Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Mumsnet classics

Relive the funniest, most unforgettable threads. For a daily dose of Mumsnet’s best bits, sign up for Mumsnet's daily newsletter.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Original poster

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

935 replies

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?

OP posts:
Thread gallery
16
SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 22/04/2014 18:37

Ooh I have one!

Once when I must have been about 9 or 10 we were having a particularly hot summer and I was outside playing by myself in our drive, during the holidays.

I had been out for a few hours but I don't remember feeling overwhelmed with the heat or anything, but suddenly out of nowhere it was as if I had an auditory and visual hallucination of some sort.

Everything went super bright, blindingly bright and there were what sounded like a thousand sirens in my ears all of a sudden. One of the sources of noise seemed to come from above me in the sky but so loud it surrounded me. It all happened in about 5-10 seconds and then everything went back to normal.

I remember looking around to see if anyone noticed but no one was around. I went inside then and pondered over what happened til my mum came home and told her. She didn't seem concerned and said I was probably outside too long and got sunstroke.

I remember as a kid wondering if it was a UFO! Grin

LadyFlumpalot · 22/04/2014 18:47

I'm remembering loads now! I once had a huge and really painful spot on my neck, it just got bigger and bigger until one day I sat down with a tube of numbing gel from the orthodontist (left over from traintrack days) and popped the bastard out. A little metal ball bearing came out. I shit you not. How the heck did a ball of metal get into my neck?!?

Itsfab · 22/04/2014 18:49

I have said before about this. I dreamt that Princess Diana had died in a car crash, near water and under suspicious circumstances. That morning my boss phoned me about something else and told me she had died in a car crash..

auberginesrus · 22/04/2014 19:56

I wonder if my FILs eldest sister was actually his mother. This is a theory I have put together over years of getting little bits of info at family parties. FIL was born in 1942, he has always been referred to as an after thought, he had 4 older sisters, the youngest of which was 8 or 9 when he was born. His eldest sister was in the land army at the time and living away from home. Another sister once told me that none of the family had realised their mum was expecting until FIL arrived (they were sent away somewhere for the day and when they got back the baby was there). There was apparently some sort of family falling out between eldest sister and her mother at the time. The family seems to assume that she was mortified that Mum had a baby at the age of 39, but I think there might be more to it.

I have wrestled with discussing this with him, but dh and I have decided to leave well alone. Eldest sister died last year and nothing was said or left for him or found in her effects.

marshmallowpies · 22/04/2014 22:20

SagaNorens what you've described sounds exactly like the thing which woke me up the night Lady Di died. It must have been some kind of hallucination, a nightmare which was so vivid it seemed to carry on when I was awake. I did sleepwalk a couple of times at around that age, and on at least one other occasion woke up from a dream to find myself sitting bolt upright in bed, so who knows..?

ClaireyMaryQuietContrary · 22/04/2014 22:27

When I got pregnant with dd1 I found a small yellow cat figure and a pink stone in a draw, I had not seen them before and the draw was regularly used so not likely to have been in there and forgotten about. I didn't really pay much attention to the but they kept popping up- always together in random places. They disappeared once dd was born. When I got pregnant with dd2 they turned up again in the same draw, but I know they were not in there before. Dd2 is 2 now and I still have them

Pannacotta · 22/04/2014 22:36

Am hoping that LadyEmma who posted on this thread earlier about the person possibly locked in her neighbour's basement comes back to update us, I found that very chilling....

auberginesrus · 22/04/2014 22:37

I wonder if my FILs eldest sister was actually his mother. This is a theory I have put together over years of getting little bits of info at family parties. FIL was born in 1942, he has always been referred to as an after thought, he had 4 older sisters, the youngest of which was 8 or 9 when he was born. His eldest sister was in the land army at the time and living away from home. Another sister once told me that none of the family had realised their mum was expecting until FIL arrived (they were sent away somewhere for the day and when they got back the baby was there). There was apparently some sort of family falling out between eldest sister and her mother at the time. The family seems to assume that she was mortified that Mum had a baby at the age of 39, but I think there might be more to it.

I have wrestled with discussing this with him, but dh and I have decided to leave well alone. Eldest sister died last year and nothing was said or left for him or found in her effects.

CatThiefKeith · 22/04/2014 22:43

Chippy are your bowls square? Because if so the same thing happened to me in reverse. (Should all be black and one has developed squiggly lines)

I wonder if I have your missing bowl?Shock

Thumbwitch · 22/04/2014 22:58

I've just remembered one but I think I know the answer to it, although it was always denied.

