I get so much done around the house during the commercial breaks when I'm watching the hoarders shows! I don't ever want to be on their Buried Alive program!!!!

As far as your mischievious, invisible friend is concerned I really want to know HOW they do it!!! Do they actually open the drawer and pick up the magnifying glass and shove it in the back of the drawer and then close the drawer again OR do they somehow magically transport the object? I want to know, I want to know, I want to know (stomps foot and crosses arms)!

Sorry, but I just found this tonight.

How he does these things is a mystery, isn't it? Do the earrings actually move to somewhere else or do they just disappear into thin air?

Since this all happened, I've had another "theft". After my grandmother's funeral, I brought home some of her jewelry, including a ring. I carefully put the ring away until I could take it to be resized. I went to get it a few days later and guess what? Gone. I have searched high and low, but it is just gone. All the other stuff is still there, but the ring I really care about is gone. Sigh.

It does seem that they take what is dear to you or what you have recently touched, doesn't it? Or maybe my grandmother took it. She was awfully fond of that ring. /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

Well, my magnifying glass just turned up. I found it WAY in the back of a drawer behind some Christmas cards from last year. It's definitely not a place that my husband or I would have put it since neither of us has been in that drawer for a long time, probably since we stuck the Christmas cards there, in fact so my invisible friend has to take the blame for this one. I only found it because I was cleaning out the junk drawers after watching a TV show about hoarders.

I'm glad that it turned up. Now I can get a good look at the pictures that are posted. /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />

I get so much done around the house during the commercial breaks when I'm watching the hoarders shows! I don't ever want to be on their Buried Alive program!!!!

As far as your mischievious, invisible friend is concerned I really want to know HOW they do it!!! Do they actually open the drawer and pick up the magnifying glass and shove it in the back of the drawer and then close the drawer again OR do they somehow magically transport the object? I want to know, I want to know, I want to know (stomps foot and crosses arms)!

I'm glad that it turned up. Now I can get a good look at the pictures that are posted. /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

That's a great idea! I'm going to do that, too. Now that my friend has proven that he can find things by producing my earrings he can start earning his keep around here.

One reason I don't mind having him around is that I am certain that he keeps watch over the house, especially while I'm sleeping. I have always been completely confident that he would wake me if the house was on fire or if there was an intruder in the house. That peace of mind is worth putting up with a lot of missing objects.

Where did your rosary turn up, by the way?

It was during the move to this house from the old house. I don't believe anyone misplaced it on me. I have a friend who is good at communicating with these people and they showed her a wooden box near the floor. I thought I had packed everything in cardboard and I was stymied. A wooden box? Near the floor? I went through all the boxes on the storage shelf downstairs and they were all cardboard. I eventually found it in the (wooden) drawer of a bedside table that I had put in a closet because we weren't using it. So, they were right... a wooden box near the floor.

. . . I gave the 'people' around us a job. I told them that they had to be the finders of lost things. It worked. I found my lost rosary.

That's a great idea! I'm going to do that, too. Now that my friend has proven that he can find things by producing my earrings he can start earning his keep around here.

One reason I don't mind having him around is that I am certain that he keeps watch over the house, especially while I'm sleeping. I have always been completely confident that he would wake me if the house was on fire or if there was an intruder in the house. That peace of mind is worth putting up with a lot of missing objects.

Where did your rosary turn up, by the way?

Yup, I completely understand that. My husband used to give me crap that I would 'clean before the cleaners came' but I explained that they can't clean a thing unless they can get at the thing. I gave the 'people' around us a job. I told them that they had to be the finders of lost things. It worked. I found my lost rosary.

Where did the rosary turn up?

They can't clean if the house isn't tidy. Since I pay them by the hour, I don't want them to have to waste time picking stuff up off the floor so they can vacuum, etc.

Also, I have my pride, you know. I wouldn't want anyone to know what a slob I really am. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Yup, I completely understand that. My husband used to give me crap that I would 'clean before the cleaners came' but I explained that they can't clean a thing unless they can get at the thing. I gave the 'people' around us a job. I told them that they had to be the finders of lost things. It worked. I found my lost rosary.

