Page 6 | Tell me about a random unsolved mystery in your life....

RevoltingPeasant · 2014-04-15T20:23:34+00:00

....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?

cashmiriana · 16/04/2014 10:36

One university holiday I was staying at my parents' house and found a heavy silver ring on the floor. It was very unusual, with some sort of Arabic inscription on it. I gave it to my dad, asking him if one of his friends might have dropped it (his best friend is Muslim and their family would often drop in to see my parents.)

My father asked his friend, but it wasn't his, or anybody else in their family. My mother had seen the ring around the house a couple of times and assumed it was mine as I tended to wear a lot of very heavy silver jewellery.

Twenty years later we still have no idea how a ring with Arabic engraving ended up in their house.

vladthedisorganised · 16/04/2014 10:38

I used to work in a supermarket. Every single morning, an elderly man would come in for the store opening and buy exactly the same things - a pack of eggs, a pint of milk, a loaf of bread and a huge bag of potatoes.
Every single morning, he would wait until everything had been scanned, then put the eggs into his bag first, then the bread, then the milk, and finally laying the potatoes ceremonially over the top.

I was always intrigued to know:

did the eggs break?
if so, did he not work out that it was best to put them at the top of the bag rather than underneath a huge bag of potatoes?
how on earth was he getting through that number of potatoes on a daily basis?

Still baffles me now.

TheVeryBusySpider · 16/04/2014 11:03

We recently moved house. After unpacking most of our belongings and re-assembling our beds and other furniture that had been dismantled, we were left with one long white metal pole. We have no idea where it came from or what it's part of.

A few nights after the move I dreamt that I remembered what the pole was for, remember thinking that it was obvious, but by the time I woke up I had completely forgotten. I didn't mention my dream to anyone before DD woke up, came into our bedroom saying she had a strange dream and then went on the describe the exact same dream about the pole!

We both vowed to take a pen and notepad to bed in future but unfortunately have never had the same dream again.

Rhine · 16/04/2014 11:35

I also had a mysterious valentines card when I was about 14. It came via the post, so whoever sent it knew my address. I didn't recognise the writing and all of my family and friends swore blind it wasn't them playing a joke on me.

LaTrucha · 16/04/2014 11:45

What are the orange blobs thag appear on my bed linen and othdr clothes a few days after washing? I have spoken to older ladies knowledgeable in household mattes. They said washing machine. I spoke to the washing machine engineer and hecsaid, no idea. It has been years now. They only come once in a while and nothing, not even bleach, gets them out.

Smoorikins · 16/04/2014 12:05

ihearttc - surely if you could sneak out of the room, someone else could have sneaked in....

I have a mystery that I have been trying to solve for four years. No-one that I have spoken to has come up with any reasonable solution.

I was with my ex for nearly 15 years. He was a waste of space, more into smoking weed than anything else. Why on earth did it take that long to leave him?

LaTrucha · 16/04/2014 12:06

What are the orange blobs thag appear on my bed linen and othdr clothes a few days after washing? I have spoken to older ladies knowledgeable in household mattes. They said washing machine. I spoke to the washing machine engineer and hecsaid, no idea. It has been years now. They only come once in a while and nothing, not even bleach, gets them out.

LaTrucha · 16/04/2014 12:09

What are the orange blobs thag appear on my bed linen and othdr clothes a few days after washing? I have spoken to older ladies knowledgeable in household mattes. They said washing machine. I spoke to the washing machine engineer and hecsaid, no idea. It has been years now. They only come once in a while and nothing, not even bleach, gets them out.

Cupid5tunt · 16/04/2014 12:20

What are the orange blobs thag appear on my bed linen and othdr clothes a few days after washing

Rust? Something metal in your washing machine, or rust or iron in your water?

jollyjester · 16/04/2014 12:21

My DH is the secretary of a local club and the hall where they meet has no postbox.

My parents received a letter to their house (about 10 miles away) with the club name and address (not my DH name) and C/O DF name handwritten on the envelope.

strange who knows our goings in the the post service!

ihearttc · 16/04/2014 12:22

Smoorikins...I didn't exactly sneak out cause they all knew I was going. I went and then they put the mattresses on the floor. Cause it was such a small room they ended up in front of the door as well if that makes sense so when I came back in the morning I had to knock on the door to make them move out of the way.

