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??

mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/11/the-weird-world-of-vanishing-and-teleporting-objects/

The rational explanation is the fallibility of human memory. We believe that everything happens exactly as we remember it, and that if we don’t remember something it mustn’t have happened.

But that’s not true. We misremember things (how many packets of biscuits there were, and where they were), forget things (you moved them somewhere else and forgot you did so), or absentmindedly carry out irrational actions (you accidentally threw them away).

It’s irrational to think that a supernatural force is the more likely explanation for unexplained occurrences, rather than accepting that our brains get it wrong incredibly frequently.

Elizabeth Loftus’s work is a good place to start to learn more about this: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032010-700-memory-special-can-you-trust-your-memories/amp/

Do you have a cleaner or babysitter or anyone who comes in the house and thought you wouldn't miss the biscuits?

Could someone be living/hiding out in the loft?

Did you change the locks when you moved in?

When we lived in a flat with a shared garden, I used to leave the back door on the latch when I went out to the washing line. I once came back in for the pegs to find my elderly neighbour in my kitchen helping himself from the biscuit tin!! He had dementia and was a bit confused but very jovial, he'd apparently wandered in by mistake. I made him a cup of tea and we laughed about it but I did wonder how many times it had happened!

If I was I ghost I would be disappointed with oat biscuits.

I expect your DH took them to work or something.

Almost any explanation is more plausible than biscuit-munching ghosts OP

Can ghosts even eat?

My kitchen scissors have disappeared now. It's like poltergeist central here! Maybe I have someone living in my loft? I have heard noises but thought it was rats

The ghost is going to cut the biscuit packets into teeny tiny pieces to hide the evidence.

I’ve had stuff disappear and reappear before now - sunglasses and ballet tights were some of the most recent ones. There was no one else in, no-one else had access to them and yet they’d be there then not. Then they’d turn up somewhere where I could possibly have left them (especially not when I’d been searching for the damn things!)

I’m used to it now. Whoever it is puts them back eventually

Scissors and biscuits have been found. Scissors upstairs and biscuits unpacked and put in a different cupboard.

Walking socks still AWOL.

The sceptical Mumsnet hive mind is working wonders so far. Maybe the socks will reappear too?

:o

Ghosts can't eat, it would go go right through them.

When you moved in, did you change the locks? Years ago a friend of mine moved to a new house and was sure things were being moved. Eventually it turned out the old owner was checking for his post (he'd not set up a redirect and my friend had got miffed he hadn't and was hanging onto the post a long time before redirecting it.). She came home from the hairdressers one day when she had a day off to find him parking on her drive ..lock swiftly changed.