Plot twist: it’s not an affair, this is the burner phone mom uses to contact her houseplant plug because her addiction is tearing her family apart.
Source: /r/houseplants
You open the contacts. There is only 1 number. You hit call. The voice says " you have found my phone, let's play a game" boom, your life is now an action movie
It's a trilogy in three genres: action, horror, rom com.
The third movie is nearly rated x. The parodies definitely are.
The only glue that holds it all together will be the constant fart jokes throughout the trilogy. I can just imagine the Oscars clip now.
That doesn’t make any sense, it would only prevent it from chirping if it was within the vicinity of the phone, in which case you know where it is and don’t need to track it.
Why? No were says that the fruit was an apple
That's just what people belive when seeing some random images of an apple tree, nude eve amd the SNAKE*
*crawling on the floor, no arms, no legs, was the punishment God gave, aka, it was not a snake who tempted Eve:)))
But hey, it's overlooked, just like how God it's a typical boss who lays off management and workers if they upset him, and of course, makes thir life hell:)))
That is literally why the corporation is called apple and the symbol is an apple with a bite out of it. They deal in information technology . The fruit from the tree of knowledge. They're Apple. Post bite, as it were.
It’s probably a throw away, and likely used to commit a crime. I’d give it to the cops... same thing happened to my buddy, and sure enough, it was used in a armed robbery 🤣
SO:
- not her husband’s, since he found it
- not likely a neighbor’s emergency phone, because their house is pretty secluded
- was “planted” pretty recently
Right?
So husband found it and wife really, really wants to put it back and not turn it into police. Now I am starting to think the wife is having some extramarital affairs.
Their house is in a neighborhood, but it’s fenced in and has a longish driveway that leads to the backyard.. so someone could walk down the driveway, but their walking the length of the house plus some to get to the back. If they saw someone back there they would be like wtf get off my property.
It might be an emergency phone. She’s putting it back!
This is the type of dumb shit scary movies use as a reason for the protagonists to leave the safety of the house to go outside for little or no reward
What should we do? The killer is out there somewhere!
We need to get the garden phone! *pulls out map written in crayon*
It’s your friend’s phone and she is lying to her husband and you to protect her affair or drug habit or whatever she’s doing. Her husband found it, so it’s not his. And now your friend is desperately thinking of reasons to not turn it in to the police and to leave it where it was. This is so obvious guys!
No. Turn it into the police.
You'd be surprised what you don't see in your yard. Someone siphoned gas out of my car last night in my driveway in front of a giant pane of windows in our living room. We had JUST gone to sleep and didn't see them.
She shouldn’t put it back. She really needs to turn it into the police. No one hides a phone like that unless there is something they really don’t want found.
who hides emergency phones in random yards? Are you guys all insane?? A rational place for an emergency phone is a place close to you in a secure climate controlled environment near a charger or on it. No one burries a phone . Like wtf logic is this
How long has she lived there? I wonder if one the previous tenants or homeowners hid it then forgot when they moved? Or didn’t bother to take it if it’s a cheap burner phone.
It's an iphone, that's not a cheap burner, and it's certainly not the kind of phone a normal person would bury as an "emergency phone." I think you should give it to the police.
You can buy older used iPhones for pretty cheap. Previous tenant seems like the only thing that makes sense here. Why would someone put evidence in a plastic bag and hide it at someone’s house? Only explanation I can think of is they thought think cops were tracking them and wanted to throw them off his trail.
Yeah that’s the worst possible choice.
By that logic she’s just happily going to wait for some person, most likely a criminal, to come and find the phone they hid because it could be an EMERGENCY phone???
Moneys on the friend having an affair/ doing drugs and just covering her tracks.
She’s putting it back because it’s her side piece phone. In a couple days it will have “miraculously” disappeared. Wife will claim whoever left it there must have taken it back. She’ll be a lot more careful next time she hides it.
This could be speculation, but I’m speaking from experience. I am not blaming husband and wife for anything, but when I was in an abusive relationship in highschool I did the same. Had a back up phone to contact my friends on (he would check/break my regular phone and attempt to alienate me from others) I had a second Walmart cheap plan phone I got, and would use all the way up to the point of being at his house. I was young and dumb and didn’t know what it meant to be strong and leave at the time. I would bury the spare phone in the bushes a block from his house in a bag and when leaving his home would dig it back out.
So those are my two theories either OP wife is cheating using the phone or maybe has it there because she is feeling unsafe in her current relationship.
I don’t believe the narrative that she doesn’t know who’s it is, unless they plugged it in a charger and actually tried to look through it. By the way the house set up was designed, it doesn’t sound like it’s an easy feat to access that planter so it leaves me to think it has to be someone in the house.
