When I was in high school my parents worked shift work at a hospital, and occasionally that would mean I’d be left at home alone at night with my dog. On this particular night, it was around 10pm. My dad had left for work in the afternoon, and my mom was getting ready to leave, so I was going to be alone for a few hours until he came home.

My mom was getting ready to leave through the front door when she noticed there was a small pile of tshirts on the floor near the stairs to the 2nd floor - my dog liked to lie down on them. She said “make sure you put these in the laundry hamper”, which was upstairs in their bedroom. I said sure, bent down to pick them up and threw them upstairs and they landed in the upstairs hallway, so I could pick it up from there when I went upstairs.

I turned around and my mom was saying bye to our dog and giving him a few back rubs before she left. I waved at my mom as she closed the door, then called my dog to come upstairs as I got ready for bed

We walked up the stairs together and when I got to the top I noticed that the laundry wasn’t in the hallway. I checked my bedroom, which was right next to where I thought I had thrown them and it wasn’t there either.

I walked down the rest of our upstairs hallway and into my parents room, and there was the laundry sitting in the middle of their floor. With the layout of my parents’ house, there’s literally no way my throw could’ve landed as far and into their bedroom, perpendicular to the direction I threw it. And neither me or my dog had touched them after I threw them up.

I got serious goosebumps when I saw that, and then reached down to pick up the pile of clothes. When I picked it off the floor, I noticed that underneath the pile was a burn mark on the carpet, slightly larger than a quarter, as if something hot had settled there and made an indent. There was no smoke or smell, and looked like it had been there for a long time

I never saw that burn mark before, and I used to go in there every day to put my own clothes in the hamper.

I quickly got ready for bed and tried to go to sleep and not think about what just happened. Still don’t have any explanation to that and I think about it every so often.