0278 - Objects Disappearance
It was 1976. Saipan island: isolated, white sand beach; mid-day; blue sky; myself, two lawyers, two Irish setters - all alone; one lawyer swan nearby; the other lawyer and I stood on the beach and threw a found stick (perhaps 2 feet long), dark color, for the dogs to fetch. We threw it many times to a distance of, perhaps, 50 or 60 feet. The dogs would fetch it back, wait and, thrown, race after it again.
When arriving at the stick, they pounced with front feet - sending it spinning or tumbling in the air. Then, this one time, when they simultaneously ponced on the stick, it spun, as often before, into the air - one spin, two spins, three spins and, then, simply, vanished. I witnessed the entire sequence and have visualized it, without alteration, to this day.
The dogs spun, turned, searched and then came back toward us. The lawyer (his dogs) yelled to them, "Get the stick! Fetch! (or similar words)." They did not turn. I said, "They can't. The stick disappeared in thin air."
The lawyer, confounded, continued to tell the dogs to get the stick. Why I caught the event was my good fortune, but he did not see what I saw. The dogs attention shifted to other matters of dog interest.
White sand beach. Full sun. We walked to the site and made a diligent search. Nothing. The other attorney, noting the ruckus, came from the ocean and, told of the events, also made a search - no stick. The dogs' lawyer (stick thrower), understandably, could not reconcile the events - cognitive dissoance - and opted, understandably, to purge himself. The other lawyer, baffled by events, uderstandably, took the matter under advisement.
From this experience, I have formulated a standard that must be met (by me) to accept such things as having happened outside of my mind (I am my own most severe critic). In this ideal circumstance, there were two attorneys (only the facts) and two dogs (only the facts).
A laboratory beyond doubt.
Of course, many trips to Saipan after the fact, I would go to this beach and, feeling foolish, try to replicate the disappeance of the stick by myself, alone. Nothing, of course.
I have read (researched) the many submissions. Though I do not doubt the sincerity/belief, unfortunately most have "holes" in them - to the extent that one wishes to have a 2nd party accept them as "true". I am the first to state that there is no reason a sane/objective person shouls accept my story with les than a fist of salt. Hereine lies my dilemna.
I am interested in pursuing "unusual phenomena" (inexplicable) but there is no purchase in reality from where to start...or so it seems. If there are those out there with an insight, I wish to hear from them.
Eliot Wehead <[email=ams%20at%20logopacificdot%20com]ams at logopacificdot com[/email]>
Hawi, HI USA - Monday, August 13, 2007 at 22:20:56 (PDT)
When our son was very young (3-7) we experienced something similar to the dissapearing/reapearing object phenomonem. I was employed by a defense contractor at the time, and so was very aware of everything going on around me.
We would buy our son some new small toy, with which he would play with. Later (hours or days), we would notice him playing with a toy we had never seen. The toy would be similar to something you would expect a child his age to have, but upon close examination would sometimes have writing (like the factory code numbers) in a script/language I have yet to ever see elsewhere, and the toy we had purchased was no where to be found. Please note that we lived in the country and our son had no contact with other children while unsupervised. When pressed as to where the toy had come from, and where his toy was, he would simply state that he had traded with his 'freind' who he could not see or touch, etc.
Since I worked in an extremely sensitive environment, with very nervous people, we never mentioned this to anyone until now. However, after a few days, the mystery toy would always disappear, and his toy would reappear, sometimes to his great dismay-he seemed to like the toys from wherever better then the ones we purchased, on several occaisions.
As he approached his early teen years, the phenomona stopped. Or at least we believe it's stopped....very weird stuff, but not unexpected in a chaotic multiverse. I think we need to see more with our perceptions, not with our three dimensional minds. By the way, our son is a very healthy, normal and intelligent young man-no side effects noted from his encounters with the toy-trader from wherever.
Mike <[email=mctuck_99atyahoodot%20com]mctuck_99atyahoodot com[/email]>
USA - Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 23:10:57 (PDT)
As my usual routine on Friday mornings, I prepared for my 6:a.m gym class. Afterwards, I had my door keys in my hand to secure my dwellings . Before opening the door, I put my car key in my gym bag as always . I left the dwellings to walkoutside to my car to grab my gym shoes from the car. Got the shoes, put the key right back in the gym bag i was carrying..walk short distance to the gym.after workouts.didn't look in my bag for the car key, but grabbed a banana from my bag ,knowing that my key was inside the bag. Walked home from the gym. Looked in my bag gore my car key----------Car key gone missing. So i walked back to the gymto see if i had accidentally misplaced it or something.Gone-no key.Did someone get my car key from my gym bag while i was exercising? Does that means it is time to rethink my present situation?before this incident; one of my blouses has gotten a razor slit on the arm. Didnt. have the slit before wearing the blouses when i wore it because i had made a self pic of me. My house is secure with a alarm system.This is so paraxdoxal.
Pamela McGoughy <mcgoughypamela a yahoo com >
Saint Charles, IL USA - Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 03:38:55 (PDT)
The first time an object disappeared was about five years ago. I was in my bedroom and a ring, which was a little big,fell off my finger. I heard it bounce on the floor. But, when i looked, it was not there. I and a friend removed everything, had a 500 watt painters light and looked everywhere. I then vacuumed the hardwood floors thinking it may have fallen in a groove. Nothing in the bag. Nothing. I then went each and every floor board with a magnifying glass. Nothing.
Then two years later, the same thing happened with another ring. Same exact scenario. I repeated my efforts and nothing. This time, I saw where the ring had fallen, but could not retrieve it.
Two weeks ago, A THIRD RING fell off my night table. This was becoming very weird.
And it just got worse. Last week, I came home, put the key in the door and put my key case on the kitchen counter. When I went to go out, they were gone. I have been putting my keys in the same sport for 15 years. GONE.
Now, this morning I was in another room on another floor and I took some artificial lemons and artificial strawberries out of a bag. I put them down to answer a phone call. I turned my back for a about a minute. NO WHERE TO BE SEEN.
These occurrences are becoming more frequent and I now am beginning to wonder if someone is trying to contact me or warn me. I know something is up.
Am I the only one who has these multiple disappearances?
Nancy Hunter <nancyhunter357 a gmail com >
Boston, MA USA - Monday, April 28, 2014 at 11:01:50 (PDT)
I was sat at desk about to start writing some basic medical terminology down and I put the pen lid on top of the pen. I accidentally knocked it off and I was fast enough to watch it fall I watched it go under a bag. I lifted the bag up and it wasn't there i searched around in case it had rebounded after landing and I looked in the bag but i couldn't find it anywhere. I looked all over but nothing.
Dulcie
USA - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 11:48:09 (PDT)
I parked my car whilst visiting a clents home, when I came out I couldn't see my car where I had left it, I naturally thought it had been stolen. I went back to my client and told her 'You wont believe this but somebady has stolen my car' we both looked at the spot it was parked in, I glanced across the road and behold it was parked alongside another vehicle on the sidewalk. When I went to investigate the car was securely locked with the parking brake on and left with the gears engaged, just as I'd left it on the other side of the road. I know it could not have moved by itself, had I accidently left the brake off and not in gear I could understand it rolling forward as I was on an incline, but it could not have turned and neatly parked itself next to another car and how do I explain the vehicle being locked, the handbrake on and the gears engaged. This is something I will never forget
Steve Bakewell <stevebakewell a btinternet com >
Leicester, Uk - Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 11:53:56 (PDT)
Years ago, things would appear or disappear in my house. I thought this had ended long ago. But over the past few days, it's happening again. Suddenly, I'm missing two plates, then a butter knife and today, a mug. I live alone and nobody else has been here. I've looked everywhere and they just not to be found. I don't understand. I'm not suffering from dementia or any other kind of malady. What the heck is happening?
Carole <carole_kadrie a yahoo com >
Cuddy, Pennsylvania USA - Tuesday, April 08, 2014 at 21:04:39 (PDT)
About 6 months months ago I bought a fire proof safe for the house in order to keep documents safe in the event of a house fire. However a short time after I purchased it I noticed that the keys to the safe were missing. Having searched the house I could not find them but fortunately I was still able to use the safe although I could not close it properly as I did not have a key. Last week my friend went to the safe to put something into it and as usual it was still left open as the locking hinge needed the key to close it properly.
About 5/6 days later I went to the safe to get something and noticed it had been locked with the lid securely closed. I asked my friend if she had located the keys and she said no that the last time she used it the lid of the safe was not securely closed as we had no keys. I then searched the house and something told me to check my car keys were I found the safe key and was able to then open the safe. I must have put them onto the key ring months earlier and had then forgotten that I had done so. Having checked the safe I was able to confirm that it was not self locking and that the key was needed to ensure that it opened and closed. I told my sister about this event the next day and she reminded me that the day that this had happended to me was the aniversay of my fathers death There is no reasonable explanation as to how my safe suddenly became locked and closed securely when at that stage the keys were still missing.
hazel
belfast, Northern Ireland - Monday, April 07, 2014 at 04:35:13 (PDT)
I lost a stone in a ring. A few weeks later the whole ring went missing from the bathroom. Moved house and 8 mths. later after I'd been in the kitchen already one morning, late morning I found the ring in the middle of the floor and with the lost stone back in the ring.
Been experiencing this DOPler effect for years. My glasses went missing, then 10 days later turned up in the laundry cupboard. Now they're missing again. It's been 18 days. Not good! This is disrupting my life. Who or what is bugging me? How are us victims supposed to know what to do about it and stop it?!! I've experienced other paranormal stuff too. But the D.O.P. is becoming regular. A spiritual healer said it's a child spirit guide. I don't agree. Guides are helpers, this thing is the opposite. She's just in entity denial. This is a poltergeist and it's followed me from house to house, 3 addresses so far over several years. Had entity removers come to my house, and used ones on-line, but all a waste of money.
Heather M
Qld Aust - Monday, March 17, 2014 at 02:37:08 (PDT)
My husband and I was at a McDonalds drive thru getting something to eat. We only had a few dollars and were hungry so we ordered two dollar burgers and a drink to share. When we got to the pickup window we were handed a big sack of food which was heavier than two dollar burgers, it felt like two meals, my husband took it handed it to me and we looked at each other like "we're really lucking out this time"! I took the bag and put it on the floor between my legs. The employee handed out another smaller sack and our drink. We drove off into a nearby parking lot to see what all we got, the large sack of food was gone all we had was the smaller bag and our drink, we looked under the seats, the back seat, and on the ground of the parking lot between there and McDonalds. We never found the big bag of food. We still talk about it sometimes and we always recall how we both touched the bag and felt the weight of it, not scary but really really weird!!
N.B & M.B
USA - Friday, March 14, 2014 at 17:25:49 (PDT)
The first occasion: I had been looking for a bag .. a little ziplock bag that had my nail trimmers, mascara and eye liner in it had been missing for over a month. My room is all cleaned and i swear to God I looked everywhere for it. So the night I decided that I needed to use my nail trimmers, I went to go get them.. except they were still missing. So I went over to the desk and moved some papers to a corner, and the spot was clear.. absolutely NOTHING was there before. I put my little paper with my school schedule in the blank spot and literally turned around.. and the bag I had been looking for was UNDERNEATH THE PAPER I HAD JUST PUT DOWN THAT HAD NOTHING THERE BEFORE..
2nd occasion, two days after my bag of nail clipper/mascara appeared.. I was looking for my lint roller.. and my dresser was clear.. I went to place a paper down on my rolly organizer bin which is directly beside my dresser.. and out of no where it was like someone threw the lint roller at me. It hit my head on the right side of my face. No one was home but me.
3rd occasion, this occurred the same day of getting hit in the face with the lint roller. I was taking off my fake nails.. and I went to look for my phone. I left it on the coffee table in the living room, and I KNOW for sure I left it there. Then I went to the bathroom, came back, turned the tv on, and looked at the table and my phone was gone. My bf was at work at the time so he would not have taken it because he wasn't there. I was trying to make a phone call to my bf but my phone was missing ?? Anyways.. so I went looking for it... and I am not f'ing kidding you .. i literally stood up, spun in a circle.. and the phone was back on the coffee table where I had left it. There was nothing else on the table beside my printer or bottle of nail polish remover. You explain that one to me.
4th occasion, happened on March 11th 2014. I was looking for my mutes for my trumpet. And again.. I know I left them on my dresser because I knew I needed them for wind ensemble. Well wouldn't you know, mr spirit dude decided to move them on me.. I checked my dresser over and over and over and they were not there... Then I leave the bedroom for a minute come back and they are sitting on the dresser in the EXACT SAME SPOT I HAD LOOKED A MINUTE BEFORE.
5th occasion, March 12th 2014.. I was looking for the TV remotes to check the weather network. I yelled at my bf to come help me find them. We tore part the couches.. the t.v. set.. dug under blankets and pillows on the couches and NOTHING! I went off to do my half hour placement at the daycare and came back. We started watching the movie inside Lewin Davis (its a music movie with a cat ) and then half way through the movie.. the cat we have came up and sat on the couch and then out of no where my bf screams.. OMG OMG OMG... Look at this.. The remotes appeared beside our cat Mia. .. I f'ing swear on my life.. we had cleared both couches and on top behind inside etc.. and then they appear beside the cat .. LIKE WTF>!!!>!>!> IEFEWIURBVEHVBTOUCHBOSUDHB... THE REMOTES SUDDENLY APPEAR ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER.. AS IF THEY HAD BEEN THERE THE WHOLE TIME .. I SWEAR.. I WOULD HAVE SEEN THEM HAD THEY NOT HAVE BEEN THERE BEFORE..
I think its safe to say, we have some sorta spirit borrowing personal items and it is driving me nuts!
Karlynn
Canada - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 20:10:31 (PDT)
I have had many weird and unexplained things happen through the past few years but this week's was especially odd. It has to do with a green comb we keep in the bathroom (my 2 teenage daughters and myself). On 3 different days this week it has randomly appeared in strange places. Early in the week I was throwing something away in the kitchen garbage and there it was, just sitting on top of all the garbage when I picked up the lid. Neither of the girls said they put it there or threw it away when I asked. The second time happened when my older daughter found it in her room, sitting on a white chair. But the latest time, and most bizarre, happened tonite. My daughter went in to brush her teeth and get ready for bed. It was on the floor when she walked in, and she assumed someone must have knocked it off the sink. When she finished brushing her teeth and turned around, the comb was literally standing up on its side. She was pretty freaked out and came and got me to show me. I can't explain it. Although it's a wide toothed comb, it's still only about a quarter inch thick on its side. I tried to debunk it by knocking it off the sink. Not only could I not get it to land on its side edge, I couldn't get it to land in the place where it was found (dead center of the bathroom floor). What does any of this mean? I have no idea but feel like something or someone is trying hard to get our attention. Today also happens to be a strange weather day as we are all home with a blizzard howling outside.
carrie <carriep14424 a yahoo com >
Canandaigua, New York USA - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 19:02:48 (PDT)
I was on a trip and staying in a hotel 3 years ago. I had a pair of earrings that I always wore and the stone fell out of one earring. I placed both earrings and the loose stone in a small ziplock bag. I then put the bag in my suitcase. The bag simply was not there when I looked for it when I got back home and unpacked.
This past week the ziplock bag with the earrings appeared in the drawer in my kitchen where I keep boxes of plastic wrap, foil and storage bags. The bag with the earrings was on laying on top the the boxes in the drawer.
anonymous
USA - Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 20:31:03 (PST)
It was a night I will never ever forget..
I remember every simple detail.
It was about two years ago, When I had a day off from work and decided to rest and have fun by myself at home.
Went to the market and bought some food and beer..
Stayed at home alone and laid down on a mattress on the floor with the laptop.. I had two memory cards with me and I decided to exchange data between pc and the two cards.
I was chilling and was checking music and videos on the laptop and organizing my files.. I had a good mood!
And everything was just fine!
There was one of the cards connected to the pc and the other one was left by the side of the pc and I didn't move anything from places.
Later after an hour I decided to finish that party and turn off the pc.. Took the card which was connected to the pc. And eventually the second card was not there in place!
I started to look calmly for it below and behind the pc with no evidence.. Later on I started to become more nervous about the situation and the fact that it can't be lost that easy! I continued with an intensified search..
I even lift up the mattress and shook it, Searched the whole home and was even searching the whole floor near the mattress. ( It was not there )
I did an hour search with no result.. I became disappointed I couldn't understand where it could have been gone!
And that gave me more energy to repeat looking for it!!
Then I put the mattress again down on the floor and I took a sit with a feeling of failure.
The moment I moved my eye towards the floor I was shocked to find the card materialized and obvious in front of my eyes in the middle of the room where I have been searching all over!!
I really had a strange touching feeling at that time.
It was like there was something watching me.
The moment I saw it there I just took it and ran out of the room impulsively and I stood by the door and kept glazing into the room.
A few seconds later I regained my strength and ran again inside the room to find nothing!!
P.S :- I didn't even believe in supernatural.. I believed there might be another world but I didn't believe that there can be interference or connection between the two worlds physically.
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Later after about a month, one day I had a break time from work and I felt a bit tired and decided to go relax a bit at home then in few hours to come back to work.
so I went home and Snoozed for like 40 minutes.
Only to wake up with a sleep paralysis. I couldn't move, Couldn't talk and I wanted to scream but there was no way.
I saw everything so clear and I had that feeling of mass fear at that time. It was after several supernatural phenomenons that occurred in that home.
I still believe there is some kind of spirit in that place.
Which have shown signs to me and to my friend.
And we believed it to be harmless spirit. I remember the days when I was in that home I felt it there most of the time..
Now I changed the home and haven't had anything happening after that.
Thanks for reading, I was reading different posts and I felt to want to share with you people my experience.
Mekano <khaosinfernos a live com >
Cairo, Egypt - Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 09:14:17 (PST)
This is going to sound so stupid but this is my story. Earlier I was about to roll a joint and I only had enough weed left for about 2 joint's. I keep everything in a video case. It's very handy, I keep my grinder in there and all the stuff I need. So I got the case out and go sit on my bed. I opened the video case and took my grinder out and put it on my bed. Next I took my weed bag and opened it. I only had enough for 2 joint's and it was in a bud. I then split the weed into 2 parts, a bit for later and put the bit I was going to use in the grinder. I put the grinder on the bed. I put the other bit back in the bag. My video case is open on my bed and I knocked the grinder with the bud in it over. It just flipped over. I thought the weed went under the video case. I closed the lid of the video case to think my bud would be under it, but no. It just vanished. No weed there. It just disappeared. I checked my bed and it wasn't on there. Then I thought it must have fallen into the video case so I took everything out and it wasn't in there. I took my bed sheet and slowly lifted it so anything on it would fall to the ground but nothing. I checked everywhere, on and near my bed for this bud but still have not found it. I had to use the other bit to roll the joint. How bizarre hey?
Blazing Asian <blazingasian1111 a yahoo com >
London, UK - Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 15:58:18 (PST)
Ive had two strange things happen in the last week and its freaking me out,im a mum of three my partner works,im at home alot and well one of my club card totally disapeared i looked all over as i know i can be forgetful then the other day it re apeared in my coat pocket which i know for sure it wasnt there,also in kitchen poured somne oj for my daughter ,she liked it so an hr later asked me ;can i have some more; so went to get some and the carton has gone ..so i thought maybe i put it somewhere strange but ive looked high and low in all cupboards even in the washer and its totally vanished,even got my bf to look last night and it nowhere to be seen ive even checked the bins!
laura <magic-loz a hotmail couk 2345>
uk - Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 02:01:28 (PST)
it was Oct. 31 1991 my friend Nori had a invite to a Halloween costume party in Jamul ,Ca. about 25 miles east of Chula Vista that were I was living I wasn't invited but went anyways. Nori drove her car I followed in my truck an took along a friend of mine Kevin Hatfield . Kevin dressed up like a pirate as he did every year for the last 8 years and since I was still on crutches from recent knee surgery I went as a wounded solider we arrived at the party around 9:00pm lucky for me this party only had Valet parking along with two open bars it was caterer and waiter affair .every one had on costumes and were dancing to the DJ I had a great time. around 1:00am we decide it was time to leave as Kevin and I waited for Valet to bring my truck Kevin remembers he took off his pirate shoes while he was dancing the shoes gave him a blister every time he wore them and that was once a year on Halloween for the past eight years and now he forgot then I told him "run back in there and grab them". right then the Valet pulls up with my truck again I told him " go get your shoes I'll drive in circles until you return". he hesitated then decided he would leave them behind that way next year he would be something other then a pirate. I knew what he was talking about cause if you saw the shoes you would know they had to be from 1700s like the pilgrims wore one of a kind hand made he found them in a thrift store eight years early while looking for a Halloween costume now he's leaving them behind and so he did. I decided to take the back roads home south through the foot hills then west Otay Lakes avoiding Johnny Law and any possible check points once we turned on Otay Lakes Road we didn't see a sole by the time we got to Thousand Trails RV Park we both thought it would a good ideal to drive the old fire road up Otay Mt.{scary}so we did ,we were almost to the top we came upon an abandon fire or giant pile of hot coals putting off plenty of heat but there was a ton of broken glass every were an Kevin did want to cut his feet so we decided to leave it was now 3:00am we were about 300yards from the gate were the dirt road meets the asphalt but still on the steep fire road I saw what I thought was a dead animal in the middle of the dirt road so I avoided looking down as we passed it then Kevin said "STOP"! I did, he jumped out of the truck and ran over to the object in the road picks it up walks up to my side of the truck he ask me "are you messing with me" as he raised up the shoes his pirate shoes the ones he left at the party they were them. one of a kind I looked at me and said "You know what this means?"
I was shocked I shook my head I'll never forget what he said next "It means I'm going to be a pirate next year".
Jenny Allen <skineejenny a gmail com >
Chula Vista, Ca. USA - Friday, February 07, 2014 at 23:14:47 (PST)
I swear this is crazy. I used my morton container of salt just 2 days ago. I am cooking today and it is missing. I haven't taken the trash out since then and it is not in there. I live in a one bedroom apartment by myself. I searched the whole house even though it can't be anywhere but the kitchen. Nobody has been over and I always lock my doors. Nothing else is missing. This is so weird and kind of scary. Who can it be? Now I have to worry about it and watch my surroundings closer. Just felt like sharing this . But a container of salt ? sketchy
- Eli Tabet pittsburgh
Elias Tabet <elt33 a pitt edu >
pittsburgh, pa USA - Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 21:33:03 (PST)
So I'm in 10th grade and we had got our class rings we ordered. The first day everyone brought them in to school. It was cool seeing everyone's customized rings. Maybe a week later during gym class we got to class and me and my friend were changing into our gym clothes. I was finished first. I was just about to go out into the gym when my friend said,"wait, what about your class ring?" I acknowledged him and gently tossed the ring into the locker. I saw it go in the locker and I saw my friend close and lock the locker. We both walked out. About 30 minutes of class had passed and we headed in to change and get ready for our next class. When we opened the locker I changed my clothes and took my books and stuff out. I went to grab my ring and it wasn't there. I looked in my pockets, I took everything out, my friend checked his pockets, but we couldn't find it at all. It's been about 2 1/2 months now and I still haven't found it.
Chris <chriswinnek2468 a hotmail com >
USA - Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 20:11:58 (PST)
I've been experiencing a collection of strange phenomena for several years now that I have playfully dubbed "the abyss". It's mostly benign, if frustrating, and seems to be some sort of teleportation phenomena.
I originally thought maybe I was crazy or just forgetful, as multiple objects would just go missing. For example, I will drop small objects that I am using (pencils, silverware, small books, etc) and they will just vanish. I usually find these objects in a room that I was not present in when I dropped them. I at first assumed this was because I absentmindedly put them in a pocket or behind my ear or something like that and then absentmindedly retrieved these Items as I was searching for them. Now when an object vanishes I simply stay put and search the area within my reach (usually to no avail) although I have found if I do not panic after the initial search and continue with whatever I am doing, the object will reappear after about half an hour, exactly where the object should have landed.
Recently this phenomena has escalated to the point where objects seem to be vanishing literally out of my hands. This is usually pencils and forks. I will be using said item and if I become distracted by someone speaking to me or otherwise take my mind off the object, it will disappear. These Items generally do not reappear.
At times, larger objects will disappear. Usually cameras, phones, jewelery... things I am not using but know where they are safely stowed away. This is the most interesting phenomena because in the place of whatever object has been "stolen" I usually find some sort of randomized item I have never seen before in my life. This is where it gets interesting.... It seems that if I handle the new object, move it, claim it, etc... I will never see the missing object it replaced ever again. however If I leave it as is, it will disappear and the original missing object will disappear. This has happened on multiple occasions. I have been "traded" items such as cameras, wallets, paintings, small boxes, figurines, even a small chest for items such as unexplained food, books, glass dishes, dolls, antique pictures, and a large crystal formation respectively. I do not know where these things come from but they sometimes bear the initials of the persons they belonged to whom I have never met.
The strangest of these happenings though, is what I call magic purse syndrome. I have stopped carrying purses entirely because of this phenomena (which I believe is some manifestation of the abyss) and will not carry the purse of another woman just in case her stuff disappears as well. The best encounter to describe this phenomena was as follows: My sister and I were both wearing one of my purses one day. I had a brown purse with multiple pockets, she was carrying a plain leather bag with no pockets, both of which were mine. I had put my wallet in my brown bag so that I could buy cigarrettes that day. Of course when it came time to get them, My ID had vanished from my wallet. Right next to my wallet however, was my sister's car keys. And my ID? Appeared inside a datebook in my sisters purse. An easy mixup right? But then how could she have driven to her work, 10 miles away, if I'd had her keys since that morning?
Cheyenne Voss <feelslikecrazy a gmail com >
Des Moines, IA USA - Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 15:00:08 (PST)
I have been enjoying reading the stories about disappearing items and remember one of my own. It was probably 20 years ago and I may have posted this somewhere already but here goes.
Back then I was living in a basement apt. for free in exchange for taking care of the building. There was a room next to my bedroom that a friend used to use when his wife and he had a fight until things calmed down.
One day this friend was in the room next to mine and I could not find my Bible. I looked all over, opened drawers, looked under the bed on the book shelf etc -it was no where to be found. I went to the kitchen and checked there and the bathroom and nothing.
When I walked back into my room the Bible was sitting is the middle of the bed.
I asked my friend and he said he knew nothing about it. I can`t imagine that he would take a Bible-right before I would look for it and then return it to such an obvious place and also deny taking it.
I still do not understand how I could search a room for a book that was sitting all alone in the middle of a made bed.
I still have it...yup, it is sitting my headboard bed now..and it has not disappeared since...yet.
John AA <mr.j.a.abrams a gmail com >
USA - Wednesday, December 25, 2013 at 13:57:48 (PST)
A cross appearing in my sons room.
While my son was in the hospital recovering from surgery and I was home alone and my husband stayed with him in the hospital. I was in the family room and I heard something fall on the floor inside the house and it made a metallic sound when it hit the floor. I looked around the area where I was sitting and saw absolutely nothing. The next night I stayed at the hospital with my son and then he came home with us that day after a 6 night stint. My son went to bed that night and the next morning when I went into his bedroom to check on him I saw a cross laying on the floor by his bed. When I saw it I remembered hearing metal fall on the floor when I was home alone two night's previous and his bedroom is directly above where I was sitting. My husband, my son and I had not put it in his room and no other person had been in his room. I had just waxed and cleaned his room the night before he went into the hospital. The cross has loads of symbols on it. it is silver plated and warn you can see a bit of brass showing and had a small ring on it for hanging on a chain. We would have seen this had it been hanging up some place in the room. I had my husband go into my sons room and drop the cross on the floor by were I found it and I was down stairs in the family room and it made the exact same sound. The room has a 20 foot celling and had it fallen from a higher point it would have bounced around more. I have the object and I am telling the gods honest truth... Its not ours and we don't know where it came from.
sheri B <sherirbarrett# a #gmail com >
queretaro, QRO Mexico - Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at 22:08:47 (PST)
One time I went down for some soda. I picked it up and poured it. After that I had the top in my hands. For a sudden, my mind went blank like when you watch a TV show or a game. I did it for a few seconds. after that it disappeared. I was with my grandma at the time. we searched all over the kitchen and still couldn't find it. It would be beast if you could post a comment of what could of happened.
robert <MPRAT a msn com >
va USA - Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 18:51:52 (PST)
I lose things all the time, some times I find them and some times I don't. But I know small things are easy to lose and, being that I am very forgetful, all these things can be explained away- except for this one that happened today. My wife had been blowing the leaves from the planter boxes onto the grass. My job was to pick up all the leaves in our riding lawn mower. When I came out there was about 3/4 of a trash can worth of leaves and debris to pick up. The leaves were piled up about one foot high in an area of about 12' by 12' under a tree in our yard. When I first started, I noticed that there were a lot of chopped up leaves being left behind like the leaves were getting stuck and not getting into the leaf bag on my mower. After several passes, my mower made a strange noise like the leaves were caught in the blade. I paused the blades for a moment, then continued. Now the leaves were being picked up very well. After picking up all the leaves, I continued to ride circles around the tree as our tree is a Sweet Gum tree and drops these little pods that stick to our feet. I made about 20 circles around the tree, so when I was done most of the pods were picked up and there was not a sign of even a single leaf. Now for the strange thing. I went to empty the leaf catcher, and what did I find? Just a handful of dry leaves from the last time I mowed! The shoot had a few leaves stuck in it, but no more than half a bucket full! Furthermore, there were rose branches and fern leaves I had mowed that simply disappeared! I had my wife and daughter look everywhere with me to find the mysterious clump of leaves that had to have fallen out of the mower. I even drove my mower up on a block of wood to check underneath in case they were stuck in the blades- clean! I even checked the engine compartment to see if the leaves somehow got blown in there. After an hour of searching, we found nothing that could have explained the missing leaves. It's winter now, so the grass is not growing. The grass is very short, (I lowered the mower blades to the bottom to suck up the fallen pods) so the leaves are not "hidden" in the grass somewhere. The wind didn't "blow the leaves away". I don't expect anyone to believe my story because I don't believe it myself. I have to believe that the leaves got stuck in the mower and got "shot out" somewhere. I just don't know where. If I find the missing leaves, I will be happy to come back and recant my story. Until then, this will remain the most bizarre and unexplainable event in my entire 53 years!
Sammy Joe <sj a hotmail com >
USA - Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 21:32:28 (PST)
Well Some of the things I experience happen to other family members in small doses. First I have Hypnagogia were I see things while I'm' drifting off to sleep, Like people electricity, birds monsters flying objects. I also suffer from migraines same as most of my family, My father nana and I suffer from migraines having dreams about the future and Sleep paralysis which can be very annoying. Other family members of mine have dreams about the future and my grandmother can see spirits sometimes and out of body experiences not that she cares about it. I also have people speaking to me just before I drift off and dreams of space and the end of the world the next day I am afraid of heights. I have also seen lots of UFOs orbs with the presence of other family members, dreams of walking into bright lights and people sticking needles into me. Also lights turn off and on in my room or stop working around me, also laptops tvs, etc. Also sometimes the things I think off sometimes happens like I make it happen and making candles go out. My father has weird fog form around him and I see creatures in the night when I have gone outside.
zarah burke <zarah.burke a gmail com >
Hamilton, NZ - Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 15:02:30 (PST)
So last year i lost an 8gb flash drive. since then i have moved around a bunch, gotten completely new clothing, a new backpack, basically new everything. I had looked everywhere for the flash drive as it had almost a years worth of music production, graphic design, pictures, notes, etc. Let me stress that i now have NOTHING that i wore, had, or even used when i lost that flash drive. Yesterday while walking in the woods i heard something hit my backpack. curious i took off my back pack and right there in my left front pocket was that damned flash drive.
Try to come up with some logical answer if you want. I am a very, very good illusionist, magician etc and i am also a skeptic, but if you knew like i do what the exact circumstances were then you would be just as baffled as me.
tony fourpaws <tpalacio1979 a gmail com >
bend, or USA - Monday, December 09, 2013 at 16:21:05 (PST)
around 7 pm i burned my cigrete and put the match box on my study table...nd start studying..
around 8 i again feel lyk i should smoke so when i searched my match box it was not there on my table.and no one come into my room and no one has left.the room.
i asked my rumate if he had found d match box or not.he said no.
around 9.15pm
he went to hav his dinner.
and i was busy with my studiea dan suddenly i found that the matchbox is at the same place from where it has disapper i cant imagine what actualy happen.it got disappear and again it was back..few days before my rummate experience a diff thing he was studying in d other side of the room and i was nt there and he heard a sound .
it was the sound created when someone stand up from his chair..but there was no where we ignored it..
two days ago
my book was missing.
i thought it was stolen as i live in hostel but.its not the first.one month ago a book of same topic was missng..there are other costly book on my shelf but why both the time the same book has to disaper.
what to do.help me.
jay <jogesh.gogoi12 a gmail com >
guwahati, india - Wednesday, December 04, 2013 at 20:28:02 (PST)
I have just dropped a bunch of keys. I heard them clatter to the floor but when I went to pick them up there were not there, and they are nowhere else in my flat. This is the second time keys have vanished. I have also lost a watch, a pen and one of a pair of cufflinks in a similar way- all in the same area of my flat. It as though I have my own private "Bermuda Triangle"
Peter Of London WC, UK
Peter Ivens <pmivens a tiscali couk jas>
USA - Wednesday, December 04, 2013 at 05:56:30 (PST)
A couple weeks ago, me and my friends were walking home and there's this kid. out of nowhere, he just appears on the sidewalk. a little later down the side walk, he disappears again, near a house. he didn't go in the house , because there was a hill next to it, therefor we would have seen him go up. but today,
the house is missing. some people swear it was never there. but it's gone. overnight. leaving nothing but a strange star symbol where it used to be. it left no debris. i'm trying to figure out why or HOW this happened.
Alex Smith <alexgeiser00 a gmail com >
tucson, Arizona USA - Monday, December 02, 2013 at 15:44:57 (PST)
Tonight I am home alone and waiting to go to work at 11:30 at night. I was entertaining myself with videogames and I was drinking coke. It was around 5:30PM when I decided I should eat something. I went upstairs and cooked some pizza then returned to my room. I realized I forgot to fill up my glass so I went back up to fill it with some more pop. When I opened the fridge the 2 liter bottle of coke was gone. I searched the entire house for it. And I still cant find it. All I wanted was some coke with my pizza. This is the first time this has happened. I am still rather freaked out.
Alicia <alicia_jesperson a hotmail com xxxxxxxxxxx>
MN USA - Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 18:50:54 (PST)
Strange things have been going on in the house I live in since my daughter and I moved in with my mother 3 1/2 years ago. It started with things appearing in odd places; my daughter's shoes in a different room, a glass under the kitchen sink, a knife in a draw in the bathroom. Then about 7 or 8 months ago things started vanishing. I had a partial box of lemon squares in the fridge, the next day it was gone. Protein bars vanished out of a basket without a shred of evidence they had ever been there. The yogurts were the most bizarre. They would disappear from the refrigerator, only to have the empty cups show up in the oddest places: between our dryer and the wall, up on a kitchen shelf behind some boxes of tea, in a cabinet with cups and bowls when it had not been there the day before (it fell out of the cabinet on me), in a paper bag in a storage room. Then money started disappearing from my mother's and my daughter's wallets. A credit card of my mother's vanished..when she had seen it the night before. A partially empty cottage cheese container appeared ontop of a garbage pail upstairs. We also found an empty cottage cheese container and an empty iced tea bottle in a drawer in a dresser that is rarely ever opened. ( I also had a door slam shut..one that off kilter and leans in, but that is a different line of paranormal.)
DEBRA BATES <mysterylady65 a hotmail com >
WESTWOOD, New Jersey USA - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at 12:21:47 (PST)
This will sound weird to some since it involved money, but not if you realized that's not the only thing that happened in this house. My boss paid me my week payment of $675.00, as he usually does and left home. Money was tied to a rubber band and I pocketed it without making sure of the amount. I know him and trust him with those issues, so I didn't pay much attention to it. The money stayed in my pocket untouched tied to the rubber band the whole day. I finally left home and went to deposit the money in my bank, untied the rubber band and counted it: there were only $575 in total. Rushed back to the house and spoke to him who in a very calm way, he assured me he counted the money three times and made sure he gave me 675, and for what it's worth, I believe him. He is a business man, he wouldn't make a mistake this type. Im sure the money is back to him somehow, he'll count it and find it unexplainable.
But a week ago, his wife lost her credit cards, and driver's license. Not to be found anywhere. We thought the kids had taken them. She found them days later in a shoe box that contains a pair of brand new shoes that no one can wear (too big yet). She reports to have mistaken other things as well before, and that when she offered a reward, all of a sudden things appeared as if it's meant for the finder to get the reward money. Now I can only recall things like these to happen before under the same circumstances: STRESS. There's a lot of stress in that house, and in between this couple. A some sort of explanation to how the mind works.
Amalia C Oyarzun <pichinga2 a yahoo com >
Clifton , NJ USA - Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 07:05:44 (PST)
This is kinda funny and odd at the same time. But, recently one of my closest friends passed away. He was also my ex boyfriend so we'd been through a lot together and stayed really close. So a few odd things have been happening but nothing too unusual. But just today I was getting dressed about to get ready for work and I went to put on my drawer which is usually right in my drawer and it wasn't there. I ran around the house half naked looking for my bra! Lol. I checked the bathroom, my room, laundry, dirty clothes, all of my baskets and my drawers; nothing. So I just went and got a different bra and after I put it on I went back in the laundry room and when I went in there it was sitting right on top on everything in the dirty clothes. Am I going crazy or is this was really weird ?...
Kristen <kristenester a yahoo com >
Dillsboro, IN USA - Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 06:49:11 (PST)
When I was in third grade so I was around 8 years old me and my family moved to a nice little town called Parkview in Iowa . Anyways from what I recall this situation happened I think when we first moved in because there still wasn't any furniture in the basement. I had just met my first friend and we were downstairs by ourselves playing. I told him that I knew how to make some pretty cool paper airplanes and I was demonstrating one that I made. Now just picture it was an average partially finished downstairs there was no furniture down there yet we hadn't gotten that far in the move. So I'm trying to demonstrate my paper airplane and how good it flys. So we stand against the back wall in order to give it the furthest possible distance to fly and I was throwing towards another bare wall that had a closed up fireplace that no longer was in use. There was white carpeting and then the area in front of the fireplace was ceramic flooring. So I launch the airplane and me and my friend watch its path of flight so when it landed we could run over to it pick it up and launch it again. But somthing really weird happened before my eyes that is still mind boggling to me to this day. The airplane landed on the ceramic tile area and slid into the wall beneath the fireplace and I swear to god that paper airplane disappeared into thin air . There wasn't any nooks and crannys or any gaps that it could have fell into. We had no animals at this time and my friend was right next to me so there is no way he could have snatched it real quick and he will attest to this. That thing vanished into thin air and I never seen it again. I am a very open minded person and actually because of this very drawn to the paranormal but on the same token I am a very practical thinker and believe there is a logical explanation to everything. There is ample information on ghosts and extraterrestrials and such actually ghost hunting now is kind of a fad and in the mainstream but having a hard time getting information besides for peoples accounts and testimony on they're experience on things that vanished but havnt come across a good theory or explanation to what happens to things that disappear. This is a real phenomena and things do for some reason vanish into thin air and I'm sure of it as I'm sure that the grass is green and the sky is blue so if anyone out there has had a similar experience or has a good theory on it I would love to hear it. This is what I know for sure that things do vanish or disappear and that there obviously is another dimension taking place in the very world we live but what causes one thing to transport into the next.
Jack shaunson <Jacksonshaun64 a yahoo com >
Lockport, Ny USA - Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 23:29:05 (PDT)
I've had two events which are very weird according to me...
1)I had been listening to music on my brother's iPod and then after listening for sometime, I kept it on his desk and on the next morning, it was missing and we couldn't find it anywhere even after searching the house fully...
Strangely though, I found the iPod in one of my brother's pant pockets(which I made sure to check before) after months where we almost forgot about it... My family was out of explanation for it...
2)I had been playing Computer games late in the night till 3:00am and then unplugged my USB mouse and kept it on my desk before going to bed...
The next morning, I woke up and went to College and came back home to find my mouse missing...
I asked my mom and dad about it and they said no one had visited the house on that day and they were also at home on that day fully when I was away..
We searched the house fully only to find no clue of where the mouse had gone to...
It is very unlikely that someone broke into the house on that night just for my mouse while all the other valuables in home remained untouched!!
My mouse has not still returned even after a month of its disappearance...
So, does anyone else know what causes these thing to happen?
Rahul
India - Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 08:33:57 (PDT)
Last Wednesday Oct. 16, 2013, playing my guitar I removed the capo that was on the neck at the third fret, and put it on the table in front of me, an hour or so later I went to put it back on and it was gone!
It is the second time it has happened here in 27 yrs residence, on the previous occasion I was putting some shopping away in a cupboard and found a brush I had been looking for, so I put it aside for when I had finished putting the other stuff away, when I went to pick it up it had gone.
It has not turned up in the seven or eight yrs since, while other DOP stories on the i?net, indicate it is not unusual for the phenomenon to strike after recovering some long lost object.
They say Pixies have a propensity to borrow things, maybe some Pixie dude wished to serenade his lady love and just had to have a capo, in which case he is absolutely welcome, maybe I can hope for some Pixie gift in return.
I would like my guitar playing to improve, I wonder if they can fix that up for me :) - Others say the Pixies bestow gifts, and if the recipient fails to return the favor things can go missing!
Be that as it may, the day before the capo went west a dude came here to measure up for new window shades, he saw my guitars, and told me he had salvaged a broken Epiphone headstock with a full set of machine heads, from a pile of broken guitars he had seen on the roadside.
As a non player he said he had no use for them, and just gave me the broken headstock before I could say no!
I thought about giving him a return gift, but did not want to precipitate an exchange on the basis of such a casual acquaintanceship, as well he pocketed a substantial $um of money as a deposit for the shades, so I did not want to spoil him.