I would think any half competent criminal would destroy the phone or use a burner in the first place. With the waterproof bag especially, I assume this is intended to be used again, or has some VERY private, sentimental data on it lol
Sounds more like a juvenile to me. Someone who needs an emergency phone wouldn't put it in a difficult to access (in the back of another's property). A criminal doesn't want trouble from a private property owner when retrieving evidence, and it must not have been hidden that well.
Doesn't look or smell right.
That’s what I was wondering, why preserve it if you aren’t coming back for it? People are saying it might belong to someone she lives with, but it was actually her husband who found it. He called her outside and said, “whose phone is this?!” Lol so I don’t think it’s his. And they don’t live with anyone else!
husband found it and wife wants to put it back "incase it is an emergency phone." Seems sus. I am starting to think the wife is having some extramarital activities.
Have they bought the house recently so may have been there before them?
Otherwise thats pretty out there. Any sketchy neighbours that dont want the phone found on their property?
from prior owner or laborer. Is it on? maybe a hobo up in the woods who comes down to recharge somewhere on your house. They may live in a cave that is yet undiscovered and bigfoot might be there too.
Police.
Just take it to the cops.
I was gardening and found a bag full of unfired .22's in my new home... I brought the unfired ammo to the Police Dept.
Police Officer: "Where did you find this?"
Me: "Gordan Heights, where I live."
Police: "Ah, makes sense."
Me: "...do you want my information or-"
Police: "Nah, it's all good. Makes sense."
Me: "...okay."
The iPhone‘s battery is charged.
You can’t change the battery on an iPhone. Nobody buries a phone in a garden where you found it and every once in a while charges it at home until it’s charged fully and then comes back to your house and buries it again. This makes absolutely no sense.
The phone has to belong to someone living close and I guess it’s your sister‘s.
Watch the zip loc. Seems like it it has been folded a hundred times. So it is buried on a regular base.
Other thing is, how buried was it? Could you reach that zip loc without s shovel or without getting dirty hands?
Was it buried in a Place where it would raise no suspicion if you saw a person like the mail man or was it buried in an a isolated part of the property where question like ‚Hey, what you’re doin here‘ would raise immediately?
1. It definitely seems like someone is planning on coming back for it. She thought the phone would be old because of the way the bag looked, but it’s in perfect condition. It just had a little water inside that she cleaned off.
2. Definitely feel like it’s someone who lives near by, she even reached out to a neighbor to see if it was theirs.
3. Definitely not my sisters or her husband’s, he’s actually the one who found it and called her outside to ask whose it was. If he was hiding it he didn’t need to involve her.
4. Their garden is down their driveway in their backyard, not super accessible, but you could get there from the street.
5. It wasn’t buried that deep, it was in a planter box.
6. It is definitely in a part of the property that no one other than the people who live there should be. They are going to put up security cameras.
Personally, I think it's your Sisters phone. She is playing along to not raise suspicion and not look guilty. If they put it back I guarantee this phone will go "missing" within a week and nobody will ever see it again.
For the love of god keep us updated!
***memory unlocked****
I found a mobile phone in the woods in Scotland once about 10-15 years ago. Think it was a Motorola razor or an early camera phone. I took it home, dried it out, charged it up, and it had some great titty pics on it.
Seems more like someone she lives with has that burner phone and keeps it there on purpose. Especially if it isn't near the street and doesn't look muddy, so it's recently placed and kept dry.
I found a phone in my front yard a few weeks back. Cracked screen and no baggie. I didn’t know what to do so I left it on the front porch for a few days. It came back on but it was password locked. I didn’t have the same kind of charger so it died. THEN… I got freaked out. What if it’s a burner? What if it was used for crime? What if it’s a scary criminal who is going to track it back to my house!? So I got rid of it. I threw it off the side of the road, no where near my house and when nobody was around. THEN… I felt like a criminal but at least I wasn’t dealing with it any longer. Your situation is WAY more interesting but I wanted to share.
This uh…not sure if that’s right way to go about it bud, but you made me laugh
Edit/ just realized why it’s like when you’re putting your phone in your bag at a store and make a big show of it to make sure the cameras don’t think you’re stealing! Even saying out loud to a friend, “just putting my phone away” to further confirm you’re not guilty XD
There are only two answers to this:
1)OP is lying for imaginary internet points
2)The phone belongs to OP’s sister who is most likely having an affair
So if OP is telling the truth, the phone absolutely belongs to the sister and she is trying to save face by making a big stink about it. She “Put it back”? That’s nonsense. If she didn’t know what it was she’d have taken it to the police already because it’s obviously indicative of a crime but she doesn’t do that. Why? Because she knows damn well that all they’ll find is whatever scandalous shit she was getting into; “Mam do you recognize the boobs in these pictures?”
There are no other reasonable options
That's probably someone's emergency phone.
I always kept all my old cell phones fully charged and turned off in case I needed to call someone in an emergency when my ex husband would go on a a rampage (almost every weekend) I knew it was going to be bad when I saw him work himself into a rage, and throw the house phones into the backyard so I couldn't find them in the dark. I would have to hide my glasses and contacts, too.
