How to explain the inexplicable

After my daughter left home and went to London for her first job, I was sorting out her room. There was a pile of empty cardboard trays on a shelf, which I took downstairs to the rubbish. As I was crossing the landing the trays suddenly 'jumped' out of my hands. It was just as though a fist had come up from below and deliberately knocked them. Gathering up the scattered cardboard, I found a certificate. I phoned my daughter and asked her if she needed it. She said 'yes, she needed it for her job application and had been desperately looking for it'.

Weird things like that are always happening to me. I'm a staunch, science focused realist. Not a spiritual bone in my cynical body I'm afraid, or any belief in the paranormal.
BUT I experience so many odd moments when I really can't see any explanation. There are more things in heaven and earth....or whatever that quote is. Someone will correct me!

Yes, I have many moments like this. Scarily, a while ago I was hunting for some lost keys and had looked again and again in the obvious places. Imitating a friend, I said out loud 'come on gremlin, joker, whatever you are, I need those keys, give them back!'. Shortly afterwards, the keys turned up exactly where I had searched more than once. I too am pragmatic, reasonably scientific, not given to seeing things but find such coincidences weird to say the least.

I still puzzle over what happened when I was about to leave my sister-in-laws after a visit. I was gathering up my things and started to look for my glasses - I remembered leaving them on her lounge window sill. But they were not there. Eventually she helped me look for them - the window sill was checked again - and everywhere else that I could have left them. But no luck. Then I glanced at the window sill again and they were there!! How could that be?

I have no explanation, but my glasses have been missing since last Friday, DH and I have looked everywhere, so if you ladies could all will them to turn up, I would be so grateful?

I remember a thread similar to this on Mumsnet and this poster from near Newcastle, who I had seen on many threads, very down to earth person, said that for as far back as she can remenber, if either her or her husband had lost something, it would turn up the next morning on the coffee table.
So much so, she said that if they lose things now, they just go to bed and know it will be there in the morning.
Wish that I had a little helper like that!?

I work in a charity shop that has a 'naughty' spirit.
We had another 'incident' yesterday.
Someone had donated a very large odd/spooky looking doll.
It is so large that we stood it on the floor. Just the two of us working. My colleague came through to where I was working and asked me if I had turned the doll to face the wall!!
Nobody else had been in the shop.

DD many miscarriages - multiple failed IVFs - told by expert to stop the IVF - she was given an amulet by an elderly friend of the family - pregnant within 10 days and just delivered of a healthy baby - she wore the amulet throughout her pregnancy and it has been passed on to another in need. Apparently is is given to those in health crises - not just failed conceptions. No explanation but we are all so thankful.

That brought a tear to my eye Granarchist, welcome to your new little Grandchild. ?

1. They worked their way into the lining then worked their way back out again

2. Sometimes when you are looking hard for something you think has become hidden you focus of hidey holes and become somewhat "blind" to the plain sight areas

The weirdest thing happened to me in 1980 or thereabouts, feeling low I was walking through the market and stopped at the record stall to ask if they had the record, " Miss you like crazy " by Natalie Cole as D and SiL had not long emigrated.
The assistant grabbed a pile of 7" vinyls to go through when one dropped out on the floor---------yes, you've guessed it ! The assistant had to sit down because she couldn't believe that out of a pile of records that particular one should slip out. I was shocked too. Why that one ??

This isn't unusual for me .ni had been thinking about my dear dad who had died years ago I went into the bedroom and a photo that had obviously been away in the drawer was on the floor picture of dad holding me on a sunny day months after I was born. Recently lost a bracelet not expensive but mine anyway muttered away about it and got into my car there it was on the seat!!! Could tell you loads more but don't want to hog thread.

I wear a pair of inexpensive drop earrings, every single day without fail. Last year I was visiting my daughter in New York. We were going out to the car and I saw something on the driveway. I leaned down and it was one of my earrings. I had not noticed that had apparently fallen off. But when I picked it up - the back piece was in place! How on earth did that happen??

