Major mystery taking the internet by storm today after someone or something dumped enormous piles of cooked spaghetti, ziti and macaroni noodles all over the woods in some small North Jersey town, and it’s even got political:

Nina Jochnowitz, who is running for council in the town’s sixth ward, was going door-to-door during a campaign trip last week when a concerned citizen alerted her to the bizarre discovery. She was taken to the area to see for herself, and sure enough, there was an estimated 500 lbs of cooked pasta just dumped there near a stream in the woods.

Who the hell is cooking that much pasta at once? And why? I’d imagine even on their busiest nights, there’s no Italian restaurant on the planet pumping out that much pasta. Just look at the ridiculous amounts of pasta in this pic alone:

Another baffling aspect of this story is why anyone would choose to dump that much pasta in a suburban area where it looks like there’s houses everywhere. You’re telling me no one saw or heard a truck or alien spacecraft or whatever pull up and just dump 500lbs of pasta in the middle of the woods? How does anyone quietly dump 500lbs of anything without somebody noticing? Here’s a screenshot of the approximate location where the woods are located:

You’d think the most obvious culprit was an Italian restaurant in the area, which somehow produced an insane amount of pasta on this particular night, panicked, and didn’t know what to do with it. But in an area like North Jersey, you can pretty much take your pic:

In the end, the Department of Public Works turned up and cleaned up the 25-foot area of pasta, but that doesn’t bring us any closer to finding the culprit(s) or knowing their motives. I guess all we can all do is let it go and hope the truth is revealed at some point in the coming days. In the meantime, there’s plenty of lame jokes and puns to enjoy:

For the scientist who claims that pasta could be damaging your brain, click HERE. Well that’s just great.