Astrid Pardew writes saying that she's having trouble with objects disappearing around the house. "The strangest happening took place before Mother's Day. My parents were coming over for lunch. I sorted out the knives and forks we would be using in advance. I placed the cutlery on a clean plate and left them on the microwave cooker. The next day the knives and forks were gone! The cutlery never turned up and I eventually had to replace them." Other things have disappeared, too: camera equipment, money, cards.... So what's going on? Read the answer.
Reader question: Should I be worried about disappearing objects?
By Stephen Wagner, About.com Guide December 27, 2008
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I’m curious if any of the things that previously disappeared ever reappeared.
It happens to me. I was so fed up I said if anyone is here please return the object. Appeared after few days in place that it went missing.
Get a camera, hide it and start recording a room which items have ‘disappeared’ from before.
Then if something does disappear, (which it won’t) then you’ll have some proof.
I think you’re most likely just a forgetful person and lose things quite often. If you’re not, then prove me wrong. Film it.
I live in a house which is, reputably, mildly haunted – and I’ve just lost yet another knife, the third in two months. One, okey – two, strange, but THREE? Honestly.
Have had things disappear, too, but most often the objects reappear in another place or in the same place some time later. I don’t do drugs or drink and live alone. My home has had things “happen” through the years (the previous owner died in the house)so I don’t know if the ante is being upped or what. It’s annoying, though.
I agree that the first place to look would be a thief. Set up a hidden video camera to make sure it isn’t someone’s sticky fingers to blame. I’ve had episodes of things disappearing in my home. If after much searching I can’t locate the object I ask my late father or mother for help. Usually the object re-appears after a couple of days.
I’d go with thieves first, since, as noted, the items that Astrid lost were all of higher monetary value.
I live in an old place and have had things go missing, most commonly shoes. I’ve saged the place a few times, which helped, then I got confrontational. I spoke out loud, loudly, telling the whatever it was that I wanted my things back now, and that if my stuff wasn’t back very soon, I would start saging the place every day. The first time I did this, both missing shoes reappeared right next to their mates, both shoes aligned neatly and waiting by the door.
When my kids things started going missing, I got really angry. Told the whatever it is to knock it off. It quieted for a while, then started up again. Then I got angry and told them that if they didn’t leave my kids alone, that they would really regret it. Since then, my kids things don’t seem to go missing anymore.
My things occasionally disappear, but I ask politely for them back, and they’re usually back quickly. The thing that is different between our case and Astrid’s is that the things that go missing are not necessarily valuable money wise. Shoes are not cheap, but they’re not expensive. A shirt or book are valuable, but not necessarily expensive money-wise. Astrid should think about who has a key or easy access to her home. I had several things stolen by a friend of my grandmother’s. We found them later at her home.
Good morning,
Have you asked for the things to be returned? Fairies are a real pain when it comes to ‘borrowing’ shiny things. They are like magpies. Their attitude is ‘what is mine is mine, and what is yours is mine too’. When stuff goes missing around here I firmly asked that it be returned, and it usually is. My cats tend to keep the fairies out of the house now, even chase them through the catdoor – which will swing hard when ‘nothing’ is near it.
I wonder what your fairies wanted with cutlery. LOL
Wishing everyone a great New Year,
Love & Light
Ama Nazra
Ghosts love attention and they tend to feed energetically off of our reactions. Pranks such as moving or taking something helps them to feel the attention they want.
I love Stephen’s suggestions.
Also let them know you know what they’re doing and that you don’t appreciate it. Try not to react to their behavior. Chances are the missing items will turn up again, or at least your ghosts will move on to someone that gives them more attention.
Melissa Van Rossum
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I may not be a big believer in fairies, but – last night I gave them a stern talking to, couldn’t hurt. Well, no knives reappeared – but I just found out that I’ve won a yummy mobile in a big newspaper competition. And I never win anything. Ever.
I really don’t want to blunt, but shouldn’t someone, who really cares about the person who keeps losing things, recommend a psychiatric evaluation? Does the fact that she claims to be at times absent-minded mean something? Perhaps it’s an unconscious revelation? In any case, a medical evaluation is the very first step before any claims about the paranormal – Occam’s Razor.
