35 Strange Things People Have Accepted As Having No Logical Explanation

Humans are constantly questioning everything. It’s safe to say that some of those questions will remain unanswered for our entire lives. In fact, the sooner we learn to accept these small mysteries as unsolvable, the easier life may become. As much as our brains love to grab bits of information and stitch them together into plausible explanations, it’s often better for our mental health to let certain things remain what they are: puzzles we may never fully understand. Redditors who have tried this mindset swear by its effectiveness. In a recent online discussion, people shared the everyday conundrums that keep appearing in their lives as unexplainable enigmas they’ve repeatedly failed to make sense of. So they shrug, let them go, and move on because they don’t have the time, resources, or energy to untangle these seemingly unsolvable situations.

#1

Image source: lxstvanillasmile, melissa_granata_white Exactly one really long thick hair keeps growing in the same spot on my chin and nowhere else. I'm female. MissMormie: With age testosterone increases for woman, that can cause beard hairs to grow. I used to have one when i was thirty, probably 10 by mid fourties, looking at my mom i might get a full beard by the time I'm 70 /: LittleGreyLambie: I have an eyelash hair that grew to be 2.5" long before I noticed it. Getting old is kinda interesting.

#2

Image source: throwingunicorns, reddit My toaster disappeared a few years ago. I live alone. A whole toaster. I kept it in my cabinet because I dont have a lot of counter space, used it pretty frequently.... one day i opened my cabinet and it was just gone. AdDear528: I swear I had a baking sheet disappear. I also live alone.

#3

Image source: No_Leather192, Getty Images Why do we think we are too tired to take a shower and feel lazy for it, only once we are under the shower it's the best feeling possible? _Maxine_Vandate_: We are not avoiding the shower, we are avoiding a transition. Change is stressful. Inertia makes one want to stay doing what they are doing, not switch to something else. Especially for NDs.

#4

Image source: everythingisbreads, reddit I have purchased 600 hair ties over the last two years. I currently have 4. I do not know where about half of them got lost. BudgetShake1500: That is why they sell them in packs of 50.

#5

Image source: PopZealousideal72, reddit I’ll put something down in a place that makes perfect sense at the time. Not absent minded…. Fully intentional. Then later, when I need it, that place feels completely foreign…. Like I can remember the decision, just not the logic behind it. The object turns up eventually, always somewhere reasonable. That’s the unsettling part. Past me wasn’t careless. Past me was operating under a rule set current me no longer has access to. So I search…..annoyed, until I find it and move on without interrogating the version of me who clearly knew something I didn’t bother to write down. Same [thing] use to happen while setting up a password earlier now password managers come in handy. irthdaycheesecake9: I have ADHD and I am very liberal with the “find my phone” function on my FitBit. One time I left my phone in the linen closet. No memory of putting it there but there it is, after an hour of frantically looking for it.

#6

Image source: Dirt_Girl_1269 Where the portal my cat always uses is located. I can spend forever looking around the house for him and he’s nowhere to be found. Only for me to turn around and he’s sitting behind me. ADHDFeeshie: I'm positive one of my cats has invisibility powers because of this same behavior. She's named after a character who can turn invisible and I guess the universe just wanted her to get the full experience.

#7

Image source: Blackops606, Andrej Lišakov Why I’m here. I’m not particularly great at anything but I’m good at a lot of stuff. I’m well educated, I’m nice, I have lots of friends but like…I feel no purpose. Nothing feels meaningful but I wake up and do it all again. trullaDE: It can be freeing to accept that most lives don't have meaning and purpose, and also really don't need them. In 100 years, pretty much everyone right now on this planet will be [gone], and chances are, every memory of you with it. And 100 years are just a tiny blip in the overall timescape on this planet. So just enjoy the time you've got, have fun and love and friendship where you can get it, but don't worry too much about anything else.

#8

Image source: Xamesito, reddit There's a little animal that lives out on my terrace that chirps at night. I've never seen it, and if I look for it, it stops chirping. It doesn't sound like a cricket or a grasshopper. It's a pleasant little high-pitched chirp. I think it's a bat but I'm not sure. I don't mind anymore. I just enjoy the sound. OutlookForThursday: LIZARD. LIZARD. LIZARD. Gecko probably. Turn on a terrace light at night and look for it hunting moths.

#9

Image source: Competitive_Fee_5829, reddit Where are all my hair clips going? I live alone, I only have one set of hair... why are most of them missing? DiejenEne: They are here, at my house! I keep finding them EVERYWHERE! My wife can't be losing SO MANY of them. no_id_never: The are hanging out with the single socks that went missing in the dryer.

