[Grizzled Bear]

Lint could be the residue of a pan-dimensional vortex. A sock could be sucked through. To balance things out the lint enters our dimension.

I want to believe.

[Allegra]

I believe there is sunspot activity and some dark energy involved.

Have you ever noticed that socks do that disappearing thing more frequently when sunspot activity is high?

Cell phone transmissions getting wonky? Radio coming in kind of funny? Count the socks.