I will preface by saying that my best guess is this is a brushing scam in which I have been sent this book as a way to inflate somebody's sales numbers and to allow for fake customer reviews, probably on tiktok shop or similar.

I received this unsolicited book in the mail, carrier gofo, shipped from "Eric" at 5125 Schaefer Avenue in Chino california. I have so far determined that this is a large warehouse fulfillment center hosting many e-commerce suppliers. There is no business name and no sender information other than the first name "Eric."

The book is wrapped in typical plastic wrap. ISBN is 9781649890009, titled "The No-Go Zone: A Kid’s Guide to Spotting Hidden Dangers and Getting Out Fast," published in 2026 by East-West Publishing Group. It is indeed being sold on tiktok by different sellers.

This is literally the weirdest "children's" book I have ever encountered, and it's a little too on the nose which makes me even more suspicious. The book is instructing "children" how to recognize scams. This reads like something written for adults and poorly translated into English that would be better understood as crime prevention or sexual assault tips for adults.

Some of the sections: "Free gifts from strangers maybe a scam," "Creating a sense of urgency by citing a relatives condition to lure you in," "Unusually attentive confidant may have ulterior motives," "Even authoritative acquaintances may have hidden motives--stay vigilant," etc. The vocab is not appropriate for children clearly.

This may just be yet another shitty bizarre Chinese product packaged for sale without a lot of forethought to English-speaking countries via tiktok or temu. But the fact that I received this book as part of something that seems like it has to be a brushing scam makes me think there's something more here. Anybody able to tell me more about this book?

Sorry I haven't posted any photos, I apparently can't do that here but I think you should be able to find it based on the ISBN.

Hi, further to a recent post I made on here, I include an amateurish video I made yesterday on the 'known' geography, and few details that surround the finding of "Some Mother's Son"'s skeleton, in a field, in the South West of the UK in 1982. I think it's really a question of spreading the gentleman's story as far and as wide as possible, in the hope of finding a relative, a friend, or a shipmate, that might be missing him to this day. He has been unidentified since his discovery on 22nd January 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eW2WnO3p38&t=39s

I enclose my Appeal for the gentleman too:

https://buymeacoffee.com/m25roundabout/the-appeal-some-mother-son

A few years back a few friends and I took a walk after our meal. It was down a path behind the restaurant and we saw that the path was littered with dead crows! It was a Murder Scene! :p There were between 20-30 at least and it went on for quite a while down the path. Looking on the map, I see we were walking near an electrical substation. Googling that, it says "An electrical substation acts like a high-tech "hub" or routing center for the power grid. Electricity cannot travel directly from a massive power plant into your home because the voltage is either way too high (which would fry electronics) or too low to travel long distances" so it's like an intermediary.

I dont remember if I saw power lines. Is the most likely scenario that they all somehow got electrocuted at once? Or are there any other theories here?

This would have been years ago, maybe about 10 years. I was driving home with my mom at night, and in front of us in the distance there was a sudden flash of bright blue in a vertical line. The middle was bright blue, and the rest was a darker shade. It was pretty wide, and I can't remember if it shot down or upwards, but it only lasted for a second or two.

Every now and then when I remember it, i try googling, but the only blue lights I can find are transformer lights, lasers or weird phenomenon. This thing was a wide vertical shot.

There was no thunder that day, but it was a bit cloudy. This was in the countryside of New Brunswick Canada, so it wouldn't have been any major city stuff. It also didn't produce a sound.

Any idea what it could have been? no one in our area ever talked about it, but there were cars in front and behind us, so my mom and I just don't understand why there was no Facebook posts or stuff like that about it.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: here's a super bad sketch of what I can remember: https://imgur.com/JJKTAW2 not sure if it could have been a blue jet?

This guy calls maybe every other month and whispers “I’m breaking” very quietly, over and over no matter what you ask him. He’s been doing this for at least four years. New hires are informed if he ever calls to hang up. Not sure why, is this some sort of scam or kink? We are mostly woman working here and women answer the phone if that has anything to do with it. Our phones are old and don’t show what number is calling so we can’t block people:(

Hello Reddit!

I collect VHS tapes, always have- I love watching for old programs and odd forgotten commercials- because of this I am constantly buying tape collections and digging through thrift stores.

Today, while throwing some tapes on in the background, I came across a tape of a wedding held at the wedding chapel in Mandalay Bay Las Vegas. I obviously have zero need for a tape like this so I would like to find the couple to see if they would like their tape back!

