# Unexplained Personal Mysteries **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 28, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776 "2016-12-28T14:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/21 "2016-12-28T22:26:04Z")
In my second semester of freshman year at college I was living in my fraternity house. We had a box divided into cubbies on the wall by the front door for mail. I rarely got any mail, but one day there was a stack of fourteen invitation-size envelopes in my cubby. Each one was hand addressed to me, and each had a stamp. No return address. The post mark was from my home town (about 60 miles away.) Inside each envelope was a single index card with a single letter on it in marker. On the back of each card was a number, written very small. When I arranged the cards in numerical order it spelled “I Am Watching You.” It definitely creeped me out and to this day I don’t know who sent them. I asked everyone I could think of and no one confessed. They went through an awful lot of trouble (and fourteen stamps) to never reveal themselves. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/22 "2016-12-28T23:08:41Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > By the later days of the year I was there, the food was sometimes waiting on the table for me, still sizzling. They saw me leave the office building and called back the order. > > ETA: They thought it was hilarious. When I was a more regular bar goer, I had a favorite beer. And the bartender could see me drive up through the window in my shitbucket car and made eye contact when I got out. So a lot of the time my beer was poured before I made it inside. Gave a few people a bit of a surprise when I walked through the door, grabbed my beer off the waitress station and went to the dart boards in back. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/23 "2016-12-28T23:58:26Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > In my second semester of freshman year at college I was living in my fraternity house. We had a box divided into cubbies on the wall by the front door for mail. I rarely got any mail, but one day there was a stack of fourteen invitation-size envelopes in my cubby. Each one was hand addressed to me, and each had a stamp. No return address. The post mark was from my home town (about 60 miles away.) Inside each envelope was a single index card with a single letter on it in marker. On the back of each card was a number, written very small. When I arranged the cards in numerical order it spelled “I Am Watching You.” > > It definitely creeped me out and to this day I don’t know who sent them. I asked everyone I could think of and no one confessed. They went through an awful lot of trouble (and fourteen stamps) to never reveal themselves. :eek: Holy shit. That sounds like the kickoff to a Stephen King novel. Would definitely creep me out. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/24 "2016-12-29T00:03:56Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > In my second semester of freshman year at college I was living in my fraternity house. We had a box divided into cubbies on the wall by the front door for mail. I rarely got any mail, but one day there was a stack of fourteen invitation-size envelopes in my cubby. Each one was hand addressed to me, and each had a stamp. No return address. The post mark was from my home town (about 60 miles away.) Inside each envelope was a single index card with a single letter on it in marker. On the back of each card was a number, written very small. When I arranged the cards in numerical order it spelled “I Am Watching You.” > > It definitely creeped me out and to this day I don’t know who sent them. I asked everyone I could think of and no one confessed. They went through an awful lot of trouble (and fourteen stamps) to never reveal themselves. That type of thing has happened to others recently. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/nyregion/the-watcher-westfield-new-jersey-home.html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/nyregion/the-watcher-westfield-new-jersey-home.html?_r=0) ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/25 "2016-12-29T00:51:11Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > That type of thing has happened to others recently. > > [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/nyregion/the-watcher-westfield-new-jersey-home.html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/nyregion/the-watcher-westfield-new-jersey-home.html?_r=0) Oddly, Westfield, NJ is quite close to where I went to college. But this happened to me in 1986, so I doubt it’s related… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/26 "2016-12-29T01:54:15Z")
Back in 1962, when I was in second grade, I walked to and from school on my own. Boy, that wouldn’t happen now. Anyway, one day a car slowed down and my grandfather seemed to be the driver. But I turned down the ride. Why? I don’t know, unless it wasn’t really my grandfather. He certainly never mentioned the incident to me, wondering why I wouldn’t take the ride. I can only assume that for some reason it was a stranger, and I’d been taught about things like being wary of strangers, even back then. So why did I think it was my grandpa? I’ve never been able to reason this out. ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/27 "2016-12-29T02:04:39Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > I guess I was about 12 years old and walking home from the movies in th rain. My dad decided to come pick me up because of the rain. When he picked me up he asked how I manged to stay so dry walking in the rain. I responded that it seemed to rain in a circle around me. He got very angry and advised me not to be repeating nonsense like this. Bottom line was I didn’t get wet. That’s not unusual. There can be spots not rained on at the moment though they are wet. You were walking behind the rain cloud. I noticed it when I was driving home from the store. The parking lot is dry but down the road it’s wet and further on raining and moving along. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/28 "2016-12-29T02:04:55Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > I…On the back of each card was a number, written very small. When I arranged the cards in numerical order it spelled “I Am Watching You.” > > It definitely creeped me out and to this day I don’t know who sent them. I asked everyone I could think of and no one confessed. They went through an awful lot of trouble (and fourteen stamps) to never reveal themselves. My guess: they were from Sting. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/29 "2016-12-29T03:09:59Z")
