It's a lot easier to solve life's mysteries when you don't go off the rails thinking that ghosts or whatever caused problems.
I have no idea. It was just gone one morning and then when the storm cleared up it was exactly where I left it.
There's a bunch of animals in my dreams that I don't think actually exist here (like the weird goat-dog thing that bites me every time I go over to D's place). But there's this European Badger that hangs around the shop and she's pretty cute.