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Tell me about a random unsolved mystery in your life....

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RevoltingPeasant · 15/04/2014 21:23

....inspired by the intriguing threads thread!

Does anyone have a mini-mystery, or a story they want to know the end to? We can all supply improbable answers Grin

Here's mine....

DH and I go for a walk around the block most nights before bed . Almost every night, at a particular point in the neighbouring street, there is an 'offering' of baked goods in the road.

Sometimes it is bread rolls. Sometimes, baguette. Once, about 8-9 Mr Kipling's Bakewell tarts. Just lying there in the road.

At first we thought it was for hedgehogs, but then the cakes? And in the road?? Confused

What's your unsolved mystery?

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YoureBeingASillyBilly · 16/04/2014 23:35

A few years ago i came home from work an there was a pirate DVD sitting on top of my letter box in a clear dust cover. It had 'finding nemo' written on it in marker . My ds was a toddler at the time so i wondered if one of my neighbours had left it for him. I put him to bed and thought i'd check the quality of the film but when i put it on it turned out to be 'four christmases' with reese witherspoon and vince vaughn. All very odd. I asked all the neighbours i knew and all my family but nobody had left it. Still dont know where it came from. The bit i find most odd is that it was on top of the letter box and not in it Confused

BigArea · 16/04/2014 23:36

ItsSpring that sounds scary - have you spoken to the police about it?

SnotandBothered · 16/04/2014 23:44

oooooh I've remembered another one.

DS has a fair few soft toys - mostly elephants and dogs. They are all called things like 'Cuddly' 'Snowy' 'Bumpy' - quite childish, simple names.

A few years back, he was given a really sweet soft brown mouse by an elderly neighbour. As she handed it to him, she asked him what he was going to call him. DS (about 4 at the time) looked at the Mouse and randomly came up with a made up word - Laspetzian.

I asked him to say it again and he repeated it.

I went completely cold because it had jogged a memory of a Soft (blue) Mouse being bought for me by my dad whilst on holiday in Italy. I had named it La Spezia, after the town we were in. I had completely and utterly forgotten and definitely never mentioned it to any of the DC.

I called my mum that day and asked if she remembered by Blue mouse, and without promoting she said "Oh you mean La Spezia".

Apart from sticking an 'n' on the end, DS had called his mouse exactly the same thing.

Hoppinggreen · 16/04/2014 23:52

When I was at uni I left my room with 15 minutes to get to my lecture 5 mins away.
I arrived and waited outside but nobody else came, then I realised that I could hear a noise coming from inside the room so I opened the door and found out I was 20 minutes late so somehow a 5 minute walk had taken me 35 minutes. I had walked straight there so I figured the only answer was that the clock in my room was wrong ( didn't have a watch)
When I got back to my room later I asked someone the correct time so I could reset my clock and it was right!!! I checked with 2 other people as well and my clock was right.
So somehow I " lost" 30 minutes , no idea how.

KrispyCakehead · 16/04/2014 23:53

Omg Snot Shock That's..... I'm speechless.....

SnotandBothered · 17/04/2014 00:01

Krispy I know. Over the years I have tried to persuade myself that I must have mentioned my mouse, but deep down I know I didn't because i had forgotten all about him until that day. He was (and still is) in my parents attic.

My mum - knowing the story - once asked DS why he called the Mouse what he did, and DS told her that it was because that is 'what his face looked like'.

Actually, the mice look quite different from each other, and DS's is much bigger, but still....

piscivorous · 17/04/2014 00:11

A few years back a friend invited me to go to a psychic evening with her at a local restaurant and I agreed. Early in that day I decided to clear all the receipts and crap out of my handbag which I used all the time, in it I found a business card for a builder who had done work for us a quite few years earlier, which was odd as the handbag was new since then and I knew he had died since.

That evening the psychic spoke directly to me and asked me "Who was the person buried with football tickets and a teddy?", I had no idea and said so then a lady put her hand up across the room and said "I think that's for me". She was the widow of the builder.

BeaWheesht · 17/04/2014 00:24

Ooh the knocking on the bedroom window is horrible.

I also get the seeing people before rely seeing them thing and also the thing with seeing something, acknowledging it and then needing it / the thing I thought might happen, happen. It's very strange.

Also a friend from school has 2 young kids, we text maybe once a year? Both times she's been pregnant I've texted her when she was 12 weeks saying 'hey what's new?' Just knowing she was pregnant.

In my old student flat there was a hatch in the ceiling and in it was a hamster cage complete with food and bedding etc but no hamster, also a load of hardcore porn mags.

SnotandBothered · 17/04/2014 00:41

Hopping that is one of the weirdest mysteries on here. Missing time is bizarre.

BOFster · 17/04/2014 00:52

We hear a double clunk every night from the old lady who lives next door, like a zed-bed being unfolded. It's always around 1am.

She is able-bodied and sprightly. She lives in a four-bedroomed house. Why would she use a zed-bed? What else could it be?

BreconBeBuggered · 17/04/2014 01:02

At university, a lecturer from another department would give me hellishly evil looks every time our paths crossed. They were unmistakeably directed at me, and people regularly asked me WTF it was all about. I had no idea, wasn't ever in his department, didn't even know his name, and hadn't done anything to upset anyone he might have been connected to.

