This video comes from the security camera in an official newspaper office, so you know it’s got to be real because real newspapers never, ever do fake news.
We have an elf just like this one, an heirloom from my grammy, and his job is to sit on top of our Christmas tree. Now we can wonder what he gets up to when we go to bed! Although with two cats in the apartment, he has to be careful.
Some years ago my old Ballantine paperback edition of Tarzan at the Earth’s Core mysteriously vanished. Now it seems clear: the elf got it. Lazy cats, letting him do a thing like that…
Cats were probably taking a vacation– or, it could have spooked them too much.