I lost my wallet about three months ago whilst on a camping trip. I was at a petrol station and I went in to the shop and left my wallet on the seat of the car with the window open enough that it would be possible for somebody to reach in and grab it. Anyway, when I came back to the car five minutes later it was nowhere to be seen. I turned the car inside out looking for it several times but found nothing. After I returned from the trip, I cleaned out the car and looked again but nothing. Needless to say I had already cancelled all my cards by this stage and felt some intense anger at this apparent violation.
Forward wind three months later, Im about to go to the shop and so I put on my jeans. I wear these jeans just about everyday and had washed them three or four times at least in the three months since the incident. I reach round to my back pocket because I felt something in there. It was my wallet. I was freaked out by this. I do not know how it got there. Nothing was changed, it was exactly as it was when it went missing. I have thought about this many times and tried to figure it out but it has me absolutely puzzled. Its too bizarre.
As I said I had been wearing these jeans alot and washed them so it wasnt there all along.
Has anyone else had a similar incident like this happen? Can anyone offer any explanation?
I am grateful that my identity isnt out there being used illegally which is a concern when you lose your wallet but I am at a loss as to how this has happened. Have I had a memory lapse or something, I have never had one that I know of before.

How odd.

Things have gone missing for me too every so often and I can't work it out, though nothing quite as spectacular as that. I visited my sister's flat a while back, took off my hat and sat it on the bed. While I was there, she made her bed but noticed the hat and made sure she didn't accidently make the hat within the bed so put it on top. Before I left, I went to get the hat but it wasn't on the bed. It was under the bed, on the floor, on her desk or in the bed or anywhere and I told her "Ok, I don't know where the heck it's gone but as soon as I leave you're going to find it on your bed. Because that's just my luck" And you know what? 5mins after I left she found it. On her bed.

Another time I got a free ticket for hot chips at the skating rink. I put it in my jeans pocket to get them later, making sure I didn't put it in my jacket pocket because I figured it would fall out. We skated a bit more, then went to get the chips but it wasn't in my pocket. I turned all my pockets inside-out so it couldn't possibly have been hiding anywhere, went back on the ice to see if I'd dropped it there, got off again, searched my pocket once more. And there it was.

And once more, I lost my hand cream. I thought I'd left it on my bed and searched everywhere for it but couldn't for the life of me find it. Finally I thought I'd accidently made it in my bed, lifted up the covers, heard a thump and the cream had fallen off the covers onto the floor. But I'd checked on the covers and there were basically no folds or anything for it to hide in. Where did it come from???

No explanations but it's messing with my head a bit, heh.

Maybe I just don't look properly which is entirely plausible but hmmm...

That's a cool story ultra! I have heard of similar ones like this where people have lost or misplaced something to have it retured to them in a completely different context. I personally believe it's the spirits at work:) Ive been shown to where something I've lost is a few times.

I would have thought that if your wallet had been in your back pocket all along and been through 3 or 4 washes then there would be clear evidence of the contents being damaged by the washing and drying.

It definitely wasnt in my back pocket all along though because there was no evidence of my wallet having been through the wash at all. And also I had been wearing these jeans day in and day out.
Maybe the "spirits" brought it back to me rather than showing me where it was lost.
It will always remain a mystery. Its kind of been a bit of an eye opener though because when something like this happens it makes you stop and think about your perception of reality and how everything is not necessarily as it seems.

Glad to hear Im not the only one. I know what you mean when you say maybe I just didnt look properly but I turned this car inside out and it definitely was not in there. Oh well, if anything this incident has changed the way I see things on a completely different level.

I hope you learned your lesson and never leave your wallet on the seat again.

