Phantom Foot?

 I have in my bathroom one of those little waste baskets with a top lid and a little foot pedal at the bottom which you can press to lift the lid. It  is very convenient, because I can dispose of paper by just pressing the little pedal with my foot. That causes the lid to rise, and as soon as I take my foot off the pedal, the lid drops, making a little sound as it finishes dropping.

A few minutes ago I used my foot to open the lid of the waste basket, and dropped a piece of paper in it. I then walked a few feet away, facing in the opposite direction, to use the toilet.  Suddenly I heard a little noise from the direction of the waste basket. It was just exactly the sound that would have been made if someone had used his foot on the pedal to open the lid of the waste basket, and then taken his foot away. But there was no one else in the bathroom, and I was facing in the opposite direction, a few feet away. 

This anomaly I can never recall witnessing in the years I have lived at my current location; and the waste  basket has been in the bathroom the entire time. 

Postscript: The next morning (October 26) I was very surprised to see the sight we see below, which I did not arrange. It is a sheet of paper I had placed on my coffee table late on the previous night, having written a line on it.  Now the sheet was "standing up" on the floor, with only the bottom of the sheet touching the floor. What are the odds against that happening accidentally? Maybe the white sheet is some kind of ghost symbolism. Around Halloween ghosts are often depicted using white sheets of cotton. 

Post-postscript: On the same day I saw the anomaly shown above, I witnessed a stove fan turning off by itself while I was cooking some spaghetti, standing in front of the stove. I have seen this anomaly a few times before, and my post here describes something exactly the same occurring on March 22, 2025, when I was also cooking spaghetti. This mysterious turning off of the stove fan also occurred on March 16, 2024, as described here, when I was also cooking spaghetti.  My wife (who uses the stove much  more often than I do) was about five meters away. I asked whether she had ever seen the stove fan turn off by itself after she had turned it on. She said no, she had not. I cook grilled cheese sandwiches and salmon burgers just as often or more as I cook spaghetti. 

There are fancy digital programmable range hoods that allow someone to program a shut off after a specified interval. But the range hood I have seems to be a simpler affair offering no such possibility. Its only control buttons are the ones shown below.

An interesting speculation is that some of these hard-to-explain events are examples of after-death communication from my late father. In all of the last three cases I have recorded of the stove fan mysteriously switching off, while also recording what I was cooking, we have a turning off of a green light on a panel while I was cooking pasta (spaghetti being a type of pasta). And the spooky note found "standing up" involved paper.  Of course, those could all just be phonics coincidences. 

(The sense of the paragraph above may be lost to those reading a non-English translation of this page. In English the word "pa" means "father," and the words "panel," "pasta" and "paper" all begin with the same syllable, which by itself means "father." But in other languages that may be different.)