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72-year-old Stephen McKears from the English village of Severn Beach, county of Gloucestershire, faced last month with a very a bizarre mystery that seriously puzzled a man and even made me scared, doubting my own mental health.
A senior citizen noticed that someone began to tidy up his garage in the dark time of the day when the owner is sleeping. Unknown intruder put it into an empty plastic ice cream container nightly various metal parts from the table: nuts, bolts, screws, screws, etc.
McKears poured these items back every morning, however on the next day they invariably returned to the box. Any the man did not find traces of penetration into the garage, so he decided install a surveillance camera there to solve this riddle, which seriously began to bother him. And what was his surprise when the device that night captured a mysterious cleaner in all the glory. It turned out to be an ordinary house mouse, which doing such a strange cleaning ritual for her every night.
The rodent even dragged a chain from an electric drill and a nozzle for a hose, and also unsuccessfully tried to cope with objects twice as heavy as themselves. Why did the animal do this, remains for McKears a complete mystery. Mice are known to have the habit of creating nests in a human home, however it is doubtful that this little animal wanted to build a house of bolts and nuts, which, moreover, she did not try to put together somehow especially comfortable for yourself. In any case, Stephen calmed down and even came up with, how to thank a caring mouse: he began to feed her …