It sounds like the work of the cosmic joker.Do a google search and read about the cosmic joker.

this isent the same as loosing something and finding it in the same place later but i hate when im doing something and i drop what ever i am holding and i look down and i cant see it and it magicly rolls like 10 feet under a couch or in some wierd place that you wouldent expect it to be and you look where you droped it and think like where the hell did it go

Well, I had an occurrence that convinced me, beyond any doubt, of the abilities of spirits, ghosts, angels or whatever they may be. A few years ago my five year old daughter misplaced one cassette from a four tape set. It was her favorite one and she and my wife ( her mom ) were very upset ( my daughter was crying) after searching practically the entire house . My wife told me it was a purple cassette tape so I would know to keep an eye out for it. My wife later said she felt really bad about giving my daughter a hard time for losing it and when they went up to bed they said a prayer to St. Anthony before falling asleep. I did my usual routine of staying downstairs, channel surfing the TV, sitting on the couch and falling asleep then going up to bed around three or four in the morning. Typically I wake up, startled, when I drop the remote on the floor . This night was the same as always accept when I woke up ( startled ) I checked the floor and couldn't find the remote. I looked to my left then to my right and saw the remote, it was sitting in the middle of the couch cushion next to me ( about a foot and a half away ) ON TOP of a purple cassette tape. I stared at it, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, for about a minute and didn't know what to do. I almost couldn't move, then I just stood up, turned off the TV, picked up the tape and went upstairs to tell my wife. Upstairs I found my daughter asleep in bed with my wife so I carried her into her room, put her in bed and went to tell my wife. As I told her the story I was shaking , not from fright but from excitement, like a kid telling his friends about his christmas gifts. Neither one of us could fall asleep for a couple of hours and I just kept thinking " thanks Mom". ( My Mom had died shortly before my daughter was born and they are very similar in mannerisms and personality.) My wife was a little freaked out but I was very calm for having such an unbelievable event occur. I guess because it was a good thing and I just figured whatever allowed that to happen must be good. My family has always believed in odd phenomena ( kept an open mind) and others in my family have had strange experiences in the past but this was MY first real brush with " the unknown". I found it very peaceful knowing that there is something other than what we know. Since that day ( now five years later ) I have not had a single stressful day . Everyday things happen and I accept them somehow always finding positive reasons even in negative situations. I used to be a perfectionist and a very stressed out person and I am very different now. The world is not perfect , people are not perfect and things are not perfect and I like it like that.
Well that's that, I just thought I'd add my story . I wonder if other people have " changed " after an unusual occurrence. I would guess, yes.....

These are odd stories, but they give a positive vibe that there is something that helps us out from time to time.

why did u leave it one ur seat with the window open......i dont drive sio i shuldnt really comment

Because I was in a quiet rural area on holidays and felt relaxed and being ripped off was the last thing on my mind. Also I have always been quite a trusting person and not the type to always be on guard and keeping everything locked up. I could have let this experience make me more fearful and paranoid but instead it has made me more trusting because I now feel like I am somehow being watched over and guided.

Why didn't you take it inside with you so you could pay for the gas?

so many questions................... I was with somebody else and they were paying for the gas. I was getting water and I took enough money out of my wallet to pay for that.

stuff like this doesnt happen to me....every time i loose something im like "OMG WHERED IT GO!!!" and then i look in my hand and its there....i thought i lost it...but its really in my hand...and then i feel really stupid

I had a similar thing happen to me when I was in college about 20 years ago. I'll share the story (sorry it's long):

I lived in the dorm with 4 other roommates. We shared a living room and bathroom, while each of us had our own bedroom. The bedrooms were pretty small but offered privacy. I was in my room late one night preparing for bed as usual. At the time, I wore contact lenses and every so often when I took them out for the night, I would do a more thorough cleaning (beyond the usual cleaning... also since they were not disposable contacts). Anyway, I had been sitting in a chair at my small, built-in desk and had just finished cleaning both lenses and put them in their lens case (right one in the "R" compartment, left one in the "L" compartment... for those who wear contacts, you know the deal with that).

Anyway, immediately after I put them in their case and the tops were tightly closed, I reached to put away the bottles of cleaning solution, etc. and I accidentally knocked my contact lens case off the desk. I heard it hit the floor with a pretty loud thud (I even felt it hit the floor as my feet could feel the thud off the floor when it hit). Well naturally, I then bent over to pick it up but couldn't find it anywhere.

