New Article: Can Cats See Ghosts - Have a Spooky Friday the 13th!

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I think  the movie ''Halloween'' is on all day  today on SyFy. Ain't nothing more better than watching  scary movies on Friday the 13th.
 

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I added to the comments section of the article, and I really do think cats can see ghosts.  Even  now Sweetie has sudden reactions to things that aren't there.  One time the drapes in the living room started moving like Sweetie was going to come out from behind them.  The problem was that Sweetie was sleeping in a chair across the room when this happened and there was nothing behind the drapes to make them move.
 

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My daughter had a dog that would stand and bark at something in the corner which we couldn't see. She was having some issues in the house, like doors being unlocked at night that she knew she locked before bed. Also windows that were down would be up in the mornings. No wonder the dog barked. :lol3:
 

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Interesting article.

Hydrox, The Old Coot, was our black kitty. He developed breast cancer and we had to put him to sleep; he was a little over 20 years old and he had been with us from the time he was a 5-week-old kitten. The vet came to our house, we put Hydrox on our bed and the vet put him to sleep there. Right before he died, Whisper came into the bedroom, jumped up on the bed, nosed around him, and washed his face. She jumped down to the floor, looked up at him, and left the room. The other cats were in the bedroom, too, but they didn't get on the bed. I think they knew what was happening.

A few years after Hydrox died, I started to see him in the house. I'd be in the bathroom, getting ready for work and I'd see him out of the corner of my eye as he walked back the hallway to the bedroom. I'd be lying in bed on my right side, facing the bedroom door while watching tv and I'd see Hydrox walk in the door, walk along the bed on the floor, turn the corner at the foot of the bed and.......then he'd be gone. It was always out of the corner of my eye; if I actually looked straight at him, I saw nothing. And it was definitely Hydrox. A couple of times, I specifically saw him walking back the hallway into the bedroom and I looked for the other cats; they were all in the various places in the living room. It wasn't another cat; it was him.

One morning, I was still in bed. Rick had gotten up to get ready for work (this was before I started getting up early and hitting the treadmill). I was lying there and felt a cat jump on the bed, walk up to me and nuzzle my hand. All the cats were in the kitchen eating breakfast and our bedroom door was shut. It was Hydrox, I'm convinced it was Hydrox.

I thought it was just me, but a while back, I came back to the bathroom; Rick was in there. I walked in and was talking to him and I saw Hydrox walking back the hallway. I stopped and looked at Rick and he said, "I know, I'm seeing him, too." For quite a while, I would tell Rick that Hydrox was in still in the house and I could tell that he didn't believe me. But now he does.

And I think Mollipop sees him, too. Quite often, she'll be sleeping with me back in bed, and when I "see" Hydrox walking along the bed on the floor, she will actually get up and walk over to the edge of the bed and sit down. She'll watch the floor as though she she see him walking. Or she'll be lying on the edge of the bed and suddenly, she'll perk up and look at the floor in the bedroom door area. But there's nothing there. The other cats haven't noticed anything, or if they have, I've not noticed anything from them. Maybe it's because Molli spends a lot of time with me in the bedroom.

I do think that Hydrox is still with us. And I think that Mollipop knows it, too.
 

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When I was a teen and my family still lived in Alaska we had 6 cats that were indoor but liked to go out some days for a little while. Our big half Siamese Toby got hit by one of our neighbors, he was an overly friendly not very smart kitty and it was a shock when a neighbor brought his body to us one day in fall. My dad was gone on business so I offered to bury him at the bottom of hill in our yard.

A week later I was laying on the living room couch early in the morning and I saw a cat sitting by the front door looking at me, I thought one of them wanted out. Then I noticed it was not solid and I sat up and turned on the light freaking out thinking it was one of the cats and my eyes were just messed up in the low light. I called around for the cats and asked my mom who all went out that morning and she told me all of them were outside. I did a search of the house because I was freaked out and sure enough they were all outside.

It had to be Toby or else I was hallucinating which to my knowledge I've never done lol. I was shaken for some time after that and slept with the light on.

There was another time in Kentucky in a house my parents were renting that really freaked me out. I was sitting on my bed which was by the window and felt a cold spot near the foot of my bed that made me uncomfortable and I noticed Splash one of our cats was tense, when I brought her onto the bed she fluffed up and start growling and took off which prompted me to leave the room as well. I didn't sleep in there for a while.

Weather or not these things were supernatural or my mind messing with me I think cats sense so much more than us.
 

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From the moment we brought Nova home he has always acted peculiar in certain rooms of our old apartment. He would stare at things that we couldn't see, run from a room yowling in the middle of the night and refuse to enter for a few days afterward.

