To think there's no rational explanation for this?

[Paraballa]

I will start by saying I am not woo. I am logical and rational and I don't believe in ghosts.

Today I went to the cupboard to get some biscuits. There were two boxes in there. They are not there. I am the only one who eats them, the kids can't reach them, DH is as baffled as me. They are nowhere to be found.

A few months ago I wrapped a gift and put it on the kitchen side, awaiting posting. One day it wasn't there. DH hadn't moved it. We have never found it and I had to buy a replacement.

This used to happen periodically when I was a teenager. Stuff would just disappear and never appear again.

What the hell is going on? Where are my biscuits??

Someone has eaten your biscuits, and I don't think it's a poltergeist. Does anyone have crumbs round their mouth? Or have you just put them somewhere else?

Ghosts are stealing your biscuits? I'd think it a million times more probable that your kids have got clever and worked out a way to climb up, or you DH has had them away. Or do you have someone else coming in, like a cleaner or a dog walker?

Do you have a carbon monoxide detector?

Oh, come off it. Your DC have eaten them.

Dunno what happened but you'll find there's a rational explanation, I'll be bound.

Someone ate them. Not a ghost.

And I’m sure the present will turn up one day.

the kids can't reach them

You are underestimating them

Kids on a chair maybe?

Maybe you thought you had two boxes left but you don't...

brushes crumbs away

This has happened to me a few times. I've had things vanish into thin air, never seen again. I think there's probably a Stranger Things/parallel universe thing going on but I'm not clever enough to work it out.

My MIL used to make wine.

She put the bottles completely out of reach and sight of her two young sons, and was utterly perplexed that the bottles were seemingly evaporating.

Now grown up DH and his brother still giggle at how they ingeniously reached and gobbled the wine...

Kids definitely had the biscuits and one of them may have even swiped the present depending on what it was.
Sorry OP.

How old are the kids? One of mine is a little monkey.

You or DH has moved them and forgotten where you put them.

Kids can drag a chair and climb you know

Does your neighbour have a spare key? or your mum? I remember a thread where a toaster went missing and it was her mum!

Might they be with the ironing board? In fact, you need to check you still have your ironing board.

They're oat biscuits. The kids and DH don't like them. And I wouldn't care if they ate them but no one can eat that many biscuits in just a few days. The boxes are not in the bin. They have genuinely disappeared, as has the gift.

I do KM, there's nowhere for anything to hide! Plus I checked all the cupboards.

I often hear "but they couldn't reach them"...usually whilst treating children for the ingestion of whichever tablets they definitely couldn't reach.

You think they can’t reach.

No one has a key and no one else has been in the house

Kids or DH has eaten the biscuits. Or you or DH has in your sleep. Kids have swiped the present, or you or DH accidentally binned it.

Your ghost also stole 4 baking potatoes from my kitchen today (or I put them somewhere odd and can’t remember where). Also a leek last weekend (or it fell out of my bag on the way to the car). Must be a hungry ghost!

My mam has form for disliking things in my house and either giving them away or binning them. She thinks she's helping by 'tidying up'... I can totally see her seeing a box a biscuits in the cupboard and rehoming them.

I'm still bitter about my toast tongs... 😂😭😂

@Cath2907 check the bin. I have serious baby brain and emptied a multi-pack of crisps into the bin the other day

Your 👻 is stealing my wine from the fridge ... right now! 😳