Sunday, August 29, 2010

The Speckled Band

Last week we read "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." It was very interesting, and even eerie, to think about the way that Dr. Roylott killed his stepdaughter.

Think of a time when you and your family were puzzled. Describe the mystery and how you solved it.

For example, one summer we kept smelling a terrible odor in our basement den. I cleaned and cleaned, but the odor would not go away. We sniffed and sniffed and tried to find what the odor was coming from. Finally, my husband decided that it wasn't really in the house, but that it was coming from the air conditioning vents. He opened them up to clean them out and found a dead rat in there! As it was decomposing, it smelled. Every time the air came on, it spread the smell through the house. It was really icky, but after that the smell went away! Oh, my.

44 comments:

  1. One day I was on the front porch and I heard a tweeting sound. It sounded like it was coming from the wreath on the front door. We had looked tons of times but couldn't find anything. We finally looked again and saw some new born birds. They were so cute and that is how it happened.

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  2. One day i was walking in my huge back yard, when i heard a pecking noise i looked and looked i saw nothing. So, then i looked closer and saw a blue wood pecker in a pine tree. When i found the pecker i was very reveled. It was beautiful and that is what happened.

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  3. One day, me, my dad, Elise and my grandpa went on a walk. My sister (Elise) found a cocoon and it was big - probably 4 inches long. We did not know what it was. So, we took it home and cut it open! It looked odd on the inside but we saw there was an egg in it. We taped it up and put it in a box. Then, Elise gave it to Ms. Collins to see if it would hatch into a butterfly. She thought it was a moth. She kept it in her classroom for about two weeks. Then, it hatched into the largest moth you have ever seen. We took the moth home. We searched the internet and found out that it was a type of moth that can not eat and stays alive for only three days. We let it go so that it could be free before it died. It lived by our house that night and then we never saw it again. And, that is my mystery.

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  4. One day we smelt a stinky smell in the garage. A few weeks later, we were making shelves for the garage and we moved everything in the garage. Where we were going to put the shelf, we found a fuzz ball. And so we got the vacuum cleaner and started sucking up all the fuzz. And then the body of a dead rat hit the vacuum pipe and it got stuck on the pipe that sucks everything up! Now we know what the stinky smell was in our garage!

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  5. Last year we had had a bird's nest with four little eggs in our grill. Now we try to prevent getting a bird's nest in our grill. Anyway, after we noticed the eggs were there, we just let them be, several days later they had hatched. They had gotten to a big size, when one day they weren't any cheeping noises from the grill. We opened it, and there were no birds in it. A week later I was in the pool while my dad cleaned the grill, I was just about to come out when I heard a scream. I looked out and Dad yelled at me stay in the pool! I got back in the pool and I noticed Dad had some garden tools with him. And as I watched him jump up and down screaming and yelling I noticed there was a snake on the ground. I saw Dad reach for the shovel and I knew I was never going to see that snake ever again. He was scraping and slapping and hitting, it was very funny. When Dad said it was OK to come out there was a poor, broken boned, lifeless little snake on the ground. I looked at Dad and he said he had four lumps in his stomach, and we knew that the lumps were the little birds. I stood there and looked at the snake and then at Dad and asked him, "you really don't like snakes do you?" He laughed and said, "I hate snakes". We are more careful about waching our grill now, but it was fun watching my dad.

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  6. One day we were sitting on the couch in my living room. Then we heard this noise coming from our air vent. It sounded like little claws. We all thought that it was just a noise and would go away soon. But no, we kept hearing it for about a week. A couple of days later I was looking down the air vent to see if I could see what was making that noise. I didn't see anything. Then my Dad came in the room and I asked him what he thought the noise was. He said probably a little animal, like a raccoon. My Mom opened the small enterance to the vent outside to see if it was a little animal. If it was she thought it would run back into the woods. The next day we didn't hear the sound.

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  7. One time, our family when to church and the house alarm went off! The police came and went through the house and they didn't find ANYTHING!We found out that my mom was drying clothes on the door and set off the motion sensor!

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  8. About 2 years ago, we heard a meow in the basement. We heard it for a while and we looked, and looked, and looked. Finaly, we all went to the basement and looked all around until we heard it again! We looked up at the bricks and there was a cat in our basement!!! we let it stay for the night (inthe hole in our bricks), and put styrofoam in the hole, and it never came back (in the hole!)!

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  9. One day, I went to our game room and it smelled really bad. I looked everywhere. Behind the beanbag, under the pinball machine, but we could not find it! I went and got my dad and he said it was up in the rafters, and you cannot get up there without falling into the room below it... Eventually, we just let it decompose, and it doesn't smell bad anymore!