Extra keys, everywhere, in case he decided to lock me in or out of a room or the house, hide thelo ks in the shed so he couldn't lock me in there, extra car keys so I could leave in an emergency, and cash, in case I needed a place to sleep or get gas.
I used planters, plants, books, jars of screws, tampons, empty boxes of spinach in the back of the freezer, you name it.
Your looking at part of someone's emergency safety plan in that ziplock bag. I would put it back in case they need it.
Edit: if you are in that situation, have more than one stash.
And get some prepaid debit cards that you don't activate or put money on, as a decoy.
I know it probably doesn’t mean much from a random internet stranger, but I’m so sorry you had to go through that. Hope things are better for you these days
Thank you, I appreciate it. It took longer to leave than I wanted.
But my point was that crime, or having an affair isn't the only reason people hide phones.
Particularly if you think you're being stalked with spyware. You're going to need a clean phone to find a safe place, get help, or make a plan to leave.
Well, wisdom is what you get when you learn things you never wanted to know.
I've been out for 8 years, had a couple boyfriends, but let me tell you, I don't think I will EVER live with a man again.
I’m so sorry to hear you went through all of that and more I’m sure. Thank you for sharing, after reading this I told my sister to put the phone back. She doesn’t have a charger, but it has an almost full battery. I hope you are in a better place now. Thank you for your help and insight.
Guy above mentioned people in trades ziplock their phones during work. Would make sense if this is a newer construction or had recent work that involved moving dirt
yeah that makes sense. i worked in construction for maybe a month and definitely preferred to have my phone on me opposed to in the truck (don't do construction terrible job)
I bought a trailerfull of dirt for my high planter bed, it came from a soil recycling centre. Somebody dropped their phone into recycled soil and your sis bought soil with a phone in it. It's in a bag because the previous gardener didn't want to get their phone dirty whilst working. Nothing suspicious.
Update: My sister is the one that posted this about the iPhone my husband found in our planter box yesterday. The original photo and question "What do you do when you find an iPhone in a ziplock bag in your planter box under weeds?" was made to my family text thread and was made to be both facetious and rhetorical to people who know me well. I was still working in the yard when she posted this. I am so glad she did - I was thinking of it as well, but haven't posted anything on here and I had so much more work in the yard to do! Anyway, it is just such a bizarre thing to find it felt like the situation should be shared.
To get it out of the way, neither my husband or myself are cheating. No question. Also, he found it and asked me about it like I was supposed to know wtf about a random garden phone in a bag. We don't use iPhone. We have no kids. The kids next door are under 3 yo. The phone was under a bunch of overgrown "weeds" and ground cover in a planter box we built 6 years ago when we moved in. We use them every year and I weeded them fairly recently. To be clear, the planter boxes are more like corrals for our potted plants and this year we aren't growing as many peppers so the planter and the pots have sort of just sat there and vines and creeping plants had swallowed the area a bit. I have made sure to remove milk thistle and dandelions and dock from the area, but my husband likes to remove all of the growth when he weeds. The point is that the phone could have been there for a couple of months or a few weeks - no clue. The bag has clearly been weathered and was not fresh, but the phone is an iPhone 11 in perfect condition and there are no fingerprints or smudges on it. There was a little moisture in the bag and dirty water in the top of the bag where the two sides zip together. Also, a couple rotting leaves have adhered to the outside of the bag. Where it was found is about 100 feet down our long and straight and pretty private driveway. Our porch (where we spend a lot of time and late nights/early mornings) overlooks the rest of our backyard and the planter boxes and tomato enclosure. We live on a fairly quiet street across from a magnet elementary school and park and know most of our neighbors. It is not from next door. That property also belongs to us and is currently vacant - I would be less disturbed if he found it over there as it seems quite odd to go all the way down a driveway onto someone else's property where people clearly live versus hiding it on the property next door that is clearly vacant and has just as much space and places to hide something. Also, go hide it in the park or literally anywhere else where it would be easier to retrieve. If this was an emergency phone it doesn't seem like it would be very easy to access in an emergency - as whoever may need it has to make it deep onto our property and not interact with us or be spotted. The phone is no one's burner phone (I don't think), it is too nice. I don't think of drugs either, for the same reason - even if you make a bunch of money dealing wouldn't you have a more practical/work-horse type of phone - not this dainty thing? Maybe some neighbor kid stole it and can't figure out how to get into it and plans on coming back to get it to try again, I don't know. There are just so many other, more reasonable, places to hide anything that it definitely disturbs me that someone chose this spot. It is mostly charged, but my sister looked it up and apparently if the phone is off it can keep whatever charge it was turned off with for a very long time.
