Sometimes Minnesota Twins outfielder Carlos Gomez wishes he had a bit less team spirit.

A spirit, he says, haunts him when he plays in Milwaukee and is put up at the historic Pfister Hotel. Once, he heard voices. Another time, he got so frightened when his iPod went haywire after he stepped out of the shower that he ran to the lobby without pants or shoes on.

“Everything’s scary,” the former Met said, “the paintings, the pictures. It’s a lot of old, crazy stuff. No good, man. No good.”

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Gomez isn’t the only one bothered by gremlins.

A family in Medina, Saudi Arabia, has filed suit in a local religious court against a genie they say is harassing them and stealing from them. It’s an up-to-date genie — it’s left voicemail messages and ripped off cellphones.

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A 2-year-old from Pennsylvania is so talented at hide-and-seek that her family had to call cops and firefighters to find her.

Natalie Jasmer, of Greenville, was missing for an hour as rescuers frantically searched the area.

But the hero was the family’s dog, Cooper, who found the toddler in a drawer underneath the washing machine.

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It took 35 years for him to pay his debt to society.

A Salt Lake City man who stole a stop sign in 1974 has mailed a $600 cashier’s check to the Utah Transportation Department. He identified himself as a former “very foolish youth” who feared for years that his prank had caused an accident.

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One of San Francisco’s Best-known gay couples has split.

Penguins Pepper and Harry had been living together at the zoo for six years — until Linda lost her mate. The sexy widow began courting Harry, and they’re now an item.

“I don’t think she was wanting to be a single girl for too long,” said zookeeper Anthony Brown.