Obligatory thread from my past: [OMG it’s a POOL OF BLOOD!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=626782) I don’t know if it will help, but it’s worth a try. ---
**Author:** ![Maurie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Maurie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maurie)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/30 "2016-12-29T15:15:38Z")
Thanks, **Happy Fun Ball**! Were your kitties okay?? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/31 "2016-12-29T16:50:42Z")
A few guesses and perspectives: > [@Maurie](#): > > Over the holidays, my sister and I were reminiscing about a strange thing that we remembered from when we were kids. For a period of about 6 months, we would periodically find a little puddle of… _something_… on the floor. > . . . This totally sounds like the drops left by a bitch in heat - except for the time period. It is not unheard of for a bit of ovary to be left behind during spaying which can keep the hormones flowing without supporting actual pregnancy. But six months is weird. If it happened once per year for a period of 1-2 weeks it would make more sense. More likely one of the dogs had anal glands which were not emptying properly (soft poop can prevent them from getting squeezed out all the way.) Every so often the glands would swell up with lymph, oil and blood, and the dog would lick the painful spot until it emptied. Was the stuff smelly? Not all dogs have particularly smelly excretions - others it’s like rotten fish. > [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > I guess I was about 12 years old and walking home from the movies in th rain. My dad decided to come pick me up because of the rain. When he picked me up he asked how I manged to stay so dry walking in the rain. I responded that it seemed to rain in a circle around me. He got very angry and advised me not to be repeating nonsense like this. Bottom line was I didn’t get wet. Was it a hot Summer? There were times in August here in Virginia when newly tarred roads would get so hot during a heat wave that the rising heat would make a parting in the rain when it first started. The cool air and heavier rain would overwhelm it, but for the first couple of minutes, road and the path beside it would stay dry. > [@GusNSpot](#): > > On a trip hauling some cattle, hard start to the day. > To my friend who was along for the ride I said, “What we need now is a flat on in inside dual wheel.” Yeah, about ½ mile farther down the gravel road, had a flat on an inside dual. > > Hours later and 60+ miles farther North on a twisty & hilly highway, I said, “To cap this day I bet the right front wheel will shear off completely at the bottom of this hill in that left turn coming up.” > > Maybe 10 seconds later the right front drops, I can’t control the steering and we grind to a stop on the edge of the highway at a 10 foot deep drop off embankment. Yeah, the lug bolts just sheared off the the wheel & tire, not flat, was trapped under the drum and was being scooted along beneath the truck. > > Several hours later as we finally got going again, my friend said, “If you say another word I will get out & walk.” > > I have had that type of thing happen flying but never two in a row like that time … I never say anything out loud but I only remember when the things did happen anyway. I bet I had more wrong ‘feelings’ but them I don’t remember. Confirmation bias is a good explanation. It’s also possible that your right brain was trying to communicate with you. The right side of our brains is highly visual, and has no language. If you walked along the truck with your right side toward it, so that your left eye could see the indicators for these problems but your right eye couldn’t, then only that part of your brain would have gotten the message. The information would have entered the cerebral cortex and analysis/conclusions might be drawn without the language area of the brain having converted it into language and therefore “conscious” thought. You weren’t “aware” of the process until there was a reason to speak it. We normally dismiss this process as “hunches” or “instinct” but in fact we can learn to recognize the input with training. > [@Quimby](#): > > Many years ago I was doing yard work in my backyard. It was very hot and I decided to take lunch break. Around the corner was a deli/pizzeria so I decided to head over direct from my backyard. Normally I would call ahead but I thought waiting there would be a good because to enjoy their Air Conditioning. Also I would have had to go inside to call since this was before I had a cell phone. > > I go from my backyard, up the block and around the corner into the place and one of the kids is standing there holding a finished sandwich saying “Here you go”. I was a regular there and ordered all sorts of things but this particular sandwich when I ordered it I ordered it in a special way that was off the menu and that was how they made it. I was confused but they swore I called it in. To this day I have no idea what happened (but it was a good sandwich 🙂 ) Maybe the last time you ordered it, someone wrote down the specific instructions, but also communicated it