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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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DoingTheBestICan · 27/04/2014 21:22

I've just had a weird encounter, I work in a college and recently had a new student start, on their first day they looked really shocked to see me. They asked me to look at a picture of their relative on their fb page as it was the double of me. I looked and it absolutely was, it was like looking in a mirror. The relative lives in NZ.

Thought nothing of it, went to visit a friend, miles away from where I live as I've been off over Easter, went into a costas and a lady came over to me and asked if I was Lynne. I said no, she was a bit speechless and apologised but she said I was the image of someone she went to school with but they now live in NZ, she showed me a pic, again off fb and it was the same lady the student had showed me.

So it looks like I have a twin in NZ. But how bizarre for 2 random people in completely different parts of the country to both approach me thinking I was her.

murmuration · 27/04/2014 22:00

While we're mentioning random metal things falling I was just in the bath, as I turned on the water a screw fell into the tub. I figured something had come lose from the tap. But the tap is completely smooth no exterior screws, no empty holes where a screw could have come from. The place where the water comes out is covered with a mesh, so it couldn't have flowed through the pipe. Where did it come from?

I've put it on the windowsill, and I'll ask DH to see if he can find where it goes.

Itsfab · 27/04/2014 22:03

Another weird one from me. I was in bed thinking about my blue salt pot. I have no clue why. Later when I was getting something out of the cupboard the salt pot fell out followed by a tin of beans. The salt pot landed on my thumb and the beans on the salt pot smashing it.

That is two sort of premonitions in a week Confused.

treedelivery · 27/04/2014 22:17

My mum and I went out of my family home and when I came back, all the photos on my bedroom wall were neatly stacked in one corner of the room. About 9.

No one was in, the road is private and uber peaceful so it can't have been some odd road vibration, the walls are a foot thick. The frames were stacked so they hadn't just slid off the wall in one go.

I screamed and ran outside Grin

Vintagecakeisstillnice · 27/04/2014 22:18

MandarinCheesecake: hi , re: TB if this was in the 1920/30 yes TB would have been seen as 'bad' or even worse hrs Mental Health issues.

No one really knew what caused it and of course being an infection it could and did infect whole families. The fact that it did mainly affect the young and teens the ones who were meant to be the strongest.

It could not only affect your health but your job prospects and your marriage prospects.

My Grandfather died in his 20's, from the little my Dad remembered and what my Grandma remembered it seems most likily that he had some form of intestinal cancer. However because he was young and coughing blood it was assumed to be TB.

My Aunt & Dad could remember not being allowed to play with some kids as their parents wouldn't allow it.

My Gran had to get a job at the local factory, they made her get a cert of health from the GP.

Even when my DAd was an adult with adult children of his own some of the locals would still say 'yes, but you know his father died of (loud whisper) TB…'

Assuming that this would have been around the same time it could be the reason.

ToAvoidConversation · 27/04/2014 22:23

DisneyDiva we lived in a third floor flat when it happened to us. They get everywhere!! Also had them in attic spaces in a previous house too!!

MandarinCheesecake · 27/04/2014 23:50

Vintage That's really interesting, but this was in the 1950's my dad was born in 51 and the way my nan had worded the letters guessed he would have been quite young so probably the mid 50's.

But you never know, as both my grandparents were born in 1920 and 1921 i would imagine that they were brought up knowing that there was a stigma attached to TB.
Attitudes took a while to change back then and they were both very set in their ways so cant imagine they would have thought any different if it was ingrained into them that it was never to be spoken of.

But I still cant figure out why my nan spoke so openly of her sister being in the mental hospital and we don't know exactly why she was there.
We just assumed MH issues but now not so sure?? Confused

Birdiegirl · 28/04/2014 01:46

Loving this thread.

babyboomersrock · 28/04/2014 02:21

Unless of course TB was something to be ashamed of back then?

I was born in the late 40s and all through my childhood TB was referred to in hushed tones. I think perhaps because it had associations with poverty and cramped living conditions, people were embarrassed about it, and "TB families" tried to hush it up. Even though it had been more or less eradicated by then, the shame lingered.

Mind you, mental illness was a disgrace too - my poor grandmother died in 1939 aged 52 of "premature senility" (scared the hell out of her descendants as we approached her age, I can tell you) but when I spoke to people who knew her, they were convinced she was menopausal, severely depressed and - with no real treatment options - had just turned her face to the wall. My mother was the youngest - she came home from school one day to discover that granny had been "removed" to an asylum. Mum was 10 years old and never saw her mother again - and they were told to keep it quiet.

