u/irlystealteeth

Hi! This is going to be long and I apologize but I feel like I'm in the beginning stages of a netflix documentary.

I received a very odd letter in the mail. The envelope itself feels very old and was sealed with old ripped up letters from St Jude. Inside the envelope, I found only a letter from kroger to their shareholders and a newspaper clipping.

The letter is dated March 1 1978 and is indeed original as shown by the paper company watermark on the bottom reading "Neenah Bond". It is addressed to "Kroger Shareowner". I was not alive in 1978 and neither were my parents, none of my grandparents have ever owned stock in Kroger. It seems to just be outlining their nutrition transparency at the time, nothing special.

The newspaper clipping is from a woman named Charlotte S Smith who lived in my house and died in a nearby hospital. According to census records it was likely that she married the original owner of my home which was built in 1929. This clipping is very old and she was dead long before 1978.

All of this seems like it could just be lost/poorly addressed mail. The problem is, the front of the envelope was all handwritten. I had my name legally changed a year ago, and my not at all similar dead name was the name this was addressed to. My deadname is also very unique and not easily mistaken. The return address had no name attached and was coming up as a local Mexican restaurant. There was a stamp on the front dated May 19th 2026 and said "Michigan Metroplex". I live in ohio and the local Mexican restaurant this supposedly came from is also in ohio, so why was this processed through Michigan?

I did share this to local Facebook groups, but no one had any information for me.

Tldr; Mexican restaurant sent me a Kroger Shareowner letter from 1978 with an unrelated obituary from a past resident of my home. I'm very confused and wondering if I should be afraid 😅

Hi! This is going to be long and I apologize but I feel like I'm in the beginning stages of a netflix documentary.

I received a very odd letter in the mail. The envelope itself feels very old and was sealed with old ripped up letters from St Jude. Inside the envelope, I found only a letter from kroger to their shareholders and a newspaper clipping.

The letter is dated March 1 1978 and is indeed original as shown by the paper company watermark on the bottom reading "Neenah Bond". It is addressed to "Kroger Shareowner". I was not alive in 1978 and neither were my parents, none of my grandparents have ever owned stock in Kroger. It seems to just be outlining their nutrition transparency at the time, nothing special.

The newspaper clipping is from a woman named Charlotte S Smith who lived in my house and died in a nearby hospital. According to census records it was likely that she married the original owner of my home which was built in 1929. This clipping is very old and she was dead long before 1978.

All of this seems like it could just be lost/poorly addressed mail. The problem is, the front of the envelope was all handwritten. I had my name legally changed a year ago, and my not at all similar dead name was the name this was addressed to. My deadname is also very unique and not easily mistaken. The return address had no name attached and was coming up as a local Mexican restaurant. There was a stamp on the front dated May 19th 2026 and said "Michigan Metroplex". I live in ohio and the local Mexican restaurant this supposedly came from is also in ohio, so why was this processed through Michigan?

I did share this to local Facebook groups, but no one had any information for me.

Tldr; Mexican restaurant sent me a Kroger Shareowner letter from 1978 with an unrelated obituary from a past resident of my home. I'm very confused and wondering if I should be afraid 😅

Hi! This is going to be long and I apologize but I feel like I'm in the beginning stages of a netflix documentary.

I received a very odd letter in the mail. The envelope itself feels very old and was sealed with old ripped up letters from St Jude. Inside the envelope, I found only a letter from kroger to their shareholders and a newspaper clipping.

The letter is dated March 1 1978 and is indeed original as shown by the paper company watermark on the bottom reading "Neenah Bond". It is addressed to "Kroger Shareowner". I was not alive in 1978 and neither were my parents, none of my grandparents have ever owned stock in Kroger. It seems to just be outlining their nutrition transparency at the time, nothing special.

The newspaper clipping is from a woman named Charlotte S Smith who lived in my house and died in a nearby hospital. According to census records it was likely that she married the original owner of my home which was built in 1929. This clipping is very old and she was dead long before 1978.

All of this seems like it could just be lost/poorly addressed mail. The problem is, the front of the envelope was all handwritten. I had my name legally changed a year ago, and my not at all similar dead name was the name this was addressed to. My deadname is also very unique and not easily mistaken. The return address had no name attached and was coming up as a local Mexican restaurant. There was a stamp on the front dated May 19th 2026 and said "Michigan Metroplex". I live in ohio and the local Mexican restaurant this supposedly came from is also in ohio, so why was this processed through Michigan?

I did share this to local Facebook groups, but no one had any information for me.

Tldr; Mexican restaurant sent me a Kroger Shareowner letter from 1978 with an unrelated obituary from a past resident of my home. I'm very confused and wondering if I should be afraid 😅

Received a letter in the mail that appeared to be from a serial killer, made of spare parts and dunked in coffee. The Ietter itself was dated March 1, 1978 and addressed me as a shareholder (wrong). It's two pages and just goes on and on about nutrition and transparency. Very confused.

Edit: googled the return address and it's a random Mexican restaurant? Even more confused at this point