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  10. One time when i was watching t.v. on the weekend, I started to hear a beeping noise. It was like an alarm or something, then it stopped. The weekdays went by and on that same day from last week,i heard it again. I went up to my room and nearly turn it upside down. I couldn't find it. So I had to wait a whole week again. Hear it is the day i would find it i went up to my room nearly flipped it upside down again and found it. It was my watch i lost and thats the story of the bepping noise.

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  11. The Mystery Where my Little Brother Went: One time my little brother got into the bathroom and nobody knew where he was until my mom said where's Hialey and we all freaked except for me, and then after a few hours I didn't think he was playing around any more so I started looking for him and he was still around one and a half years old so couldn't cry for help, and then I looked in one of the places he probably never would be and he was in the bathroom and I only knew cause it was locked so I called my mom and dad and the door was made with a hole instead of a key hole because the house was pretty old and because it was a apartment so we had to get a cloths hanger and un swirl and un bend it and put in the hole and pick the lock and we got in the end. the end

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  12. My family and i stayed in a cabin in Gatlinburg. It was the first night we were sleeping there, and we kept on hearing a pecking noise.We got up at 5:30am looking were the noise was coming from. My little brother and i went outside with a flashlight. We shined it on the wood and we saw a woodpecker! I walked a little closer and there were two. It was really cool. That was the story of the woodpeckers.

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  13. Mrs.Burris,I had a mystery once my dad lost his keys. It didn't take long to figure it out. It was on the trampoline.

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  14. One night at my house,there was this squeak! squeak! sound.We all got up and started looking for this source of the mysterious squeaking sound.We heard it the next night and the next. I finally said to my dad "look in the attic!" so he did. (by the way we have these fans in our attic.) And it was the fans squeaking!So my dad put dw40 in them and they stopped squeaking. the end! Thus ends the case of the mysterious squeaking sound.

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  15. One day last year, I came home and went up to my room. I looked behind me and kept walking, then I triped over something. I looked in front of me and I saw my room was a mess. So, I followed the trail into my sisters room and discovered a pile of my stuff on her bed. Thats the story of the time I solved the case of my messy room.

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  16. One day last summer me and my old babysiter(Molly) needed to wash dishes and fold clothes. So i folded clothes and Molly washed dishes.then we heard a chair move and something on the roof from outside!!!!!!!!!!!
    So the chair did move and there was something on the roof Mable (my dog) moved the chair and a limb fell off the tree and that is the time my dog scared me.

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  17. Last Monday my mom told me to put my phone away, then start on my homework. Two days later after cheer practice my mom asked, "Where is your phone? I've been calling you." I checked my backpack and couldn't find it. When I got home I looked everywhere. Saturday I looked for it at home, in the car, and my grandmother's house. I had no luck finding it. Sunday evening, my mom was looking for something in my binder... and there it was... MY PHONE! My phone was missing for six whole days. I did not know my phone was with me the whole time.

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  18. When i was little i had a dog named Maggie and she loved to hunt.On Easter morning we found her eating a dead rabbit.We did not know where it came from. We were pretty sure she killed it. After that we changed her name to The Great Rabbit Hunter

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  19. Once me and my family were riding to Florida when we started to smell this horrid smell it was coming from my sisters seat.so when got my grandma's house we checked the car to see what this horrid smell was coming from. then we found it was my sisters stinky gym socks.

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  20. One time my hamster was running in its ball and it opened the ball we were looking and looking but could not find it :0. Finally we found it in my toy box :)

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  21. One time my family kept having to buy dog food after 1 week and I was the one feeding him, I was only feeding him half a bowl every day so one night i heard a rustling noise so i went in to the garage and there were ~20 squirrels eating the dog food.

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  22. Once when i was at my neighbors house we were watching TV and this huge bird flew in to the room then we remembered we forgot to shut the door. we were really scared we were running around the house screaming like babies, we will never forget that day.

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  23. one time my hamster got out of his cage it was really early in the morning my dad was the only one up and he had just got up and he was fixing his coffee and he heard a skeaking noise he know what it was but he went and looked for it but he couldent find it but then he found my hamster around in his office and then when i woke up he told me the whole story.

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  24. One time there was a mouse in my house at Christmas behind my toys. My cat was sniffing behind my toys finally we looked behind my toys and there was a mouse my dad opened the door and let my cat chase it out of the house.That's the we found a mouse in my house

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  25. One day my dad could not find his keys. He looked everywhere he still could not find them. For a while I was like dad,dad,dad are those your keys in your mouth. Then we all started laughfing.

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  26. One time, at the beach, my leg started itching and it would burn when it touched water.My dad found a big red mark.We tried neosporin. Finally we asked a doctor it was a jelly fish sting.He said water and vinegar would help.

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  27. One time we heard a noise in our garage. When we walked out there, it turned out to be my dogs playing tug of war!!

