The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/CowAccomplished2844 on 2024-10-10 23:50:38.
Hi this is something weird that both my boyfriend and I experienced 2 years ago and we still can’t explain it to this day so here’s the background context.
2 years ago we went to Santa Monica Pier and played at the arcade and with the tickets we won, we picked out two stuffed animals (we collect silly trinkets and love cute things). One was a cute lamb and one was a hedgehog that looked so insanely messed up. It looked like a child tried drawing it from memory it was so silly and stupid looking and we loved that thing we named him Manny.
A couple months later we were leaving the country to go overseas for a month and the morning of our flight to leave, our cat peed on our bed and it got on Manny, one of our pillow, and one blanket. We put it in the washer but the thing is that we were going to get the washer replaced in a couple days. We lived with his family so his sister who was staying behind knew we put our stuff in the washer (even though it wasn’t going to work well but we were freaking out about Manny) and said she’d put it in the dryer for us. So we left but we were still anxious that Manny got destroyed.
A couple days later we asked his sister if everything was okay with our stuff and she completely forgot to take our stuff out of the washer and the people who replaced the washer already took it and put a new one in. We were freaking out because our stuff got taken and we didn’t know if we’d be able to get our stuff back, especially Manny. The sister tried calling the company but they said they didn’t see anything in the washer so we thought that the sister misplaced it. She looked everywhere but she couldn’t find it and she knew no one took the stuff out before they took it.
My boyfriend was heartbroken he loved that stupid thing so much so I reverse image searched it and literally nothing came up, like not even similar at all. So then I looked at the tag that was in the photos and I emailed the company on there and asked them if they had any more of that specific hedgehog stuffed animal (I also sent a picture of it so they knew exactly which one I was talking about) and they said they had it and would mail it to us. We were super happy! We come back from our trip and also turned the entire house upside down I’m telling you we looked absolutely everywhere (his family helped too) and our stuff could not be found. We get the stuffed animal delivered from the company and it was nowhere the same as Manny. We didn’t want to bother them more because they already sent it to us for free but we were super disappointed.
A month after we came back, I went to bed before my boyfriend as I always do. He’s always a night owl so he wasn’t tired whatsoever. He wakes me up in the middle of the night and says “Manny’s back!” and I was still kind of half asleep so I was like “What?”. He said “I went into the laundry room and he was just sitting on the dryer!”. I was super confused still since it was late at night and he led me to the laundry room where Manny was dry, perfectly clean, (but didn’t smell like laundry detergent or anything) sitting on the dryer. I freaked out, he freaked out because we knew that thing was NOT in the house. Our room is also by the laundry room and no one went in there at all that night or day except for us. The next morning we asked everyone in the house and they all said that they didn’t put him there and that they didn’t see or hear anything. We also ended never getting our pillow or blanket back, only Manny.
So we were kinda creeped out but mostly happy Manny was back so we ended up putting him somewhere our cat can’t reach him, since apparently this stupid looking, one of a kind hedgehog plush is irreplaceable. We joke to this day that he just went to where we vacationed after us because he didn’t get the memo on the actual dates. Anyways yeah we can’t explain it, I know it’s a silly situation compared to others on here. I hope this is considered a glitch or else I totally put it in the wrong subreddit.