Kinda creepy!

That is really weird.

I honestly don't know but if you can get a picture of them do it or even pick them and take them to a gardening center and they should be able to tell you what they are. If they can't than I'm really not sure what you should do. I think this year you may want someone else cutting your grass at least they maybe able to tell you what they are.

Hmmmm, that's interesting. Here's a page of lawn & garden mushrooms at the american mushrooms site. If you load up this page the one I 'think' it might be is about 3 or 4 mushrooms up from the bottom on the left hand side. (Mutinus elegans) It's like a red finger as you described. It says it's bigger than what you're saying, but maybe if the weather and ground conditions aren't moist they grow little and fade away (just a thought?!) http://americanmushrooms.com/lawnandgarden.htm There is also a lawn fungus called (red thread) or laetisaria fuciformis. It grows on the leaves and stems of the grass. Thought I'd include it because I didn't see you mention whether it was on the grass, or coming directly out of the ground. Here's a picture of that one: http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/plantsci/landscap/pp950w.htm Geez, I wish you had a digital camera so we could see it, it'd make identification a whole lot easier lol Like baileycows mentioned, if you have a college near you, they might be able to identify it. Also, a good place to take some of it would be to a ranger at the local park system.Good luck!

Hrmmm. You think he was growing shrooms in your yard and coming and picking them. LOL! Why wouldnt he do it in his yard. I don't know what they are I have never heard of what your talking about. You don't have a university in your area. You could pick one and take it to the biology lab they like doing those types of things sometimes.

That's strange. You should ask him to cut your grass now and see what happens. Hahaha. Or well wait until the spring when the grass actually grows again. Hopefully it's nothing serious.