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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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murmuration · 16/04/2014 14:58

Thanks, alabaster! It is at least somewhat gratifying to find out it's not easily find-about-able, if that makes any sense. Do let me know if your Glasgow colleague knows.

Now I really wish we had stopped when the sign was still there! It looked like a stone carved sign, with the words recessed, although as we were driving I suppose it could have been something else. When I did look, there appeared to be fresh scratch marks (lighter coloured than the other stone) all across the centre, which is why I assumed whatever it was had been chipped off. Now I'm starting to question that, as the Google view clearly shows no sign either. But I specifically remember a feeling that it was much harder to catch as in, I didn't see anything on that last time, whereas before I had always been trying to process words.

Watto1 · 16/04/2014 15:20

When I was little I had 3 Weebles (remember them?). One day I woke up and there were 4 of them. DF and DM both swear it wasn't them that put it there. The mystery of the magic Weeble is still spoken about over 30 years later!

Where did the extra Weeble come from?

sashh · 16/04/2014 15:22

WhoDat

You wouldn't be bitten if I was there. I went to Mauritius and slept under a mossie net, every night I got bitten, every single night, I flew home after a week and left my then boyfriend for another week (staying with his family) and that week he was bitten.

I had a mystery for ages but I think I have solved it.

I got up one morning and there in the middle of my sofa was an appointment card for an appointment that morning that I had completely forgotten about.

No idea where it came from.

More recently I found out that I sometimes sleep walk so the only thing I can think is that subconsciously I remembered and in my sleep I went looking for the card.

TractorTedMum · 16/04/2014 15:24

Dc1 is now 6, I lost the record book of all his injections since he was a tiny tot. I have torn the house here apart and can't find it. I kept his and his siblings in a file here that holds birth certs etc in our home office, it was always put back and it just disappeared Sad

hellymelly · 16/04/2014 15:28

latucha- orange that won't bleach out is rust or iron mould. Do you hang things over a radiator? Check your outlet pipe for a rusty hairpin or similar. Chlorine Bleach fixes iron stains into the fabric, it takes a specialist stuff to remove it.

Sukebind · 16/04/2014 15:37

My parents had a swede that rolled away while they were cooking and they never found it. They thought it was behind the cooker but when they finally pulled it out to check, nothing. Who loses a swede?

When I went on a school trip to Paris when I was 14 I had a cross necklace I had bought in Topshop - quite chunky, although flat, with largish round 'jewels' on it (meant to look like carnelian and jade, etc.). I was very proud of it and made extra-specially sure I laid it between some clothes in my suitcase when we packed to come home. Of course, I never saw it again.

I wish I had some more interesting ones like the missing keys and the drawing that mysteriously appeared.

cottonwoolmum · 16/04/2014 16:10

Last year I bought a purse from Accessorise - a new purse. I put all my travel and credit cards in the slots meant for them but one kept sticking and stuff wouldn't go in. After a while I decided to check if I'd accidentally pushed a receipt down into it.

Instead, I found a little love letter written on a yellow post it note and two passport sized photos, one of a young (handsome but old fashioned looking) man and one of three children. Again, it looked really yellowing and their clothes and haircuts were old fashioned, maybe from 70s. The children looked related to the young man - either one of them was him as a child or they were his children. The letter was written by someone whose first language wasn't English and it said something along the lines of: I think of you day and night and will wait for you forever.

How come these things ended up in a new purse in Accessorise?

cottonwoolmum · 16/04/2014 16:11

Juliet - I love that keys story. Bit spooky but so intriguing.

sisterofmercy · 16/04/2014 16:13

I would like to know if any planes ever crashed on the beach near my childhood home. There is a local legend saying 2 planes crashed - Allied and German but no-one was hurt. The Germans were taken to the local POW holding facility which was Skegness Butlins!

However, I have never found any evidence despite my best googling. The reason I am looking is because I think I sensed one of the airmen and the tailplane sticking up out of the sanddunes when I was 5. Can't really call it a ghost because I knew nothing was there. I just imagined something and 20 years later got told about the local myths.

sisterofmercy · 16/04/2014 16:15

cottonwoolmum - what a lovely but sad story!

cottonwoolmum · 16/04/2014 16:16

Watto I think I know where your Weeble came from but you must be prepared to accept that your parents are liars [grin.]

