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To think there's no rational explanation for this?

63 replies

Paraballa · 30/06/2019 17:53

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??

OP posts:
FatThor · 30/06/2019 18:23

Check your loft for stowaways Grin

Biancadelrioisback · 30/06/2019 18:24

Are you sure you didn't do it in your sleep?

HarrietSchulenberg · 30/06/2019 18:25

The Biscuit Fairies have been to your house, obvs. They are related to the Clothes Pixies that visit my house over the winter and shrink all my summer clothes Hmm

Fluffybread · 30/06/2019 18:25

I don't think they've disappeared, I think you've imagined buying the biscuits and putting them in the cupboard, and with the other stuff you've forgotten you've moved them. At least that would be the case if it was happening to me. Convinced myself one of my children or my manchild oh had pinched the salt and vinegar handcooked very tasty crisps I bought from Asda. All swore blind they'd not touched them, checked my receipt... no crisps! But I'm sure I remember scanning them and putting them in my bag as I was doing scan and go!!! 🤔🤣

Merril · 30/06/2019 18:30

no one can eat that many biscuits in just a few days

No one can eat a couple of packets of biscuits in 3 days?! They wouldn't last 3 hours in our house Blush

But yes, it was probably a ghost Wink

SoyDora · 30/06/2019 18:31

Come on. If someone had made the effort to come back from the dead, they’d do something useful, or exciting, or interesting, wouldn’t they? Not move two packets of oat biscuits.

TakenForSlanted · 30/06/2019 18:31

That's what my colleague swore to his wife, too, that it definitely wasn't him. Overheard him on the phone swearing by his dear mother's life.

It was him. The chocs in question ended up at the office on the occasion of our team admin's birthday.

Though why exactly he couldn't just tell her that I still fail to understand.

On balance, sneaky family members arw a lot more likely than biscuit thieves from beyond the grave.

coconuttelegraph · 30/06/2019 18:34

How ma ny biscuits were there, unless it was enough to feed an army why couldn't someone have eaten them?

How old are the dc

TheSassyAssassin · 30/06/2019 18:39

Hmmm....I'm getting something...what's that? Louder spirit, louder! You don't like the taste of OP's oat biscuits... you do like the taste of flumpy's wine...you need something to take the taste of biscuits away and soak up the wine? The end of DD's Easter chocolate stash in my fridge? About 9pm? Oh ok... I will turn a blind eye and explain that a ghost ate the chocolate to DD in the morn! Wink

must remember to dispose of wrapper in outside bin

Crunchymum · 30/06/2019 18:41

They are with that rogue ironing board another poster couldn't find Grin

lljkk · 30/06/2019 18:48

Own up to it, OP. You stole biscuits in a past life & a ghost is wreaking revenge on you for it, now.

PancakeAndKeith · 30/06/2019 18:51

What is more likely:

The children ate the biscuits.

Or

The spirit of the dead person ate the biscuits.

PancakeAndKeith · 30/06/2019 18:52

They are with that rogue ironing board another poster couldn't find

I’d forgotten about that one.
Wasn’t there also a vanishing alcove on that thread?

BBBear · 30/06/2019 18:52

I wish I had some biscuits.... shortbread would go down a treat right now

PettyContractor · 30/06/2019 18:54

They're oat biscuits. The kids and DH don't like them.

I don't like dog biscuits. But I used to eat them when I was primary age and they were the only food I could lay my hands on. They weren't difficult to access though.

DontDribbleOnTheCarpet · 30/06/2019 19:11

*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...*

When my husband was a kid, his dad had a very expensive bottle of whiskey (I think from the Politician wreck). It had a cork and a lead seal over that. He managed to drain the whole bottle without removing the cork and his father only found out when he went to open the bottle for a very important visitor. He would probably have killed him if only he could prove/work out how he did it (he poked a cattle syringe through the cork, withdrew the whiskey and then smoothed over the lead seal, and repeated until none was left).
Kids are really inventive!

Original poster
Paraballa · 30/06/2019 19:29

Grin it honestly isn't the kids. They don't like them. Nor does DH. And he was baffled too - he saw them on the shelf the other day but now they aren't anywhere in the kitchen.

The gift was walking socks so the kids definitely didn't have them!!

It's really strange. My house is really tidy and organised. Things do not go missing or get lost because everything's got a home and us accounted for.

Maybe the cat is cleverer than I think and is messing with my mind?

OP posts:
herculepoirot2 · 30/06/2019 19:31
  1. Someone is lying.
  2. Someone has forgotten.
  3. An unknown person broke in and stole them.
  4. You are mistaken about them being there.
  5. Someone moved them and can’t remember where to.

Ghosts don’t eat your biscuits.

dayswithaY · 30/06/2019 19:36

There was also a thread about missing candle and chocs that went on for pages, think there was a mix up with gifts. Hours and hours later it turned out she had just misplaced them. Dog walkers and a husband were initially blamed.

StealthPolarBear · 30/06/2019 20:00

@SoyDora speak for yourself! If I ever do a bit of haunting I'll have a keen interest in any nice snacks lying around.

mumwon · 30/06/2019 20:03

check: wardrobe & fridge & garage, husbands tool box … & any other random place you can think of - underneath beds? Other wise I suggest there is a mouse roaming across mmn houses pinching random things to start his/hers new household, Mouse is very domesticated & needs to iron its clothes (odd socks, t shirts, etc) & has excellent taste in wine & biscuits -obviously it cant be a ghost because they cant eat drink (maybe spirits!) or wear odd socks

Tallgreenbottle · 30/06/2019 20:09

It was me, OP. Sorry.

SerenDippitty · 30/06/2019 20:10
  1. Your kids found some way of reaching them.
  2. Your DH is lying and took them to work for a team meeting
  3. You are the biscuits in your sleep.
  4. You never actually bought them but dreamed you had

All of these are more likely than a ghost eating them

SoyDora · 30/06/2019 20:17

@StealthPolarBear ghost me would (I assume) go for things like a nice, ripe, gooey Camembert. Not oat biscuits!

StealthPolarBear · 30/06/2019 20:20

Ghost me will have posh chewy oat and raisin cookies. If we're talking biscuits for cheese I agree.

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