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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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curiousgeorgie · 19/04/2014 18:48

I worked in a pub in Kingston about 12 years ago, and one of the batman who lived upstairs had a snake, and had had it for years. He went home for the weekend and asked me to feed it.

I went up in the evening the feed it, and it wasn't in the tank. Lid securely fastened, no holes etc. I called another member of staff who was fairly brave and he came up to help, took the lid bit off, took every single thing out of the tank and then put it all back. No snake. And it wasn't small.

We never found it.

That pub is a zizi's now and I always think that one day some giant Amazonian beast is going to slither up the toilet and give someone a heart attack.

(Shudders)

curiousgeorgie · 19/04/2014 18:48

Barmen, not batman obviously!!

FushandChups · 19/04/2014 19:12

I like the idea of Batman, just hanging out, serving beer Smile

SelfRighteousPrissyPants · 19/04/2014 19:30

These are good, we should tell the Fortean Times!

I haven't shaved for 3 or 4 weeks but my left leg is quite hairy but my right has hardly any hairs and they are about half the length! Now it's possible I accidentally shaved the right one twice instead of doing both to explain the length but there's definitely less hairs too Easter Confused Armpit hair is similar both sides!

I mean it could be hormones or stress but why just one side?

LizzieVereker · 19/04/2014 19:47

Erimentha, if you tell us a bit about the plot of the book, perhaps one of us might be able to help? There's got to be someone of here who's read it.

jerseygal78 · 19/04/2014 19:58

When I was a student I received a red letter golf day addressed to me through the post. Nothing to imply where it came from, noone ever admitted it when I asked. V bizarre. It was worth £80 and I managed to persuade boots to give me a cash refund on it!

Also once went to put the rubbish out & opened the bin to find nothing inside except two giant dildos - given they would have been the last thing to be tipped into the truck no idea what the dustmen thought!

FryOneFatManic · 19/04/2014 20:17

While I'm not woo, this thread is having me half-hoping that mum's agate ring turns up, it would really make her day.

muffinino82 · 19/04/2014 21:03

could you have left the keys in the lock and someone passing took a fancy the key ring?

I don't think so because I remember putting them on the counter, I went there to look for them to lock the door. Plus I think I would have seen anyone walking up to the door as I could see it from the car and I don't think anyone would have time to walk down the garden path and back without me seeing them. I may have put them down on a chair or the cat's scratching post but you'd think I would have found them by now. We've replaced the washing machine which is directly below where I recall putting them down and they weren't under the unit.

PecanSandy · 19/04/2014 21:33

A couple of years ago, when our littlest cat was just a kitten, I heard her playing with something, rolling it around, under the kitchen table. It was a small white egg. Google said pigeon's egg. But how did it get out of the nest, and how did it get inside the house? She couldn't have rolled it, because the garden door was open, but it's a sliding glass door with a metal track about two inches high. I mentioned it to the vet and he said to check the loft for nests Shock, Didn't find any, thank God. Did she climb a tree, take the egg from a nest and carry it into the house in her mouth?

Another egg-related one, since it is Easter. While raking leaves out from under the hedge I found a whole, unbroken hen's egg. Haven't seen any chickens wandering through my garden lately... decided one of the neighbour kids had put it there for some reason. Very careful not to smash it as it might have been there for months. Then last night around 1 am when I opened the window to let one of the cats in I heard a sort of asthmatic wheezing and a rustling in the shrubbery. After a few seconds a hedgehog emerged and went snuffling around the terrace. then today when digging near the hedge I found an empty eggshell with a small hole in the side. I deduced that the hedgehog must have eaten it and the wheezing I heard was him sucking the insides out. But then when sweeping up I found the original egg which I had neglected to throw away!
I also heard foxes barking during the night.

  • Where are these eggs coming from?
  • Who sucked the egg, the hedgehog or a fox?
  • Do hedgehogs suffer from asthma?
thenightsky · 19/04/2014 21:52

My gran remarried and my stepgrandad's spinster sister, Maud, lived with them as he had promised his mother on her death bed that he would always look after his sister Maud. My gran disliked Maud intensely and made her live in a separate wing of the house. Maud was allowed to come through to make her supper drink at 7.20pm every day. She died before I was born, but that kitchen door creaked open at 7.20pm every bloody night and my gran would say 'its only Maud'.

In our family ever since, if a door creaks and moves, we say.. 'oh its only Maud'.

thenightsky · 19/04/2014 21:54

Remembered another one...

When DS was little and his big sister was keen on Claires Accessory type shops, he always used to gaze at the hair bobbles, alice bands etc and say.... 'I had these when I used to be a girl'

hellymelly · 19/04/2014 22:43

Actually post it notes were around in the 70s. My neighbour knew the man who invented them, i remember him showing some to me, and it was around 1976.