That is not the end of it all, I checked the supermarket shopping bags one last time, in the off chance the capo would turn up there, and found the 50$ I had withdrawn at the checkout which had inadvertently gone in with the supermarket receipt.
Martin Timothy <martin_t a tpg com .au>
Brisbane, Queensland Australia - Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 16:32:11 (PDT)
To the men in black under the care of the adjustment bureau,
Subject: Missing object phenomenon.
Any thoughts? Elders? Anyone?
Let's solve a mystery, fight for the realm of reality. They say that some objects really go afloat with no apparent reason, they go missing just when you need em. Shake and bake now you see em now you don't!!
So I lost my phone charger again, but this time i'm posting about it. I let the first one go because of the carelessness my own self isn't really proud of.
Yesterday, i was in a hurry to go somewhere and it's not in my nature to easily or clumsily lose something especially an object so useful i feel naked without it lol. Perhaps my brain could only handle so much and i was pretty preoccupied. I needed to do this, that and blah. I wanted to get things done.
So I went down from the the 3rd flr where my room is to the ground flr carrying my stuff with me (including the charger, my extra shirt and my bag) to grab late lunch. I strolled down and went to the car right away to put my stuff before starting with my meal.
As i was having lunch with my sister, a sense of absent mindedness crawled all over me (i had that hunch that the charger was gone) i stopped eating, stood up and recalled where i put my charger. I didnt get to finish my food. It's not really about the charger now, it was about the "not again feeling" of the missing object phenomenon. Everyone in the house helped me search for it. I retraced my steps and i was anxious-sweating. The charger was gone. We literally looked everywhere. It happened again. It was so unfair. I'm really sure i brought it with me but i had a feeling something stole some of my seconds. "They" took advantage of my absent mindedness. Who are "they"? Can the mystery be solved? Why do things like this happen? What are the possibilities? Is it paranormal? Do other realms exist? How do "they" transport earthly objects to a diff place?
The next morning, our household helpers finally spilled the beans, they've been hearing odd moans, footsteps, voices and a "person" crying from the third storey of our house.. As i am posting this, i am on the third floor.
Mission impossible, it is unacceptable. I'll keep an eye about this phenomenon. This encounter serves as an instrument for my unprecedented purpose here on earth. True meaning com
Leandro Belleza <leanbelle a yahoo com >
Manila, Philippines - Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 01:19:12 (PDT)
Last week was the funeral of one of my very closest friends. I was going to wear some very special jewelry I had that was sentimentally very important to me as well as quite expensive. Both the bracelet and the earrings I was going to wear were things left to me by an aunt and another very close friend who had also passed away. The bracelet had come with an appraisal of $4000. many years ago and the earrings were also worth quite a bit. I keep these items in the same place always and had seen them sometime over the last year but had not worn them as I only take them out at special times. When I went to get them they were both just gone. Now my sister who is a known thief had stayed with me for several months earlier in the year and I immediately thought she must have stolen them and was hurt and furious. Next thing you know, yesterday I am in the kitchen and I am cooking something that requires butter. My sons were present and I had picked up the butter dish and set it on the counter next to the sink. I turned to the stove to start the fire and when I turned again to get the butter it was gone. I asked my boys where it went and they both looked at me with confusion. I said I just put the butter here 10 seconds ago and now it's gone. They hadn't touched it. Also, I forgot to mention that last weekend I had some cannabis chocolate hidden in a drawer in my bedroom and had gotten it out to share with a friend, which I did. When I broke a couple pieces off I noticed I had quite a bit left and was happy about it. I had put it back in my drawer in it's little hiding place. A couple days later I went to have another tasty piece and voila! No chocolate! What the heck is going on?? I'm a Lightworker and I know that the veil is thinning and some very odd things are happening but butter? Cannabis chocolate? Now the jewelry may well have been stolen by my drug addled sister, which would not surprise me, but now with these things vanishing, I don't know what to think. Strange days indeed.
Bev <Bevrojas a yahoo com >
Ca USA - Wednesday, October 09, 2013 at 21:27:48 (PDT)
This is not the first time this sort of "left and came back" activity has occurred for myself but I now have the video of the place that it reappeared, showing it wasn't there 20 minutes before.
Within my collision facility a friend of mine had opened a plastic package and taken out the 3x3 inch sized switch and installed it on a car. I informed him that we had one in the storage area and that I intended to send that one back to the dealer. He went to put it back in the plastic, labelled bag and the bag was no where to be found. Since I have experienced this before, I grabbed my I phone and took a video of the whole working area suspecting it would be returned and that I would be able to prove it's return to us.
Sure enough, in about 20-30 minutes he found the package and I made him show me the exact spot he picked it up and when I turned on the phone to watch the video, it was the very first frame that I shot that showed it was not there when filming.
This happened October 7th 2013 around 11:30 am eastern standard time
Tim
USA - Tuesday, October 08, 2013 at 04:47:50 (PDT)
About 3-4 years back, I started wearing my mothers wedding band. She had lost her original one, and picked this one out about 6 years ago. When she got it, it was slightly too small for her, so she never wore it. I loved it, so one day after wearing it for months, she gave it to me.
Now, I am not the most organized person, but I never just leave things lying around. Especially expensive, meaningful pieces of jewelry.
About 5 months ago, I was seeing someone, and I stayed at his house. I took the rng off, and put it in a pocket in my purse, so as not to lose it . Next day it was gone. I searched everywhere for it at his place to no avail. I was upset, but I eventually forgot about it. About 2 months ago I went on a trip to Ireland, and I needed a suitcase, so I borrowed my grandmothers. I packed/ unpacked several times on the trip. The second day I was home, I open my suitcase, to start unpacking, and what is on top in the center of my suitcase? My ring. Sitting there as if it was placed on top for me to find.
It's been a few weeks since I found it and now it's missing again.
Erin <Clementineerin a yahoo com >
CA USA - Tuesday, October 01, 2013 at 15:17:41 (PDT)
I was shopping today for work and I was going to buy the air freshener candles. The brand I wanted was nowhere to be found, I did though find the "other" brand and then decided to purchase a few of them. I put 6 of them in my cart and then as if coming from nowhere I then "saw" the entire row of candles of the brand I wanted...I looked at the shelves one by one for at least 4 minutes before resigning myself to the other brand. I asked the person I was with if they saw the candles and they did not as well. It was pretty intense because there were about 3.5 ft of space devoted to the different types of candles of the brand I was searching for.
Heather
USA - Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 01:21:33 (PDT)
4 days ago, my keys went missing. I searched all the usual spots, then all the unusual places, nothing. So I used the truck instead and decided I'd find my motorcycle and scooter keys later. When I got back I looked some more. Over the next few days I looked more. I checked the keys hook on the wall many times because a few things are hanging up there so I made sure the keys were not there at least 15 different times. Then, last resort, I was going to look through the laundry. I looked through all possible clothing and found that they were not there. So I decided to look around again in all the usual places... They were right there on the key hook on the wall. Then. The next day. I placed a cigarette in a specific place.. Even tobacco had fallen out and was left behind in the place I had set it.. Looked all over for it and just figured it was where ever those keys had been. The following day I walked my dog in the morning and when I walked past my scooter I looked at the foot rest and right there, outside on the foot rest of my scoot, after it had rained all night and everything was wet.. I found the lost cigarette. Sitting there. Still dry. Many other things have happened in the past, I'll write more stories about those things later. I'll keep this post limited to this weeks happenings.
Layla
USA - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 08:23:42 (PDT)
After waking up this morning I found a ziplock bag containing sliced cheese (from the fridge)on the living room floor. It had a dollop of chocolate frosting inside - on the middle of the cheese. There wasn't any frosting on the outside of the bag - it was neatly placed in the middle.
I didn't eat anything last night and was alone in a locked house.
Britt Machado
Rio Vista, CA USA - Monday, September 23, 2013 at 13:51:33 (PDT)
Okay so this happened the last time at sat next to my find Erin and she asked me to borrow a pencil. Both of our erases went missing. Completely MISSING?! So then I gave her another and I got another and it happened again! Then I thought she was doing it I keep a close watch on mine and her pencil and toke a quick look away to the teacher and looked back, GONE. That happened last week. I sat with her again today and it happened once again. I gave her one more and it did not happen. At the end of class (my last class of the day) she gave me my pencil back (with an eraser) and I left school. I just got home to do my homework, I opened my pencil pouch with about twelve pencils in it and each pencil eraser was missing, even a spare one I keep in the front pocket of my book bag! This is hilariously creepy and I want answers! I want to keep my erases and know what is causing this!
Lauren C
- Monday, September 23, 2013 at 13:25:16 (PDT)
I had an experience with this. I have this pandora bracelet and I remember wearing it the day I had to take my son to the doc. Well when we got home I know I took it off. I usually sit it two places on my night stand in the bedroom or on the table in the living room. A couple days later i went to go put it on and it wasn't there. I searched everywhere in the house even the basement. But i couldn'tfind it anywhere. Still can't until this day and im sad because it was an expensive bracelet. Another incident is one day I wad getting ready to go somewhere my boyfriend has an retainer that he has to wear. Well he sit it on hip of this container. I know I took the retainer of the container to use the contents inside. After i got done i closed it up and put the retainer back on top of it. That night when we came hone it wasn't there we searched the bedroom and the living room. He said he didn't touch it now its no where to be found either. This is very weird and i have no clue where it could be.
lissa <melissamc2290 a gmail com >
oh USA - Monday, September 02, 2013 at 13:59:17 (PDT)
Stuff appearing from nowhere
The last week or so things have happened that I have no explanation for. About 5 or 6 days ago I was about to put on my jacket and go outside when I noticed some odd object lodged inside the fabric on the bottom of the jacket. I checked everywhere around the jacket, but there was no hole anywhere for it to have been put in there at all. The piece of fabric it was stuck inside had been sewn onto the rest of the jacket, so I figured it either had been put there during the production of the jacket (or it had to appear in the fabric during the 4-5 years I've had it).
I had no other way to find out what it was other than to grab a pair of scissors and cut a hole in the jacket to pull the object out. What I found was some kind of rock. It had a silver-ish shine to it when held under a light, but the stone itself was more or less black. To my surprise, the stone had 5 surfaces, and upon placing it on the table, I could roll the stone from one surface to another and each single one of the surfaces had perfect balance, so no matter which one of the surfaces that faced the table, the rock would lay perfectly without tipping toward any other side. It had the feel of being a dice, made out of stone, as I could flip it around on the table.
The strange part is that there was something like an extra corner on the rock which seemed like it had been broken off, because each time I rolled the rock to a specific surface, the thing seemed to 'shoot off' a couple of centimeters away from my fingers, as if this corner 'repelled' the surface of the table. I went to search my jacket some more and found a tiny silver-looking piece of stone, and a couple of triangular shaped things (they almost felt like a mix between a nail and a piece of dried bread, but they would break very easily). So then I went ahead and held the dice-like stone a couple of millimeters over the tiny silver-looking stone piece, and to my surprise it was magnetically drawn to the larger rock, so that it stuck to the rock when I lifted my hand. After this I tried doing the same thing with the triangular shaped thing (whatever it is) and at some angle it actually stuck to the dice-like rock too. So what I held in my hands was some kind of magnetic rock which also somehow reacted in a magnetic fashion with a material that was not magnetic, which made the whole thing a little weird.
I don't know how these things ended up inside my jacket, but I've been wearing this jacket almost every single day straight for 4 to 5 years, and I have never noticed this. So either someone put it in there during production - or it must somehow have magically appeared in the jacket recently. This thing seems like it is made by intelligent design, works like a dice and is magnetic. I don't see how someone would shove this stuff into the fabric of jacket strictly for fun, considering the properties of the rock. In any case it's a rare joke on my behalf.
On a side note; Yesterday I found something closely resembling a piece of glass inside the pocket of a sweater I own. It is see-through and is not made of rubber or plastic. It seems like it's broken, but I don't think it's glass since it doesn't cut no matter how hard I squeeze it. I think it's some kind of crystal, but I have no clue.. The last time I was wearing the sweater, it was not there, but it somehow appeared in the pocket during a couple of hours, while only laying on the sofa.
The day before yesterday I was moving stuff from one box to another in my room. I found a knife I had been given many years ago, and I put it on the floor while taking stuff from the first box to the second. The things I needed to use ended up on the floor in front of me, while everything else I didn't need from the first box ended up in the second box. One to my left, one to my right. When I had finished moving things from box to box, I looked down and found TWO knives. They were both identical. The first was the one I had been given many years ago, and the second looked brand new. I never owned two of this knife, but when I looked at their serial number, they were exactly the same. The serial number on the one I had been given was on a sticker, and the knife must be about 15-20 years old at least. The sticker with the serial number on the second knife was brand new, it seemed. I don't know how this thing happened either.
Your guess is as good as mine! Thank you for reading :)
Martin
- Thursday, August 29, 2013 at 17:59:24 (PDT)
My fiance proposed last week and got me a beautiful ring. Tonight, as I went to take it off to put lotion on, I noticed it was missing! It fits well and isn't loose, so I knew it couldn't have fallen off, and I also knew I hadn't taken it off (I'm very aware of it being off my finger!). My fiance was convinced it had slipped off, however, (even after I told him that there was no way it could have happened) and we started looking around the house. As we retraced all my steps from the evening, including letting the neighbor's dog out and putting out the trash, I was beside myself. I couldn't believe it was gone!
However, just a couple minutes into the actual search, my fiance called for me from the bedroom. I went in and as I reached him, he lifted up my pillow. There, nestled underneath, lay my ring.
I have NO idea how it got there. I have NO idea how it got off my FINGER, let alone under my pillow. The only time I had even been near the bed all evening was to just place a laptop on top of the bedspread.
Needless to say, I'm a little freaked. I'm used to coincidental events and "messages" from the other side, but in much less personal ways! I can't get over the fact that my ring literally had to vanish off my finger for this one, and it's kind of creepy.
Anyway, just wanted to share!
Lindsey Jones <lmjones79 a gmail com >
Blaine, WA USA - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 00:05:36 (PDT)
I'm a very spiritual person; I consider myself pagan, I meditate, I feel energies, and very often 'know' things that I rightly shouldn't know. To say the least, my intuition is very strong.
A good many months ago, while I was still living in upstate New York, I saw an egg about the size of my palm made of stone balanced in a key ring attached to an old key sitting on a little trunk of mine, in front of a window. I lived on the top floor of an old three-story house, the top two floors of which my friends and I were renting. The egg is nothing particularly special, pretty, earth-toned with creams and tans and browns and striated like a sedimentary rock. The key, unlike almost all the other keys I've collected, looks as though it serves some function opposed to being strictly decorative. (The bit of it has an indentation, as though it's purpose is to lift an actual latch.) It's a simple thing, and doesn't look terribly old.
I assumed the two objects belonged to my best friend, who lived downstairs, as she was constantly forgetting things in my room; we both collect stones and keys, so it was really hardly worth noting. A few days passed, the egg balanced as it was with the key, and I didn't touch them. Finally, when my friend came upstairs, I asked them if she'd forgotten them in my room; she hadn't. This piqued my interest, and I asked everyone who'd been in the house - let alone my room - if they knew anything about them. To my dismay, none seemed to have any idea what they were, or where they came from.
I still have them, despite my move to Georgia. I still don't know where they came from, or who could have left them for me.
Kristen Nordstrom <krissness a gmailcom>
Athens, GA USA - Sunday, July 28, 2013 at 17:30:45 (PDT)
1999 just moved into a house built in 1940s, I placed a E6B pilots watch on my night stand next to the bed, woke up in the morning it was gone, never reappeared in the six years living at the residence, or when moving to next house. Other odd things occurred when we first moved into house a plate of butter found in middle of kitchen floor neatly with silverware next mornings, there was a minor sense of presence in the house not over whelming. Doors would slam and no breeze was present. Where did the Ghost take my watch off to ?
eisho <1#*%#Flynbuddha@aolcom**%$#@*(>
Santa Barbara, Ca USA - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 08:06:23 (PDT)
One day right b4 bed I was watching T.V. and like every other night when I go to bed I take the T.V. remote and I place it on the T.V. stand for my husband to find in the morning so he can watch the news. By the time I wake up he leaves for work and like myself when he turns off the T.V. he leaves the remote on the T.V. stand. So when I woke up I went to the living room to turn on the T.V. and I did not see the remote on the T.V. stand. I thought maybe he left it on the sofa, maybe on one of the end tables but nothing. I searched the bookcase, under the sofa's, in between the cushions and still nothing. I was frustrated because the remote was the only remote that worked that particular T.V. and without it I had to manually raise and lower the volume. So I began to search the entire apartment, the bathroom, the bedrooms, the kitchen, I searched high and low and still nothing. I searched practically all day and gave up with hopes that maybe my husband placed it somewhere else. So when he called later on in the day, I asked him what he did with the remote and he said that he couldn't find it in the morning and that he looked all over the living room and thought that maybe I left it in one of the other rooms. So I didn't know what to do, or what to think so I just figured that maybe upon cleaning the apt later on in the week I will find it. So the very next morning when I woke up I looked on the T.V. stand and there was the remote and I thought that my husband found it somewhere in the house. So when he called I asked him where did you find the remote? and he said he didn't find it, it was on the T.V. stand when he woke up and he thought I had placed it there because I had found it. It baffled me, because I don't know what was going on, but for now that was the only item that has disappeared and appeared mysteriously,
Angel <blessedmomxoxo a aolcom>
USA - Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 13:45:40 (PDT)
Several years ago my parents and I moved into the house that we currently still reside. Ever since, my mother and I have been experiencing unexplainable events.
One of the earliest things I can remember was my mom's purse going missing. My mother is extremely organized. Everything in the house has a proper place, and the house is always spotless. She was baffled because she always hung her purse on the closet door handle. After looking all over the house and interrogating my father and I, she assumed she left it somewhere. She had to cancel her cards as well as get a new driver's license. A few months later she was in the upstairs closet getting the winter blankets out of storage. She stores these in the vacuum sealed bags. The kind that sucks all the air out of the bcompressing the blankets to make more room for other things in the closet. She gets one of her favorites out, a quilt her brother had bought for her (a few months before he was fatally shot in a random drive by). She unsealed the bag and took out the folded quilt. She shook it out to drape it across the couch and out fell the purse. She stored that quilt away months before we even moved.
Another event that happened was when my class ring went missing. By this time a few other oddities had happened but this one really made me wonder. My class ring was very expensive. Sterling silver, crimson red tear drop stone, two real diamonds, with the inscription "Never Forget" engraved on one side and "Class of 09" on the other. I wore it everyday, taking it off only to shower and sleep. I was always careful to put it on my porcelain ring holder whenever I wasn't wearing it. One day I woke up and it was missing. I tore my room apart looking for it. No way was I going to lose that ring. Eventually though, I had to give up. Two weeks later I woke up, made my bed, and went to use the bathroom. When I came back I was relieved, but shocked to see my ring sitting right on top of the pillow I had just fluffed moments ago. At first I thought my mom had found it and snuck it into my room while I was in the bathroom. I went to thank her only to find out that I was home alone, she and my dad were both at work.
Now here's the one that made do a little online research, causing me to stumble across this site. My keys went missing a couple days ago which is normal for me. I knew they were probably in my room somewhere and after some searching I found them in an obvious place. Laughing at myself for being so blind I placed them on my dresser. I had to get up early the next day for work and I knew that I would probably be in a hurry. I didn't want to have to waste any time searching for my keys. So I made sure to make a mental note of their location. On the dresser right in front of my jewelry box. The next day I was rushing to get ready and as I got my things together I reached over to grab my keys only to find that they were gone. I looked everywhere for them flipping over pillows, shaking out my bedspread, checking under and around furniture. Short on time, I hunted down my spare key and left for work. When I got home I mentioned my keys to my mom, asking her if she'd taken them or if she'd seem them. She hadn't. I then spent the next few hours relaxing in my room. After a while I heard one of my cats crying in the hallway. Fearing that he'd wake everyone up (it was after midnight by this time) I left my room to go get him so he could hang out with me. When I came back to my room I stopped dead in my tracks. There were my keys sitting right on top of my body pillow on my bed. I know for a fact they weren't there before I left to get the cat because I had to find my remote to pause my movie. The remote was sitting right where my keys had just appeared.
Spooky... (O.o)
Jess
USA - Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 00:19:50 (PDT)
I was standing in my closet needing 4 hangers for 3 pairs of blue jeans and 1 pair of sweat pants. I could only find 3, so I took the 3 and walked to the bed a few steps away where the pants were laying. I threw the hangers on the bed and I am drawing a blank on what happened next. I can't remember if I looked away or if I just picked up a pair of blue jeans and placed then on the hanger, but I do remember putting the first pair of blue jeans on the hanger then laying then down on the right side of the bed. then reaching for another hanger and noticing the was still 3 empty hangers laying on the bed, so I looked at the jeans I just put on the hanger and they are on a hanger just where I had placed them, so I look back and sure enough there are 3 empty hangers and the 1 hanger with jeans on them. I know for a fact there was 2 peach colored hangers and 1 black hanger that I took from the closet, but some how I now have 2 black and 2 peach colored hangers.
I have been having feeling of similar things such as this happing but this is the first time I have seen it with my own eyes knowing that there was only 3 hangers to start with. I'm starting to think my mind may be slipping?
Adam
lexington, KY USA - Sunday, July 07, 2013 at 18:34:34 (PDT)
Generally, in our house, random, but usually any desired or very "attached-to" items have simply been disappearing over the last year or two. I know no one has had access, and it was no one that visited my home.
Even my boyfriend is now freaked out by it as well. we've had 4 herbal sacks disappear,(yay CO) as well as (somehow)an entire can of brand new Parm Cheese that seemed to empty as it sat on the coffee table overnight. It didn't fall, there was none on the floor, no one ate it, it was just empty the next day. Things disappear and then seem like they are right infront of you, this happens to both of us.
I will mention the entire place has been turned upside down to look for the following items, several times and in the process cleaned well as we looked for these puzzling missing items.
These were are really only things that have sentimental value to me, they are not necessarily worth anything monetarily. No one would know these are things I care about desperately. Because I have lost so many people in my family, the beautiful gifts and treasures I have from my family are very rare and extremely precious.
The missing things started out less precious and became more and more so as more things disappeared/time went on.
A beautiful scarf my sister in law gave me, a matching scarf and hat my Sister bought me for Christmas, I remember tossing them ALL in the bedroom closet and being pleased and noting it as I'd found each one. Even though there was a little mess of clothes in there I was sure they'd be there later, because I am certain beyond any doubt I never wore them. ALL, all gone, every shirt and sock organized.
A very nice little Remmington blade I kept vigilantly clipped to my bra and checked subconsciously constantly was my favorite gift from my love. It also disappeared.
My deceased grandmother's class ring, as gift from my Mom at Christmas that I obsessively checked to make sure it was always on my finger, simply disappeared sometime during the evening one night as I stayed in.
My Deceased Father's Army Knife, of which few even knew I had it and no one knew where it was, is gone without a trace.
What The Hell. Anyone? Can I even... is there ANY way I can get these things back? I am starting to wonder if we're going crazy because so many things simply disappear.
Thanks for listening to the rant everyone, open for suggestions :)
Jennifer <**dp_tissuemassage a gmailcom**>
CO USA - Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 14:05:39 (PDT)
i use an inhaler before i go to bed and when i wake up in the morning. one night i used it and put it back on the nightstand, where it stays. I went to sleep and when i woke up to use it it was gone. I really needed it that morning to, well im not one to just think something crazy is going on so i searched and never found it. 3 days later i got another one and guess what? yep, it happened again the next night. i looked everywhere for them and nothing. it happened again today and again with this item i am perfectly aware of where i set it. i live alone so i know.
tim <timware28 a yahoocom>
USA - Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 19:20:38 (PDT)
I have a small hand carved statue from the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. I bought it there about 17 years ago on holiday. It is called "Tongaroa" which is one of the gods of the islands. He icommon site on the islands and he is a fertility god and a god of good fortune. I have been back to the islands 2 years ago. I kept him on a windowsill in the bathroom with my other totem from Vanuatu which is made of volcanic rock. After some time I noticed the Tongaroa had appeared on top of my tv in the bedroom and I couldnt remember placing him there. I have moved him back in the bathroom and he appeared suddenly in my husbands room, he has sleep apnea. I didnt move him then. Strangely enough I had lost my reading glasses today and when I went into this bedroom there the glasses were with Tangaroa.
Fiona
Australia - Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 22:03:59 (PDT)
I woke up about 10 min ago, and i was hungry so i fixed something to eat. After i had finished eating i wanted to smoke so i went and got my bong, and filled it up. I was about to smoke but then i had to pee so i ran to the bathroom. I was in the bathroom for about 30 sec at the most, and when i came back my bong was gone. At first i thought i was tripping or something so i just sat back down and started to look around. After about 2 minutes i stood up and said hold on i know i put my bong right here on the table so where is it. I flipped over the couches, looked outside for some strange reason, and even strip searched every room in my house. Still no sign of my bong so i started to freak out and wonder what is going on here. I live alone and have no pets so what happened to my bong. After about 30 min of searching the house over and over i sat back down, and said forget it because this is to crazy for me. I actually started to get really mad because i know for a fact exactly where i put my bong, and bong's just don't get up and run away. Even though this isn't the first time something like this has happened but after this i said enough is enough.
JackTheRipper <000theendisnear000 a gmailcom>
77373, Texas USA - Thursday, June 06, 2013 at 21:02:33 (PDT)
Usually my possessions change places and this happens quite a lot and just now there was a phenomena where in this situation of me masturbating i found that a toe nail come out my mouth i remember its strange because this toe nail was from the past and i am sure of it it is the toe nail that was in the orange juice that my mom gave me when i was a child i'm sure of it how could it possibly come out intact out of my mouth 20 years later, anyhow i put it in the empty coca cola bottle and threw it away and made my self some fresh orange juice which i drank; why the coca cola bottle because it had actually happened once that i drank a toe nail in my drink of coca cola not so far back i cant beleive i had to pay for it too
Javier Perez Pignatelli <javipigna a hotmailcom>
Brussels, Belgium - Friday, May 24, 2013 at 17:24:22 (PDT)
I was in my garden on the trampoline and i had taken my allstars off and left them neatly next to each other on the grass. Whilst i was on there i needed the toilet but because i couldnt be bothered to put my shoes on i went to the house in my socks. After going to the toilet i decided not to go on the trampoline anymore so i went outside to get my shoes but to my amazement they weren't there so i went back inside just to check i hadn't brought them inside and i hadn't. So i went back outside to check again and there they were sat back were i had left them where had they gone. I was on my own nobody else there and this is the 5th thing that has vanished and then reappeared in my garden.
Alexia Williams
Bath, England - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 08:09:33 (PDT)
Ok, so I've had a lot of weird happen to me !
To start off with ,the first time something went missing unexplained was when I was younger , and I had a teddy and I was obsessed with it.One weekend I was staying with my granny and when I went to bed it fell on the ground.Instead of my mum Picking it up she turned the light out and said I could get it tomorrow because it went under the bed.
The next morning .. the teddy was never found or seen again since .That was over 10 years ago and still to this day that is a UNUSUAL PHENOMENA that happened to me !!
Freaky and also all my socks go missing , I put a pair of socks in the wash and only comes out ! I want answers !!
jessie smith <jessiexscott a hotmailcom>
USA - Wednesday, May 01, 2013 at 14:38:24 (PDT)
I just had the most bizzare experience! I plopped on the couch and went to grab the TV remote which is always either on the coffee table or sometimes on the arm of the couch. It wasn't there! I looked everywhere; between the cushions, behind the couch, on the floor. I moved the coffee table and the couch to look underneath. I looked by the TV and in the kitchen. I was getting so frustrated because I had just watched some tv earlier in the day and there is no place else I would put the remote. I also live alone, so no one could have moved it. Exasperated, I said a little prayer, "God, please, where is that remote?" And then I looked and it was on the coffee table! There is no possible way I could have missed it! Just too weird!!
Paula Hartman
Ca USA - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 00:08:35 (PDT)
When I take my dog out to potty, I bring her in and make her sit by the door while I go get her food and water. Well, I made her sit and stay while I got a magazine and a couple other thin booklets from my purse. I took a few steps away and she made to follow me (which is obviously not "stay"ing), so I made this big overhand gesture with my right arm at her, like an exaggerated baseball throw, and the magazine hand nearly hit the floor. At the bottom of the arc, I felt the 'zine fly out of my hand to somewhere behind me and I heard the flutter of the pages, but not it hitting the ground, so I figured that it had hit the ground at a slide. When I turned around, there was no magazine. Now, my house isn't always clean, so I thought that it had maybe slid under a piece of furniture. So, I checked. Nothing. I looked around a bit. Still nothing. I gave up for a few hours then decided to straighten up the room to look. No dice. I even checked in places that were nowhere near where it would've flown. I couldn't find it anywhere. The only thing that could be considered "mystical" that I've been doing lately is keeping track of my dreams when I can, so I don't know if I've activated something that I may have or what, but I really wanted to read that magazine.
aoakes92
USA - Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 19:14:37 (PDT)
So I wake up to find that the loaf of bread is missing. Thought the roommate grabbed it for lunch. Nope. So now I have been on a hunt for it.
I am then informed that we have several items MIA in this house. A bobble head Brewer missing from the room downstairs, in the basement. The filter housing to my Dyson disappeared after I took it apart to clean it and let it dry overnight. And now a loaf of bread vanishes off the kitchen counter. All within the past month and a half or so.
We lock our door every night. This morning the door was OPEN when we woke up.
We either have a sleepwalker with a strange hoarding habit or a ghost!
Shannon Trapman <hhrlover06 a gmailcom>
WI USA - Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 05:51:23 (PDT)
Lost a house key. I have turned to house over several times, I have been on my hands and knees trying to find it on floor or under fridge/cooker etc. I had three bin bags out the wheelie bin in the kitchen. I couldn't find the key. I vacuumed the kitchen floor and then mopped it. WHen dry, I opened a cupboard and sat on the floor to pull out the contents. I decided I knew it wasn;t in there and so started to put the stuff back. I shut the door turned round putting my hand on the floor to stand up, the key was right behind me on the floor. Four days it's been missing, I cannot think how it got there, although it's not the first time things have gone missing and tured up in odd places.
Pete <petegater a gmailcom>
Uk - Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 13:13:42 (PDT)
I have quite a few phenomena's in which I have no explanation for. Firstly, I must say that I started reading this thread today, and after getting my phone from downstairs from overnight (it charges separately) I proceeded to go on it. After a while my siscomes in and asks me to straighten her hair. I said yes, and placed my phone on my MADE BED *note that the phone couldn't hide anywhere underneath covers as I'm very particular about tucking in* and I could definitely see it. After straigtening I went to get my phone, and it wasn't there...seeing as straightening only takes 10 minutes maximum, and nobody had come on, I was so confused. My sister and my mum searched EVERYWHERE for it but it could not be found. Then, seeing as it is the holidays and that day I could not see anyone, I had no way of contacting anyone. (all contacts, numbers, emails etc. are kept on my phone) Finally, I got through to my friend who kept pinging me (BBM) and I found it in the right side of my (very messy) wardrobe, underneath some trousers which I most definitely had NOT moved today. Creepy, huh?
Secondly, my mum, as a child, had a tiny music box that would play music when it was wound up, about the size of a typical ice-cube. One day, she was out and was playing behind a bush, when it just disappeared. It being precious, family combed every area within about 20 sq. feet of the area, to no avail. A few years later, the music box turned up behind a different bush, muddy and rusty, and my mum only found it not because she was looking, but because the music was playing.
Thirdly, this is not a missing object, but a paranormal happening. My parents went out for dinner one day, and being paranoid about everything they would double and triple check lights, ovens, radios etc. I mean, really paranoid though, even if we are going to miss a flight, if my dad believes the oven was left on, we would drive back 3 hours to quadruple check. Yes. Anyway, when they went out the house completely dark, nothing on and everything locked. However, when they came back, everything possible was opposite to how it was, with every single light, radio, TV, door, window, open or on. No explanation, and no signs of a break in. Nothing was stolen, but everything was changed...and the creepy thing is, that I am sitting in this very house now. It gives me goosebumps.
Lexi <alepko5 a gmaildot com>
London, UK - Monday, April 15, 2013 at 15:08:20 (PDT)
Once in awhile, I'll put something in a pocket in my clothing, or into a space in a backpack, and when I go back after it, it isn't in the place where I put it. It's nowhere, it's gone. I'll pull everything out of my pockets, turn my pockets out, check for holes, check linings of clothing, pull everything out of my packs, open the packs up to the air, air them out, clean them out, check everything, put everything back in the pack or back in the clothes, and chalk up the loss of whatever it was.
Then, a few days of weeks later, in one case three months later, I'll put my hand into my pocket or my bag, and I'll feel the object, pull it out, and be amazed. Because it wasn't there the whole time. It was seriously gone. Where does it go? How does it not be there and then be there later on?
Gabriel Arthur Petrie <gabrielapetrie a hotmailcom>
USA - Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 07:30:01 (PDT)
Several years ago, when we first moved into our current house, we were having lots of work done on our property which seemed to trigger some unusual phenomena including some vanishing items.
I was ironing in my kitchen and piling up completed ironing on my kitchen work top. When it was done, I picked up the pile of ironing to take upstairs and as I did so I knocked the quartz gas lighter onto the floor from the work top where it always was. I heard it crash and thought, "I bet that's broken the plastic case, I'll pick it up later - I'm not putting this washing down." I went upstairs to put the ironing into the airing cupboard and then came back down into the kitchen. The gas lighter was not on the floor, I was in the house on my own and the doors were locked. I got down on my hands and knees searching every bit of the floor but it couldn't have gone unde ranything as all the kitchen floor cupboards have plinths. We never found it - in fact when we had the old kitchen ripped out we asked the guys to look for it - but they didn't come across it.
Shortly after that, my husband couldn't find his credit/bank cards. He had been into town a couple of days previously so assumed he had lost them whilst out and cancelled them with companies. A couple of months later we were packing to go on holiday and my husband whilst rooting through his wardrobe discovered a pair of jeans that he had never worn (they still had the cardboard branding attached to the waist band). He had bought them a couple of years previously, in fact, we commented that the shop he'd bought them from had been closed a while. He took them off the hanger and discovered his lost credit cards in the back pocket!
Any explanations gratefully received!
C Holloway <mrscarol.holloway a gmailcom>
Southport, UK - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 10:20:05 (PDT)
For the past 15 years we find strange (not our) clothing items in our home. Shirts and shorts - men's and women's clothing. We do not uscommunal laundry service or laundromat and we do not have people coming in and out of our home. The sizes vary from large to larger. There is no explanation and it has happened in both homes that we have lived it. weird!!!!!
Michelle <michelle a gmailcom>
TX USA - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 14:51:30 (PDT)
Last night I prepared a bank deposit. It was paper clipped with the deposit slip and four checks. I was upstairs in my house when I did it. I laid it on the floor of the hall leading to the stairs in order to bring it down in the morning. I have three very loud and vicious to strangers watch dogs so it could not have been an outsider - besides all windows and doors were locked.
This morning it was gone. Although I know where it was left I did the usual search of drawers and every other place that I was. FYI our upstairs is a single bedroom , bath and closet - not too hard to search.
Concerned I looked in places where it could not be - the garbage downstairs, counters, drawers, in the refrigerator, etc.
It was and is no where to be found.
Roger <hikes75150 a mypacksnet>
USA - Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 13:24:28 (PDT)
You know when people say "I lost my phone"? Well not only have my friend and I lost our phones, we lost them in the bin about 5 times. This doesn't seem quite normal but...yeah..5 TIMES FOR GOD'S SAKE!!! Suddenly my ipod disappears from its case but I'm pretty sure it will happen again. If anyone has had this happen to them before please, please let us know so we feel that this is not just us experiencing this.
Jayne <rosejane0512 a gmailcom>
UK - Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 07:30:46 (PDT)
We have a water cooler in my house that you invert a 5 gallon bottle of water onto the top of the cooler. I had bought a new unopended bottle at the grocery. My girl friend cannot safely lift and invert the bottle so I have to do this small chore. The room we keep the cooler in is a sunroom that is fully tiled and has brick walls and two windows and a locked exterior door. I pealed the plastic lid off of the jug and swifly and safely inverted the bottle on the cooler. The next day we went to the room to fill some drinking bottles with fresh cool water. The bottle was shockingly empty, no water even in the holding reserve where the water is chilled. There was no water in the floor At ALL. The empty I replaced was in the floor that I had swapped the full bottle with. To this day, I cannot account for 40 lbs. Of water! No way for evaporation, No spill, no leaks.
Tim <tlsmith1959 a gmailcom>
Wilmington, NC USA - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 06:52:52 (PDT)
So first pieces of information that are important. I have a tub on the bottom shelf of my coffee table where I keep random stuff I use all the time, and second I am constantly wrapping my Doberman's leg cause she licks the same spot constantly and has caused herself a lick granuloma.
So my friend and I were sitting on my couch. I grabbed my dogs leg to rewrap it with some bandage. I had three rolls of it in my bucket, two teal and one red. I grabbed one of the teal rolls and my sizers, noticing that there wasn't enough left on the red roll (that was in the tub) to get the job done. I wrapped her leg and put the roll back in the tub....right in front of my friend. We sat on the couch with the dog for a minute, never got up and then decided that we should put the wrap up higher on her leg so we pulled the tub back out from the table. The rolls were gone. Both the red and the teal that I had just opened. The two of us ripped my house apart looking for it and we couldn't find it anywhere. Finally we started looking in places we just knew it couldn't be. We found the two rolls in my buffet drawer. You know the dresser type thing where you store dishes.
Absolutely blows my mind. We didn't get up, we didn't move the rolls. That drawer definitely did not get opened. I would just think that I am crazy but there was another person here who was with me the whole time, didn't get up either and confirmed that those rolls were put back in that tub.
Amanda <amanda.ansley a gmialcom>
Twentynine Palms, CA USA - Thursday, March 07, 2013 at 18:50:01 (PST)
One lazy Sunday afternoon in our town, sometime on the year 1957, I strolled along my mother's convenient store since there's no one there to talk to. It was a little dark inside because the store is closed during Sundays.
Then I came across to my mother's old cash register. It's a post-war model but still works perfectly for cash money safe keeping. And just outside in front of the cash register, I saw a fifty cent coin. I always keep in mind things I was taught to, that taking money that is not yours is bad. So for safe keeping, I inserted the coin inside the small slit of the cash register's cash drawer and dropped it inside. I turned around for a second to check for other misplaced coins. I didn't find one so I turn back to the cash register. To my amazement, the coin that I just inserted into the cash drawer just seconds ago was now lying flat outside the cash register! But I swear I was alone during that time. I took the coin and inserted it again into the slit of the cash drawer one more time. I stared at it for several seconds but nothing unusual happened. But when I turned my eyes away from it for a second and take a look back, the coin is now once again seen outside the
cash register! I became intrigued and did it for the 3rd time when it finally stayed put inside the cash drawer.
I was searching for an answer or at least an explanation to that incident. Now,I have known in my research using the internet that other people around the globe have experienced it one way or the other. And what's important to me now is the mere fact that I am not alone....
Oscar <oscargener a hotmailcom>
Gingoog City, Philippines - Wednesday, March 06, 2013 at 02:30:49 (PST)
I'm from Australia. Throughout my life I have had things break around me. My family was once downloading through a 3G network at 1mb/ps. When I walked into the room the Internet speed dropped to 100kb/ps and when I walked out it went back up. I did this a few times and it kept on happening. Similar things like this have been happening throughout my life and noone has any explanation for it.
Matt <Matt.salvation a gmailcom>
Australia - Saturday, March 02, 2013 at 17:40:35 (PST)
Well mine is all about the disappearance of money in my mummys treasury,am very sob and sad i dont even know how to explain have been accussed of so many times been responsible for it but i know am very innocent.Is there any ghost in my home?
Joseph <Josephbai a yahoocom>
Nigeria - Friday, March 01, 2013 at 13:59:03 (PST)
I would usually keep my glasses in my bedside table before I go to bed. When I wake up, it's the first thing I grab and in one particular instance, it wasn't there! We searched the sides of my bed twice and it wasn't there. On the third try, it mysteriously slides out. And my bed does not have an empty space below. Just plain solid wood.
Maria <morning_view a hotmailcom>
USA - Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 21:21:34 (PST)
For me it was a charm bracelet,
My cousin and I had hopped over a fence, and I felt it fall off, We looked everywhere for it for almost an hour but it was poof! Gone!
Then almost exactly a year later, I was walking down the trail but on the other side if he same fence, (This trail has a TON of traffic, like an entire high school daily and everyone going to and from the mall),
I pointed to my friend that that was the fence way over there that I lost my bracelet.
I looked down, and the bracelet was on top of my shoe!
We were both kind of stunned and just didn't talk about it ever again.
It was sure weird. Glad to know I am not alone.
hidingnow <mellisamouse a yahooca >
canada - Saturday, February 09, 2013 at 15:42:26 (PST)
I was about to go running, and didn't want to leave my wallet in the car, so I carefully (.ca aarefully) zipped it into my coat's inner pocket.
As we, (me and my docompanions) set off on the trail, I looked down and realized that the wallet was JUTTING out, making me look like I had a box for a boob. I poked at it, realizing it was in vain, because that wallet was just going to make that boob look like a straight up square, and I didn't care, but I know it was there.
So we are running and leaping, breathing deeply and vigorously flailing limbs in a controlled fashion until we stopped because I needed a tissue. I pat the box boob wallet to make sure it was still there, and alas it was not. That's right. Gone. So I whipped down my zipper and shoved my hand into the pocket, which was utterly empty. So I checked the lining of the coat in case there was a hole in the pocket, but there was no hole. That pocket was safe as houses. And that wallet was just...gone. POOF!
So I bad-swooned and took off, screeching curses not unheard of in the deepest blood red pits of Hades, tracing my steps, head whipping back and forth and eyes scanning the ground like a cyborg bloodhound. I came across people, a hippie couple, squawked a ragged "HI!!!!!", in between my pantings and deluge of dismay.
