Weird Mystery of the appearing bananas

[Freija]

15 honey-drizzled bananas appear on a plate every month on a street corner​

"Two men sat in a car on Abbey Road in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, on the night of February 1, 2025, waiting to catch a ghost. Luke Roberts and Jai Brewer call themselves the "banana hunters," and they had come to watch a particular street corner opposite a church. For more than a year (some neighbors said two), a plate holding 15 to 20 peeled, honey-drizzled bananas had been turning up there overnight on the first or second of every month. No one had ever seen who left it. The stakeout ended at sunrise without a sighting. Somehow, bananas appeared anyway."

The case is documented in a Wikipedia entry called Beeston bananas, a small monument to one town's patient weirdness. The plate sits there in the same condition every month: peeled, whole, untouched by squirrels or foxes or magpies, which is its own quiet riddle.

A local volunteer who picks up litter has tried gentle interventions, hoping to discourage the practice without confrontation. It hasn't worked. On March 2, 2025, the plate moved a few streets over to Albert Road near Broadgate Road, as if whoever is doing this is keeping an internal calendar and willing to adjust the venue.

Theories include a religious offering and an attempt to feed wildlife, though Roberts and Brewer reject the offering idea, and no animals have eaten them. What remains is a person or group who has gotten up before dawn every month for at least a year, walked to the same corner of one English suburb, set down a plate of peeled fruit, and gone home without being seen

From Wikipedia

Beeston bananas - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Beeston bananas are a plate of peeled bananas that appeared on a street corner in Beeston, Nottinghamshire every month for over a year, as of January 2025. Until March 2025, the plate appeared at the junction of Abbey Road and Wensor Avenue, opposite a church. It is unknown who places the bananas.

The plate of around 15 to 20 bananas[3] appears overnight between the first and second day of each month, or early in the morning on the second day of the month. They are always peeled, and always whole. On 2 March 2025, the bananas were found in a different location in Beeston.

n January 2025, residents said that the bananas had been placed on the corner for over a year. One resident claims they have been appearing for two years, and that they are always drizzled with honey.

Prior to 2 January 2025, a volunteer litter picker placed a notice at the site reading "Please, respectfully, no more bananas!". However, the plea was unsuccessful and the bananas duly re-appeared. The volunteer later removed the notice, stating that she did not want to make the issue into a feud.

Some locals reacted negatively, calling the fruits "annoying", or complaining that the bananas remain uneaten by wildlife and become mouldy. Other locals were unaware they existed. By 6 January 2025, journalists who visited the site found the 15 bananas abandoned in the hedgerow and the plate missing altogether. The bananas were discussed on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2.

 

[GRIZZ0317]

Almost sounds like an SCP lol. That's pretty crazy, is it still ongoing? I noticed the dates were in 2025.