verbally. Then, on this day they happened to be cleaning up and the message surfaced. Assuming it was from that day, they made your sandwich. > [@Ponch8](#): > > Ooh, I love unsolved mysteries. Too bad Robert Stack is no longer alive to narrate them. > > Mine happened during my first semester in vet school. On my answering machine, I had a message from whom I thought was a woman in my class, asking if she wanted to study for physiology class with me. I called her number in the school directory, and she replied she had no idea what I was talking about. I played the answering machine message back to her. It was only THEN that I noticed the message was full of sexual innuendo. :o > > I never did figure out who actually did leave the message, but I did get quite a kick out of it. Three possibilities you may not have considered: 1. your professor or TA. Were they female? Might you have automatically discluded them in your consideration of who may have called? 2. a woman in the class whom you did not find attractive. We tend to assume that only those we find attractive are attracted to us. That’s why assays from people not of our preferred type or gender can be so jarring. 3. you guessed right, but she was drunk enough when she did it not to remember, and too embarrassed to concede the possibility that it was her. Do any of those have the ring of truth? Mine: I had a best friend in high school who I spoke to several times per day. It was not unusual to pick up the phone to call her and find her already on the line, when the phone hadn’t even rung yet. Fast forward twenty years or so. We hadn’t spoken in over fifteen years, for no particular reason other than our lives had diverged. (There was no rift or “break-up.”) Her name came up in a random conversation and I went to the phone book just to see if she was listed. I picked up the phone to call her, and she was already there. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/32 "2016-12-29T17:10:55Z")
Many years ago (1980-ish) I went to visit a girlfriend of mine in the midwest. Her (then) husband was a crafty type and at the moment he was into making clocks. He had made one in the shape of the state of Texas, and after I ooohed and ahhhed over it, and he said he would make me one. A couple of months later, I was at work back home and was just going out the door to lunch with some coworkers. As we opened the door to leave, here came the mailman up the walk with a flat box. I thought, “Oh boy, my clock.” I knew my friend would send it to work, because I lived in an apartment complex and getting packages could be dicey. (This isn’t the mysterious part yet.) I went back in my office and glanced at the clock on the wall. It said 12:20 (or something). I put the box on my desk, opened it, and there was my Texas-shaped clock. It was set to 12:20. There were no batteries in it yet. Mysteriously, it was set to the moment that I opened it. Still have the clock-- it’s hanging on the wall in my home office as I type. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/33 "2016-12-29T17:39:56Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Ooh, I love unsolved mysteries. Too bad Robert Stack is no longer alive to narrate them. > > Mine happened during my first semester in vet school. On my answering machine, I had a message from whom I thought was a woman in my class, asking if she wanted to study for physiology class with me. I called her number in the school directory, and she replied she had no idea what I was talking about. I played the answering machine message back to her. It was only THEN that I noticed the message was full of sexual innuendo. :o > > I never did figure out who actually did leave the message, but I did get quite a kick out of it. > [@TruCelt](#): > > Three possibilities you may not have considered: > > 1. your professor or TA. Were they female? Might you have automatically discluded them in your consideration of who may have called? > > 2. a woman in the class whom you did not find attractive. We tend to assume that only those we find attractive are attracted to us. That’s why assays from people not of our preferred type or gender can be so jarring. > > 3. you guessed right, but she was drunk enough when she did it not to remember, and too embarrassed to concede the possibility that it was her. > > Do any of those have the ring of truth? My post probably wasn’t clear enough: I got a message from a woman who claimed to be my classmate “Erin”. “Erin” said she wanted to study for physiology class with me (including reproductive physiology–there’s where the innuendo came in.) When I called “Erin,” it soon became obvious that “Erin” was not the one who left the message. I’m pretty certain it was a different woman in my class who left the prank message, only I don’t know which woman. No one outside the vet school would have known what subjects we were studying at the time. I’m almost certain it was not possibility number 3, because “Erin” was not the type to get drunk, and she already had a boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/34 "2016-12-29T17:55:42Z")