I got back to the car (maybe I dropped it!) tore all things asunder, finding nothing. An illogical little voice had me check the pocket of my bag, where the wallet normally lives but CLEARLY could not be, since I had patted my pizza box boob while walking AWAY from the car, not 20 minutes hence. But there it was. In my bag. The bag I had specifically removed it from because there was 400 dollars in it
All true. And I don't know what to do...Is one supposed to just MOVE ON and forget about that shit? Save this description, I don't have any other choice but to do so.
Dolores
Buffalo, NY USA - Monday, January 28, 2013 at 02:02:37 (PST)
This morning while making breakfast I turned on the kitchen tv and set the remote on the kitchen table by my breakfast plate ,I got up ,I finished making the breakfast and turned around to place it on the plate,the remote was gone ,no one else was home at the time, it freaked me out I looked every where, I sat down to eat ,glanced at the tv , for a few minutes , then turned my gaze back to where I laid the remote and there it was , right were i originally placed it .
Larry Gibble <Largib1066 a comcastnet>
Elizabethtown, Pa USA - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 08:37:23 (PST)
I am a 75 year old man who has never believed in ghosts or the paranormal. Until now. Here's the story: I have a nice yellow plastic wristwatch, a Swatch watch. Every night I take it off my wrist and put it on my nightstand, along with my glasses. Well, about three weeks ago, when I got out of bed in the morning, I reached for my glasses and watch. No watch. I immediately looked on the carpet where it could have fallen. I then looked behind the nightstand by the wall. Not there either. I then looked in front of the nightstand. It might have fallen among some vitamin bottles on the carpet, or even in a wastebasket close by. Nope. I then got a flashlight and looked under the bed, where it might have bounced to. Not there either. So that was it. I just gave up trying to make sense of its strange disappearance. Then, a couple of days ago when I got out of bed I glanced down at the spot on the carpet where the watch could have fallen. Whoa! There was the watch! Its band was nicely straightened out, laying there on the carpet just as pretty as you please! I live in my house alone, so no one else could have done it. And one more thing: Recently while in the kitchen a blue plastic strainer I had just used---wasn't there when I turned to get it. I still haven't found it. So...maybe the ghost will read this---and return my strainer! I will close on a happy note: since I now know that ghosts exist, it makes sense to me that an afterlife might as well exist too! Great!
Larry Forbes <xLarryforbes10 a Gmailcomx>
CA USA - Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 18:32:06 (PST)
Every few years, I experience an unusual occurrence. Yesterday, it happened once again. I was at computer at the back of the house, and the mail carrier
came to the front with a package. There are two routes to the door, so instead of going through the hall on one side, I went through the dining room. I located the key in the foyer, unlocked the door, retrieved the package, and went back to computer. Then I realized that I didn't have my glasses. I knew that I had them before the knock at the door, so I retraced my steps. My house is well kept, so I should have been able to spot them. I went in a circle through the dining room into the hall. I even checked the kitchen counters. I did this several times during the afternoon at later that night. The next morning I went through the steps again. No glasses. I then checked other places, where I clearly had not been. Thinking that I may have dropped them, I started checking the floors. I went back toward the dining room from the kitchen. In the dining room, I have one of the dining chairs placed along the wall that faces the entryway that I had been using. There were my brown glasses resting on the large cream-colored cushion of the seat. I had looked in that location MANY times, and the placement of the chair makes it impossible not to see it or anything on it when walking into the room. Now I'm wondering if the experience was "unusual" or if my eyes and my mind have something to do with the "disappearing" objects. A rational explanation would indicate that I had overlooked the glasses. However, this is definitely not the case.
Nan
USA - Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 05:43:31 (PST)
OK, I needed a roll of toilet paper, so I took an unopened 4-pack from the top shelf of my hall closet. It was one of those packages that are stacked two-high, two rolls on the bottom and two on the top. The pack was full. All four rolls were in it, and it was tightly sealed.
I used my thumb to poke a hole in the cellophane between the two top rolls, then started trying to tear the wrapper so I could get a roll out. I was holding the pack in my left hand and trying to remove the roll on the top closest to my right hand. I looked away for a second, and when I looked back, that roll had vanished. I was left with three rolls instead of four, and I still had to fight to make the hole big enough to remove one of the three remaining rolls.
I have never come across the missing roll. While this was happening, I never moved from the spot in which I had been standing when I first poked the hole in the package. It's kind of hard to misplace a roll of toilet paper, but to this day, that missing roll has never turned up.
It's not the first thing that's gone missing from my house for no apparent reason, but it's the first time something ever vanished from my hands while I was holding it.
QP Pat
Long Island, NY USA - Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 15:31:45 (PDT)
Last evening I was out with my family for Fathers Day. We took him to Chevys (at his request) and had dinner. I do not have a very loving relationship. I am not a teenager but not a college graduate either as of yet. So we ordered: 3 plates of the combo enchilada dishes and a veggie burrito wrapped in a flour "taco" for me. Most of us were not able to finish our food so we asked for takeout.
We walked out in a line. My dad in front with my sister following him. Me and my mom a couple of steps back. I was holding my takeout with two hands because I have had experiences where sometimes the food would slip if it was not level. I needed to use the bathroom which was right by the front door and there was a long bench in the hallway leading to the exit/ front door. When you walked in the bathroom was immediately to your left and the counter that you ask for your reservations is 3 steps in front of you in other words not too much room to wander. So again when you walk in:bathroom to your right, hallway in front (with the reception desk blocking half of it so you have to walk around it;) and a bar to the right which I never have or went into in all the times that we have gone there. So when I walk into the hallway (preparing to leave) I see my dad and sister across from each other. My dad is sitting on the bench (no one else is on it) and my sister is milling around near him. I recall saying that I would use the bathroom. When I finish, I leave thinking that I had given (or left) my takeout container to or nearby my dad and then as I am walking to our car alone, I slowly realized that I dont recall the last few seconds before I went into the bathroom before the takeout vanished. No surprise when I asked my sister (who was carrying the rest of the takeouts stacked she did not have it so I went back in and checked the bench and went into the bathroom (it was not a large one either). I dont believe that I would even consider bringing it into the bathroom and yet when I checked the bathroom I did not see anything like my food. All this happened within a range of 5-10 feel with very limited hiding spots. I was laughing but I just realized now that I didn't check the bathroom hard enough which is probably where it was, but its the oddest thing. Im glancing around and yet nothing. I am a healthy 21 year old child.
Im theorizing that it has something to do with emotions, because although I dont generally allow my frustration with my family to show, but I was frustrated with the way that they were treating me. I'm thinking that somehow this energy is venting in... "other routes." I wouldnt be surprised, I've been meditating quite alot as much as I can with before a feeling tells me that its enough for that day. Considering that on that day, I had had a dream where I was flying in this closed environment with these being and I saw this surreal scene where these pair of pigs were flying (no wings but they werw squealing with delight I remember) and somehow had apparently left in such a fashion that they had a rectangular piece of fence or wooden structure around their heads like it was the from end of a barn pen or something that they could peek over and eat from a bin on the other side of it. I recall that I was also waching but it felt alike I was directing them as they were banking towards me like a plane. In these dreams I dont question whats in front of me, I just (and I am beginning to understand and feel this:) go with the flow. :)
Thanks for reading this, people>!
Sean Lowery <sml200411 a hotmail com>
CA USA - Monday, June 18, 2012 at 21:34:30 (PDT)
so it was a normal friday night cooking tea as the last bit of cooking needed doing i lay the table getting all the condiments out the cupboard salt pepper e.t.c
after dinner i put them all back in as normal clearing away ritual. the next evening i did the same thing to find the salt not in the cupboard anymore mmmm strange i thought so i looked everywhere ( in the presence of my husband and my 4 children) and it was nowhere to be seen. the next day i sent my daughter up to the shop to buy some more to cook the sunday dinner as i still hadnt found it. and as the kitchen was starting to heat up i partially opened the top window . when wed finnished eating my husband took the kids for a bath and then bed and i started cleaning through downstairs ready for the new week ahead when id finnished i went upstairs for a bath and then came down and went straight into the kitchen to make a drink as i was in there my husband asked if i could shut the back door as it was getting a bit cold and i told him it wasnt open then automatically looked up at the window i stopped dead in my tracks there was the missing salt directly above the new one id bought on the window sill, placed on the opening of the window and the frame???? i automatically blamed my husband for trying to freak me out but when i called him to show him and after 10 years together can tell when hes lieing i have no other explanation for it i stood in front of that window the best part of 4 hours off and on and even opened it earlier i just have no clue as to how it got there
dana <dizzydanacox27 a yahoo co.uk>
england, USA - Monday, June 18, 2012 at 10:45:15 (PDT)
I have had quite a few of these strange phenomena happening to me in the past few years. Seems that more and
more phenomena have happened in the past few months:
1. The lid to my garbage can disappeared in my kitchen. I know I did not throw it out. I bought another trash can for the kitchen and the lid from that one disappeared too.
2. A box of eggs (half full) disappeared from my refrigerator.
3. A half of my sandwich disappeared from my dining room table. I left the room for a minute; when I returned the bread from half of my sandwich had disappeared. I do not own any pets and there are no mice in my house.
4.A colored pencil drawing that I created disappeared from on top my bookshelf. It was there the night before and when I got up the next day, it was gone! I never found it.
(These incidents happened in 2012.)I live alone and had no visitors when these incidents occurred
The latest incidents happened just a few days ago. I found just one shoe in my shoe bag in the bedroom closet. I looked all over and finally found the other shoe in an obscure place in another shoe bag way across the walk-in closet..The very next day, I notice that one of my loafer shoes was missing from my bedroom floor. I have looked all over and there is no trace of the other shoe. I wear these shoes often and was unhappy that one of them was mysteriously missing.
Another strage incident happened about five years ago in my podiatrist's office. I went into the restroom in the office and had a magazine with me. The baathroom was so tiny, I had no place to set the magazine down, so I put it on the floor. I left the bathroom and realized I forgot the magazine on the floor. I immediately went back to get it, but it had vanished into thin air! It was a new magazine (a magazine about paraormal things)!
Jo Ann Gordon
USA - Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 13:54:05 (PDT)
I am a rational person who seeks to explain unusual events by looking for the most likely answer, however, ever for the last four years strange events have happened in my house which have been very difficult to account for, and so many of them have now happened that I feel the need to share some of the more bizarre.
The first major one I noticed was occurred during around three years ago at a time when my older sister had moved into my spare room, she bore witness to the event, so I know I did not imagine it. I had a new girlfriend and wanted to impress her by cooking, and had already planned to make a pasta meal, for which I needed some goats cheese. Checking my cupboards and fridge, I discovered I had everything I needed to cook the meal, some chilli flakes and some red wine. I announced to my sister my intent to go to the nearest shop to get the needed ingredients, "Are you sure the goats cheese in the fride is in date?" she replied. I checked, and as usual, she was right, it was out of date. "Thanks sis," I replied, tossing the old one into the bin. I went to the shop, bought the items, and returned. I still had a few hours to my girlfriend was coming over, so put the cheese in the fridge and the wine and chilli flakes on the counter and sat down with my sister to watch some TV. During that time my neither my sister, nor I ventured into the kitchen. Yet when the time came around for me to make the meal, when I opened the fridge the cheese was not there. The fridge was particularly bare that day, and there was nowhere for it to hide. Even so, I removed every item, to no avail. Reasoning that perhaps I had tossed the cheese into the bin along with the carrier bag from the store, I emptied the bin. The bag was in there alright, but all that was in it was a reciept. The only other items in the bin was the old cheese I had thrown away earlier, and an empty mineral water bottle. After relating the tale to my sister, she helped me search all through the kitchen, but found nothing. We checked the reciept just in case I had forgotten to buy it, but it was clearly listed, and my sister remembers me taking it out of the bag as I walked into the kitchen. We reasoned that wherever I had misplaced it, eventually the smell of it going bad would draw us to its location, but it never appeared.
Several other strange things happened during the few months my sister lived with me, but nothing that we could firmly saying was unexplainable. The next event happened about a year later, a few weeks after my sister had moved out. My girlfriend had moved in and we had gone shopping and bought a bottle of ketchup. I don't really use the stuff, so it was really more for my girlfiend. We still had a little bit left in the old bottle, so put it in the back of a kitchen cupboard. A couple of days later, my girlfriend wants some ketchup to put on her fries, she gets one tiny splatt out of the old bottle, so I head into the kitchen to get the new bottle, but it is not in the cupboard where I put it. We search high and low, for so long our food goes totally cold. We search again the next day, this time looking in every cupboard in the whole house, but nothing can be found remotely resembling a bottle of sauce.
A few weeks later my girlfriend is feeling a little bit ill and calls in sick at her work, so I pull out the sofa-bed downstairs and make it up so that she can watch TV downstairs and be close to the kitchen if she needs anything. I am getting ready to go to work and I put the satelite remote control down next to her on the bed, I lean in to kiss her head, and then as I am standing back up about to leave, she reaches out to pick up the contol, but it is not there. Thinking I must have knocked it down the side of the sofa bed when I leaned in, she gets up out of the bed and we pull it apart, but to know avail. We search the whole room, but nothing. My girlfriend digs out the spare remote (which is a different colour), and I go to work. When I get back that night we search again, but nothing turns up. We give up and carry on using the spare for the next week or so. Then one day as we are watching a football match on the TV, both sat on the sofa that pulls out into a bed, we hear something clatter to the floor across the other side of the room, when I investigate, there is the missing satelite remote. The only thing near it that it could have fallen from was the other sofa in the room. There is no way it could have been on or in that sofa during that time.
Many more bizarre things happen over the next few weeks, culminating in one of the glass shelves in my fridge exploding in the middle of the night making me think a burglar has broken in (the only thing on the whole shelf was some sliced chicken, a nearly empty tub of butter, and a plastic tub with some leftover cooked vegetables in). That week the remote disappeared again and once again we looked everywhere, finally giving up and resorting to the spare again. I walk into the kitchen to get a drink come back into the living room, and low and behold the remote is on the coffee table, which was completely empty of other things before that, so there is no way we could have both missed it when looking.
A few days ago I was vaccuming upstairs and a nail dropped ont the floor behind me. I have never seen its like before, it looks like something like you would see made in the 1950s, even though it is clearly not old or rusted, and I have no idea where it could have come from or how it just dropped out of no where.
So I am dumbfounded about it all. I typed in "nail appeared out of nowhere" and this is the first website that popped up, so I thought I would relate this all here. If anyone has any rational explanation, I would love to hear it.
Mark <medwards1 a ocvc.ac.uk>
Oxford, UK - Friday, June 15, 2012 at 17:04:04 (PDT)
My hair brush went missing about a week ago...we had no visitors, and my kids are very young, so its impossible they could have taken it..my husband bought me a replacement brush, ..I had finished blow drying and styling my hair in my bedroom, and I know I left the new brush on my bed, and we went out for the morning...when we returned I wanted to use my brush, expecting to find it where I left it.we turned the house upside down trying to find it and since that day, none of my brushes have been found, its so strange...We have searched everywhere!!!!! Could someone have sneaked into our home with some kind of brush fetish??
Debbie <adseal a gmail com>
USA - Sunday, May 06, 2012 at 15:17:58 (PDT)
I just got back to my hotel room after going out and placed my phone on my bed. I went to the bathroom, changed, but when i came back an earbud to my headphones on my phone were gone. I was wearing my headphones when i went into the room so i knew i didnt drop them. I searched the covers, the bed, the pillow, under tables, everywhere for at least 30 minutes but couldnt find it. I went to sleep and when i woke up it was on a table... I know i didnt have my phone on it when i went in my room and i know it wasnt there last night.
Unknown
USA - Saturday, April 07, 2012 at 16:40:45 (PDT)
So, this is the second time of an object disappearing and appearing. It was 5am and I was doing the dishes and noticed the bottle brush missing. It is always at the sink. I asked my husband if he took it and he said no. I then proceeded to clean up and actually took the dish rag and wiped all around the sink and on top where the brush would be. As I turned to get the cat's water bowl to wash and came back to the sink the bottle brush appeared and It was as if it materialized.
This happened to me 30 years ago in my childhood home with a wooden jewelry box except I saw the jewelry box come down from midair and land on my bureau. Okay whose ghost is in my house?
grace <gbrilhanteslick a gmail com>
ri USA - Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 20:39:07 (PDT)
Sometime in the late 1970's my husband (at that time) had bought me a ring with a cameo setting made of black Kentucky coal. It was supposed to be one of a kind. A year of so after this we separated.
One night I was at a local club, and I noticed I had lost the setting out of the ring as I was leaving. I went back in to search the area to try to find it, but had no luck. I told the owner if he found it to please contact me. It was never found.
Three months later I went to the drive-in theater to see a movie with my cousin. During intermission I went to the bathroom inside the concession stand. As I stood up from the toilet I saw this small, black thing that seemed to materialize right in front of my face. At first, I thought it was a black spider hanging on a web because it was suspended in mid air. Then it fell to the concrete floor at
my feet. It made a noise when it hit, so I knew whatever it was, it was a solid object. As I knelt down for a closer look I realized this was the setting from my ring! I picked it up and went back to the car. My cousin asked me if I was okay because she said I was as pale as a ghost! I told her what happened, and she was speechless!
I took the setting home, put it in my ring, and put the ring in my jewelry box. It has never been removed to this day. I still have it.
I cannot understand what happened, or why. I lost the setting 3 months prior in a totally different local, and then it materialized in front of me at a different place and fell at my feet!
This is the strangest thing to ever happen to me, and I've had many strange things over my lifetime!
S. Ledford <sled1957 a gmail com>
USA - Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 19:43:43 (PDT)
I've had several clothes disappear from bedroom, both of them are very nice and I really do want to wear them. One is a dress I've been able to wear a few times and the other is this lovely shirt I never got the chance to wear. I've searched my the pile of clothes in my room and I've searched my closet. Either my closet lead to Narnia (where someone needs nice outfits), my sister's taking them (very doubtful, seeing as how we have two different boy shapes and I've raided her closet and drawers), or they're just magically disappearing.
Sarah
USA - Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 19:16:57 (PDT)
OK SO... I have a set place for all of my keys...it's a routine of mine that never changes. I come home and drop my keys in the bowl before i walk further in to the house. If I leave...I grab them out of the bowl as I walk out the door. It's been that way for years. A few weeks ago I had grabbed my keys but didnot need to use them because I left through the garage so when I returned I realize that all of my house keys were missing off of my chain. Out of all my keys only my house keys missing. I looked for them everywhere with no luck. I figured I lost them somewhere. I keep my motorcycle keys in the same place.. a small deep bowl that I use for keys only. I just had them them last week....I needed them to unlock my seat to put my saddle bags on and then I put them back in the bowl. Yesterday I went to get them to start my bike up for a little bit and they were gone. We looked everywhere in the house, basement , yard, garage ,saddle bags , porch , ..we even pulled out every article of clothing that has a pocket to it and searched....NO KEYS..... So, this morning (on my way to work) my new house keys are gone again off of my chain but my vehicle keys (that my house keys are usually attatched to) are still there. Once again I did not leave my house yesterday and never pulled my keys out of the bowl for anything. I looked everywhere and on my way out I checked my porch and garage. The weird thing is when I got home on my lunch break, my keys were laying on my porch right in front of my steps (in plain sight)! I don't get it! What is going on with my keys?
creeped out <hunnie258@@@yahoo com>
ohio USA - Thursday, March 08, 2012 at 11:50:13 (PST)
I bought an amethyst crystal skull from a Witchery type store near my house and I lost it under very strange circumstances. I'm not usually into witchery but my gf is getting us into chakra meditations,she bought a crystal chakra set and sent me there to get my own. So I bought the chakra set and when I was at the counter there was a crystal skull on it and I decided at the last minute to buy that as well. I got really attached to the crystal skull, but I only had it for a few days like 3-5 days, I was carrying it around in my pocket cause it was making me feel really good. But I was getting kind of worried about losing it so I was trying to be really aware of it.
So this one day I have a pair of shorts on with kind of a loose pocket, and I'm kind of worried about losing it, I was even thinking about tying it to my keys. I lost it in the morning, and I was searching for it. I realized that it had to be in the babies room because I was playing on the floor in there, immediately after thinking this I heard something hit the floor in his room, and when I went in there he is standing there holding the crystal skull. So I put it back in my pocket.
Now when this is all happening the house is IMMACULATE, I was off work for two weeks and we has literally cleaned the entire house from top to bottom organized every drawer in every desk, cleaned underneath all furniture, our house had literally never been this pristine, every single thing we own had been methodically cleaned and arranged. So all this is happening at this point of peak cleanliness of our house.
So about an hour and a half after I retrieved the crystal skull from the babies room I was feeding the baby in the kitchen and I was sitting at the table holding the crystal skull in my hand, which my gf remembers too, while the baby was sitting in his high chair I went upstairs to put on a sweater. I had a few folded shirts on the floor, which I put away while in the bedroom (remember the house is magazine cover clean). So I go back downstairs and realize that the crystal skull is not in my pocket, this is max 15 minutes after I was sitting at the table holding it, all while the baby was in his high chair, and I had only been in the two rooms. I spent the rest of the day, and a good part of the following days looking under and behind everything in the house. It has been over a week now and I just really want to find it. I don't understand where it could possibly be... wondering when and where it will turn up.
natesrigley <nathansrigleyatgmaildotcom>
Montreal, Canada - Saturday, March 03, 2012 at 20:26:46 (PST)
About two months ago, I saw something sparkling on my bedroom floor. So, I reached down and picked up a fake sparky bauble (never saw it before)...so, I put in on the dresser. So, like three weeks later, I found another one of those same baubles on my bathroom rug. So, I picked it up and put it on my dresser with the other one. I examined the thing closely, but it was something that looked like it dropped out of a piece of jewelry or some object with bling. I looked at all my stuff....bags, shoes, boots, jewelry, clothes. I could not find one thing that was missing these baubles. Anyway, to make a long story short. This past weekend I went to the beach and stayed in a hotel. The beach is like 150 miles from my home. And what do you think I found on the carpet in that hotel room? Uh, yeah....one of those shiny baubles!! I sat up and took notice this time. I had nothing in that hotel room that had any bling on it. How weird is that? So, I put it in my purse and bring it home with me. I take it out and put it on the dresser with the other baubles. Now, today I go to the dresser to look at all of these baubles (all look same) and guess what? They are gone...totally disappeared. I live alone and no one has been in my house for a few weeks. What gives? I am so freaked out!
Kay
Columbia, SC USA - Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 23:02:12 (PST)
I've experienced three different cases of dropped objects disappearing over the past 10 ~ 15 years, plus one possible case from over 50 years ago:
1) I dropped a screw from an outlet cover I was installing and I was never able to find it. I heard it hit the carpet (not shag) and then it was gone. I searched everywhere (including pants cuffs, pockets etc.) and finally used a powerful magnet and vacuum cleaner, but never found it.
2) I dropped a pill on the kitchen table. It fell only a couple inches into the area of the table were several pill bottles were kept. I immediately looked for it, removing all the bottles and everything else on the table. It was simply gone!
3) The third object was a small round cosmetic container about and inch and a half in diameter and an inch tall. It was in the outside pocket of the shoulder bag I carry books in. I was in the restroom at work with bag on the counter near the sink. I went into the pocket for something else and accidentally dragged the container out in the process. I heard it hit the floor, but didn't hear it roll or bounce anywhere else. I immediately reached down to pick it up and it wasn't there! I searched everywhere in the restroom and never found it. Since this was the third time for me, I assumed it was just another case of dropping something and having it go "somewhere else". The fact that this object was of quite a bit more mass than a screw or pill has me concerned though. After reading some of the stories of others, from this point on I'll be very careful not to drop things such as my keys, wallet or cell phone.
4) The forth case happened so long ago and at such an early age that I cannot absolutely attribute it to this phenomenon. I was 3 or 4 years old and lost the rubber tire off of a small toy bus I was playing with. I dropped it trying to put it back on and was never able to find it. It fell on the concrete sidewalk where I was playing and then bounced or rolled into the grass. I literally tore the grass out searching for it and never found it. Even though I don't remember much else from that time (about 55 years ago), I still remember how long I looked and how disappointed I was at never finding the rubber tire.
Mike <zip2mike (at) yahoo_dot_com>
USA - Sunday, February 05, 2012 at 00:33:25 (PST)
I have an artisan made one of a kind pair of ear rings a friend made for me years ago. They were my favourites.They are made of three pieces of diamond shaped flattened silver strung together. They are long. One day in 1991 I opened the box they were in to look at them and one was missing. I looked under the cotton several times and shook them and thought maybe they were stuck together. They are imperfect sizes and dont fit together. I could not think why someone would take just one of the ear rings. I was really annoyed by this and perplexed. I kept looking for them in the box from then on. Later on after a few weeks I just left it alone and would look at the box from time to time. While reading on the bed and glancing at the boxone day,I got up and opened the box. I picked up the ear ring and while it was between my thumb,index, and middle fingers the other ear ring just seemed to emerge from the other one. I dont know. I just know that things always happen around me.
trish <peakspipes96 a gmail com>
boston, ma USA - Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 09:09:54 (PST)
Date: 1/14/2012
Phenomena:Disappearance and reappearance of keys
I know keys are something we all seem to misplace at times but this was not the case on this morning. I went to drop my girlfriend off at school. When we got there she tells me she forgot her phone and she would like me to go get it. (we live st separate addresses) I reluctantly agree. I go to her place and I open the door with her keys. I proceed to look in her room, the bathroom and the living room. With no luck I decided to go to my car to retrieve my phone from my car to call hers. At the bottom of the steps next to the door leading outside I realize I do not have her keys on me. I search my person to find her (one set of) keys with no luck. I decide I put them down somewhere and I will search for them after I get my phone from my car. When I open the driver side door of my car her keys are on the passenger seat of my car sitting next to my phone.
Mirko <mirko.clarke a gmail com>
Tacoma, WA USA - Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 11:44:03 (PST)
My daughter was six and was distraught about having to go to her first wake, which was out of town. On the way, we bought her a kid's meal, and in it was a tiny, stuffed dog. This dog brought comfort to her and she loved it. She named it John, and she loved it so much that his tiny body became limp in the middle. We had all come to love John, and since he was only about 5 inches long, we all helped her keep up with him. When she was nine, John was lost. We went through every box, nook and cranny in her room and all over the house. John was sadly never found. Years went by and it still made us sad. My daughter is now 16. Three days ago, I had to go to another wake of the SAME FAMILY, and my husband was dust mopping the floor. He pulled our new leather couch away from the wall, just as I did a few days before, so he could dust mop under it, and there was John! He was laying there like he had been there all along! He could not have fallen out of our couch, because we didn't even have that couch all of those years ago. He smelled great, just like he had been out all along. We have absolutely no explanation for John's appearance at all. In fact, there is no logical explanation. However, this is not the first time things happen in our home. I was missing a key drive for almost 6 months. I was sitting down, with my laptop in my lap, and I turned to talk to my husband. When I turned back, the missing key drive was sitting right on top of my open computer! Something or someone had just placed it there, right under my nose!
Trudy <liztrudy a yahoo com>
USA - Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 11:03:32 (PST)
My nephew was missing so my husband, son And myself were out looking for him. Whilst out we received a call to say that he had been found but that he had passed away. On getting back to the car I removed my coat and put it on my seat. When we got home I went indoors and removed my shoes and realised I`d left my coat in the car. When I went out to get it it was not there. I looked everywhere and so did my husband. He said I must have dropped it before I got back into the car prior to driving home. Next morning I went out to car and there was my coat on the seat where I had left it
Jane
Hampshire, UK - Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 01:08:31 (PST)
I am only about 13 but i have been experiencing D.O.P since i was five i would lose something and then when we moved from that house i wouldn't find it A couple more recent events
1(Just yesterday i took something a game that was important to me to school and it disappeared during gym now someone might say it was stolen but then how would it be stolen if i was in my locker with a lock i didn't find about it missing until i was at home and i started looking for just this morning i found it in my living room under the t.v my school is a mile from where i live and you could also say i might have taken it in there but my games are with me at all time in a case or in my room in a case.
2(This one also happened yesterday. At my school we have to where an i.d i keep mine on a red lanyard. i put it in my locker along with my coat and game so i locked my locker after gym i retrieved my belongings including my lock so as to lock my more treasured items from my younger siblings. I put on my i.d and and left the gym. when i left school and got home i realized i wasn't wearing the next day at school the coach gave me only my i.d and key someone had stolen my lanyard when they used my locker but how did my i.d get back in my locker when i was nowhere near it.
And 3( I lose most of my lesser possessions and don't pay much attention i am forgetful of where i lay my stuff every once in a while but only my more valuable stuff all of my lesser things i do get sad for a bit but not a long time once though i lost something really important ask anyone in my family and they will say my stuff virtually never leaves my side now this important thing so i sat my sat my wallet down and my game and a necklace and some other stuff on a table so as to clear my pockets before washing dishes and my putting those pants in the washer when i came back to get my stuff all of it was gone i tore my room and just about every room apart looking for my stuff it wasn't until December 27 11 months after i lost them that they returned to my room on my bed i was alone when i lost all of these so no one took them or anything so how did they disappear
back when i was five i remember hearing voices saying my name and i asked everyone in my house if they had said all of which said no i and i don't believe in ghosts but i do believe in god and certain myths so if this was a ghost then i have more proof one night when i couldn't get to sleep when i was about 4 or 5 i remember seeing a pure white figure that sort of glowed right outside of my window if you believe in ghost or something i do believe we could constantly be slipping between alternate universes and i'm starting to believe in ghost could you give me some tips on how to get it to stop taking my stuff should i try talking to it to show i know it's there and ask if it could return my all of my stuff if you have any tips on how what do to a ghost or anything else to get it or them to return my stuff email me at seth.zanders a yahoo com and spammers you take my email and spam it i will report you
Kadan Pence <seth.zanders a yahoo com>
Richardson, Tx USA - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 15:04:42 (PST)
A few years ago I started noticing that the paper bills that I remember putting into my wallet would not be there the next time I opened it. At first I suspected the kids and even the babysitter, but then I decided to conduct the experiment. I put some cash into my wallet, put wallet inside the purse, and the purse a few yards away from me. It was night time, the kids were sleeping, there was nobody in the house but me, my husband and the kids who were sleeping upstairs. My husband and I sat in the living room and watched TV all the while the purse was in close proximity to me. I kept it under constant watch, even though it was clear that there were no one else in the house who could be able to mess with it. About half an hour later, I opened the purse (my husband was watching me) and surely enough, the wallet was empty! This continued until I told about this to a friend whose mom did something (I think she said a special prayer) and the money stopped disappearing.
Julia <levinjulia a hotmail com675348573>
los angeles, ca USA - Thursday, January 05, 2012 at 12:55:25 (PST)
I had a $15 gift card to Target, and I needed a few things, so I decided to go there during lunch. After I picked up a few items, I got in line at the cash register. There was a lady in front of me paying for her stuff, and a few people behind me. I opened my wallet and took out the gift card. While I was holding it firmly in my hand and looking at it to check the card value, it suddenly fell down. I remember the strange feeling at the moment, almost like somebody pulled it from me. I looked down to see where it fell, and it wasn't there. I saw it falling, but the next secong it was not on the floor and nowhere in sight. Not believing my eyes, I got down on my knees (!!!) to see if it fell somewhere under the counter or on the candy stand next to the cash register. It wasn't there. The lady behind me, probably surprised by my crawling on the floor, asked if I lost something. I told her I just had a gift card in my hand that flew away and disappeared. She said that she saw something falling, and she also didn't see where it went!
When it was my turn to pay, the cashier, who have heard all the commotion, offered to help me look for my card. She also searched the floor and the candy stand, but found nothing. Then she called the manager (I didn't ask for it, at that point all I wanted was to pay and get out of there). The manager came and started looking as well. I guess they only believed me because I was dressed professionally and only claimed $15. Anyway, the card was not found and the manager gave me a $15 discount on my purchase.
Now, there literally was nowhere that the card could have fallen. And what's more, it should have not fallen in the first place! Not only I was firmly holding it, but also looking at it. I swear, this felt very strange, as if somebody invisible took it out from me and disappeared with it.
Julia <levinjulia a hotmail com*&^*>
Los Angeles, ca USA - Thursday, January 05, 2012 at 11:17:29 (PST)
hi
this goes in the catagory of dissapearing and reappearing objects.
'just tonight the day after new years i took my tea bottle out took the cap off layed it on the table .when i went to put the cap back on i couldnt find it anywhere.nobody was in the kitchen except me when it disappeared .i called my mom in to help me look for it.we looked all over the table,then under it.i even went to the trash thinking i had maybe thrown it away by accident but no luck it wasnt there.nobody in the kitchen after my mom helped look for the cap with me and i turned around and the cap was back on the bottle again!it just spooked me so much!greybabby a aol com
robyn <greybabby a aol com>
ocala, fla USA - Monday, January 02, 2012 at 17:57:18 (PST)
This is a very interesting site to have discovered, with so many other people experiencing similar things to myself.
One of the strangest happened about ten years ago.
I was renting a small business workshop in town, and one day I removed my watch as it felt uncomfortable on my wrist. This watch was a cheap black plastic watch bought for the very reason that I find heavy metal types very
uncomfortable. Later, when I went to replace it on my wrist, I found that the strap on one side had come off due to one of the lugs having broken off.
I had a look for the broken off lug, but this was very small and my workshop big and untidy, so I gave up on it and for about the next year simply carrying the watch sans strap in my pocket.
It eventually came about that I had to vacate this premises, and so ended up building my own small workshop in my garden.
I started working there, and I would use my strapless broken watch like a small clock, standing it on the window sill. One day I picked up the watch
to take it out with me, and noticed to my utter amazement that it was no longer broken !!! I looked at the plastic lug with a magnifying glass and it appeared to have never been broke ! I still have the watch - - - I think.
Roy <roymead a onetel com>
truro, U.K - Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 18:03:15 (PST)
I have experienced two incidents of disappearing object phenomenon that I will never forget so long as I shall live.
At this time I'll just mention the first one. Note: I was home alone when the following occured..
This weird incident happened to me many years ago when I was younger; young enough that I was still visiting and staying at my father's house every weekend. My ritual always consisted of getting a few changes of clothing ready, cd player, a few playstation games, and whatever other things I felt may be needed for my usual weekends of fun. I would put these in a duffel bag- the same one, the same general organized way, every time.
One thing I was sure to always bring was a memory card for my playstation game system, because I would often bring the same games from my house over there and wanted to resume from the same progress points when playing.
Anyhow, one weekend in particular before heading out, I double checked that an article of clothing was in my bag or whatever and while looking I noticed I didn't see my memory card in there, after I distinctly remembered putting it in the bag earlier. I didn't find it after searching through the bag fairly well. So I figured I may have left it in its usual spot near my playstation, but it wasn't there either. I ended up searching my whole entire room with no luck. I later returned to the bag and proceeded to dump all it's contents and rummaged through them and searched the inside of the now empty bag - Nothing!
Eventually after resorting to searching around the entire house aimlessly, I figured it was somehow possibly lodged in an unusual position in the bag (being quite small as it is), so I went back and proceeded to turn the thing inside out and searched every seam, nook and cranny as thoroughly as humanly possible - NOTHING! After this I gave up, and assumed I'd just be having a gameless weekend and maybe the thing would turn up in the future in some place that I overlooked.
After leaving the room to use the bathroom and returning a short time later to put my stuff back in the bag, to my absolute astonishment, there it was! Smack dab in the middle of the bag, perfectly placed in plain view - the memory card. I think I'd be more happy and content living with the whole situation if it just never turned up altogether, because I can easily live with the possibility of it having been misplaced or lost. But THIS? Nah..this is just some wacky shit right here..and it still haunts me to this very day.
John M. <pubertdunkinchowder a gmail com>
Pottstown, PA USA - Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 19:07:05 (PST)
A few years back, i was going through a divorce, and to deal with the stress i wrote poems. Well one poem in particular about God, i had misplaced for a good month or so. Couldn't find it anywhere. Well, something on my truck was messing up one day, so for the first time since i had bought the truck, i opened the fuse box to check fuses. Well to my surprise, there in the fuse box, lie 3 pages (i used a small note pad) of my poem... The paper looked as though it had been wet and weathered, to this day, i've never figured out how this happened. Also, i kept the 3 pages together and in a particular place ever since lol
Tucker
USA - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 22:16:51 (PST)
I have had a few encounters of lost earrings reappearing, but today was amazing I had lost a small stud earring and butterfly holding clip about a month ago in my bedroom thought they had fallen on floor could not find them. Today I went into my bedroom and on my bed the ear ring and clip about an inch between them were on my bedspread. How, the bedclothes have been moved and changed numerous occasions since losing ear ring.
Rosemary Grimaldi <rosemary.grimaldi a sky com(marosy}>
Ventnor, I.W, United Kingdom - Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 08:18:13 (PST)
I take myself to be a very rational person and certainly not superstitious, however this seemingly subtle event literally tore a hole in my reality and left me utterly breathless and stunned.
First off, at the time this happened, I lived in a small room with very few objects and a lot of free space. "no cludder etc" Basically It was a bed, computer chair, 1 dresser, computer with a desk and a waste bin. The night it happened, I had decided to clean off my computer desk. I had just recently bought a G700 Gaming Mouse for over 100$ and I set it on the floor directly behind me so It wouldnt be saturated with the Windex I was going to spray on the desk. I proceeded to clean the desk "did not leave the room or do anything else" and when I finished, I turned around to pick up the mouse and it was gone. I immediately became confused and started looking everywhere for it, eventually becoming so frustrated that I almost began to cry. I had taken all the sheets off my bed, pillows, shaken them out more than once, checked in my waste bin, places I KNEW it wouldnt be. "u know what i mean" I KNEW that I had set it on the floor behind me. Obviously I checked all around the floor, under the bed. EVERYWHERE and many times. This is where I almost went into tears out of sheer bafflement and even anger.
I sat on my computer chair to attempt at calming myself down and at the same time trying to think what could have possibly happened. When I stood up to resume searching the same places for the 4th or 5th time and put my foot down to stand up and just like that, I had stepped directly down onto it and right on the floor where I had set it.
I picked it and stood there stunned and breathless, I even smelled it, almost expecting to smell Ozone or something strange. I then felt as though something unseen was toying with me, maybe it had gone into a different part of time, all kinds of strange explanations swarmed my thoughts. This happened about a year ago and I still think of it at least once a day. I understand this offers no evidence of and doesnt change anything, but at least for the sake of science, I thought I should share what happened. Even if it is on a paranormal website.
James Peter <lmos26 a gmail com>
Melbourne, FL USA - Friday, November 18, 2011 at 04:56:32 (PST)
Three instances...dropped a bic lighter at my feet, went to table to set down bags, walked back to door to get dropped lighter...no where to be found. Driving on hwy. two (2) tow trucks entered roadway to my left . first one passed me . checked my diewiew and rearview mirror, 2nd tow truck had vanished with no exits from hwy he could have taken. 3rd instance, most recent this AM, Oct 18th, 2011. Bought a pack of cigarettes at convenience store, walked to car and added the pack of cigs to plastic Safeway shopping bag...got home emptied bag. smokes gone, ckd car, clothes pockets, EVERY where in car and house and clothes ckd 3 times. smokes vanished...would like to know what the hell is going on. If things disappear do they fall into some time warp or maybe my brain is warped.
je mcclindon <sandrit9 a yahoo com>
USA - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 12:19:32 (PDT)
Just experienced the Vanishing/Disappearing Objects issue.
Used my laptop bag as a carrier bag for some groceries, and also used another normal plastic carrier bag.
Had both filled, and once I got home I placed both on the floor in the kitchen and proceeded to unpack them.
I unpacked the plastic bag first, then my laptop bag. All the contents that I had put in the laptop bag were in their cupboards, and I turned around to put the plastic bag in a cupboard under the sink where I keep them and an assortment of other bags.
Upon returning to my laptop bag, it had disappeared. I have spent hours and hours methodically searching every inch of my apartment for it. It's not exactly the size of something like a phone, it's a bag for a 15" laptop!
I have literally disassembled the cupboard under the sink to check the space between the back of the cupboard and the kitchen wall, and underneath the cupboard itself.
Nothing. I've searched every single bag in the cupboard, every square inch of the kitchen, including behind all the appliances.
I also searched the apartment bins, every item of clothing my girlfriend and I own, and still nothing. It has literally disappeared off the face of the planet.
After getting back to my apartment with the laptop bag and unpacking it, I didn't leave the place for the rest of the day. My girlfriend has also spent considerable time searching the apartment with me and it still just plain out has vanished without a trace.
LC <lewcifer a gmail com>
Ireland - Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 14:02:32 (PDT)
I was riding my bike back from work one night.I picked up my check the same night how ever i couldn't cash it till the next day. So the next day came and i rode to the bank to cash my check. on my way home some thing caught my eye it was a ring laying on the ground so i picked it up and brought it home.That night my girlfriend and i had to go to her sister's house so she could baby sit. With the ring in my jacket pocket
and in my girlfriend's sister's car i forgot the jacket in the trunk. so when they came home i went and got the jacket. i told my girl that i had a suprise for her and she had to close her eye's in order to get it so she did.I handed her the ring she loved it. So it was time to go home well my girl asked her mom if she could see her engagement ring from her boyfriend so she showed us. Now with this in mind she took her ring's off like she always dose and count's them every night the next day we woke up too her screaming at some thing he ring that she showed us was missing so we r still looking for it she say's that some one had to go into her room and taking it but my girl and i went to bed before her so idk weird thing's r happening here
Joseph Nelson <amandasboy33 a yahoo com>
Oswego, NY USA - Sunday, October 02, 2011 at 12:24:36 (PDT)
My mother now deceased told me about a time when things were tight and rough for her. She needed soap, flour, potatoes to get by. She took her mother my granmother to the grocery store to buy her needs. She asked my mother if she needed anything? My mom being embarrased told her no I'll wait in car while you shop. She was thinking of the things she needed if she had the money. A big box or tide in the red/orange box, flour, all other things needed. My grandmother came out of the store and mom got out to help her load up her stuff when she noticed a cart with things in it, it looked like Tide and other stuff, but it wasn't there a while ago and no one came out of the store? She walked up to it and in it was everything she needed and wished for. I feel like God answered her prayers.
