What do Gremlins most often hide in your house?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (205739)
Walnut Creek, California
August 6, 2017 2:24pm CST
I was a bit sad to hear yesterday that my kid client's younger brother and sister think there's a ghost in their bedroom. Both said they heard someone breathing. I assured them that there aren't ghosts, and that all houses have strange noises (I didn't go into expansion and contraction of wood framing due to heat and cold, though I did mention drafts).
Of course, I was lying to protect their innocence. My house is teeming with little Gremlins. I hear them cackling at night. They are fairly benign, but they amuse themselves by stealing things, hiding them, and then returning them to me all at once.
Their favorite targets? My lighters, my scissors (I'm not kidding--I have five pairs because of them), my art gum erasers (used as sanding blocks for my wood projects), and my guitar picks. They don't even bother with my socks, though they sometimes do hide underpants.
Do you have Gremlins in your house? What do they most often hide? Do they suddenly return them to you, as do mine?
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@marguicha (215410)
• Chile
6 Aug 17
I have Gremlins and they do hide things. They are quick as they hide things that I have just seen and needed. They used to hide my house keys until I made a key holder with an anti Gremlin barrier. But they hide my glasses, my ball point pens and even big things such as gloves and my favorite lip gloss. They are quite naughty.
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@marguicha (215410)
• Chile
6 Aug 17
@TheHorse They are not that bad. Some years ago, they hid a bottle of rum and I found them after 3 months, when I was looking for a book.
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@TheHorse (205739)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Aug 17
My Gremlins tend to leave my keys alone, thank goodness. I'm glad you made an anti-Gremlin barrier. I actually have a box for guitar picks, so I can always find SOME picks, even if not my favorites. The other day they went after a bag of 72 of my favorite picks that I bought on-line. But they returned them the next day.
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@TheHorse (205739)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Aug 17
@marguicha Why did they put rum where books usually live? Or do I not want to know?
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@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
6 Aug 17
Yeah and the things people believe in. You know why I do not believe in any of that because I stayed in the desert, like real desert, not no city next door type deal and aliens did not even flash their lights on us. Was going to kiss a scorpion in the morning, but damn no scorpions either. Did see a lizard, that was the alien, I knew it. 
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@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
6 Aug 17
@TheHorse Yeah, out of that whole story. Kissing a scorpion was the only BS part. Wink wink.
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@TheHorse (205739)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Aug 17
@crossbones27 I never let the truth get in the way of a good story. I'm trying to think of what part of a scorpion I'd try to kiss, and I'm drawing a blank. I'd kiss a lizard, but not a salamander.
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@celticeagle (159008)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Aug 17
My daughter lost her cell phone about a week ago. And she is forever losing her cigs, lighter and cig case. I keep telling her to put them in the same place each time but she doesn't do it.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
17 Aug 17
Not in this house, no! In our last house we had a ghost who took things, moved them to different places and sometimes brought them back... LMFAO!
He seemed especially fond of a small glass rose that I bought at a fair and placed on our television set. The ghost was always turning the rose over, upside down or standing it on the flower end. Occasionally, he even moved it across the room and left it on our pellet stove.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
18 Aug 17
@TheHorse No clue, pony... I do know that when we moved he kept the rose, though.
None of us could find it anywhere. Asking for it back didn't help, either! (A lot of the time, if we simply ask him to return something it would take a little while, but we would get it back.)
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
17 Aug 17
@QuantumJoy A notebook? Your gremlins have been trained well to grab such an object. They could keep the socks, though.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
17 Aug 17
@QuantumJoy Oh, you obviously mean notebooks of the paper variety. I was thinking of computers! :-)
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@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
6 Aug 17
Though I don't use reading glasses often, when there is fine print to be read, I have to search for one of at least 5 pair I have around somewhere. They are never where I left them last, so it must be the gremlins.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
7 Aug 17
Yes we do have gremlins here too! They always love hiding scissors, socks and lids to my plastic containers! Lol.
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Hope you had a good swim.
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
7 Aug 17
Not me but my sister @TheHorse . She's had several things disappear and show up somewhere completely different. Even her dogs know when 'someone' is there as they will suddenly jump from a sound sleep and look at a spot where 'it' is. She's come home to her refrigerator door being opened or cabinet doors and even had a light on that wasn't on when she left.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
9 Aug 17
The house I am in now I dont have many problems with "them" but the old home place was loaded with them, you could see them and sometimes they would pull my hair or touch me, yes they took things and gave them back, lighters was the choice because I smoked back then.
At night thy would make me have nightmares but not so much here, But they will come to me in dreams.
I really hope that it is the children`s imagination be cause I find it to be a curse and hard to live with, cant really tell people because they think you`re insane. Its rare I talk about them.
@kobesbuddy (74553)
• East Tawas, Michigan
17 Aug 17
@TheHorse Yes, things disappear in my home, also. Gremlin? I'm not sure. But, when something gets dropped on the floors, that's where it should be found, right? In this house, it's gone, period. My one earring? Hmmm. Another earring? Hmmm. This isn't normal, nither do I have it figured out yet!
@PriscillaKing (53)
• Gate City, Virginia
23 Jan 18
I've always thought of pens and pencils hiding themselves. When there were three of us children at home using and not replacing things, and nobody remembered where who left what, we used to joke about a ghost...funnily enough the ghost was laid to rest as we grew up!
However, I *do* miss my Mogwai--a funny-looking, funny-acting animal that made people ask "Is that a cat?" (She grew up to be a cat, and reared two normal kittens before being spayed.)
@jstory07 (134456)
• Roseburg, Oregon
7 Aug 17
Yes I have Gremlins but not as many as I had in Colorado.
