Life's little mysteries

[Michaelaw]

So I thought this might be a fun thread, a place where we could share things, strange goings on, unexplained events and general weirdness I'll start.

W hen I was twelve or so I had a plastic battery operated toy Tank that I used to play with in my back yard. The yard was all grass save for a concrete path which went down the side of the house about forty feet connecting to the front yard. The backyard was fully surrounded by a six foot high hedge. The back porch of the house had a set of wooden steps leading down to the yard and was nine or ten feet above the yard. One day I had the tank driving itself across the grass but GI Joe was up on the porch sitting quietly in his orange flight suit. As Joe was an integral part of my imaginary game, I raced up the ten or so steps, grabbed him off the porch and flew back down to the yard. The tank was gone! No amount of hours or days of searching ever revealed where the tank had gone. In a perfectly square twenty by twenty foot yard walled in by a six foot hedge my tank had vanished!

[Mad Aussie]

So I thought this might be a fun thread, a place where we could share things, strange goings on, unexplained events and general weirdness I'll start.

W hen I was twelve or so I had a plastic battery operated toy Tank that I used to play with in my back yard. The yard was all grass save for a concrete path which went down the side of the house about forty feet connecting to the front yard. The backyard was fully surrounded by a six foot high hedge. The back porch of the house had a set of wooden steps leading down to the yard and was nine or ten feet above the yard. One day I had the tank driving itself across the grass but GI Joe was up on the porch sitting quietly in his orange flight suit. As Joe was an integral part of my imaginary game, I raced up the ten or so steps, grabbed him off the porch and flew back down to the yard. The tank was gone! No amount of hours or days of searching ever revealed where the tank had gone. In a perfectly square twenty by twenty foot yard walled in by a six foot hedge my tank had vanished!

Eagle!

[casil403]

OK I got one....
A few years back, I made a wedding cake for a good friend's daughter. Didn't like the daughter much (complete Bridezilla) but loved the friend so that's why I did it. For their wedding gift, on each table they had a personalized golf ball with both their names and their wedding date. I forgot to take mine home and seeing as I didn't much like the daughter anyway...no big deal...lol! My friend eventually moved away to the coast a year later and we pretty much lost touch shortly after that.
So one day, a couple of years later, I'm out golfing a par 3 at one of the local courses and I hit my ball far off into a gully somewhere so off I go to look for it. I never found my ball but I did find another ball instead....one of their wedding balls!

[Mad Aussie]

OK I got one....
A few years back, I made a wedding cake for a good friend's daughter. Didn't like the daughter much (complete Bridezilla) but loved the friend so that's why I did it. For their wedding gift, on each table they had a personalized golf ball with both their names and their wedding date. I forgot to take mine home and seeing as I didn't much like the daughter anyway...no big deal...lol! My friend eventually moved away to the coast a year later and we pretty much lost touch shortly after that.
So one day, a couple of years later, I'm out golfing a par 3 at one of the local courses and I hit my ball far off into a gully somewhere so off I go to look for it. I never found my ball but I did find another ball instead....one of their wedding balls!

Well unless they had a 1000 guests and most of them were golfers living in that area ... that's a spooky coincidence!

[casil403]

80 guests maximum and many were not golfers!

[Bambi]

No explanation for the truck. Perhaps a gopher drove it away?

the golf balls: unless they were high quality, no one would use them (at least that's what my husband says). However if someone were in a fun tournament they might get used. Also, with a fun tournament it's usually 'best ball' which might explain how it got left behind.

Here's what happened to me yesterday: I was walking the dogs on our usual trail by the lake and I see a pile of feathers. Dogs sniffing but not too interested. My first thought was 'duck' (the bird not the action ). but when I got close some of the feathers had a brown and white 'v' pattern and were too large to belong to a duck. I then say a single raptor talon. No blood, no guts, no body, just the feathers and the talon. I think it might be an Osprey.

Anyway, I decided to head back