My Toy That Disappeared

Sometime around the mid-80's I got ahold of a what I remember being a Star Wars action figure. It came randomly in the mail one day and I got to keep it. I don't think I ever found out the reason it was sent to us, and, looking back I assume maybe we got it sent to us by mistake. Star Wars is cool, but at that age I was into He-Man, Voltron, Thundercats, and Transformers, and not at all into Star Wars toys. So it was the first and only Star Wars toy I ever had as a kid.

So, receiving that toy at all is somewhat mysterious, but mistakes like that do happen enough, if it was simply sent to the wrong address by mistake. But then a real mystery did happen with the toy. I still remember it vividly all these years later. I was playing with the Star Wars toy in our living room, next to the sliding glass patio door. I lost my grip and accidentally dropped the toy, and heard the thump of it hitting the floor. I looked down and was going to pick it back up, but didn't see it. I checked behind the blinds in front of the sliding glass door, but it wasn't there. I checked behind and around the entertainment center next to the wall, but it wasn't there either. The rest of that part of the room was just empty carpet. There really weren't many places for the toy to go. But I just couldn't find it. I asked my mom to help, but she couldn't find it either. The toy had simply vanished.

We moved a few years later and the toy never did turn back up. I thought maybe we would find it at some point when we packed everything up, but that didn't happen. I've always thought about it as a toy that came to me mysteriously, and then vanished mysteriously. And this experience was one of my earliest strange experiences, and I would go on to have many more. This experience became part of the foundation of my beliefs in the paranormal and that this world is full of mysteries. It's a neat story and one that I will never forget. And all these years later I still don't have any explanation for where that Star Wars toy went. It just disappeared.

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