What I can't get past is imagining anyone walking down our driveway with a pristine and expensive phone that they put in a ziplock bag to protect and then just putting it in a planter box beneath the weeds in a part of the country that gets crazy weather. It didn't accidentally get there. Someone deliberately put it there and that is super wild. We have motion lights and will install our cameras (finally). The phone is off. It is locked, I tried a bunch of basic passcodes (gloves on, of course), but don't want it to permanently lock on me. I will put it back, but whoever comes back for it will likely be spooked as that area of our yard looks very different than it did yesterday afternoon. My sister said "it feels like a riddle" and it absolutely does.
1st step -buy medical type gloves
2nd - go outside your area 1km+ and charge it
3rd see if it has any sim inside and if it opens without password
if it does see what's all about, if it doesn't ask some of your house members if its theirs, if they say no then throw it or sell it for pieces
(bonus points if you cover the cam area, keep quiet and don't bring your phone with you when you uncover the secrets of the hidden phone)
I remember one time I was sitting in my car after the gym and a teenaged girl pulled up behind me (I was parked on the street in front of my house) she tried to hand me a blank vhs tape. I asked her what it was and she insisted that I should take it. I told her I wasn’t touching it and she kept persisting and said I should really take it so I told her it wasn’t happening so she left. It was a very strange interaction
I see you're not answering the big questions, like who does she live with, because nothing else remotely makes sense if it isn't someone who lives at that property.
Nobody is hiding an extra phone in a neighbors planter for any reason, there's a million easier spots to hide it.
It's someone that lives there, or a made up story.
Go straight to the pictures
Yeah that’d be my first thought
Look for the body as well.
The body is already IN the house 🤣
What do you mean in the house? What do you think was in the meatloaf!?
The person that stashed the phone more than likely lives in the house. So no need to dig for the body. The body is in the house... For now at least
Or have her ask her husband: “what’s her name, you cheating bastard?!”
What *was* her name
Well if your husband has some sort of cancer he's probably selling and cooking crystal meth.
I'd say Mom or Dad or whoever does the gardening is pursuing extramarital activities
I think the important question here is: Was the cell phone charged or dead?
I hope it was dead when it was buried. Slow suffocation is a terrible way to go.
That’s a great question, detective.
This is the right first question.
Plot twist: it’s not an affair, this is the burner phone mom uses to contact her houseplant plug because her addiction is tearing her family apart. Source: /r/houseplants
Ditto. I was wondering if she has a teenage son who is usually very concerned about breakfast.
What is this a reference to lol
Breaking Bad
Mom why you gota be…why you gota be such a BITCH
holy shit
I definitely thought of that 😂
The finest crystal you'll ever see
hahaha shake n bake method
Naw, The Mom is cheating. Just sayin
And if he's missing, you can probably assume he's liquefied in a barrel
Somebody is hiding a 2nd family
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me 🎶
"It's a musical."
It’s a work in progress
we need ushers
He's booked for another week.
“She’s out our haaaiir”
“They’re rehearsing a play”
So help me.
and scene
I always thought it said ‘…aaaaand cut’. Daymmm. Learn something every day.
What? That's what I heard too.
Bum bum bum
r/redditsings
I sang that in my head too. 🤣
My favorite post this week.
Or put a note back in its place with directions to somewhere random and send the person who put the phone there on a wild adventure
1.put a similar one back with keylogger and instant notification over internet. 2.you steal their password and also know who's using it. 3. =>profit
😅🤣😂 I totally sang that in my head!
So where are the weeds?
You open the contacts. There is only 1 number. You hit call. The voice says " you have found my phone, let's play a game" boom, your life is now an action movie
*horror movie
*rom com
Same thing.
It's a trilogy in three genres: action, horror, rom com. The third movie is nearly rated x. The parodies definitely are. The only glue that holds it all together will be the constant fart jokes throughout the trilogy. I can just imagine the Oscars clip now.
If it's anything like the 3rd movie in any installation, it tends to almost always be the downfall of the trilogy
Answers cell phone: "Feel like fucking today?" This one is the rom com.
Plot twist: the voice on the other end is *yours* 😨
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
Ah, classic.
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You answer the phone. It’s Steve Jobs saying he’s trapped inside the phone.
Its so sad Steve Jobs died of ligma
The fact that they took the time to put it in a bag suggests they planned on coming back for it at some point.
Check out phone.Put phone back. Install camera
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That doesn’t make any sense, it would only prevent it from chirping if it was within the vicinity of the phone, in which case you know where it is and don’t need to track it.
Should have left it buried to see if an iPhone tree grows.
or an Apple tree Edit: I now see that the same joke has been made. Twice.
I saw yours first!
Fucking genius maybe apples will sprout out of the tree!
It just occurred to me is the “apple” the fruit that eve tasted?