So, if you know a couple who were married at Mandalay Bay on October 20th of 2007- let me know! I can send photos from the tape and the company used upon request to confirm. The tape has their names on it it just feels a little intrusive to post that here but maybe I am wrong- let me know!

Weird I know but hey, if I lost the tape of my wedding vows and someone said "HEY I FOUND IT" I'd be over the moon. Obvious statement obvious- no cost or anything, I'll pay all shipping and such- just want to get this back in its rightful hands :)

These are showing up in our yard in VERY sandy "soil". We're located in the upper peninsula of Michigan and local wildlife is mostly chipmunks, squirrels, deer, mourning doves and crows. There are no footprints to either side or I'd think it's something dragging its tail, and I don't think the sand is conducive to worms (which actually aren't even indigenous up here?)

https://imgur.com/a/cPQeSID

https://imgur.com/a/cPQeSID

Sometime in 2012, my friends and I found ourselves in a really strange situation. I think there were four of us outside on a late-fall evening. I'm from Poland, if that's relevant to the story.

We were watching something on my friend's phone. I can't confirm what kind of phone it was. I remember that around that time he had either a Samsung Galaxy S2 or an S3 Mini, but I can't say for sure that it was one of those. I also have a distinct memory of him having a different phone with physical buttons around that time. Despite remembering it that way, I have absolutely no idea what brand or model it was, so I can't even narrow it down to a specific phone. Honestly, that one might actually be more likely, but I simply don't remember.

At one point, his phone suddenly shut down completely. When he turned it back on, the screen lit up slightly but remained black, with only a thin vertical line running down the center. At the same time, some audio started playing.

We listened to it until it ended. Nothing else happened, and the phone didn't respond to anything. We decided to turn it off and on again, but this time we also decided to record whatever was playing because it was so strange.

We turned it on a second time, and exactly the same thing happened. We managed to record the audio. The phone still wasn't responding, so we tried restarting it again. However, after the third restart, the recording never played again.

Some time later, my friend got the phone back from a repair shop. We searched through it thoroughly, both on the phone itself and on a PC with the phone connected, but we couldn't find the audio anywhere. None of us recognized it either.

At one point in the recording, a phone rings, and it sounds like a man is talking to a woman, but they're speaking in a completely incomprehensible language. Towards the end, the tune sounds almost like a jingle for a phone company or network provider. We never managed to figure out what it was, and eventually we completely forgot about it.

For some reason, this story randomly comes back to my mind every few months. It has been over a decade now, and I've never been able to figure out what the hell we actually heard that night. So I finally decided to post it here and see if anyone can help solve this mystery.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7qAopeD4Sw

The quality isn't great because it was recorded with another phone, but it's still fairly listenable. The video itself shows nothing but a black screen because the original recording was an audio file that I converted to MP4.

Does anyone have any idea what might have happened? More importantly, does anyone recognize the song or the strange conversation?

That jingle at the end sounds incredibly familiar to me, but at the same time I have absolutely no idea where I might have heard it, or something similar, before.

Found blood stain like this in two separate places, one last night on my bed, another one tonight on the carpet.
I’m home alone all day today, I have a cat, I didn’t hear him coughing or any abnormal noises, I didn’t find anything on him either.
I checked for bedbugs and didn’t find anything, i don’t have anything itchy on my body.
https://imgur.com/a/nk5R1Ru

I have been thinking about posting this for a while because this is one of those things that has stayed in my head for more than 15 years and I still have absolutely no idea how to explain it.
I want to say from the beginning that I am not claiming this is paranormal or anything like that.
I am genuinely trying to find a normal explanation.
The problem is that every normal explanation I think of just creates another question.
This happened when I was young in my family’s main house in a village in the mountains in southern Saudi Arabia.