GLORIA eSPINOZA <GLOESP54 a MSN com>
ROSWELL, NM USA - Friday, September 30, 2011 at 18:40:54 (PDT)
This is all very recent, but we've noticed specific objects disappearing and appearing in random places.
The first time it happened, a hairbrush went missing for a whole day, and no one in the house knew where it was. L had actually remembered the last time she had used it, and had placed it where she normally did in the bathroom. It soon vanished, and since no other person besides our 4 family members had been inside the building. We searched the entire house for it, only to have no luck.
Then, strangely, it appeared in the exact location the next morning. This was the first time it happened, and nobody had actually found it and put it back.
More recently, the same hairbrush went missing a second time, only to be found the morning of September 25th in the medicine cabinet. No one else has been in the bathroom for the entire weekend, and the hairbrush had been in its proper location before the start of the weekend. Even weirder, another hairbrush was found with the initial hairbrush, and no one knows how it got there.
Julia & Laura M
ON Canada - Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 06:23:40 (PDT)
Disappearing objects.
I does sound like bull I admit. Saying that, I have seen a mug of coffee fade away and disappear as I was looking at it. I wasn't on drugs or drink and I was in the house alone with the doors locked - so where did it go?
I was looking for it for months but never found it and it was really doing my head in - still does, if I think about it too much.
Apparently it is a common phenomenon...
http://google com/search?q=disappearing + objects + phenomenon
I guess someone must have 'beamed it up' so wherever it went, I do hope they enjoyed my coffee. :)
...................................................
Appearing object.
Like the disappearing mug of coffee this happened several years ago. My toilet wouldn't flush so I called out a repairman who replaced the cistern inside and he put a new badge on the outside.
O.K. fine - but while having a shave a year later, I heard something drop on the bathroom floor as though it had fell from the ceiling. There it was, on the bathroom floor; the old badge appeared a year later!
I guess the repairman must have dropped it on the floor but it disappeared (like my mug of coffee did) but a year later 'someone' decided they didn't want it anymore, so sent it back!
John Downing <truthseeker.john (at) googlemail (dot) com>
Yorks UK - Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 18:40:58 (PDT)
all these stories, and I thought I was the only one. I moved into my first appartment with a guy from work he was a few years older and just divorced. every time he called his ex (once a week) it degenerated to a screaming match. the phone was in a central hallway he slammed the handset down (back in the day of ma bell, you could do blunt force trauma murder with those phones and just wipe'm off and they kept working) he turned and with an oath (expletive) he tossed his sun glasses into the kitchen as he walked by.
I stopped him and we talked and he calmed down, he then went to retrieve his glasses in the kitchen, I was right behind him, he looked around perplexed and the glasses were not there. the room was bare, we were kids and had nothing to put in there, not even a cheap formica dinnette set. you actually have to turn left into the room and go about 5 feet to get to the appliances and cabinets. there was a window, but no way for even a mosquito to get through. we looked under, on top of, and inside the fridge, stove, cabinets to no avail. I even went outside and looked around under the window.
in the end we shrugged and he went and bought another pair of sunglasses. we never talked of it again, weird huh?
Tom <valkyrierider40 a yahoo com45>
USA - Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 20:22:57 (PDT)
First I would like to clarify two things; I am a believer in the supernatural but not an extremist; I am an adult who has seen a few strange things and my family has a history of being...as one might say..in tune with the world on a different level.
Secondly this is the case of 3 DOP that happened to me in my life time, I am currently 29 yr old male (as of Sept 12, 2011) so I will recount the odd vanish/reappearances of things in my life.
(June, 2003)- This is a minor case of a few small objects going missing - When I was working two jobs (one retail, one food service) I had a few personal objects I carried with me from one to the next and to night classes at community college there after. One of these objects was a wrist watch, it was a Christmas present from the year before and I prized it amongst all my possessions. It was a Relic Watch, had a digital display in the background with a dragon occasionally appearing and the hands were silver and ornate looking. A good friend and I had both decided to skip night classes and go to a bar down in Cincinnati, Ohio. When we arrived I purposely placed my watch and his silver family heritage ring (worth a lot of money as it was a 5th generation 1700's heirloom he wore since his dad had gotten cancer) in the center console of his red Sunfire and we locked the console with his keys. After a few hours of hanging out we left the bar and when we got to my house we unlocked the console to find...the watch was missing; nothing else was gone however! His ring was still where we left in the console but my watch had utterly vanished. We searched for a break in sign, we searched the glove box in case we mis-recalled the location, and we searched all over his car three days in a row, never found it. No one had broken in and if the had the silver ring would be a big find seeing as it is very old, tarnished, and has the date 1732 stamped on the inside band. Never did find it..
..Later that same summer we both went to a public pool and we had worn some unique t-shirts we had picked up earlier that day at a K-Mart. Mine was a white t-shirt with a weird secondary cloth on top which gave the illusion of a giant illustrated spider being in 3-D; his was a of a similar style but had a lizard on it with the same effect. We had neatly folded the T-shirts up and left them in my Oldsmobile; we went swimming and when we got back to my utter confusion both shirts were gone. The car was still locked, the windows were up, and the shirts had been under a gray beach towel that had not been disturbed or moved at all. Never could figure what happened to them.
(February, 2007)
Later on I had moved for a job to Columbus, Ohio - while living with my then boyfriend we had several freaky things occur. One of the most puzzling was the vanishing of his glasses and their mysterious reappearances all over the house and outside on three recalled occasions.
They would be put down on the night stand, we would sleep, next morning they might not always be where he left them. He was a heavy sleeper and NEVER got up until 8am for work; nothing could wake him short of a REALLY loud noise, the house or bed shaking, or sun light. So we knew he didn't move them; some times we would find them on the stairs, sometimes the room mate's bathroom, others kitchen, middle bathroom, or the front yard once and back twice.
After I had moved out after we had broken up for 4 months he called me and accused me of breaking into the house (which I couldn't have done as he had changed the locks after I left) and moving his laptop. At the time no one else lived there as he had chased off all other room mates including myself and I suggested that 'the ghost did it because your a horrible person' he didn't like that at all but I found out he later located the laptop, in the basement where we rarely went let alone with computers.
(March, 2008) - After some life altering events like getting laid off I was forced to move in with my mother and step father when I had no money and no job remaining. On on peculiar occasion several little things just went missing; most never came back. The one I most recall is a Yankee Candle I had purchased for my mom and we had placed on a warmer in the living room just went missing. She brought it to my attention one day asking if I had moved it, I reminded her I had been gone all day job hunting and my step dad was also out working. There were no animals in the house and no signs of unlawful entry; besides who would break in to steal a candle and then nothing else of higher caliber? We did find it, she told me, last Christmas it just appeared in a box of things they moved with when they were forced to leave the house and end up in an apartment.
(April, 2011)- Most recent vanishing for me was a LAN cable I had purchased to work from home with. I had a 40 foot cable that I had kept in a drawer in a china cabinet that no one else in the house uses often. It was honestly the only object inside and no one else who lives with me would have need of the cable; it was black and truly very long and really difficult to miss. No one who lives with me knew what happened to it and we looked over and over again in the four spots I would normally have put it if not the drawer. Just recently, it reappeared in the same place! The same place we looked over what must have been 15 times or more...I happened to be looking for a C sized battery, checked that drawer and there it was, still wrapped up, and just sitting there. Freaky as it is...I am glad I am not alone in weird vanishings.
Danny Hopkins <*chimera a clovermail dotnet*>
Dover, PA USA - Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 21:43:50 (PDT)
My family and I went out of town for a few hours one Sunday. Shortly after we returned my wife asked about an eyeglass case that was on our computer desk. I said to her that it was probably our son's. Our son said they weren't his. They were not there the morning we left and everyone left so no family member was left at home. We seen no signs of anything else out of place or weird. And there were no signs of forced entry. And our dog didn't act strange at all when we returned. No one in the house owned a glass case like this.
elvis957 <jaxkari a yahoo com>
peoria, il USA - Sunday, September 04, 2011 at 18:20:01 (PDT)
I have lived in the same house for 25 years. Objects have either disappeared after falling on the floor right next to the bed, and are never to be found. Or I place something in the same exact place, it will then be missing, and show up in THE SAME place about a week later. This house is not that big. I am not crazy. Reminds me of the children's book " The Borrowers".
Today I cannot find the earrings I placed on my perfume stand last night. No where to be found....
Sandra Mechulan <s@#$%^&gotman@#$@bellsouth dotnet>
USA - Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 22:05:39 (PDT)
I had a number of experiences in a house i used to live in but one that stands out for me was what some say can be explained by something called "the old hag" where you wake up from a sleep feeling like evil is around you paralized in fear like somethings on your chest.but i dont think that is the case my experience was diffrent because a number of other parnormal type happings had occured in the same house and the experience was a shared one i awoke my heart was raceing like i was having a panic attack or someting i thought what is this a heart problem but a since of something hovering over me in bed but unseen i couldent move i was terrified my spouse was in bed beside me i said his name he said somethings there before i even said a word we both laid there and we heard a sound which i could only describe as that of feathers as strange as that sounds which we both clearly heard then it was gone we turned on the lights and looked around no windows were open and nothing could explain it there
julie <jdkdkdkdkk>
canada - Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 22:14:11 (PDT)
I have had the experience of things going missing and reappearing where they were put sometimes after hours of looking keys and other things many times even when putting after putting the object in a certain place so it would not be misplaced this used to cause huge arrguments between me and my spouse and it almost seemed like whatever was doing it fed on those negitive feelings i almost starting thinking my spouse was doing it just so we could have a fight but then ruled that out i starting addressing whatever was doing it and just not looking for the missing object or getting stressed out and knew it would appear again soon most likely where it was left the crazy thing is this seemed to work and it has since almost totally stopped.
julie hedrick <jewlieh a msn com sjdksjdkijksjdkajsk>
chilliwack, b.c canada - Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 21:58:13 (PDT)
This should go under Vanishing Items (hope I'm posting in the right place).
This morning when I arrived at work, I opened up my purse to get out a pen. I was annoyed at how heavy my purse was, so I decided to clean it out and proceeded to begin pulling items out - old receipts, store discount cards, barrettes, etc. - and putting everything on the desk so I could go through the items. I reached in to pull out a pair of fingernail clippers, which fell onto the carpet by my feet. When I leaned down to pick them up, they were gone. I have since combed every millimeter of the floor of my small cubicle and have not found them.
This has happened to me in the past - where I drop something and it vanishes or when I put something in a particular place, search high and low for it, then end up finding it in an obvious spot where I had already searched.
I remember this happening specifically around 1985 or 1986. My sister had lost her high school class ring. She actually asked about it when she went to see a Tarot card reader and was told that it would be found on the carpet in plain view. A few months later, I was driving my car and saw something "shiny" from the corner of my eye. I looked down and my sister's class ring was laying on the carpeting on the floor of the front passenger seat. I know for a fact that my car had been cleaned, and vacuumed, several times since my sister had lost her ring. Crazy stuff!
Sherri
Providence, RI USA - Thursday, August 04, 2011 at 09:49:39 (PDT)
This has happened multiple times so it's not coincedence.
Just today I had recieved two new books left them right next to me one of them dissapeared I asked my brother if he moved which he didn't he was across the room. Ten minutes of searching I found the book behind one of the couch cushions. My Phone, which I placed in a certain spot in the bathroom just up and vanished, a week ago said phone still hasn't been found. A few days before My phone went missing I had my girlfriend over and we were going to do each others make up. I went to go find a set of eye shadow I had used only two hours prior, oddly enough no one can put anything in that spot in the bathroom without it dissapearing. I'm frequented by a spirit so every time this happens I know it's him.
RayneMaria
USA - Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 11:25:26 (PDT)
My Great Uncle passed away today at 3-15pm. At 3pm we planned to go and visit him and went to the draw that we put our car keys in. All keys to the cars had vanished. At 3-15pm we got the call to say he had passed away. We went back to the same draw and the keys had re-appeared!
Steve (UK)
Steve
USA - Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 14:00:27 (PDT)
This is freaking weird! I recently posted an experience about my electric problems in my arms but just now I was using my mouse when I bent over my chair to pick something up (my laptop). When i got back up with my laptop, I was bewildered to find that my mouse was missing, gone, no where to be. i thought maybe i dropped and looked around for a while. I then remembered that it couldn't have fallen because it was connected to the computer. I looked behind the computer desk, No luck. Then i came back to the front of the desktop sit back down and THERE IT WAS! Right on the freaking mousepad!.... Whats really strange is that it was wet, and there was a HUGE storm over my area.
Jordan Delagrange <mattdelagrange . a . yahoo com>
Hicksville, USA - Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 15:16:15 (PDT)
Disappearing/Re-Appearing Keys, Disappearing Pen
In 1991 I was working at home as a writer and needed more diskettes to copy my documents for my client. I always shopped at a Best Buy store off FM1960 in NW Houston. I knew the store well and parked my car in front of the store door. I walked in and went directly to the aisle with the diskettes, picked up a box and walked directly to the cashier's counter. I had been in the store about 20 seconds. After I paid for the diskettes I realized I had lost my car keys. Store clerks and I searched for the keys in the aisles and under things, and never found them, even though I had driven there with those keys so I knew I'd had them. The keys were not identifiable in any way; they were four keys on a plain metal key ring attached to a little leather snap so the key ring can snap into a SAS handbag. The key ring held two keys for my car, one for my house and one funny shaped copper key for my garage. I keep a spare set pinned inside my purse and used those to drive home. Over a year later the keys re-appeared in my mailbox.
In about 1985 while at work in downtown Houston, my manager and I were alone in a small elevator talking about work stuff. He had a clipboard and he retrieved a pen from his breast pocket to write down what we were talking about. He dropped the pen. We both saw it fall, briefly hit the floor, and we both saw a quick flash of white light and the pen vanished. We looked at each other in shock saying "Did you see that?" We both had. The pen was GONE even though we searched the small elevator floor. He even checked the cuffs of his pants. I was wearing a suit and high heels, so the pen wasn't on me either. We didn't talk about it again.
Patricia
Houston, TX USA - Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 18:57:02 (PST)
Vanishing object.
About 5 or 6 years ago, I picked up the habit of plucking my eyebrows. Just the middle part. My girlfriend at the time gave me a spare pair of tweezers she had. Ever since then, I would streamline my eyebrows every 4 or 5 days. This has always been my M.O. for said activity, TO THE LETTER.
1) Open drawer.
2) Take tweezers out.
3) Go to bathroom.
4) Pluck away.
5) Put tweezers back on drawer.
I can't emphasize enough how systematic I've been about this. I have no other use for a pair of tweezers. I've never used them for anything else. Ever. Also, since I don't have a spare, I am careful enough to always place them at the same exact spot at the same exact drawer.
So, I just came out of the shower, about to go out to dinner with someone, and I went to get my tweezers. Vanished. "Must have misplaced them..?" I said to myself, even though, like I said before, this is really, really unlikely. 0.01%. I took everything out of the drawer and searched to the last nook and cranny, then I searched the bathroom, behind the toilet, in the medicine cabinet, everywhere on the floor, in the kitchen. Everywhere. They're gone.
I'm still waiting for them to materialize in front of my eyes or something, but they're not here.
Also of note: there's absolutely no way anyone else has taken them. No one's been here since I last used them.
I'm considering sleepwalking as a possible answer.
Nick <doesitreallymatter at hotmaildot com>
South America - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 16:20:53 (PDT)
Years ago while I was remodeling my house a number of objects disappeared, which I generally put down to absent-mindedness on my part. But two missing-object events stand out as weird:
I was soldering some copper pipe in a new bathroom, using a small water-soaked rag to quickly cool down each joint after I soldered it. At one point I reached for the rag and it was gone. Nobody else was around and I had soldered several joints since entering the room. I figured I had set it down somewhere near me. After a futile search I became determined to find the thing, so I pushed my tools and stuff up against one wall and methodically picked up each thing and moved it across the room, one by one. I move every single object in the room (which was very empty -- no cabinets yet, just a bare room with a toilet and my tools & supplies). The rag was absolutely no longer in that room, and it never reappeared.
During this same project I got used to losing tape measures around the house. I had gone through 5 or 6 of them when at one point I spent about 20 minutes in a fruitless search that included a bathroom with a large white countertop. Returning from the hardware store with a new tape, I went into the same bathroom and there was the missing tape sitting right in the middle of the white countertop, with nothing else near it, absolutely impossible to miss.
There have also been two generally mysterious events at our house:
Power tool being turned on in a locked garage:
We used to have a detached garage with no electrical power. I was using it as a workshop and had run an extension cord out there for power, which was plugged into the back porch light on our house. So to use power tools in the garage I had to turn on the porch light. One evening we got home at dusk after a day of errands, and I switched on the porch light. I heard a loud electric motor noise coming from the garage, so I quickly turned off the light and then went out to investigate with a flashlight. When I checked my various tools I found that a joiner had been switched on. This is a very loud power tool that I never step away from while it is running, even to pick up another piece of wood. I would absolutely not walk out of the garage, go to the house and turn off the power with that tool running. The power switch on the joiner itself lifts up with a distinct click that requires solid finger pressure. The switch is mounted between two metal protrusions that protect it from being bumped by accident. The garage had been locked with a padlock for at least 24 hours. Who or what got in there and switched on that tool?
Ghostly voice:
One evening I was lying on the floor playing with my infant daughter. We were alone in the house. I was lying on my side, she was sitting facing me. I noticed that she was looking past me and up, toward the stairway that went upstairs. She was staring at something and smiling, and her smile and expression kept changing as if she was watching something entertaining. She seemed very captivated and on the verge of laughter. I was about to roll over to see what she was looking at when I heard a distinct voice say, "Hi!" It sounded like the voice of a pleasant old lady, in exactly the tone you would use to say hi to a cute little baby. I quickly rolled over but there was nothing there. It gives me chills just typing this.
Doug <doug, at the domain: geekazondot com>
Seattle, WA USA - Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 14:17:18 (PDT)
in 2004 on my birthday i bought a brand new glass tobbacco pipe. I took it to a friends house to christen and i set it on the table and reached in my pocket to grab my stash and i broke out a bowl and as i was breaking up the pot i knocked the pipe onto the carpet and it bounced off my foot i was buisy so i waited untill i was done breaking up the herb and when i finished i went to retrieve the glass pipe and it was not on the floor, there was nothing on the floor it was completely clean no pipe nothing i never found that pipe and i was the only person in the room i looked for it for hours... with no such luck...
Cam Miles <killacam4207 at yahoodot com>
abilene, tx USA - Sunday, May 01, 2011 at 20:38:09 (PDT)
A few years ago i had pulled up to my house and saw what looked like my watch laying face down on the cement curb next the the street,, i walked over to it and to my amazement it was not only my watch but it was not damaged in anyway.. and the date was off!! by over a year..
I know for a fact that the date was correct i set it when i opened it up 4 months ago for Christmas.. I placed it back in the tin it came in on December 27th and i put the tin in my safe that i kept personal possessions, like pictures of my dead pets, and my art books money gold coins and a box with odd small weird objects... i put my watch in my safe because thats where i kept my other two watches. i placed them all in the safe because i hate wearing watches...
I know i put it in the safe on that day because i came home that day my old cellphone and that watch were placed in the safe that only i have access too ...
a little over a month later i find it in the street in front of my house on the curb crystal down on cement in perfect condition..... the safe was undisturbed for that whole time i had no reason to open it,,,, when i opened the safe to check the tin my watch was not in there so it was in fact my watch.. how it made it 200 feet and through metal and drywall with out as much as a smudgeprint on it ill never know...
Cam Miles <killacam4207 at yahoodot com>
abilene, tx USA - Sunday, May 01, 2011 at 20:32:37 (PDT)
While in my room I was cleaning off my computer desk. I had set the mouse on the floor and finished the job. When I turned around the mouse was GONE. I have hardly any stuff here in my room AND despite knowing where I had set it I still searched the room in even the most bizarre places. I checked inside of all my pillows took off all 3 bed sheets I mean EVERYWHERE. I was almost to the point of complete shock and confusion when suddenly I took a step and had stepped on it exactly where it should have been and in plain sight. I stared at it in awe and almost wanted speak aloud as if to some unseen entity. I am an atheist and a very rational person. This is by far the strangest thing thats ever happened to me and will keep me wondering for a long time. This just happened about 10 minutes ago. I dont know what to think
James Peter <lmos26 at gmaildot com>
Melbourne, FL USA - Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 03:03:14 (PDT)
While laying in bed 2 weeks ago, my comb flew across bathroom, Ok, a little freaked out. Saturday morning the TV remote went missing, we took bed apart & room. Saturday nite when getting bed, the spare remote & missing remote were laying next to each other. He is a believer now :)
Stacey Bacigalupo <staceybaci at aoldot com>
Newfield, NJ USA - Monday, April 11, 2011 at 07:50:17 (PDT)
Hello, I have been experiencing the DOP phenomenon (Disappearance Object Phenomenon) for really a very, very long time and I have learned a lot from it. I also disclosed some information about it, as I believe it may help people who met with this phenomenon only for the first time and are in need. I published an article about it (see the link). One of thousands of such of my experiences is, for example, the disappearance of several packs of tea from my shelf. This made me believe that DOP is the Agartha issue. If you do not know, Agartha is the civilization in our Inner Earth. The Hale Crater on Mars is a proof of their existence: http://www.marsanomalyresearchdot com/evidence-reports/2005/084/hale-civ-evidence.htm (I at least believe so, you do not have to agree with me).
When the packs of tea disappeared, only one pack of tea was left on my shelf - Lapacho from the Mato Grosso area (all other packs of tea were of the Oriental sort). Have you ever heard of Colonel Fawcett? His story is described here: http://www.rickrichardsdot com/ac/ac_1.htm Colonel Fawcett disappeared in Mato Grosso (Brazil). For me this (Lapacho) is a clear evidence that the Mato Grosso area is really mysterious. A very interesting, too, is the account of George White as he visited this underground Empire of Agartha: http://ufo.whipnet org/xdocs/underground.empire/index6.html
I hope this will make DOP a little bit clearer. Thank you and greetings from Europe. Posid is the name of the Atlantean city believed to exist under Brazil.
Juraj <sevenseven(the second seven write as number)ATinboxdot com>
Slovakia - Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 15:17:36 (PDT)
For a bout 6 months my fiance and I could not find the TV remote anywhere. We searched the whole house numerous times and in and behind the recliners and couch. A number of times previously we had misplaced it only to find it had slid into recliner. The time came for us to move house, surely in packing and shifting every last thing we own we would find it? Still nothing. We moved in without the TV remote and after having to completely pull the couch apart, move it and not finding it in there anywhere, we forgot all about it. About a month later my fiance and her sister we play fighting on the couch when the remote dropped on the floor as if it had been sitting on the arm of the couch the whole time!
Mark <collo_82 at hotmaildot com>
Naracoorte, SA Australia - Sunday, March 06, 2011 at 22:12:37 (PST)
My son who is 25 had something happen to him about a month ago that has driven him crazy since trying to figure out what exactly did happen.
He was carrying a bike to his friends place so that he could replace a part on it. He decided to call his friend and let him know he would arrive soon. He set the bike down and pulled his cell phone out of his pocket, dialed the number and held the phone to his ear. The number rang through once, then twice and then seemed to cut off in the middle of the third ring through. He thought the party had answered and he said "Hello?" but there was silence. He said "Hello?" again and "You there?" He then removed the phone from his ear to look at it and see if the call had been dropped. When he looked at the phone, it was not there. He stared at his hand, dumbfounded. Somehow in the moment that he decided to look at the phone, remove it from his ear and bring it in front of his eyes, the thing had dissappeared. He looked at the ground, he looked in his jacket, he looked at the bike, the entire area surrounding him...but it was gone. Just gone. One moment the phone was ringing through to his friends home and the next the phone did not exist. He couldn't believe what had just happened. He went back inside where he had come from and explained what had happend and asked four friends to come outside with him and help him find it. It was light out so it wasn't hiding in darkness...they all came out and helped him, questioning him the entire time. Did he remember dialing the phone? Was he sure it was in his hand to begin with? was he on drugs? was it in his clothing? Was it somehow caught in the frame of the bike? He MUST have dropped it. He swears the phone was in his hand and he was gripping it as usual. The only thing strange was that the third ring through ended half way through as if the phone had been picked up or the call had been dropped. Everyone gave up but my son has never gotten over it. He has gone back to the area several times. There was no one around him when it happened. When they were all looking for the phone they used their own phones to dial my sons number so that it would ring. The battery was fully charged when he left with it but for some reason when they dialed his number, the calls went straight through to voice mail as if the phone had been turned off. He bought a new phone the next day but the case of his disappearing cell phone has been on his mind since it happened. I believe him one hundred percent how he says that it happened. His father thinks he dropped it and just couldn't find it. His friends, whom I've talked with about it swear up and down that the area was impossible to have lost anything in. No hidden holes or clumps of bush or crevices to drop into, nothing. It disappeared.
My son wonders...how did it move from his hand? Why didn't he feel it dissappear? His hand was still "holding" the phone when he brought it around to look at it!!! Most of all he wonders though, WHERE IN THE &%$#(* DID IT GO?!
Kim Strain <kimstrain5 at clearwiredot net>
anchorage, ak USA - Wednesday, January 05, 2011 at 18:20:32 (PST)
So today is the new year, January 1, 2011. Me and my boyfriend and our almost 6 month old son went to my moms house for a new years party and left a little before one in the morning, let me note that I do not drink and neither does my boyfriend, we're 19 and don't like it anyway. When we got home it was around 1 am. We walked in and placed everything down, the bags I had, and he put the baby in his carseat down on the floor, pulled out his cell phone and texted his brother, I knew he had his phone and he knew it because I asked who he was texting (his bro). He then threw his phone onto our little "bed" made of blankets on the floor of our living room we've been using since christmas eve. He went to the bathroom and I took the baby out of his car seat and went to his room to put him to bed. My boyfriend then came out of the bathroom, walked by the living room and saw his phone still on the blankets where he tossed it and came into the babys room to kiss him goodnight. We walked out and went to the living room where he sat down and noticed his phone was mysteriously missing. We looked everywhere until I finally had to say we needed to go to sleep. We would look for it in the morning. When we woke up we searched everywhere, we tore apart the bed, we lifted up the couch, we looked in and under the heater, we looked through everything possible in the living room, then we looked in the kitchen, the babies room, our bed room, and the bathroom, I even looked out of the bathroom window because he closed it when he went in there when we got home, i even made him go outside and look around the ground to see if maybe it had flown off of the roof (quite impossible but at this point we were desperate to find it) Finally at about 1 in the afternoon i told him that we just need to take a break from looking and that it will show up, and that we cannot afford to buy a new phone. Its now about 330 and we have yet to find it. I'm really hoping it turns up soon! I don't know what else to do.
Samantha Desmond <bettylove2393 at yahoodot com>
Amesbury, MA USA - Saturday, January 01, 2011 at 12:37:38 (PST)
I was in my room one night cleaning it up, getting ready for bed. My step-brother, whom I share a room with, was with me and he was also getting ready for bed. I have a dresser next my bed with a T.V. on it, and two pictures in frames on that; one of a band I am in, and the other of me and my dog. I must have bumped the picture of me and my dog because it fell, but did NOT hit the floor. Instead, my step-brother and I searched for 15 minutes trying to find it. We looked in our closet, under our beds, in the dresser, under the dresser, and we could NOT find it. This was two weeks ago.
Tonight I went to practice my violin. I opened my case and my shoulder rest had vanished. I always put it back when I am done using it, and remember doing so the last time I practiced. I also noticed that my two page solo I had been practicing was missing. I spent an hour searching in vain for these two objects and could not find them. I have been home alone with my parents for the last week; all of my siblings are out of town.
The picture remains missing.
J-42
WI USA - Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 18:55:51 (PST)
December 1,2010
I'm the type of person who people might believe to have OCD disorder, not on everything, but most things. On this particular day, last week, it was going to be stormy so I knew I needed to get my errands done before hand, to be home for the storm. I finished just before dark, as the storm was starting to pick up. Backed the van into the driveway as usual, & made sure the lights, wipers, heat and radio were off, before turning the van off. With keys now in hand, I undid my seat belt and reached over the passengers side to get my bags. Before getting out of the van, I glanced over at the passengers window and noticed the storm might blow over my holiday decorations, & thought I should secure them. I proceeded to get out of the van, and locked it manually from the drivers side door. Walked in front of the van, and up the walkway with keys and bags still in hand and secured the decorations. Satisfied, I headed up the deck stairs only to notice there was an unexpected package waiting on the top of the railing. I picked it up with everything else I was holding, and went in for the night.
The next day, after putting my child on the bus, I went to go out and couldn't find my keys. This is so not like me, and I could have sworn that I put them on the table along with everything else. I dumped out my bag several times and retraced my steps, but nothing. I decided to check the van, which was locked, and my husband has his set of keys with him, I couldn't search inside, but had to be certain they must be in a place I can't see inside the van? I searched all around the yard as well, and when he finally got home, I ran outside sure they must be in the van, but the weren't. I was very sad for the next two days because all my keys to everything were on that ring. Finally, on Saturday, I got new keys made and given up the search, thinking they must have blown away? Life goes on and if they turn up, they do?
Well, Sunday morning I receive a call from my husband telling me that he found my keys. Only he found them at his work, which is an hour away from where I had them, and hanging on the visor of a company truck, which he didn't even know he'd be taking that day. I dropped the phone and was going to be sick. I've never been to his employment ever and he swears he isn't playing any tricks on me. I'm so freaked out!
irishrose
derry, nh USA - Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 09:41:30 (PST)
I have experienced things missing and appearing for years... generally chaclked it up to me just not seeing what was in front of my face. Until...
... I have a saying... me and my keys are like a fool and his money... very easily parted. I generally went through car keys like kids through ice cream. I typically got about six cut at a time and then when I was on the last one, had them recut. Again... just me. Then, about 10 years or so ago, I lost my main set... car keys, house keys, everything. I searched everywhere... ripped apart my room, my house, checked my drawers... everything. Finally, I gave up and used my spare car keys... and didn't lock my house. I used that spare set for months. Then, one night, my kids were at the lake for the weekend, and I arrived home in the wee hours of the mourning from work. I took my contacts out, placed them in the case, and went to sleep.
Morning came, I went to put my contacts in, and, lying on top of my contact case... literally... I would have had to pick them up and place them on top of my contact case, were my missing main set of keys.
I've never been able to explain that... but I did tell a coworker about it today... and she described a similar event that happened to her... except in her story she and her husband were actively looking for her keys and she was leaving the living room... then suddenly turned around to grab something, saw a flash of light and saw her keys materialize in the air and fall to the ground in the middle of the living room.
angella
Edmonton, AB Canada - Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 16:25:11 (PDT)
I noticed my portable house phone wasn't in it's charger, and I proceeded to look for it to put it back on there because it loses a charge quickly. After 20 minutes of looking for it, I stopped and stood in the middle of my kitchen completely bewildered. I turned around and the phone was back on the charger. I literally gasped. It's July, 80 degrees, and I didn't have the AC on, but I suddenly became very chilled and started shivering. I was so cold, I had to leave the house and go outside.
I was home alone because my husband was several hundred miles away attending the funeral of a close friend of his who passed away several days before. I couldn't go to the funeral because of other obligations. My husband was one of the pallbearers and was preparing to move the coffin from the funeral home to the hearse right around the time my phone vanished from it's charger and suddenly reappeared.
Catherine Ramsey
- Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 17:53:43 (PDT)
Dissapearing fly swatter
One night I sat on my sofa, on the left side of it, but being a two cushion seating area anyone who sat on the right side would make the cusion sink. That is what I felt and observed, and I even placed my hand on the indent on the cusion and felt it. I just thought how wierd and blew the whole thing off as just strange, however I did mention it to my fiance after.
The next day we were talking about going for a drive, as we talked my fiance playfully picked up a fly swatter and lightly swatted me which playfully turnned into a game. As I tried to take it from her hand, she said oh no! and tossed it over the back of our sofa, the same sofa. We then decided to leave to drive to my sons house, but before leaving I went to pick up the fly swatter, which wouldve or shouldve been on the kitchen floor. Its been three days since that happened, and the very very bright orange two foot long swatter has not been spotted. As a matter of fact, we never even remember it making a sound of landing on the lanolium floor, which we shouldve heard.
We have looked for it, even removing the range and moving the fridge. Its like it vanished into another world, and I wonder what the person who finds it will think when they find it.
Just Odd
William Andrews <oregonman97448 at yahoodot com>
USA - Monday, June 28, 2010 at 15:12:51 (PDT)
My husband and his grandson traveled through Elizabethton, TN, 2 days ago, and upon passing the spot where a train engine and caboose sit under a shed as a monument, they noticed that the train/caboose and the shed were NOT THERE, but upon the return trip 7 hours later, the train/caboose/shed were in fact there once again. There are no train tracks for the train to be moved on and if the train had been moved by some means it would be a major undertaking which would take several hours to do and there would have to be some evidence of the move. Both my husband and grandson are still completely mystified as to how they both experienced this together and we are all at a loss to explain this weird event.
Carol Ayers <mtngrlnc at gmaildot com>
USA - Monday, May 31, 2010 at 08:42:12 (PDT)
On my way to work, I vaguely remember putting my reading glasses in my purse. When I got to work I looked in my purse and my glasses were not there. I was not surprised that my glasses were not in my purse because I was in a hurry when I left out to go to work. I thought "maybe I left them on the table at my home."
I need my glasses to read so I decided to search my purse again just in case I overlooked my glasses. This time I did a thorough search. I took everything that was inside of my purse out and I also looked inside of all of the pockets that are attached.
I am telling you the truth,my glasses were not in my purse. I even have a co-worker who can bear witnessed that I emptied my pocketbook and my glasses were not inside.
Again, I figured that I just left the glasses home and I said to myself, when I get home the first thing that I am going to do is look for my glasses.
When I opened my door to enter my home, I went inside of my purse to put my keys inside and the first thing that i touched was my eye glasses.
Where did my glasses come from.....
Tonie <tonietate1 at aoldot com>
USA - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 21:39:39 (PDT)
I'm a first year student at The University of Portsmouth in the UK. I share a house with 4 other people. We each have a day in which we wash and dry up all the dishes. It was late one monday night and all my house mates had eaten dinner and gone out. I was left with all the washing up as it was my turn to wash the dishes. I was half way through when i really needed to use the toilet so i washed up one last tray, dried my hands and left the kitchen to use the toilet. When i returned the tray i had just finished washing up was gone. I noticed it had gone straight away because it was kind of a big tray and i put it on the side next too the kettle. i searched all over the kitchen and it was no where to be found. I continued to to wash up the remaining plates and then dried everything and put them away. The next day i asked my house mates if any of them came back without me noticing and possibly moved it but none of them did. I checked if it was possible to fall behind something or some where unvisible but it was not possible. The scary thing is myself or my other house mates have not seen the tray since. We could not confuse it with another as we only had one and it was really distinct. I haven't ruled out any normal explinations like my mind playing tricks on me but it's strange how 5 peoples mind plays the same trick. Disapearing Object Phenomenom seems the best explination.
Emma Relf <emmarelf at livedot com>
Portsmouth, United Kingdom - Friday, April 16, 2010 at 06:35:13 (PDT)
So, this is a disappearing object type thing. One night, my boyfriend and I were planning to go see a movie. He was running a little late, so when he got to my house to pick me up, I already had my jacket on, and met him at the door. Since I hate being late, I didn't even stop to give him a kiss, just went straight to his car. On the way to the movie, he went to get his cellphone out of his pocket to show me something a friend had texted him, and realized it wasn't there. We both just assumed he had left it at home, and went back to what we had been talking about. We went and saw the movie, had a great time. On the way back, I reached into my back pocket to get my cell phone (all I had brought with me), and instead found his. We hadnt even touched before the phone went missing, and neither of us could figure out how it had gotten there. I never felt anyone or anything touch me, and it's not like I left something somewhere and forgot it. The phone somehow ended up in my pocket without me having ever touched it, and without anyone else touching me.
Charlene <could_we_have_known at yahoodot com>
USA - Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 18:50:27 (PDT)
HERE IS THE STORY OF ALL STORIES:
I am ex military of 9 years ( Navy )I have been married for 11 years and been with my wife for 16 years. I have read stories of strange events, but those events don't come close to the events my wife, children, and I have had. They have become so intense, that they are now a normal part of our existence.
This is one story you may find difficult to believe. But this story, ( event ) DID happen...one out of 12 events in 16 years.
We were living in Las Vegas in 2009 just off of Las Vegas Blvd and Lamb road. My children were attending a local school not far from our home we were renting at the time. My son was sick and we needed to go to his school to get his homework so he would not fall behind in his classes. I opted to stay in the truck while my wife and my son went inside the school to retrieve his homework. The time was around 9:15 A.M. and this event would only take place in the matter of minutes, To retrieve his homework that is.
Everything was quiet and it was warm outside. My window was rolled down as I listened to some country music and had a cigerette. I was watching very carefully for my wife and son to come out the school door and head to the truck. After about 20 minutes, I saw them exit the school office and cross the street ahead of me about 50 yards. I lost sight of them as they passed in front of a vehicle that was parked about 6 cars in front of my truck.
I waited for about 3 minutes when I noticed I didn't see them on the sidewalk or anywhere. They knew where I was parked and saw the truck parked there, because they waved to me as they exited the school three minutes before.
after about 5 minutes I began to worry, so I decided to pull out of the parking space I was in and drive forward to see if I could find them. Suddenly there they were standing on the sidewalk. I assumed they were waiting for me, and it was my fault they did not head for the truck, I felt pretty bad.
They opened the doors to the truck and got in. I pulled away talking to my wife Kay as my son zack sat in the back seat quiet.
NOW..what I about to explain next is almost unbelievable to those who have not gone through what i am to tell you.
I asked my wife what had took her so long to walk to the truck, which she never did, but SHE DID. let me explain this.
She explained to me that she walked to where the truck was parked and Zack and her saw me driving down a side street and had left them behind. I came back with " Wait a minute, I didn't go anywhere! I saw you cross the street with Zack and then nothing...you didn't show up. so, I decided to drive forward to see if I could find you and there you were."
She came back with this statement and so did my son. check this out.
" Uh, ...honey!..you were NOT there, Zack even stood in the parking space and waved his arms around making sure you were gone. we both saw you drive off down the road."
To this day I have researched this phenomina, I think I spelled that wrong..sorry.
Anyway, we were so used to having STRANGE events happen to us that It was and is a part of my life to find out what the HELL is going on.
This is only 1 event. we have had missing time, we have seen thing you wouldn't believe, and we have had extra dimensional crap happen to us. NOW, we don't drink, we don't do drugs, BUT, we are very aware of what is around us all the time, we pay close attention to details and events and conversations.
The only thing I can come up with is this:
Somehow, someway, my wife and son SHIFTED to an alternate reality and stayed there long enough to see another me drive off. then, they walked back up the road and re entered our reality Now, If anyone has had anything like this happen to them or close to it, PLEASE e mail me so I know I not alone in this. Do yourself a favor, pay close attention to everything around you. watch the time, events, conversations and other things as well. You may find out that this world that we believe is stable, is not so stable and explainable.
John Holmgren <johnsholmgren at hotmaildot com>
Fallon, NV USA - Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 23:47:32 (PST)
It just happened to me and Im seriously confused. i was walking back home from having lunch with a friend. on my way back I was texting with another friend of mine. I placed my phone in my pocket waiting for his reply and 10 meters later wanted to retreat my phone and make a call. the phone was gone. i began checking in every pocket and in my bag but there was no nowhere in sight. i asked for a borrowed phone and dialed mine. it ran several times and then someone answered. i could hear the road both through the phone and because i was there. i hurried to a friend's house and went back to the place to look for my phone w her. we tried calling several times and the only thing we could hear was a tv and people talking. i lost my phone but its not the first time things just disappear from me. it also happened w my wallet. i could've swear it was in my purse but when i doubled checked it was gone. w no sings that it could've been stollen
Marce Romero
USA - Friday, December 18, 2009 at 14:31:17 (PST)
the other day i was searching for my lighter to ignite my cigarette but it wasnt anywhere i looked i took my bedding off my bed and shook it out i even took my pillowcase off and tossed it and my pillow onto the adjacent couch nothing i just couldnt find it it was on my bed it wasnt in the bedding just nowhere so then took all my bedding shook it out again (still nothing) and tossed it on my bed for reapplying to the bed i then went to the kitchen to find matches (i found some) but when i returned the lighter was on my bed.
today i was looking for my camera but it just didnt show up so i pulled my xboxs box (witch fit very snugly underneath) out from under the couch nothing i left and came back and it was sitting on the box there was no way it could have gotten there im i going nuts or are the borrowers real or is this multiverse messing with my plain of reality all i know is its happened alot to me not just these instances i just cant remember all the details of the other experiences
rodney </\/\/\-hackfu420 at yaho123odot com/\/\/>
USA - Monday, November 30, 2009 at 23:06:11 (PST)
09/04/09
The wedding ring:
Today I had a strange thing happen where my wedding band disappeared and reappeared on my hand. I dumbfounded me and my reasoning fails to explain this phenomena.
