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[hyacinth003]

No, not the television show!

I wondered if anyone had one in their life.  Not talking about something necessarily very serious, etc.  Just wondered if you had something happened that puzzled you, and you still can't figure it out.

I have one that dates back to the 1980's.  I was living and working in Chicago.  I lived alone (with my first kitty) in a great one bedroom apartment.  It started late one Friday night.  I had a date cancelled by someone that night.  He was called in to work, so we couldn't get together that night.  I was asleep, and my phone rang in the middle of the night.  As I spoke to the caller, I thought it was him.  As I started becoming more awake, I started to wonder if it were really him.  The caller asked "what are you wearing?"  I didn't think it was him then, and I hung up.  He kept playing on my conversation about him working, etc.  As he spoke, I got a funny feeling it wasn't him.

This began happening more.  A phone call in the middle of the night, he used my first name, and I got really spooked.  There was no caller ID at the time, and the phone company recommended I change my phone number, not to give it out hardly ever, and keep track of who I gave it to.  I changed my number twice and still got calls.  I ended up feeling so anxious, I ended up changing jobs and moving.

To this day, I do not know who did this.  After moving, the calls stopped.  I was ready to ask my brother to stay over and answer my phone if it happened again!!

My unsolved mystery!

Hyacinth

[Mom2Dogs]

@hyacinth003  I do not have an unsolved mystery but yours story is scary!

[4kitties]

@hyacinth003 

Sounds like a creepy stalker!  Scary stuff!

I am thankful most calls can be traced now and we have caller ID to protect us from most unwanted calls.

[LindaSal]

That is one scary story.  I had a similar experience when I was in my 20's.  Not as involved as your story though.   I have a cousin who is a detective and he told me that 9 out of 10 times it's actually someone you know, which frightened me even more.

[VanSleepy]

I have a similar story, too, but it didn't continue as long. And it was also in the 80's in Chicago.  

My current mystery is my four chairs from my backyard patio set are missing. I thought I must have put them in the shed last year, but they're not there. Not in the basement either. Then I thought my daughter must have borrowed them and I forgot. Nope. I can't believe someone would come in my yard to steal some inexpensive chairs, but I don't know what else could have happened to them.

[candyagain]

Glad your stalker stopped!

My unsolved mystery is a great uncle that disappeared in the 1880's. He seemed to have been a "black sheep". In those days family didn't talk about secrets but it was always said by my grandmother, his niece, that he left and no one heard from him again.

My daughter and I wonder if he left for the Gold Fields. Not many dependable written birth and death records at that time in the West so hard to say what happened to him.

We always said we'd look for him in geneaology records but life gets busy. A family unsolved mystery.

[CelticCrafter]

Similar story as the OP.

I was in high school, the phone would ring the minute I walked in the house and they would say I was being watched.

It went on for a while and stopped when my mother called the police and a detective came to the house.

It had to be someone in the neighborhood that had a vantage point and could see what was going on at my house.

We never did find out who it was although we had our suspicions.

[hckynutjohn]

@hyacinth003 

I have several unsolved/unresolved things. If they are unsolved, to me that does not mean it's a mystery. 

One had to do with a hockey player friend. He called me one day and said "I have something to tell you, and want to do it in person". As set up a time and place for 3 days later.

It was a coffee/toast type of place he wanted to meet. I got there and waited for him to come. I waited and waited and after 90 minutes I figured he was a no show. No cell phones back then, so!

When I got home I called him, no answer. After several tries I gave up. Next day same thing, so I decided to call his brother, who also played in my hockey league.

To my shock told me his older brother had died earlier in the morning of the day he wanted to meet with me. He was only 40 years old. 

What was so important to him that he could not tell me over the phone? Beats me, and his brother had no idea either. Still a mystery(?) to me, but nothing like the one you experienced for sure.

hckynut  🇺🇸

[Frenchlop]

This is a very interesting topic!

[kelshar]

When I was in 7th grade, my first class of the morning, I sat at a desk that had writing on it. I don't know why........but I wrote "hi". Then the next day,  I saw a response that also said "hi". We we would just go back and forth. It was just simple questions (nothing deep or that gave away our identies). I can't quite remember if I stopped responding or if they did. It was so long ago, I can't remember the details.

I never found out who I was corresponding with. Who knows, it could've been more than one person. I think it was one person. I recall this went on for a few weeks to a month. It's funny the little things we remember.