My court reporter came in today all weirded out and told us that something really strange happened yesterday.

Her teenage kids were all out for the evening doing their various activities, so she cleaned up the kitchen, did all the dishes, took a look around the empty countertops and sinks and thought, “Now THIS is how I like my kitchen,” then took her dog out for a walk. She’d left a back side-door to her office open for air, as she is accustomed to doing.

She returned with the dog 45 minutes later, walked into the kitchen, and there was a cup sitting on the counter by itself. She looked into it and there was some residual liquid in it. “That’s strange, it looks like milk,” she thought, tilting it into the sink. Some drops of milk trickled out.

But there’s still no one home.

Freaked, she looked in all the closets, under beds, behind doors and in showers in case someone were inside robbing the place. Not another thing appears to have been moved or taken. When her kids came home at night, she questioned them and none had come home in the early evening before going out again. Her youngest daughter looked in the fridge and saw that the new gallon of milk had been opened with the screw cap only lightly screwed back on.

She’s not friendly enough with her neighbors that they’d come by to visit, she doesn’t have friends just drop by, adults usually don’t drink milk anyway given all the other beverages in her fridge they could’ve chosen. She herself doesn’t drink milk by itself. Who’d drink milk and leave the cup on her counter for her to find and wash, but not do/take anything else around the house? Is this perhaps a ghostly encounter?