When I was pregnant with my son I temporarily stayed with my grandmother-in-law at her house and Nova was with us and we had just adopted Leo a month before my son was born. My son was about 5 weeks old and I was still staying with my GIL when one evening I put my son to bed in my room and Nova, as always, was attached to his hip and was sleeping in the room with him. Suddenly I heard a horrible screeching and yowling. I ran into the room, thinking Nova had for some reason hurt my son but instead I found him in front of my son in the guard position facing the far corner hissing and spitting at something I could not see with his back arched, tail bottle brushed and fur sticking up. Leo was at the vet at the time so I know it wasn't anything to do with him and there were no dogs in the house or on the property. Needless to say I grabbed my son and Nova followed us out to the living room and he never went back in that room again and my son and I slept on the couch from then forward. 

Then a few days after we adopted Mercury (We had moved into our new home by then) another peculiar incident happened. My son woke up for his 3AM feeding and I feed him in my room, as I took him back to his nursery all three cats were sitting in front his door, which is shut to keep them out as they like to play with mobile. When I tried to get closer to the door they all three began twining around my legs or jumping on me and meowing, Nova even going so far as to actually push against me. When I finally managed to get to the door, I opened it and a huge gust of FREEZING cold air came out of the room (it is very hot where I live, even at night, so unless our AC was on 40degrees it was not possible for the air in that room alone to be that cold) and when the cats felt it Leo and Mercury fled, retreating to my bedroom and actually crawling under the covers with my husband while Nova actually reared up and nudged my son in my arms and pressed his paws against my stomach in an attempt to make me move away, meowing frantically the entire time. I went back to my room, Nova on my heels, and crawled into bed and woke my husband up to tell him. All three cats stood at the end of our bed for the rest of the night watching something in the hallway and occasionally growling in that direction. 

There have also been times that the baby monitor, set up in his nursery, will become active with static and random noises while no one is in there and the cats will often become wary and nervous until stops, sometimes hissing at it. When it reacts to my husband or son in the nursery they don't even acknowledge it.
 

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Back in the early 1990's I lived in a different apartment than I do now.  The outside of the door and door frame had damage indications of it having been locked with a padlock or something.  I was in a hurry to move because my previous apartment was a war zone!  The woman was selling her house and decided to start her renovations in my apartment. Walls, floor, furniture (including my bed), door ways, appliances, fixtures including all of the bathroom were covered with heavy plastic and tarps, and there was chunks of plaster all over the place.  For 3 weeks I would uncover stuff so I could continue live and sleep there, only to come home to have it all recovered and taped up etc.  The landlady finally agreed to let me out of my lease so I could move.

Anyway, I didn't ask about the door damage. I just figured that there had been a break-in.

I think I lived there for 2 years before moving to a place closer to where I was going to be going to nursing school.

When I moved there I had a cat named "Kira", and she consistently avoided one particular spot in the hallway.  When you entered my apartment you entered into a long hallway. Immediately to the left was the bathroom, and to the right across from there was a galley kitchen.  Going down the hall, right next to the bathroom was a closet, and straight ahead the bedroom and immediately to the right at the end of the hall was the living room.

The area in the hallway between the bathroom and closet was where Kira seemed to avoid. She would do wide circles around the area.  And she would also sit away from it and stare at that spot for lengthy periods of times, and then hiss and run off.  It freaked me out.

I surrendered Kira to the Humane Society for issues that I don't want to go into because my heart still hurts.  A few days after I did that, I found my RB kitty Chynna who was not meant to stay with me, but she had other designs.

Anyway, she also had an issue with that very same spot that bothered Kira.  There was nothing on the floor that I could see.  The apartment had been completely redone prior to my moving in. Even the floors had been redone.

It wasn't until I was moving out that one of my neighbours who I had never seen before, saw me coming out of my apartment and approached me.  She told me the story behind the damage to the door and door frame.

Apparently a year or so prior to my having moved in, someone had been found dead in that apartment, in the very spot where 2 cats had an issue.   Hearing that didn't bother me, but it sure explained a great deal.  They either could still smell something, or I was sharing my space with a ghost.  I never saw or heard, or smelled anything.

In early July 2010 I sent my beautiful Chynna to the RB because her health issues were affecting her quality of life. I loved that girl so much. If it is possible to have a soul-mate cat, Chynna was mine.l really, really miss her a great deal and often wish that I could have just one more day with her.

For almost a year, I swear that she came to visit me.  I would feel a cat jump up on my bed and pad over to me, only to look and there was no cat. I would feel her settle down on the pillow next to my head.  I would bend my right arm and put the back of my hand on the pillow and move my head in towards the pillow, and I swear, I would feel her put her little paws in my hand like she always did, so that I could give her paw massages and chin rubs while she licked my hand.

She stopped visiting me not long after I brought the twins home.  And I've since moved to a different apartment in the same building. I keep hoping that she will find me again and come visit me for some night time "love bugs" as I called it.
 
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Such beautiful stories shared in this thread. Thank you!
 
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