Mississippi residents baffled by mashed potato mystery

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Residents in Jackson, Mississippi have been left baffled after bowls of mashed potatoes began mysteriously appearing on their cars, porches and mailboxes. A local said she noticed a bowl of the fluffy dish on her car’s windshield one morning. “I was grossed out by it,” she said. Others have had similar experiences but no one knows why. One theory has it that many of those who have found bowls have connections to a local Christian university.

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