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?

My Mum lost her keys in my house years ago. Couldn't find them anywhere. Spent a fortune on new car key. Defrosted the freezer two years later and that's where they were.

@Eminybob - "When I was very young, 5 or 6 maybe, I was convinced I was able to fly down the stairs. Just the ones at home, and I still now remember the sensation of being able to do it. However whenever I tried to show anyone else, I just kind of bumped down on my bum"
I've just discovered this thread when browsing classics and I appreciate you posted this many years ago but I had to comment as I had this EXACT same thing at around the same age...how odd is that?! Your post gave me chills...

An old thread, I know, but I have a couple...
When DS1 was around 3, about an hour after putting him to bed, I went upstairs and could hear him chucking in his room. I opened the door and he was sat up in bed, still chuckling, looking towards the foot of the bed. I perched next to him and asked him what he was laughing at. He said "the funny man with the 2 Black dogs, he makes me laugh".
On speaking to my mum the next day, it transpires that my grandfather, who had died 10 years prior, had 2 Black Labradors when he was a younger man. It gave me chills but in a lovely way.

My nan (his wife), moved into a mobile home on a site not long after he died and I used to visit her fairly regularly. I always used to sit in what had been my gramps chair but this particular day, as I lowered myself into the chair, it felt like I'd sat straight on him and I gasped and jumped up. My nan was carrying cups on a tray and she turned round and asked me what was wrong. When I told her, she dropped the tray, smashing everything that was on it and burst into tears whilst telling me that she'd seen my gramp the night before and he walked her into her bedroom and pointed at a photo of us all. She hadn't told anyone as she feared they'd think she was just a "silly old woman", bless her. We had a little cry together and it seemed to give her comfort.

This is actually quite creepy!

I’ve still got the keys nearly 30 years later, even though my parents old house had the locks changed and was sold years ago, as I daren’t throw them away in case they reappear again!

My unsolved mystery is how I managed to work all my life, build a decent career, and still reach 55 without saving a penny 🤷‍♀️🤔😸

And now ten years (or eleven) see 22s everywhere

11.11 happens to me all the time too

Loving this thread! I have a new mystery and would love some help solving it! A few months ago I was clearing out the cupboard under the kitchen sink and in the back corner I noticed a massive pile of hundreds of tiny black things the size of grains of rice but fatter. They looked like rodent droppings - and we've had the odd mouse or rat down there - so I bravely ran screaming from the room. My DH approached with the dustbuster but they made a hard, rattling noise as he hoovered them up. They were shiny grains of something, like little beads or seeds, blacky purple in colour. We have literally no idea what they were. There were so many of them and no obvious source and we've not seen any since. Chatgpt thinks maybe they were the inside of an old water filter cartridge, but there were no broken cartridges in the cupboard. What could they be? I managed to photograph one but not the whole pile.

• Water Vole droppings are typically green, brown, or purple, have a soft, putty-like texture, are rounded at both ends, and have no strong smell. They are usually found in large piles called "latrines" near water sources.

BUT

• Habitat: Water voles are semi-aquatic rodents that live in burrows they dig into the banks of rivers, streams, ditches, and ponds. They are rarely found far from water and require lush bankside vegetation for food and cover.

@FantasiaTurquoise