An elderly woman has been left baffled after finding dozens of EGGS buried in her garden over the last year. <br /><br />Rose Ritchie, 78, first came across an egg last summer when she spotted a shell while weeding.<br /><br />Weeks later she found another egg lying on the grass in her back garden while another was in a plant pot. <br /><br />One another occasion she found one of the shop-bought eggs on the edge of her pond at her home in the village of Studley, in Warwickshire.<br /><br />At first she thought they could be animal or bird eggs but the mystery took a twist when she noticed they were all stamped with different dates.<br /><br />Rose said: “At first I thought a fox might have stolen them from a hen house and hidden them here for another time.<br /><br />“Then I saw they had the Lion mark on them meaning they must have been bought from a shop. <br /><br />“At the time there was a big Tesco at the top of the road but when that closed these <br />eggs kept turning up.<br /><br />“They’ve turned up everywhere and sometimes they are very well hidden.<br /><br />“On one occasion last year I was doing some weeding and I dug down a couple of inches into the soil and I spotted this pink thing.<br /><br />“I thought it was a stone until I picked it out of the dirt and realised it was an egg.”<br /><br />Rose’s family took to Facebook in a bid to solve the mystery, and was flooded with bizarre explanations and wild theories.<br /><br />Some social media users suggested an animal was stealing the eggs from a nearby shop before stashing them in Rose’s garden.<br /><br />Meanwhile others said a prankster may be behind the eggs and others claimed it was a form of witchcraft.<br /><br />Rose, who celebrated her diamond wedding anniversary with husband Joe, 82, in March, added: “It’s an amusing mystery but I’d love to know the truth. <br /><br />“I don’t think it’s a prank because most of the eggs have been found in the back garden which is gated so someone would have to climb over each time.<br /><br />“Someone even suggested that it’s a type of witchcraft whereby eggs are left at people’s homes to steal their happiness.<br /><br />“I don’t really believe that theory. I personally think it must be an animal or a bird which is stealing the eggs from a supermarket on a fairly regular basis.<br /><br />“The eggs are always unbroken and have stamps on them.<br /><br />"We never eat them, instead I'm careful not to break them and I put them in the bin."<br /><br />Rosie and Joe are now setting up secret cameras in a bid to find out who or what is hiding the eggs in their garden.