#10

Image source: DanielStripeTiger, reddit Around age 7, my uncle visited almost every weekend and brought a small gift. One week was a matchbox Lamborghini. Red and green. I took it from the box and rolled it exactly once. It went under the couch and we all heard it hit the baseboard. I moved the couch. It wasn't there. There was nothing under behind or near for it to get lost behind. Flipped the couch. No joy. Looked everywhere. We all did. For an hour. Moved cushions. Mom was late for work, we were so weirded out. The next year they replaced the couch and we took the chance to tear the whole thing apart, even breaking the frame until it was no longer recognizable as a couch. Never found it. 30 years later I went on eBay and bought another one, so I could feel square with the universe.

#11

Image source: AboveGroundPoolQueen, reddit I lost some keys in 1994. I used them to open the front door when I came home. I set them on a counter. They disappeared forever. I thought I would find them when I moved, but they never re-materialized.

#12

Image source: RaspberryJammm, reddit My friend knocked a full pint glass off a windowsill and it landed perfectly on concrete. It did a full 360 and caught all of the liquid. We all just stared at eachother.

#13

How clutter appears even after I just cleaned. Image source: Flashy_Disk3312

#14

Image source: BagelFanatik, Getty Images Why do I very rarely see my neighbors or co workers out in public or the grocery store. I know we are all buying food but never see them out. Quirky-Meet-8260: Delivery service. ded_and_broken: I often feel like my husband and I are the only ones in our apartment building that carries in groceries, as I've never seen the neighbors carry in groceries even once in the almost 4 years we've here. But it's just the fact our apartment does not face the parking lot and is on the back side and on the top floor at that, so I never see any of the neighbors come and go.

#15

Image source: keen4ketamine, Getty Images Every now and then I’ll get a sharp pain in my chest wall that hurts a LOT when I try to inhale. It will go away after 30 seconds. I get it a couple of times a month and have done since I can remember. PepperFine1185: Precordial catch syndrome. Acrobatic_Zombie_651: This sounds like heart palpitation pain - it was the same for me. Not a doctor just sharing in case it helps.

#16

Image source: HavoKArashi, Hernan Sanchez Why the [hell] am I always exhausted to the point I have no motivation to do ANYTHING. Ok_Kiwi_4066: Vitamin D deficiency.

#17

Image source: kalcora, reddit Three years ago, when I got the flu, I started having weird feelings in my left ring finger. Like electricity is moving there. Not like it's an electric shock, more like an electric wave. Since then it happens several times a month. Only this specific finger. Asked a doctor and he said he didn't know but it was not a real issue. I guess I will never know. But I want to believe I'm becoming some kind of X-Men. In a few years I might be able to light a bulb with my left hand. AffectionateExcuse5: Might be neuropathy? Apparently if you lean on your elbow too much it can cause weird sensations in your ring or pinky finger. When my mom's sciatica acts up, she gets weird tingling in one single toe, always the same toe. In my heart though, you're a mutant.

#18

Image source: Cyranthis, reddit My steak knives slowly disappear. I do the dishes by hand. Every so often one seems to....vanish. Never to be seen again. aurora_boredalis: Omg this is me but with forks! ugottabekiddingmee: The forks! Where do they go?? We just bought more. Some are gone already.

#19

Image source: E4sy1dle12e, omar elyamani Why my neighbor leaves at 5am every day but I’ve never seen them come home. At this point I assume they teleport. Available-Chart-9488: Some things are meant to stay unexplained for mental health reasons.

#20

Image source: Sugary_skull, Natalia Blauth Sometimes I'll feel nauseous seemingly for no reason. What happens then is I'll sneeze and the nausea is gone. It's not a big enough deal for me to book an appointment with a dr and ask about it because it doesn't happen that often. Bethlebee: I get this, too. From what I've gathered, it has to do with the vagus nerve or something.

#21

Image source: Jameslincoln101, Hannah Xu How a ‘quick shower’ becomes a 40‑minute existential crisis with no memory of what happened in the middle. Some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved.

#22

Image source: Gustavodemierda, reddit The fact that my mom can instantly find something I've been searching for hours in a place I already looked multiple times.

#23

Image source: fountainpopjunkie, Kateryna Hliznitsova Why people like certain things, like tastes and smells and sounds. There's an reaction in our brains that says "you like this", but why are different stimulus different for different people. Why do I like margaritas, but my husband likes whiskey? Why do I like silver and my friend likes gold? Are there genetic markers for "likes opera"? Why do we not like things and then "develop a taste" for them later? I'm sure someone has studied it. But I'm tired, and "tacos are good" is good enough for me. C0mpoundFr4cture: My guess is subtle differences thanks to genetic diversity. If one person has a taste for poisonous berries, and another likes cooked meat, then one's going to survive longer and live a healthier life than the other. Same as slight variations in animals coat colours and markings has adapted to them to blend in almost perfectly. But hey, that's just a theory... a 1am I-need-to-sleep theory.

