Ok, call this a coincidence or not but it happenend to me just 5 minutes ago. I now totaly get your point. The villagers standing on his own in the middle of a field, all of a sudden starts running like a freak. Comes to my mind a different "ghosty" thing. Sometimes when I scroll a little north from the village centre, near the berrybush, I can clearly hear a crackling noise. First I thought it was a sound glitch, later I thought it was noise the working people spreaded... but now I'm not sure anymore. It not always happens, but it does always occure in the same area, regardles whether there are people at work or not. Anyone heard these noises too?

Likes bananas; dislikes fish, snakes. Maybe she imagines snakes coming at her while she's day-dreaming, ya figure? lol

Maybe one villiager is wantting to Mate and the other doesn't and runs away right away instead of going to Waitting for someone?

Rif, this is very different from running away from a would-be mate. There's no other villager near her and sometimes just clicking on her starts the running away process. She'll stop, you click on her again, and off she's gone like a bat out of hell.

Yup, I have one villager who always runs away no matter where he is or what i have him do!

i'll put him at one task, he'll do one "round" and then zoom! he's running again! LOL