The Mystery of the White Balls in My Garden—and the Shocking Truth Beneath the Soil

It started as an ordinary afternoon in the garden. The sun was warm, the air smelled of damp earth, and I was pulling weeds near the flowerbed when something unusual caught my eye — a cluster of tiny, white, pearl-like spheres scattered in the soil.

At first, I thought they were bits of plastic, maybe beads from a child’s toy or pieces of fertilizer that hadn’t dissolved. But as I knelt down and looked closer, I realized they were far too perfect, too smooth, too natural to be man-made.

Curiosity got the better of me. I slipped on my gloves and gently dug around the strange patch. The little spheres came loose easily. They were soft to the touch, slightly squishy, and almost translucent. When I pressed one gently between my fingers, it gave way like jelly.

A chill ran through me. Eggs, I thought. But what kind?

Birds? Insects? Something worse?
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