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03 June 2008

Flaming Mystery This weekend, the BF and I took a road trip around the Olympic Penninsula here in Washington. On the second day we were driving through the very remote Lake Quinault area when we saw copious amounts of smoke coming from the side of the road. Since the only thing for miles around was fields of clearcut stumps, we quickly pulled over to make sure it wasn't trouble...
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There at the entrance of a logging access road was a pair of work gloves smoking and smouldering away. No flames, no fires nearby or smoke on the horizon, just work gloves smoking away on the side of the road. We doused them with water and went on our way, but the mystery remains. What the heck was that all about?? I know there are many many logical explainations, it was just one of those strange and anomalous events that you will never know the answer for.

Anyone else ever haunted by a simple mystery or encounter something really weird/spooky when there is no one else for miles around?

post by: evilcupcakes at: 19:39 | 8 comments

This weekend, I was in San Francisco. Across the street from me, sitting next to a garbage can, was a baby's car seat -- new and in perfect condition, with a neatly folded onesie sitting in the seat.

We puzzled for hours over why someone would throw out a perfectly good car seat. The favored theory was that someone had an infant that died, and they couldn't stand to look at the thing anymore.

The most plausible theory, in my estimation, was that someone stole a car and the thing was taking up too much space in the backseat.

It's still a mystery, though.

posted by mudpuppie 03 June | 19:44

I'd say the smoldering gloves are all that remains of a forestry worker who ate a potato protected by sinister glyphs.

posted by GeckoDundee 03 June | 20:20

I'd say the smoldering gloves are all that remains of a forestry worker who ate a potato protected by sinister glyphs.

LOL! My boyfriend and I were speculating that it was probably the aftermath of an alien abduction or somebody was "Messin' with Sasquatch" and paid dearly for their hijinks.

The Sinister Glyphs should be a band. Or the next Harry Potter book.

posted by evilcupcakes 03 June | 20:43

Mudpuppie, when I read your story I got this sick image of the car seat next to the garbage and a giant, monsterous, drooling, fanged, baby crouching behind the can waiting for someone to take the bait...

posted by evilcupcakes 03 June | 20:46

Did you check inside the gloves?
Normally it's just the feet that remain...

posted by pompomtom 03 June | 21:01

On a side note, did you stop by the lodge? It's really beautiful!

posted by pieisexactlythree 03 June | 21:31

We didn't actually stop by the lodge, but we took a side trip to that area for gas. It looked really lovely. We stayed at great a B&B in Port Angeles called The Tudor Inn and then stayed in Ocean Shores the next night (Quality Inn that time, just needed to crash).

posted by evilcupcakes 03 June | 21:44

Someone was Raptured.

TO HELL! BWAHAHAH!

Or someone axe-murdered someone else using gloves (fingerprints, blah blah), but then got rid of the DNA evidence in the gloves just in case. (Can you go back there and set it on fire again? please?)

posted by qvantamon 03 June | 22:03

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