I just got back from a coffee run, needed the espresso shots in it this morning.  Walking down the sidewalk to the parking lot, I saw something interesting.

On the outer sides of the two side wings of my building, there is a square place where the building dips in to form a mini courtyard of sorts.  One of my study windows opens onto one of these "mini courtyards". as do other windows belonging to other apartments.  In the one outside my window, the pipes (to release steam) from the basement boiler come up from the ground.  If I leave via my back door, I pass the area on my way to the parking lot.  Kind of like this, with the smaller lines being the boiler pipes:

 

Anyway, as I passed the area, I noticed something under the part of the pipes closest to the building.  I took a closer look.  The object was a small plaster statue, about fifteen inches high, of a seated long-haired man... kind of like a bad copy of the seated Zeus at Olympia.  It had been placed face down and loosely wedged under the pipe, so there is no chance that it just landed there by accident.  What is completely intriguing me is "Why?"

My first thought was a Wiccan spell of some kind.  It looks like the kind of ritual placement of objects that my old roommate used to do.  I'm not convinced that she really is a witch (too unstable), but the way she used to fall bass ackward into money or luck of some kind makes me wonder if she got it right on occasion.  But, I've never seen any other indication of spellwork outside the building. 

I also wondered if someone who wasn't going to be home placed it there (trying to hide it) for someone to pick up later?  Or a practical joke on the statue's owner perhaps?  I even looked underneath to see if anything was hidden in the hollow part of the statue.  Nothing was hidden there.

After I picked it up to examine it, I put it carefully back in the position I found it.  It was still there when I returned from my coffee run, and it is still there now.  Fortunately, my desk faces that particular study window, so I have the blinds open and I'm watching.  If it is still there tonight, I may move it just to see what happens. 
 

 

 

Oh don't worry, it might just be a troll. They sometimes get high on antifreeze that leeks out of cars and fail to hide before the sun comes up. Than, of course, they turn to stone. 

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Jedem Das Seine.

Orkster:

Oh don't worry, it might just be a troll. They sometimes get high on antifreeze that leeks out of cars and fail to hide before the sun comes up. Than, of course, they turn to stone. 

lol... I didn't think of that possibility. I didn't know that trolls sometimes abuse antifreeze.  :D

Any other theories?

The statue is still there, by the way. 
 

So far, I've only found two published spells about upside down statues.  The first is about burying a St. Joseph statue with the head facing east to sell a house, and this statue is not buried, not of St. Joseph and the head is not facing east.  The second is a prayer to St. Expedite (I didn't know there was such a saint), but the statue is supposed to be hung upside down, not placed on the ground and there is no offering with the statue, as the spells seems to require.

I did have another thought.  I wonder if someone could have put it there to set up the props for a treasure hunt?

This is really driving me nuts, in a good way. 

have you heard of geocaching?

 Another alternative is to carefully reposition the statue in a conspicuous way, or replace it with similar one but of opposite gender... or take it away and replace with "back in a minute" note... let whoever placed it go nuts guessing what happened :-)
 

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Jedem Das Seine.

Orkster:

have you heard of geocaching?

 Another alternative is to carefully reposition the statue in a conspicuous way, or replace it with similar one but of opposite gender... or take it away and replace with "back in a minute" note... let whoever placed it go nuts guessing what happened :-)
 

Now that is a fabulous idea.  I'll wait till cover of darkness.  :D 

A little of clay in the right place and a note "I like you" will make anyone start scratching own head. Or may be not little...

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Sergey, it would have me scratching and cleaning my gun :-)

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Jedem Das Seine.

Ok, this is driving me crazy.  The statue disappeared last year a few days after my last post about it.  The neighbors I suspected moved about six months ago. 

Fast forward to 2009.... 

A few weeks ago, I walked outside and there was a cord draped over and wrapped around the pipe, like a cord cut from an old roll up shade or miniblind.  I didn't think much of it, assumed it was trash that must have blown over after the dumpster divers ripped open garbage bags or something.  I threw it away and thought no more about it.

This morning I looked out the window and an old coffee percolator (the stove top kind) is sitting on the pipe.  I looked and nothing is in the pot but the pipe and filter.  Someone is using objects on that pipe to send messages of some kind... or they are trying to drive me crazy.  But, nobody in this building knows me well enough to know that kind of thing will drive me crazy.  Just strange......

I am pretty sure an old coffee percolator carries no particular wiccan significance....

However,  Me thinks someone is messin with whoever is moving stuff off the pipes.

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Make each day count to improve yourself and those around you

Leah, you need to set up a monitoring equipment. But that may bring more mysteries than answers... You never know what you find.

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darn...time to set up new drop point.... this one is blown...

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- Независимость - это когда в 20-й раз наступаешь на одни и те же грабли, а русские уже ни при чем....

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