I've also experienced those times when you drop something and look down, expecting the object to be right about there where you dropped it but it seems to have bounced or rolled far away. So I knew to also look far away from where I thought the lens case had fallen, in case it bounced and ended up further than I thought it should be. I checked EVERYWHERE, literally. I had a very tiny room, and I kept it clean and uncluttered... so there were not too many places it could have gotten lost. The floor was bare and nothing on it except a small trash can on the wall behind the desk. It was close enough that if something bounced, it could have fallen in there. So I thoroughly searched the trash can (didn't have much in it at the time anyway) and did not find the lens case in there.

I searched every nook and cranny... all the corners, under the bed, on the bed, in the bed, I searched my desk (both inside and out), I checked in the closet (which was also kept neat and uncluttered), I literally checked every square inch of that room. No luck in finding the lens case. I thought I was losing my mind. This was not just dropping a contact lens (which I've done before and don't think it's odd at all not to find one of those), this was the whole darn case -- much too big to lose like a contact lens.

Well my sister also attended this college at the same time I did and lived in her own dorm in another part of campus. So the next morning I got her to come over and help search my room. I thought maybe it was there and I just wasn't seeing it. So I thought another pair of eyes would be good (and yes, even though I'd taken my contact lenses out of my eyes, I DID have sense enough to put my glasses on so I could see...LOL).

She searched the room just as thoroughly as I did, every nook and cranny. There was not a place in that room that didn't get looked over. Still, she didn't find the case either.

It must have been the weekend then, because our mom had come by later that day and then the three of us all searched again. Still did not find the case. As well as that little, uncluttered room had been searched, there's no way a contact lens case could have been missed IF IT HAD BEEN THERE. It was as though the case had disappeared into thin air. I even toyed with the idea that maybe it had fallen through a black hole of sorts and was in another dimension -- like it fell through a "black hole" in the floor (I know it hit the floor because I both heard and felt it)... so it didn't just vanish while falling through the air.

Needless to say, I ended up having to get a new pair of contact lenses (and case). I was very careful not to drop them off the desk like with the other pair and I went on to finish out the semester that year. All along, I still kept an eye out for that lens case, still never found it. Then, since the end of the semester came and it was time for me to move out, I had to pack up and say goodbye to that little room. I thought that would be the perfect opportunity to make sure, once and for all that my contact lens case was not there. So as I packed each thing, I made extra sure that I examined each thing carefully in case my contact case showed up. Still nothing. It eventually came to the point that all my stuff was packed and in my car and the little dorm room was empty. I even lifted the small twin mattress that was on the bed without any bedcoverings at this point (which we'd looked there before), but still nothing. There was literally no place for it to hide. The room was stripped.

I was disappointed in not finding the lens case... not to mention, confused. And I went on home to my parents' house where I unpacked (still not finding the case) and enjoyed my summer before having to return to college the next fall season.

Well the fall semester finally came and my sister and I decided to get our own apartment to share instead of living in the dorm. We visited several different apartment complexes before deciding on the one we liked, put down a deposit and promptly moved in. Nothing really significant happened here. We just lived there normally and attended classes at the college nearby. The following year, our aunt who also lived nearby told us that she had an apartment (built onto the side of her house) that was available now and so she asked if we would like to live there. Of course we jumped at the chance because it was cheaper, was a pretty place, and we liked our aunt.

