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?

Eminybob - I used to do that too! I think my Mum may have been right when she said she thought it was a bit of a hallucination brought on by a slight heart irregularity.

The Victorian - I thought it could be a Nuclear shelter? Possibly some kind of emergency back up place - some still in use by major utilities, others have been sold to private companies; lots of them are still "official secrets".

I have a tooth one as well.

DS2 lost a tooth a month or so ago.

Found it in the cat's water bowl a few data ago.

DH and I went to the same university. We didn't know each other that well though. We eventually got together in our late twenties via mutual friends.

When I left uni, I didn't bother to join the old students' association (I think it cost a few quid and I was skint at the time) so I never heard from the Uni again.

Nearly a decade after graduating I married Dh who had joined the association and suddenly we started getting post from them addressed to Mr and Mrs Mardy. I checked with parents and MIL and neither of them had been in contact with the Uni.

When I first met my husband he used his credit card in the pub to buy some wine...for some reason I watched as he tapped his PIN number into the machine - I would never normally do this - and was stunned to see it was the same as mine!!! I was in 2 minds about telling him this (as it was rude of me to look in the first place) but I had to and to prove it I ordered some more drinks using my card and pin! It was also the exact same credit card and we had both chosen that number (so it wasn't a fault that the company had issued out the same numbers). We still talk about it to this day and say it was a sign we was meant to be together!! Haha. Together in debt!

My grandmother lived with her parents and siblings in a flat above a shop they owned in London. One day their parents got up and dressed and left. Never returned. No one knows what became of them, although they had taken money and clothes so had obviously intended to leave. They had a lot of equity in the business, plus additional longer term investments (which their parents either couldn't or chose not to cash in) so unlikely to be a debt related. The children were all farmed out to family members some, like my grandmother who was the youngest, never to see their older siblings again. It was Never Spoken Of when my grandmother and, later, my mother were growing up. After my grandmother died, my mother tried to track down where some of the other siblings went but without any success. We'd all love to know why they left, but don't imagine we ever will.

confused, your parents mystery will be that their 12 year old was a great artist, and even won an award, and then all her talent vanished... :)

What is it with poo in beds??

eminy, could it have been a dream? I remember when I was about the same age sometimes when I went to the park I used to be able to fly off the swings if I did it just right. But sometimes I'd try and try, and no flying. Me and friends once sat around discussing stuff like this, and discovered we all had similar ones, and we decided that they were dreams and talked about strategies to identify dreams from reality. Weird philosophical conversation for a bunch of 5-year-olds.

I also used to think that there was an invisible lady who would follow me around in the park. It would happen when I walking really relaxed and swinging my arms, and she would touch my fingers on the backswing. I used to do this, then turn around really fast to try to catch her. One day I realised it was my own hands hitting each other :) I'm now amazed how unafraid I was at the idea of an invisible lady who touched my fingers...

My mystery isn't as great as some on here but it is bugging me!!
For the last two mornings at 7 am a beeping sound starts and it lasts until about 8:30 am. It's loud. It's driving me insane, I cannot work out what it is. It's definately coming from upstairs, we have no alarm clocks and I've stood under the fire alarm to see if it's that but it's not. It's driving me bonkers, I don't want to get up at 7am during half term!I've lived in this house years and have never heard it.

Eminybob I had the exact same thoughts when I was wee. I can remember to this day flying down the stairs. So vividly. And it felt real at the time. But luckily I didn't get up the courage to test it in rl by throwing myself down the stairs!

I had lost a really nice necklace with sentimental value. I was sure it was in the house but couldn't find it. We ended up moving house and I opened the guest room bedside cabinet (which I had definitely emptied to move) and it was there. No one other than removal men had touched the cabinet and they hadn't been around when I lost the necklace months earlier.

I'm an early years teacher, and one morning, filled the water tray with my TA. It's pretty deep, had about 7 inches of water in.
At about 10 a child came to ask me if they could play in the water. I said 'of course go and put an apron on'. The child said 'There's no water in there.'

The water was gone! It wasn't on the floor, no leak in the tray, the tray was bone dry. Very weird. I'm not woo so decided it must have evaporated, or someone had emptied it as a trick. My TA thought it was a ghost, as other strange things were happening too but they could all be explained.

Years ago a friend and I went to France to visit another friend who lived there at the time. He knew of a tiny deserted beach, perfect for a picnic. We got to the beach which really was off the beaten track, nowhere near any roads, involving a fairly long walk down a little path, and we were indeed the only people there. Perfect.

We'd brought four cans of beer which we put in a little rock pool to keep cool while we unpacked the picnic a few yards away. Picnic rug down, baguettes unpacked, went to get the beers ... and they had vanished.

The rock pool was tiny (not much bigger than the four cans of beer) and entirely enclosed so they just couldn't have floated away anywhere. There was literally no one else on the beach and we'd only been a few yards away anyway. Have no idea to this day what became of our beer...

Lost rings - check your gloves! They often fall off when you take your gloves off (especially if you have lost weight).

My mystery is our mums eternity ring. It went missing after she died in hospital and we never found it. She always wore it, and dad chose it himself. In every photo she is wearing it - it was really beautiful and had strikingly coloured stones.

I spoke to a psychic just after she died (yes, I know, I know but she died suddenly and I wanted to speak to someone) and she suggested one of the grandchildren had it (most unlikely as they are all abroad). We turned her place upside down, looked in all the pockets, bags, boxes, cases, etc but never found it.

