Personal unsolved mysteries

o_O Creepy.

One has to assume the Army ‘I Want You’ recruiting flyer you received had an erection that was implied.

That’s really interesting, OP. Did you have an inkling at the time of who it could have been or a friend with a wild sense of humor?

Someone once left an aquarium under my mother's carport - full of fish, etc. They even had it plugged in so the filter/aerator was pumping away. She never had a clue who left it, but we gave it to my nephew.

I graduated HS in 2007. I had come out when I was 15 and it was never too big of a deal. While I was a senior this happened:

I received a text one night saying, “We all know you are gay.”

I responded back with how they knew I hadn’t tried to hide it and they wrote back, “I know. That’s what I like about you.”

Bizarre. Maybe a closet case who couldn’t do it that early? Never lost any sleep over it.

R3, I honestly had no idea who it could’ve been from. I’m pretty sure I still have the card - in the envelope in which it was received - stashed away somewhere in my home.

r4 that is bizarre. Glad you were able to give the fishies a home though.

I never found the second set of keys for my truck. Just...gone!

I once had an expensive garnet solitaire and diamond ring that my mother bought me when I quit smoking in the mid-90s. It was my treasure, and I wore it very mindfully, never careless with it. On days I didn't wear it, I kept it in a specific spot of a top dresser drawer in my rental apartment. One day, I noticed it was gone. I looked everywhere for it but never found it.

I still don't smoke, though.

Last Xmas I received a rose quartz Stanley tumbler in the mail.

No name, no paperwork...just the cup in a box with a UPS shipping label from some toy store in Texas that I had never heard of or ordered from before.

Sold it back in January on eBay for $30.

Still no clue as to who sent it to me.

r9 did you have a house cleaner come in or perhaps someone visited your home and stole it? That's a bummer.

Hi, R11! Nobody ever went in that apartment but me. I'm pretty sure the locks were changed when I moved in. I've always been spooked by it.

Not incidentally, at the time I noticed the garnet ring was missing, I also noticed the cubic zirconia stone of another ring I kept in the same drawer had been removed from its setting and was gone, too.

When I was in high school a bunch of pictures of me that were taken when I was in the school musical were placed in our mailbox.

The one name that was floated as a possibility was the son of one of my mom’s friends. I didn’t remember ever having met him or knowing his name, and had even less idea why anybody would’ve guessed he might be the one who did it.

Everybody regarded it as a sign that I had an invisible friend and shrugged, so I did, too.

r13 I think that would have freaked me out. Signs of stalking should worry a person.

R9 - Here's what probably happened...

I have an unsolved mystery from this weekend. As I was getting into my car in the carport, I noticed an Amazon package in front of it. When I checked, it turned out to be an Amazon purchase I had made. I have no idea how Amazon knew where I park my car. I don’t think it was any of the neighbors because I don’t know their names, and they don’t know mine. Plus, it would’ve been easier for them to just give it to the manager, who handles packages.

Amazon knows everything.

[quote]Someone once left an aquarium under my mother's carport - full of fish, etc. They even had it plugged in so the filter/aerator was pumping away. She never had a clue who left it, but we gave it to my nephew.

Sounds fishy to me.

Smells fishy to me?

r18 That's just Cheryl.

R16, now that is freaky!

My family inherited some old hens. Periodically, we’d wake to find we had extra chickens, ducks, or geese.

People were chicken dumping.

[quote] ...chicken dumping.

ROFL r21. Seriously, that got a laugh out of me.

I just moved and one little statue went missing. Everything else is here, just that one little thing disappeared.

I had a cool, retractable X-acto knife that I never removed from my house. I live alone and always stored it in the same place.

It went missing and I never found it. I suspect that my landlord's juvenile son got into my apartment and stole it.

I rarely lose things, especially something that I never use outside the house.