I had my wedding ring on this morning when I woke; I never take it off unless I wash my hand or shower. After my morning shower I did put it back on. At 11:45am this morning I had a chiropractic appointment, when I was there I used a hand sanitizer that was on the receptionist's desk, I took the ring off setting it on the counter and rubbed the sanitizer in hands. I then put the ring back on. After the chiropractor, my wife had a 1pm salon appointment to get her hair done. Setting in the salon waiting until she was done i read a magazine, as I was reading the magazine I glanced at my hand as I turned the pages and not only noticed the ring was gone, I could now feel the absence of the ring from my finger. After her hear appointment we then went shopping at the mall, I did not have the ring on the entire time, and kept wondering what had happened to it. it wears snug and won't just slip off. After the mall and all that running about getting food and rental DVD's we returned home. Here's the crazing and comical part, I was in the rest room setting on the toilet and just as mysteriously as the ring had vanished it reappeared. I felt the presents of the ring on my finger and looked at my hand and there it was as if it was there all along. I cannot explain it was there then it wasn't. Then it returned like magic.
Cecil Anthony Ince <cecil at cecilincedot com>
Irving, TX USA - Saturday, September 05, 2009 at 22:17:29 (PDT)
Theorys of others about dimensions and things disappearing makes me wonder if maybe there may be something to it.
I'm 55 and all my life i heard stories of all kinds of strange things that occur but never experienced anything impossible. I was open minded to these stories though.
In 2008 my wife and me went to Walmart in Miami Ok.
It was 12:30 am. We like them hours to avoid the crowd.
My wife shopped for shampoo etc. while I shopped for food.
Tooked a cart and picked up around 200 dollars worth of hamburger, milk,orange juice etc.
Being 12:30 am there was hardly nobody in the store.
Walking east at the southend of the bread isle I stopped and let go of my cart and walked away from my cart no more then 4 ft. and grabbed two loaves of bread and turned toward my cart and there was No Cart. From the time I turned away from the cart and turned back,no more than 4 seconds occured.
With a smile on my face I knew my wife or somebody was playing a trick on me. At a fast pace I ran immediatly toward the next three isles then back north at the other three isles. Nobody was around. I continued walking with my two loaves of bread thinking I will find the joker soon.
I walked and walked and walked, finally found myself walking the entire store looking for my cart and my wife. I walked the entire store 3 or 4 times.
While I was walking I looked at the workers that were there at their expressions to see if anybody knew what was going on. But no one looked at me funny.
While I was walking fear was setting in. theorys were on my mind, trying to find a logical explanation etc.
I was thinking, Is this what death is,I died of a heart attack and went to another realm.
I can't find my wife, If I go out where my car is will my wife and car be gone?
Crazy things pop into your head when something unexplained occures.
I went to my car and I never thought I would be so glad to see my wife like I did that night.
My wife said "what took you so long?"
I sat in the car telling her my experience.
She wanted me to go see the manager but I felt a fear in going back in there. So she went in and walked around and asked questions etc. I watched from the front door.
At the first checker I could see that they may have called the manager so I came in told and showed the location of the ordeal to the manager.also the items in cart.
He said he would look around for me after I gave him my phone number.
Wouldn't it be something that a year later the manager gives me a call saying "I found your cart but the reason I'm calling you is the dates of the milk and orange juice is over a year old"
When I meet my maker the first thing I will ask is
WHERE IS MY GROCERY CART?
mark doser <chubbyfeller53 at yahoodot com>
seneca, mo USA - Monday, August 17, 2009 at 02:15:17 (PDT)
I have problems with missing, reappearing and changing items all of the time. You would think that I would get used to it but I don't. I have always kept close track of my possessions, so when I lose something, I don't deal with it well. Sometimes I think I'm losing my mind unless I have a witness. My family refers to it as having a hole in the house. There are many times that an object will disappear and never return and other times that they reappear exactly where I lost them. Once I dropped a hair brush on the floor and it vanished before it ever hit the floor, right before my eyes. Everyone in my family witnessed the disappearance. We searched everywhere to no avail. A week later it was back in the same spot.
Recently, though, an event took place that is much larger than most of my experiences. A few years ago my eldest son bought a home. Upon our first visit, we commented that it was interesting that he had a mantle in his living room but no fireplace, just a blank space marked with tile. The house had a place for a chimney but didn't have one.
This past winter when I went to visit my son, I was shocked to see that he had a regular fireplace with evidence that he had been burning wood. I went around to the side of the house outside and saw where the chimney was. I commented to my family a question, "I thought he didn't have a fireplace." The answer I got was, "He has always had a fireplace." I called up my other son whom has shared many of these experiences with me and asked him, "Does your brother have a fireplace?" He answered "No., remember? we laughed at how he had a mantle but no fireplace?" I told him that he does now and has always had one. To put it mildly, we are both stunned by the thought. What really concerns me is that the frequency of these events is escalating and I somehow feel that I'm responsible. I'm teetering on the edge of sanity because of this. Things change so frequently these days that I don't give it much thought unless it is expensive to replace, then I hate it.
One other post about Trees and doors suddenly appearing...that happens to me all the time now...even buildings with appear and disappear or events and memories. I'll remember clearly having never done something and people will comment on the contrary...
So...is there an explanation for this that makes sense? Are we mearly slipping between alternate dimensions? Is there a way to control it?
Kevin Henson <$ at %$%$kevinhenson at austin.rrdot com>
Austin, Tx USA - Monday, June 01, 2009 at 09:19:13 (PDT)
no submission to report, I'm just wondering if there are any theories on why no one seems to find any reappearing objects that aren't theirs? I have dropped small items, searched thoroughly, and had them turn up months later exactly where they should have been, eluding vacuum cleaners, bare feet, and cats. it seems like if there were some (bizarre) reason for this, that we'd also find things we DIDN'T drop. the neighbor's lost earring, for example. I was wondering if anyone has posed any theories on why we only find our own things?
BTW, I love your captcha! so much easier to read than the usual.
Diana <miz sydney junk nospam a yahoo>
CA USA - Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 22:13:49 (PDT)
When I was a young child about 5 or 6 I was downstairs in my basement alone playing with my change. At one point I was holding a penny in my hand and trying to be cool I said some crazy words to make it disappear. To my surprise I opened up my hand and it was gone. I searched everywhere in my basement for that penny and could not find anything. There was no way I could have dropped it I remember clenching my hand. I even tried making it reappear saying stupid words again. No one believed me when I told them, and to this day I am still baffled.
Paul Mendes <Pauldmendes at yahoodot com>
Me USA - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 11:55:42 (PDT)
In the late 70s I lived in a very small house. I was alone in the house soaking my aching back in a hot tub of water. I had been there about 30 minutes when i heard a noise of something that had hit the floor and was rolling down the hallway toward the bathroom.. Its just a short distance from the bedroom to the bath down this hallway.. but i had time to sit up and lean on the left side of the bathtub curiously wondering what this noise was.. I saw a coin come rolling from the hallway and make the turn into the bathroom and up near the bathtub. I reached out and picked up this coin and it was a silver 1940 mercury head dime. I thought well i left my pants draped over the bed and the coin fell out of my pants.. When i got up to look matters over i had put my pants flatly on the bed and i had no coins ( especially no silver coins ) in the house at all. Some people said that a passing truck vibrated it off of my dresser or something similar but this was a country house away from traffic and no such thing had served to disturb a coin off of a table. I still get goose bumps when i think about it!
Bob Hammer <mojaveratt at aoldot com >
grand jct, co USA - Saturday, May 02, 2009 at 19:24:34 (PDT)
When I was a small boy of somewhere from four to six years of age I was in the habit of taking toys to bed with me. At some point in time they started to disappear one by one, night after night. After a few weeks I became concerned. I could not find any of the toys no matter how much I searched. Finally, I awoke one night and saw a pure black hand emanating from my mattress grabbing one of the few toys left -- my favorite toy -- a green plastic toy gun. I quickly grabbed the other side of the toy gun with one of my hands and a tug of war ensued. The black hand was stronger and my toy was going towards the bed. I put my other hand on the toy gun and finally mustered greater strength than the black hand. At this point I was sitting up and had been trying to scream to get my parents to come help, but my voice was frozen. Finally after starting to win the 'tug of war' my voice unfroze and I released a scream. At this, the black hand quickly let go and disappeared into the bed.
Justman <coven at numandot comfy>
USA - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 18:21:30 (PST)
i was at my computer a few days ago and i need reading glasses to read the screen. as i was reading, a neighbor knocked on my front door. i got up and answered after taking my glasses off and setting them down. the distance from the computer to the door-maybe 15 feet. when i went to put my glasses back on they had disappeared! i searched for several hrs. my girlfriend also searched. guess what? glasses were never found and i had to buy a new pair! a few days later i had a paycheck in my wallet and went to cash it. gone also!!! searched my entire house,my car,girlfriends car. no check, i have to ask for a replacement check! i havent been a believer in the supernatural. now i am. theres no explanation for these items to literally vanish and never be found!!!
michael <michaelweaston at yahoodot com>
lakeland, fl. USA - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 18:22:36 (PST)
Ok so I'm the type of person that loves watching ghost hunters, reading about paranormal things and such...however I rarely believe in it myself..
I just always try to find logical explanations for EVERYHING lol
I came across this site by accident but found it quite interesting
However, I've encountered my share of quite UNEXPLAINABLE things.
1)not too long ago, id say a month or so ago i was wearing a clear hair clip in my hair.i have sensitive scalp so i would remove it from time to time and would either pocket it [in my hoodie]or leave it in my room or on the dining room table. I was sitting in my living room watching tv sitting on the couch with my whole body on a cushion and a half [hope that makes sense] anyway i got tired of the way my hair was on the back of my neck so i decided to clip my hair up again..i searched for it in my pocket because i was playing with it in my hands throughout the time i watched tv BUT it wasnt there i looked around ont he couch thinking i probably set it down or dropped it on the floor or crushed in inbetween the cushions but nothing.
I didn't think much of it then, so i got up and looked for it in my room. again NOTHING i stated to get annoyed after looking in the dining room and even the bathrooom sheles because sometimes i tend to misplace things even when i think im not distracted. I finally gave up and decided to get a hair tie. When I went back to the couch and continue my tv show the clip was RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CUSHION I WAS PREVIOUSLY SITTING ON. Ok i know ppl are gonna be like "well you did say it was a clear clip, maybe you just didnt see it" which i totally understand i thought about that too only that i flippedover all the chushions and felt around the couch several times!
And I couldn't have sat on it cause I surely would've FELT it or simply crushed it. Its plastic and those things snap esily.IDK wat that was...btw i was the only one awake at the time it was close to midnight maybe
2)Just yesterday i was in my room getting a mirror for my mom...now I have a n entertainment center type shelf thing that i use for books and shoes lol i also keep a valentines day bear on a separate shelf that I got from my boyfriend last Valentines'. I took it off my bed or anywhere the kids can grab it for the sake of keeping it clean and so they wont press the hand [where it says"press"] to keep the song from going off cause i can't lie its annoying! lol but watever...So i go and grab this mirrorfrom a lower shelf and as im turning to leave my room the bear goes of...the song comes on clear as day i ran out and asked my mom if she heard it too...she was like "yeah, what about it" and i told her I didn't touch the thing! She was like wtf? lets see it. I went near it with my mom and tapped it with an empty curling iron box and nothing...i did it again and it went off. So i assumed that it had some bad wiring or something, but tht still doesnt explain why it went off the 1st time. But heres the even weirder part. I grab the bear and start hugging it, squeezing it, and even tossing it around to see it it would do it again due to the bad wiring,but NOTHING! no matter how hard i tried I HAD to press the hand for it to happen.[we were the only ones in the house btw]
3) i have a really weird one that involves a different mirror but its quite difficult to explain, however it also occured in my room [can you say hot spot? a lot of weird stuff goes on in there i cant explan it] the point is a mirror was "pushed" and knocked off a bunch of stuff i had sitting on top of my tv [its quite big so i keep hairspray bottles body mist, and just random hair products and make up]Its quite neat actually despite the way it sounds...there is no way it could've happened withought an actual push cause i was sitting on my bed. My mom was the only other person in the house at the time and she was in the kitchen...nothing else on the tv moved so no sudden movents on the floor caused this.
4) This happened during the time i was reading the many stories on this site. No nothing disappeared as i ate it lol but I did start to hear a tapping sound that sounded quite unfamiliar....i know "wohoa big deal" no but seriously..it was shortly after reading the story about someone tapping on a girls window as she slept...creepy. So the thing was I just blew it off at first thinking OMG im DELUSIONAL. But it got louder and more consistant i got scared so i said out loud "please stop.." and it did. I continues reading and a few min later it happened again as if testing me, not as loud this time but consistent...i asked it to stop againa nd it did but now its f&^k!ng with my cell phone and im scared as S#!%...Someone help lol
im serious im freaked out. EMAIL ME!! PLZ SOMEONE
Eve <eve_torrano at sbcglobaldot net2323>
East Chicago , IN USA - Monday, November 24, 2008 at 01:01:25 (PST)
One night, I went out to a restaurant to eat with a friend and so we drove over there in my car. However, after we had finished dining, we went out to the car only to discover it was gone. Naturally, we thought it simply got stolen. There were lots of people around, but no one noticed anything. So I said good night to my friend and went home after reporting my car stolen. The next morning, when I went to my garage to drive my SUV to work, the missing car was in it's place - NO SUV! This was very odd, I was so confused I forgot to report this to police. Then, when I drove past the place where the car was supposed to be parked the night before, the missing SUV was parked there instead!
Weird...
Stan Jones
Hollywood, CA USA - Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 21:17:03 (PST)
My wife borrowed my keys because she couldn't find them for just under two weeks, while she had searched her purse looking for them several times they suddenly appeared laying outside of and on top of her purse just under two weeks of being missing.
That wasn't so weird I am sure it happens to people all the time. What is weird was we normally sleep with two head pillows and a leg pillow each for a total of 6 pillows. When we removed the pillow cases and sheets and washed them and dried them and went back to make the bed there were two pillow cases left over because there were only four pillows. We asked the spirits to bring the other two pillows back but are still waiting. Also have had things fall of of shelves that we couldn't account for and door knobs rattle in this house. also a pearing knife vanished and have searched high and low.
I have heard of socks go missing but pillows and two of them !!! There isn't a place for them to hide! Michael burk <michaelburk54321 at yahoodot com>
Arab, Al USA - Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 07:03:48 (PDT)
Ive lived in my house for a little over a year now and there have been strange sounds that i have heard but didnt think much of it. My roommate has experienced objects move, but she is the only one. Lately there have been strange things that come up missing. We bought four pack of stick butter that came up missing after a couple of days, and today we had two cat litter scoopers disappear. we've looked everywhere and cant find them nor do i know why someone would want to take them.
amanda bohnke
fort wayne, in USA - Monday, October 13, 2008 at 17:21:03 (PDT)
I just bought a lottery ticket at a gas station in Holland, Michigan and I put the ticket in my shirt pocket.
I then decided to put it in the glove compartment of my car, a Ford Taurus. About a minute later, or less, I checked on it to be sure of where it was and to lay it flat in the compartment and it was not there. Two days later I checked the winning numbers and recognized that a couple matched. I then checked the lottery website. I was glad that no one matched all six because I did not want to lose six million dollars from this. But there is no explanation for where the ticket went.
Darrell Laning <macisl at yahoodot com>
Grand Haven, MI USA - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 07:09:56 (PDT)
First one of the 3 diamonds in my ring was missing. Then about a month later the whole ring went missing from my ensuite. I searched the room & the adjoining bedroom, without finding it. I hoped, when I moved house, I would find it, but I didn't. 10 months later at my new address, it was late morning when I walked into the kitchen and there it was, in the middle of my kitchen floor, and with all its 3 diamonds as well!
Over the years I've had several personal objects disappear and later reappear, but the ring episode is the most amasing. It only happns to me, not my partner. I'd googled the subject before I lost my ring and tried the advice to ask for things out loud to be returned. It doesn't work for me. I read one person's story which said it took 10 years for a watch to reappear on their bedside table.
I'm in my 50ies and this only started about 8 years ago. During this time I've had my computer turn on while I was dusting it, the doorbell rang playing the tune it wasn't set at and no-one was there. It rang at 3a.m. once, no- one there. My 2 fridges have been turned up flat out, partially freezing the food, a loud bang in the kitchen heard from the bedroom. The weirdest thing was an unearthly noise from under our bed one night, when we were standing in the bedroom. It sounded like a sick wailing cat. The noise moved into the wall behind the bed, then the wall under the window.
Heather Murrin
Australia - Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 07:19:53 (PDT)
Back in 1998 my 92 year old father died, he had a chest of drawers
that had had the pull handle missing on the top right hand drawer, (all my life that I remember, (some 50 years)).
I looked through the contents of the drawer to see if the parts were there as my daughter wanted to take possion of it ,to remember her grandfather.
While cleaning the contents of the drawers I found two of the parts (post that were held by screws), but
didn't find the pull handle itself. When my daughter came to pick it up the handle was on and secure, neither of my sisters
claimed to have put it on and we were all baffled. After bringing it home and putting it in my daughters room the handle rattled by itself in the middle of the night for one week and has been quiet for the past 10 years.
I would like to think that he wanted to let us know he is
OK, dead but OK.
Dave
David Spiller <ae4j at yahoodot com>
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA - Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 07:11:57 (PDT)
This happened back in the 70's when I was attending college in Allentown PA.
One evening I went over to the dorm that had a soda machine (it was a small college and only one of the men's dorms had a machine)to get a drink. As I enterd the room that the machine was in I reached in my pocket to get the change I needed and found that I was short a quarter. I was disapointed that I didn't have enough change and said to myself "man and I really wanted a soda too" I did not say this out loud. As I was standing there I caught some movement from the corner of my eye and I looked up in time to see something falling straight down to the floor.
I looked up quickly enough to see that it had fallen straight down without any apparent trajectory and that when I first looked up it was fairly near the ceiling. It was at least even with my head when I first focused on it and I am six feet tall. The room had an eight foot ceiling. I walked over and picked it up and it was a quarter! I looked down the hall that branched from the room and there was nobody there and all the doors were closed. I had heard no sounds other than the coin hitting the floor and there were no holes in the ceiling either. I used the quarter to get a soda but I never could figure out where it came from unless it was a gift from heaven or someone upstairs had dropped it and it went right down through the floor to my level or something. Anybody else ever have something like this happen?
Denis <n8542j at yahoo dot com>
Denver, co USA - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 11:58:09 (PDT)
I'll keep this short..in bathroom, lollipop in mouth fell out, three of us looked for it for half hour..never found?
margaret king <margaretkingone at hotmaildot com>
cincinnati, oh USA - Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 08:37:11 (PDT)
belongs in VANISHING OBJECTS
For the past 20 years or so, I have had objects dissapear and NEVER return. They are always objects that I have not taken outside of my home (wherever I happen to live at the time) and they are frequently objects I saw/had/used only minutes or hours before their dissapearance. They cannot be attributed to another person being or living with me at the time. The earliest I remember is a light blue Champion sweatshirt given to me as a gift. I set it at the foot of the bed still in the box it was given to me in, while getting ready for work. I returned from work that day and the box remained, but the sweatshirt was gone. I looked for DAYS for this sweatshirt, and often wondered if the landlord had taken it because I could find no other explanation - despite the fact that we (my husband and myself) had recently changed the locks and had yet to give him the key. My husband and I worked together, over an hour away from home, and we drove to and from work together and I knew he hadn't done anything with it. It was never found. A year or so later, a different home, and I set a gold celtic cross necklace my husband given me on the ledge in the kitchen to color & rinse my hair in the sink. I distinctly remember putting it there. No one else was home that day. After finishing my hair, I went back for it, it was gone. I looked on both sides of the ledge, I looked everywhere for weeks, never found again. I was given by my father a pearl ring that had belonged to my mother before she passed when I was a child. I always cherished this ring and kept it in my jewelry box. One day when going to get it, it was gone. Ok, so someone (maybe a new landlord at this place) stole it, just didn't steal anything else I had with it or more valuable. Never recovered. I had a silver watch I had bought and adored, black face, roman numerals - not particularly expensive but I was picky about the watches I bought and hadn't found another like it before or since. I placed it on my end table when getting ready for work, making a mental note to grab it on my way out the door as I was running late. No one was home with me on this day. Five minutes later, I went back for the watch on my way out - it wasn't there. Thinking maybe it feel underneath or beside the table, I moved furniture and searched as much as I could then and when I got home. Never found the watch, never recovered. I had a black crochet tank top and jacket I bought and kept in the closet (different home) and was waiting for the opportunity to wear them. I passed it by every day when looking through my clothes and getting ready for work. It was there one morning, the next, not there. The jacket was, not the tank top. I don't think it was my boyfriend at the time. I never found it again. These are just a *few* examples I can recall off the top of my head. I made a list one day, of all the objects I still miss but never found - none very valuable, but all small personal objects of mostly clothing or jewelry. These are small and seemingly meaningless incidents to most I am sure, but this pattern repeats so many more times and they are too numerous to count. Like most, I don't have a perfect memory, no, but these are occasions when I specifically remember placing something somewhere only to have whatever it is disappear and not temporarily - but permanently. And not while out with it, but always within my home, always an object which never left the house. Strangely enough, they are almost always objects I treasure, for either sentimental or other reasons, regardless of any lack of monetary value. It happens more often now, and I guess I would be able to chalk it up to being absent-minded if the objects reappeared, but they *never* do.. I am amazed to find this exists for others and to find this board - very strange. I really wish I knew the answer.. I have theories, yes, but for fear of embarrassing myself I don't share them. And there is only one or two people I have ever shared this with personally in my lifetime.
Out of Answers <no>
SC USA - Saturday, March 08, 2008 at 11:21:20 (PST)
This is kinda a missing object thing, in a sense they were teleported...
a couple of weeks ago, when i was working the cash at where i work, a customer came in and asked for some chapstick. i asked her what kind, original or cherry. she asked for cherry. when i went to get it, ALL the cherry ones were hanging BEHIND the original ones on the hook...
so i took the lazy way out and broke the punched hole that it uses to hang on the hook (instead of taking off the originals and getting a cherry then putting back on the originals). so i sold it to her, she left and then when i went back to rent a customer a movie, 3 of the cherry ones were put on the hook IN FRONT of the originals.
i never moved the originals off the hook, nor did i move any of the cherries in front of them. neither did anyone else because there's not enough room behind the counter for someone to go unnoticed and because the other person i was working with was out pumping gas.
Brian M
Ottawa, Ontario Canada - Monday, January 07, 2008 at 17:30:33 (PST)
Disappear.....waiting for it to appear
My boyfriend and I moved into a new apartment about 4 months ago. Last week, I was getting ready to do laundry. I gathered up my clothes, grabbed my detergent, and started a load. When it was time to put the clothes in the dryer, I went upstairs to grab my fabric softener. I had just bought a brand new box of arm & hammer lavender softener. I distinctly remember laying it on the counter, still in it's plastic grocery bag. I was not there. I tore the place apart searching for it. It's nowhere.
My boyfriend came home and grabs his jacket. He looks in the pocket for a bottle of pills that he had and it also was not there. He said he remembers zipping it up in the pocket. Nothing.
We got to talking about the fabric softener and starting coming up with a list of other things. Come to think of it, SEVERAL things have been missing since we moved in.
As of now, nothing has reappeared. Does anyone have any tips on how to get it back?
Jess <JessDanger at aol.999com>
Raleigh, NC USA - Monday, December 17, 2007 at 06:28:59 (PST)
When I was about 15 year old (25 years ago), I had these same things happen on several occasions. They always happened in my bedroom. At times, I actually knew when it was going to happen. Examples:
1--Sitting on the edge of the bed. I dropped a pen on the floor. Rather than bending to pick up the pen, I finished up what I was doing. When I bent to pick up the pen, it wasn't there. It was on the top shelf of the table beside my bed (not really a table. the thing was on four wheels. it had a metal shelf at about 3" from the ground, another at 2' and another at 4'. it was handy for a teenager with lots of junk so I kept it beside my bed.)
2--I had a bed with a post at each corner; two on either side of the headboard, and two at the foot of the bed. the ones at the foot of the bed stuck up about 4", and were square 2"x2". I kept my wristwatch on one of these posts at the foot. One night, I was making my bed. I held onto two corners of the blanket, and flipped the blanket up to straighten it out. The blanket covered up the posts at the foot of the bed. The blanket wasn't lying exactly right, so I pulled it back for another try. When I did, I saw the empty post. The watch wasn't there anymore. I had seen it just seconds before. It was on the table thing beside my bed. The funny thing is, I was going to move the watch as soon as I was done.
Just like with the pen, I was going to get to it...but it got there by itself without me. wierd.
3--Another time, same room, I dropped some change (a quarter?) beside the bed. Again, I did something else first planning to pick it up in just a second. Too late, it was up on the middle shelf of my 'table' thing.
Lots of wierd things like that. I was always alone, so no witnesses. But these things happened 25 years ago, and I can remember them like yesterday.
This is the first site that I have seen (by accident nonetheless) dealing with these things.
thanks,
chris
Chris Deni <srilankachris at yahoodot com>
OH USA - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 13:41:02 (PDT)
When our son was very young (3-7) we experienced something similar to the dissapearing/reapearing object phenomonem. I was employed by a defense contractor at the time, and so was very aware of everything going on around me.
We would buy our son some new small toy, with which he would play with. Later (hours or days), we would notice him playing with a toy we had never seen. The toy would be similar to something you would expect a child his age to have, but upon close examination would sometimes have writing (like the factory code numbers) in a script/language I have yet to ever see elsewhere, and the toy we had purchased was no where to be found. Please note that we lived in the country and our son had no contact with other children while unsupervised. When pressed as to where the toy had come from, and where his toy was, he would simply state that he had traded with his 'freind' who
he could not see or touch, etc.
Since I worked in an extremely sensitive environment, with very nervous people, we never mentioned this to anyone until now. However, after a few days, the mystery toy would always dissapear, and his toy would reappear, sometimes to his great dismay-he seemed to like the toys from wherever better then the ones we purchased, on several occaisions.
As he approached his early teen years, the phenomona stopped. Or at least we believe it's stopped....very weird stuff, but not unexpected in a chaotic multiverse. I think we need to see more with our perceptions, not with our three dimensional minds.
By the way, our son is a very healthy, normal and intelligent young man-no side effects noted from his encounters with the toy-trader from wherever.
Mike <mctuck_99atyahoodot com>
USA - Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 23:10:57 (PDT)
it was just a normal day, but i was bored, so i decided to go and watch a DVD in my bedroom. i went into the downstairs computer room to get the DVD, so i picked up 'The Fast And The Fourious' and read the case too see who was in it, so i took the DVD up to my room went to open the case and it wasn't The Fast And The Fourious case it was a AC/DC-Back In Black case
I still don't know how this happened becaus the DVD's are stored on the othe side of the room, on a different cabinet.
Andrew Berry
united kingdon - Friday, August 24, 2007 at 07:32:34 (PDT)
A vanishing object... with conventional explanation. As a warning!
I was carrying three small parts to another room, and in an agitated emotional state. I put them down on a table, and when I went to retrieve them... only two were there. Impossible! I had three! I looked all over the room and under stuff, but one was definitely gone. I retraced steps in case I had dropped one unknowingly (but I knew I didn't drop it. And I didn't find it.) It was definitely gone. I had to make another part.
Some time later I sat down at my desk, and suddenly had a strange memory. I remember picking up the three objects, and DROPPING ONE which hit my shoe and rolled under the desk as I watched. I reached for it, and there the memory ends. WHAT? What happened?!! Ah, now I remember. A guy from upstairs walked in just at that moment, and asked about the parts. I looked up and started talking to him. And then I left the room, taking what I thought was three parts along in my fist. And yes, sitting right under the desk was the third small part.
So yes, much of the time there really is a conventional explanation for these things. To be certain that something weird is going on, we have to "plug all the holes" of various everyday possibilities. Maybe your keys really are on the table, and anyone else could see them, but you cannot. Maybe your pen rolled off the table and fell silently to the linoleum floor, even though it should have made a loud noise. It's only the *totally* inexplicable events which we should take seriously. Situations when huge objects fall off the table and then utterly vanish. Or times when objects wink out of existence as you're staring right at them.
Bill Beaty
USA - Friday, August 17, 2007 at 17:35:20 (PDT)
It was 1976. Saipan island: isolated, white sand beach; mid-day; blue sky; myself, two lawyers, two Irish setters - all alone; one lawyer swan nearby; the other lawyer and I stood on the beach and threw a found stick (perhaps 2 feet long), dark color, for the dogs to fetch. We threw it many times to a distance of, perhaps, 50 or 60 feet. The dogs would fetch it back, wait and, thrown, race after it again.
When arriving at the stick, they pounced with front feet - sending it spinning or tumbling in the air. Then, this one time, when they simultaneously ponced on the stick, it spun, as often before, into the air - one spin, two spins, three spins and, then, simply, vanished. I witnessed the entire sequence and have visualized it, without alteration, to this day.
The dogs spun, turned, searched and then came back toward us. The lawyer (his dogs) yelled to them, "Get the stick! Fetch! (or similar words)." They did not turn. I said, "They can't. The stick disappeared in thin air."
The lawyer, confounded, continued to tell the dogs to get the stick. Why I caught the event was my good fortune, but he did not see what I saw. The dogs attention shifted to other matters of dog interest.
White sand beach. Full sun. We walked to the site and made a diligent search. Nothing. The other attorney, noting the ruckus, came from the ocean and, told of the events, also made a search - no stick. The dogs' lawyer (stick thrower), understandably, could not reconcile the events - cognitive dissoance - and opted, understandably, to purge himself. The other lawyer, baffled by events, uderstandably, took the matter under advisement.
From this experience, I have formulated a standard that must be met (by me) to accept such things as having happened outside of my mind (I am my own most severe critic). In this ideal circumstance, there were two attorneys (only the facts) and two dogs (only the facts).
A laboratory beyond doubt.
Of course, many trips to Saipan after the fact, I would go to this beach and, feeling foolish, try to replicate the disappeance of the stick by myself, alone. Nothing, of course.
I have read (researched) the many submissions. Though I do not doubt the sincerity/belief, unfortunately most have "holes" in them - to the extent that one wishes to have a 2nd party accept them as "true". I am the first to state that there is no reason a sane/objective person shouls accept my story with les than a fist of salt. Hereine lies my dilemna.
I am interested in pursuing "unusual phenomena" (inexplicable) but there is no purchase in reality from where to start...or so it seems. If there are those out there with an insight, I wish to hear from them.
Eliot Wehead <ams at logopacificdot com>
Hawi, HI USA - Monday, August 13, 2007 at 22:20:56 (PDT)
Vanishing/Reappearing Objects
Okay, this one tears it. I've been browsing through your web page, reading a few people's accounts of missing/reappearing objects, and darned if it didn't happen to me, right here at the office. A co-worker is off for a week, and yesterday afternoon we discussed two files of pending work that I will need to handle in his absence next week. Just now, a gentleman showed up in the office, asking to review one of the files as it relates to a real estate transaction he's involved in. No problem with that, except I couldn't locate the file. I looked high and low, looked in every drawer in my co-worker's office, turned my office upside down, looked in everybody else's work space in the department. Finally, I said out loud, "Okay, this was really cute, but I need to find that file. Can you please help me out?" It wasn't three minutes later that my absent co-worker popped into the office to pick up some travel directions he had left behind. I grabbed him and asked him where the two files were, and he said "right here." He walked to a drawer I had checked just ten minutes earlier, and there were the two files--the only things in the drawer. I did say "thank you," both to him and to whoever put the files back in the drawer for him to find!
This kind of thing happens to me at home all the time, and sometimes I think it's happening at the office, but the coincidence this time makes it pretty hard to ignore--just reading the online articles on the subject, and then having it happen to me.
At home, it's mostly a matter of things disappearing from my kitchen spice cabinet, only to reappear exactly where I just looked (the oregano seems quite elusive). And our playful spirit also likes to snag pieces of a jigsaw puzzle just long enough to make us crazy, and then place them in plain view where we've just looked. I get the feeling it's a "hey, look at me!" signal, so I've started talking out loud to him/her, just to give a gracious response.
If this is a deceased family member's spirit, there are a couple of people who come to mind. In fact, there have been other occurrences--my bedside lamp turned on by itself one night, with my face not two feet away from it, and my husband has heard a woman calling his name several times in the night. I'm a little hard of hearing, and have never heard this--but I have heard a little tinkling bell that he's also heard, in the dead of night with no apparent source.
I get the strong feeling that this activity is attached to us, and not to the house or my office. And it's oddly comforting, so I don't really care, as long as my lost objects turn back up when I need them.
Betony Green <betony reads mail at emaildot com>
NC USA - Friday, June 08, 2007 at 12:22:33 (PDT)
One Night my brother and I were throwing twinkies at eachother and he took a shot at from the stairs which are next to the kitchen. the weird thing was that is it never hit me and he was no more than 4 four feet from me and directly over head. I never heard it hit the floor either so fearing our mothers wrath of stepping on a twinkie we had a search party for the twikie. Think it may have bounced to the next room (do twinkies bounce?)I searched everywhere there. After 3 hours of searching for the culprit twinkie to no avail, we gave up. I found it a day later at the top of the Christmas tree in the westwing of the house. We`ere in the east. Asking my brother if it was his doing he said no. No one else knew of this Twinkie war.
Barbra <SmoothS8er at yahoodot com>
SLC, USA - Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 21:19:02 (PDT)
Missing Item
I am a marine, which means moving around alot and waiting for belongings to be shipped from your hometown to your station.
When I came back from Iraq, I had a baby on the way. My wife and I went to my duty station after the baby was born, we had very little belongings with us, only what could fit on the plane, so clothes etc.
When we got to my duty station we had a house waiting for us, but had to wait 4-6 weeks until the rest of our stuff came to us. Well, we didn't have everything for the baby, one thing was a crib. So we just decided to buy one in advance and set it up, because we( my wife, baby and I) were sharing a burrowed futon at night, every night. So we could sleep without the baby.
So we bought a crib and we were setting it up, and we had the direction booklet in the babys room with us, there was nothing else in there but piles of clothes on the floor, and the parts to the crib, we started putting the crib together, and halfway through we just all the sudden couldn't locate the directions, so we picked things up, looked around, we just couldn't beleive it could disappear. But after about 10 minutes of searching, moving everything and searching the whole house, it couldn't be found, at the time, my wife started a big fight and blamed me, but I didn't hide it or something. She still doesn't beleive me, but maybe now I have a case to argue with after reading the other stories.
I have never come across the book again. So I just don't know what to think.
Ben <jewishslacker86 at yahoodot com>
AZ USA - Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 21:28:11 (PDT)
The guy who wrote before me I agree with, that we could transport many times in one day to parallel universes. Simply because i have had many experiences in my life, so small but significant that leads me to conclude we don't stay in the same universe all the time. One example I have never been able to forget. I had a junker car when I was 18, my first car ever, the oil leaked, the breaks squeaked the wipers didn't work kinda car.
When I got a new car about a year later I always made a point to always park in a specific spot to avoid all the oil leaks my previous car had left behind, my driveway was off white and they were very prominent, one day I came home from work, went upstairs to change for a date, came back a half an hour later, and the oil leaks were GONE! I was like what the hell. I mean no complaints, but oil leaks don't disappear. And the driveway was spotless, dry, no evidence of any cover up. I was baffled and weirded out. When I returned later from the date I checked it out and they were still missing????? TO my knowledge they never returned. I have no explanation, to date!
Kelli <beautifulbabe711 at yahoodot com>
OH USA - Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 21:14:12 (PDT)
Following my earlier post http://amasci com/weird/unusual/objs.html
I started to pay particular attention to vanishing objects in my everyday life, with a view to expanding my theory that there may be some kind of 'Multiverse' interaction going on.
I have also talked to various people regarding disapearing objects and found some interesting trends. Mainly there seems to be periods of time from several days to a couple of weeks. In cetain locales (a single dwelling or work place etc) where multiple items vanish. Some never to be seen again.
After one of these 'Hot times' where several items of mine had vanished almost right before my eyes. I was prompted to email Dr Michio Kaku in the hope that a scientist of note, might take an interest in the subject of dispearing objects with special interest to multiverse theory.
Here is a copy of the email (including spelling mistakes), which to date has had no response. LOL I wonder why???
Dear Dr Kaku,
I have long held the belief that Multiverse theory is a distinct possibility. However I lack the firm academic background needed to pursue this area of science, as such I happily leave such things to noted persons such as your good self.
That said, I do admit to spending much time devoting brain power to such theories and wish that I had strong enough mathematical skills to somehow add to the scientific endeavours.
The reason I am writing is that I have two personal accounts which recently happened to me, that may be of interest to you. In particular they have started me on a line of thought regarding possible testing or study of certain aspects of Multiverse theory. I hope they are useful in some small way.
Account 1)
While sitting at my office (home) desk, I was using a small pair of nail clippers.
To my left I have a tower case PC, which I use for creating music. As such It had a small midi keyboard along side it.
The side of the case is always kept off, so I can swap the Hard drives, etc. conveniently.
I was reading emails on my main pc which was to my right.
I went to put the nail clippers down on top of the midi keyboard, but dropped them from a height of about 3 inches. They hit one of the keys of the keyboard and bounced into the tower case through the open side. I heard them rattle inside the case and quickly looked inside for them through the jumble of cables, etc., But could not see them.
I wasn't at all bothered so turned back to my emails and left the clippers in sittue.
Later, I went to retrieve the clippers. moving the keyboard and putting it on top of the case. I held the IDE and power cables out of the way and looked around inside the case, but was quite set aback that I could not see the clippers. This now became a mystery that needed to be solved, So I got a torch, removed the cables and thoroughly checked the inside of the pc case. I then checked under the case, around it, cleared the desk of all items. Checked the floor and finally sat back in complete amazement and swore loudly in disbelief.
I must point out that the internal working of the pc are no mystery to me as I have built many thousands including the one in question. I can assure you that there is nowhere inside it or indeed in the local vicinity where the clippers could be hiding.
Account 2)
While undressing in the bedroom, Sat on the bed next to my wife. I removed my slippers, socks and trousers and talked to her for several minutes without moving. During the short conversation I was reminded that I had several chores that needed to be done before the morning, So accordingly I started to redress. However one of the socks that had been removed only minutes before and placed on the floor at my feet was missing.
I checked inside my trousers, put my hands in the legs and then turned them inside out. checked in my slippers, under and around the bed and even the pockets of the trousers. I got up and looked around the immediate area which was bare of anything else and then checked the bedding itself.
As the phrase says 'There it was, Gone'
Both my wife and I were in complete disbelief and at a total loss for an explanation.
As you can see from these slightly bizarre but very real accounts, which I believe are far from unique. It would seem that things really do 'Vanish into thin air' or certainly go somewhere. Obviously I do not expect you to accept these accounts as empirical data, however I must personally except them as such unless the items later turn up. In which case I will be seeking medical advise, and taking my wife along too.
I was wondering if you are aware of whether a studies have been performed of unexplainable accounts such as these? Also whether you could see the implications to Multiverse theory and possible related tests?
If you cannot, then I apologise for taking up your time with this email 'from left field,' The reason I have sent it, is because It is my strong belief that information needs to get to the people most able to deal with it. I hope that this is the case and this may prove to be the catalyst for a fruitful chain of thought (or perhaps one you have already followed?)
regards
Mr A Blainey
Theory Man <ablainey'REMOVE THIS' at aoldot com>
USA - Sunday, March 18, 2007 at 18:51:25 (PDT)
I was going for a spoon to dish out a takeaway last night and when I opened my cutlery drawer I saw a spoon that I have never owned. All my spoons are of the same design and this one was completely different. No one else could have brought it in as i live alone. has anyone else experienced this kind of thing?
Trevor Oliver
Durham, UK - Monday, February 05, 2007 at 05:36:23 (PST)
Strange but true. I am now 47yo I was i think about 6 or 7 at the time but here goes. I was visiting my friend's house and we were playing magic as all kids do at sometime. I was pretending to make my friends button badges disapear below a cusion I sat on it and said abra... you know the drill I then got up and low an behold the items vanished their were i think 5 or more ( Its forty years ago) my friend was very anoyed and our parents said stop aurguing so we did. He does not remenber the event, but it is clear a 10 seconds ago to me. I hope all the other events I have read here are true or else I am mad. great site. emails welcom!! admin(dot)urdns(A)gmaildot com
Martin <admin(dot)urdns(A)gmaildot com>
Oxford, UK - Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 17:41:09 (PST)
i have hope when i read all these stories...here is why:
about two weeks ago i was in my home in California, doing some housework. i took my engagement ring off, put it on the coffeemashine to do some dishes( coffeemashine isnt anywhere close to the sink).
later on i remember very clearly taking the ring putting it back on. i did do a few more things around the house, not remembering ever taking it off.
then i left on a mountainbike trip and i am super certain that i put the ring in the `secret spot`, which is where i leave it when i am traveling, or doing sports. i for sure didnt take it on the bikeride as my gloves don`t fit with the engagement ring on.
having said this, i am always so paranoid about this engagement ring, always making sure its `safe`.
anyhow, i returned from the bike ride and the ring wasnt in the `secret spot`..
i searched the house like a mad woman,every room, every drawer, behind the drawers, i even looked through the dog poop for the next couple of days. the house is really big, so it could be in many corners (5000sf)...
anyhow, after a couple of days i left the house to go to ny for a week. i drove myself insane. i have no explanation what happened and i am going insane. nobody was at the house when this happened.
it cant even fall through the sink, i mean did it fall in the toilet? i am feeling so stupid. how could it disappear?
maybe the minute i`ll forget about( how can i?) it will show up again...i will keep you updated..
svenja p. <svenjaparotatat yahoodot de>
new yorkny, USA - Monday, November 20, 2006 at 16:39:12 (PST)
Here's a "screw-y" experience reported on the VORTEX-L discussion group
I'm the type of person who people might believe to have OCD disorder, not on everything, but most things. On this particular day, last week, it was going to be stormy so I knew I needed to get my errands done before hand, to be home for the storm. I finished just before dark, as the storm was starting to pick up. Backed the van into the driveway as usual, & made sure the lights, wipers, heat and radio were off, before turning the van off. With keys now in hand, I undid my seat belt and reached over the passengers side to get my bags. Before getting out of the van, I glanced over at the passengers window and noticed the storm might blow over my holiday decorations, & thought I should secure them. I proceeded to get out of the van, and locked it manually from the drivers side door. Walked in front of the van, and up the walkway with keys and bags still in hand and secured the decorations. Satisfied, I headed up the deck stairs only to notice there was an unexpected package waiting on the top of the railing. I picked it up with everything else I was holding, and went in for the night.