I forget how long we lived there when one day we had a leak in our bathroom. My aunt had to call a plumber to come fix the pipe, which was behind the wall (the living room wall). There was no way to get to the pipe without cutting a hole in the living room wall to get to it. I remember my sister wasn't too happy about that because she had just wallpapered the living room. Anyway, after the guy cut the hole and peered in, he started saying there was a bunch of stuff hidden behind the wall. My aunt then said she wasn't surprised because when the apartment was made, that all used to be part of the house (the main part, which is her house). She said additional walls had been put up by the previous owner of the house (before she ever bought that house) to make the bathroom and bedroom of the apartment addition, so if some things got left behind the walls, she wasn't surprised. Anyway, the man started pulling out objects that were back there. Old magazines, coupons, a comb.... I forget what all else. But then he pulled out a contact lens case. I immediately recognized it as mine because I had my initials wrote on it (because my sister also wore contacts and we had our intials on them so we could tell them apart). My sister and I just looked at each other in disbelief.... because HOW could I have dropped that case off my desk in the dorm at college and it end up in the wall at our aunt's house, where the walls had been built before she even bought the house? Totally freaky!!!! It still freaks me out to this day thinking about it and I have never been able to come up with a logical explanation.

The contacts were still in the case, with the solution and contacts still there in perfect condition as though I had just put them in there. Weird! If anyone can come up with an explanation for this, I'd love to know because my family and I are still baffled by this. When I read the story about the wallet disappearing and then suddenly reappearing in the pocket of those pants, it really brought back memories of my own experience. I'm glad to share it with you all. I haven't told too many people about it.

I really enjoyed reading that ragus, the first thing that comes to mind is were you going through a time of wondering about life/afterlife etc?

Secondly, when you went for new contact lenses did you need an adjustment at all from what the previous ones were?

Thirdly, you could say that looking back now it seems like the events were connected (synchronized events) spirit knew and perhaps was guiding you in that you would end up at your aunts house and find the contact lenses again. It was ment to happen, For what purpose? to prove beyond no doubt that the spirit world exists. I think it is a lovely story, thanks for sharing it!

Not at all.... at that time I was very much consumed with studying for my classes. It was my second semester at college so I was taking the basic courses, nothing heavy or even making me think of life/afterlife, etc. I just remember being totally absorbed in going to classes, doing my homework, studying for tests, etc. I also did a little hanging out with a few good friends, but none of us were into anything really deep at that time. We just would go out to eat and then go to the campus entertainment area where we often went roller skating in the old gym, swam in the indoor pool, or played basketball. My mind was so totally not into any thing deep like thinking about the afterlife. In fact, this was also the one time of my life when I was very distant from God. As a child living at home, I was close to God but starting in high school I started to lose touch with Him and it was even worse in college where my thoughts got absorbed by so many other things (I know now that God should have been the center of my life then just as He is now... but when you're young like that and trying to find yourself as a young adult, you tend to shove God aside and sort of get lost, as I've heard other Christians say about this particular time in their lives).



This was so long ago, I can't remember for sure, but I don't recall needing an adjustment. Those lost contacts were fairly new so I don't think I would have needed an adjustment. I think I just got a replacement for what I had on file for my eyes, as I don't recall even getting another eye exam... just got replacement lenses.



Yes... like you say, maybe that was a series of synchronized events meant to show me that the spirit world exists. It makes sense because that was a time of my life where I was totally lost as far as my relationship with God. I have since re-built that relationship and it's stronger than ever (and continuing to get stronger), but maybe there was some kind of supernatural intervention there trying to get me back on track. ...However, please know that event did not get me back on track. I went on being lost for another 3 years before I began to read my Bible again... and slowly got back into going to church, etc. And it has been a wonderful spiritual journey ever since, getting better all the time. But maybe that did have a part in getting me back to where I am today.

Wow great post as my dad would say there is a logical explanation for everything paranormal but Im still wondering about it because what is there are actually sprits guiding, warning or scaring the crap out of us?

You will never know.

Well, sorry. If you don't want questions then don't start a thread.

I was just sharing my experience , It wasnt my intention to offend you by the comment I made about so many questions, It was more said in a humorous way. Thats the problem with forums and chatrooms, people can sometimes tend to read things into a comment based on their own personal experiences and its actually not what they interpret it to be.