We have a lot to be thankful for these days.

LettertoHermioneGranger · 28/04/2014 02:26

I said about a week ago I had another when I managed to upload a pic...

Here it is. I had cleaned and tidied my bedroom. I'd left the house, came back to find the right one in the center of my bedroom floor. Definitely hadn't been there before. The next day I found the one on the left, same spot on the floor.

No clue where they came from. I'm the only one who would be in this bedroom. House isn't new, but was renovated right before my flatmates and I moved in. How did these just appear? What is their significance?

Tell me about a random unsolved mystery in your life....
Monty27 · 28/04/2014 02:26

I'd love to know who let the dogs out. Who? Who who who?

And why. Confused

AmberLeaf · 28/04/2014 12:35

RockingHippy
Re your mystery pigs trotter;

We had a cat that brought home a cooked but uneaten whole leg of lamb and also various other meat 'cuts' in varying stages of defrosting.

Cat burglar!

EverythingCounts · 28/04/2014 12:41

With all this matter disappearing from one place or appearing in another, can anyone please let me know if my kitchen scissors have suddenly appeared in your house, please? Confused

CountDooku · 28/04/2014 12:48

On a camping trip almost 10 years ago I 'lost' my pyjama bottoms. I definitely had them when we went to leave as that morning I hadn't had a shower as we had to leave the site at 10am, so I took them off in my tent, packed everything away (absolutely nothing left behind) and came home and They had disappeared! I don't know where they hell they managed to go between my tent being packed up and home!

They weren't still in the tent as I put it up to air and checked,not in my suitcase, no one else brought them home, not in the dirt washing or my car....just gone. I loved those PJs.

Itsfab · 28/04/2014 12:52

I lost my best ever tongs when DH fitted the new kitchen and a gorgeous brand new black bra when in honeymoon Sad. Anyone got them?

PinkLemons · 28/04/2014 14:24

I woke up at 5.30 this morning, got out of bed and visited the bathroom, went to get back in to bed and there was a red pencil crayon right where I had been sleeping. DD hasn't had any crayons in my room and knows she isn't allowed crayons upstairs. The bed covers are white and have been on a few days so I would have spotted a red crayon! I was in bed alone as DH is working away, DD was till asleep in her room.

Where did it come from?

ajandjjmum · 28/04/2014 15:00

TB discussions above interesting. My DM's dad died when she was 4/5, and I've always known that it was 'TB caused by mustard gas poisoning from WW1'. Makes me wonder if that was a way of trying to make is more 'respectable'. Funnily enough, a few years ago DM was told that she had had TB as a child, they could tell from a lung xray, although she never had any knowledge of it, nor longterm issues.

Hijack over - sorry!

TheLateMrsLizCromwell · 28/04/2014 17:39

Tb discussion make me so sad. DF's mother died of it when he was 3 - he was an evacuee at the time. His dad remarried and he had a horrible childhood - stepmum had a daughter and they didn't want him around, so farmed out to rellies. His Dad drank and gambled, and when he passed the 11+ they wouldn't let him go the grammar school as it was a waste of time. Sad Luckily he lived to see his grandsons have a very happy education at the top-performing school in the country. Sorry for the hijack.

IsChippyMintonExDirectory · 28/04/2014 21:56

cattheif I've only just checked back I shall take a picture of the bowl! Maybe there a 3rd dimension type affair going on between my house and yours Grin

CatThiefKeith · 28/04/2014 22:24

Ooh, you're not knee deep in my list hair bands are you Chippy?Grin

hellymelly · 28/04/2014 23:27

lettertoHermioneG - those look really interesting, what does the writing say? It looks like SOS ? How very bizarre. How old is your house?

BigRedBall · 28/04/2014 23:59

LettertoHermioneGranger, what are they? They look like buttons to me. Is that a picture of a man on the right?

LettertoHermioneGranger · 29/04/2014 07:26

The one says S.O.S., yes, and the other is a man. The man is a button? And the S.O.S I think is a tie pin, but it's not a normal pin back, it's like a little screw, and I couldn't get the back all the way off.

BigRedBall · 29/04/2014 07:41

Could you take them to an antique shop and show them? Maybe they could tell you something about them that might be relevant? Seems so strange.

hellymelly · 29/04/2014 09:55

The little screw one might be a shirt stud. What else is on the SOS one, is it a little cherub? Hard to tell. Could you get a more close up picture? Are the images under glass or under a layer of celluloid or neither? Also is there a mark on the back anywhere? I am trying to roughly date them.

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