Author: Cara Giaimo / Source: Atlas Obscura
Where do you keep your Vaseline? Is it in the cupboard above your bathroom sink? The cupboard below your bathroom sink? Is it hidden away somewhere in your bedroom?
You can be honest, dear reader, for you are not the odd one out here.
For years, someone (or someones) has been keeping their Vaseline on and around the median of 68th St. NE, a five-lane road in Calgary, Alberta. Scores of jars appear there regularly, bemusing maintenance workers, stymying investigative reporters, and sending local residents down slippery slopes of speculation.Like many mysteries, this one found its initial fingerhold on Reddit. “For the last couple years my family and I have been noticing tubs of [V]aseline at [the intersection of 68th St. and 32nd Ave],” the user SamaelSwine wrote in October of 2014, in what appears to be the first thread about the phenomenon. “Like dozens… They are replaced every few months evidently, since sometimes they are full, and other times they are empty, then full again.”
As the thread grew, he provided more details: It is always Vaseline brand, pharmacy-sized. The tubs are generally evenly spaced, as if placed there deliberately (although later posters would describe them as “strewn about”).
More recently, the poster WCRClassic started a new thread with an even more urgent tone, citing a “sudden overabundance of…
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