Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Writing on the wall


This mark appeared on our kitchen wall the day before yesterday. It was about one and a half inches across its widest points and is shown at the angle of North/South as it was before H.I. wiped it off.

It was about 12 inches above the table, and I have wracked my brains as to what could have made it. It looks like an image from the particle accelerator facilitator unit in Switzerland, but it is not.

It seems as though a human hand has drawn a series of upward strokes followed by a diagonal spiral downward, and it also looks like someone's signature as given to Royal Mail on a tablet.

I really cannot think of what might have made it other than the same thing that made the unexplained noises in the apartment last year.

Any ideas?

An observation I haven't mentioned yet is that the corkscrew spiral is heaviest on the nearside, giving the impression that the image is 3D and set in a transparent material. This is what is so perplexing about what made it.
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  1. Tom Stephenson29 January 2019 at 16:10

    All I can think of is an insect, but there are none right now.

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    1. Tom Stephenson29 January 2019 at 16:13

      P.S. The 'ink' was thick enough to be felt by touch.

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  2. Bea29 January 2019 at 16:36

    Trippy. As I am hyper-focused on my healing foot right now. All I see are TOES when I look at that image. :D

    Ghost graffiti artist?

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  3. Thickethouse.wordpress29 January 2019 at 19:45

    It makes me think of angel wings! And laugh and laugh.

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    1. LEfting29 January 2019 at 20:14

      I thought it looked like a wing, too!

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    2. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 03:23

      I see what you mean - about the wings anyway.

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    3. Sol1 February 2019 at 09:41

      I also thought an angel wing. Could someone have dawn on the wall with a grease pencil and it has just taken a long time to come through the paint.

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  4. sarah toa29 January 2019 at 20:11

    A rather filthy snail?

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  5. Donna OShaughnessy29 January 2019 at 20:39

    Whatever it is it is pointing up. Have you looked up? Definitely a sign from beyond. Definitely. (Don't mind me. Sometimes I channel Rainman)

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 03:24

      I'll look up when I go back into the kitchen.

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    2. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 16:14

      Nope. Nothing out of the ordinary up there.

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  6. Cro Magnon29 January 2019 at 21:10

    I hear Banksy has been in Bath recently.... don't destroy it, it could be worth a fortune.

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  7. AK Coldweather29 January 2019 at 21:25

    Is your ceiling dripping, perhaps? Any small cracks? Any water spots on the ceiling? And do you have an air vent that would cause drips to blow slightly across the wall?

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  8. Rachel Phillips30 January 2019 at 00:01

    6 toes. Greetings from Norfolk.

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  9. Rosemary30 January 2019 at 00:49

    I would go with the snail too except that there is no entrance or exit showing how it could have got there in the first place - are there any clues behind the table or on the floor?

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 03:27

      It was certainly no snail that made this mark, but that's not a bad theory.

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  10. Yael30 January 2019 at 01:03

    You'll have to wait for the next sign, maybe there will be a clue.

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  11. The Weaver of Grass30 January 2019 at 01:23

    You know your trouble - you kid us so often that it is hard to take you seriously Tom.

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 03:28

      I always admit to lying (well, here anyway). This is no kidding Weave.

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  12. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 03:33

    I've added to the text above with an observation which may give more of a clue, or it may just baffle you more as it does me.

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  13. Jacqueline @ HOME30 January 2019 at 03:55

    A spirit is definitely trying to contact you .... oooOOOooo ... 👻 .... has H.I. found her bra yet ? XXXX

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  14. Rachel Phillips30 January 2019 at 04:29

    Gravy got caught on edge of spiral note book and lingered momentarily on wall as you moved it

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 05:16

      If that, the marks wouldn't link up as a spiral.

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    2. Rachel Phillips30 January 2019 at 08:27

      Oh alright, I dipped my toes in gravy if you must know.

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    3. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 12:56

      You have tiny toes. All six of them.

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  15. Shawn30 January 2019 at 05:47

    Did this happen while you were playing your hashish-fog-inducing music?

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  16. Joanne Noragon30 January 2019 at 08:35

    One of you flipped a pesto loaded noodle against the wall. Fess up.

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  17. John Going Gently30 January 2019 at 14:54

    You're haunted

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  18. Ginger30 January 2019 at 15:34

    Pasta strainer spoon whacked against the wall, leaving starch outline?

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 16:08

      Nope. My pasta spoons are larger than 1.5 inches.

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  19. Tom Stephenson30 January 2019 at 16:12

    When you hear voices, the words are unclear. I assume it must be the same with writing. This is text, but not text as we know it , Jim.

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  20. potty31 January 2019 at 02:08

    Was there a dead bug on the wall and you tried to scrub it off with a flourish?

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    1. Tom Stephenson31 January 2019 at 03:20

      No. The most likely thing that caused it would be some sort of insect though.

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  21. libby31 January 2019 at 07:27

    Residue from a sneeze? but probably some sort of creepy crawly was there.

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  22. Charles2 February 2019 at 02:47

    Plasterers urine would be my guess, it used to a thing amongst plasterers to urinate on a wall when the plaster was wet. The stain comes through the paint a long while later and is hard to get rid of. Of course it could be ghost taking the piss?

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