When I was a student, I lived at home and commuted, so got no grant. My parents couldn't afford to give me any extra either so I was always hard up. I did an "industrial" year, and the job was very low paid but at least I had a chance to move away from home and live in someone's house as a lodger, obviously paying rent. My boyfriend at the time used to come up most weekends to stay, and would always pay for me while he was there.

I had a kagoule that hung in the vestibule of my lodging all the time I was't using it - I suddenly started finding £5 notes in the pocket! The first time I found one, I assumed I'd left it there after the last time I'd worn it, so thought nothing of it. But then next time I wore it, there was another £5 in the same pocket! Not the same one, I'd had that out and spent it. It happened maybe 4 or 5 times - BF always denied it, the kagoule never got back to my parents (I used it for rowing or climbing) and they never came to visit - so it had to be my BF really, didn't it, despite him denying it. I was quite sad when it stopped though!

auberginesrus · 22/04/2014 23:01

Whoops double post, sorry

hellymelly · 22/04/2014 23:17

LadyFlumpalot- someone shot you with an air-rifle.

KrispyCakehead · 23/04/2014 00:02

Or you were abducted by aliens. One of the two....

Sonumb · 23/04/2014 00:39

.

lottieandmia · 23/04/2014 02:49

Ladyflump - Winchester Cathedral has a crypt that floods - could that have been what you saw?

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 23/04/2014 09:12

Interesting, marshmellow. I wonder what it is? When I've tried to talk about it to others in my adult life, I just get met with Hmm faces and I think most people think I imagined it. I really didn't, though! I can remember it like it was yesterday. I didn't pass out or lose consciousness though, and I can remember distinctly where I was standing because I looked up to follow the noise (I couldn't see anything because of the blinding light, however.) Weirdddddd.

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 23/04/2014 09:13

marshmallow even Blush

Rhine · 23/04/2014 09:46

LadyFlump, could this have been what you saw in Winchester Cathedral?

Tell me about a random unsolved mystery in your life....
MNHQ
CatherineHMumsnet · 23/04/2014 12:32

We loved this thread so much we made a page of it here - keep them coming. Some of these are seriously spooky!

DisneyDiva87 · 23/04/2014 12:38

Oh yay!

I've been really enjoying this thread.

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 23/04/2014 12:45

Nice, Catherine Grin

LadyFlumpalot · 23/04/2014 12:49

I think it must have been the flooded crypt I saw, I remember it as a huge echoey cave but that's probably my overactive imagination rewriting facts!

LokiDokey · 23/04/2014 12:50

Mine was solved, but was still interesting...

Came home one night and stood at the end of my drive was a cornetto. I picked it up, it was frozen solid so I had a look around and could see nobody in the street. I was baffled how the hell do you lose a cornetto?
It was all sealed up and frozen so I took it in the house and popped it in the freezer where it remained for a week until I decided to hell with it and ate it. DH told me it was poisoned and I was about to die a horrible death...surprisingly I was fine.

About 12 months later I was talking to my neighbour about something and mentioned the phantom cornetto. She burst out laughing, apparently she had been to the ice cream van, bought a load of lollies and cornettos for the grandkids and must have dropped one at the end of my drive moments before I came in. I felt so guilty I bought her a box Blush

lisej · 23/04/2014 12:54

I'm another one who can vividly remember flying down the stairs at a young age. I was about 2 and can remember the sensation of it, what I was doing before I flew down them, the way the pictures on the walls looked as I passed them, and the feeling of landing gently on my feet at the bottom.

One of my mysteries is about when we were on holiday in Devon at some self catering cottages on a farm when I was 7 or 8. We'd been there a week and were due to go home the next day. It was a good 5 or 6 hour drive home. My mum was just putting my little brother to bed at 7ish, when my dad suddenly insisted that we had to leave right away. He made us pack everything really quickly, dashed off to pay the owner and then we left at 8pm, not getting home until 1 or 2 in the morning. Never before or since had/have we left a holiday the night before we were due to - we have always travelled back on the morning we were due to leave. My dad is a very down to earth type who doesn't believe in anything that can't be explained away, and to this day, he won't tell us why he was so insistent that we had to leave immediately - only that, he was certain that we should, and that he couldn't live with himself if we'd stayed another night. I wonder why. What did he see? Or predict? Or visualize?

murmuration · 23/04/2014 12:54

Totally tickled my round building made the list! But the google photo must have a default different direction, as the one on the page is pointing away from the building. Here is the link first posted, plus a zoom in.

Please let me know if someone writes in to identify it!!

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