At the time the area was very different from how things are now. Internet was either basically unknown or extremely uncommon around us, especially among the older people in the family.
The first event happened when I was still pretty young.
My grandfather’s second wife lived on the second floor of the house. One day she came downstairs to the first floor to visit my grandmother and my mother.
I was there too.
She had 3 physical pictures with her.
I don’t remember why I grabbed them, but I did and started looking at them.
I still remember the first two very clearly.
The first picture showed a young girl, I would say maybe somewhere between 8 and 12 years old.
She was sitting down and had her arms wrapped around one of her legs. She was looking down toward one side.
Behind her were 2 doors.
One door was completely dark inside.
The other door had light coming from it, but you couldn’t actually see anything inside the room.
The girl was sitting between these 2 doors with both of them behind her, and she was looking more toward the side where the door with light was.
The picture looked photographic. It did not look like a drawing or painting.
The second picture was also clearly photographic.
It was just a big knife on a completely white background.
There was blood on the knife and blood around it.
That was basically the entire picture.
The third one is the hardest one for me to describe.
Even when I saw it as a kid I didn’t fully understand what I was looking at.
It looked like it was taken somewhere in Asia, maybe India or Pakistan or somewhere around there. I obviously can’t know that for sure, that is just what the place looked like to me.
The whole image looked very brown or earth-colored.
There were buildings and a lot going on in the picture.
I remember what looked like a man tied to some kind of wooden pole or wooden structure.
That picture made me extremely uncomfortable, but at the same time I can’t explain exactly what was happening in it because even back then I couldn’t fully understand the scene.

Something else I remember is that the pictures looked printed professionally.
I vaguely remember some kind of logo or repeated marking on the back of them, the kind of thing you see on the back of printed photographs.
Then the lady noticed I had the pictures.
She got angry, took them away from me, and I never saw those 3 pictures again.
That event has been in my head ever since.
What makes it strange to me is not only that the pictures were disturbing.
It is the fact that I cannot understand why she had them in the first place.
She was an old religious woman living in a remote village in the mountains.
She did not know anything about the internet back then. She only became familiar with it many years later.
This was not someone who was downloading random images or using computers.
And this was not some big city where strange printed material was everywhere.
It was a village in the mountains.
So I kept asking myself for years:
Where the hell did these pictures even come from?
Why did she have them?
Why was she carrying them downstairs with her that day?
Who printed them?
Why those specific 3 images?
Unfortunately she is very old now and seems to have serious memory problems, possibly Alzheimer’s or something similar, so asking her now probably would not give a reliable answer.
My mother and grandmother do not remember the exact event.
That does not really surprise me because they met this lady many times and for them that day probably was just another normal visit.
For me the pictures made it memorable.
Now here is where things get even stranger.
A few years later, in the same family house, I found a photo album or some kind of photo book.
It was medium-sized.
Inside it were A LOT of pictures.
As a kid I used to think there were maybe more than 10,000 pictures in it.
Now that I am older and actually thinking about the physical size of the album, I know that number was probably exaggerated by my childhood memory.
It may have been more like around 2,000-5,000 depending on how the pictures were arranged.
The exact number is not really the important part.

The important part is that almost every single picture showed the SAME house.
This house was not from our village.
Honestly, it didn’t even look like any house I had seen in Saudi Arabia at the time.
The way it was built looked completely foreign.
The whole area around it also looked foreign.
It looked like some old house sitting in a remote area somewhere in the Western world.
There were mountains, open land, and the house looked isolated.
What makes it extremely strange is the way the pictures were taken.
They were not normal family pictures.
There were no people standing in front of the house.
There were no pictures of the inside.
I do not remember seeing a single interior image.
Every picture was from outside.
And the house was photographed from basically every possible angle.
Some pictures were very close.
Some were taken from very far away.
Some were from the left.
Some from the right.
Some from higher ground.
Some from lower ground.
Different sides of the house.
Different distances.
Different viewpoints.
But usually you could see an entire side of the house with some of the landscape around it.
It was like somebody was trying to document that house from every single possible exterior viewpoint.
And there were just page after page after page of this same place.
I asked my grandmother what the album was.
She did not react like it was something strange.
But to be fair, my grandmother is known for being the type of person who lets things slide and doesn’t really care about random stuff sitting around.
She basically said she didn’t know and thought it belonged to one of my uncles.
But this explanation makes even less sense to me.
That uncle was never involved in architecture.
Never involved in surveying.
Never involved in professional photography.
Never worked in anything related to that kind of thing.
He had never travelled outside Saudi Arabia.
Even today he is not someone who is into computers or the internet.
Nobody in the family that I know of had any kind of job or hobby that would explain having a huge archive of photos of one random foreign house.
And this is what really bothers me.
Let’s say my uncle somehow got the pictures from the internet.
Why would he print hundreds or thousands of pictures of the same house?
That would cost a ridiculous amount of money.
And why that house?
A house he doesn’t know.
In a country he has never been to.
And if the album was already printed somewhere outside Saudi Arabia, then that creates another question.
How did a huge physical archive of one random foreign house somehow end up inside our family house in a remote mountain village in southern Saudi Arabia?
Why would somebody from another country even give something like that to anyone in our family?
And why would anybody keep thousands of exterior photos of the same house in the first place?
I want to make something very clear because I know how Reddit can be with childhood memories.
I know memory is not perfect.
I am not saying every tiny detail I remember after more than 15 years is guaranteed to be exact.
I already corrected myself on the number of photos because as a kid I thought it was more than 10,000, but now I realize that probably doesn’t physically make sense.
I have also had fake memories related to the original 3 pictures over the years, and I was able to recognize pretty quickly that those later memories were not real.
What has never changed is the main event.
The lady had 3 physical disturbing photographs.
I looked at them.
She got angry and took them away.
Years later I found a huge album in the same house containing an insane amount of exterior photos of one unknown foreign-looking house from many different angles.
I do NOT know if the 2 events are connected.
They could be completely unrelated.
I am only mentioning both because they happened in the same household and both involved physical photographs that, based on everything I know about my family and the environment at the time, make absolutely no sense being there.