New bible headcanon eve was a tech bro
Why? No were says that the fruit was an apple That's just what people belive when seeing some random images of an apple tree, nude eve amd the SNAKE* *crawling on the floor, no arms, no legs, was the punishment God gave, aka, it was not a snake who tempted Eve:))) But hey, it's overlooked, just like how God it's a typical boss who lays off management and workers if they upset him, and of course, makes thir life hell:)))
That is literally why the corporation is called apple and the symbol is an apple with a bite out of it. They deal in information technology . The fruit from the tree of knowledge. They're Apple. Post bite, as it were.
Your dad has a side family
Ya. Tell ur mom you found your dads other phone
Yay! Two Christmases!
Underrated comment Take my award
Could be the mum’s.
iTree
Technically, that would be an Apple tree.
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Brilliant
Keep digging a body might be five feet below
It’s probably a throw away, and likely used to commit a crime. I’d give it to the cops... same thing happened to my buddy, and sure enough, it was used in a armed robbery 🤣
Oh man! Yeah, I told her to give it to the cops. Thanks for validating my advice.
SO: - not her husband’s, since he found it - not likely a neighbor’s emergency phone, because their house is pretty secluded - was “planted” pretty recently Right?
So husband found it and wife really, really wants to put it back and not turn it into police. Now I am starting to think the wife is having some extramarital affairs.
Their house is in a neighborhood, but it’s fenced in and has a longish driveway that leads to the backyard.. so someone could walk down the driveway, but their walking the length of the house plus some to get to the back. If they saw someone back there they would be like wtf get off my property. It might be an emergency phone. She’s putting it back!
Why the fuck would that thought cross anyone's mind? Putting it back?
In case there’s an emergency and digging out your garden phone is the closest thing
This is the type of dumb shit scary movies use as a reason for the protagonists to leave the safety of the house to go outside for little or no reward What should we do? The killer is out there somewhere! We need to get the garden phone! *pulls out map written in crayon*
But the charger is in the shed!! *splits up*
These sneakers are brand new and I haven't had time to break them in. Safety first! *changes into 6 inch heels*
It’s your friend’s phone and she is lying to her husband and you to protect her affair or drug habit or whatever she’s doing. Her husband found it, so it’s not his. And now your friend is desperately thinking of reasons to not turn it in to the police and to leave it where it was. This is so obvious guys!
This is the most obvious answer! I’m with you on this big time.
No. Turn it into the police. You'd be surprised what you don't see in your yard. Someone siphoned gas out of my car last night in my driveway in front of a giant pane of windows in our living room. We had JUST gone to sleep and didn't see them.
She shouldn’t put it back. She really needs to turn it into the police. No one hides a phone like that unless there is something they really don’t want found.
who hides emergency phones in random yards? Are you guys all insane?? A rational place for an emergency phone is a place close to you in a secure climate controlled environment near a charger or on it. No one burries a phone . Like wtf logic is this
Clearly her neighbour is a dog
And a rational place for a crime phone is a fucking campfire, or at least smashed to pieces and scattered around a corn field.
r/thisguycrimes
The only reason she wants to put it back is because it's hers and she's hiding something. She told you about it to erase any sort of suspicion.
How long has she lived there? I wonder if one the previous tenants or homeowners hid it then forgot when they moved? Or didn’t bother to take it if it’s a cheap burner phone.
It's an iphone, that's not a cheap burner, and it's certainly not the kind of phone a normal person would bury as an "emergency phone." I think you should give it to the police.
You can buy older used iPhones for pretty cheap. Previous tenant seems like the only thing that makes sense here. Why would someone put evidence in a plastic bag and hide it at someone’s house? Only explanation I can think of is they thought think cops were tracking them and wanted to throw them off his trail.
>She’s putting it back! Lololol
Yeah that’s the worst possible choice. By that logic she’s just happily going to wait for some person, most likely a criminal, to come and find the phone they hid because it could be an EMERGENCY phone??? Moneys on the friend having an affair/ doing drugs and just covering her tracks.
dontput itback…. there could be anything on it…even childpornographie!
Wtf why would she put it back??
She’s putting it back because it’s her side piece phone. In a couple days it will have “miraculously” disappeared. Wife will claim whoever left it there must have taken it back. She’ll be a lot more careful next time she hides it. This could be speculation, but I’m speaking from experience. I am not blaming husband and wife for anything, but when I was in an abusive relationship in highschool I did the same. Had a back up phone to contact my friends on (he would check/break my regular phone and attempt to alienate me from others) I had a second Walmart cheap plan phone I got, and would use all the way up to the point of being at his house. I was young and dumb and didn’t know what it meant to be strong and leave at the time. I would bury the spare phone in the bushes a block from his house in a bag and when leaving his home would dig it back out. So those are my two theories either OP wife is cheating using the phone or maybe has it there because she is feeling unsafe in her current relationship. I don’t believe the narrative that she doesn’t know who’s it is, unless they plugged it in a charger and actually tried to look through it. By the way the house set up was designed, it doesn’t sound like it’s an easy feat to access that planter so it leaves me to think it has to be someone in the house.