The next day, after putting my child on the bus, I went to go out and couldn't find my keys. This is so not like me, and I could have sworn that I put them on the table along with everything else. I dumped out my bag several times and retraced my steps, but nothing. I decided to check the van, which was locked, and my husband has his set of keys with him, I couldn't search inside, but had to be certain they must be in a place I can't see inside the van? I searched all around the yard as well, and when he finally got home, I ran outside sure they must be in the van, but the weren't. I was very sad for the next two days because all my keys to everything were on that ring. Finally, on Saturday, I got new keys made and given up the search, thinking they must have blown away? Life goes on and if they turn up, they do?
Well, Sunday morning I receive a call from my husband telling me that he found my keys. Only he found them at his work, which is an hour away from where I had them, and hanging on the visor of a company truck, which he didn't even know he'd be taking that day. I dropped the phone and was going to be sick. I've never been to his employment ever and he swears he isn't playing any tricks on me. I'm so freaked out!
irishrose
derry, nh USA - Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 09:41:30 (PST)
I have experienced things missing and appearing for years... generally chaclked it up to me just not seeing what was in front of my face. Until...
... I have a saying... me and my keys are like a fool and his money... very easily parted. I generally went through car keys like kids through ice cream. I typically got about six cut at a time and then when I was on the last one, had them recut. Again... just me. Then, about 10 years or so ago, I lost my main set... car keys, house keys, everything. I searched everywhere... ripped apart my room, my house, checked my drawers... everything. Finally, I gave up and used my spare car keys... and didn't lock my house. I used that spare set for months. Then, one night, my kids were at the lake for the weekend, and I arrived home in the wee hours of the mourning from work. I took my contacts out, placed them in the case, and went to sleep.
Morning came, I went to put my contacts in, and, lying on top of my contact case... literally... I would have had to pick them up and place them on top of my contact case, were my missing main set of keys.
I've never been able to explain that... but I did tell a coworker about it today... and she described a similar event that happened to her... except in her story she and her husband were actively looking for her keys and she was leaving the living room... then suddenly turned around to grab something, saw a flash of light and saw her keys materialize in the air and fall to the ground in the middle of the living room.
angella
Edmonton, AB Canada - Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 16:25:11 (PDT)
A theory I have been hatching for many years now about why things Vanish, change and generally are not as you KNOW they were.
Although people who relate personal accounts of things vanishing, are usually regarded as absent minded, mistaken or just plain cookooooooo!. Events such as these can fall well within the realms of genuine science.
Along with the usual stories of disapearing keys, pens, tools and such like, I also have a couple of real brain teasers that have made me stop and think.
1) I lived in the same house for over 30 years. I spent my whole childhood there and new every inch of the local area. Climbed every tree, hid in every bush... you get the idea.
One day I left for work and drove round the corner to the T junction at the end of my road. Same as I had done for the previous several thousand days. But this day something wasn't the same. I stopped the car, put it in nuetral, pulled the hand brake and stared. straight ahead in front of the house where a friend of mine used to live was a tree, a tree that had never been there before.
It was about 15 foot high, so quite a few years old. I got out and looked around it, The ground was undisturbed and grass, moss etc were growing right up to it. No sign that it had been a new addition.
I was late for work, but declined to use this as the excuse and said I had just got up late.
2) Also in the same street not long after the tree incident. one day I came home from work and parked up in my usual spot right in front of a house a few doors down from mine (there was no parking outside mine) Again I was struck by the WTF?!!! feeling that I had with the tree.
The house, which I new very well as I had been in it many times and saw it every day. It DID have two front doors, however this day one of them had been bricked up. Not too unusual, but this had obviously been bricked up for years. There were weeds growing up against the wall, algae and dirt on the bricks and stains that ran from the wall above.
I even know taht the main front door was white and this door (now wall) was blue. WTF?!!!
I asked people about the tree and the door and was surprised that people's memory was 'kinda foggy' they remembered the same as I did, but no one could remeber when these things had changed.
These 'am i loosing it?' events started me thinking about the whole issue of stuff that changes, vanishes etc and I have come to the following conclusion.
The parallel universes or multiverse theory is pretty much established and excepted by most rational scientists. I believe that if true, then there must be some sort of interaction and even intersection between these universes. Each one is just a little different from the next. very occassionally, things or even people in one universe slip into a parallel plane, without even knowing it.
It could be that we are all just skipping from one to the next, backwards forewards here there and everywhere without ever knowing it. Each one has so little difference that it is virtually imposible to percieve, however every now and then there is something different enough to prick up our ears.
If you think about it, you could have skipped a thousand times today. People and things all round the world could have changed, moved, vanished and unless it was something close to you, you would never know about it.
I have watched the news and seen that someone famous has died, only to think 'But I'm sure I remember them dying years ago, didn't they ?'
I just hope that tommorow takes me to the win the lottery and marry a supermodel universe :O)
but knowing my luck, the men in white coats will take me away somewhere quite and padded.
theory Man <ablainey a aol com>
USA - Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 17:42:27 (PST)
One morning about 25 years ago, I locked my apartment door and went off to work. About mid-morning, I realized that my key was not in my pocket, nor anywhere I thought I might have lost it. I had to resort to a spare key. THat evening or the evening of the day after, I was walking towards my apartment when I felt something, as if some shrub had caught the foot of my pants. It was dark so I could not see. I tried to shake it off my pants and when I reached home I forgot about it. Five days after I was putting that pants on again. As the foot of the pants hit the tile floor, I heard a "clunk" and one wouldn't expect cloth to make that sound. I inspected the foot of the pants and felt something metallic in the sewn up part. I knew somehow it was the key. I made sure to check that there was no break in the thread of the pants foot. There was none. I had to break the thread to get the object out. It was the key. The pants had even been to the wash and had been ironed but the lady who washed and ironed said nothing or noticed nothing, which adds to the mystery since she handled it after I had felt the "shrub". Somehow the key had transported from my pocket (which had no holes), through the sewn up foot of the pants and reappeared.
Robert <roban127 a yahoo com>
USA - Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 17:32:59 (PDT)
Disappearing/Reappearing
When I was about 10, I was bouncing a ball off the wall of the house. It deflected from my body and rolled underneath an abandoned car at one end of the lawn. I walked up, bent down, looked, but there was no ball. I eventually turned every blade of grass underneath and around the car, all to no avail. Each evening after school I would spend about 30 minutes looking without success, even with my brothers helping. Then on the seventh day I walked out to do my customary search. But this time, I had a certain optimism. I went to the car, bent down, and there was the ball where it should have been all along. It didn't look or feel any different.
Robert <eoban127 a yahoo com>
USA - Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 17:11:37 (PDT)
I have had two strange incidents that were the same and both occured in the same city (Gainesville, Florida) but in different houses.
The first time was many years ago in My families original house. When we were kids, (my sister and I ) used to hide goodies that My mother would by at the store such as cookies, sweets etc. from each other so we could hog them for ourselves. I knew that mom had purchased a new box of Nestle's Quick the day before and after school the next afternoon, I was looking for it to make myself a glass of it. Well it was no-where to be found in the kitchen. I was searching the kitchen high and low for it and it was not to be found. I asked My sister if she had hidden it and she says no as she was doing her homework in the living room next to the kitchen. I called My mom who was out at a friend's house and also asked her. She says No she did not hide it and to do my homework that she was coming back home soon. After a very tidy search by actually moving things on the counter and in the cabinets one by one and replacing them, I was perplexed that it was not there. I was making a count of every place I had searched and when I turned around again facing the counter,,,THERE IT WAS IN PLAIN SIGHT. right there on the counter not near anything else. It was sitting there as cool as you please in the open ,,,away from all other objects and there is NO-WAY I could have missed it.
I was amazed knowing that something that strange had taken place and then almost started to doubt that it had happened. But IT DID!!!
The box had not disappeared in front of Me Nor appeared in front of Me, but was there when I turned back around. Why a box of Quick, I do not know.
The other time was a number of years later in the house I am still living in today. I had bought 4 cans of cat food with a picture of Morris the cat on the label and had them stacked on top of the refridgerator in plain view. I had already fed the cat several times and knew that I had one more can left. I went into the kitchen to get the can, and the Cat food can was NOT THERE where I knew it was. I even looked in the garbage for the empty cans thinking that possibly I had fed the cat the last can and was just not with the program. This bothered Me because I was Sure that there was one can left and I could not account for the fourth empty can. Well, I did not associate this with what had happened years before and fed the cat some dry food from a 2 pound bag of that kind of food that I had. The cat likes the smelly bstuff in the can way better than the dry food, but when hungry enough, will eat the dry food.It is better for their teeth anyway because the wet food sticks to their teeth and can cause decay. I went on about my business and forgot all about this until a few days later when I was walking into the kitchen and there in plain sight on top of the fridge right where I had stacked them was the CAN of CAT FOOD. IT WAS IN PLAIN VIEW with the cat on the label and could be seen from many feet away before even entering the kitchen.
I said to Myself "NOoooooo Not AGAIN!" and I smiled and walked over to it.
I looked at it for a few minutes before touching or moving it. And I did end up feeding it to the cat.
Now I tried to think of WHO may be behind this of the Family members or friends that have passed away and could not come up with a solid answer.
It is almost like someone has a good sense of humor and was trying to get My attention. Well,,,They DID get My attention. I still wonder about these two incidents and nothing has happened since out of the ordinary. Both times, These things took place when I was not expecting anything out of the ordinary.
I have never looked on the net for similar experiences until now and I see that There are Many other people who have had similar experiences. Until the internet, Unless this information was in a book, I would not know of others.
There is something going on around Us that We do not always see with our eyes. Everyone who reorts something like this can't all be nuts or spaced out.
Since I See now that others Have had these things happen,,, Who IS TRYING TO GET OUR ATTENTION? They are probably smiling with amusement.
sincerely, Nick Savage, Gainesville, Florida
Nick Savage <Supersax13 a aol com>
Gainesville, Fl USA - Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 01:47:33 (PDT)
One for the "Missing Objects" Section.
Back in Late January I got a copy of a video game called Final Fantasy 4 for the gameboy advance. Being a Portable version of one of my Favorite games ever, I played it non-stop. However, One Day, it was just gone. No Where to be Found. I looked in every box, behind every item of furniture, in any possible space in the Entire House. a Couple Months later, after breaking down and buying another copy, I found my Original Cartridge at the bottom of the Center Console (storage compartment between the seats) of my Mom's Van. How exactly this happened is beyond me, as there was barely the space to fit what was in there (2-1/2 rolls of paper towles, maybe a dozen CD's) in there without breaking anything. And the paper towles, located at the bottom, blocked all lint, dust, etc. from reaching the bottom.
Most of these experiences I have, are sheerly mindlessness, like losing the remote, and searching for an hour only to find out I was sitting on it the entire time. So Just Remember people, take it with a grain of salt...
Doug <omgmatrix a gmail com>
USA - Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 20:58:11 (PDT)
I was using a comb standing in front of the mirror in my vanity area. When I finished combing my hair, I went to put the comb on the vanity top as I was walking away from the vanity. I heard the comb hit the edge of the countertop as I was walking away and said, "rats." I bent to retrieve the comb and it wasn't there on the floor where I expected it to be. Figuring it took an odd bounce when it hit the tile floor, I expanded my search to to the adjacent bedroom. No luck and no comb. All the drawers of the vanity, doors of the closet, hamper and linen closet were closed. I opened them any way and looked inside. No comb. I moved items on the floor in the bedroom and in the vanity area - no comb. I got on my hands and knees and scoured the floors of both areas - no comb. I spent 15 minutes looking for that comb - to no avail. The next day, I told my son about it. He's an engineer so he thinks very logically and just KNEW the comb had to be there. He spent quite some time looking for it too. Same result, no comb. It wasn't caught on my clothing, underneath anything, not rolled around the corner or anything. The comb is just gone.
If what I've read on here follows, the comb will just show up one day - either on the countertop where it belongs or in the purse that wasn't even in the room that day.
Teresa
San Antonio, TX USA - Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 09:36:42 (PDT)
i was on a day trip with my wife and son recently. i was taking a lot of pictures which meant taking my glasses on and off quite a bit. i was worried i might drop them so for peace of mind i put them in the small zippered front pocket of my camera bag. that night, having returned home (driving with a different pair of sunglasses), i went to get my regular glasses from the camera bag. i was stunned to find they were not there. now this made no sense whatsoever. i knew i had zipped them in the little front pocket and i knew i hadn't opened it since. so i checked the pocket a second time. no glasses. baffled, i emptied the contents of the pocket. ticket stubs. a lens cap. a lens cloth. nothing else. this is a very small pocket with no hidden corners or secondary inner pockets. in other words, once you unzip it and look inside, you can see the entire pocket. having confirmed the glasses were gone, i put the ticket stubs, lens cap and lens cloth back in. rezipped the pocket. totally mystified about my disappearing glasses, i had no choice but to go buy a new pair at the optometrist the following morning. so i did and that was the end of it, i thought. but two weeks later, i grab my camera to take a picture of my son. i see the lens is a little dusty so i unzip the front pocket to get my lens cloth. and there, in plain sight, the very first thing i see, are my missing glasses.
spooky.
manny
USA - Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 04:08:21 (PDT)
Dop Effect:
Yesterday i was driving over to my girlfriend's house and I was a little late to get there . I got to her door and she called my cellphone. I remember answering and she does too. In matter of fact she opened the door and I had it i my hand. All i remember is I took it from my hand and placed it in my pocket and then we went off for a drive and then a movie. During the drive I decided I wanted to call my mother and noticed it was missing. I said to myself again darn it lost it it again but hey its back at her place because thats the last place it could have been. When we got back we searched all oveer the house for the phone and even called it and no answer. I decided it was a lost phone for good and went to cingular to get another one shipped to me. Here comes the really weird part. We went to bed at my apartment and my girlfriend and me never got out of bed the phone could not be at my apartment anyways because i never went to the apartment. So we woke up the next morning and there it was sitting on the chair, as we both looked at each other stunned like no way it cant be here. I begin searching the phone looking for evidence i had it yesterday and there it was the evidence was clear at 1244 pm on sat 20 2006 the phone had a picture on it the funny thing is I lost it around 1240. Now I am not making this up i can send the picture and I have four witnesses knowing I had the phone at her house and never going to my apartment that night, I searched everywhere if anyone else has experienced Dop please email me. I am also a paranormal Investigator and have documented many hauntings thanks for your time.
James Casey
james casey <punk21812000 a yahoo com>
champaign, il USA - Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 07:54:00 (PDT)
A good and very reliable, totally no nonsense guy I know told me this in all seriousness. He is very particular about things being a vet. He went camping one time and was completely alone. There were no other people for about a half mile. He was setting up his tent and laid down the bundle of tent pegs in a specific spot on the unfolded tent. Looked away, looked back, and they were gone. Just gone. He looked everywhere. Never found them. Went out and bought new tent pegs. The day he was ready to leave he came out of his tent in the morning and there infront of the tent door was the bundle of pegs.
EA < >
USA - Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 14:52:53 (PDT)
i have stuff dissapear and reapear with some frequency it annoys me greatly. sometimes i think its just me being unobservent but there are times where i KNOW i have looked in the spot and it wasnt there, then i go back and it is, one occurence that stands out in my mind in particular. i had lost my gamecube memory card and looked through the entire house for it finally giving it up for gone, i got a new one and about SEVEN MONTHS after losing it i walk into the spare room and right ontop of a keyboard sitting on tthe floor there it is, in plain sight, where i never had it. it was very weird
john k <triton_barton a a a hotmail com>
iowa USA - Sunday, February 05, 2006 at 12:43:53 (PST)
Date: January 15, 2006
Time: 12:20pm and 12:33pm
Place: Public Bathroom at a Carvel Ice Cream Store
Temp: Partly Sunny 23 degrees Fahrenheit
FREAKIEST THING!! What I?m about to describe happened to me about 4 hours ago. I?m writing it here because this was the first place I found with similar stories, after desperately looking on the internet for some answer to what happened to me.
As I was sitting on the toilet in the bathroom, I noticed a bug near the wall opposite where I sat. It looked as if the bug was alive and had just paused for a minute. Curious, I decided to have some fun and pulled about two feet of toilet paper and rolled it into a small ball. I wet the paper using the sink next located next to me. After squeezing out the excess water, I tightened the ball which was about one inch in diameter. I aimed it at the bug and threw it. The ball missed the bug by an inch and rolled to a stop about five inches away. I thought of trying again but decided to finish the matter at hand.
Upon completing my duty (excuse the pun), I walked over and stood over the bug. I slowly moved my foot over it to see if it would move and when it didn?t, I proceeded to step on it. I heard the crackling and lifted my foot to see the bug squashed and pretty dead. I used my foot and rolled the ball of toilet tissue that was laying to the side, over the bug. At first I was going to bend down and pick the bug up using the ball, but instead I decided to use my foot to squish the ball over the bug and sort of swipe it with my foot, like cleaning your shoe after stepping on gum or mud.
When I picked up my foot to see the results, I noticed a wet streak on the floor. But the tissue and bug were not on the floor. Naturally, I picked up my foot to see if it had gotten stuck to the bottom but it wasn?t there. I looked against the wall in front of me to see if it had gotten stuck to it. Nothing. I turned around and looked to see if it had somehow gotten stuck to my shoe and flung behind me. Nothing. I called my wife and asked her to look around to see with fresh eyes. Nothing. I retraced my steps, using a new wet tissue, placing it on the floor and it too disappeared. When I looked under my foot, though, it was wedged there as it should have been the first time.
Feeling defeated and very shaken, I picked up a sharpie permanent marker and placed an ?X? on the floor where the original disappearance had occurred. I thought maybe that someday coordinates can be calculated and traced back to another universe. I don?t know, I was reaching for something. Anyway, I found this website and was relieved to see that it has happened to others. I?m scared yet excited about the possibility of it being a something miraculous or even a proof of some scientific theory.
WOW!
Ray <artfux a spymac com>
Union City, NJ USA - Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 15:57:22 (PST)
The cases listed here deal with objects vanishing. Events like these are memorable and weird, no question about it. However it is not only object that vanish, people do too, and that sounds sinister to me. Recently I read some statistical snippet that in Hungary (it has about 10 million inhabitants) over 5000 people (of all ages and both gender, pretty much representative of the population) reportedly disappear. Over the years this number is rather stabile, and out of these 5000 approximately 3500 are found, recovered in one way or other, but 1500 are never found. The interesting background information is that in this country the borders are very well controlled, there is a national ID card, one can not use any services without being able to identify himself, i.e. it is almost impossible to fake a new identity and identity theft is unknown. In addition, the number of people murdered used to be less than 500 per year and even in the worst years, less than 800, and over 80% of cases are solved eventually.
Where are those missing people: 2-3 times as many vanish forever than get murdered? In fact tens of thousands of people disappeared over the 50 years of peacetime, regardless of the changing political systems, and nobody seems to notice. There are special crime units at the police to deal with murders, but in fact nobody is really looking for the ?victims? who disappear.
I am sure that situation is rather similar here in the USA.
Layosh
Gaithersburg, MD USA - Monday, December 26, 2005 at 09:34:19 (PST)
About a year ago, I misplaced a diamond ring I always wear. I must have set it down somewhere and then couldn't remember what I had done with it. That really ticked me off. I looked all over the house for about 10 days, because I couldn't believe it was lost. I sometimes have a habit of putting things in my pocket and then tossing them in the wash, so I looked through all of that with no luck. WhileI was looking for it, I decided to clean the entire kitchen. I took everything off the counter and wiped it all down, and put everything back. I then suddenly got an idea to sya what I wanted out load and said that it was pretty good humor, but it was time for the joke to end and I'd like my ring back. I went into the living room about 15 feet away for maybe 30 seconds to get something, and when I went back into the kitchen, I could see my ring sitting right next to the sink because what caught my eye was the reflection of the light off the stones. There is no way, NO WAY for that to have been there before because I had just cleaned everything off. I thanked "whom or whatever" for the return. No explanation, but there is no way for that ring to have been sitting there for 10 days.
Mark Daniels <mrdmn a earthlink net>
Minneapolis, MN USA - Monday, December 19, 2005 at 19:54:28 (PST)
When I was in my dad's garage, in 1978, I was working on a piece of woodwork. I had just set down his counterbore drill, on top of the other things on the workbench. No one else was anywhere near the garage, and no one new what it was that I was doing. I turned my back to verify a measurement on the wood, and then reached for the drill, only to not see it ANYWHERE on the bench. My dad came up a few minutes later, and I asked him if anyone else had been around here. He said that everyone else was still down in the house. I mentioned that I was looking for the drill, and told him that I had just set it down on the bench, and couldn't find it.
He helped me look in all of the drawers and cabinets, as well as PHYSICALLY removing ALL of the things off of the bench. We were unable to find it. He asked me if I went anywhere else, and I said NO! We went about putting everything back onto the bench. Still no drill. He went back down to the house(I watched him go). There was still no one at all around the garage. I looked again at the bench hoping to find the drill, and assured myself that it was not there. I went back to measuring the wood, since I spent about one hour looking for the drill. I turned around again, and there it was, in the EXACT position that it was when it dissapeared. The bit was around 2 feet long, and with the drill, was around 3 feet long. NOT something that you can just OVERLOOK!!!, and not something that can be EASILY MISSED!!!! All of the other items on the bench were put on there NEATLY, when we were looking for the drill earlier, and the drill was the only thing that was where it was before.
I mentioned this to dad, and he assured me that no one else had left the house at that time. I would have heard someone enter the door, since it had squeeky hinges, and you had to push the door hard enough to make a sound.
I have had many other episodes of premonitions, and warnings, as well as being told to go to a particular spot and finding that someone was in need of some kind of help that I JUST HAPPENED to have the experience or tools to be able to help them. I would put this number in the 75 to 100 times range.
Recently, my mind has been under so much stress with work and such, that if something was happening, I was unable to pick up on it. I am going to try and relieve as much of this stress in the next week or so, and see if I can tune back into whatever it was that I had connected with in the past.
I really liked the fact that I was able to help so many people out. I never intended to be where they were, but found myself directed there. It is a strang feeling, but one that I had come to cherish.
Hope that I am not the only one with this happening. I loved it, and hope to get it back. Stress seems to be a BIG dampener.
Thanks,
Huck
David T. Henneberry` <daviddoes a hotmail com>
Jackson, WY USA - Monday, November 21, 2005 at 22:33:48 (PST)
I had a favorite pair of blue jeans. I waited a couple of weeks to was them. I noticed that they wern't in my wash when I washed my dirty laundry. I thought no problem I just overlooked them. They never did show up and I have a small apartment. Well I thought at least I have these black jeans I like. I remember washing them and taking them in my home and even hanging them in my closet. I go to wear them one day and they are gone as well. I think that someone is playing tricks on me. They have to be, things just don't dematerialize from existance. That is not logical. Well say a month later I grab a cereal bowl and spoon from my bedroom to wash out by hand because I did not want to have to look for a spoon. I am just washing away and realize my spoon is gone. I know it was there because that was my main intent, to wash the spoon so I would not have to hunt one down. Oh, it fell in the garbage disposal. I'll be damned it was not there. It simply vanished. I did not physically see it dissapear, it was just gone. I was thinking first my jeans that I like, now a spoon that I care nothing about, and one time my keys hidden in my room where I did not put them,and one time I tried to open my apartment door where I lived previously and my key would not open it. I looked at the door and it had a different number than my 5. I thought how in the world could I have entered the wrong stairwell. I walked down keeping my eye on my door and still a different number. I look at the same time and it is my satirwell and the same wrong number. I run upstairs thinking I am in the twilight zone and by the time I get up there, it is my number and my key works. What is next? Who does this? How does this happen and why? What is the purpose? Perplexed in Indiana
Justa Lady
Indianapolis, IN USA - Thursday, October 06, 2005 at 00:26:22 (PDT)
This happened to me some 3 years ago. I have a large collection of VHS video tapes with movies recorded from TV. Some of them I store in a slim wooden cabinet, some 2m high. It fits precisely between a much larger cabinet and the door, and it has some 5-6 shelves. Most of the tapes were standing vertically in the shelves, but on the uppermost shelf, they were on their side, horizontaly.
Allright. The collection was getting a bit dusty, so I wanted to clean it a little. I took the tapes from the uppermost shelf, placed them on the table, cleaned the shelf and wanted to put them back on the shelf. And then it happened, the bloody tapes DID NOT FIT into the shelf. It was about 2cm too narrow for them. I am pretty sure they fit perfectly just 2 minutes ago. What the hell happened? Did the cabinet shrink? The other tapes on the shelves below were perfectly OK. Did the tapes themselves grow? No, they were the same size as before. Was some reality editing going on? Did I get stoned by the dust?
I don't know what happened there, but now I think that I stepped into another reality while dusting.
Rado Kalossy <yndulona_blackATyahooDOTcom>
Bratislava, Slovakia - Sunday, October 02, 2005 at 12:36:15 (PDT)
This happened a few years ago and I am still baffled by it. I have a large cat that I keep indoors. When I take him outside, he wears a halter which fastens around the neck and around the belly like a man's belt fastens. To that, I attach a leash. So, on this particular day, I let him wander over to the neighbor's tree. He stretched out on the ground and I was just gazing about when I heard a metallic clanking. I looked down at him and saw that his harness was completely off and still fastened. He didn't even notice until I gasped. How does this happen?! As I said, the harness fastens like a man's belt, into a buckle---both buckles were fastened as if the harness was still on the cat's body.
Jaymie
Capitol Heights, MD USA - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 16:44:38 (PDT)
Ivan L. reminds me that Uri Geller reports a totally stunning event where the heavy innards of a machine gun were teleported from their hiding place and back while Uri was on manuovers as a young soldier.
Geller book, Magician or Mystic, ch 5
Seattle, WA USA - Saturday, July 09, 2005 at 22:12:54 (PDT)
Well, here's part of my story. On a weekly basis, I can simply lay things down on a table in front of me, quickly turn around - and it's gone! Keys, glasses, coffe cup, doesn't matter. Then, if I leave the room for a minute and come back (as if returning from looking somewhere else) the object(s) are right there where it should've been. People have been right next to me when the thing "zilches out".
I've also lain tools on a car fender, and one or two of them will zilch on me - occasionally forever.
I was cutting cheese with a sharp knife a few months back and the knife kept going thru the block-cheese up to the hilt and I couldn't pull the knife back out. I broke the cheese apart to discover the knife blade had curled like a clockspring against the formica counter - as if it were tin foil. Yet it was cold stainless steel and very coiled up.
Many years ago (15) I was sleeping in one morning, and around noon I heard the chatter and muffled laughter of what I thought to be children - at the foot of my bed! I thought " - who let these #^%*$~"! KIDS in here while I'm TRYING to sleep?" The room went silent, and my eyes were still closed. Good! Then soft chatter, pause, laughter, more chatter. My head bolted straight off the pillow and my gaze went directly down my blanket covered legs to the two noise-makers at my feet, and my mouth fell open - because floating there a few inches above the floor and dressed to the hilt were 2 Elves/Nomes? As I watched, they became very excited that I could see them, their forms wavered like a heat mirage and the two zipped out my bedroom and down the hall with me in hot (very) pursuit. Their feet never touched the floor as they rounded the corner into the kitchen, I could still make out their "outlines" in the air. I thought "I've got'em now, that's a dead end in the kitchen". I rounded the corner a second later and - all was still. No noise, light, motion -nothing! I finally closed my mouth.
I've often been reaching for something just beyond my fingers and the thing/object will fall over, off the shelf, fly over my head or bounce up once then down. Happens every 3 to 4 weeks (monthly?). Recently, just before Thanksgiving I was giving myself a quick "Goatee" trim, and cheek shave, when my attention went to a pen (writing) on the mirror-shelf in front/to the right of me. As I wondered who put it there, it jumped up and into the sink in front of me and I never even blinked. I calmly picked it up, put it back where it had departed from, finished cleaning up and said - "Hmmm. . . interesting". My thoughts then led to Cherry or Pumpkin pie for desert later.
In case you've wondered, yes I'm a "sensitive" and have given readings, contacted spirits, seen ufo's - up close, had premonitions come true, saw a bigfoot (yes he was big and his arms were longer than they should've been), found other people's lost objects, had OOB's, located a runnaway girl once, and have had future visions (but the info was just for me), found water underground, and I'm LOST - LOST - LOST!
Why? 'Cuz I'm NOT NORMAL by society standards and other people around me get scared or make fun or just plain don't know what to think of me so avoid me. I'm not lonely but I'm often alone, lost in a sea of normality.
There. That's part of my story. Tip of the 'berg as it were. The rest may be published some day.
Love One-Another
Sincerely, Windwalker
JT Windwalker <spiritsonng333 a juno com>
Camp Verde, AZ USA - Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 17:33:32 (PST)
This happened to me while I was living in Queens, New York. I'd been living in a house for a few months when I began to notice some of my belongings would disappear from where I had left them, to reappear later on in another spot. I would've just chalked it up to inattention on my part if not for something going missing about a week later. My mother had sent me a package for my birthday. Included in the box was a pair of socks. (In my younger days my mother seemed obsessed with making sure that I had enough underwear and socks. I think it's a mom thing) But one day after coming home from work(third shift)I changed into my pj's and went to bed.Now this was the first time I'd worn the socks, and as I took them off and I laid them on the top of my other clothing, I had a chuckle at my mother's perception that at the age of 22, I was still unable to purchase for myself proper foot attire. Now when I woke up that evening, I saw that, although the rest of my clothing was where I'd put it, the socks were gone. There was no one else in the house all day and even if there was, they couldn't enter my room without waking me. It was a small attic room and my bed was right by the door. Anyways, who would want a pair of dirty socks? So I looked EVERYWHERE for those dang thing. I must've checked under the bed 20 times to no avail. But by now I was starting to get worried. What if more important things like my glasses or keys started to disappear? I'd be up sh-- creek for sure. A day or so later I was walking in Manhattan and I happened to pass by one of Rastafarian-looking guys selling incense and the like. I stopped and asked the fellow(a bit tongue-in-cheek)if he had anything to drive away pesky poltergeists, and without batting an eyelash, he handed me something to burn(I forget what it was being so long ago)to get rid of bad spirits. I actually surprised myself by buying it, and I was sure that after I left the guy was thinking to himself "there goes a real sucker!" Now I went ahead and burnt this stuff in my room. It wasn't very smoky and the aroma was rather pleasant but I found myself feeling very tired all of a sudden and then (this part is gross but I feel I should add it because it was so odd)I began to bleed very heavily. It wasn't anywhere near that time of the month and even if it was, my period always started out very light, so this occurence was very out of the norm. That episode scared me but luckily I suffered no ill affects from it. And after that day, I never had any problems with misplaced or missing objects. I never did find those G--D--- socks though.
Patricia C. <nikita76543yahoo>
gatesville, tx USA - Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 21:22:11 (PDT)
Not sure it's the right category or not, but I remembered this experience while reading the "missing objects" reports.
This happened to me when I was probably 10 or 11 years old. I'd been playing in the basement with the dog, with her chasing me back and forth around the basement. At one point, I stepped on one of my shoelaces, tripped and fell down. The shoelace was definitely untied, because I remember looking down at it and resolving to walk carefully so as to not step on the long, dangling end and trip again while on the way over to the stairs where I could sit down to tie it.
Arriving at the stairs, I sat down on the bottom step, only to discover... Both my shoelaces were neatly tied! I can't remotely explain what happened, but have been pretty open-minded regarding the idea of multiple realities ever since.
Dave Etchells <detchells(at)imaging(hyphen)resource com>
Woodstock, GA USA - Wednesday, April 06, 2005 at 12:48:52 (PDT)
This happened in late November, 1946. My step father and I were climbing up a wooded, curving hiking trail on the Virgina side of the Cumberland Mountains, returning from an overnight visit, back to our home in Kentucky. There was a freshly fallen, light snow of perhaps two or three inches on the ground, so that we could see small animal and bird tracks plainly. At a turn in the trail we saw an animal the size of an adult groudhog (woodchuck) on an old dead log, not more than fifteen or twenty feet away. On such rural treks as this one, we always carried a gun of some kind, on the off-chance of bagging a rabbit or a squirrel or two, for the kitchen pot. At the time, I had a single-shot Stevens 'Favorite'.22 rifle, and of course we paused so I could shoot. At that distance I could easily have hit a coke bottle cap, but when I went to look across the log to get my prize, there was nothing there! I called my step father, and we made a thorough search: there was no sign of blood, nor were there any tracks anywhere in the snow--except for some song-bird tracks, here and there. I must state that I have little interest in the paranormal, preferring to have faith in some logical explanation or other. But the day was perfectly clear; we were neither tired, nor sleepy, and so I have to write this one off as 'unexplained.' It is the only such experience I have ever had, and I'm glad I had a witness!
Paul L. Kidd
Muskegon, MI USA - Monday, April 04, 2005 at 21:38:02 (PDT)
I was alone in my residential hotel room at the time. I felt like having a smoke, which I roll. I rolled the smoke just like I always have done, no doubt thousands of times before. Anyone who rolls tobacco, or any other similar substance, knows that one has to spread the stuff evenly over the 'vee' that the paper makes. I suppose it is not absolutely necessary to look at the tobacco to roll a cigarette but I was not trying to perform some kind of feat...I simply wanted a smoke. I lit the smoke and it burned oddly for second ...then went out. That was a little odd so I examined the cigarette and noticed that the butt end...the end that I was trying to drag on..was white. I was thinking, no big deal but, "Wonder how that got in there?"
I started pulling on the cotton woolley stuff expecting it to pop right out...but no...it kept coming out, and coming out, and coming out. I finally broke the paper open...and the whole cigarette was rolled out of the cotton wooley stuff...no tobacco at all!
I suppose someone reading this might imagine that, say...'A friend slipped this wad of stuff in my tobacco pouch' or that kind of thing. I swear, I remember taking TOBACCO that I took out of the pouch, and it was tobacco when I was rolling it and it was tobacco when I licked the paper and it was tobacco when i folded the paper over it to finish making the cigarette. I don't believe in that kind of thing, in fact I am what a lot of people would call a skeptic. I just wish that that tobacco had turned into diamonds or something worthwhile.
ian taylor
canada - Monday, March 28, 2005 at 16:22:54 (PST)
I was working on a printed circuit board in my office at home. I had made a mistake in designing it, so I needed to bend the leads of some surface-mount transistors to make them fit. Since they were small (SOT-23), one of them popped off the bench and went flying into the air onto the floor. A few minutes later, I sent another one air-mail onto the floor. At that point, I stopped and spent a great deal of time looking for them. Now, granted, my floor isn't the neatest, but I really searched and never found either of them.
A couple of days later, I bent down to work with the laptop sitting on the floor under the workbench so I could do some testing. Next to it, in the center of a sheet of paper (actually the outside of a large brown clasp envelope), were the two transistors lined up together all by themselves like someone had found them and put them there for me to find. I also seem to remember that the envelope was under something else when I dropped the transistors.
No one else in my family even knew that I dropped the things, and would not have been working around my bench anyway.
Pete Koziar <RebbePete at the letters see ess dot com>
Owings Mills, MD USA - Friday, March 18, 2005 at 09:50:51 (PST)
One day I bought some meat at the grocery. I don't remember what kind, but I know it needed to be cooked within a few days. I remember seeing it after I got home, so I know I didn't leave it at the checkout counter. A couple days later, I wanted to cook it, but it was not in the refrigerator. I then checked my cabinets, my car, and around the apartment, but I still couldn't find it. I expected to find it in a couple days in some weird place after it started to rot (ewwww). A week went by, but it didn't turn up. Later I pieced together what I think happened. I had bought the same kind of meat the week before, but had forgotten to cook it. I remembered throwing it out after I got home with the new meat. But I had already thrown the old meat out a couple days before. I had actually thrown out the fresh meat by mistake. No paranormal or psychic explanations needed.
What's my point? Many of the dissappearing/reappearing object stories, as strange as they seem, can be explained with very ordinary explanations. You drop an object, and it rolls or bounces far from where you dropped it. Later, you stumble upon it or even unwittingly kick it to where you dropped it. Another explanation is absent-mindedness. A lot of the time we function on "auto-pilot". We might pick something up and move it without even thinking about it and have no memory of it later. Someone else could move the object and not remember it, so even if we couldn't have moved it, and everyone else says they didn't, it could have still have been moved. Also, our brains tend to filter out ordinary or familiar objects. You can look right at them and not "see" them, because your brain decides they're not interesting. This would be especially true of precious things because we see or handle them frequently. This can even happen when you are conciously searching for something. Then, later, you snap out of it and it "reappears". To see this phenomenon in action, try rearranging the artwork on your walls. You will notice them more for a while after they have been moved, because you're not used to seeing them in their new location.
I'm not saying this to discourage people from posting reports or to put this site down--I LOVE this site! I'm just trying to inject some healthy skepticism into the minds of people who read the reports. Having said this, I've read a few reports here that are nearly impossible to explain. Keep up the good work, Bill.
Aaron
OH USA - Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 11:17:41 (PST)
One of my very good friends had a "missing object" experience. Although he solved the mystery in the end, it still deserves being told.
My friend, Horst, works as an airbrush artist and was working on some project one day, when his rubber eraser slipped out of his fingers and fell to the floor. He looked around but it was not lying on the floor. He the searched the whole room, which is quite large getting more and more frustrated that he couldn't find the eraser. He went back to his work desk and purposely dropped a number of erasers to see how far they would jump away from the table. None of them went very far and all could be easily found. But the first one remained missing. He checked and double checked everything and even started looking in very unlikely places. Having spent so much time on this now got him almost obsessed with finding the missing eraser. He turned out the light and got out his UV-light. The other erasers lit up very nicely lying on the desk, but still he couldn't see the missing one. Finally he got down on his knees and THERE - inside one of the rectangular shaped "tubes" that his work desk is made out of - in there lay the eraser. This however didn't reduce the mystery. The inner dimensions of the tube match the outer dimensions of the eraser exactly - and the eraser was about 2 inches inside the tube! I have seen the eraser sitting in there and seen how there is absolutely no gap between the eraser and the tube. He has spent a lot of time since then trying to figure out the chances of this happening. Whenever he gets the chance to talk about it, he will go on and on about angles and vectors of force. He has made drawing and sketches and has tried again and again to duplicate the event - with no luck at all. Sometimes I think he would have been better off if the eraser had just disappeared all togehter. The unlikeliness of the factual evidence disturbs him more than the unlikeliness of a mysterious dissapearance would have, I think. Anyway this was not really a "missing object" story - but it still makes me think twice when I hear someone say that something is impossible.
Chris Hansen
Copenhagen, Denmark - Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 15:06:14 (PST)
WOW! I just experienced a "disappearing object" event, BIG TIME, with no sensible explanations and no questionable memories to provide excuses. This is the first time I've had an object vanish almost right before my eyes.
I was stirring a tall paper cup of coffee with a wooden stir-stick while slowly pouring in cocoa powder. I was holding the very tip of the stick so I could use it to scrape the bottom and dislodge any powder. I lost hold of the stick and it slipped under the surface. (These particular cups are so tall that a stir-stick can get lost, it always happens.) But then the end of the stick didn't float back up again.
Hmmm, mysterious. Did the wood get saturated that fast, and sink? Must have. So I grabbed a second wooden stir-stick and swept it around to feel for the lost one. Nothing there. Hmmm, maybe it remains diagonal and won't lift up? Or... it must have broken in half, and the two halves were deep in the coffee? But they should be floating. I stuck my finger into the coffee to check temperature, and it was too hot to continue, but I swept my finger around quickly and didn't feel the stick. Then I wondered... is this one of those "vanishing object" events? If so, then ooooo! This one could be scary, since the stick ***MUST*** still be in the coffee. If it's gone, then I'm going to scream. I was stirring my coffee and the stick went under, so it HAS to be in there.
As is typical in these things, my emotional state could be significant: while stirring, I was fuming about the situation between my ex-wife and teenage daughter... and right then I DROPPED the stick. Vanishing-object reports often involve emotional distractions and DROPPED or tossed objects.
OK, now I freeze; stop and examine my latest memories. I was looking right at the coffee and watching the rotating cocoa powder on the surface... the stick really went under as I watched. Yes, I really lost hold of the stick, and it has to be submerged in the cup, no question. And there really are two sticks involved: I really grabbed a second stick after the first one sank (and the top half of that second stick is dry: it never was submerged.) No question at all about the time sequence. But the missing stick didn't float back up again. What should I do next? Pour off the coffee! Check whether there's two stick-halves down under it.
So I carefully went across the room and got my ceramic coffee mug, dumped it's contents (two dry teabags and yet another wooden stir-stick) into the trash can near the microwave, and then sloooooowly poured off the hot coffee into the mug. And... no stir-stick pieces pour out. No wooden fragments under the coffee in the paper cup. I carefully drink the coffee in the ceramic mug, then slowly pour the rest of the paper cup into the mug. I empty it totally. I look for tiny framents. I even feel around inside the paper cup... in case my brain is somehow editing out the image of the stick.
Nothing.
Holy. Effin. Crap. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now my hands are shaking and I have to type up the story quickly, before I 'edit history,' or perhaps convince myself that it didn't really happen.
Later addition: a friend mentioned that I should keep the cup. I thought I still had it, but no, it was in the main trash can. The trash can had a new plastic bag with nothing else in it (the cleaning staff changes these every morning before anyone else arrives.) In the can was the paper coffee cup (upside down,) along with the plastic lid... and underneath were THREE STIR-STICKS. One stick was clean white wood and was covered with lint (I'd found it on my desk and discarded it while looking for the vanished stick.) One was light brown; it was probably the second one from my coffee. And one was... totally dark brown, as if it'd been totally immersed in coffee much longer than the other. Oh kayyyyy, did my vanished stick... reappear?!!! But first, did anyone else in the office discard a dark brown stir-stick? Nope, the two other people had no tea that morning (and neither of them drinks coffee.) Two of the stir-sticks had the unmistakable dark stain of coffee. Both were dry (since an hour had passed,) so I couldn't tell if both were used that morning.
