they are trying to give you a message. Did the beads spell out a letter or anything? It's getting close to Halloween. You should start making offerings and wait until you find one that appeases the spirits.

The ghost is communicating that he met his end in a hail of musket balls. @MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack should start a round of all battle sites within a hundred miles’ radius, with a medium, to attempt to contact his unquiet soul and channel him towards the light and away from her jewellery.

It may be caused by a tooth-fairy who was annoyed that there was no tooth under your pillow, having visited the wrong house.

I wish I had something witty to offer, but you all have beaten me to it. Thanks for the giggle.

Ooh, I so want it to be borrowers. They would live a life of luxury if they ever moved into my house.

To explain ... the hematite you get in mass manufactured jewellery is a composite, synthetic hybrid.

It's more likely a bead shattered and that broke the elastic string.

Why are you being unnecessarily nasty? She isn't 'being dramatic'. She literally said it's no big deal and said 'mini "explosion"'.

Also can I just say, at a glance, I thought your username was MrsBennetsNervousPoosAreBack.

I think you should change it. 😆

I will certainly consider it!

This exact exploding in the night situation happened to me with an old beaded bracelet recently. However, I had seen my teenage daughter routing through my jewellery earlier that night and trying pieces on and I think that had been the death knoll for the old elastic. You don't happen to have a daughter or a crow with access to your bedroom do you @MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack?

DD is away at uni, so not guilty.

Not aware of any crows...

Same as when you take a necklace off and leave on the side and then next morning the Icheeky fairies have tied a knot in it

Yeah, ignore them. The ghosts did it

Yes.

Was it opal beads , they can explode , especially Ethiopian sourced opal , which isn't as stable as Australian .

The elastic simply dried out corroded over time and finally gave up the ghost....

The elastic will have degenerate over time to the point where the weight of the beads caused it to break.

Not opal. Nothing precious!😂

Synthetic hematite isn't hematite....just as green glass isn't an emerald.

Just be thankful it wasn't your knicker elastic!