i had one little guy who kept running away...from nothing. the only thing he disliked was the ocean, and he was nowhere near the ocean at the time. he was standing near the rocks by the pond and just suddenly started running. i clicked on him and the action said "running away." he got to the coconut trees, stopped for a second, then started running away again. maybe he was running from an invisible boogeyman. or maybe he saw the ghost of one of the dead villagers.

i also have one villager who keeps doing things like telling a joke, arguing, and complaining. the only thing is that he always does these things to the little lavender flower at the top of the graveyard. no other villagers in sight. it's funny to watch him "argue" with a flower. maybe he's interacting with the same ghost that my other villager was running away from. silly little villagers. lol!

Awwwww that is cute. It would be a cool island event to have ghosts.

that is tff...i have had one or two run for no reason...maybe it is a ghost...of course no one has died in my game yet...knock on wood...

Is the villager a doctor? If so, that's a coding quirk that was present in VV1 - where you would see in the status bar, the next action the doctor would perform after studying the cactus... in the case of VV2 it would be one of the plants

i remember that from VV1. actually this has happened with more than one villager, and none of them were studying plants at the time. they stand in the middle of the village, then they start walking towards the flower while the status bar says the action. they never studied the plant at all.

are you sure that you aren't yelling at your villagers? they might be hearing the voice of "god" and running to hide.

I thought the cactus in VV1 was a hallucinogen and they were imagining that they were doing something else while they were studying it!

do you have the gong? thereis an event that you can see a goast,
but you need the gong forit

Does your villager like playing? Playful villagers enjoy being jumpy and run away from things for no apparent reason.

Izzy, I ntoiced that too... Maybe they just have the urge to use up all that energy.