DS2 loved Miffy when he was tiny. His favourite one got lost and they stopped doing that size. I looked everywhere for one - online and in shops. We pretended she'd gone on holiday. Without knowing he'd lost her, his godmother started to send postcards from her - she'd got a bunch of Miffy stickers and attached them to the top of the Eiffel tower or to a beach donkey. He truly believed she was on holiday. At last I found a replacement on Ebay but when it arrived, her silky label which he was obsessed with was cut off. So we made her a tiny brown suitcase and stuck her on the doorstep then DH rang the bell and came in the back way. DS found her on the doorstep with her suitcase and a note explaining she'd lost her label on her travels. He believed every word and still has her.

LaTrucha · 16/04/2014 16:17

Thanks to all those who posted about my orange blobs. Hellymelly - do you mean the outlet pipe on the washing machine? I shall have a look. Little lots Door is possible, but the stis are in lots of different shapes, which is why I thought of the machine.

Alameci - I do run a long cycle but it is interesting that the engineer thougt it might be. Mine had never heard of it and said the inside parts of the machine would not rust.

squoosh · 16/04/2014 16:22

cottonwoolmum that is such a cute story! Miffy the intrepid traveller.

Jerboa · 16/04/2014 16:30

Who my dad is Hmm

The pizza I put in the freezer is missing. DC both away for two days, they didn't take it. The dog has an injured leg so even if I'd somehow managed to leave the freezer open, couldn't have somehow jumped and taken it out or whatever. I've not eaten it. But it's not there.

Heebeegeebees · 16/04/2014 16:44

Who was the person and why did they come into my front garden and leave me a bag of mince pies behind my hedge from the bakers down the road..........

AmenGirl · 16/04/2014 16:50

Came down one morning to find my fish tank empty. Both fish gone. Never turned up. No cat/dog/bird/people in house. Two regular goldfish vanished into thin air (water)? Always wanted to know why Sad

Jackie0 · 16/04/2014 16:51

Oh Jerboa "who my dad is" is one of mine too :-(
I was adopted and would love to make contact with his side of the family.

A recent mystery of mine. I was out walking thinking about someone and feeling guilty about something I did, I couldn't get it out of my head, going over it and cringing to myself. I looked at my phone and saw it had called her , the call was just going through and I think I stopped it before it was answered. But seriously wtf was that??.. She wasn't the last person I had dialled or anything

The power of thought ?

BellaDesconocida · 16/04/2014 17:06

cotton my guess is that whoever made the purse took the note/ photo to work with them.

GroupieGirl · 16/04/2014 17:12

We have an unclaimed wedding gift, too. A not cheap bottle of champagne. It's not from family, and no friends have stepped forward to claim it, despite repeated appeals.

Problem is, we don't want to drink it until we know who it's from!

popcornpaws · 16/04/2014 17:19

Years ago after a bad storm some slates on our roof needed replacing, I was going to phone the insurance company to sort it out but the next day it was done, before I'd had a chance to put my claim in.

NeverQuiteSure · 16/04/2014 17:25

It was my grandmother's parents who walked out squoosh (so my great grandparents). I imagine my grandmother must have wondered her whole life, but she spoke very little of it. She was a formidable woman, pretty much raised in boarding schools and had no proper 'home' outside of school (she spent her holidays with whichever aunts/relatives could accommodate her at the time), but she was a warm and very loving grandmother to us grandchildren. She did struggle with eating disorders her whole life, and I now wonder what role her abandonment had in this.

I had to google Barbara Vine and her novels (had no idea she was Ruth Rendell Blush), but it does have the makings of a fascinating story. I often wonder if her parents intended to ever return. Very sad, and very curious.

cottonwoolmum · 16/04/2014 17:28

Bella that's a good theory, but why did they hide it in a purse that would leave the factory?

DC and I wondered if the purse was bought as a present for someone, and the love note tucked inside it for them to find. But they didn't like the purse and returned it to the shop without discovering the note. The note was pushed down inside one of the narrow card slots so quite hard to get at.

cottonwoolmum · 16/04/2014 17:35

Never there is a very intriguing novel by Linwood Barclay about a girl who wakes up to discover her parents have disappeared. It's called No Time For Goodbye.

hellymelly · 16/04/2014 17:41

I am really enjoying all these mysteries!

BellaDesconocida · 16/04/2014 17:50

cotton - oh no, the boss is coming, I'll just hide it WHERE DID I PUT IT- your theory sounds more likely