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  28. One day my family went to a hotel and the door to the balkany was open and we shut it and locked it.We came back from dinner and it was open again . And it was just the wind

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  29. One time me and my mom and dad smelled somthing really bad in our house. My mom thought it was coming from our front porch,so she sprayed it with air freshener. But it wasnt coming from the front porch. Months later my mom took our speaker out so she can paint the walls. But when she took out the speaker she found a mouse skull in the speaker. So thats what was causing the bad smell.

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  30. Sevral years ago my family. Saw that all the cat food was dissapearing. So we thot it was a bird or somthing. But one time we came outside and saw a senior citizan possom! So we called animal control and they took him to the forest. And berfore the animal control. My dad got a pic of him hissing at my dad!

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  31. One time before my baseball game we couldn't find my brothers glove.So my mom called my dad.My dad looked all over for it.A few weeks later we realized the GPS was gone.Then we figured out they where stolen.

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  32. One time when my cousin Emmie lost her softball bag at softball practice.When she got home we saw Emmie crying, then we asked her and she said somebody stole my bag.And at the last softball game she found it laying there.And when I saw her she was happy she found it.The End!

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  33. Once there were all these bugs comiing out of no where. We looked everywere to try to find were they were coming from. But when we looked in the basement there it was all of the bugs where in the corner with MOLD!! It was gross!!!But we didn't know were the mold was comig from. After about two months we found out that it was a pipe that broke from the kitchin. It leaked through the walls all the way down to the basement. Thats the time were we found mold.

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  34. ONE time,I smelled this horible smell.it was milk.The milk smelled and tasted terrible,so we decided to throw it away.

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  35. Here is the time at a sleep over. Me and my friend were watching TV then we heard this big crash out side we hesitated to go outside but then we got our air soft guns and went out. WE went around the corner and found out that it was just a bat trying to chase something. That is the time of a sleep over.

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  36. One day I was laying in bed and I heard a buzz so I walked downstairs and it was a huge mesquite. So I got a towel and walked around the house saying "Here mesquite come to Matthew you little pest". Then I heard it! I got the towel ready then SMACK I got it.

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  37. my mom ate this thing of penutbuter and a fish from the tank and it started swimming in circles we were wondering what was going on so we looked it up on line aperntly that kind of fish has some penut atraction i dont remember what kind of fish it was couse i was like six but it was weird THE END

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  38. One time I was at my baseball game . I was wearing my sunglasses. When my game was over we went home. I set them on the counter. When I came back to get them,then they weren't there when I came back! So I asked my dad, and he was washing them for me!

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  39. Ewwww a rat!!!! i bet that smelled awful! One time when i was in kindergarden natalie and i were at our basketball game and my mom put my sister in the stroller and went back to get something and she turned around and the stroller started rolling with my sister in it me and natalie were running trying to catch her and finally we caught her!!!

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  40. One night I was over my dad's house and heard a noise that sounded like snoring in the middle of the night. It woke me up with a scare. I didn't know were it was coming from. I looked all over the house and I found nothing. I even looked under the couch. Finally, I peaked in my dad's room. Can you believe it? My dad was snoring. I creaped out of his room quietly. That morning I told him what happened and he couldn't believe. He said I forgot to tell you that I snore. Loud too.

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  41. One time I heard of this thing were you can rent an elf from Santa. I tried it and one night he wrote all over our mirror with tooth paste and I had to clean ALL of it and it practically covered the entire mirror! I finally finished (this is in winter break) and my baby sitter and I was panicking because I lost Santa's little helper, Chapmen, and I was sure that Santa was mad. It was eventually time to have breakfast "I'll eventually find him" I thought my baby sitter opened the freezer and she screamed I jumped out of my chair stared in the freezer and there he was! Chapmen was in the freezer! I took him out and tossed him up, because he was freezing cold, but I was still happy.

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  42. One time,my mom,my dad,my brother and I used to live in Clarksville and there was a tornado coming to us. We didn't know what to do, so we just lived the day like it would be a normal day, and the tornado went right over our house with no damage. The only damage there was, was lots of branches outside. It was pretty scary.

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  43. It was a smell so gross,so disgusting, it made you want to upchuck! And guess what, it was from my closet!We didn't know what it was,when my dad remembered that a family of birds had moved into a crease in our roof.We finally figured out that they had laid some eggs,that didn't hatch,which equals ROTTEN EGGS!!It was so gross!We had to move all of my clothes to the exercise room!Finally we got rid of the smell.HALLELUJAH!!

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  44. Ronald Reagan was born in Tampeko, Illinois. His father worked in Pitney General store. They wanted a toy train with a red caboose they woke in the middle of the night he woke up and found there mom and dad playing a with a toy locomotive with a red caboose. On Christmas they got a toy train and it had a red caboose. They moved to Chicago because their dad got a job there and they hated it. Then they moved again because their dad got a job. And then there job got a job at the Pitney General store again and they moved to Tampeko.

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