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

[RevoltingPeasant]

....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

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??

What's your unsolved mystery?

The morning of being induced for dc2 after I had opened the curtains at 7.30am a single pink helium balloon floated down past my neighbours garden along the bottom of ours and off down the road.
I was stunned ,called dh who saw it, I was desperate for another girl and until that point 40+ 2 did'nt know the sex of the baby. Of course we had a girl.

My mystery is my next door neighbours. The old tenants moved out, and new tenants moved in, about 6 months ago. Their curtains are permanently drawn but there are people in there (I hear noises: footsteps, washing machine etc) yet neither I nor my other neighbours have never seen them come or go (???what do they eat?). About a month ago, a man started shouting "Help! Help!" from their house. A passing woman asked him what was the trouble and he said he was locked in the basement and couldn't get out. She knocked on our door, told me and asked me to call the police as she had no mobile (I had been woken up by the cries myself and already was near the front door). We called the police who came after about 10 minutes by which time the shouting had stopped. They knocked on next door's front door. Someone answered, they had a conversation and the police left.

So my mystery is: are there people locked up in next door's basement?? Would the police have looked any further into this if someone at the door said it was all fine? In 20 years time will people look at me and my neighbours and wonder why we never did anything?

PS Are we safe in our beds?

LadyEmma can't you phone the police (101) and ask what the outcome was? Say you're still concerned about it?

I feel a bit like I would be wasting their time (but not sure!)... I have a friend who is a policeman so when I next see him I am going to ask him what the procedure would be in general (sure he couldn't talk about a specific case) when they get a call like mine and to what extent they would follow up beyond a knock on the front door to be told it was all fine. For some reason, I would be more bothered if it had been a woman shouting she was locked in the basement but I can't explain why.

A few streets up from me there is a house with a cardboard cut out of Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz with cardboard sharp pointy teeth added and a luminous green wig. Can't remember when it was put up but it's been there for months now (over a year?) and I haven't a clue why someone would put it in their window. My DC are creeped out by it and walk past very quickly without looking! I'm soo tempted to knock and ask why it's there!

Yes, it is wholly genuine. Do you speak with any authority? I kind of feel that I already called the police once and don't want to pester. And yet it still niggles. I am seeing my policeman friend in a few nights time (he and his wife are coming for dinner) so I will talk to him for advice.

I used to get tiny patches of hives on my wrists and hipbones, really itchy, when it's not something I have ever suffered from. Within 2 days of these patches coming up, I would bump into my ex (DDs dad) unexpectedly. Very strange, and there wasn't any sign that I would see him to give me a stress reaction. I remember a friend asking why I kept scratching my wrist, telling her it meant I was due to see him and have an argument. The next night he broke into my home and assaulted me.

LadyEmma, I would call, tbh. Just say you have been seeing all the stuff about human trafficking and modern slavery on the news, you are concerned and want to be sure it is all okay.

yes call the police and say you are worried. it could be someone held against there will.

Ok, that does it. I thought it might just be my imagination going wild but clearly others would imagine scenarios like I can! I will call on Tuesday (procrastinating but I expect the police want their quiet bank holidays like everyone else). I will report back if I hear anything. I don't know what I expect them to do, though. They can hardly force their way in, can they? They simply don't have any grounds for that beyond witnesses hearing a cry for help a month ago... (and the fact that the curtains are never opened which could be for all sorts of reasons - we had a cannabis farm down the other end of my street a few years back which also kept the curtains drawn (and tinfoil on the back windows)).

I'd be so tempted to pop round to borrow an onion or take them an American style welcome basket, just cos I am so nosy. .

I honestly have so many mysteries that I think I don't even remember them any more. My life feels sort of inexplicable in so many ways.

What happened to Clare R from Northampton way? Last I heard she was joining the Navy, I'd love to know how she is.

Where is my daughter's blue blankie?

Where are various pieces of sentimental jewelery?

Fascinating thread. I have a couple to add... DISCLAIMER: am not remotely psychic.

When I first left home, I worked for the NHS and was living in nurses' accommodation on the site of the hospital. There were 20 or so people living there and I knew most of them well. One morning, I woke up and saw a black bird (like a crow or raven) sitting on the tree outside my window and my first thought was 'someone has died'. I got up and went into the kitchen to find the cleaner crying - one of the boys who lived in the house had died in a car crash the night before.

A couple of years ago, a friend of my boyfriend's was telling us that he must remember to buy a card for his friend (who my BF and I had never met) and the friend's girlfriend but that he couldn't remember what the friend's girlfriend was called. I randomly just went, 'is it Maria?', and it was!

I was telling my colleague about this random coincidence at work the next day and we were joking around that I must be psychic. She challenged me to guess her father's first name. All I knew about this man was that he was in his fifties and from Mauritius. I said the first name that popped into my head, which was Lakshmi (no idea why - Lakshmi is a girls' name) and my colleague was stunned. The father's name was in fact Laxman... but his twin sister's name was Lakshmi!