But but... supposing that my original stick had earlier winked out of existence, wouldn't it return in the same place, and be found near the microwave oven? How could it reappear in the trash with the cup? It's as if the stick had been in the cup all the time, even when I emptied the cup and let it dry out, and even after checking the cup several times and sweeping my finger around inside out of paranoia. The only thing I DIDN'T do was to show off the (empty) interior of the paper cup to the other two people in the office. Maybe they would have seen the stir-stick that I could not see. Or feel.
Weeks later: I buy the same type of coffee and repeat all the same events as the first time, but this time the stick doesn't vanish. This time the stick doesn't even submerge in the coffee. It's too buoyant, and it's very visible as it circle around as the coffee spins. These sticks almost submerge, but they always leave at lease 1cm (sometimes 2cm) of very visible wood protruding from the coffee.
PS:
In years past I had two other mysterious vanishings. Refer to entries below. One was a missing want-ad from the newspaper. The other was a dropped spool of solder back when I was a kid.
W. Beaty <billb a eskimo com>
Seattle, wa USA - Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 11:59:20 (PST)
Something missing? I was cleaning house one day, and had cleaned off all the tables, in order to dust and wax. I had placed a clean ashtray, with my cigerettes next to it, on one table. My cigerette case, at that time, was a bright red. When I decided to take a break from my house cleaning, I set down in my chair, went to reach for my cig case, and could not find it. I thought I might have dropped it, got down on all fours to look, and found nothing. I then thought that I might have thown them in the waste can, by mistake. I went though the garbage, and still no case. Finnally giving up, went to the fringe, where I keep extras, took a new pack out, and lit up. About 4 hours later, I went to set down in my chair, and lo and behold, there on the table, next to the ashtray, was my cigerette case. During this time, my husband came home, and helped me look for the case, and he could not find it.
Pat <patsylou a yahoo com>
Lapeer, MI USA - Tuesday, October 26, 2004 at 17:00:06 (PDT)
For the Vanishing/Reappearing objects I've had in my house. Now I want to take this time to tell everyone something...our house is built somewhere on or near a fault-line. The fault-line is dormant (in-active) and I don't know if all these things happening in our house has something to do with it.
I've had a few things become missing only to reappear somewhere else. In my room I was listening to a cd (don't remember which one). I had my headphones on and placed the cd case in the middle of my pillow. I went to change the cd and turned back to my bed only to see the cd case was gone. I searched everywhere in my room and couldn't find it. Then my toe hit something under the bed and there on the floor was my cd case...how it got there is beyond me. I would've known if it dropped cause I would've heard it.
I've had keys vanish and reappear next to my purse when I swear I didn't see them there before. I've had pens and shoes vanish and then reappear where they were before or in another part of the house.
Has anyone had this happen to them before?
Carrie
Bartlett, IL USA - Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 15:41:38 (PDT)
A few weeks ago I was vacationing at home in Seattle with some of my old friends from high school. We had decided to rent "Pool Hall Junkies" since I play pool all the time. We also rented a second movie...some kung fu somethingerother. We watched pool hall junkies, and enjoyed it, but when we took the DVD out of the player, but the case for the DVD was just plain gone. We were in a two bedroom apartment, but at no point during the night did anybody go into either of the two bedrooms. There weren't even that many pieces of furniniture. We spent three hours looking for the jewel case. We looked EVERYWHERE, we even went so far as to disassemble the sofa and look inside the framework. No dice. The bloody thing just plain vanished.
Dave Hanson
Fairfax, VA USA - Saturday, May 08, 2004 at 08:03:10 (PDT)
this experience is for the disappearing objects category. when i was very young, not sure what age, i was playing in my living room with a plastic ring that i had bought from a toy machine. i was in a small space between a recliner and a desk. the ring was gold colored with a red plastic jewel. at some point i lost the ring somewhere in that corner. there were lots of things cluttered in the corner, and lots of places for something that size to hide. i searched for hours, i looked under and in everthing within a five foot radius. after years passed, furniture got moved, clutter got cleaned, carpet got taken up, a new recliner was brought in. any way, a decade or so after it had been lost, the ring appeared on an empty space of floor in that corner.
joe hawks <demon mind 137 a aol com>
knoxville , tn USA - Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 17:16:45 (PST)
At the first house we owned, we kept a number of seldom used kitchen utensils in an upper cabinet, which was about 7 feet off the floor and required a step stool to reach. One of these items was a large strainer used for draining pasta or whatever in the sink. While helping to prepare a Thanksgiving meal, I went to retrieve the strainer, which was always kept right at the front of the cabinet. When I opened the cabinet door, the strainer was gone. I began to empty out the cabinet, then continued my search in the other cabinets, but nothing -- no strainer. I assumed one of our kids had somehow climbed up and taken it, and put it out of my mind. 3 months later, I needed a package of coffee filters, and remembered seeing them in the same cabinet where the strainer had been. I moved the stepstool over to the cabinet, stepped up and opened the door, and there in plain sight at the front of the cabinet was the missing strainer, as if it had never been moved! I thought this very odd, but continued on my search for the coffee filters, but now they were nowhere to be found. No one in the house had any idea where they could be, no one knew how the strainer returned, and the coffee filters were never found again. There were other disappearances in this house, including books, articles of clothing, tools, and other small items, none of which ever came back like the strainer. We moved a few years after these incidents. Sometimes I wonder if the new owner suddenly discovered some new possessions?
Greg <gjannen a zapestry com>
Chicago, IL USA - Monday, October 20, 2003 at 23:23:05 (PDT)
One afternoon my girlfriend comes out of the bathroom and ask me if I knew where all the clean towels went? I told her that there were quite a few of them 20 minutes ago, they can't all be gone... Well they were all gone. Not only the clean ones, but every single towel was gone. We both searched the entire house. There wasn't a towel any where to be found. We joked about the entity of the house playing tricks and finaly gave up looking. About 2 hrs later I went to use the bathroom and saw the towels exactly as they had been before they disapeared. I asked Wendy if she had found the towels? No... It was if they all just vanished for a while, and then reapeared exactly where they had been.
Lynn
Lebanon, OR USA - Monday, October 20, 2003 at 00:27:22 (PDT)
Hello everybody. I live in a small attic flat far removed from the hubbub of the streets below but I have experienced quite a number of "strange phenomena" while living there. I used to wear my Father's gold wrist-watch which he had left to me when he died in 1975. My Mother gave it to me and told me that Dad had said he wanted me to wear it. I wore it for years but always took it off at night and placed it on the bed-side table beside the alarm clock. One morning I awoke to find that the watch was not there. My first thought was that my cat Ramba might be responsable (always blame the cat first!) but I thought this hardly likely. Search as I might, I could not find the watch anywhere in the small, snug dwelling. I was sorry the watch had gone and was puzzled, to say the least, but nevertheless dismissed it from my mind. About two years after its disappearance my Mother came from England to visit me. On the morning she was due to arrive I awoke and there was the watch, lying as if nothing had ever happened to it, on my bedside table. Of course I was much surprised indeed. Shortly after my Mother's arrival she told me about how excited she was and how she had enjoyed the flight from England via JAL (or a well-known Japanese airline if you prefer) and how the flight attendant had presented her with a beautiful pair of Japanese paper slippers for her in-flight comfort. Of course, my Mother kept the slippers and showed them to me and wore them for the rest of that evening in my place.
The next morning I got up before her to prepare the breakfast and heard Mum call fom the bedroom, "Terry, have you got my slippers?" Well, to keep the story short, I said of course not and poor Ramba was again suspect number one. Mum said she had taken the slippers off and placed them beside the bed the night before as one might expect. That was in 1986 or thereabouts and since then the slippers have not re-appeared. However, Mum died in 1997 and about two years afterwards I was in the kitchen and had taken off my Father's watch (the same one as before) and laid it on the work-top just beside me in order to wash my hands. I dried my hands and turned to take up the watch again only to discover that it had again vanished. This time there was no cat to blame as Ramba had died the year before. To this day, neither my Mother's Japanese slippers nor my Father's watch has re-appeared though I still live in hopes as a watch that can vanish twice could just as easily reappear twice. There have been other strange occurrences in the place where I still live but all that, is, as they, say, another story... I wish you well. Terry
Terry Burgoyne <treeburg a hotmail com>
Madrid, Spain - Wednesday, October 15, 2003 at 09:58:35 (PDT)
I've had three significant experiences with disappearing/reappearing objects.
1) After washing my car, I went to wax it. I kept the car wax under the sink. It was a fluorescent green bottle with brilliant orange writing; not easy to miss. I couldn't find it. So I checked the garage. Nowhere to be found. Asked my wife to help, but no luck. I didn't wax the car that day, and never found that bottle. Every time I was in the garage, I always kept an eye out for it. It certainly wasn't under the sink, as that is easy to clean out and check. About a year later, I finally decided to buy some new car wax and after using it, put it under the sink. I opened the cupboard door, and there is my green and orange bottle of wax right in front. It's in plain view. How could it be missing for over a year?
2) I wanted to chop some firewood. So I went to get my axe from the garage. Although I always kept it in the same place, it wasn't there and I couldn't find it. Once again, I asked my wife to help but we couldn't find it anywhere. After a few weeks, we figured it was lost and bought a new one. After using my new axe, I went to put it away where I always kept the other one. And there is my old axe; leaning against the wall in plain sight. Right where I always kept it.
3) I keep an extra cell phone battery in my briefcase. One day, I went to change batteries and I couldn't find it. I emptied that briefcase but still couldn't find it. This was very annoying, but it was gone. About 4 months later, I opened my briefcase, and there is the extra battery laying on top of some papers.
I can't explain any of these events, but we joke a lot about mischievous elves. But these events still give me the creeps.
georges <starstuf a attbi com>
Salem, OR USA - Monday, June 02, 2003 at 23:27:22 (PDT)
This happened a few years ago when I was working in the lab of a local chemical factory. We used an X-Ray spectrometer to measure the level of additives in polyethylene. We made small discs of the material and placed them in the instrument. One day, I placed a disc in the instrument, performed the analysis, and when I opened the sample compartment to take it back out, it was gone! Vanished into thin air! I repeated the test and again the plastic disc disappeared. There was no way it could have fallen into the machine because the sample compartment was an aluminum cup. After that it never happened again.
Robert Franklin
USA - Friday, May 30, 2003 at 11:35:00 (PDT)
I was mopping the church hall way one morning and I looked in on my sister spreading out some paper to cover the bulletin board for easter. Out of the air a penny dropped on to the the paper with sound of a definite thunk.
Being baptist, the sort of thing is frowned upon but it did happen and that's all there is to it.
manuel paredez <mparedez a msn com>
dallas, tx USA - Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 21:55:07 (PDT)
I submitted a report eariler today and realized that i had an even better story. One day i was home by myself and my hackysack was in the middle of my floor.(i have no pets). I got up tyo get a drink and came back to notice that the hackysack was gone. I thought i was seeing things. !5 minutes later i went to the bathroom and whenb i cam back my hacysack was back in the same place where it dissapeared. What do u think happened?
Josh roberts <boymoose6 a myway com>
groton, ct USA - Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 10:45:57 (PDT)
In 1975, I placed a special order on a large, uncommon book "Ferro-Cement Shipbuilding". 10 years later, that book was badly damaged by rain, yet somewhat usable. In 1990, I was returning to my car after visting a swap meet. As I was about to open the door, I noticed something placed on the trunk lid of my Fiat. It was a nearly-new copy of "Ferro-Cement Shipbuilding".
Chas Robinson
Los Angeles, CA USA - Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:21:17 (PDT)
one time when i was out of weed and was searching my house for a small roach or anything i could smoke,i became extremley desperate. i even searched the floors with a light to find any little scraps of hash or weed that always littered the floor. but after an hour or more of searching i finally gave up.not finding a darn thing i left the living room and went to my room. this is the strange part,i said out loud "god if you can hear me and if you exist then show me prove it by helping me." and not thinking anything about what i said i returned to the living room and there on the floor where id searched with a fine tooth comb was a small peice of foil from a smoke pack (gold) my smokes at that time were(siver) in the foil was about 2 grams of fine hash.i will never forget that day,there is no way i over looked it before,it was not there or i would have found it.it was right in the middle of the floor.it refer to it as the day god got me high.
k mac <thehellion01 a yahoo com>
cambridge, canada - Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:28:35 (PDT)
In 1990 I was living on the Venice Canals off Venice Beach, California. I came out in the morning to find my car in the driveway had a flat tire, the right rear tire. It was an old car, so I had a spare in the trunk which was fully inflated. I opened the trunk, took out the jack and the spare tire and leaned it against the side of the house behind me. The driveway was narrow and fairly long. No one could have entered the driveway without me seeing them.
I put brinks under the tires, quickly jacked up the car and removed the flat. I set the flat tire againstg the buumper and turned to get the spare behind me.
It was gone. I was confused, thought I must have put it somewhere else. I circled the car in the narrow driveway, checked under the car, checked in the trunk. The tire wasn't anywhere in the driveway or in or under the car.
I thought it was vaguely possible that it had rolled into the street somehow, even though the street was slightly uphill. I went into the street and found nothing. Completely baffled, I looked all the way across the street in the neighbor's yard, then up and down the street. Nothing.
Then I went back to the driveway and looked inside my patio, even though I knew it was impossible for the tire to have jumped over the gated fence.
I was faced with two possibilities, as far as I could see: 1) I was nuts and had forgotten where I'd put the tire, even thouugh I remember exactly where I put it, namely right behind me. Or 2) The tire disappeared. You tell me.
That's really the gist of the mystery. But something amusing happened a little while later at a party. There was this girl in a room doing psychic readings. I sat while she tranced out and asked for personal questions. I asked, "What happened to my spare tire?" The psychic said: "It was needed elsewhere." That's as good an answer as any, I guess.
Marty
Los Angeles, CA USA - Friday, December 27, 2002 at 00:01:30 (PST)
This is not to report an object that actually disappeared... at least I don't think it did. Let me explain. Back in the early 1970s, I lived in a big house in Ames, Iowa with a number of friends. I had a motorcycle at the time and since Iowa had a manditory helmet law, I had a helmet. One sunny afternoon, I decided to go for a little ride. So I began looking for my helmet. I couldn't find it. I searched the whole house, every room, even in the yard but could not find my helmet. One friend came home. I asked him, "Have you seen my helmet?" He hadn't but agreed to help me look. We both combed the house to no avail. A second friend came home with the same results. The three of us were standing in the dining room, theorizing that someone must have taken the helmet. A fourth friend walked in and asked what was happening. We told him the story of the missing helmet. He calmly walked two steps to the dining room table, picked up my helmet which was sitting right there in plain view and said, "You mean this?" The three of us who had searched the house were flabbergasted. How could we have missed the painfully obvious? By the way, we were not chemically altered at the time. It has been 30 years since it happened yet I still remember the disquieting shock I felt upon seeing that helmet sitting in plain view after searching for it diligently yet unsuccessfully with two friends. So I guess the old adage is true, if you want to hide something, put it in plain view. Then again, maybe, just maybe, what we experienced was a rare case of temporary invisibility. We'll never know.
Paul S. Szymanski
Eugene, OR USA - Monday, October 28, 2002 at 15:06:38 (PST)
When I started UNUSUAL PHENOMENA ARCHIVE I had a couple of vanishing object stories of my own. I didn't expect it to become a whole separate section of the site!
When living in Rochester NY after college I started buying the sunday papers from several different cities so I could check out their employment ads. One day in the Boston Globe I stumbled across and ad for the director of the electronics department at the Museum of Science. Low pay, engineering degree required. THE PERFECT JOB! I tore it out of the paper with quivering hands. It was late at night at the moment, so I couldn't call the phone number. Then it hit me: small important slips of paper sometimes vanish. Well, THIS ONE wouldn't. I stuck it in a SF paperback book so it was sticking out and visible. I placed the book in the center of the kitchen table and backed slowly away. Next morning... it was still there (sigh of relief.) I dressed for work and picked up the book. Driving to work, waiting at a stop light I glanced at the book on the passenger seat to make sure the ad hadn't fallen out. It was still sticking out. I arrived at work (Sykes Datatronics, around 1984,) looked over at the book... and the ad was no longer sticking out. Impossible. It had just been there ten minutes ago. It COULDN'T be gone. I flipped through the book, but that was just stupid, since the ad could not have magically pushed itself down into the pages. Nope, no ad. OK, so I locked all the car doors to prevent my opening them accidentally, then I spent 45 minutes cleaning every square inch of the whole car. Nothing. No trace. I opened one door while watching for a slip of paper to fall to the ground. Nothing. Nothing in any of the other doors. Nothing under the front seats. I had to leave at lunch and drive to the city news stand and buy another Boston Sunday Globe.
I did get that job, and I kept the little slip of newspaper around for years. At one point I was cleaning my desk at work and I took the ad home. It was kicking around the apartment for months, and I saw it and stuck it in a box of various small objects and toys. But the story continues.
When I moved to Seattle and was cleaning the apartment, I saw that original ad mixed with various stuff. I stuck it in the box of toys. When I was sorting stuff in Seattle... THERE WERE TWO ADS IN THAT BOX. The long lost want-ad had reappeared. I have no idea when this happened, since several times I had noticed the ad laying around in my stuff and I would put it in a box where it wouldn't get lost. Apparently I had noticed the ad laying around twice, and had put it in the box twice. I even have vague memories of finding it stuck between the pages of a paperback book, so it might have reappeared in its original spot.
Bill B < >
Seattle, WA - Saturday, June 3, 2003 at 6:51:42 (PST)
In the entry above, why was I initially paranoid about the want-ad disappearing? This was because, as a kid, I had once lost a spool of solder.
I was in high school at the time, and was at home recovering from the chicken pox while working on a Heathkit oscilloscope that was part of a home-study electronics course the physics teacher had bought (I had volunteered to build the kit.) I built several PCBs, and then I dropped the spool of solder. I don't remember whether I heard it hit the floor, but when I leaned down to pick it up, it was gone. My room was fairly clean at the time, so I got down on hands and knees and looked around. There was no place it could hide. It was just GONE. I spent about 15 minutes carefully looking at the floor from all angles, but it did no good. I ended up digging through my tools to find a little wad of solder from some old project.
Days later I came back from school and there was the spool of solder, right next to the leg of my desk chair. It wasn't there after being dropped, and it wasn't there for several days... then it suddenly reappeared. Such things can't happen!
POSSIBLE THEORY
I notice that many of the following stories involve a certain situation: an object dropped accidentally.
I wonder... maybe human beings do have psychic abilities like the weird books claim! Suppose that mental teleportation is a genuine phenomenon. In that case, why can't all people do this? Maybe we can. Maybe it's a disused, atrophied ability, as if we all possesed a third arm which was invisible. This "extra arm" might still be controlled by our brains, but it only moves around during moments of panic, such as when we notice an object falling off the table. During such an event our "teleportation" ability flails out and, rather than catching the falling object, instead it knocks it away somehow (maybe pushing it ahead into a future time.) After coming up with this idea, I realized that it was a re-invention: Larry Niven's 1976 science fiction short story "The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton." Mr. Hamilton could catch an accidentally falling object with his hand, yet his arm had recently been amputated, so there was no hand there to do the catching.
This idea is also disturbingly like the one in Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination," where the human teleportation ability ("jaunting") is finally discovered. In the story a research chemist accidentally sets himself on fire while others are there as witnesses, and then he teleports across a room to appear next to the fire extinguisher. The witnesses believed their own eyes and started a research program to harness the effect. I even have a "jaunting" story myself, where during a college summer job my hands were almost crushed while using an overhead crane to unload several tons of steel flat stock from a flatbed truck. While pushing it towards the warehouse, the load suddenly shifted with a loud bang. I ended up several yards away from the load with no gloves on my hands and no memory of having leaped backwards so many paces. My gloves were trapped; crushed between two steel plates which I'd had my hands upon while pushing. I couldn't imagine any way that I could have escaped having my hands crushed. I had been pushing hard upon those particular plates when the load instantly "folded" into a smaller shape. And I had to walk several paces back to the hanging load in order to inspect my trapped gloves. That event always bugged me. Unfortunately there were no witnesses to tell me what actually happened.
Bill B < >
Seattle, WA - Saturday, June 3, 2003 at 6:51:42 (PST)
This happened alot when i was younger... in my late teens especially. On numerous occasions things would disappear (or I'd lose them) but somehow they came back to me extremely quickly through bizarre sets of co-incidences, which could just be that but judge for yourself(a few of many): 1)My house keys fell out of my pocket when i was in a taxi in my hometown (a big place). The next fare was a girl who worked at the same place as me and recognised the keys, and told the taxi driver to go to my house. i had them back within 5 minutes of getting out of the cab. 2)I left my school id card in a library book. The next person to take out the book was a friend of my sister's. i got my card back the day after returning the book to the library. 3)I left my mobile phone on a table in a cafe at lunch time. The cafe owner who picked it up happened to be my classmates sister, and recognised her sisters'(my classmates') name and number when going through the phone numbers. I got the phone back before dinner! etc etc these three incidents i remember most clearly because they happened within two weeks of each other.
twinkletwinkle <twinklex2 a hotmail com>
Barcelona, Spain - Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 11:40:42 (PST)
This happened a couple of years ogo when i was about 11, my dad had hidden my mums wedding ring as a joke above our piano in a jar under the cover of the piano. There was no way my mum could of found it. later on they were having a fight and my dad said "look your not even wearing your wedding ring" my mom then replied. "it's right here on my finger, i never took it off" my dad checked under the piano and sure enough the ring was gone, my mum had never taken it off. Another strange thing happened when my mom had bought a huge tray of mince and was de-frosting it, when she went back to check on it it was gone, we only had a cat and there was no way my cat could carry 10kg of meat off the kitchen counter. the meat never turned up and we have never smelt it either.
One thing that i will never forget was when i was asleep, i am a very light sleeper and wake to the sound of anything. I heard a tapping on the window and i looked out side and say a person runing around in our yard, by then we had a dog, a large dog, she would of barked it anybody was out ther but she was sound asleep out side.
When my mother was cradling me as a child she felt a cold presence in the room, she wispered, "if someone it there tap the glass", expecting my dad just to play a joke one her. she heard the glass tapping but as she turned around to smile at my dad she remembered that he went out a few hours before to get me milk. Nobody was there except me,and i was just a few weeks old.
Natalie
Sydney, NSW Australia - Thursday, June 27, 2002 at 23:26:31 (PDT)
Twice, maybe more....Once I was in the kitchen in my apartment, filling up the salt shaker. The top to the shaker fell to the floor, and I heard it hit. I bent down to get it, and it wasn't there....it was no where in the kitchen. Another time, I was in the livingroom, taking batteries out of a remote control. The batteries flipped out, one hitting the wall, and I caught the other one. I heard it hit the wall and went behind the sofa to retrieve it...No battery.....no battery in the house at all. I even removed the sofa cushions and felt down into the sofa....No battery. Where do they go?
Another incident, I always sleep with a light on in the house, and I always leave my TV set playing all night., and I never turn off the VCR. Some mornings I awake to find the TV turned and VCR both turned off. The problem is, there will be no tape in the VCR, and the VCR is not connected to the TV as to where if you turn of the TV the VCR would turn off as well. I thought it might have been a power failure during the night, but the clock on the VCR would be displaying the correct time. All my clocks are electrical, so if there was a power failure, they would be blinking. I thought too it might be the outlets, but then I remembered, it has happened each place I've lived...I've lived in three different apartment complexes.
DMS
Lex, KY USA - Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 14:05:14 (PST)
Wife lost a piece of jewelry, then a year later it materialized in front of her and her friends, when she was in another country, and it promptly fell to the ground. She had been opening a menu.
Another time she lost a small ring, and later it rematerialized on her fingers. I saw that one.
I'm amazed at the things they find in solid rock: materialized screws, nails, metal balls with grooves, gold chains, etc. Even a spark plug.
I think they come from different times of the earth, and go back to the past. Then the past catches up to us, and we find it again. Therefore, they are only HUMAN artifacts, and nothing from OUR FUTURE has been found... or am I wrong on this. Will we Have a future, if no artifacts are ever found representing that time?
Bill Jensen <wdjensen123 a hotmail com>
Cupertino, CA USA - Monday, March 25, 2002 at 17:01:27 (PST)
One day I was looking at some pictures that I had just had developed with my sister. As I was taking the pictures out, one of the negative strips fell out. My sister and I both watched as it fell towards the ground then disappeared about 6 inches up. We both looked at each other with startled looks! There were a couple of sheets of paper on the floor nearby but that was it, but we looked anyway. About 6 feet away was a basket of clothing. We looked at each other, we both said "No Way!",but we looked anyway. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PILE we found it!
Kim Hardman <khardman a ckr com >
Anaheim, CA USA - Wednesday, April 03, 2002 at 18:15:54 (PST)
I cannot explain what phenomenon causes the following to happen. It does not happen all the time but it has happened enough for me to decide it is not coincidence. The two incidents below were witnessed by other people. There were many more.
In 1988, I was having a rough time financially. I had just had my daughter, my husband was absent and I ws sharing an apartment with a friend who was having similar problems.
One day we were discussing what items we would like to have that we could not afford at the time. I jokingly said the only things I needed in my life at that time were a new blow dryer, a new set of towels, a new comforter and a set of those time life books on wizards and witches.
Two weeks later I was visitng a friend and across the street the people were moving out of their apartment. We were standing outside and one of the fellows asked me if I wanted some of the things that they could not fit in their car. I went over and he handed me a large comforter with items wrapped inside. I took it back across the street and when I opened it up inside was a blow dryer, a set of towels/and washcloths, and a complete set of the timelife books wizards and witches.
3 years ago, my husband and I had received one of those invitatins to join a club store. Wee decided to try it out. The store was having a sale on cases of bottled water. buy 3 get two free. I argued with my husband that we should buy a couple of cases since they were so inexpensive. He would not relent and explained that since we have home delivery we did not need these extra bottles. I finally conceeded and forgot about the water. We checked out and took our packages to the car. Next to the car on the passenger side, someone had left a cart. I walked around to move it and get into the car. On the rack underneath the cart were two cases of the bottled water.
Anna
NJ USA - Monday, June 03, 2002 at 12:43:12 (PDT)
This is the first time I have visited your web site, and by accident. I have just read thru all of the reports. I thought that I was the only one. I have stuff disappear and reappear almost every two to four weeks, much to the extent like the report by Natasha and the others. I have done extensive / exhaustive searches with complete verification to myself that the item is truly GONE, only to have the same item reappear a half hour later or a week later.
I came to the realization about five years ago that something was not normal. Am I losing it completely?
Many times I take a precognitive verification for the safety of the item and it still dissappears / reappears. This theme seems to run through half of your reports, especially with cherished items.
Sometimes I put items on a table and I know ahead of time that the object is going to disappear! And it does!
I am 56 years old and I can say that this has happened to me approximately over 50 times in the last ten years. I can easily exclude many instances to simply lost items, but I cannot exclude those times that I have done extensive / exhaustive searches only to have the items reappear exactly where I did the searches.
It seems that there should be a better name for the phenomenon than vanishing / reappearing objects, and it seems that there could be some sort of classification, i.e., dropped objects, emotional/cherished objects, tool objects/ geographical areas, activity / attention losses, etc..
I would like to be kept abreast of any future articles you have on the subject. You may contact me at email: sonoramente a yahoo com
John-Titus <sonoramente a yahoo com>
Arvada, CO USA - Monday, July 15, 2002 at 02:15:37 (PDT)
When I was 14 I was activally practicing Roman Catholicism. One night after coming home from CVS with my mother, I starting sorting out items I would be needing for a 4 day retreat coming up in a week. (I liked to be prepared hehe). I put the CVS bag in the suitcase, knowing I would need the deoderant, shampoo, conditioner, and toothpaste only for the trip. A couple of days later I started packing away the clothes. The CVS bag was still in the suitcase, but the toothpaste was gone. Baffled, I searched my room. Under the bed, IN the bed, the closet, all my clothes, the car, even both bathrooms thinking my sister might have grabbed the toothpaste thinking it was ok to use. Still coming up with nothing, I tried something my Youth Group Leader, Joann had taught me. "Pleaes Saint Anthony, Please come around, Something is missing and must be found... My toothpaste!" I chanted it three times, then researched my room... Nothing, absolutely positively nothing... I gave it up and went on with my day. The next day, as I was cleaning off my dresser I accidentally pushed a necklace off the back edge. As it was an extremely nice necklace, my *only* real gold necklace at that, I scrunched myself up and reached behind the dresser to get it right away. Lo and behold the first thing I grabbed was my toothpaste. I have absolutely *no clue* how it got back there. Reaching back again I went to get my necklace. But no matter how far I reached, I couldn't feel it. Breathless, I decided to move the dresser (which entailed removing all the drawers as it was extremely heavy). As I stood up to start removing the drawers, I saw my necklace, clasp wedge on the side of the mirror, dangling off the back edge. It was a bit strange, but I felt elated that Saint Anthony had pulled through for me. :-)
Amy <paradox0690 a hotmail com>
Albany, NY USA - Saturday, July 27, 2002 at 22:16:44 (PDT)
This happened this summer. My sister asked me to go get a propane canister from her cabin. I went 10KM with my car to get it. I opened the trunk with the carkey and let the key stay in the lock. After loading the canister and closing the trunk, the key was gone! The car doors was also locked! Had to hitch back to my house to get a spare key. Upon returning to the car I unlocked the door and drowe home. When I opened the trunck, the first thing I saw was the carkey on top of the propane canister! How it got there I don't know!
Bob
Norway - Friday, September 20, 2002 at 14:22:13 (PDT)
I realize that any story involving weirdness - especially suspected memory lapses - becomes suspect when marijuana use is involved, but this true story was simply too clearly experienced to be the result of "stoner" absent-mindedness. Anyway, my friend and I had walked to a nearby beach to enjoy the sunset. We took along a large and heavy bong which, when not being used, we placed on a half-embedded log between us. The beach was flat and there were no hiding places or objects behind which anything could have been placed so as to be hidden from our field of vision. A distant street lamp and the illumination from nearby high-rise condos provided ample light even after the sun had started to set. After having set the bong down, one of us stooped to pick it up for another hit. But it wasn't there where we had left it, less than twelve inches from our feet. We were both clad in shorts and t-shirts, and it would have been impossible to conceal this very unwieldy bong on either of our persons. The water was too far away for it to have been flung into. After each of us accused each other of somehow hiding it as a prank, it dawned on us that clearly neither of us knew where it had gone. We grew increasingly puzzled and started as scientific a physical search and methodical thought process as we could to determine its whereabouts. I could tell from my friend's alarmed attitude that he wasn't playing any joke. Also, no-one was anywhere near us. We walked back and forth, dug and squinted along the beach surface for twenty minutes. Suddenly, we both saw the bong sitting there in precisely the location I had left it - but where we had looked fifty times in the last twenty minutes and had not seen it. In fact, I was on my hands and knees inches away from it when it "re-appeared". We were stunned. It is possible that some world-class magician has somehow decided to play a pointless elaborate joke on us - it couldn't have been my friend because the whole episode badly unnerved him, and he couldn't have faked such a plausible adverse emotional reaction ( he was my closest friend, and I had never seen him freaked like this). Also, the bong couldn't have been buried in sand because it was completely clean and leafy material was still in the bowl- and water was still in it. Again, the whole thing resembled a classic magic trick and if it had taken place under controlled conditions I wouldn't have been remotely impressed. We spent hours afterwards re-constructing the event in minute detail and could see no way this could have happened without the involvement of another skilled trickster - but we checked for prints in the sand, and there was only the two sets of our tracks. The advantage of a sand surface is that it clearly shows if it has been recently disturbed - so we were satisfied it had not been buried. Nor had the log been moved. The bong itself was clay and about 15" x 4", which a very wide base sculpted into a "sitting deity" form and very heavy -as I said, no way it could have been concealed under any clothing. A small mystery, of perhaps no lingering interest. All I can say that made it particularly noteworthy was that after it occurred we took the care to spend two hours at the scene where it happened looking for physical clues and finding nothing - so it was much more "evidential" in nature than so many fleeting incidents that are caused by simple confusion, mistaken interpretation or hallucination.
Tony Danis <wdmc_77 a yahoo com>
Mountain View, CA USA - Thursday, January 03, 2002 at 20:14:44 (PST)
This one incident has stuck in my head as clear as the day it happened. When I was around six years of age, I had a toy called a prop shot. It was a hand held launcher with a rip cord. When you pull the cord, a small plastic plane shoots off and flies about 60 feet. It was late on a Saturday evening and I had just been bathed by my mother. Not wanting to stop playing with my cool toy I decided to have a few shots off the back porch. Unfortunately, I pulled the cord to hard and shot the plane over the back fence into my neighbours rear yard. That night I had a vividly clear dream. In my dream, it was the next morning...the sun was shining, clear blue sky, dew on the grass, birds chirping.....my plane was lying in my rear yard near a vegge patch. When I awoke that following morning I ran straight to the spot where I dreamt the plane was located. There it was. I picked it up and looked around. Everything was as it was in my dream. Pretty freaky heh? I thought it was Deja Vous except that I ran out in the morning on a mission. The mission was based on the dream I had. Anyway..thats my little not so scary but otherwise interesting story.
Peter <timehopper a logoblue com>
Sydney, Australia - Friday, August 31, 2001 at 03:32:34 (PDT)
In 1985 I was at my friend's house involved in a little jam session. Whilst grooving along on my bass I lost my grip on the pick and it landed on the floor. When we finished the song, I bent down to pick up the fallen pick, but it was GONE! My friends and I scoured the entire living room for it, but after a lengthy search of the same areas over and over again, we gave up. Later, when we'd finished jamming, we went down to the basement to say hello to my friend's father who was in the rec room watching tv. I sat down on a chair and looked down at the carpet just to the right of the chair. There in this spot, which was directly under the spot upstairs where I had dropped it, sat my pick... I don't understand! How could this have happened?
JAMES <jamtart a powersurfr com>
edmonton, alberta canada - Thursday, November 01, 2001 at 19:21:15 (PST)
Alright, those of you who read this probably wont believe me unless you too have experienced this. Well this happened about 30 minutes ago. I was sitting here reading these bull shit entries while I was eating some funions. As I was sitting here indulging myself i dropped a funion. To my surprise it was nowhere to be found. I looked everywhere and i still found no trace of my funion. If any of you crazy people no where my funion is or have experienced this same ordeal please, please contact me.
jan sambataro <quesoesbueno86 a aol com>
USA - Saturday, October 06, 2001 at 16:22:33 (PDT)
Just remembered another one, though after reading other accounts on this site I see that these events are pretty common. This event happened this year (2001). As I left for work in the morning I grabbed a container of yogurt to eat as I drove (I know this isn't a safe practice). I put a "soup" spoon (much larger than a regular teaspoon)in my shirt pocket to eat the yogurt with. As I got underway and reached for the spoon, I couldn't find it. I carefully checked my shirt pocket, but it wasn't there (how carfully do you need to check a tiny pocket for a large spoon?). I patted the pocket from the outside and stuck my fingers inside as well. I was mad because I was going to miss my snack and I was hungry. I didn't feel the spoon fall out of the pocket so I turned the light on and looked in my pocket, it wasn't there. I figured it must have fallen out somehow. I couldn't eat the yogurt so I stopped at a donut place when I got to town. Unfastening my seatbelt I emmediately saw the spoon in my pocket! These events have happened so many times I have to wander, does this happen to everyone?
Steve <commonblue a att net>
Evansville, IN USA - Sunday, October 21, 2001 at 20:03:07 (PDT)
Displaced/ reappearing objects have bothered me occasionally for years. I have learned that if I get that "weird feeling" when I can't find something that should be in a specific spot, then I hold my finger out and very slowly scan the whole area. I think this helps avoid mistakes caused from quickly glancing over an area with just your eyes. Even with this careful scanning, many times I have had no doubt that an object was definitely not in a location, only to look away and suddenly see the object in plain view when I look back.
The most extraordinary event occurred to me fairly recently. I placed a quart can of paint on a shelf in my garage in a location that was dedicated to that type of item. I was careful to place it prominantly in view because I knew I was going to use that paint in a project within a couple weeks. When I wanted to perform the project, I remember being glad that I did place it carefully so I wouldn't have to look all over for it. Things didn't go so well from that point however. I could not find that can of paint. I started to blame my wife but she assured me she never messes with that stuff. I looked over the very area I knew I put it, and looked over and over again. Remember, I'm talking about a large can of paint. I then expanded my search to other areas, but I knew it should be in one small spot. I went into the house (attached garage) then returned. As soon as I looked into the garage while still standing in the doorway and 20 feet away from the shelf, I could easily see the paint can. It was right where it was supposed to be, and it was right up front on the shelf. There is no way I could have missed seeing it earlier.
Steve <commonblue a att net>
Evansville, IN USA - Sunday, October 21, 2001 at 19:16:01 (PDT)
I have several to report from over 40 years of life. This is one of two early yet very profound "wierd events". I was 7 years old and we didn't have too many toys, so I really valued the ones I did have. I found a toy rubber knife and was thrilled to add it to my toy collection. Some time later, I was doing something only a child would think of doing. I tempted fate by holding that valued toy knife by its very tip and dangling it inside a narrow pipe that a neighbor had driven into the ground. I lost my hold on the knife and it fell inside the pipe. I was devastated by the loss as well as by my stupidity. I ran home and was very depressed. Late in the day I got something out of my closet and was stunned when I looked down and saw the very knife I lost down the pipe! About every 3 or 4 years similar weird events have occurred to me, but nothing to that extreme.
Steve <commonblue a att net>
Evansville, IN USA - Sunday, October 21, 2001 at 18:42:46 (PDT)
This happened to me a few weeks ago. It was evening and I was in the bathroom to take out my contact lenses - they really hurt in my eyes because they had been in all day and they were dry. I stood there at the faucet sink, in front of a mirror to see what I was doing. I took out the first (left) contact... it jumped out, it sticked to my eyelid. I took it, I washed it and stored it in its box.
Now for my right contact lens - I put it out, but because it was so dry it jumped out of my eye with the typical "slick" sound, and I heard it fall down in the sink (which I had stopped down to prevent a lens from disappearing into the sewer). There was some soapy water in there due to washing the left lens earlier. I frequently drop a lens that way so I just searched in that water for it. It wasn't there. So I searched on the little shelf just under the mirror and above the sink, where the toothbrushes were. It wasn't there either. I didn't understand, but assumed it must have fallen on the floor, so I crouched down and searched on the floor. Nothing. Then, I searched in and on my clothes, nothing. I looked in the mirror to see if it was in my hair - I brushed my hands through it, but nothing. I studied my face in the mirror, but it was not sticking on my face either (and I didn't expect it to be, since I had heard it fall down into or on the sink).
Eventually, my dad came in and helped me search... about 10 minutes later. He asked me exactly how I dropped the lens, so I showed him how I had been standing and how I dropped it. I explained to him that it just fell out of my eye into the sink, and I described the path the lens would have fallen. As I did that, the lost lens seemed to appear out of nowhere in front of my face and fell down along that path into the sink with a tick sound.
If anyone can explain this, I'd like to hear... I had searched around everywhere and brushed my clothes, hair and so on - I had moved quite a bit. But only after I stood still in the same position as first (posing for my dad), explaining to my dad how it fell out, it just seemed to rematerialize again in front of my face and did fell down like it would have in the first case.
Harald E. <heedens a yahoo com>
Wijdenes, NH Netherlands - Friday, October 19, 2001 at 11:22:45 (PDT)
My friend lent me a video tape "Speaking With Your Angeles" ( a simple guide to talk to your angels ) I thought it might be a fun thing to watch on a boring Sunday afternoon. I was in the middle of watching the video and feeling rather positive that angels do exist. The video was explaining that angels have a sense of humor and will play fun pranks here and there. In that moment the phone rang, I paused the video and the "wrong number" on the phone line asked me "Can I please speak to Angel?". Naturally, I laughed and said "there is no one here by that name." OK, I thought, now I am a believer, cute angel prank, I believe ( it doesn't take me much, I like this stuff ). So , now I know that the angels are there to assist me. I had lost my cell phone for 3 months. No-can-find, 3 months, gone , forget it , but it bugged me. I don't loose things, where is it? I ask my angels to assist me. The next morning there is my cell phone in the center of my small living room floor. 'Splain that Lucy !
Beverly < x astrogal a earthink net>
Los Angeles, CA USA - Wednesday, August 01, 2001 at 18:23:41 (PDT)
I have a couple of odd ones to report. The first was a dissappearing chook (domestic hen). We have pet hens and we keep them locked up at night because of the fox problem. Sometimes they go clucky (broody) in inappropriate places, where the fox could get them. We had forgotten that a hen called Leopard had gone clucky and was locked out of the chookhouse one night.
It was midnight and I heard her scream as the fox grabbed her. I ran onto my balcony and yelled at the fox, because they're pretty wussy around here, and if you give them a big scare they might drop the chook and run away. My husband and I rushed outside and started searching for Leopard. I found the still warm egg she had been sitting on, and 2 feathers. Our yard is 1 acre and I admit, not that easy to search in the daytime, let alone the middle of the night, but we found nothing. I counted the chooks safely locked away, hoping I had made a mistake about Leopard, but she wasn't there.
I was tired the next day, and miserable because I hate to lose a pet like that. About midday the following day (that would be about 36 hours since Leopard's dissappearance) I was throwing some bread down to the chooks, and Leopard was there. Maybe she'd just been hiding for 36 hours. I don't know. But the foxes around here have a good sense of smell, and they're not so wussy that they'd go 2 nights without checking a food source!
