Such things happen quite often here: sometimes they are returned - found in a most unlikely or even impossible place - and sometimes they just vanish forever.
There's usually a disinct element of humourous mischief in it (different to the unpleasant and malevolent haunting of 20 years ago) to which I now respond:
'Oh, that was a good one, very funny! Really, a master-stroke! But may I, please, have it back?'
I consider it's best to share the joke. There's certainly an element of intelligence in it, not merely random disappearances.
To my delight it occurred recently, while I was in the room, to a highly scientific friend, a Professor of Medicine at Cambridge University with zero interest in the occult, and left him open-mouthed but unable find any rational explanation other than an invisible, joking 'house spirit'.
The dog sometimes seems to watch something invisible to me, but never shows any sign of fear.
I reason that a house with a pleasant joker in residence, or even just passing through now and then, can't be a terribly bad place to live.
Re: An Oddball Question
There's usually a disinct element of humourous mischief in it (different to the unpleasant and malevolent haunting of 20 years ago) to which I now respond:
'Oh, that was a good one, very funny! Really, a master-stroke! But may I, please, have it back?'
I consider it's best to share the joke. There's certainly an element of intelligence in it, not merely random disappearances.
To my delight it occurred recently, while I was in the room, to a highly scientific friend, a Professor of Medicine at Cambridge University with zero interest in the occult, and left him open-mouthed but unable find any rational explanation other than an invisible, joking 'house spirit'.
The dog sometimes seems to watch something invisible to me, but never shows any sign of fear.
I reason that a house with a pleasant joker in residence, or even just passing through now and then, can't be a terribly bad place to live.
'More things in Heaven and Earth....' etc!