Can ghosts reali haunt shoes? mine go missing sometimes and reaappear in weird places but ive never thought of them being haunted
I have recently (5months ago) moved into a new appartment with my boyfriend and things keep going missing. First of all it was my boyfriends keys. We both searched high and low but could not find them. About three weeks ago my boyfriend found the keys, they were put in a tea cup with another cup placed on top pushed to the back of the cupboard with other cups placed around it.
Then only about a week ago my boyfriend asked me where the big knife was from the kitchen. Again we looked all over and of course looked in the dishwasher where we assumed it would be. It was no where to be found. Then the next day i was filling the dishwasher and it was there right in front of me on the top part of the washer.
The final staw this week – i was ordering a part for my car and i had asked my boyfriend to write down the Car ID number. He had written it down on a take away menu on Tuesday night. Wedensday monring i was looking for the menu which i could not find – I looked on the table in the kitched where all my paper work was and it was not there i emptied the table of all papers but it was def not there. I went out to the car to check if i had left it in there but it was not. I then went back into the appartment and it was sat on the table in the middle clear as day!!
That really freaked me out.
Today is October 21 2010. My wife and I were looking for the vacuum today because my parents were coming over to see our daughter born last month. We looked high and low in our house (which isnt very big), we looked in the garage where it always it and nothing. After about 5 entire slow walk throughs in the house we couldnt find it, my wife says the neighbor must of stole it….you had to have left it outside (she always blames everything one me) and I walked into the garage and it was right in front of the door!!!!WOW i was like holy crap babe are you playing a game on me she was freaked out!!!this is awesome, I definatley felt the spirit…this is cool!!!WERE NOT ALONE!!!!
Over the past week, I’ve had things go missing almost instantly – a coin holder and a coffee cup lid. I didn’t move outside of a 4-square foot area. One was at home, one was at work. So I’m not feeling the “spirit is in the house” or “fairy like shiny objects”, and they’re just simple things are vanishing when I turn around so I can’t film everything I do everywhere.
The first one I brushed off as weird. This morning’s lid I put in a pile of napkins and papers that I balanced to a nearby table. After filling the coffee, the lid had literally disappeared from the pile, with no one else around. Too weird to brush off this time. Now I’m looking for real answers.
I have the same things going on in my house for already years, but mostely in periods. First it was the tape, it was in the middle of my desk. But when I went there to get it, it was gone. My mother and I searched everywhere, but never found it. A few weeks later it was standing in the middle of the desk again.
I lost my wallet for a year once. When I got it back, it was on top of our foodsupplies, but how is that possible because we replaced those supplies several times in that year…
more things like that happend and now it’s getting worse again. I lost my phone a couple of weeks ago, searched everywhere and a while later I found it back in a panty, and I’m really sure I didn’t put it in a panty! My wallet is gone again, I was sure I got it out of my pocket at home and I can’t find him anywhere! And my cellphone is gone again too, I have searched everywhere again and I was really sure he was on the table!!!
It sounds weird and crazy, hard to believe maybe, but I really think there’s something in my house.
My Lost things stories could fill a book at this point. But I am finder of lost things for other people….so I guess it balances itself out. I always ask for help from the Saints or just confront the little imps or whatnot that are there.
Anyway, my strangest story had to do with a deck of animal divination cards. I had the small pocket version of the Ted Andrews deck. When I was in college I would pull one a day or one every few days and put the one drawn in my ID case for tooling about campus. For a few weeks straight I was almost always drawing the Turkey card. And, after a while, being thick headed, I started getting insulted that kept drawing the turkey. Eventually the deck simply disappeared and I could not find it. I lived in a dorm by myself, I kept the deck on the bookshelf near my bed. But I didn’t find the deck again until moving day at the end of the semester. When I did I was irate because, of course, found it in the bookshelf near my bed. By the time it was the end of semester and after months of carrying that one card around, I finally did see the message behind the card displayed in my life….but boy what a way to prove a point!!
I was at home and my friend left his jacket on the back of my bedroom door he the went home forgetting to collect it a few days went on and my friend phoned and sed I’m near your house now I’m coming to get my jacket so I went to get it were it was hung on the back of my bedroom door and it wasn’t there I looked every where I thought I was goin mad I was the only one in my house the I just sed to him if it turns up I’ll phone you so I then went to take my dogs out and wen I got back one of the dogs ran in the bedroom I went to get the dog because it was dirty I felt my body drawn to the door and there it was the jacket but my body felt empty cold and I was full of goosebumps similar things have also happens will my phone and the tv changing channel on it’s own can someone tell me what is going on.