Addendum.

And -

My one friend's wife said this story her mother tells always freaks her out.

Right after the movie "The Exorcist" came out, she was rushing around before a trip to get her (by far) oldest son ready, and everything was there, but when she looked, she couldn't find his shoes that had been right there, so she looked everywhere and couldn't find them, so she pulled another pair out of the closet and put them on him and took him out to the car to her husband, then she returned one more time just to double-check.

She had heard that the devil would steal objects and hide them from you, and then put them in impossibly obvious places, and -

She opens the door, and there in the middle of their living room off to the left are the shoes, sitting there as a pair perfectly aligned.