I think that it is hilarious that "you had been all over th house picking up before the cleaning ladies come". Too funny!

They can't clean if the house isn't tidy. Since I pay them by the hour, I don't want them to have to waste time picking stuff up off the floor so they can vacuum, etc.

Also, I have my pride, you know. I wouldn't want anyone to know what a slob I really am. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Okay, this is getting annoying now. I noticed that the electric wine opener wasn't on it's base this morning. I had been all over the house picking up before the cleaning ladies come (God bless Maid Brigade!). While I was picking up I cleaned off the counter on the downstairs bar and there was a wine cork and the other debris that's left when you open a wine bottle. The cutter was there, too. I picked all those things up and the counter was empty. I swear it.

I went downstairs again and as soon as I hit the bottom of the stairs I see the wine opener laying on the counter. Now this thing is big and black, about the size of a big mag flashlight. There is no way that I could have overlooked it. When I told the story to my husband, he told me that that's where he had left it, but I swear that it was not there when I cleaned the counter and then it just reappeared.

My husband thinks I just overlooked it but I'm telling you there is no way that I could have missed it and I certainly would have picked it up with the other stuff if it had been there.

Either I am losing my mind or something is playing with me.

What possible message could a wine opener be? Maybe the spirits needed it - I should check to see if a bottle of wine is missing.

I think that it is hilarious that "you had been all over th house picking up before the cleaning ladies come". Too funny!

My favorite earrings were missing. A few days ago I asked my friend to bring back my earrings if he had taken them or to help me find them if he hadn't and I found them yesterday in a dish on my desk. That dish was the very first place I looked when I first missed my earrings and I could swear they weren't there. Yesterday they were there. Now it's certainly possible that I just overlooked my earrings, but I don't think I did. In the first place, they are large drop earrings which are hard to overlook. Second, I was very upset about misplacing them and I was actively looking for them, so I think that it's unlikely that I could have missed them - the dish just isn't that large.

Third, I was upset enough about losing the earrings that I offered a cash reward to the cleaning ladies if they found the earrings while they were here on Friday and they didn't claim it. Since they do a very thorough job of cleaning, I'm almost certain that they would have noticed the earrings in the dish and claimed the reward if the earrings had been there on Friday.

Can I prove that the earrings were gone and then reappeared? No. That's the crazy-makiing part of this whole thing. It's just like the wine opener: I am 99.9% sure that they were gone and then reappeared, but there's always that .1% doubt. /angry.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Since t's not like my friend to take both earrings in a pair, I'm pretty sure that I had misplaced them somewhere and my friend found them for me. So just when I get annoyed with him, he does something really nice for me. Even tho he can be really annoying, he's not all bad and that's what keeps me from evicting him. Plus, after all these years he is part of my family.

No sign of the magnifying glass - I think it's gone for good.

.... I get the whole "try and catch them with a video camera" idea as far as collecting real evidence. But the fact is, you'd have to wire the whole house up since it's not always in the same place. Not to mention, by setting up a video camera, you're assuming they don't know they're being filmed and that you can just catch them willy nilly. This person has proven themselves to be intelligent. I don't know- is your ultimate goal to collect "evidence" or to make it stop? I get that you really want to understand it- and I honestly think that that's all that is needed to be understood- You are being messed with.

I think this guy needs to be told to buzz off. Theft is a crime and you're going to report him to the highest legal authority- the big guy upstairs. And while I, like many, do try to find the humor and be silly, I really do mean it. Heck, it's worth a try, right?

I have no interest whatsoever in capturing evidence because I know he's here, so what's the point? I have no desire to communicate with him either, even if I could. I would help him if he wanted it and if it were in my power, which it is not. He does not seem to want any help from me, though and seems quite content with his lot. He travels at will, so he is not "trapped" in any sense of the word.

If he would just stop messing with me, as you put it so correctly, he and I would get along just fine. But the disappearing stuff is making me insane. I will take your advice and tell him off. I don't care about the magnifying glass, but I want my favorite earrings back!

Amen, sister! It's my wine and my opener, so at least invite me to the party!