I am mainly posting this because maybe someone here knows about old photography, property documentation, historical archives, photo labs, surveying, forensic documentation, or something else that could explain the second album.
And maybe somebody somehow recognizes the description of the first 3 images.
Especially the picture of the girl sitting between one completely dark doorway and one doorway with light coming from it.
I am open to normal explanations.
Actually I WANT a normal explanation.
I just have never been able to find one that explains both why these things existed and how they somehow ended up in that house.
If anyone has any theory that actually fits all the details, I would genuinely like to hear it.

I was browsing official missing person profiles on a regional registry in Russia (the Investigative Committee) and stumbled upon a very strange notice. It states that a missing person report for a Russian woman was filed in Russia, specifying that she actually went missing in the United States in late 2012.

The official registry provides very limited details: her name, date of birth, and physical description. The reason for search is listed as "Missing," and under details, it states "went missing in the territory of the USA." The profile includes her photo and a contact number for tips, meaning the case remains open and active.

She was reported missing from a small town in Russia, suggesting she lived there or has family ties to the area. Her patronymic confirms her Russian origin. She has a common Russian first name and an Anglicized last name, which strongly suggests she changed her last name in the US (e.g., through marriage). However, the listing provides no specific location, no US state or city is mentioned, just the vague phrase "missing in the territory of the USA."

Searching her current name on Russian social media yielded no results, and her maiden name remains unknown. While platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn are restricted in Russia, Google still indexes public profile pages. Googling her full name returns no social media footprints, only a few unrelated mentions of much older women, including an obituary for an elderly individual with the same name. However, I can't search directly within Facebook or LinkedIn, as I am unable to access these platforms even with a vpn.

Queries in public US databases (such as Namus and the Charley Project) return no matches under her current name or common variations of her first name.

What makes this case odd is that if she had simply chosen to cut ties with her family in Russia, US law enforcement would have officially notified foreign authorities through international channels upon locating her (to confirm she was safe), allowing the domestic missing person case to be closed. This is especially true given that she vanished in 2012, long before current geopolitical tensions. However, she remains officially listed as missing on the state registry over a decade later.

What are your thoughts on this case? Is there any way to determine if she was ever officially reported missing in the US, or if she was eventually found?

Right now, it appears her relatives in Russia lost contact and officially filed a missing person report, while no such report was ever filed in the US. In a scenario like this, how can anyone verify if a person is actually safe and sound? Is there any way for someone to check if her fate was ever resolved and if she is okay?

I am not sharing her personal information or specific details here, I am simply curious about what can be done in a situation like this. A person went missing about 14 years ago in one country, their relatives filed a missing person report in their home country, but there is zero information or record about them in their country of residence.

I’m trying to trace the original source of an unidentified spoken-word recording.

Audio:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10n7rsBG4IuRqhubgorDYw_9DvpzwldK7/view?usp=sharing

The words themselves are not a mystery: it is a reading of the opening of The Communist Manifesto, beginning “A spectre is haunting Europe…”

What I’m trying to determine is:

• Who is speaking?
• When was it recorded?
• What country is the speaker likely from?
• Is it from an audiobook, film, documentary, radio broadcast, theatre production, record or art project?
• Does the complete recording exist somewhere?

