It seems random :( It's happened with the gas cans, the cameras, and the kitchen keycard mainly. The ghost glow does appear, but sometimes the item will just vanish without counting as being used. I'll do some more testing on my own to see what causes it, maybe even screen record myself playing since it's happened pretty fast every time I've tried to play.
Hi RustDust, you know, we were just about to replay that we couldn't replicate the issue consistently when, we did. It required the construction of a testing room with dozens of items to do so. After that it took a good part of two days to rework the way in which the ghosts detects the items but now is finally fixed!