Thanks to the OP for starting this thread; I’ve encountered a few things recently and want to show the board (and get opinions). First an old one from a year ago. I still don’t know what these [things](http://vid11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/rbp2/boat_stuff/20141008_120734_zpssbv2kbia.mp4) were. I found them while looking for submerged towns with an underwater camera. Every time I lowered the camera they gathered on the lens, but were gone when I pulled it up. More recently (in the last week) I’ve encountered two really strange things. I put the photos in a youtube [slideshow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nqXunZ-yRI&feature=youtu.be), since I can’t log into photobucket today. The first slide is a really strange organic looking blob I found near the shore. I moved it to the bank with a long stick. It seemed to weigh about 7 or 8 pounds and was organic, but not alive. Having seen all the horror movies about strange otherworldly blobs, I refrained from touching it with my hands. Note: Sometimes I have to restart the slideshow to get it to pause on the second slide. The second photo in the slideshow was taken on Christmas Eve. I took the boat out and found myself in a thick fog bank. Since I was (I thought) alone, I stopped and drifted silently in calm, windless, flat water. After about 15 minutes there was LARGE splash nearby, and I took a picture of the waves that came past me as a result. I was at least a mile from the nearest shoreline and never heard anything that would indicate a boat nearby. For the life of me, I can’t imagine what made that a splash that loud. It was much like the sound when someone cannonballs into the pool. Any and all theories are welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/35 "2016-12-29T23:29:41Z")
Okay, explain this. I got a bill for four at a restaurant (all relatives). I paid by CC. XX amount, plus $10 tip. I take a picture of restaurant CC bills because I got cheated once, and it shows the tip. When the CC charge came through it was for XX, no tip included. Crrreeeeppppy. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/36 "2016-12-30T00:44:24Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > Okay, explain this. > > I got a bill for four at a restaurant (all relatives). I paid by CC. XX amount, plus $10 tip. I take a picture of restaurant CC bills because I got cheated once, and it shows the tip. When the CC charge came through it was for XX, no tip included. > > Crrreeeeppppy. That one is pretty simple. There is a manual step required when you pay by credit card. The server, host or cashier has to enter either the total amount paid or the check amount + the tip written on the receipt. Someone simply forgot to enter the tip. It happens and it sucks for the server but it wasn’t your fault. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/37 "2016-12-30T01:04:55Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > That one is pretty simple. There is a manual step required when you pay by credit card. The server, host or cashier has to enter either the total amount paid or the check amount + the tip written on the receipt. Someone simply forgot to enter the tip. It happens and it sucks for the server but it wasn’t your fault. I had something similar happen - initially, the charge for the meal (no tip) was posted to my credit card, and a day or so later it was updated to include the tip. I believe the process is: 1. Restaurant runs your card for the meal amount, putting a hold on your card immediately. 2. Later, someone reconciles receipts and finalizes the charge that was previously submitted to the card issuer, updated to include the tip. This may be hours or days later. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/38 "2016-12-30T03:09:59Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > Okay, explain this. > > I got a bill for four at a restaurant (all relatives). I paid by CC. XX amount, plus $10 tip. I take a picture of restaurant CC bills because I got cheated once, and it shows the tip. When the CC charge came through it was for XX, no tip included. > > Crrreeeeppppy. That was just them pre authing the card. When the final charge comes through it will have the tip. I have seen that happen myself. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/39 "2016-12-30T05:30:20Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Thanks to the OP for starting this thread; I’ve encountered a few things recently and want to show the board (and get opinions). > > First an old one from a year ago. I still don’t know what these [things](http://vid11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/rbp2/boat_stuff/20141008_120734_zpssbv2kbia.mp4) were. I found them while looking for submerged towns with an underwater camera. Every time I lowered the camera they gathered on the lens, but were gone when I pulled it up. > > More recently (in the last week) I’ve encountered two really strange things. I put the photos in a youtube [slideshow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nqXunZ-yRI&feature=youtu.be), since I can’t log into photobucket today. The first slide is a really strange organic looking blob I found near the shore. I moved it to the bank with a long stick. It seemed to weigh about 7 or 8 pounds and was organic, but not alive. Having seen all the horror movies about strange otherworldly blobs, I refrained from touching it with my hands. Note: Sometimes I have to restart the slideshow to get it to pause on the second slide. > > The second photo in the slideshow was taken on Christmas Eve. I took the boat out and found myself in a thick fog bank. Since I was (I thought) alone, I stopped and drifted silently in calm, windless, flat water. After about 15 minutes there was LARGE splash nearby, and I took a picture of the waves that came past me as a result. I was at least a mile from the nearest shoreline and never heard anything that would indicate a boat nearby. For the life of me, I can’t imagine what made that a splash that loud. It was much like the sound when someone cannonballs into the pool. > > Any and all theories are welcome. 🙂 Assuming that the shore is the shore of an ocean, the blob looks like some kind of jellyfish. The splash sounds like a large diving bird like a pelican, or else a breaching large fish or dolphin or such. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776/40 "2016-12-30T06:25:04Z")
What do you think the explanation for the vanishing store phenomenom really is? Simply bad memory? If so, why doesn’t it happen more? Wouldn’t it be something if it really were intersecting parallel dimensions, but no one ever believed it was true? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexplained-personal-mysteries/775776.md?page=3)