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My husband and I took my parents to Osage Beach last week. While we were there my father lost his phone while getting out of his car and heading to the outlet mall. Because it was raining and my father had fallen and was in a wheelchair, I volunteered to go and check the car to see if it was still in the car or in a puddle beside the car.

So I get out there, and open his door, and find the phone nice and dry. I was holding my phone (which is nearly the twin of my father's phone) in my right hand and grabbed my da's in my left. I turned and walked back into the store, handed my father his phone. My husband notes aloud that if we weren't careful, we could get the phones switched. He uses my phone to check on our cabin and hands it back to me.

Thirty minutes later, I cannot find my phone. My father is angry at me because he has been calling my mother and I for twenty minutes. I go back and retrace my steps to no avail... the phone isn't anywhere. My husband runs back to the car to get his phone out of our overnight bag, and as he is rooting around he opens my hair bag... There is my phone.

If I didn't believe in mischievious spirits, I would be in a pickle of a time explaining how my phone got from inside the mall (and my jacket) and inside a locked trunk zipped inside of my hair bag... It isn't the first time something like this has happened. I was on my way to Japan to meet my husband's parents for the first time. My husband packed our checked bags so that we could get to our credit cards and our passports. I double checked the bags in the car on the way to the airport. They were there... In Japan, however, my passport was in my other bag, stuffed inside my bath kit. I have no explanation of why it happened. I did not carry the other luggage bags, and my husband would not have done something that would make me search through everything just to find my passport. He is very organized (somewhat overly organized), and always packs things in the order that we will use them.

Sometimes my husband and I laugh about the strange occurances when things go missing... other times it is enough to make us cry.

I don't think I will ever forget the time my husband's calligraphy kit ended up in the freezer in the out building... No one was home to blame it on... He had been given that kit when he was six, and it was irreplacable.

I honestly do not understand the modern affinity to ignore or dismiss the spirit world. I guess I have just been around it way too long to say it doesn't exist.

Its interesting that it is never the same thing that goes missing, and that the stuff never reappears in the same place. I call them mischievious spirits because I believe in spirits (what most would call the Fey) and I don't believe that they mean any harm.

My grandmother used to keep them in line with an offering of sorts, and I kind of do the same. Its just hard to explain to people who visit with us when their items go missing what is going on. A Christian friend refuses to comeover anymore because of the incidents that have happened while she was at my home. A couple of non-christian friends are of the same opinion.

Yeah, sometimes the smirks and outright derision is a bit hard to take. I wouldn't suggest the offering to a Christian, though many in my tribe practice both Christianity and our native beliefs. I don't know how they merge the two, as they seem to me to be oppositional belief systems.

I have someone open or close my closet door. It's mainly just that door, but sometimes I come in and it is closed after I left it open and vice versa. I do believe in spirits. We have one in our house so I feel it is hard for me not to believe.

The Fey aren't poltergeist. Poltergeist are mainly manifested spirits, the spirit doesn't necessarily exist, and is a manifestation of frustration and anger in children and sometimes older women who are unable to handle stressful situations. That is not to say that the phenomenon is not real, just that it really isn't a ghost so much as psychic overload brought on by stress.

I had a good little chuckle at that. But cable sucks xp And poltergeists are spirits or remnants of the spirit's emotions. Imps are more of a demonic race, but actually it depends on who you are talking to there.

I don't know about that... there are tons of "haunted" theaters... and a few of my online friends have mentioned their tv's seem haunted (as they are either turned on when they are supposed to be turned off, or flipping through channels on their own. )