The audio file itself contains no useful metadata.

Any observations about the accent, recording quality, background noise or production style could be useful.

Hey there, thank you for taking the time to read this. I'm not sure where to turn, as I legally cannot be told any information, as I'm not next of kin. Not to mention, the investigation is still ongoing for some reason. My Fiancé was found deceased in a Valero gas station cooler on September 4th of this year. She did ShiftSmart shifts at this specific location (ShiftSmart is an app that allows you to pick up different shifts at different locations). She seemed fine that morning. I hugged her and told her I love her, that I would see her this afternoon, and to be careful heading out, before I left for work. I was at work, and her adopted mother and father showed up while I was on the phone. My co-workers rushed me off the phone, and I went back to my boss's office, where they had also went. She sat me down, and asked me if my Fiancé', (her daughter), had talked about hurting herself or seemed off that morning. I told her no, as she had seemed normal and happy and hadn't talked about suicide or anything like that. She told me that she was found dead at the Valero due to hanging herself in the cooler. It was easily the worst news that I have ever received. However, there have been multiple inconsistencies with what supposedly happened. The manager on duty apparently hadn't checked on her for hours. She had went to get a customer a drink that they couldn't reach from inside the cooler, and she found her laying there lifeless. Supposedly she hadn't went and checked on her sooner because she had just so happened to have gotten surgery done on her feet, and she was doing paperwork, and wasn't getting up a lot due to those circumstances. There was also allegedly a blue slushie machine that had been overflowed, and was running out in the floor, that my Fiancé usually filled. According to different sources, not investigators, obviously, on the security camera footage, my Fiancé had went out to her car, and went into the storage closet, and then into the cooler during the timeframe she was last seen. Something I find odd, is that the investigators never called me or reached out, even though I was one of the few contacts in her phone. I also find it odd that the vehicle she had driven there was never searched. I just cannot rap my head around any of this. I want answers, and I know you may not be able to answer them, but I cannot help but feel as if there is more to the story than the investigators and store manager are letting on. I don't know if it's to avoid any kind of liability or wrongdoing, or what the purpose is. What is your honest opinion on what may have happened? I apologize in advance that this isn't put together well. I have been all over the place since this has taken place, and genuinely want answers as to what truly happened to her. She was my everything.

[posting on the behalf of a friend]

Name: Penny
Height: 12-13hh
Breed: Grade Welsh pony
Gender: Mare
Age: Late teens/early twenties
Colour: Flaxen chestnut/sorrel/red
Markings: Thin irregular blaze/stripe
Last known location: Spokane area, Washington state - 2012-2013

I'm searching for my childhood pony, Penny. She is a non-registered (to my knowledge) welsh pony mare that has had at least one foal. When we owned her in 2009, she was lightly broke to ride and drive. We sold her through Joyce Morgan/Legacy Farms in Loon Lake, WA to the Alberts family. They bred her and sold her a few years later to Gena Bettin (now Frey) in Tum Tum, WA. Gena had her for a short time before selling her to a family in Washington around 2012-2013. According to Gena, that family still had Penny several years later before Gena lost contact with them. She does not recall who she sold Penny to nor where they live.

She was my first pony and really inspired my love of horses. I would love to be her final home and buy her back, but pictures and an update on how she's doing would also be incredible.

Thank you so much!

I’ve been getting creepy texts from unknown numbers.

The first number sent my first name, part of my address, then messages “Scared?” with a creepy image. I blocked it.
A couple days later, a different number sent me another similar creepy image.

I know basic personal info can be found online, but the second number contacting me after I blocked the first is what concerns me.

I’ve saved screenshots and haven’t responded.
Has anyone dealt with something like this? At what point would you report it, change your number, or take other precautions?

Edit LOCATED

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general/after-rabid-bat-found-on-sidewalk-in-minneapolis-woman-who-picked-it-up-comes-forward/ar-AA2cHEsM

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/downtown-minneapolis-rabies-bat-found/

This woman needs to be located so she can receive potentially life saving healthcare. If people could share this information on their social media, especially around Minnesota. A bat she was seen handling has been tested and is positive for rabies.