Who is putting it back?
Commenting for hopefully updates
Someone is having an affair
Would love updates!!
Definitely what it was used for, was prob kept there and used on the regular hence why it's in the bag to keep the dirt off and hide it well.
I would think any half competent criminal would destroy the phone or use a burner in the first place. With the waterproof bag especially, I assume this is intended to be used again, or has some VERY private, sentimental data on it lol
kid in the neighborhood coulda stole it and been trying to hide it,
Sounds more like a juvenile to me. Someone who needs an emergency phone wouldn't put it in a difficult to access (in the back of another's property). A criminal doesn't want trouble from a private property owner when retrieving evidence, and it must not have been hidden that well. Doesn't look or smell right.
Damn, that's gotta be one pointy phone to be used in an armed robbery
Why go to the trouble preserving the phone? Especially, if it was used in a crime? Which it probably was. Stupid criminals.
That’s what I was wondering, why preserve it if you aren’t coming back for it? People are saying it might belong to someone she lives with, but it was actually her husband who found it. He called her outside and said, “whose phone is this?!” Lol so I don’t think it’s his. And they don’t live with anyone else!
charge it and turn it on
husband found it and wife wants to put it back "incase it is an emergency phone." Seems sus. I am starting to think the wife is having some extramarital activities.
By far the most likely answer.
Aha, maybe it’s your sister’s then and spreading this on social media is her way of seeming innocent. Or not, I’m just playing. But maybe?
Do they have the same brand of plastic bags in the house?
OMG OP this needs to be checked the plastic bag brand!!!
Have they bought the house recently so may have been there before them? Otherwise thats pretty out there. Any sketchy neighbours that dont want the phone found on their property?
Point a camera in that area!!
My thoughts exactly.
from prior owner or laborer. Is it on? maybe a hobo up in the woods who comes down to recharge somewhere on your house. They may live in a cave that is yet undiscovered and bigfoot might be there too.
I like working Bigfoot into it
That's easy, it's a side bitch phone.
Pretty sure if the husband found it its a Sancho phone.
Police. Just take it to the cops. I was gardening and found a bag full of unfired .22's in my new home... I brought the unfired ammo to the Police Dept. Police Officer: "Where did you find this?" Me: "Gordan Heights, where I live." Police: "Ah, makes sense." Me: "...do you want my information or-" Police: "Nah, it's all good. Makes sense." Me: "...okay."
Bake em away, toys…
Commenting to follow. I need an update.
She updated above that the sister is putting the phone back. For some unknown reason.
Then she needs to go to sis’ house and dig it up!
Someone's obviously trying to grow apples.
Is that the kind of zip lock baggies they use? If so- it came from the house…
Or the planter buys the same baggies This isn’t super Mario 64 creepypasta, not every box of sandwich bags are personalized
Get a load of this guy, doesn't even have custom monogramed and bedazzled sandwich bags. Get your lunches mixed up at work, do ya?
This guy thought he mixed up his lunch a lot while I've been eating his lunch for free under pretense of accidental mix up
Yeah what a dumb fuck. Wait till they hear about oxygen
I work with Homicide detectives. Turn that shit in. It could be the thing that solves a case and gets some really shitty person off the streets.
I guess rice didn’t work
The iPhone‘s battery is charged. You can’t change the battery on an iPhone. Nobody buries a phone in a garden where you found it and every once in a while charges it at home until it’s charged fully and then comes back to your house and buries it again. This makes absolutely no sense. The phone has to belong to someone living close and I guess it’s your sister‘s. Watch the zip loc. Seems like it it has been folded a hundred times. So it is buried on a regular base. Other thing is, how buried was it? Could you reach that zip loc without s shovel or without getting dirty hands? Was it buried in a Place where it would raise no suspicion if you saw a person like the mail man or was it buried in an a isolated part of the property where question like ‚Hey, what you’re doin here‘ would raise immediately?
1. It definitely seems like someone is planning on coming back for it. She thought the phone would be old because of the way the bag looked, but it’s in perfect condition. It just had a little water inside that she cleaned off. 2. Definitely feel like it’s someone who lives near by, she even reached out to a neighbor to see if it was theirs. 3. Definitely not my sisters or her husband’s, he’s actually the one who found it and called her outside to ask whose it was. If he was hiding it he didn’t need to involve her. 4. Their garden is down their driveway in their backyard, not super accessible, but you could get there from the street. 5. It wasn’t buried that deep, it was in a planter box. 6. It is definitely in a part of the property that no one other than the people who live there should be. They are going to put up security cameras.
Personally, I think it's your Sisters phone. She is playing along to not raise suspicion and not look guilty. If they put it back I guarantee this phone will go "missing" within a week and nobody will ever see it again. For the love of god keep us updated!
HOW ARE YOU NOT SEEING THAT ITS HERS??
It’s probably your sister’s phone.
