The Tunnel Club and the fridge (p. 671)
Plus hamster-incursions could be posited to account for the occult appearance of large and incongruous E.T.A. objects in inappropriate places, which started in August with the thousands of practice balls found scattered all over the blue lobby carpeting and the carefully arranged pyramid of AminoPal energy bars found on Court 6 at dawn drills in mid-September and has gained momentum in a way no one cares for one bit—feral hamsters being notorious draggers and rearrangers of stuff they can’t eat but feel compelled to fuck with anyway, somehow—and so ease the communal near-hysteria the objects have caused among aboriginal blue-collar staff and sub-16 E.T.A. alike.
Context
The Tunnel Club's grand unified theory: pin the "occult appearance" of incongruous objects on feral hamsters and become heroes. DFW's own word for the phenomena is occult, and the passage backdates the haunting (the August lobby-balls, the mid-September AminoPal pyramid) and names the "communal near-hysteria" it's caused. Rationalization-as-exorcism: give the haunting a rodent and the fear a shape you can trap. (Carlisle keeps the hamster hypothesis as the section's own theory and never connects the objects to the wraith; the forward reading is ours.)