Help Me Find This Mystery Family

I got photos back from the lab featuring people I HAD NEVER MET, in a house I HAD NEVER BEEN IN... and the first photo is ME. Who are these peoples? Help me find them and reunite them with some memories

I’d got a new hipster camera for Christmas. I bought out of date film. I was a unicycle and beard away from being a full blown prick.

I dropped my film off to be processed, thinking they'd all be master pieces. I could give up my day job and become a cool photographer, move to Berlin, marry a tormented artist, become their muse, live in a loft conversion and eat hummus all day.

I stood outside Boots and ripped the package open like a hungry Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka.

The first image is a really crap, over exposed selfie.

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...that's totally me, what a poser

The second, awful, just awful

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I'd pissed 15 quid up the wall, plus got them on CD. A CD? Where do I think I am? 1999?

By the third image, things started getting a bit weird...

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Pretty sure that's not my hand though...

Who the hell is this?

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I had never seen this woman in my LIFE before. What the hell was she doing on my photos?

My FIFTEEN POUND photos.

I flicked to the next one...

Never met this guy in my life, ever.

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I’d remember those curtains.

Photo after photo of complete strangers...

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I'm stood there trying to remember my mates doing a fake gangster pose.

Then THE worst. Photos of CHILDREN

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Haunting photos of children that I HAVE NEVER MET.

Nope.

I was stood next to the toothbrushes in Boots actually questioning my sanity.

Had I had a really wild night out and ended up hanging out with a bunch of randoms and their kids?

Had someone slipped me something?

Via quickmeme.com

and taken me to a house with Artex ceilings and dodgy lampshades?

For the next few days I turned all Jessica Fletcher,

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I'd obviously been taking photos over an already used roll of film - give this girl a gold star.

Could I have picked up a roll of film that an old flatmate left? Nope, they didn't know these guys either.

Someone had probably dropped off some old film and thought it was unused.

I went back to where I'd got it from, The Real Camera Company, Manchester. The dude there said they buy their films from fairs or some people come in a just want to get it off their hands...

These mystery people could be from anywhere.

I started questioning myself. Was it really me in the first photo though?

After some pissing around on photoshop

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yup that's my head

I saved the images on my computer, in a folder labelled ‘Mystery head fuck’.

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Photos document memories, they’re a dead good way to bring back the feelings of good times, old friends, lost family, epic parties, dull weddings. They’re a pretty personal thing. Now I, by accident, have someone else’s memories.

So, I’m turning to you and to help me find this little family – let’s get back together and re-create some of this shots that have spoilt.

They could be royalty? Pop stars? Normal people? They could all be dead?

I want to know what you were doing in that living room, where in the world are you, who’s taken the snaps, when was it and what are you up to now? A previous attempt on my blog a few years ago gave me zero results.

Come on then Mr Internets, Buzzfeed. Help me find My Mystery Family.