Nassau · 19/04/2014 22:57

DD2 (4) can come out with really 'grown up' phrases sometimes. We joked that 'shes been here before' but never in front of her.
DH was picking her up from montessori a few weeks ago and her teacher was telling DH about her 'quirks' that day. DH laughed, turned to DD2 and said "you've been here before, haven't you". DD, very seriously, looked at him and said "yes, but it was a long, long time ago" Shock

Keepthechangeyoufilthyanimal · 20/04/2014 00:03

Marking my place to add a few of my own tomorrow. I've sat up and read every comment and now too tired to add my own!
Some of these are so sad, scary, creepy & just bloody weird!

Sukebind · 20/04/2014 00:25

BorisJohnson - I don't have a Janet and Roy story but a couple of years we got a Christmas card from 'Peter, Prem' and a load of children. Neither me or DH knew who they were. The address was exactly correct and they had spelled my name correctly - it is a variation of a name usually spelled one way. People who only knew us vaguely would not have known who they were. I asked my parents in case they could think who it could be. They found it intriguing so as a joke I sent another card to them from the mysery family. It sent them mad with wondering as now the mystery was complicated by the fact this family knew them too. I sent them an Easter card from them and then the following Christmas I had a card printed by an on-line card company. They were completely mystified and started asking loads of friends if they knew them. Blush

I was going to wind it all up into some sort of punchline at which point I would confess - although the original Peter and Prem would remain a mysery. Unfortunately, I just can't think how to do it. I was too busy this Christmas to send a fake card (I had a fake Round Robin in rough draft which would have been a give-away as it was obviously fake and my parents find RRs hilarious) and I had also planned to send them an obviously 'joke' anniversary card for a significant wedding anniversary, but I didn't get around to it. I have been a sloppy prankster and now I have confused them with no real purpose...

Sukebind · 20/04/2014 00:27

Sorry - I mean, people could not have known how to spell it. Have hosted an Easter party for many screaming children today and am quite tired!

Sukebind · 20/04/2014 00:29

Also mystery, not mysery. Sorry.

Marcipex · 20/04/2014 00:52

I'd like to know what happened to my great -aunts baby girl.

My great aunt married a GI and went to live in the US.
They were quite hard up. He was not pleased when she immediately became pregnant, but she was ecstatic.

The baby was born in hospital. As was usual at the time, the baby was put in the nursery at night so the mothers could rest.

In the morning, my great aunt was told her baby had died overnight.
She was never told a reason for the death, she never saw the body, she never had a death certificate and the funeral was apparently held without her. She thinks she was heavily sedated for some time and kept in hospital.

Shortly after this, her husband the GI left her for another woman. Alone in the US, she returned to England.

I don't believe the baby had died. I think it was stolen for adoption with the fathers collaboration.
This dawned on my great aunt many years later but she said it was too late.
We will never know, but I wonder about that baby girl and what really happened.
Her name was Joy.

RhondaJean · 20/04/2014 00:56

Marci you've reminded me of one.

I'd like to know who my great great gran was.

She appeared in Glasgow from Skye with a little boy in the 1880s. She married and had several more children but no one h ever known where in Skye she came from, if she was married, widowed or disgraced and had to leave the island, or how she ended up in Glasgow.

Marcipex · 20/04/2014 01:02

Single mothers were treated so harshly, weren't they Rhondajean.

OneLittleLady · 20/04/2014 01:04

What my dad did in the 70's, why he split with his first wife but remained friends with her and why their son, my half brother was adopted by his mum's parents. No one seems to have the answers to these questions and there's no one I can ask

RockinHippy · 20/04/2014 04:35

Many years ago, after a night out at a friends house watching zombie movies - I came home late & alone and worse for wear to find the bloodied stump of a severed limb poking out from beneath my sofa Shock When I finally plucked up the courage to take a proper look - it turned out to be the very large front leg of a pig - sort of large pigs & then some.

Okay, I did have pet cats, but it was a hell of a size & weight for them to bring home as a a late night giftHmm & even if they did bring it home, living in a London suburb, where they hell they got it from will be forever a mysteryConfused

RockinHippy · 20/04/2014 04:36

sort of large pigs trotter

Hairylegs47 · 20/04/2014 08:52

Just who were the 2 middle aged babysitters who used to look after DS1 and DS2 when they were about 3 and 4? The only babysitters we had were my SIL and her bf, they would lock the boys in their room only letting them out 15 mins before we returned.

lottieandmia · 20/04/2014 09:07

PecanSandy - I reckon rats could be responsible for moving your eggs. They can somehow transport them to all kinds of places - they are unbelievably agile.