NEW: 2nd appearance on 12/3!!!! I think I found out why weird things have been happening on my layout!

Walt:

 

If you don't have a cat, I would suspect a mouse.

 

Tony

Up on "The D & H Bridge Line"

our Christmas layout is always heavily guarded. And there are two others not in the pics.

the black one has mind powers.....

 

 

no cat, and no mouse that I know of - at least I've never seen one in the house or any tell-tale signs of one.  Just a ghost .

 

- walt

sounds like you need to make peace with them Walt.  i know my house is hunted.  my house  was  a orphanage about 100 years ago.  some children died in my home of TB.  the orphanage was closed then and the house was gutted and made as it is today.  So Walt all you need to do is find out what they want maybe they want to play as the ones in my home like to.  maybe they want just to be known that they are there.  what ever it is as soon as you find out what it is and work with them it can be a lot of fun.  also if they are kids treat them as that.  like in my home i have left out some toy match box cars and a few toy trucks, balls, other such things for the kids.  so far in over 30 years never had a problem with them that we could  not work out.  ( like they once took a pair of glasses i told them to return them and with in an hour they were back where they were before)  also i have lived in this same house all my life so and i am taking this seriously.  so walt just work with them and they will work with you most of the time.

Could be somebody in the house is playing with you and is using a "gopher stick" to move the candy bar and dropped it a few inches away. A gopher stick is about three feet long with a grabber mechanism and can pick up things.

If you want to catch your culprit set up a video camera and see what happens.

 

Lee Fritz

I live alone and no one, that I know of, has been in my house for at least the last 4 weeks.  Just the ghost, with whom, apparently, I should start being friends with!

 

- walt

I hate to tell you guys, there is NO such thing as a ghost!! If you think there is, you have bigger problems that can be helped here.

 

Right, ghosts are not real.  I think it is Santa.  And if someone tells me there is no Santa, then I am going to not be happy.

I hate to tell you David, but...

 

Walt,

 

Pretty sure this is your problem....

 

 

 

 

George

Walt, try putting some cheese out away from the layout.

Not a mouse. He would of nibbled.
And everyone knows that ghosts do not like candy.

I would go with the parallel universe theory. You need to get back to the one where you placed them all in the gondolas.
Otherwise you will disrupt the holidays for everyone in strange ways.

Wait a minute. Does not have to be bad. Maybe the real Santa will bring me the Big Boy with a coal load that totally empties.

Well let me go back to critters. I keep a watch on my good friends second residence. A very nice home. Recently I went to do my typicality walk through to check everything out. On the kitchen table was a very nice display of the fall season with fake various types of acorns and nuts, pine cones ect. AND a LIVE REAL squirrel looking at me. I opened the door and it made a exit. All of us have hunted that house extensively for how it got in ...never found one...just funny and we had a lot of laughs about it.

Has Lee Willis been to your house in the last few weeks? Don

Dave

Absolutely true. 

 

This is obviously the work of a poltergeist.

Of course that's a Ghost Train, it's Engine is invisible.

 

How long do think this thread will last?

Walt, after following all of your posts on the tinplate forum I believe I have the answer and I am shocked no one else has thought of it yet.  Think of all the mechanical issues you are having with those trains, even when you send it back and get a replacement there are still problems, it defies the odds.  The cause is obviously Gremlins.  They love to wreak havoc with mechanical things and who could blame them for going after some candy, all that fooling around would make anybody hungry.

 

Best of luck,

John.

Wait a second here - the candy bar is in the gon in picture number 3. Do we have multiple ghosts?  One takes it out and one puts it back?  Or - pic number 3 should be the original state of gondola candy bars prior to the levitation of the one bar out of the gon?

It would not be a ghost because a ghost is like a looping videotape.

 

A Spirit would be able to move it.

 

A raccoon or cat could have moved it accidentally, then left when it heard someone coming back to the layout.

 

Andrew

Walt

  This thread is as entertaining as David Blaines Magic Show on TV last week!

Walt,

 

Check the records at city hall, maybe your house was built on an old indian burial ground?

 

Call GhostBusters!

Sounds like the work of the Tiny Commando 

Gremlins are the worst:

 

 

 

Walt, I think I figured it out. I invoke the Star Trek Theory. Captain Kirk was beamed down into the corner of your layout by mistake. His foot must have knocked the candy bar out of the gondola car before Scotty beamed him up???

Cobrabob.

At least it could have happened that way...

Maybe...

Spiderman did it!  Look at the grin on his face.

This is the stupidest post I have ever seen...and one of the most fun!

Ed Kaz

I believe you have the Ghost of O Gauge Past in your home.  He, or she, doesn't like your switch to tinplate trains.

 

Walt, you have now entered……….. The Twilight Zone !!!!

Lee would have just spraypainted your most expensive engine UP grey and disappeared...  

This is much fun and I cannot think of anything humerous to add except I am surprised that the 'ghost' of the forum monitors have not arbitrarily decided to ruin the fun and kill the post.

Based on the above posts, I have come to the following conclusions based on 24 hrs of analysis:

 

1) Lee Willis was indeed there, but no proof he moved the candy bar, as if he was he would have eaten it.

 

2) It is not the Devil, as the Devil does not eat candy bars, nor does he like them, for if he did, then "lleH"(spelled backwards to avoid censor) would have candy machines, and thus would no longer be "lleH"(spelled backwards to avoid censor), but a hot cave with a angry guy with a bad sunburn.

 

3) A jealous neighbor with an extra key playing with your trains.

Walt, notice that the gondola is also derailed.  Something less gentle than a ghost did it.  Maybe last time you parked into the siding a little hot and bounced the candy bar out of the gondola without noticing.

.....

Dennis

Shucks Dennis I was hoping that no one picked up on the derailment.

 

Joking aside, I truly cannot explain this.  Ghost, Gremlin, Lee , Poldergeist, critters, etc.

 

I did notice the derailment.  That track is hot since I use it when I remove the Blue Comet and put on an old steamer to pull those gons when I want to use the switches.  So I think it would have created a short had I applied power before noticing it.  But I have not hooked up the engine for quite a while now, and certainly not after adding the candy bars and manually pushing the cars back onto that track.

 

Regardless, I am enjoying reading everyone's theories!!! 

 

To borrow a leadbear "format" signature:

 

- cluelesswalt

Have you checked your roof lately? You may have a hole that a squirrel gets in and climbs along the tracks and when he heard a noise it scared him and he went to hide and dropped the candy bar would be a great explanation.

I had a cat that climbed along a wall only a half inch wide strip of wood is what he crawled on and then jumped down to the train layout, I watched him one day. The second story is not complete up to the ceiling in all areas in my house.

 

Lee Fritz

 

I think the solution is much simpler... and we have all see who the root cause is...!

 

 

 

Squirrel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1.. Nothing by mouth after midnight.

2.  Do not put into water!