My other weirdness was a displaced ear-stud. I was standing in my walk in wardrobe as I put in the stud, but it slipped and I dropped it. I saw it fall just beside my foot. I searched for about 1/2 an hour, really annoyed because it was one of my favourites. Eventually i gave up, I figured it would turn up sooner or later. Or not. And it was only $2.50 and I could replace it. I did replace it, then, just over a year after losing it, I was emptying the drawer-baskets in the wardrobe to re-line them. There was my ear-stud, in one of the baskets. I saw it fall to the floor. There was no way it could have bounced the 40cm or so (15 inches) to get into that drawer.
amanda <feathers a cyberspace net.au>
melbourne, Victoria Australia - Monday, October 30, 2000 at 14:57:52 (PST)
After my stepfather's mother died, he brought home a few things from her house, including a little brass elephant with it's trunk raised. We placed the elephant on a table in our front entryway along with a brass unicorn and some plants. It stayed there for a while, until my mum and I noticed it had gone missing. The unicorn was still in it's place, and nothing else seemed to be missing in the house, it was only the little brass elephant. We noticed that it had been gone for quite a while, about 2months, before my mum commented on it. I had assumed that she had moved it and she had assumed that I had moved it, so when we realised that neither one of us moved it, we asked my stepfather and he looked rather confused about it. We spent another two months looking for it. No one other than the neighbours had been in our house before the little elephant disappeared. We asked our neighbours (feeling rather guilty about making them feel accused of stealing a brass elephant), but no one had remembered even seeing it to begin with. So, that left us all perplexed. We searched every inch of the house and could not find it. It just disappeared. If it had been purloined, I dont see why the theif would have just walked away with the elephant and left the unicorn. They were both pocket-sized, and in my opinion, the unicorn was nicer. Anyway, six months after the elephant disappeared, the house burned down. We had a friend who claimed to be psychic,and she claimed that an elephant with it's trunk upright was considered good luck. She thought the spirits had taken it as a sign that our luck would run out. Of course, we also had a barn and hung up a horseshoe on it, and found out that the horseshoe was hung up the wrong way. After the barn burned down (it actually burned two years before the house), we were told that because we hung the shoe upside down, our luck had run out. Oh well. After the house fire, we found the little unicorn, but the elephant was never seen again.
Donnie H. < Saphron a NHL com>
Raleigh, NC USA - Friday, April 20, 2001 at 09:45:42 (PDT)
About two years ago, I was getting ready to go to the movies with my older brother. My car keys were on a key ring that had a lot of other keys, and key rings on it. My brother and I were the only ones home. We went into the kitchen to get something to drink, and I set my keys on the kitchen counter. Just a few seconds later I turned to grab my keys and they weren't on the counter. At first I was confused, and then I thought that maybe I had left them on my bed, so we went back to my room. They were nowhere in sight. My brother couldn't have taken them because he was with me the whole time, and he wouldn't anyway. We searched the whole house, but never found the keys. My brother grabbed his set of keys for my car, and we decided to go to the movies and not worry about it until we got home. We walked out to my car, got in, and there were my keys already in the ignition. Someone please explain that!
Jen < jjmadewell a yahoo com>
Dallas, TX USA - Friday, July 27, 2001 at 15:11:04 (PDT)
One evening back in the early 80's, I watching TV and tinkering with a disabled slide projector. I had disassembled the unit and removed the condenser lens. This lens was made of glass or crystal, very thick and had a faint green tint to it. I began to observe different objects under the lens. The objects seem to have a fisheye look about them. Quickly growing bored with this activity, my attention was drawn back to the program I was watching on TV. As I sat there watching the program with the lens in hand, I thought, lets take a look at the pixels on the screen with this thing. I placed the lens against the screen and watched the phosphurs dance and change color. I looked at this for about 5 minutes then sat back to resume my TV viewing. This is where it gets weird! I had the lens in my left hand and felt and heard a buzzing sensation eminating from the lens. I opened my hand allowing the lens to rest in my up turned palm. The sound and the buzzing sensation increased, then suddenly there was a SNAP! and the lens disintegrated! I mean it just vanished!! I dont have to tell you that this took me by surprise. After the shock wore off, I looked all over the office and area that I was sitting for any fragments of the lens, but I came up with nothing! Any Idea's? I offer this theory for your approval. What I think happened is the electrons that bombard the phosphur screen of the TV set caused the molecules of the glass of crystal lens to vibrate to a point that caused it to shatter. Like the old crystal glass on the Memorex commercial. But there should have been some trace of it left behind, dont you think?
R. Garlick <richdude1 a chartermi net>
Whitmore Lake, Mi. USA - Friday, March 23, 2001 at 09:25:57 (PST)
Last night I purchased some lawn furniture, a table and four chairs. each chair came with a small plastic bag tied to a lower support, in each bag were four plastic inserts that you're supposed to stick into the bottom of each leg of the chairs. the box the table came in contained an identical bag with identical inserts for the four legs of the table. i could not get any of them to go into their holes with bare hands. my girlfriend suggested using a hammer, which i scoffed until she brought out the hammer and easily put in a couple of the inserts. so i used the hammer and put the other two for that chair in, and proceeded to put in the inserts in another chair, and then the ones for the table. no real reason i can think of i did the table in the middle of the four chairs. anyways i go to do the third chair, and *none* of the inserts will fit in any of the holes, i tried 2 or 3 of them in all the holes. so i try to put those inserts in the fourth chair.. no luck... hammer all you want but they just squeeze out because they seem a tiny bit too big. so i figure alright, i'll try the inserts that came with the fourth chair.. again they will not go into either chair.. i am getting kinda psssed at this point. i give up and go inside for awhile... come back out and try again, find that by hammering very carefully and gently i can get the inserts to go in eventually although it requires 50 times the effort of the first 2 chairs and the table. after like 10 minutes i get all four into the fourth chair.. grab the third chair to use my newfound skill to finally complete the task and the inserts are *$%#ing gone.. this has been done on my patio which has 4ft stone walls around the entire perimeter except for the doorway and where the walls of the house are.. so only one way out for anything dropped. all the packing material, everything else is there, just not the 4 inserts. it makes you think that i put the 4 that first game me trouble down somewhere, and i'm still not sure, but after almost 24 hours they are still gone and i have searched top to bottom. normally i am very skeptical about most anything unusual but this is so weird... i almost went and accused my neighbors of stealing my 4 plastic inserts. i truly hope that they soon fall from the sky near me so i can finish setting up the patio set.
a few years ago i was i had just parked at the taco bell when this crazy chick in the drivethru lane managed to drive over the concrete barrier and hit my parked car as i was getting out.. after we went through the whole "deal with an accident" rountine (acutally she paid me cash and we called it even) i go to leave and realize i dont have my car key... look for a long time and finally use most the cash she gave me to pay an all night locksmith for a new ignition. as i'm pulling out of the parking space i see a glint and there's the key directly in the exact middle of the parking space (where i and some stangers helping me had looked many many times..) and now it doesnt even work cuz i had a new ignition... that sucked.
Aaron <spam a aaronwolfe com>
Stuart, FL USA - Saturday, February 24, 2001 at 21:33:43 (PST)
This happened quite sometime ago, but yet it is still pretty vivid to me (and I have never figured it out to this day).
When I was in the 7th grade, my grandmother had given me a birthday gift, which was a silver athletic-type of runners band, which, I believe, was originally intended as an identification bracelet for elderly runners. It was a silver band that fits securely and it had a small plate on the top of the bracelet with a simple picture of a running figure (hence why I say the band is a runner's ID).
So I wore this band all throughout 7th grade and it became one of my most favored possessions. However mid-way into the year, I was walking down the hall and I happened to look at my band and the small plate had popped off -- well it was just gone. I tried retracing my steps, but to no avail, as the designs on the floors and the size of the plate itself (a little less than 1/2 inch) made it too hard for me to find anything. I was kinda devastated, but after a few days i forgot about it.
A few weeks later, our school had our annual Olympic Day, where all the students compete against each other, etc. I was signed up for the 500 meter dash (or something like that), althought i am not a very good runner. Now here's the weird part -- as I was standing at the start line just before the race actually began, I was putting my chewing gum back into its wrapper in my pocket, but as i reached into my pocket i felt a tiny poke. Confused i grabbed the foreign object and pulled it out of my pocket - - it turned out to be my small running man. I was really happy when it showed up, and it kinda inspired me to run that race. I am pretty sure that I was NOT wearing the same pants that I wore when i lost the 'running man'. After the race (which I lost despite my renewed vigor), I forgot about the running man which i ensured was stored securely in my 5th pocket (that real tiny one). The next day i remembered about it and when i looked in the pants, there was nothing -- it was gone again. I searched the whole pants, even every corner and seam, but I found nothing. Well that's my story and it's still a mystery to me.
Jamie Moore <blessedwarlord a hotmail com>
Lithonia, Ga USA - Saturday, February 24, 2001 at 21:24:47 (PST)
In 1981 my girl-friend was staying in the house of a friend of mine and one evening my friend's wife asked us to "baby-sit" the two stray Siamese cats they had adopted as she had a social engagement and to make sure we put them in the garden if we left the house. About an hour later my girl-friend said she wanted to go out and I went to collect the cats to put them in the back yard.
One of them, a very strange and vocal little animal, refused to be gathered up and ran to the foot of the stairs. As I approached the cat it darted up six or seven steps and waited, calling out loudly and looking at me but, as I got near again, it ran up some more steps where it stopped again and sat staring at me, mewing loudly.
To my astonishment and annoyance the animal did this repeatedly as though it were teasing me until we had ascended two flights of stairs and reached the third floor landing at the top of the house. "Now I've got you" I thought as I reached the landing because I saw the cat dart in through the slightly open door of a small disused room. Approaching cautiously, bent low with hands outstretched to stop the animal running out of the door and past me, I entered the room, carefully closing the door behind me.
The cat was nowhere to be seen! The only contents of the room, which measured about 9 feet by 8 feet maximum, were an old armchair, an empty crate, a cupboard with a locked door, some half empty paint tins and a few odds and ends. Thinking the animal had hidden itself I began to search through the few available hiding places, even unlocking the cupboard and looking inside. I turned the armchair upside down to see if the fabric was torn allowing the cat to find its way inside but there was no sign of any place where an animal could hide. I looked up the chimney (it was blocked by an iron plate), examined the paint pots, looked into the crate and moved a couple of bits of cardboard and searched through the room thoroughly for about half an hour. The one window was locked and there were no other doors or exits available.
Eventually my girl-friend, exasperated at the amount of time I was taking, called up the stairs to ask what I was doing. I had searched the room thoroughly three times and eventually gave up, feeling baffled and irritated that I was unable to carry out my friend's request. As I left the room I closed the door behind me determined to search the room again on our return.
We went out but later, on our return, I told my friend's wife what had happened and apologised to her for failing to put the cat out. She stared at me disbelievingly and said, "That's alright. When we returned both cats were out in the back garden calling to be let in."
I have told this story of the dematerialising cat several times inviting some explanation but none has ever been forthcoming the usual response being disbelief or some trivial answer such that I did not look carefully enough. To this day I have no explanation for how the cat got out of the room without me seeing it. Even if an explanation is available for this there is no explanation for how it got out of the house which had all its windows and doors thoroughly locked against intruders.
Paul Whitehorn <t.p.whitehorn>
London, UK - Friday, January 19, 2001 at 03:33:43 (PST)
well this is kinda lame but i was sitting in front of my computer playing a game and eating plain pringles chips. I droped one on the floor directly in front of me. I thought nothing of it and decided rather than pick it up i would just get it later. about half an hour later i went to pick it up. it wasn't there. My floor was clean and there was no where for it to go. it was a perfectly made chip and would have stuck out like a sore thumb compared to my carpet. I never did find it. i searched for like half an hour then gave up. I went back a bout an hour later and searched for about another half hour and never did find it. Now every time i sit there i glance to where it would have been half expecting to find it. Lame eh? well i never did find it. Everybody probably has a similar story if they think hard enough. 73888163 is my ICQ number if you want to talk about anything on this site i am really interested and would like to talk to you?
Chris Griffin <zzgriffin a hotmail com>
heward, sk Canada - Friday, January 12, 2001 at 15:54:13 (PST)
in 1998 me and a friend were walking dowwn the street smoking a marijuana filled cigar. undercover officers clearly saw us and pulled the car over to confront us
i had the cigar in my mouth grabbed it and dropped in on the sidewalk next to me. the side walk was clear except for my friend and those two cops . by the time the cops walked up to us it was gone. they threatened to arrest us and searched us but they did not find it and neither did we it just disappeared intno thin air. I will never forget that
lbenet <loganbenitez a hotmail com>
bx, ny USA - Sunday, January 07, 2001 at 18:56:37 (PST)
I often have things disappear from where I left them. I mentally ask to please have it returned to me. Sometimes it will turn up in the same place I left it and other times it will turn up in a very unusual place. I believe this is my guide or higher self just letting me know they are around, because this usually happens when I feel lost and need guidance.
Dee <dwheeler a mmcable com>
Edmond, OK USA - Sunday, December 31, 2000 at 21:04:07 (PST)
I was watching TV in my room one night and i suddenly felt hungry. I got up and went into the kitchen and got a snack. I came back to my room and couldn't find the TV remote. I thought maybe i had brought it with me to the kitchen but it wasn't there. I searched the whole house and couldn't find it anywhere. I finally got tired of searching and went back to my room. I sat down in the chair extremely frustrated. I got so mad that I had lost the stupid remote that a great amount of anger built up. I looked up at the TV and changed the channel with the remote that had suddenly appeared in my hand.
Brian <archive777 a juno com>
medford, ny USA - Friday, December 15, 2000 at 20:24:26 (PST)
A couple of weeks ago, I read the reports posted here about disappearing/reappearing objects. At that time, nothing like that had ever happened to me. Then last Sunday I had an extremely odd experience with a pair of slippers that still has me baffled, although I do have my own wacko theory about what might have happened.
It was very cold that morning, and I put my bedroom slippers on my feet when I got up. I went downstairs and sat in the living room for a while with my son, watching a movie on TV about a bear cub and its mother in the wild. Although I usually find such films boring, this one had a hypnotic quality that was hard to resist, and I watched it for quite a while, marveling at the scenery and wondering how the film makers got the bears to do such amazing things (the cub, at one point, was struggling to climb up an almost vertical rock face of a mountain). I got up and went out into the kitchen/dining area. Our Rottweiler, Spike wanted to go outside so I put on boots and a coat and went out the back door with him. We were outside for 5 minutes or so, and I noticed while walking with him that the air had a strange sort of feeling to it. We're close to an interstate, and the traffic noise seemed at the same time louder than usual and not quite real. The traffic sound was having a similar hypnotic effect on me as the movie I had been watching, and it was sort of a creepy feeling. Then we went back inside. I took off my boots and hung up my coat. My feet were cold and I went to retrieve my slippers from the entrance to the laundry room (which leads out into the back yard), which is where I usually leave them when I go outside. But they weren't there! I looked all over the whole downstairs of the house for a good 10 or 15 minutes - I searched everywhere. I went into the living room where my son was still watching the movie. "The weirdest thing just happened," I told him. "My slippers disappeared!" "What do you mean, disappeared?" he replied, looking at me like he thought I was off my rocker. Then I went upstairs and into my bedroom and there, in exactly the position where I take them off each night when I go to bed, were the slippers. The weirdest thing of all is that the second I saw them there I had a very strong sense that the slippers had been there all along, that I had not put them on that morning and worn them downstairs. But at the same time I knew beyond any doubt that I HAD put them on!
I am a very sane, sober and practical person - I do not drink or do drugs. My son, also of a serious nature, is definitely not the type to play practical jokes. And he and I, along with Spike and two cats, were the only ones in the house. And, although Spike or the cats might take one slipper and move it, it is highly unlikely they could have taken them both upstairs and put them exactly in the position where I leave them at night. So what the heck happened? If anybody has any thoughts or ideas, or similar experiences, please e-mail me!
Maybe the whole thing was a hallucination, a passing temporary insanity. Or maybe I really did wear the slippers downstairs and at some point while watching the movie or walking with the dog I slipped into another dimension, a parallel reality that was almost like the original one, except that in this one I didn't put the slippers on!
If I have any more delusions or reality slips or whatever, I will be sure to report them here. In the meantime, I hope to hear from someone (anyone!) with similar experiences.
Pat Lord <PL799EZ a aol com>
Port Crane, NY USA - Saturday, January 27, 2001 at 18:55:09 (PST)
Hey! This really weird thing happended when I lived in Iowa, about 4 years ago when I was 9. My family was watching some movie and I was really bored. So I went downstairs, a place I was really afraid of when I was a kid because I thought ghosts were there. I had a penny. It was really dark. I was playing catch with the penny. I dropped it, and I turned on the lights to look for it. to my suprise, there was nothing. My basement is empty, no carpet. I was really freaked out. I went to check the wall I was leaning on when I was playing catch. When I bent down to check the lining of the walls, I slipped on something, and I felt something hit me behind me. No one was downstairs! It hit my lower leg, and I turned around to see the penny! THE PENNY HIT ME! I was so freaked out I picked up the penny, made sure it was the same one and dropped in and ran upstairs. I thought someone or maybe something did not want me there. As I said before, no one was downstairs. I just remembered this about 5 minutes ago! My left leg is getting chills just thinking about this, so I guess it was my left leg it hit. I have 20-20 vision as I have had all my life. There is no wind or anything, I am not on crack or any other type of drug. I was not dreaming, or anything of that sort. Now I gotta go. Bye! Love your site
You can just call me Bob :)
- Monday, January 29, 2001 at 20:02:52 (PST)
I used to drive cab. One day I lost my wallet. Never did find it and had everything in it replaced.. what could be replaced. A year or so later I am picking up a fare in an alley/back door and see what appears to be a wallet sitting in the alley , not up against the wall or anything.. OUT.. in the roadway. I pick it up and it is MY wallet everyting intact. IMPOSSIBLE that no one had seen it in over a year. Go figure. Who loves ya. Tom
tom hennessy <watchman a nucleus com>
calgary, ab canada - Sunday, November 05, 2000 at 09:24:47 (PST)
I've dealt with disappearing objects a couple of times at least that I recall now. Once, I was home by myself, and searching for my lighter. I had canvassed the house, including a small, bare coffee table in the tv room several times. Later I sat down on the couch in front of the table, looked down, and there the lighter was, in plain view. The other occasion I remember was losing an earring, a diamond post. I had worn it into the shower, so I assumed it was gone forever. Months and months later, I was walking into my bedroom, for the zillionth time since I lost it, and there it was, lying right on the floor in front of the door.
Kath
Frankfort, KY USA - Monday, October 30, 2000 at 08:56:30 (PST)
One morning about 3 years ago I noticed something funny about the trees that screened our yard from the street. There had been three trees there, I'd climbed in all of them, but now there were only two. I thought I was seeing wrong so I went outside to check up close. The middle tree was gone and the branches of the two end treed had extended to fill the gap. There was no hole in the ground or any sign that there had ever been three trees. At that point I was sure I just remembered it wrong, so not telling anyone else anything yet, I simply asked them all how many trees we had out front. We had friends over at the time, totaling 8 people and I got 6 "three"'s and 2 "at least three"'s. Then I told them that there were only two, everyone had to go check.
tom < sales a quantumslip com>
morgan hill, ca USA - Thursday, September 21, 2000 at 01:02:59 (PDT)
When I was 11 years old (i'm 13 now) something very strange happened to me. at that time I was living in an appartment, and was over my best friends house. I had brought my box of trading cards over, which I had a rather large collection of, and told my friend to go get his, which he kept in a bag in his base ment. I placed my box RIGHT NEXT TO ME, on his computer desk, and turned around to watch him exit the room. The entire time he was gone, i never looked at my box, which i thought was sitting right next to me, but rather was watching the Simpsons on his TV. A few min. later he entered the room with a bag. he sat down on his bed and began to untie it. while he was doing that, i turned around to get my card box, amd realized it was GONE! Damn i thought, what the hell could i have done with it. while i was looking( looked everywhere it could possibly be, under the desk, behind it, nothing), i heard my name being called out, and turned around to see my friend pulling my box out of his bag. We looked at each other and realized that this was really screwy. after a long discussoin we finally gave up as to ideas of how this happened. There was NO way he could have grabbed the box, before he left the room as I was sitting RIGHT next to it, and definately NO way he could have got it on his way back in, as the he sat down immidiately on the bed after enterring the room, which was quite a distance from where i was sitting. Absolutely nobody believed us, as to what had happened, and he was definately not the kind of kid that could play this well of a joke and be so serious about it. Other strange things happened in that appartment, up until i moved out a year ago? still no explanation though.
Eric Gendron <EMG8714 a aol com>
Mont Vernon, NH USA - Friday, September 08, 2000 at 19:32:18 (PDT)
Me and my cousin were playing a board game and I accidentally dropped the dice on the floor. We both looked under the table and all possible places they could have rolled. We realized after a long exhausting search that they have disappeared. we sat in out chairs in disbelief. I told my cousin that its impossible and they have to be here somewhere, so I looked down once more. and there was the dice right by my feet. both of them, so close to me almost touching my foot. I still get shivers to this day, and tears come to my eyes. This happened when i was ten years old.
melanie <melrose152 a aol com>
cheshire, ct USA - Wednesday, August 30, 2000 at 21:20:21 (PDT)
When i was around 7, i was playing with a G.I. Joe and they had the huge (way big) grenades that went with them, well i was playing and it rolled under the refrig.... i was upset that i lost it, so we my dad and grandpal and my uncle moved the thing, they saw it roll underthere, and it wasn't there, they moved everything in the whole kitchen, and we couldn't find it, then 2 days from then, it showed up in tied to my G.I. Joe..... and now one could have touched it! cuz i kept them locked in a special chest that was hidden! and i was the only one who knew were it was and had the 2 keys! Now you may think that my dad just found it and took care of it, but we were all shocked by the fact that it wasn't there!
WhiteGoblin <whitegoblins a hotmail com>
No, NO USA - Wednesday, July 12, 2000 at 18:50:52 (PDT)
MY SISTER WAS STANDING IN THE KITCHEN ONE EVENING WHEN WATER SPLATTERED ON THE FLOOR BESIDE HER. SHE COULDN'T EXPLAIN WHERE IT CAME FROM. A WEEK LATER I WAS STANDING WITH MY HEAD RESTING ON MY ARMS WATCHING THE MICROWAVE COOK, WHEN WATER DROPPED ON MY FOOT. I LOOKED DOWN AT MY FOOT AND THEN AT THE COUNTER AND THEN AT THE CEILING. THERE WAS NOT WATER ANYWHERE THAT I COULD SEE. IF ANYONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT WATER RELATED OCCURANCES MEANS PLEASE E-MAIL ME.
Brenda <UMAWEEKS a NETSCAPE net>
PHOENIX, AZ USA - Thursday, June 08, 2000 at 23:06:54 (PDT)
I am a 48 year old woman who has lost both elderly parents within the las year and a half. My father passed away first and shortly after his death, I visited my mother who had many serious medical problems. On this visit, I was getting ready to bathe her in the bathtub. I was the only one she trusted to do this. Anyway, I took off my rings and watch and put them down somewhere in the house; either upstairs or down. Hours later, I went back to the bathroom and picked up my rings and returned them to my hand. However, I couldn't find my watch. I searched the whole house. First downstairs, then upstairs. I went to the upstairs bedroom and walked to a bed. I lifted clothing I had left there in search of my watch. I remember saying to myself, "I wonder what I did with it(the watch)?" I took the ten or twelve steps to the bathroom and let my eyes walk around the room. No watch. As I turned around, I saw my watch lying on it's side on the very bed I had searched so carefully only moments ago. I feel this is a way that my dad chose to let me know he was still around. I often smell his presence in the house from time to time.
Sammy Mitchell <SANDRAMITCHELL13 a aol com>
Lynchburg, Va. USA - Saturday, June 03, 2000 at 01:06:43 (PDT)
I was a high school senior and was in my room getting ready to head out with one of my best friends. I laid my car keys, which had several other keys on the ring as well, down on the bedcovers. My friend was standing about 5 feet away in the center of the room.
I plopped my butt down on the bed to put on my shoes, and my weight hitting the mattress bounced the keys up off the bed and over onto the floor, which was covered with a thin wall-to-wall carpet. There was no sound of my keys hitting the floor.
My friend and I both noticed this, and looked at each other before I bent down to pick up my keys. From the bed to the floor was about 2 feet, and considering that the keys bounced up in the air before going over the edge of the bed, the total fall was about 2 1/2 feet -- plenty far enough to make an audible noise on the thin carpet. Since they fell close to the side of the bed, the keys passed out of both our vision on their way to the floor; in other words, neither of us saw them actually hit the floor.
When I bent down to get them, there were no keys on the floor.
I got down on my hands and knees to check all around, on the off chance a key ring with about 8 keys on it might have bounced anywhere. (Try this for yourself sometime and see how far keys dropped straight down from 30 inches can bounce.)
Nothing.
I looked on top of the bed, thinking that we were mistaken and the keys hadn't actually fallen off the bed.
Nothing.
I tore the bedcover, sheets, mattress, and box springs off the bed to see if they had gotten caught somewhere on the way down. (It was a steel frame twin bed, with no wood anywhere, no little niches where a seet of keys could hide.)
Nothing.
My friend and I looked at each other after about 10 minutes of searching and shrugged our shoulders. As I recall, I said something like "black hole," and we left it at that.
Never did find the keys.
This sounds trivial, but I had a witness who was too far away to have grabbed the keys and hid them as a joke (which would have been a rotten thing to do since I never ever got them back, and that is carrying a joke way too far), and who could also testif y that the keys made no sound of hitting a floor. (Again, drop some keys onto your carpet from 30 inches and see how audible a sound they make.)
So where'd they go?
Who knows?
I didn't notice any Cherenkov radiation in the room -- just a profound silence.
And now I take Hamlet's admonition to Horatio as absolute truth. ***
I've read all of the above occurrences, and a couple things strike me as common to all or most of the events:
The "victim" was young, in his or her teens.
The event is almost never clearly observed.
One point that was mentioned only a couple of times was the juxtaposition of electrical disturbances with the events. This interested me as I have always noticed a tendency of electronic devices to act strangely in my presence: things like streetlights turning off or on as I drive under them, even under daylight conditions where the light would not normally be active at all. (This has always been a semi-joke with me, as I'm quite aware of the laws of probability. But still.)
If we assume for a moment that these occurrences are real and are not made up (mine's not!) -- what the heck does it mean? Can causality reverse itself? Are there time-traveling jokesters playing games with us? What _would_ be best possible explanation be, granting the actual existence of such events?
Man, I wonder.
James Schrumpf <hatteras a hotbot com>
Monrovia, MD USA - Wednesday, May 31, 2000 at 21:30:27 (PDT)
Some people will believe this, some won't. I can assure everyone it is true. I lived in a house in Pa. where strange and scary things happened all the time. For example, I was getting ready to go out one day, and I plugged in my curling iron in the bathroom on the second floor. The only other person in the house was my mother; she was downstairs. I went down to talk to her for a few minutes and went back upstairs to curl my hair. The curling iron was gone. It WAS GONE! My mother and I searched everywhere. I was so mad I kept looking for about two hours and so did my mother (this was not the first time something had just vanished). I tore apart drawers and closets, looking everywhere. We finally found it downstairs in the dining room closet underneath a huge pile of coats and other junk. The cord was wrapped neatly around it. Things like that happened all the time in that house. One more example. I was at home alone one day. Just me. I put my drivers license down on the kitchen table and when I went back to get it, It was gone. Again I searched the house up and down. I never found it. Finally, after about a month, I went to get a new one. I came home with my new license, and sat down on the couch (and I was alone again). I watched t.v. for a few minutes and then I looked down at the cushion beside me. There sat my license. I have quite a few stories like that, and some are on the scary side, but I haven't told hardly anyone. This is for two reasons: 1) It was common to me for so many years that I just got used to it, almost to where it was expected. It wasn't weird anymore. 2) Who would believe me anyway? They'd just think I was a nutcase, as I'm sure 75% of the people reading this right now think.
Natasha <LKam7 a excite com>
USA - Wednesday, May 17, 2000 at 15:30:16 (PDT)
My brother and I were fighting one afternoon, about 18 years ago. He had been eating an orange popsicle, and had about 3/4ths of it left. He threw it at me, and I held up an unlined windbreaker to block. He saw it hit on his side, I saw the jacket bulge out on my side, and then it disappeared. No sticky spot on the jacket, no stick, no puddle on the floor, no nothing. This confused us so much that we stopped fighting and spent the next 20 minutes searching.
StarChaser_Tyger <StarChaser a mindless com>
Tampa, FL USA - Sunday, April 02, 2000 at 11:17:46 (PDT)
I had a four foot aluminum pole with a wooden handle and a hook on the end. I couldn't find it one day, and looked for it for three months. So I gave up, and thought someone had stolen it. One morning I woke up and it was laying on pillows next to my bed. I asked the two other people in the house where they found it, and they denied having found it. Sometimes things vanish, and come back, sometimes they don't.
Wally <brennamen a eudoramail com>
USA - Saturday, February 05, 2000 at 04:19:51 (PST)
When I was a teenager, I was helping my mother sweep up the kitchen floor after dinner one evening. While I was sweeping in one corner, my mother opened the refrigerator door to put something away and the action sent a tomato that was on top of the refrigerator rolling off the edge. We saw it fall off, but somehow could not see where it rolled after "landing". We pulled the fridge away from the wall and even looked under it. No tomato! We looked all around the room and no tomato! We gave up, perplexed. I began to sweep again, and looked at the refrigerator area just in time to see the tomato reappear out of thin air six inches in front of the top of the fridge and fall to the floor. Mom didn't see the materialization, but she heard it hit the ground. We were more perplexed than ever...the tomato had been borrowed and returned.
C. S. Palmer <algoma a pathway net>
USA - Tuesday, February 01, 2000 at 17:48:02 (PST)
Back when I was about 14, something I had built did something I'd classify as odd. The circuit was simple: the DC-DC inverter salvaged out of an old xenon timing light, and one of those hoop-shaped UHF television antennas. I hooked the inverter to 12 volts DC from a wall adapter, and connected the high voltage/high frequency secondary to the two leads on the hoop. Surprisingly, the crude device didn't short out and go up in a fireball; and I could hear the inverter make a faint "whining" sound from the transformer laminations vibrating.
Somewhere along the line, I got the bright idea to stick something inside the loop and see what (if anyhthing) would happen - I expected at most some magnetic oddity. So I suspended an ordinary steel paper clip in the exact center of the ring with fine sewing thread, and plugged the circuit in. The paper clip developed a faint blue glow around it, and about ten or fifteen seconds in, IT VANISHED, leaving the sewing thread dangling free. Where did it go?
What makes this so odd? It's that when I reversed the polarity of the hoop (by doing the 'ol switcheroo of the two high voltage leads) and repowered the thing, the paper clip reappeared on the thread amidst a faint blue corona like it had the first time around. The paper clip appeared to be intact, and did not change temperature or exhibit any obvious metallurgical changes.
So this leaves the question: Where did the paperclip go anyway? Did it really "transport" to another physical location? Did it slip through our spacetime and end up in some kind of subspace domain or interfold layer? Did a quantum phase shift occur, putting it slightly out of phase with the dimension we exist in? Did it end up in another quantum reality; ie. an alternate universe? Or did it time-travel to some past or future point?
I think I can rule out a straight "transport" from one physical location to another; for the paperclip would have likely fallen on its side during the first half of transport and reappeared in a different physical orientation; assuming it reappeared at all. It might also come back very cold (from being briefly exposed to space, should it have been transported there).
Time travel also seems suspect; a very similar effect might have been observed upon its return - again, it might not even have been retrievable.
That still leaves the door wide open as to what may have happened to that paper clip after it vanished from the wire hoop.
About two weeks after this experiment, I came home from school one day to find the entire apparatus (which had been set up on a dresser) quite thoroughly destroyed; and I've never been able to re-create these results nor did I ever find out who smashed th e piss out of it.
Has anybody else come across some wierd effects in some circuit they messed with, either intentionally or by accident - not counting the Bajak flux cap, of course.
Craig Johnson <toyletbowlbbs a worldnet.att net>
Seattle, WA USA - Friday, January 21, 2000 at 03:37:35 (PST)
This happened in 1962 - I was 12 at the time. My Mom was curling her hair at the bathroom sink in front of the mirror, and I was chatting with her, sitting beside her to her left. She would reach down and grab a bobby pin, twist a lock of hair into a donut, stick it into the pin, and reach down for her big pink plastic comb, comb out another lock of hair, and repeat the process with a mechanical precision. Except for the this once- when she reached for the comb, it flicked out of her hand, and made a very loud "snap". We both thought that it had just fallen into the sink- but NO COMB! We looked everywhere, even removed everything from under the sink and the carpet, too- never did find that comb, tho! I have always thought that it snapped into another dimension or universe- hope it's new owner doesn't ever drop it!
Dave Salyer <ccahmoff a gte net>
Clearwater, Fl USA - Tuesday, October 05, 1999 at 13:06:25 (PDT)
I was just returning home from school. We had a PE class the last period so my school uniform was in my PE bag. I had put the keys and my wallet in the sidepocket of the bag. (there are 2 sidepockets.) I don't know how but I knew that the stuff was in which pocket. So I checked out that pocket. Empty. But here's how I checked: I put my hand inside and swung it abroad 2-3 times. I then checked out the corners and all the sides. Believe me, it was a desperate small search. Then I opened the pocket WIDE and LOOKED INSIDE IT in clean daylight. I saw the empty pocket's base and side walls reflect the light BACK. There is no way that I would be mistaken because the case keys were in, and my wallet are scrumbly and cannot reflect light like the sides. The pocket was about 25x25x2 cm (10x10x1 inches)
The key case was 10x6x2.5 cm (4x2x1 inches) (brown and scrumbly)
The wallet was 12x10x2 cm (5x4x1 inches)
(I'm measuring these now)
So I gave up and checked the other side out. Not there, either. So I said SHIT and decided to check again. I did not remember if I looked in or searched with my hand again, but I know I found the key AND the wallet to be in the first pocket SOON as I checked. The same PLACE where some seconds ago, I saw LIGHT RAYS go through.
I lived somethings like this both before and after this happening, but I remember none of them since none were as DESPERATE as this one.
I think now, even though, even IF the wallet and the keycase was there in the first place, which I would swear by my life were not, me searching that strong and not finding it would be even more of a phenomenon...
GaLGaMeT <galgamet a hotmail com>
Istanbul, N\A Turkey - Friday, July 16, 1999 at 02:37:11 (PDT)
This may sound weird, but it's totally true. I was sitting at my desk in my bedroom, listening to the TV playing in the background while working on my homework. I opened up the drawer, saw that the only things in it were a pen, a pencil, and a sheet of paper, then closed it. About five minutes later, in which I didn't leave my desk and nobody came into my room, I looked in the drawer because I needed a new pen. Strangely, the pen and pencil were gone, and something new was in there. It was a hat, a worn out grey hat with the Nike symbol on it, but no label. I took it out and looked at it, then put it back and closed the drawer. Then I opened the drawer and found that it was gone and the pen and pencil were back. I kept opening and closing the drawer, but the hat never came back in there. The next morning, I put on my coat and went outside. I checked in the pockets, and found the hat! That night I put it back in the drawer, and haven't seen it since.
Jon Specht <zoogy +man2 a yahoo com>
McGregor, IA USA - Wednesday, July 07, 1999 at 18:10:09 (PDT)
I don't know if this exactly qualifies as a vanishing/reappearing object story but this incident occured a few years ago. Six of us were over at a friends house to watch TV. Toward the end of the evening we were all went outside to smoke cigarettes. We were seated in somewhat of a circle. I was telling a story to the rest of the group while I finished my cigarette. Upon finishing the cigarette I tossed it on the ground next to my chair. I watched it hit the ground with a little flurry of sparks. I immediately looked up and continued my story. I brought my hand up from the arm of the chair to emphasize a point in the story and there was a cigarette in my hand! I looked at it quizically for a moment and then looked at the ground where I thought I had thrown it. While I was looking around everyone was sitting and looking at me stunned. They had all seen what happened. Odd thing was there was no cigarette on the ground next to me. It was not windy, nobody had moved, others had seen me toss the cigarette, and yet there was no evidence of it. The patio is a large flat concrete one with no slope at all. When I brought my arm back up to the arm of the chair I was sitting in there was no cig in my hand. Only when I raised my arm did this cigarette magically appear.
Just a strange incident that nobody has been able to explain.
I R Crockett <ircrockett a earthlink net>
Thousand Oaks, CA USA - Monday, May 24, 1999 at 07:19:34 (PDT)
A few years ago I apprenticed as a mechanic in a local shop. Near the front of our main hoist was a wall which had several hooks on which were hung various tools. The hoist was located only a few feet from the west wall and the above mentioned wall was only about 3-4 feet to the south. Throughout the time that I worked there, several small items(nuts,bolts,and other small objects) were occasionally dropped on the floor near the south wall. Almost none of the objects dropped were ever found. even after looking for several minutes. I can understand one or two "dissapearing" but this happened many, many times. I have spent quite a bit of time looking. As I was designated floor sweeper, I should have come across at least some of it. Even the other mechanics joked about a "black hole" at the front of that one hoist after a while. I remember one time I dropped a 6" long bolt on the floor while working on my own truck. I joked silently that I could kiss that goodbye. I looked for half an hour in that small corner. I watched it hit the floor and roll towards that wall, but never found it. I wonder if it still goes on there?
Rod Peters <Petersr a uniserve com>
Vanderhoof, BC CANADA - Sunday, May 09, 1999 at 20:26:42 (PDT)
I really enjoy reading all of these facinating stories here.I have a open mind ( my friends think sometimes it is to open though!) Any way. about 3-4 nights ago I got 2 magazines down from a shelf to read before going to bed. I set them down at the front of my bed. I definently remember getting 2 of them. I set both of them on top of some other magazines. I remember seeing both of them out of the corner of my eye while getting into bed. I turned my back to them and pulled the sheets over me. But now here is the weird part: There was only one magazine sitting on top of the others. I have looked all over my bedrooom for it with no success. I don't I will ever find it...I really don't have an explination for why it "vanished into thin air". But I don't belieive it was a random act of subspace anomoly or anything like that. I think that whatever took that magazine has some kind of intelegence behind it. It it was some kind of dimentioal shift it should have taken other things too. Put nothing else was affected. By the way I had just got done playing around with a low power Tesla coil.. though I doubt that had ANYTHING to do with it... Well if you want to contact me at any time you got my email address. But for even better communications I have ICQ.
My number is 18430771....Mr. Bionics. Thanx!
Isaiah <mritchey a gervais com>
Or. USA - Friday, April 16, 1999 at 01:27:14 (PDT)
Disappearing toilet-paper:
One day, after doing my business, something very strange seemed to have happened. There was no toilet-paper in the toilet. This was very odd, since I did use some. I hadn't flushed, and I checked all over the place - floor, under the mat, in my pants, etc. I never found the toilet-paper, and it was very strange... I'm absolutlely certain I dropped the toilet-paper INTO the toilet, but it was not there.
This really does sound unbeleivable, and because it sounds so rediculous, it will be seen as hogwash.
I can assure you though, this did happen to me, and I still don't know what happened to the paper.
This sounds like a joke even to me, knowing it happened to me. Beleive me - I'm not insane!
Anon
USA - Wednesday, December 02, 1998 at 19:36:28 (PST)
After reading some more reports (which I consider to be extremely valuable) I recalled this event from my childhood: I and a friend were playing with a "King Tut" toy. This is a mummy and a sarcophagus; the mummy will lay still if you know how to do it or jump out of the sarcophagus if you don't. It works with a sliding magnet. Well I handed it to my friend, the mummy jumped out towards the wall of the house. I know where, because we were next to the fireplace. We looked for a very long time (because the toy was so cool!) and did not find the mummy. Some days later, I was kicking around on the grass RIGHT OUTSIDE WHERE IT DISAPPEARED and found the mummy. I thought, having an embryonic scientific mind, that it might have gone through the fireplace, but on examination of the fireplace I could find no path. The windows had been shut. It remained a small mystery, and only surfaced after reading about a similar occurrence in these pages.(I also solved the mystery of the prevalent typos in these pages. The type goes off screen and there is no chance to correct it!)
Bill Colburn <rrgp a juno com>
Los Gatos, ca USA - Saturday, May 02, 1998 at 01:56:57 (PDT)
On the last Saturday of September, 1987, I was at my mother's house. 10 a.m. I got up to take a shower in the blue bathroom (my parents used the other bathroom exclusively). I had a pair of khaki pants that I went to put on. As I fastened the button, I felt it pop off (I had noticed it was coming loose). I heard and saw it hit the side of the sink, and 'saw' it peripherally head toward the floor. I went on dressing, then proceeded to look for the button. I tore the bathroom apart for one and one half HOURS, looking for a cream-colored button with olive green splashes, in a medium to dark blue bathroom. I even looked in the sink and bath drains! ONE WEEK LATER, I was in the same bathroom, again about 10 a.m. taking a shower. I had sewn a new button on the khaki pants and put them on again. I was finishing up dressing when I felt a 'pat' on the lower leg of my pants. I looked down and THERE WAS THE ORIGINAL BUTTON! It was about 2 inches inside both edges of the corner of the DARK BLUE bathroom rug, and extremely visible. I confirmed that my mother had not entered the room the entire week. I am positive I would have noticed the button there as soon as I walked in to the room that morning, if it were there. With a friend one night, getting extremely drunk, I tried to figure out a way that this entire event could have been documented in the first place -- a dated camera taking a picture of it falling & disappearing, then staying in place for the entire week, then noting its reappearance, but I still think someone would have cried, "FAKE". I have yet to meet anyone who has believed my story. I have another time/ space type disappearance/reappearance story if anyone is interested.
NGB <john01rhys a aol com>
Louisville, KY USA - Wednesday, July 23, 1997 at 07:10:31 (PDT)
Here's a "screw-y" experience reported on the VORTEX-L discussion group