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Bigfoot Likes Candy? We Examine the Latest Evidence.
Read more →Ever wonder what you would make for Bigfoot if Bigfoot came for dinner? Well now we know: Dessert.A North Carolina woman who has seen evidence of Bigfoot living in the woods behind her house says she leaves food and she knows what they like to eat. “I take them things mostly like candy, cookies. They love peanut brittle, chocolate, peanut butter sandwiches," said Vicky Cook from Shelby, North Carolina, who has been seeing giant Bigfoot footprints around her property for the last several months. "They don't like apples and bananas."Don't believe us? You can watch the remarkable interview with Vicky Cook on WCNC.Bigfoot...
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Start Your Screen Free Summer Now with a Mail Order Mystery
Read more →We don’t have to tell you how scary it is to read all the articles and reports about kids and screens - the increased rates in depression and anxiety, the online bullying, the negative impacts on growing kids’ brain development. Bill Gates didn’t let his kids have phones until they turned 14. When Apple launched the iPad Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids use it. Those tech CEOs knew what we all know, but have so much difficulty doing anything about: technology is addictive. When we first started Mail Order Mystery we asked some big questions about how, or if,...
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This Pirate Treasure Belongs to You, Yaar!
Read more →These here pirates in pyjamas are Riley on the left and Skylar on the right. This photo was one of the entries in the photo contest we ran a few months back.We love it so much we had to share it. Look how THRILLED these girls are to solve their pirate mystery and open up their long-lost treasure!Did you know that you, too, may have a long-lost pirate ancestor with the same last name as you? Did you know that this long-lost pirate-ancestor stashed long-lost pirate treasure that most likely belongs to you, as long as no double-crossing scallywags...
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Mysteries Make Fantastic Father’s Day Gifts!
Read more →Dads love Mail Order Mysteries. It’s a fact. Well, not like a scientifically proven fact. But an anecdotal fact for sure. We’ve heard from enough Dads that we are confident when we say that Dads love Mail Order Mysteries. In fact, some Dads love Mail Order Mysteries so much they would be happy to do them all by themselves and leave the kids right out of the equation. But we do not recommend that you leave the kids out of the equation. Because when you give Dad a Mail Order Mystery for Father’s day, everybody wins. Dad gets something fun to...
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This Is the Way to Make Reading Fun
Read more →Mail Order Mystery has a mission: to make reading fun. We want to make reading fun for kids who love to read, and fun for kids who don’t know yet that they love to read. But we’re not the only ones with this mission.Canada’s Forest of Reading Program is a massive, nation-wide recreational reading program started by the Ontario Library Association. It’s all about getting kids excited about reading, and we love it so much we just have to tell you about it.Each year, multiple copies of the best new kids books are sent to school libraries across the country....
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Mail Order Mysteries Make Awesome Grad Gifts
Read more →The expression “time flies” takes on a new meaning when you have kids. Time flies in all the little ways as you try to keep on top of the day-to-day: swimming lessons, doctor’s appointments, basketball try-outs, birthday parties, school lunches and so on.And time flies in the big ways, too. The years go by, one after the next. One moment you are dragging the stroller up the stairs, the next day your kids are rolling their eyes at you while they text.So, just a reminder, because we know you are in the middle of making lunches and folding laundry and...