Take a quick glance at Table Talk Pies' Twitter account and at first, everything seems normal.

The 95-year-old Worcester company often tweets out its “pie of the day” deals – three of a daily rotating flavor for the special price of $1 – posts photos from events around the city and gets mentioned by other local businesses like Wormtown Brewery.

When the account was first created under the handle @TableTalkPies, it even got a nod from Phantom Gourmet.

Old school pies. New school tech. https://t.co/8wAODDohMm — Phantom Gourmet (@PhantomGourmet) November 18, 2015

But a closer look reveals some strange inconsistencies.

“the honorable, pumpkin is 3 for $1 today”

“as the sun shines regardless, may luck be ever on the side with you!! # StPatricksDay2018 # pies # lucky”

“have not only a lemon but i smile! # threeforonedollar”

Soon, it becomes apparent that there’s something off about the company’s tweets. Sometimes they’re not written in complete sentences. Other times they’re missing punctuation. Not a complete anomaly on social media, but oftentimes they’re downright bizarre.

hey whip that pineapple into shape! any shape — Table Talk Pies (@tabletalkpies) September 20, 2018

Table Talk Pies has a rogue Twitter account, and no one knows who’s behind it.

"It's very strange," Table Talk Pies retail store manager Caitlin Enck said. "We don't even want them to stop at this point, honestly, because everybody loves them."

The mystery begins

When Enck was hired two years ago, she set up several accounts for Table Talk after her social media-savvy friend, Worcester bartender and podcaster Ricky Nelson, encouraged her to grow the company’s online presence.

Around Christmastime last year, Nelson noticed something strange. Table Talk Pies was tweeting, but some of its posts didn't make sense.

does santa have a favorite — Table Talk Pies (@tabletalkpies) December 24, 2017

He sent screenshots to Enck, who assured him that it wasn’t her tweeting from the account. In fact, Enck said she didn’t know Table Talk had a Twitter account.

She suspected the company’s administrative assistant, Jayne Cormier, might have been the one tweeting.

“I hopped on there to go look and I was like, ‘This is from way before Jayne worked at Table Talk,’ and also Jayne speaks in complete sentences,” Enck said.

A little scrolling revealed the account was created in November 2015, long before Comier or Enck joined the company.

"For months, every single time they'd tweet anything, I'd screenshot it and text it to Caitlin," Nelson said.

After they discovered the strange messages, Enck contacted Twitter hoping to get information that could lead to the owner’s identity, but the company said it was unable to share the user’s IP address or email. Unless the account was posting derogatory tweets or slandering Table Talk, Enck was told nothing could be done.

“We could be super jerks about it and do the whole cease and desist thing, but why? They’re not doing anything wrong, they’re not hurting anybody,” she said. “All the things that would make us, as a company, be like, ‘This isn’t cool, we don’t want our name attached to it,’ they’re not doing. So their tweets are a little weird and don’t always make sense? They’re not hurting anybody.”

If anything, Enck said the posts are giving everybody a good laugh.

there's always time but never enough. today is a lemon :) #deal — Table Talk Pies (@tabletalkpies) June 9, 2018

The suspects

Enck and Nelson have come up with some theories about who could be behind the account.

One idea is that the owner is someone affiliated with Holy Cross, based on who the account follows and who follows it back. At first, they suspected Che Anderson, a Holy Cross alum who works for the city manager’s office handling special events. But Enck and Nelson quickly ruled him out.

"The idea of it being Che is funny and Che could keep something going for a long time, but it's definitely not him," Nelson said.

Many suspect that Nelson himself is behind the account, but he swears that’s not true. He even discussed the bizarre situation on his SeltzerTime podcast earlier this month.

Enck and Nelson were at a total loss for more than a year. Then Coney Island held its 100th anniversary celebration in September.

"That changed everything," Nelson said.

Nothing out of the ordinary happened during the event, but as Nelson was scrolling through Twitter afterward, he saw that the Table Talk account had tweeted a photo of a hand holding a pie – right behind Table Talk's tent.

"Directly behind me. I was freaking out," Enck said.

The hand in the photo was feminine-looking with blue nail polish, leading the two to believe that the person behind the account is a woman. And somebody who likely lives in the city.

Nelson and others have tried to contact the account owner directly through Twitter, but never received a response. The account never tweets back at anybody or likes any tweets it's mentioned in.

But Nelson and Enck are sure it's not a bot.

"We're pretty sure it's somebody who either used to work for Table Talk or their husband or significant other used to work for Table Talk, and they started this just as a way to promote (the company)," Nelson said. "They don't tweet anything bad. They're trying to help, they have the best intentions."

The account even tweets out the correct “pie of the day” deals, meaning whoever runs it is paying attention to posts on Table Talk’s Facebook page, which is run by the company.

Enck and Nelson also think that whoever is tweeting from the account speaks English as a second language. Many of the tweets are phrased in a way that sounds like they were typed into a translator and then pasted directly to Twitter.

‘I’m so far deep into it I can’t get out’

Nelson and Enck each have their own favorite tweets.

For Enck, it’s “look at this pineapple fact" – no actual fact included.

Nelson prefers a tweet from August, which reads, “Lemon pie on a gray rainy is like a shower hug after you get yelled at again.”

look at this pineapple fact — Table Talk Pies (@tabletalkpies) July 11, 2018

lemon pie on a gray rainy is like a shower hug after you get yelled at again — Table Talk Pies (@tabletalkpies) August 22, 2018

While the posts make them laugh, Enck and Nelson both say they can’t stop wondering who’s tweeting.

“It has this cool mystique to it, it’s this really funny thing,” Nelson said. “We’ve known a little over a year now. It’s been crazy. I’ve gone through and tried to figure it out, we cannot figure it out to save our lives. I’ve become obsessed with it.”

"It's supposed to be a quirky, funny thing, and all of a sudden I'm detective Olivia Benson and this is a crime and I'm so far deep into it I can't get out," Enck added.

triscuits is what i get when i'm too hundred to think — Table Talk Pies (@tabletalkpies) June 30, 2018

And if the two were to discover the identity behind the account?

Both said they probably wouldn’t tell anybody.

“I’m obsessed with it, I want everybody else to know this is a thing that’s going on in the city. I’d never want to take that away because it’s hilarious,” Nelson said. “This is accidentally viral, but way cooler because the person who’s doing this has no idea that anybody cares. They think they’re pushing the pies of the day, when in reality there’s a small community who thinks this is the funniest thing ever.”