Definitely, probably insane. Or have haunted house.

[NoWayNoHow]

For the 3rd time in as many weeks, since we moved, something has gone missing in the house. Last week, it was my strip of contraceptive pills which is ALWAYS in my bedside cabinet and hasn't moved in years (no other women in my house, so I'm the only one who would have use of them).

Today, it was the antibiotic cream for DS's scabby toenail. In the lounge this morning, gone this evening.

First time was when we'd been in the house about 5 days and my wedding ring and engagement ring went missing. Till now, I'd been pretty positive I'd left them somewhere else, but now I'm doubting myself.

In all cases, DH and I have turned the house upside down looking in places we know those things have never been, just to make sure we're not crazy, but no joy. We even thought maybe our new landlords were messing with us but DH was at home all day today so they couldn't have snuck in.

We're both baffled. WTAF is going on? Has anyone else had stuff like this happen to them? Please tell me yes as I'm fairly certain the only other option is collective household insanity...

Yes I am currently missing a bottle of Prosecco and a brand new skirt!

Yes. Walked into my bedroom to find my earrings on the floor in the middle of the room when they had been left in my jewellery box on the top shelf of the wardrobe.

I've had lots of things like that happen.

Mentioned to my daughter that it would have been my DD's (her grandads) birthday then my iron, on the shelf in the understairs cupboard, not only fell off the shelf but shot across the kitchen floor.

If you read the other current thread ‘Is my new build haunted?’, you will be advised that your house is infested by demons, or possibly jinn, or is built on an old burial ground/ plague hospital/leper colony full of resentful dead.

My question would be — how old is your child or children? My best friend when I was ten or eleven used to hide her parents’ belongings all the time. Looking back, it was clearly a way of expressing unconscious anger.

It's probably not but I'll say ghosts. I do love a good 👻 story. Who ya gonna call?? BOO !!

I live in what used to be my grans house and stuff goes missing regularly and turns up in places we've looked. I like to think it's her letting us know she's still around.

Probably not connected, but a friend noticed money going missing intermittently. Then one night her husband came down and found someone in the house . they somehow got a key and were popping in to help themselves. I had similar when money kept going missing from my purse at work. Someone was repeatedly taking money but never all of it.

Happens to me all the time.
We live in an old coaching inn built in 1475.
I just loudly and politely ask for the stuff back and a few days later it pretty much always shows up..
I've no explanation for it-I'm not especially woo-but im also not insane I don't think-it's definitely happening. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I love history socks idea..give it a try op and let us know if it works

My auntie, who is Catholic, always says loudly "Saint Anthony, pray for us!" several times. She says it works, I assume he is the saint of lost things!

@Clawdy He is feast day is the 13th of June.
He's also the protector of lovers and child birth.

He sounds lovely!

@Clawdy my Irish nan used to pray to St Jude for me. Patron saint of lost and desperate causes.

But clocking St Anthony for lost things is just a reflex for an older generation of Irish people, like blowing a kiss to a lone magpie -- they don't actually believe he's trundling about in the Beatific Vision finding things to them. I mean, most stuff just shows up, anyway. Ditto St Jude, really (only there are actual novenas you can make to him for serious things).

inis DS is an only, 11yo, but wasn't at home during the week the pills went missing (away with school) or the day the cream went missing (at school all day too)

I'm going to shout at St Anthony next time in the vain hope he's listening, even though I'm not at all religious. I do believe in ghosts, though, having seen one and lived in a super haunted house before.

This is a 60s build, and I'm not sure anything death-ey has happened there tbh. I swore blind at DH that I had proof of ghosts when I heard footsteps running across our ceiling - turns out it's a flat roof and the local cats were fighting...

Something like this happened to a friend (I know, I know). Jewellery and other small items went mysteriously missing only to re-appear one day....lined up neatly and improbably on the car bonnet! Two person household, neither person noticeably prone to practical jokes or dissociative thieving episodes.

It's the borrowers OP. happens to me too all the time. I too politely ask for the items back and sometimes also ask for help with the dishes . stuff usually reappears a few days later but the dishes never get done.

If your home is built on a spirit path it can be an open channel for lost souls.
You can pick them up anywhere
They don’t necessarily come with the house although they can.
I dowse myself and my aura from time to time to be sure I haven’t picked any up

Just checked..nope..all clear 👍

If your home is built on a spirit path it can be an open channel for lost souls.

Or mice. Which actually can cause a surprising amount of disruption.

Mice can be buggers but unlikely to nick your contraceptives or your foot cream

If your home is built on a spirit path it can be an open channel for lost souls
You can pick them up anywhere
They don’t necessarily come with the house although they can
I dowse myself and my aura from time to time to be sure I haven’t picked any up

I genuinely have no idea if this is serious or just messing about. Hopefully the latter.

Moving house is so stressful are you sure you hadn't moved them. When I've got a lot on I'll do things on autopilot and move things places.
Or could your DH be trying to make you think you've gone mad?

Basically we put things down mindlessly, we don't realise we are doing it. So for example with the pills. You'd have kept them in your hand without realising, then put them down somewhere and your mind didn't register it, hence why they turn up someplace weird.

There is no ghosts. Sorry, 🤣

Yup, *@Bluntness100. It's not the interesting explanation, but it's the likely one. Though I like Crafty's suggestion of contraception-nicking vermin.

@TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth, I believe Dowser is 100% serious.

Spoilsport Bluntness!
I was looking forward to more demons, exorcists, burning sage, poltergeists, jinn, possession by spirits etc. and you had to go and spoil it with sensible suggestions and the obvious answer!

Where's your sense of fun?