SecretWitch · 17/04/2014 01:10

My beloved Granddad died in 1986 and was buried in Aberdeen. My parents moved us to the US shortly after. My father became very ill with cancer in 1995. My family was devastated and very frightened. My dad was a very devout Christian as was his father. One night, when things seemed very bleak, my uncle went outside to be alone. He returned inside the house very quickly, clutching something in his hand. He was crying and could barely speak. In his hand was my Grandfather's wedding ring. My uncle said he was sitting on our steps and heard something hit the ground in front of him. When he picked it up and saw it was a ring, he reckoned one of us had lost it earlier. He nearly fainted when he held it up to the porch light and read the inscription inside RM to GD 1936. As far as we knew, my Grandfather was buried with his wedding band, as was my Grandmother. Although we were shocked, my father found great comfort in this tangible gift from his father. It was with him when he died five years later..

Sonumb · 17/04/2014 01:30

What a brilliantly intriguing thread

neiljames77 · 17/04/2014 01:54

I bought an exercise bench years ago that had to be assembled. The last thing I had to do with it was to put the hand grips on the ends of the bars.
They wouldn't go on because they were or seemed to be too small. I soaked them in hot water to soften them up and smeared washing up liquid on the ends of the bars.
Eventually, after a real struggle and loads of swearing, they went on. I went downstairs to calm down and get a cold drink. When I went back upstairs, the grips weren't on the bars but instead, were stood on their ends on the padded bench.

goodasitgets · 17/04/2014 02:20

I got an appointment card when I was about 15/16 for a vaccine - TB maybe?
Anyway it said the date and day, the day was wrong but we presumed just a typo and went on the date and time on the card. Receptionist looked completely confused and it took a while to work out. The appointment was for the previous year Shock hence the day being wrong
How had an appointment card been lost for nearly a year in the post?!
I never did get that vaccine Grin

BOFster · 17/04/2014 02:23

Oh, I've remembered another woo one. I am NOT woo at all, but after I'd split up from dd1's dad, many years ago, a friend of mine persuaded me to go along with her to see a clairvoyant. I was very sceptical, and did my best to say nothing to what I presumed were his lucky guesses. He seemed to get a lot right: he said that both my paternal grandparents, and my maternal grandmother were watching over me (my only grandparent left at that point was the one not mentioned), and he said I had one daughter, described her etc. Quite possibly a coincidence, and definitely not looking me up- it was pre-Internet, I hadn't given my real name, had never seen any other psychics.

Anyway, the session was taped, and I played it through when I got home, looking for remarks which weren't 'hits' that I might have overlooked through confirmation bias etc. It all sounded quite kosher.

There was a part where he said that "Ladies often ask me who they might marry, whether they'll have children with them and things like that. I always say that you make your own fate, and that nothing is set in stone, you can always change it. But if you stay with the chap you're with now, I can see you conceiving twins in September '99..."

He went on to describe my putative future.

I was going out with a guy at the time who was frankly a bit of a waster, and the thought of having twins with him filled me with horror, so I made sure he was long gone by that September.

The new year's eve of 1999, I held a house party. We were telling woo stories ec, and I remembered the cassette of that reading, and dug it out to play for a laugh.

It began as it had the first time I had played it, continued for several minutes as I'd remembered it. Then he made his speech about nothing being set in stone and being masters of our own destiny...

Then it went completely blank...

It still gives me the heebie jeebies now.

Catloverandmum · 17/04/2014 02:28

I have a one:

In 2007, I sent DD then 14 off on the French exchange in a gorgeous fluffy cream cardigan, it was brand new and DD was wearing it for the first time. Anyway, she returned two weeks later wearing the cardigan (I swear she was wearing it as does she) and we got into the car to head home. She took the cardigan off in the car as it was warm and threw it on the back seat of the car. We drove home and while DH took her case into the house I looked in the back seat if the car for her cardigan. It wasn't there. DH swears he didn't take anything off the back seat when he came out the house to get the case and DD says she didn't move it after she threw it onto the seat. We checked the case i case we imagined it but it wasn't there either. We looked all over the car and never found it. Car is sold now, and still not found cardigan.

SecretWitch · 17/04/2014 02:31

BOFster, this has nothing to do with your creepy story...

I've just realised I've been reading your name as BOFaster Blush

BOFster · 17/04/2014 02:33

Ha! I should be just BOF really, but I keep cocking up name changing.

NurseyWursey · 17/04/2014 02:39

God I have so many of these

I went to the Lake District with school (another school trip one) before I went I had a torch and one of those cameras that auto printed (Polaroid?) it all worked. When I got there both wouldn't work. I tried everything. I was gutted. As soon as I got home I told my mum. She tested them and they both worked! She didn't believe me that they didn't.

NurseyWursey · 17/04/2014 02:41

Oh and just reminded by the above poster... When I went on that particular holiday I left my brand new beloved Ted Baker hoody on the back of my computer chair in my room. When I can back it was gone. I have no sisters, my mum didn't do my washing... It was gone. I never ever found it and we've always wondered where it went

I have way too many of these weird things. I wonder if my dad is haunting me...

SecretWitch · 17/04/2014 02:44

Nursey, some woo believe spirits drain batteries from available energy sources like batteries in torches and cameras. Wonder if there were some spirits tagging along with your class?

SecretWitch · 17/04/2014 02:46

Oops, screwed that up...should have read drain energy from available sources like batteries in torches..

NurseyWursey · 17/04/2014 03:06

Secretwitch honestly I'm not very woo but I do believe in energy transfer and something happened. I fully believe it. That wasn't the only weird thing to happen there to be honest. I think a lot of posters may have stories about Hinning House!

NurseyWursey · 17/04/2014 03:09

Oh also! (Here I go again)

My mum got a psychic. She always gives fake names to them. First thing he said was 'there's a man stood here, he has twelve red roses and a can of Stella in his hand'

We'd put 12 red roses and a can of Stella on his grave the day before. My dad. I was about 10 at the time.

How he knew I will never know. I know about cold reading, but he blurted it out.