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The phantom cucumber abandoner of Tunbridge Wells has been stopping people in their tracks with one witness asking if the weird trail has meaning for the town.

Cucumbers have been found on the pavements, on top of a pedestrian crossing signal - and in the most bizarre discovery to date - impaled on a railing in the town, prompting a photograph of the "cucumber murder".

And the strange phenomenon has not gone unnoticed, with people photographing their unexpected sightings and asking the simple question, "why?"

The last documented discoveries were a fortnight ago in Goods Station Road and in the stairwell of a public car park off Upper Grosvenor Road.

But the first recorded discoveries were more than two years ago.

Town resident Matt Goddwin, 45, who has seen many deserted cucumbers across Tunbridge Wells, said: "I believe there’s a good chance that they are harbingers of change sent from another dimension."

While Jessica Sharville from Brighton said after three separate incidents, said: "Dropped cucumber in Tunbridge Wells, near where I saw one on a fence once. Mystery cucumber abandoner on the loose."

Matt Goodwin has seen evidence of the phantom cucumber abandoner all over town and even in Tonbridge.

He told Kent Live: "The first one I spotted was lurking menacingly on the pavement outside The Warren Restaurant just before it opened.

"Pedestrians were stepping over or swerving prams around it. No one would dare acknowledge its existence."

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Just two weeks ago in Tunbridge Wells

"I've also seen one on Goods Station Road a few Sundays back and on the stairwell of the Meadow Road multi-storey."

Also seen in Tonbridge

Mr Goodwin added: "Spotted in Tonbridge, on Springwell Road and another outside the Foresters Arms. I believe there’s a good chance that they are harbingers of change sent from another dimension. Or even fallen out of someone’s grocery bag."