For more than a year, at the start of every month, the people of Beeston, a town in the United Kingdom, have been finding a plate of peeled bananas in exactly the same place.

Between the first and second day of each month, a plate stacked with 16 to 20 peeled bananas always shows up on the corner of Abbey Road and Wensor Avenue in Beeston and residents have no idea who is behind the strange custom or its meaning. All everyone can say is that the banks have been appearing in the same spot for more than a year, and despite several signs asking whoever puts them there to stop, it doesn’t look like the mysterious fruit is going away anytime soon. Some have speculated that the plate of honey-drizzled bananas has some sort of religious meaning, while others believe that it’s just someone feeding the local wildlife, although no animal ever touches them. So far, no one has come up with a real answer to this quirky mystery.

“We would love to know why they’re being left there. We’ve all been discussing it in our WhatsApp group, we’re completely puzzled,” one local woman told The Guardian newspaper.

“It’s quite strange,” another resident said. “There’s always a big bunch of them peeled on the plate and they always appear to be drizzled with what seems to be honey. I thought it was perhaps a religious thing at first […], or maybe someone just likes to feed the insects or something.”

The mystery of Beeston’s peeled bananas has divided the small English town, with some residents apparently excited about this thing that no one can explain, and others who just find the whole thing disgusting and annoying and would do anything to make it stop.

“They are very annoying, I have no idea why they’re here,” one Beeston woman told the BBC. “It’s so strange and disgusting, someone puts it there, and I don’t like it.”

 

“The bananas are clearly just bought, and the wildlife doesn’t touch them. They go moldy – it’s gross,” someone else chimed in.

It’s hard to believe that no one has ever seen the person leaving the plate of peeled bananas in the same place, but now that the bizarre story has gone viral, it’s safe to say they’ll be keeping a close eye on that Beeston intersection moving forward.