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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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PourquoiTuGachesTaVie · 15/04/2014 22:33

Mistletoe it was about 10 years ago now and I've moved house twice so the chances are slim but I'm now going to have to check all my big books just in case!

I was even still looking out for it when I cleared my mums house out.

It always felt like an injustice that I got into trouble for something I don't think it was possible for me to do - and the replacement phone I was bought was not as good either. Sad

headlesslambrini · 15/04/2014 22:33

breast your mystery is simple to solve - you obviously had a massive spider living in the sink who didnt appreciate your offering and chucked the tooth back at you. Spiders are ungrateful creatures dontcha know! Grin

peachybums · 15/04/2014 22:34

I bought a black dress for my grandfathers funeral and hung it in the wardrobe. On the morning of the funeral I went to get out the dress it check if it needed ironing, no dress. Searched high and low and couldn't find it! Since had new wardrobes fitted and still no dress. Mum joked maybe he didn't like it lol

Baby food once went missing from kitchen cupboard when ds was a baby, only me and dp in the house and he swears he didn't eat it ;)

TheVictorian · 15/04/2014 22:39

My mini mystery is there is a old bunker that is mostly boarded up, it was from the war but when ive tried to find any information about it, it seems like there is none, yet the bunker exists ?.

CatThiefKeith · 15/04/2014 22:43

Um. Where is the bunker?

RedandChecker · 15/04/2014 22:47

I love this thread. Mrs welly boots post gave me goosebumps !

thisisnotanamechange · 15/04/2014 22:48

I am the third of six children, to the same mother, but different men. My mother swears that I have the same father as my older brother and sister, though they were divorced before I could have been conceived. When I finally met my dad for the first time, at 25, he had no idea I existed, but apparently my grandmother knew I of me. Go figure.

Fluffycloudland77 · 15/04/2014 22:51

A couple of years ago I was reading in bed on a Sunday morning, cat lying on my lap. Dh and I both wide awake, no hangovers or anything like that.

The cat was asleep and curled up, suddenly he flew off my lap & landed on the floor, 3ft away on my dressing gown. He was asleep the whole time and only woke after he landed.

Freaked us both out but I'm really glad dh was there to see it.

murmuration · 15/04/2014 22:53

Okay, here's one maybe somebody even knows!

About two years ago we used to drive fairly regularly to Dumfries, and there is this strange circular brick building thing either right before or right after the town starts from the West (sorry, forgot) beside the road. It looked like it would be the start to a circular staircase which went down below ground. I could see that there were words in the cement across the top of it, which I assumed labelled what it was, but was never able to catch sight of it as we drove past.

On our last trip, I didn't even manage to see the words on the way into town despite trying very hard, and so I convinced DH to stop on the way out so I could get out and go look in person. I walked over to it, and it was clearly the top of a staircase, as there was a curved entrance bit that went to a door, and not even space for any sort of room in the rest. However, I could not find out what it was -- it was obvious that the cement sign had recently been chipped off. There was a burlap sack secured with a loosely tied orange rope resting in front of the door.

I always felt like I was turning down some kind of adventure when I left the sack as is and went back to the car.

Does anyone know what that was (or is, as I assume it is still there)? And why the sign would have been chipped off? And a sack left? My best guess is some kind of infrastructure water/sewer/power thing. But why remove the sign?

imip · 15/04/2014 22:53

When I was 5 I had a birthday party and one of the presents was a fuzzy felt,p. I always wanted a fuzzy felt. Even now I love.

I left it in the playroom, and after the party it was missing.

My mum insists someone stole it, but I am still devestated about it, almost 40 yrs later!

BigArea · 15/04/2014 22:58

Ooh great thread, marking my place Smile

troubleinstore · 15/04/2014 23:02

I was going travelling and had to go to the passport office to get new passport. Whilst waiting for it I went shopping and bout a lovely scarf ... took said scarf on travels and wore it in my hair. One day whilst in car with windows wound down I realised scarf had gone.... friend and I retraced our route but it was never to be seen again : (
On return home a year later it was October and chilly. I asked my mum for my winter clothes I'd packed away and opened up the suitcase. There on top was the scarf I'd bought whilst shopping and lost whilst on the road.
I immediately called my friend as she was just as shocked as I was... why would I specifically buy a scarf to take travelling and pack it away with my winter clothes and not take it... What scarf was I wearing when it supposedly went missing? I only had one.... it's freaked me out for years !

BeaWheesht · 15/04/2014 23:05

I've lost an engagement ring, weddin ring and eternity ring. I've searched high and low, they have disappeared

My main mystery though is why does dd associate colours with places and what does it mean?? Eg the red house which is not red, orange toddlers which is not orange and so on. The places always remain consistent with the colour and when asked to say where she just says 'everywhere'

murmuration · 15/04/2014 23:06

Actually, here is the circular stair-thing in Google Street View. Someone please tell me what it is!

thefruitwhisperer · 15/04/2014 23:08

I once saw a rabbit in my bedroom. It ran around the bed and the bedsheets moved as it ran round and I heard it scamper.

20 years later and it turns out there was no rabbit. I have a neurological condition which causes hallucinations. Not so intriguing anymore! I liked it before when I could conjure up rabbits!

oohdaddypig · 15/04/2014 23:09

Shamelessly bookmarking. These are great!

TheVictorian · 15/04/2014 23:11

CatThiefKeith Toton sidings behind Asda in Long Eaton.

ALittleFaith · 15/04/2014 23:12

Bea could she have synethesia? Where she 'hears' colours?

Pickled I had this. Turned the living rom upside down. Eventually found my tv remote in the gap between the sofa back and seat, wedged right down!

murmuration · 15/04/2014 23:13

bea, I was thinking synethesia, too. It can be attached to a whole bunch of things, like letters or numbers or temperatures, too. Maybe places?

piratecat · 15/04/2014 23:13

good thread

weatherall · 15/04/2014 23:13

My uncle went missing in the 90s.

Left with his keys and coat but nothing else (pre mobiles).

Was never heard from again.

Declared dead 7 years later.

OneLittleLady · 15/04/2014 23:14

bea does your DD perhaps have a form of synesthesia? I have it connected to sounds, not just musical sounds but everyday sounds.

BeaWheesht · 15/04/2014 23:14

alittlefaith I don't know, she's only 3 so can't explain really but she's done it ever since she could talk and knew her colours and in fact now I think about it possibly before I knew she knew her colours iyswim?

OneLittleLady · 15/04/2014 23:14

x-post!

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RevoltingPeasant · 15/04/2014 23:16

Eurgh the giant spider chucking back the tooth made me all funny....

The leaping cat sounds hilarious!

namechange I had a close friend in high school who wants Catholic and her parents didn't believe in family planning or birth control. She was one of five. Four of them were born on Sept 6th Shock

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