Ive had an experience like this with my wallet too.....I remeber one time when i was like 8 my mom took me to this store to spend my christmas money...and i was looking at something and i set my wallet down (didnt have pockets) and i didnt like it so we left...and i was in the car and i was freakin out because i left my wallet there and my mom wouldnt take me to go get it cause she didnt believe me...so about 4 years later my sister was dusting her dresser and she had a bear collection on her dresser because it was the kind that had shelves on it...and when she took the biggest bear off the top shelf & she was feeling around and she felt something squarish ( she couldnt see what was on the top shelf cause she was too short) she couldnt reach it enough to grab it...so she got a chair and stood on it and looked at was it was...and she kinda just looked down at me with wide eyes and she was scaring me so i screamed WHAT!? and she just lifts it up..... and gives it to me....
yeah....it was very...cool to have my wallet but back really scary to know that 4 years later it dissappeared from the store and went to my sisters bear collection

That's why the smilies help.

No offence taken.

LOL. I do that too.

I've had quite a few strange things happen to me in my life and I totally believe there is more to this universe than we are supposed to accept.

I will only mention a couple as I don't want this to get too long. (I tend to go on a bit).

OK. First thing - when I was younger my Mum's friend was round with her son who was about 3-4 years old. I was sitting playing with him in a back room and out of the blue he said: '[So & so] is here' (I can't remember who it was - but it was a person that was not in the house). Guess what? About 5-10 seconds later the front doorbell rings and it's the person he said!! We were in the back of the house so there was no way he could have known that. We all just looked at each other stunned. Tryed to ask him how he knew, but he couldn't say.

Another thing - when my cousin was younger she would have terrible nightmares all the time and her mum would not be able to console her when she woke up screaming. Most of the time it was as if she didn't even realise her mother was in the room and she would scream and talk to someone else that wasn't there. Anyway, she used to dream of childrens drawings and remembered drawings of flowers and other random things. This went on for years until when she was about 12, when she was watching TV with her mother. She just froze and stared intently at the TV. They were watching a documentary on the Aberfan Disaster. (A school was covered by a landslide of waste from a coal tip in the 60's). She said to her mother 'I was there. I died there.' Ever since then the dreams stopped and she is convinced she died in the disaster in a past life.

In our family home, which we were renting at the time, my mothers friend was round. She was supposedly an indian holy woman. Apparently her young son was the highest Priest in their village back home. She said my brothers bedroom was haunted by a family member of the owners of the house, who happened to be one of my mothers acquaintences. (She was an Israeli and the room was used by her husband to pray in when they lived there). My mom's friend said the only way to remove it was to do a blessing and have the spirit follow the landlady out of the house. So she put some oils and candles in the room and we left them there for about a week. We got the landlady to come round one day and my mum made an excuse to get her to come up to the room in question. Expectantly I went up with them and as we opened the door and all walked into the room, all of my brothers books fell of his shelves!!! We all jumped out of our skins. My mothers friend on her next visit said that the spirit had gone.

OK. One more - this is the strangest thing that's happened to me personally. I was out with a girlfriend of the time a few years ago, and she was French-Tunisian and there was always things that were a bit different with her. For example when we used to touch each others hands it would feel as if we were one in a way I've never felt before. (Hard to explain).

Anyway there was a time we were out walking after going for a meal and we were talking and getting lost in each others company. We passed a tube station and carried on walking straight. After a few minutes she said to me 'Can you see where we are?' We stopped talking and I could not believe it, but we were back at the tube station we had passed minutes earlier!!! We had been going in a straight line and could not have gone round the block. Even if we had, the time we were walking was much too short to have made it round the whole way. I was stunned and asked her what happened, because she was not as baffled as me. She said it had happened to her a few times before in France. An example was, she was on a train and kept ending up going past the same stop about ten times! Which she said made her cry her eyes out. I found that hard to believe but after what had just happened I wasn't sure and I have to say I was extremely scared. It did not make sense. As if we were in a timewarp or a some sort of wormhole or something. Strange as hell!

Told you I go on a bit. Sorry.