Logical explanation is that someone came in the room in the middle of the night but nothing was taken (it was 1990's so there was Walkmans etc there and purses with money in them) and instead a picture was drawn. It was so detailed as well...not a simple sketch. It wasn't any of the boys either as I was awake all night in their room and nobody left!

squoosh · 16/04/2014 12:48

NeverQuiteSure your story is like the start of a Barbara Vine novel. Your poor mother, she must have spent her whole life wondering what the hell happened.

squoosh · 16/04/2014 12:50

ihearttc that's given me the chills a bit. Reminds me of that awful case from a few years ago where the young English girl was abducted in the night from a French youth hostel.

LaTrucha · 16/04/2014 13:01

Cupid5tunt- I thought of it but the engineer says no, and we live in a soft water area. There's no other evidence of anything rusty in the water supply.

Sorry, I didn't realise I had posted 3 times!

ForgiveMeFather · 16/04/2014 13:07

For those of you who keeps losing things - have you read 'A Place Called Here' by Cecelia Ahern?

It will explain everything

www.goodreads.com/book/show/588369.A_Place_Called_Here

MsMarvel · 16/04/2014 13:07

Need to add my food related one, and then I'll go back and read the full thread. When I was a skint student I was walking to work and nted a home made banoffee pie sitting on the pavement next to a kerb. It was a busy road so not a residential area.

On my way back from work 10 hours later, it was still there, totally untouched. No birds, foxes, cats or dogs etc of which there are plenty in the area had gone near.

It was however in a Pyrex dish, so I took it with me, chucked the pie, and still to this day have the dish

LittleLostRoeDeer · 16/04/2014 13:47

LaTrucha - do you hang any of it over doors to dry? We do this with sheets etc and realised the wooden doors were staining them. Has taken us a few months to solve this!

Mitzi50 · 16/04/2014 14:00

I lost 8 Tesco Finest beef burgers last summer - it still annoys me now when I think about it. They were in the fridge and then when I went to cook them, they were gone. I thought I had imagined buying them but checked the receipt, then I half expected to find them rotting in some strange place months later but that has never happened. DC deny cooking and eating them. DD remembers unpacking the shopping and putting them in the fridge. i'm embarrassed to say that i still half suspect one of my neighbours which is unreasonable (or possibly my ex DH - less unreasonable)

alabasterangel · 16/04/2014 14:13

murmur - ok, you have provided a real challenge. So far all I can tell you is what it is NOT! It's not BT/GPO, other telephone providers, gas. It can't be electricity otherwise it would have a warning on it. I can't access records for Scottish Water (so could be that?). It's not marked on OS mapping, even the detailed stuff I use. It is in public highway. Only structures that are either owned by the local authority or as licenced by a utility can technically be in such an area without a lot of legal hassle, so my hunch is still that it is something along those lines, but what?

My best suggestion, if you want an answer, would be to 'like' dumfries and galloway council on facebook, and post asking what it is! Or email the council, specifically the highways department! They will be able to tell you exactly what it is. They might want the OS reference of where it is, which is 299263, 579720.

I've asked a colleague in Glasgow! If he doesn't respond and you find out elsewhere, please let me know! If I get further info I will be back!

alemci · 16/04/2014 14:15

la tucha I had the odd gold blob on things including a lovely gap shirt.

my washing machine man who came out reckoned it was using the fast wash synthetic cycle and less water user in new machines I now use longer cotton cycle and less detergent.

EvenBetter · 16/04/2014 14:20

When I was about 10 my mum came into my room all smiley saying 'thank you so much for the presents!' What presents?
A teddy bear and an orange had appeared at the end of her bed during the night. No one else lived in our house or had a key, the only explanation I can think of is that it was a guy she was seeing at the time, but he didn't have a key and it was not something he would've done at all.

Twenty years later she still doesn't believe it was me, and smiles 'knowingly' when I say 'no but seriously, it really wasn't me. You know me, I love getting recognition and thanks, why would I still be lying about this?!'

NurseyWursey · 16/04/2014 14:24

Oh also, when my grandma was found dead she'd been dead for quite a few weeks. :( but her post was opened.

TheRogueBludger · 16/04/2014 14:38

the food left in streets: someone is feeding foxes.

mine is a wedding gift we were given. no tag or mention who it was from. we made a list of who gave us what so we could write thank you cards. through the powers of deduction there were 3 guests who hadn't brought anything so it was obviously one of them but i was too embarrassed to ask them in fear of embarrassing the 2 who had not brought anything. so now we have an elephant ornament that mocks me every time i look at it. one reason why i think putting money in an envelope as a wedding present is a good idea!

GerundTheBehemoth · 16/04/2014 14:45

I'm another who received an anonymous Valentine's card in the post when I was a teen, and never had a clue who might have sent it, friends/family swore innocence.

emmelinelucas · 16/04/2014 14:48

Nursey -