Disappearing Object Phenomenon, referred to as DOP or The DOPler Effect is a strange and sometimes bazaar event that happens in homes all across America everyday. You’ve probably even experienced it yourself. Perhaps you were watching TV and when you reached for the remote it had mysteriously disappeared. Now that in itself is nothing to be concerned about. But, you enlisted the help of everyone in the family to help you search your home and it was nowhere to be found. Suddenly it reappears exactly where it should have been. How could everyone have missed it right there in plain sight?
It’s the DOPler Effect.
So exactly where did your remote go and how did it reappear? No one knows for sure, but there are several theories.
The first of which is, yep, you guessed it; plain old forgetfulness. It may seem like objects have a mind of their own and simply show up somewhere else when you aren’t looking. But the truth is; you probably did forget that you moved it. When the object is finally located, you can often think back to prior to losing it and recall leaving the room or answering the phone, probably with the item in hand. And there it is right where you stopped to pet the cat or get a drink of water.
This really isn’t DOP at all, at least not as far as the paranormal kind goes.
But that wasn’t the case with the disappearing remote. Okay. So we ruled out that you didn’t absentmindedly take the remote to another room and forget it. Now what?
Well, the second most common reason for objects going missing and reappearing in the same location, is; someone else moved it and when they saw you upset and searching they didn’t want to own up to it. They quietly sneaked it back in its proper place when you weren’t looking. Admittedly, if you have kids this is a plausible explanation.
But everyone was accounted for and you are absolutely sure no one moved the remote when you weren’t looking.
Hm. Now that’s getting interesting.
Many psychics and paranormal researchers claim that the object slips into another dimension and returns to our dimension later on. This, of course, is just a theory and there really isn’t any evidence to support that multiple dimensions really exist, let alone that your remote has visited one.
Others attribute it to ghostly activity, either because the spirit wishes to communicate with you or he thinks it’s funny to see you running around looking for the remote. You have to admit it. If you were a ghost and had no way to interact with us mortals thumbing our noses at your existence, a good game of hide seek would probably break up the monotony a bit.
Whatever the reason, we all know that objects do disappear when no one is looking. We’ve all experienced the DOPler Effect at one time or another, but probably didn’t think anyone would believe us if we told them.
So what do you say? Have you experienced The DOPler Effect? Drop a line in the comments and share your stories.
Now, this sounds really weird, but here goes. Yesterday, my bestfriend and I were in her room, and it was just us two. She had her cellphone beside her (for sure) and I didn’t touch it. She didn’t leave the room once before we noticed it missing, I did, but I only went to the bathroom and we searched high and low there as well. We TORE APART her room, literally, searched EVERYWHERE. And later her mom and her did it again too, looking behind and underneath absolutly everything, no piecce of furniature was left unturned. And now this is REALLY pissing me off, because I’m fairly sure they think I took it, and I didn’t. But if I were them, I would think it was me too, because really, there is no reasonable explaination for where the phone went. We tried calling it alot, and eventually it was just turned off? Or maybe it died. Either way, I’m so freaked out because theres no explaination for it. Help?
Did anyone ever find the phone?
OK, my most striking experience was a couple of times my gold locket came off my chain and I would find it somewhere like on the floor or on a bench. I took the necklace and locket to a jewellers to see if there was a hairline fracture in the locket or some other reason for it to come off an unbroken chain but after examination, the jeweller said it was all ok… and he could not explain how the locket came to come off. I just stopped wearing it cos I did not want to lose it!!!!
Wow. That’s a bit odd. Did you ever figure this one out?
I went in as usual this morning to look at stocks on my laptop. My wireless mouse was gone. I looked all around the desk and could not find it. Thinking I had carried it someplace accidentally, I went to other rooms trying to find it. No luck.
I returned to my office and yep the mouse is still missing. My wife enters the room behind me, I turn asking if she sees it, and she said it is on my desk. I turnaround and there it is in front of my laptop.
Now here comes the even more unbelievable part.
My wife a few minutes later after thinking about the event states that when she entered the room she did not see the mouse until I turned asking about it, which blocked her view for just a second.
But wait, there’s more!
My wife calls me while later out in the car and said it reved up to 6000 rpm and had to be turned off to get the engine speed back down.
And while looking for my sunglasses, they weren’t in my jacket in the other car so I went inside to look – no luck. So back to my jacket and they are now in the side pocket.
The day is not over. What’s next????
Dave… It sounds like something is playing with you.
I know how you feel. I got a new dvd for Christmas this year and left it on our entryway counter in plain sight. No one else was home except my boyfriend. We went to the store and came back, and it was gone. No one had been in our home and we were only gone about 15 minutes. We have a fairly small apartment and I have torn it upside down looking for it and still no luck. Nobody moved it and nobody can find it. I’m weirded out.
Hey Lindsey. Just wondering if the DVD ever showed up.