The tale of the mysterious ghost stairlift

[TeenToTwenties]

My DPs stairlift has started occasionally moving all by itself!

They called an engineer - apparently the code shows that one of the remote controls is missing and is being pressed down causing it to operate.

My brother has helped hunt for the controller - no luck.

We have sent away for a bug hunting device that should detect the signal from the controller but they probably won't try to use it on their own.

I'm the chief finder in the family, even when I am 70 miles away but I can't visit until Tuesday. Who wants to take bets on whether I find it within 10 mins of arriving without having to use the tech?

A riser recliner chair I think. Has it gone down the side or back of one?

Is there a dog that has taken it to their basket?

Clutching at straws now...

Have you looked inside boots and shoes? My Dad dropped his stairlift remote into a boot and we were mystified until someone needed to go out in the rain.

Under a book or in a pile of papers or magazines?

I’m getting quite invested with this. Love a good Who Dunnit!

Have you checked everyone's pockets, especially costs and jackets and dressing gowns that are hanging up?

So it sent itself downstairs at 7am.
We are wondering if heating has anything to do with it.

No pets.

I have checked all the pockets and shoes I can think of, stripped beds, looked behind radiators, down sides of chairs. In piles of papers.

Call Danny Robbins. This is a classic one for Uncanny. Evelyn Hollow will tell you it’s definitely the troubled spirit of the person who died falling down the stairs in 1964, and Kieran O’Keefe will locate the remote control for you, or work out it’s next door’s electric gates/security camera/tv causing it.

Places that things were when my mum started losing things -
Under her pillow
Under her pillow but actually in the pillow case
Dressing gown pocket
Apron pocket
Down the toilet having fallen out of her apron pocket
In her dressing table drawer (including on one occasion her cat!)
Knitting bag
Sewing bag
Daily hand bag
Special hand bag used at wedding and put back in wardrobe
Potting shed
Potato basket in kitchen cupboard
Bread bin

If they have a recliner chair, recline it fully (not sitting in it!) and have another look. I lost my TV remote that way but knew it was in there somewhere because every time I put the footrest up it changed the channel.😁

In the fridge?

Has a neighbour got a stair lift?

we got a ceiling new fan once and our remote turned the neighbours fan on

took them a while to figure it out 🤣

It’s not being picked up by next doors having the same one and they using their remote is it?

Can you order new remotes for it and somehow change the channel it picks up via airwaves.

These are detached houses on large plots. Even next door is some distance, and they won't have a stairlift.

We have bought a bug detector, but I haven't had time yet to try it. (3 trips to opticians in next town today - don't ask!)

We do however have a workaround. Get it on a charging point and then turn the key off. Apparently that will stop it moving but will ensure it stays charging. Good for overnight.

Could you possibly get a replacement remote?

I lost my keys; found in an apron pocket?

We still have the main remote.
It is just there is the spare one somewhere giving out a signal.
Or not, and spare is just lost and something else is causing interference.

Though getting them to returned to a different channel could be a last resort.

Down the back of the sofa.

My friend once found her missing watch laid out on a baking tray in the oven. She didn't cook much.🤣
Have you tried the airing cupboard @TeenToTwenties ?

Let's hope the batteries run out soon lol 😁

In the freezer, ?
in the bathroom, ?
is there a porch?
Is there a shed or, greenhouse?.
Compost or rubbish bin.?
Outside the back or front door?
In a plant pot?

Just trying to think outside the box

Two things to do that have often worked for me...

First: Send up a prayer to St Anthony, the patron saint of lost items and ask for his help in finding it.

Second: (Sort of contrary to 'first' above!) Pin the Devil... Take a pin, say those words as you stick the pin in a cushion or pillow, leave it there a while and then, curiously, the thing will turn up...

If it moved at 7am maybe the remote is in /on/under the bed?

Inside the duvet cover?