Me too B9exchange...lost mine when taking down the Christmas decs 2 years ago, never did turn up!

I may have posted this before - I was contemplating moving a picture to another wall but was reluctant as my late DH had chosen the put it where it was.

During the night I heard a crash, went downstairs to find the picture on the floor. On examination the picture hook and the picture wire were both perfectly OK not broken or bent. I am convinced it was my DH telling me to do what I wanted.

Sometime in the early 1990s, a friend told me about a book called The Celestine Prophecy she had read it and found it fascination. According to her, it is some kind of psychological story based on ancient Eastern traditions. It didn’t appeal to me, so I listened and then dismissed the conversation. A few days later I went into my local bookshop to look for something – I can’t remember what – and as I walked along the rows of books – yes you guessed it ‘that’ book fell from the shelf and landed a few inches in front of my feet. I didn’t buy it, but I still wonder why/how it happened.

Some years ago when visiting family I lost an earring in my bedroom. I crawled around on the floor searching for it, I even shook all the bedclothes in case it had fallen in the bed without any luck. When I went to bed I said a little prayer asking for help finding it. The next morning as I got out of bed I stepped on it!

I once lost my make up bag and ended up having to buy new stuff. A few weeks later there it was sitting on my dressing table, everything as it should be inside. Weird. I often think there’s a leprechaun in my house hiding things, as from time to time things disappear only to turn up right under your nose.

While in Glasgow visiting my grandchildren, I lost a favourite, and quite valuable pendant necklace. I had no recollection of taking it off, except at bedtime. The last place I remember seeing it was on my DD's display cabinet, where I put it before going to bed.
I cars over it as DH had bought it for me. Still, it was gone so I tried not to think about it. Two years later, I was searching through my old handbags looking for my missing driving licence, and in the very bottom of the tiniest pocket in one of them was my pendant. I was ecstatic! How it got there I'll never know, as I don't remember ever taking it off.

Cried, cars have nothing to do with it.

DH lost his glasses, searched everywhere for days. Eventually had to buy new ones £200 upwards. A few weeks later glasses found in the metre cupboard.
B9exchange you might want to look in your metre cupboard!

Until I get hard evidence that there are really mischievous but invisible gremlins who hide my glasses, keys, purse etc., I will carry on accepting that the mind is a very powerful thing. If I tell myself I can't find an item and I get more and more frustrated, I'm effectively blind to it. I can't see for looking! When I make a decision to remedy the loss e.g. use my spare glasses (which I don't like), I relax about the missing item and it turns up, usually in a place I've already looked. It's mind over matter.I

One technique I use, if I remember, is to place two fingers of each hand on my forehead just above my eyebrows and take three slow, deep breaths. Then often, I just walk to the where the list thing is. I learned this on a course when I was still working. You don't have to believe it will work but it usually does. The explanation is that it relaxes the mind and fetches the blood supply back from the reptilian, fight or flight centre of the brain to the thinking part.

I've always mislaid things and it makes me smile to remember a class of six year olds with their fingers on their foreheads telling me, "Mrs PB! Just do this! "

I was with an escorted party on a cruise on a small boat once about 2 years ago. Every night I put my wedding ring on a little shelf in the cabin. One morning it was gone. I felt all around the shelf, got my mirror out to see every inch of it, but to no avail. Finally went in tears to the tour leader. She just put her hand on the shelf and there it was! I was so happy. Hubby had only been gone a few months before.

GRANDMAIN....Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hope I've got it right.

Many years ago I was going through a bad patch when I found an ankh symbol ring in a new age shop. It was only a few pence, and I was really drawn to it, so decided to pick it up (I've never been a jewellery person). It definitely brought luck with it and things improved almost immediately, when it disappeared. Some time later when another life crisis arose, I woke one morning and there it was on a window ledge in full view and again my life improved dramatically before it again went missing pending a third near miracle following its reemergence. After that, I knew that I would never see it again and although I miss it, and could really do with it now - going through real nightmare crisis as I write - I know that it was only on temporary loan to me and hope it will bring love and hope to some other fortunate person.