The Mickey Mouse man
I used to work with a girl called Abbie, the same girl from my QOTW answer about getting sacked (the last story in my profile). She was 21, slim, pretty but a bit of a space cadet, the lights were on but nobody was home sort of thing. I think this could be explained by a childhood experience that she told me about.

When Abbie was a child, she was playing in the fields near her house with some friends. They found a dead man with a noose around his neck hanging from a tree. This would be traumatic enough for an adult but I can’t imagine how awful it was for Abbie as a little girl. She told me that she remembered every detail about him, the bulging staring eyes, the protruding tongue clamped between his teeth…but what stuck in her mind most of all was the fact that he had kicked off his shoes whilst choking to death and he was wearing Mickey Mouse socks. For years she had nightmares about the Mickey Mouse Man.

But I hear you ask, "Why is this a Tale of the Unexplained?” well let me tell you. Abbie attended the coroners meeting where it was concluded that he had committed suicide, but Abbie could never understand how a man who had his arms bound behind his back could hang himself.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 17:50, 7 replies)

Oh %*~@
I'd like to think this is a classic piece of internet exaggeration/fable, but then I have known many equally appalling stories first hand in real life. Way to f#ck with a young girl's head.
(cherrynicola, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 18:11, closed)

Am I missing something?
I don't get it.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 18:16, closed)

^ How could he have killed himself
if his arms were fastened behind his back? He'd need them free to tie the noose to the tree.

*read a book like this - this one, actually when she was a teenager and it has stuck with her, unfortunately*
( Maladicta, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 18:20, closed)

Also
I could have sworn I've heard this before. Have you posted it elsewhere?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 18:26, closed)

I've never had a QOTW answer doubted before
there's not much I can do to validate it. In 2000, I worked in Bristol with a young woman named Abbie, when she was a child she found a man hanging from a tree. The coroner concluded it was suicide but Abbie said he had his arms bound behind his back. He was wearing Mickey Mouse socks. That's what I was told.

I find it a bit ironic that in a QOTW about ghosties and ghoulies and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night, the one story that is doubted is this one about a girl who finds a dead body. Nothing paranormal.

althegeordie: I have never posted this before. What don't you get?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 9:32, closed)

.
As i was reading this my sister just suddenly burst through the door
cue me shitting it
(Freddles, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 12:21, closed)

could he have...
Put the noose up first then tied his own hands behind his back to stop himself from trying to free the noose once he jumped?
(superfly78, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:52, closed)