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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/QuestionsForRed on 2026-05-13 22:56:23+00:00.

Something really weird happened this week. Seemingly mundane, regarding a stylus, but strange nonetheless.

Sorry, but this does require some back story:

My daughter and I had the same tablet, and the same stylus (which came with it). I have a bad habit of putting my stylus behind my ear, and then leaving it in random places. Daughter has a bad habit of finding it, stealing it and claiming it as her own. I ended up putting a red spot of nail polish on mine so we would know who's is who's.

After a year or so, daughter rolls over her tablet with computer chair rendering it useless 😬 Good news for me, now I have 2 styli. One with the red spot of nail polish and one without.

Fast-forward a few months.

A few weeks ago I was standing in my kitchen trying to decide what I was going to make for dinner. I flipped my head over to put my hair up in a clip when I felt my stylus fall from my ear and heard it hit the ground. But it was no where to be found. My kitchen is small. It's tidy. It was no where. I was on my hands and knees checking every single crevice for it but it was not there. It couldn't go under the cabinets, but maybe under the oven or fridge? I moved both. It's not there. I looked everywhere. It was just gone. So after a while, I begrudgingly switched to the other stylus: the one without the red spot.

Fast-forward again.

The other day I was standing in my kitchen, again trying to decide on what to make for dinner. Again, I went to put my hair in a clip--- but first, I set my stylus down on the counter--- a recent habit I've adopted since the last one went missing. I flipped my hair and heard something hit the floor. It was a stylus— right there in front of me... the one with the red spot of nail polish. I already knew it was my original before looking up, but I looked to the counter anyway. There sat the stylus with no red spot. I pick up the stylus from the floor like where the F did this come from? Seriously, where did it come from?! I'm staring at both. I take the one from the counter-top and go to put it over my ear, but upon bringing it to my ear, it taps against something already there. It's another stylus. What? Now, I'm holding THREE identical styli... though one with red spot and 2 without. One missing through some random glitch in space and time just to appear again weeks later. What is happening???

I don't understand what happened or how one went missing, or how it reappeared, or how I now have 3.

I know this is so random, but anyone else have something like this happen?