Life is full of mysteries. What is my purpose? What is the meaning of life? Where on earth did I leave my car keys? Some questions will never be answered, and we just have to accept that. But sometimes, it’s hard not to put your detective’s cap on!
Redditors have recently been revealing all of the small mysteries from their personal lives that have left them puzzled for years. From the case of the missing box of crayons to what their father did in the Vietnam War, there are plenty of curiosities that people desperately want to get to the bottom of. Enjoy reading through these mystifying stories, and be sure to upvote the ones that you’d love to solve too!
#21
Oh my.....there are a lot of deep, personal answers to this and I was just going to talk about roads 😅😅
But really - have you every thought about how many millions of miles of roadways were developed and paved across the USA alone? And in relatively short order? I mean, they work for years on a single 3 mile stretch if I-35 but somehow built out the US they way they did is just wild to me.
But really - have you every thought about how many millions of miles of roadways were developed and paved across the USA alone? And in relatively short order? I mean, they work for years on a single 3 mile stretch if I-35 but somehow built out the US they way they did is just wild to me.
16points
#22
I caught long covid before there were vaccines for it.
I got sick for a year (so sick, I was afraid to go to sleep because I was afraid I wouldn’t wake up.)
A month after testing negative, I took my kids on a cruise that I had bought two years prior.
Before I left, I took my grandmother’s ring that I had inherited (and had always wanted,) and hid it somewhere that I wouldn’t forget.
I got back from the cruise, and it wasn’t where I thought I had hidden it.
I guess Covid has deleted the hiding spot from my memory.
I have looked for it several times, but still haven’t found it.
This was three or four years ago.
Sad.
I got sick for a year (so sick, I was afraid to go to sleep because I was afraid I wouldn’t wake up.)
A month after testing negative, I took my kids on a cruise that I had bought two years prior.
Before I left, I took my grandmother’s ring that I had inherited (and had always wanted,) and hid it somewhere that I wouldn’t forget.
I got back from the cruise, and it wasn’t where I thought I had hidden it.
I guess Covid has deleted the hiding spot from my memory.
I have looked for it several times, but still haven’t found it.
This was three or four years ago.
Sad.
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15points
#23
Where all my money goes by the end of the month.
13points
#24
I lost my old slide phone in my 8x8 bedroom in my NYC apartment, and I never found it. There were no holes or unfinished areas where it could have maybe slid into the wall. It was just gone one day. I have since moved 3 times and have been through everything I own, but it’s still a mystery.
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13points
#25
Why I walk into a room and immediately forget why, is my brain playing hide and seek?
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13points
#26
Why everyone reveres my grandfather who committed acts of domestic violence so terrifying I don't even want to type them out
now he's old and has dementia, everyone has selective amnesia and treats him like a king.
now he's old and has dementia, everyone has selective amnesia and treats him like a king.
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13points
#27
When my partner and I moved into an old house, all of my brushes disappeared. My hairbrush, my makeup brushes, all of them. could not find them in our bathroom to save my life. A few weeks later, they all show back up in the places I had been looking for them (the drawers in the bathroom, on the countertop, in my makeup bags etc). Then about a year after living there a pink brush with gray hair in it shows up. no one in my family has gray hair. No one claimed the hairbrush. I even asked some folks who had visited us a few days prior if they had left it and they said no. Now I definitely believe in spirits. That house was 100% haunted (I have other stories on that), and I think whatever entity stole my brushes to begin with, felt bad and gave them all back with interest, so to speak. I have no idea where it got that pink hairbrush or why it chose that one specifically.
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13points
#28
Lost my favorite jacket in college and i've thought about it probably once a month for ten years. wasn't even that special, just fit perfectly. genuinely no idea what happened.
12points
#29
How tf I managed to win the race to the egg.
11points
#30
Who keeps stealing my good pens? They just vanish into thin air.
11points
#31
What the actual thing is causing my seizures.
11points
#33
I have an indentation in my skull that doesn't belong. No one's telling me what happened.
11points
#34
I lost an earring one night and I couldn’t find it anywhere. Looked in my bed sheets, in the bathroom, everywhere. A couple days later I stepped into the shower and found the earring sitting at the bottom of the tub. I have no idea how it got there. Everyone in my family had showered several times between the time it was lost and found, so in theory it should have been washed down the drain or found by someone. I still wonder how it ended up there, although I like to think I had a friendly ghost helping me out.
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11points
#35
Been trying my whole life to just see one photo of my mom’s biological mother. That would mean the world to me if I could do that for my mom.
10points
#36
Still dont know why I get small scratches all over my body (when I say small I mean really small).
9points
#37
Whether my grandad and my partners grandad knew each other. They worked for the same company, in the same place, at approximately the same time. Unfortunately I don't know of any way we can ever find out!
9points
#38
Why I'm a morning person on weekends but physically cannot wake up on weekdays. Same body, same alarm, completely different results. Science has no satisfying answer for this.
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9points
#39
This just happened today! I have video evidence!!!
A flip flop materialised in front of my house and then landed on the drive, I swear no one was around to throw it and no bird seemingly to drop! My camera picks it up as if it had been thrown from my front door upwards but there is no one there to do it and no one who owns the flip flop.
A flip flop materialised in front of my house and then landed on the drive, I swear no one was around to throw it and no bird seemingly to drop! My camera picks it up as if it had been thrown from my front door upwards but there is no one there to do it and no one who owns the flip flop.
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9points
