I need advice regarding items that come up missing in the middle of the night

I realize how ridiculous this sounds, but I had a giant like maybe 2 pound bag of wasabi almonds on my nightstand. I have cameras in my room so I can verify all of this but unfortunately they do not cover the floor by my nightstand. At 2:42 in the morning I moved something on my nightstand and the bag of nuts fell. I looked at it on the floor but I didn't feel like picking it up at the time. At 4:38 in the morning I woke and went to go pick up the nuts and they were gone. I searched everywhere and they were gone. I checked the cameras and I do have two dogs. They are small English bulldogs and they were in bed with me the entire night. The cameras did go off between 2:42-4:38 when the dogs moved around in bed but they never got out of bed. Even if they did somehow get out of bed without making that on camera, the actual bag that the nuts were in would still be somewhere. I have searched the entire house and there are no nuts. I have been having some mild paranormal events take place at the house prior to this incident and subsequent to it. I do believe I captured something (a ghost) on one of my cameras one night. I spoke with the Reiki Master and she said if I ask for the nuts back, they will come back but so far they haven't. I can't think of a logical reason for this to happen other than paranormal (ghosts, aliens, glitch in matrix, under the bed goblin, etc.) I do NOT have mice, raccoons, or any type of critter in my house and I was the only person home that night. Anyone have any ideas/advice or similar stories?

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Dignaga

Yes I do. You DO have rats. Not mice, rats.

Easy way to test this is to get a granola bar in the silver tin wrapping, open it up and put it under your bed as you sleep. We did this to a guy from India in my old army unit when we stayed in a train car in Fort Irwin (it was a town mock up, train car was a building). The guy was 6'6 and heavy, highly educated (went to college in China), and had a fear of rats. One of the Mexicans put the granola bar opened up on the floor and we heard the rat take it back and forth across the wooden floor of the train car all night long. We could hear him sqeal and curse out in Hindi all night long, was so funny.

I don't recommend poison pellets bejng left out, because they will either due on your floor, or in your wall. You'll either have to pick them up or smell them. Glue traps exist. Sprinkle some food on them.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Dignaga get a cat! It will either hide or hunt. One or the other. If hide it just will refuse to come out!

Dignaga

@DeWayfarer I've had cats in the past. The ones who start off as outdoor cats and are fully grown will hunt, but house raised or early adopted ones won't.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Dignaga mine is indoor outdoor.

She was feral for two years before she found me! I've had her now for eight years.

Anything that comes into this place she knows it! 🤣

Colonelmustardseed · 36-40

@Dignaga When we had rats, I was the last to know. I didn’t see a single one until they were “suddenly” a huge population of them in the house and getting bold enough to run around right in front of us. But everyone kept telling me they’d seen them before that point; I just never had.
We used poison to get rid of them. And you’re right about the smell and having to hunt around for their corpses. Then we had a blow fly problem to combat. 😭 Such a nightmare.

Dignaga

@DeWayfarer when I got a pet bunny, all three remaining cats were feral born, but one came in as a little kitten from outdoors (black female). The other was a long time black feral male but quite friendly to humans. Third.... he wasn't born feral but spent alot of time outdoors because successive owners outright hated him (big cat, was trained by first owners to hide and jump on their backs, and he did it with claws from hidden spots) and kicked him outdoors homeless.

I had the bunny in a big dog cage, with kitty litter on either side. She could hide in the middle out of range of any swipe, and plenty of places to hide. I was slow to clean up after her poops to let the smell overpower the cats litter smell. They all got used to her, except the jumping cat who I did not really like. First time I introduced him he tried to kill her. Only time I ever heard that rabbit make a noise was in the middle of the night when it attacked the cage, but I lept up immediately from the couch, other two cats sitting on the couch with me. That bad cat died from a stomach ulcer from local city water a week later (lots of people were getting it, not me because I didn't drink the water and I switched the survivors over to bottled water like me).

I would have to sit each cat down and pet it saying Nice Nice, then take their paws and pet the bunny saying nice nice, then them again, on repeat. The black male cat liked delivering live mice to me. I kept one he found in the winter time in a cage for a week until it died..... gave it plenty of food and water, had no injuries. Guess being around cats freaked it out.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Dignaga this cat was a hunter at birth. Her eyes weren't even open when she ran directly in to me!

Don't judge a cat by its upbringing! 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's quail that she's staring at!

Must mention that she as well immediately understood what the litterbox was for. I only had to show her once.

Dignaga

@Colonelmustardseed I found fly infestations are solved by covering every source of light, including windows, and then opening the microwave. The light turns on, flies enter microwave. You run it for a minute, open it. They fly out, but die in a short while. Repeat. Much quicker killrate than flytape. But still use flytape.

I had a fly infestation as a kid (can't remember why, was in the basement) and also as a kid a cricket infestation (they fell from the sky like rain in central valley, california and infested everything indoors and outdoors). I would get sent into the laundryroom, told to kill all the crickets and would just swing a wooden broom at them for hours waiting for their sounds to stop.