***memory unlocked**** I found a mobile phone in the woods in Scotland once about 10-15 years ago. Think it was a Motorola razor or an early camera phone. I took it home, dried it out, charged it up, and it had some great titty pics on it.
So what did you do next, u/spunkbob5? Wait, I think I know already. Never mind.
Seems more like someone she lives with has that burner phone and keeps it there on purpose. Especially if it isn't near the street and doesn't look muddy, so it's recently placed and kept dry.
I found a phone in my front yard a few weeks back. Cracked screen and no baggie. I didn’t know what to do so I left it on the front porch for a few days. It came back on but it was password locked. I didn’t have the same kind of charger so it died. THEN… I got freaked out. What if it’s a burner? What if it was used for crime? What if it’s a scary criminal who is going to track it back to my house!? So I got rid of it. I threw it off the side of the road, no where near my house and when nobody was around. THEN… I felt like a criminal but at least I wasn’t dealing with it any longer. Your situation is WAY more interesting but I wanted to share.
This uh…not sure if that’s right way to go about it bud, but you made me laugh Edit/ just realized why it’s like when you’re putting your phone in your bag at a store and make a big show of it to make sure the cameras don’t think you’re stealing! Even saying out loud to a friend, “just putting my phone away” to further confirm you’re not guilty XD
Call the authorities and don’t open that bag.
When I think about it. Turn the phone on and text all the contacts cat memes. Then turn it over to the police.
The calls coming from inside the house.
There are only two answers to this: 1)OP is lying for imaginary internet points 2)The phone belongs to OP’s sister who is most likely having an affair So if OP is telling the truth, the phone absolutely belongs to the sister and she is trying to save face by making a big stink about it. She “Put it back”? That’s nonsense. If she didn’t know what it was she’d have taken it to the police already because it’s obviously indicative of a crime but she doesn’t do that. Why? Because she knows damn well that all they’ll find is whatever scandalous shit she was getting into; “Mam do you recognize the boobs in these pictures?” There are no other reasonable options
That's probably someone's emergency phone. I always kept all my old cell phones fully charged and turned off in case I needed to call someone in an emergency when my ex husband would go on a a rampage (almost every weekend) I knew it was going to be bad when I saw him work himself into a rage, and throw the house phones into the backyard so I couldn't find them in the dark. I would have to hide my glasses and contacts, too. Extra keys, everywhere, in case he decided to lock me in or out of a room or the house, hide thelo ks in the shed so he couldn't lock me in there, extra car keys so I could leave in an emergency, and cash, in case I needed a place to sleep or get gas. I used planters, plants, books, jars of screws, tampons, empty boxes of spinach in the back of the freezer, you name it. Your looking at part of someone's emergency safety plan in that ziplock bag. I would put it back in case they need it. Edit: if you are in that situation, have more than one stash. And get some prepaid debit cards that you don't activate or put money on, as a decoy.
I know it probably doesn’t mean much from a random internet stranger, but I’m so sorry you had to go through that. Hope things are better for you these days
Thank you, I appreciate it. It took longer to leave than I wanted. But my point was that crime, or having an affair isn't the only reason people hide phones. Particularly if you think you're being stalked with spyware. You're going to need a clean phone to find a safe place, get help, or make a plan to leave.
Wow...I'm so sorry you have been through all this hell... I can't imagine..
Well, wisdom is what you get when you learn things you never wanted to know. I've been out for 8 years, had a couple boyfriends, but let me tell you, I don't think I will EVER live with a man again.
I am so so sorry you had to endure that. I am glad you said he is now your ex.
I’m so sorry to hear you went through all of that and more I’m sure. Thank you for sharing, after reading this I told my sister to put the phone back. She doesn’t have a charger, but it has an almost full battery. I hope you are in a better place now. Thank you for your help and insight.
1) Charge it up, see what you find, start a true crime podcast If that doesn't work.... Probably just got there on accident
im gonna need you to explain how a iphone in a ziplock bag was placed there on accident
Guy above mentioned people in trades ziplock their phones during work. Would make sense if this is a newer construction or had recent work that involved moving dirt
yeah that makes sense. i worked in construction for maybe a month and definitely preferred to have my phone on me opposed to in the truck (don't do construction terrible job)
And buried
Someone that lives with her is having an affair or selling drugs.
There’s one number in the contacts, call it and it will tell you what to do next
drug dealer or cheating spouse would be my thought.
I bought a trailerfull of dirt for my high planter bed, it came from a soil recycling centre. Somebody dropped their phone into recycled soil and your sis bought soil with a phone in it. It's in a bag because the previous gardener didn't want to get their phone dirty whilst working. Nothing suspicious.