My in laws were burgled at least 15 years ago (I can't remember when as it was before I knew them) and my MIL had her wedding and engagement ring stolen as she takes them off every night and often swaps them for other rings depending on her outfit. They were very unusal rings, plain gold bands with markiings on them sort of like tree bark. They were stolen from their house in Northern Ireland. Last time they were in Aberdeen they were looking in the window of a random jewllers shop (not one on the high street just one they came across on a wander about) and she saw a ring exactly like her wedding band that was stolen. Even the jeweller commented on how rare a ring it was and how he had never seen anything like it. Needless to say she bought it there and then.

We'd all love to know if it is the same ring, sadly there is no way to tell but I like to think it is. Makes a better story that way

I lost my favourite jumper once, last I remember wearing it was to the school fashion show. I can't imagine I'd have left without it as it was late at night and it never turned up in the lost and found, no idea what happened to it.

dogs knowing when their owners are coming home is not necessarily explained by picking up on subtle cues from people in the house.

my dog would lie in a spot by the front door 20 minutes before my (now ex)h would get home. This could be 5pm, 10pm or 2am and I would never know (note he is now my exh) but the dog gave me a clue. I used to know to put some dinner on (yes, even at 2am. I was a mug back then and took my MIL's shitty advice that to win back your husband you should be up before him, go to bed after and make his home as heaven, with food ready for him. I was a fool then and I left him after five years of this crap)

It could not be the car engine noise because 20 minutes would be when xh left the office and the dog would know even when exh got a taxi home or a lift from someone else.

The dog would move to this spot at about the time exh was leaving to go home.

When I was home last Christmas I nipped down to visit my pal who lives 2 blocks away from my parents house, it's only a couple minutes walk. Mum said my dog moved from infront of the fire to stand looking out the patio doors and she made a comment wondering if I had just said goodbye to my friend on the way out of the house, 2 minutes later I appeared around the corner. Mum thinks my dog knew I was on my way home. Of course it is possible he heard me as the houses aren't very far apart but I would be surprised if he did as it is still a good distance.

My cousin's MIL can 'speak' to animals, my cousin has 2 dogs and she knew something was wrong with one of them but couldn't figure out what, she took the dogs to her MIL and she was able to tell her that the dog had a pain in her tail. Off to the vet for an x-ray and turns out the dog had caught her tail somewhere and fractured it. We rescued our dog and sent her a photo to see if she could tell us anything and she said she got a lot of images of a man being taken away on a stretcher and an ambulance. We had assumed he had been an elderly persons dog as he was out on the street and the address on his chip was empty, so made sense that the family didn't want to or couldn't take him on and left him.

Nutella - when the "phenomenon" of psychic dogs is tested properly ie tests are repeated and randomised so that nobody in the house knows when the owner is setting off/due home, results are no better than chance. People tend to take notice of the times the dog looks out of the window etc and the owner appears shortly after, and ignore/discount the times the dog does it and the owner doesn't appear.

However everyone thinks its different with THEIR dog :)

Some years ago, DH lost his wedding ring. It was around Christmas time.

A few months later, in May, he was standing in our living room, chatting with a friend, and saw something silver in the grass. It was his ring.

He must've mowed the grass during that time.

Younguest DS is now 30. When he was 8 or 9 he could suddenly say any word backward instantly, without having to think or work it out. He could do this in English and Spanish. Maybe this is something others can do?
I'd never come across it so was surprised as no one else in the family has had this ability. After a few months he couldn't do it any longer.

Around that time we moved into a rented apartment. In the kitchen there was hanging a sort of long banner with a very long grocery list in German.
No one in the family speaks a word of German and we had never known anyone from there. DS took one look at the list and translated to us what each item was. He'd read the word out loud in German and then he'd tell us in Spanish or English.
After that he could say the whole long list in German without looking and in the correct order. His brothers found it highly entertaining. He also lost that ability after a few months.

Also, when he was around 3 he suddenly could identify any dinosaur and say the name correctly. No one in the family had been remotely interested in dinosaurs so he wasn't getting it from any of us. He kept the interest up until about age 6 or 7

DM wrote her parents seperate Christmas cards one year as her GF was in a hospital terminally ill. When she went to post them her GF's was missing. Later that evening she had a call to say that he had died. I was a baby, DF was at work and nobody else could have touched it. She never found it.

LadyEmma please please do it.

Although the likelihood is an innocent explanation, the facts really do stack up otherwise. Your phone call could be the difference between someone being held against their will and liberty.

Please report back as well.

I've something that I've never solved. Living in a new council house, me and hubby just going off to sleep up stairs heard a loud bang and hurried down stairs to see what it was. A dimpled pint glass which had been standing on a glass coffee table,(which was intergrated in the curved settee), was on its side. How did this happen? No pets, a baby upstairs in her cot. You could n't move the glass at all to fall on its side. They are wide and quite heavy, and this was on a glass surface. Its a simple thing but I can,t explain it.

I really feel LadyEmma should make that call sooner rather than later. Just be completely honest - someone was shouting from the basement that they were locked in, the police took the word of whoever answered the door and didn't check the basement. You aren't satisfied with that response. If, just if, someone is locked in there why wait several days more? The police work over bank holidays.

p.s. LadyEmma you mention you don't feel the same as it was a man shouting. Hopefully it's nothing and we'll all laugh about this sometime when it's been checked properly and a neighbour has been found who had locked himself in the basement. However, just say this was another of those awful cases, who is to say the man is alone?