Where is my pepper towel?

For some reason I have a white dishtowel with hot red peppers depicted on it. I don’t like the towel, because it’s ugly, so I don’t use it in the kitchen. It’s been folded up (pepper side in) in the master bath for a long time, for uses such as draining a rinsed-out Water Pik that I don’t want to put directly on the counter.

When I do a bleach laundry, I often toss it in.

So a few days ago I collected it along with white stuff from the hamper. The pepper towel was not in the hamper. I just added it to the pile.

When the laundry was done and I was folding it, the pepper towel was missing.

It’s not in the bathroom. It’s not in the hamper. It’s not in the bedroom. It didn’t drop and get kicked under the bed. It isn’t in the hall, and it didn’t get left behind in the washer or dryer. I’ve checked everything at least five times.

My son says he doesn’t remember seeing it, ever.

So where is it?

If it were a sock, I’d at least be dealing with a known phenomenon. But a dishtowel with red peppers on it? My faith in the properties of solid objects is at stake here, guys. Where do you think I should look?