To people who lose stuff, small valuable stuff, especially on or around sofas, etc.

If you are getting rid of a sofa or chair, that kind of furniture, take it apart if you can, as you will probably find stuff inside linings, down the sides, etc.

I know a couple of blokes who are employed by a furniture firm who, when the order for new stuff includes taking the old one away, they get the item back to the depot and take it apart themselves, they find quite a bit of valuable stuff...........

When we got rid of an old chair, we found a missing ring, about £5 in loose change and a missing stylus for the nintendo. It really does pay to look yourself.

My mystery is also about a missing ring. An agate ring that belonged to my gran, and was left to Mum. It went missing and she never found it, even when they cleared the house to move.

If anyone ever sees an agate ring with an unusual rectangular stone with distinct brown and white stripes instead of the usual swirly muddy colours, set in silver, I'd love to hear from you.

It would be brilliant if I could reunite mum with this ring.

I lost a watch that turned up, years later under the fridge. It probably just fell on the floor and got kicked under but still, I was pleased to be reunited with it!

We have had things go missing but that was when DS was in his 'posting items in the kitchen bin' phase (before we cottoned on). So when we can't find something its 'gone to be with the watch' (another one).

nicename if your mum was wearing the ring when she died in hospital, there is a chance someone took the ring. A friend of mine who's a carer in a home has told me more than once that jewellery is removed from her charges before they go to hospital to avoid it being nicked. She said they were never able to prove it was taken in the hospital, so the manager decided on prevention by keeping the jewellery in the home.

This will completely out me if any of my friends are reading this but many years ago while I was at 6th Form we went on a residential trip and stayed in a Youth Hostel for a night. All the girls were in one room and the boys were in another (there were about 12 of us in total).

All the girls ended up putting the mattresses on the floor rather than sleeping on the bunk beds however in the middle of the night I sneaked down into the boys room to see my then boyfriend.

When I came back in the morning I found a really intricately drawn picture of all the girls sleeping-it was drawn on a piece of cardboard that one of my friends had left out which she was sorting out her contact lenses on so was definitely done in the room rather than placed there if that makes sense.

I have no idea how anyone could have actually got into the room without any of them noticing because there was so little room with all the mattresses on the floor-they were right up against the door. Yet all the girls were completely freaked out by it and non of them could draw as well as that.

My engagement and eternity ring went missing for seven years. The day before a new couch was arriving we chucked the new one out. But first my husband tore it apart. Lo and behold - my rings. That was quite surreal. I'd long since given up on them.

Fry - that was one possibility that did cross the mind. The staff were all so lovely there and her engagement/wedding rings were still there though. My brother saw her last but he won't remember if she had it on tbh.

They did try to recusitate her - would they remove jewellery for that? She was hale and hearty until about 9pm, when she declared that she had 'had enough'. Bro took that to mean she was tired and wanted him to leave but she died before he got home. They worked on her for a while before she went. I suspect if someone nicked it, she would be haunting them for their cheek!

It is possible she took it off, wrapped it in a hankey and put it 'in a safe place'. She had form for doing this, then getting up to rifle through the bins to retreive various jewellery that she had thrown out as rubbish.

For almost 3 years I get flowers delivered to the house every Birthday and Valentines day and a tatty teddy on my daughters birthday. There is never a name and I know it's not any members of my family. It's lovely but wish I knew who it was so I could at least thank them.

Mine is a pair of pants.

Hung out on the washing line Sunday morning, looking normal and fully formed. Took from the washing line in a hurry and placed on a pile of washing. Went to put them away this morning and they are ripped/chewed /burnt through. I have no idea what's happened to them and I can't for the life of me work it out.

Was viewing an empty house, looked all around downstairs, then upstairs. Just as we were leaving I said we should check that we had locked the back door.

We could not open the kitchen door.

Luckily we could get out via the conservatory, we went round the back and into the kitchen to find the fridge freezer has moved across the kitchen door by about two inches.

It took some effort to move it back into place as well.

Been here now 12 months and it has not happened since although I am inclined to keep the kitchen door open!

When I decorated DD's room before she was born a few years back, I took up the old carpet to replace it, noticing that one of the floorboards was squeaky. It wasn't fixed down properly so I pulled it up (just out of curiousity).

Underneath it was a small cardboard box. I got all excited then, thinking it was treasure. It was empty.

Why was it empty? What was kept in there? And why didn't the person who put it there leave something for me to find?

(I put a pound in and put it back before fixing the floorboard. Hopefully the next person who finds it won't be as disappointed).

myroom - you bought the house after that?! I'm not sure I would have.

The Victorian I would guess that it's something to do with the military, as it's not a million miles from Chilwell barracks and I'm sure there used to be an army base on Toton sidings many, many moons ago waves to another local person

On a side note, there was a former Cold War bunker sold fairly locally at auction yesterday and I really wanted to buy it Had visions of turning it into a holiday home!!

When I bought my house the controls for the central heating had a little flap attached to it with operating instructions. One day the flap vanished.

I searched everywhere. This was befor DCs and neither DH or I would have broken it off. We didn't know how to change the timer on it after that. It was a real pain.

Five years later the flap reappeared in the middle of the kitchen floor. Weird.