You know the one: “Jack and Gill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown and Gill came tumbling after.” “Players start at the bottom of their hill.

In 2014, BuzzFeed writer Matt Stopera’s phone was stolen from a bar in NYC. A year later, photos of storefronts and a man next to an orange tree mysteriously appeared in his iPhoto stream. Matt wrote ...