The location was:

Hennepin Avenue between North Washington Avenue and North Third Street around noon on Tuesday

Her description is:

a 25-to 30-year-old White woman, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog

About three days ago, my boyfriend and I noticed a new smell in our bedroom. It can best be described as smoky-ish - almost like stale cig smoke but not quite (and before anyone suggests that it’s cig-related, no one in the house smokes or is around secondhand smoke, we keep our windows shut, and, as a former smoker who quit many years ago, I’m certain it’s not that). It is only in our master bedroom; we don’t even smell it in our attached walk-in closet.
We already run an air purifier almost 24/7, and after noticing this odor I sprinkled carpet freshener, vacuumed, changed the sheets, and opened the window for a few hours to air things out, but the smell remains. We searched under all the furniture for a forgotten dirty item or dead critter or something and found nothing.
We are not dirty people by any means, so this smell is really frustrating us and grossing us out. Any ideas what it could be/what we can do?

Okay this one is a doozy because I've had people come by and try to figure this one out and nobody can.

I moved into this house in 2020. I believe around a year ago I started to notice a beeping noise in the house. Weeks go by and I realize that the beeping noise happens at the same time every day. Nobody has been able to pinpoint where the noise comes from. It's loud if you can hear it, but if you go to a room a little farther away you can't hear it. It sounds like its coming from the wall behind the kitchen. However, if you go to the other side of said wall there's a bedroom and you can't hear the noise in it.

Just some quick facts

-It started happening around 5:20 pm. When daylight savings time hit, it started happening at 6:20, but at some point it seems to be have gotten delayed and the noise now happens exactly at 6:53 every day

- There's a beep, followed by a very brief pause, followed by more beeps. In total it lasts for about 6-10 seconds.

- If you go in the basement directly below where it sounds like the beeping is coming from, you are unable to hear it.

- It sounds like its coming from inside a wall (This is purely a guess), but you can only hear it from one side of the wall.

- The sound did not happen the first 5 years I've lived here

One common theory is typically proposed, that a construction worker left a tool somewhere inside the wall, and that that the tool is now running out of battery. However, its worth noting that the sound has been happening for around a year, and that the battery in the tool would likely have died by now. Also worth mentioning that every blue collar worker I've talked to said that a tool wouldn't signal it's battery is dying at the exact same time every day.

ETA Link to original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/s/DrYnwqqrGF

So, I wanted to drop a more full, comprehensive update since the whole situation was forced to be resolved. I've got interesting and disappointing news. I'll get through the disappointing (for the posts intrigue, not for me). I moved, and I'm out of the apartment. So no more listening devices for me thanks.

The interesting side is, I bought ring cameras, had them relatively hidden and aimed at my doors. Nothing for 3 months. Not a single hit that I didn't expect. But then, right before I finalize my moving decision, some f***in dude walks on to my porch, and just immediately tries to open my front door and walk in. The door was locked, and he couldn't get in. He peered through the door window, but it has a curtain. So no luck. He left pretty much immediately after. He didn't check his phone, didn't look for keys, nothing. He just gave up. That feels like he wasn't lost.

But what's wild is I actually was at an estate sale a few days later, and GUESS WHO SHOWS UP! This f***in dude! He sees me, we make direct eye contact, we both have the recognition, and basically turns around and leaves immediately. But it was wild. So yeah, sorry to disappoint, but that's what I've got!

So something really weird happened at our apartment recently and I’m trying to understand what the hell the person might have been looking for.

Someone apparently broke into our apartment and clearly went through our stuff. Cupboards, closets, belongings, etc. had been searched/moved around and everything in them was thrown on the bed or on the floor, so it really looked like someone had been looking for something.

The weirdest part is that, as far as we can tell, nothing was actually stolen. All the obvious valuables are still there: my iPad, laptop, phone, wallet, passport, etc. None of the electronics seem to have even been touched.

We called the police, and they suggested that burglars sometimes aren’t interested in electronics and are specifically looking for things like cash or jewelry, since they’re easier to take and resell.

But even that explanation feels a little strange in our case. For example, there were gold-colored earrings literally lying on the bed. Obviously they might not be worth much, but if someone was actively searching for jewelry, I would have expected them to at least take them and figure out their value later.

At the moment, we genuinely can’t figure out what this person was looking for or why they would go through the apartment and leave all the obvious valuables behind.

Has anyone in Paris/France recently experienced something similar? A break-in where the apartment was clearly searched but apparently nothing was taken? If so, did you ever figure out what they were looking for?

