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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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FourAndDone · 16/04/2014 18:00

Placemarking, some very sad stories.
Some plain strange.Grin

topmammy · 16/04/2014 18:06

Love this thread! Some of these mysteries are so spooky and remind me of that Strange but True TV show that was on years ago!

Not really a mystery but I have come home on more than one occasion to funny mistaken messages on my answer phone, like someone wanting to book in for a cut and blow dry, and most recently The Magic Wok asking me ring them back regarding my order as they had run out of steak. Don't even have a Magic Wok in my area! Would like to know why so many people ring my number by mistake lol.

SouthernComforts · 16/04/2014 18:19

my sister used to put her dog in the kitchen and lock the kitchen door (a bolt installed for that purpose) when she nipped out or he would trash the house.He didn't mind and never scratched to get out.

Once she came home to find the dog out of the kitchen, the door still bolted and scratches on the inside of the jitchebkitchen dooedoor right up to the ceiling. The dog was frightened half to death. How the hell can a dog get through a locked door, and why was he so scared?

NoraRobertsismyguiltypleasure · 16/04/2014 18:19

My mystery is not that interesting, but it has totally puzzled me. Last Friday I went swimming, it was a holiday camp pool and not very busy. There are not any lockers, you just leave your bag on the benches. I had not got into my cossie before getting to the pool, so I had to change completely. I put all my clothes into my bag, went swimming. On my return I started getting dressed, but couldn't find my knickers! They were nowhere to be seen, I took every item out of my bag, looked under the benches, in my shoes everywhere they could reasonably be. I never found them. What happened to them? Surely if they had fallen on the floor, you would leave them there? You wouldn't pick up a random person's underwear - any other item of clothing maybe, but not underwear. If they hadn't fallen on the floor then someone must have chosen to take them! It's really annoyed me.

SouthernComforts · 16/04/2014 18:20

God ignore the random extra words in that sentence. Bloody phone.

stardusty5 · 16/04/2014 18:28

I have been working my way through the Strange But True series- theyre all there on Youtube. I watch them on my phone while i'm in the bath Smile

This thread is brilliant!

My only mystery was one day, i popped into town to buy a present. I got back to my car after about ten minutes. As i was about to drive off, i noticed that my rear view mirror was all wonky, which it hadnt been before. I reached up to adjust it and when i touched it, the sat nav (which i hadnt used in weeks) suddenly said "you have reached your destination".

It gave me the willies.

cornishcreamtea · 16/04/2014 18:34

There was a thread a few months ago about somebody who had got a large plastic box out to do some crafts or similar with the DC. When they came to put it away the lid had completely disappeared.

I don't think it ever reappeared unless OP would like to come back and enlighten us?

RebeccaCloud9 · 16/04/2014 18:46

Love this thread! Could the orange blobs on the washing be rusty pegs if you hang them on the line? We've had that before.

I once lost our (cordless) house phone. Nowhere to be seen - but as it's the house phone, no reason I would have taken it out of the house.

BunniesBurneze · 16/04/2014 18:57

Orange blobs could be bed bug related.

TheGrandHighWitch · 16/04/2014 18:58

How I injured my foot when I was little. I was kneeling on the floor in my room looking in a cupboard when my foot started to itch. I scratched it without looking back at it then continued looking into the cupboard. Then it started to itch again but despite me scratching it, the itch would not go away. Looking back at my foot I noticed it was bleeding quite a lot. My mum took me to A&E where it was stitched but to this day I have no idea what caused the injury. I can only presume there was something sharp embedded in the carpet that had caught my foot and me scratching it made the wound worse.

Also what happened to my grandmothers necklace. She had lent it to me (as I liked sparkly things as a child) and I had brought it home. I didn't take it out of the home at any point but it was never seen again. She still reminds me about losing her necklace.

BunniesBurneze · 16/04/2014 18:59

Sorry.. bedbugs.net/how-do-i-know-if-i-have-bed-bugs/

MirandaGoshawk · 16/04/2014 19:10

Re the random bakery items - don't know if anyone has posted this, but I bet they are left our for foxes. Someone works for a bakery/supermarket and brings home the stale ones & leaves them out for the foxes.

LaTrucha · 16/04/2014 19:12

Gulp..... I don't think it's bedbugs ... or pegs (ours are all plastic) ... I have bought some rust remover. There was nothing suspicious in the outlet pipe. Does anyone know if the rust stain remover would work if you have washed the fabric after the stain appeared?

MirandaGoshawk · 16/04/2014 19:13

Cotton wool mum - The new purse in Accessorize - the photos must've been put there by the person who made the purse in India/China

OldTimer1955 · 16/04/2014 19:27

Whenever I was in the St Albans area I used to visit my Mother's grave. At the same time I used to put flowers on the grave of a school friend and his grave was 2 rows down and 1 grave across from my Mother's plot. I must have visited his grave 6 or more times. But then one year his stone had vanished and there was a different stone there. I asked at the site office and they knew nothing about any changes. I have never managed to find my friend's stone but I keep looking!

