While sleeping I normally wear earplugs at night during the winter and early spring, so that I am not woken up by the sound of a radiator heating the room. Last night I awoke to use the bathroom, and while using the toilet I noticed that one of my earplugs suddenly left my ear. As I am very nearsighted and keep the bathroom light off at night, I could not see where the earplug had landed. In the morning I turned on the bathroom light and saw that the earplug was in the sink, near the drain. I cannot account for its arrival at such a location. Even allowing for a roll of the ear plug down the bowl-like sink basin, there was about a 10-inch gap between where my body was and the edge of the sink. It was just as if some invisible hand had plucked the ear plug out of my ear, and dropped it in the sink.
At about 12:30 PM today (a few minutes ago) I heard a very distinctive "clink" sound coming from the bathroom. I went to investigate, finding what we see below. I had not left the tooth paste in the position shown, but on the right rim of the sink. No one had been in the bathroom for more than an hour, and during that hour I had been in the adjacent room, writing. A test showed that the very distinctive "clink" sound was caused by the toothpaste moving from the edge of the sink to its center. It ended up right next to the metal unit shown below, just as the ear plug had done, on the same day. Now in this case you can think of a natural explanation: conceivably when I used the toothpaste about two hours earlier, I might have placed it on the rim of the sink in such a way that two hours later the toothpaste might have fallen down to the metal unit shown below. But how improbable a placement would that have required, for there to be a two-hour delay before the toothpaste fell? Seemingly it would have been almost as improbable as dropping a pencil and having it land on its point, so that only the point touched the ground. Again, we have an event suggestive of an invisible hand at work.