I’m curious whether this is a known pattern or whether anyone has had a similar experience.

Need some help with this – bit of background: my wife lives and works in the USA (New Jersey), I live and work in the UK. My wife rents an apartment and has done for the past 8 years. Over the last few months, she has been plagued by a mysterious bleeping sound. (I’ve heard it myself when I’ve been over visiting her, so I know it’s not a figment of her imagination!) It’s three distinct electronic bleeps in quick succession. As the bleeps appear at random, it’s extremely difficult to pinpoint the location. The apartment has an open plan kitchen and living area with separate bedrooms and bathrooms. It definitely sounds like it’s coming from the apartment itself (given that the bleeps are loud and well-defined), rather than above, below or next door.

So far, she has ruled out:

The dishwasher

The fridge

The microwave

The oven/stove

The coffee machine

The air fryer

The Internet router and cabling

She has also checked all the drawers for anything with a battery to no avail.

I did wonder if it was one of those prank circuit boards that randomly make a noise but I don’t think any of her friends fit the profile to prank her in such a way, I’ve searched her apartment myself for one without finding such an item and when I’ve looked them up on YouTube, the noise they make is different to the “beep-beep-beep” she keep hearing. I should say, the apartment was new when she moved in - she is the first tenant so I’ve ruled out anything left behind by a previous person.

So, any ideas what it could be? It’s now getting to the point where it’s becoming an obsession for her and is slowly driving her crazy..

Edit: Forgot to mention - she’s had maintenance out who have fully changed the smoke detectors and the bleeping still occurred.

Edit 2: Thanks for the suggestions folks. I’ve passed them on to her and she’s now convinced it’s her AirPods (or similar earbuds) that are making the sound. Given that she doesn’t recall using/seeing them for months (roughly the same time the bleeping started) that would make sense. She’s conducting a search for them tonight.

Hi RBI!
Today and yesterday I have been receiving these mysterious voicemails. I’ll be notified 5 separate times an hour with 5 new voicemails, but I have never missed or received a call around when they were sent. This will stop and then randomly repeat. I listened to the voicemail today, and I’m so confused.

For context, I have a legal and a chosen/nickname. (fake for obvious reasons) Catherine-May, and Cat. Everyone in my life calls me Cat and it is my listed name in school. However, every person that has my number, including institutions, knows that I am hard of hearing and don’t usually answer calls. The only voicemails that I receive are from hospitals, where my records are all under Catherine.

The VM only says my chosen name and last name in this AI woman voice. There is no number attached. I have no clue who is sending them, much less every hour. Anyone have any ideas on who would be sending me these voicemails? For what purpose?

Edit to add: I’m 16 and in the UK. My mum has my phone number on her provider account with O2.

At some point in the past few weeks a car must have hit us while parked and it took us a bit to notice. The back door of our car is dented and then we realized that they hit us hard enough to leave an indentation of the top half of their license plate in our bumper. I tried taking photos in a couple different lighting situations, but these are really the only ones that seem to read well. Looking for help identifying the license plate number here. This happened in Chicago (likely Wicker Park or Hyde Park), likely between 9/5 and 9/11. I'm sure I left off tons of info, so if there's anything else I can provide, please let me know.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/slgpttvoohpo4vxjdlm35/bumper-photos.zip?rlkey=2cv4stiocmmzmeudj2afz247e&st=6mubnusg&dl=0

Okay so for the past month now there has been a Panda Express order at my house. It has not been everyday but at least 3+ times a week and sometimes twice a day. I called the number attached to the receipt(s) and I have contacted doordash support and they stated that they just take the orders to the address, there us not account registered with a different name and my address (so this means they are placing it through panda express app/ site). Panda express didnt answer my calls.

Another thing to note is sometimes the order changes names/numbers but the order stays pretty much the same. Sometimes it goes to my neighbor(s) house, which one is vacant and one is an Airbnb (we have asked the people staying there IF there is anyone there), so there is no way they could have ordered.

I dont know what to do because I have called DoorDash, Panda Express and the number on the receipt and there is no information.

My close online friend passed in 2022 and knowing so much about him (physical/mental health wise) it's been eating me alive not knowing how he passed. I am able to contact friends and family but since they never publicly spoke about it I don't want to question them. Online obituary websites have been so scammy and vague. What is the correct website to request or find this information? I believe the county is Harris County, Texas.