In all sincerity, I can see the humorous side of all of this but at the same time it is driving me nuts! Am I crazy or is all of this actually happening?

The funniest part of it all to me is that my husband dismisses the disappearing car keys and the disappearing/reappearing wine opener but he can't explain the vanishing magnifying glass. I don't get that. If you've seen one object disappear, why scoff at the rest? Engineers....

As I said up a few posts, I've never had this happen directly to me, but I've been around situations like this with friends. The more I'm thinking about it, and reading how it's kind of pitting you against your husband to some degree, this isn't just an act of manipulating items- it's clearly an act of psychological manipulation, also. If this entity was "nice", they wouldn't be messing with you- especially on so many levels. First you have to deal with looking for a 'lost' item. Something you know was put away in it's usual place. Then you have to question if you really DID put it away, despite the fact that your memory says you did. You're questioning yourself. Next you end up having to question your family- and then they start questioning YOU. Next thing you know a sane person is questioning their own sanity.

And I get the whole "try and catch them with a video camera" idea as far as collecting real evidence. But the fact is, you'd have to wire the whole house up since it's not always in the same place. Not to mention, by setting up a video camera, you're assuming they don't know they're being filmed and that you can just catch them willy nilly. This person has proven themselves to be intelligent. I don't know- is your ultimate goal to collect "evidence" or to make it stop? I get that you really want to understand it- and I honestly think that that's all that is needed to be understood- You are being messed with.

I think this guy needs to be told to buzz off. Theft is a crime and you're going to report him to the highest legal authority- the big guy upstairs. And while I, like many, do try to find the humor and be silly, I really do mean it. Heck, it's worth a try, right?

Thats just WRONG!! if your ghost was going to have a party he could have at least invited you.

Amen, sister! It's my wine and my opener, so at least invite me to the party!

In all sincerity, I can see the humorous side of all of this but at the same time it is driving me nuts! Am I crazy or is all of this actually happening?

The funniest part of it all to me is that my husband dismisses the disappearing car keys and the disappearing/reappearing wine opener but he can't explain the vanishing magnifying glass. I don't get that. If you've seen one object disappear, why scoff at the rest? Engineers....

Okay, this is getting annoying now. I noticed that the electric wine opener wasn't on it's base this morning. I had been all over the house picking up before the cleaning ladies come (God bless Maid Brigade!). While I was picking up I cleaned off the counter on the downstairs bar and there was a wine cork and the other debris that's left when you open a wine bottle. The cutter was there, too. I picked all those things up and the counter was empty. I swear it.

I went downstairs again and as soon as I hit the bottom of the stairs I see the wine opener laying on the counter. Now this thing is big and black, about the size of a big mag flashlight. There is no way that I could have overlooked it. When I told the story to my husband, he told me that that's where he had left it, but I swear that it was not there when I cleaned the counter and then it just reappeared.

My husband thinks I just overlooked it but I'm telling you there is no way that I could have missed it and I certainly would have picked it up with the other stuff if it had been there.

Either I am losing my mind or something is playing with me.

What possible message could a wine opener be? Maybe the spirits needed it - I should check to see if a bottle of wine is missing.

Thats just WRONG!! if your ghost was going to have a party he could have at least invited you. Make sure you keep a camera rolling I'v never seen a drunk ghost before. Can ghost even get drunk? You're about to find out. Try to lure him out with beer nuts.

Actuality forget the nuts, he took a wine opener, maybe a nice cheese platter?

I went downstairs again and as soon as I hit the bottom of the stairs I see the wine opener laying on the counter. Now this thing is big and black, about the size of a big mag flashlight. There is no way that I could have overlooked it. When I told the story to my husband, he told me that that's where he had left it, but I swear that it was not there when I cleaned the counter and then it just reappeared.

My husband thinks I just overlooked it but I'm telling you there is no way that I could have missed it and I certainly would have picked it up with the other stuff if it had been there.

Either I am losing my mind or something is playing with me.

What possible message could a wine opener be? Maybe the spirits needed it - I should check to see if a bottle of wine is missing.