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Mystery #17

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There’s a knoll in Lincoln in a residential neighborhood that doesn’t have anything on it. Lauren and I drive past it a few times a year, and last time we weren’t in any sort of a hurry, so we took some side streets in an attempt to see what was on the other side and why there wasn’t anything on it.

We drove all the way around and didn’t find out anything. Lots of houses had their back yard to the hill, but we couldn’t see any reason for the grassy knoll. We stopped a promising spot and walked up to the top. The trip up just kept getting stranger…

We followed that driveway out to the road, and this residential looking house is on the street. But there are no rooms in the house. Just large machines.

Denver Airport: Mystery

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While we were walking around the Denver Airport in August we saw this taped to a pillar. What do you suppose it could mean? Of the two of us, Lauren had the funniest answer: “Warning: Only half of the cake is left.”

And where are all the people?

Mystery Unsolved

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Remember back in November when we had the mystery liquid on the basement floor, and it turned out to be Rain-x in the closet upstairs that was dripping on the floor? Well, a couple of weeks ago I noticed that the closet floor was wet again, but didn’t know why. My best guess was that the Rain-X had seeped into the walls and floors and was just being squeezed out by ghosts or something.

Well, today there was another puddle on the basement floor! What the what?? I went up to check the closet, and there was a giant wet mess in there.

Good freakin' grief.

Turns out that it is a bag of ice melt crystals that has mutated somehow. I don’t know what the deal is, but this is no good.

They leaked out the bag, and the inside of the container is wet. They're the same stuff.

I have contained the crystals so they can cause no further damage, but if anyone can explain this mystery to me – I’m all ears.

So is Cricket.

Cricket is not amused.

I didn’t get it…

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I saw a really strange thing at school this week, but when I showed it to Lauren she explained it to me…

Mr. Roeber had seen it before too.

To play along at home you say, “I get it”, but you don’t explain it. Explaining it ruins the game. Guessing is okay.

A Day of Mystery

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It was a mystery-solving day around here for the Sommerer Gang.  Where to start?

Well, every so often during the summer we would notice this one spot on the basement floor that would be a little wet.  It didn’t smell like cat pee, so we figured it was just condensation from all the humidity, and let the cats live. Last week I went to put some boxes away in the basement (by that spot), and noticed that they were wet, too.  Could it be ghosts?  It looked a lot like ectoplasm.  We put down some newspapers and waited.  Nothing happened all week.

Until today.

exhibit a

This time when we looked up, though, there was a drip!  (Last time there wasn’t.)

exhibit b

What the what the?   Using my visual-spatial powers, I deduced that it was coming from upstairs somewhere.  (I’m genius like that.) What did we find?

Aha!

The culprit!  This leaky jug was inside the front coat closet.  No wonder the stain felt a little greasy.  Rain-x is slick!  The puddle was oozing over to a crack in the floor, but we figured it only actually went down when the puddle was big enough.  Puddle would drain, leak would stop, puddle would build up – reach the crack, then drain, etc. etc.

Other mysteries solved: (mouse over the pictures for answers)

Who ate the top of Lloyd’s last piece of pizza?

Cricket. Maybe that’s why she has diarrhea.

Why was the sky on fire while Lloyd was mowing?
A controlled building burn a few streets down.

Why did Lloyd only smell animal poop when his feet were propped up while reading, but never when he walked around to find the source?

He stepped in something while mowing. We cleaned the floors.

Got any mysteries?  We’ll solve ’em.