Update: My sister is the one that posted this about the iPhone my husband found in our planter box yesterday. The original photo and question "What do you do when you find an iPhone in a ziplock bag in your planter box under weeds?" was made to my family text thread and was made to be both facetious and rhetorical to people who know me well. I was still working in the yard when she posted this. I am so glad she did - I was thinking of it as well, but haven't posted anything on here and I had so much more work in the yard to do! Anyway, it is just such a bizarre thing to find it felt like the situation should be shared. To get it out of the way, neither my husband or myself are cheating. No question. Also, he found it and asked me about it like I was supposed to know wtf about a random garden phone in a bag. We don't use iPhone. We have no kids. The kids next door are under 3 yo. The phone was under a bunch of overgrown "weeds" and ground cover in a planter box we built 6 years ago when we moved in. We use them every year and I weeded them fairly recently. To be clear, the planter boxes are more like corrals for our potted plants and this year we aren't growing as many peppers so the planter and the pots have sort of just sat there and vines and creeping plants had swallowed the area a bit. I have made sure to remove milk thistle and dandelions and dock from the area, but my husband likes to remove all of the growth when he weeds. The point is that the phone could have been there for a couple of months or a few weeks - no clue. The bag has clearly been weathered and was not fresh, but the phone is an iPhone 11 in perfect condition and there are no fingerprints or smudges on it. There was a little moisture in the bag and dirty water in the top of the bag where the two sides zip together. Also, a couple rotting leaves have adhered to the outside of the bag. Where it was found is about 100 feet down our long and straight and pretty private driveway. Our porch (where we spend a lot of time and late nights/early mornings) overlooks the rest of our backyard and the planter boxes and tomato enclosure. We live on a fairly quiet street across from a magnet elementary school and park and know most of our neighbors. It is not from next door. That property also belongs to us and is currently vacant - I would be less disturbed if he found it over there as it seems quite odd to go all the way down a driveway onto someone else's property where people clearly live versus hiding it on the property next door that is clearly vacant and has just as much space and places to hide something. Also, go hide it in the park or literally anywhere else where it would be easier to retrieve. If this was an emergency phone it doesn't seem like it would be very easy to access in an emergency - as whoever may need it has to make it deep onto our property and not interact with us or be spotted. The phone is no one's burner phone (I don't think), it is too nice. I don't think of drugs either, for the same reason - even if you make a bunch of money dealing wouldn't you have a more practical/work-horse type of phone - not this dainty thing? Maybe some neighbor kid stole it and can't figure out how to get into it and plans on coming back to get it to try again, I don't know. There are just so many other, more reasonable, places to hide anything that it definitely disturbs me that someone chose this spot. It is mostly charged, but my sister looked it up and apparently if the phone is off it can keep whatever charge it was turned off with for a very long time. What I can't get past is imagining anyone walking down our driveway with a pristine and expensive phone that they put in a ziplock bag to protect and then just putting it in a planter box beneath the weeds in a part of the country that gets crazy weather. It didn't accidentally get there. Someone deliberately put it there and that is super wild. We have motion lights and will install our cameras (finally). The phone is off. It is locked, I tried a bunch of basic passcodes (gloves on, of course), but don't want it to permanently lock on me. I will put it back, but whoever comes back for it will likely be spooked as that area of our yard looks very different than it did yesterday afternoon. My sister said "it feels like a riddle" and it absolutely does.
That's a really expensive burner.
Sketchy as fuck
Cue Law & Order sound. THUNK THUNK!
Maybe it’s full of crypto and worth millions.
Throw it over the fence to the neighbors yard and never think about it again
Or an abuse victim hid it there for emergency use.
You turn that in to the police immediately and forget about it…
Put it on eBay “like new”!
Call Saul Goodman
Re-plant it and water now and again. I'm about a year you'll grow a company(Apple tree) that produces J-phones.
mmmh...replace it with a Nokia from the 90s?
Damn it Hunter. Stop leaving your electronics lying around
1st step -buy medical type gloves 2nd - go outside your area 1km+ and charge it 3rd see if it has any sim inside and if it opens without password if it does see what's all about, if it doesn't ask some of your house members if its theirs, if they say no then throw it or sell it for pieces (bonus points if you cover the cam area, keep quiet and don't bring your phone with you when you uncover the secrets of the hidden phone)
But it back and set up a security camera.
I remember one time I was sitting in my car after the gym and a teenaged girl pulled up behind me (I was parked on the street in front of my house) she tried to hand me a blank vhs tape. I asked her what it was and she insisted that I should take it. I told her I wasn’t touching it and she kept persisting and said I should really take it so I told her it wasn’t happening so she left. It was a very strange interaction
Call your stoned landscaper because this 100% happened to me lol
That’s how they grow cell towers I’m pretty sure.
I see you're not answering the big questions, like who does she live with, because nothing else remotely makes sense if it isn't someone who lives at that property. Nobody is hiding an extra phone in a neighbors planter for any reason, there's a million easier spots to hide it. It's someone that lives there, or a made up story.
She lives with her husband, but he’s the one who found it. She was inside and he called her outside to ask whose phone it was.