#24

Image source: FizzlePopBerryTwist, reddit Sometimes there is a bump behind my ear. Sometimes it is gone. Right now it is gone. snobby_footnote: It could be lymph nodes, they might inflate when your immune system is working or when you are allergic to something (eg a hair shampoo).

#25

The house is occasionally filled with the smell of Axe deodorant. Neither my wife nor I use it, and it comes from our downstairs when no one is there. We've never figured out what causes it, so just blame the "family ghost". Image source: The_Mr_Kay

#26

Image source: JackFisherBooks, reddit The truth behind why there are so many mattress stores. For me specifically, there's this one mattress store that has been in business for decades, despite so many other stores in that same shopping center going out of business. Something is going on with that store. There's no way it should've stayed in business during COVID. But it's still there. I think it's a front for money laundering or some other crime. But I've just accepted I'll never know the truth. Right-Yam-5826: Very low overhead costs, few staff & high value stock with high profit margins and longevity. They only need to make a few sales a month to stay open. When you've got a street full of vape shops and nothing else, and the owner of several has opened 2 nightclubs that are never open on the weekends? That's something suspicious..

#27

Image source: No_Swordfish_8948, Radiant_Cookie6804 What happened to my birth parents. I was born a girl in China in the 1990s during the One Child Policy. Got adopted and brought back to America. Of course, I could go back to village one day but I highly doubt I will find my birth parents. I’m not upset at them, I completely understand why they had to abandon me.

#28

Image source: WickedBeeOfTheWest, reddit Theres a high pitch noise coming from the forest in my backyard every night that causes me a migraine. To tired to try to figure out what is when it starts. Troubador222: I owned an old house that had the circular attic vents that would spin in the wind. Mine started squealing. Took mea while to figure it out. I went up and sprayed it with a silicone lube but eventually had to replace it.

#29

Image source: abby-normal-brain, byebye13 My sweat dries blue. It also stains fabric blue. I have so many actually impactful health issues that blue sweat just doesn't make the cut for mentioning during limited doctor time. Plus, it's kind of nice to have one health issue that is just a weird fun fact instead of horribly painful, ha. Brave-Distribution27: Chromhidrosis. This-Requirement6918: Mine dries orange, especially on my socks. It's gross.

#30

Every so often my heart skips a beat. So instead of going ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum, it'll go ba-dum, ba......ba-dum, ba-dum. Sometimes it won't happen for months, other times it happens multiple times a day. I've been to several doctors about it and nothing ever came up in testing. rumdumpstr: If it's in conjunction with breathing, especially a deep breath, it could be a sinus arrhythmia. My doc found that I have it on an EKG and said its nothing to worry about. Image source: danis-inferno

#31

Image source: Select-Funny347, reddit Is MY red the same as YOUR red. GenXSkully: Likely, no- source; colorblind husband. rpbm: Yep. I keep trying to explain how awful a particular green is, and realize he can’t comprehend it. All green is brown to him. So he doesn’t get baby poop green vs neon green.

#32

Image source: Chewy-Teeth, reddit My work jacket. I put it on the coat rack. The next day, gone. Removed all the coats, not there. Checked my cupboards/wardrobe nothing. Then two weeks later it reappeared on the coat rack. I asked my wife if she’d found it and put it there or if it had been in the wash pile or something but no. It just re-materialised. Went to grab it a few days later and now it’s gone again. I’m just going to assume it will reappear at some point.

#33

Image source: Top_Bad_2950 I use a walking stick as a mobility aide. 2 months ago I lost my favourite walking stick and I can’t understand how the [hell] you lose something you can’t walk without. Zokstone: When I had to walk with an aide I lost mine too - I left it on the bus after a particularly weird encounter with another rider. The distraction worked for both my pain and my ability to keep my things with me.

#34

Image source: DGRJ_4_Life, reddit My hands sweat when I'm not wearing socks. Make it make sense.

#35

What is bothering my boyfriend to make him seem distant and unreachable. It is like just goes offline and is present in body but his mind is elsewhere. All he can do when it happens is pick at his arm hairs and squirm and make pre-tantrum frustrustration noises and say that he gets annoyed if I check-in more than once. even if his distress signals are repeated and ongoing. I've tried gently probbing for 2 years and trying to nudge him towards therapy, he just gets annoyed. Ive tried serious sit-downs, big talks, small talks, heartfelt letters, sharing books and articles, and just being there and sitting with him in it. all of that made him only do it more. the puppy eyes were strong that day. now Im detaching and getting ready to move out and move on and he is in am almost catatonic state. the weirdest thing is, with ANYONE else he snaps out if it and acts like a forward-facing adult. it took a year for me to trust my read on the situation and two years to stop convincing him to see it. now i am done and just accept that it will be an unsolved mystery of my past. Image source: Honest-Elk-7300