MirandaGoshawk · 16/04/2014 19:32

Once when I was a baby my mum put me in a playpen in the front room and gave me a small hand-mirror to play with while she went into the kitchen. When she came back a few minutes later, I was sitting in the playpen and the mirror had vanished. She never saw it again.

The funny thing is that I can remember that mirror. I'd probably played with it quite a bit. When she described it to me, I could picture it. She said 'It had a blue enamel back...' and I said "With a gold bit in the middle" and she was amazed, because I was only about 9 months old when this happened.

The playpen was a big fold-up wooden one with bars a few inches apart (you don't get them these days - health & safety!) and it was directly on the carpet in front of an open fireplace with a grate (not lit). A few years ago I was thinking about this mystery and a picture popped into my head of me poking something down into a gap. I reckon I reached through the bars and pushed the mirror down between the fire and the floor of the room - it was an old house, the carpet wouldn't have been fitted, it would've been laid on floorboards.

So mystery solved, I think, apart from how I remember the mirror!

lottieandmia · 16/04/2014 19:35

Marking place

RavenRose · 16/04/2014 19:40

I would love to know why we moved. Until I was 5 we lived in a fairly big house, large garden, orchards and tennis court. Regular holidays, large car etc. when I was 5 we moved 400 miles away to a small council house. Dad worked in a factory and mum started working in an office - even so we were pretty skint and the holidays stopped, no car either. I just accepted it as little kids do.

Mum died when I was 15 and dad a couple of years later. It never occurred to me to ask why we moved until dh asked when I showed him some old photos. I did ask my aunt but she got shifty and refused to answer. She was definitely hiding something -"it's not my place to say" was her answer. Even when pushed she wouldn't say.

She's since died herself and I have no family left to ask but I would love to know what happened. Especially with what my aunt said!

BrianButterfield · 16/04/2014 19:42

I want to know how I do this - I'll be going about my business as normal and then I'll think I see someone I know walk past me, go by in a car etc. I'll look again and it isn't them. But a few minutes later - long enough so I can't have caught a glimpse of them to put them in my mind -I'll really see them.

This has happened to me maybe ten times over the years, and now if I think I see someone I know I will really see them in about five minutes. It's not even friends I do this with, it's old next door neighbours, pupils I taught years ago, people I spoke to a couple of times at baby group...generally people I don't think about often if at all.

I'm not a woo type but any explanation I can think of for this doesn't hold up!

exbrummie · 16/04/2014 19:45

Bit dull but where have my DVDs gone?
Some of my DVDs have disappeared, have looked everywhere, even lifted up the sky box,DVD player and video in the cabinet.
Looked down the back of the TV and cabinet etc not a sign

exbrummie · 16/04/2014 19:46

Bit dull but where have my DVDs gone?
Some of my DVDs have disappeared, have looked everywhere, even lifted up the sky box,DVD player and video in the cabinet.
Looked down the back of the TV and cabinet etc not a sign

ZebraZeebra · 16/04/2014 19:49

Ooooh so many intriguing things on this thread!

I have two: one was an email from "Someone Secret" sent to me around the time I started seeing DH. It basically said I was loveliest person they'd ever met and I should never forget it. No idea who it was from, there was only really DH on the scene and no friends I'd have thought who would have sent it. The time was kind of bittersweet, like they wouldn't see me much anymore or something.

Second thing is after I'd moved in with DH and his brother sharing a house, we discovered one morning the cat flap in the back door kicked in inwards, and the cord of an Xbox controller cut off right at the top, snipped very neatly. Now - I sleep walk and have done many, many things but I always know when I've been up and done something. I just know. I might not know what but I know I've been up! I would swear I didn't cut the cord.

VivaLeBeaver · 16/04/2014 20:01

I get the odd orange blob on clothes after washing.

Not bed bugs, far too big. Some of the blobs are 10p size.

I dry the clothes either in a tumble dryer or hang up with plastic pegs on a line in the utility room.

Can't see anything rusty in washer or dryer.

I use the normal cycle though do tend to select the "lightly soiled" option which knocks 15 mins off.

lionheart · 16/04/2014 20:05

Now I'm intrigued by the staircase and by Alabaster's mapping tools. Wink

DoJo · 16/04/2014 20:13

My husband once went out to tinker with the car, and under the bonnet, on top of the battery, was a banana skin and a prawn cracker. We have no idea who could have put them there - the bonnet is one that has to be opened by a catch inside the car and it was parked right outside our house - and despite numerous Facebook appeals, nobody has ever confessed to leaving us this peculiar gift.

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