Another Paranormal Encounter Witnessed By A Cat

A few years ago I started posting articles all because of a strange encounter I had on Dog Kennel Road near my home.  A year later I then experienced some strange occurrences in my very own house.  I had witnessed a strange white shape three different times, a week apart and one of my cats was a witness to this paranormal activity. It is a known fact that a person passed away on the premises some 20 plus years prior.  I was never a big believer in ghosts although I love a good ghost story.  However, over the past few years and after an encounter I had earlier this week, I am becoming a believer...

On Tuesday, November 26th, I had just sat down on my couch after dinner and had just opened my laptop to check up on news and such.  I had lit a candle in a glass jar on a window sill previously and I looked up at the candle.  I saw what at first looked like black smoke shimmering with heat rising up the window blinds.  I thought it odd because the brand of candle that I was burning did not give of heavy black smoke like others I had used.  I looked more intensely at the smoke it struck me as odd that it was in the shape of a ball surrounded by shimmering "heat" waves.  I glanced away then looked back up and was taken aback when the "ball of smoke" stopped rising and moved horizontally to the left and off of the window!  It now appeared as a dark grey/almost black orb floating horizontally about a foot and a half down from the ceiling and it was hugging the wall.

The dark grey object on wall to the left of the window is the approximate color and position of the object as it moved horizontally across the wall and up the stairs.  The light lines around it simulated a heat wave like appearance that surrounded the orb.

I followed the dark object staring intently trying to ascertain exactly what it was that I was looking at.  It was now obvious that it was not smoke.  It continued across the wall and moved into the shadows by the stairwell where it then blended into the shadows.  However, one of my cats was sitting on the stairs.  This is not the same cat that shared a previous paranormal encounter with me.  I looked at the cat and the cat was also looking at the object, following it as it moved.  The cat turned it's head up towards the stairwell as it if were following it as it moved up the stairs!

I was a little creeped out because this was different that what I had seen before which was a "white" transparent light.  This was unmistakably dark in nature and dark shadows in the paranormal world can be of the unsavory sort.

This video clip is a walkthrough demonstrating where and how the object moved from the window, along the wall, and up the stairs.

  I sat there looking at my computer and different lights to see if maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me after looking at some particular light source, however I could not reproduce the vision that I saw on the window and wall.  And then there is the cat.  If I were seeing things, the cat would not have seen it too.  I called my son upstairs to see if he could see anything out of the ordinary, but he arrived about five minutes later and of course there was nothing. Although the object was different looking than before, it did something similar.  It manifested itself at a window and then moved off to the left.

The cat who witnessed the "ghost" sitting in the same relative spot where she was sitting when the event occurred.

I made an attempt a capturing something on video because the last time, it happened twice in a row within minutes of each other.  What I captured was rather interesting, when viewing the raw image in Quicktime, I noticed that another cat was walking down the stairs at some point.  There was a dark tall shimmering shadow along the wall next to the window in question which I assumed was caused by light reflection from the candle hitting the camera lens.  However, when the cat came to this spot, the shadow suddenly faded and then reappeared after the cat passed.  The cat then stopped and began to sniff the air, looking towards the window like it sensed something.  After I trimmed and processed the clip, the shadow did not show clearly on the processed video, however you can see the cat's reaction as it reached he window.  If can get the original video shortened, I'll will add it to this article.

This video clip was taken shortly after the sighting and shows a cat reacting to something near the window where the paranormal object had manifested itself.  This window was the location for a previous sighting approximately a year before.  The narration was added after the fact.

I will be watching out for more paranormal visitors, only the next time I hope that another person is able to witness it instead of just a cat!

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Cats and ghosts, a strange mutual fear relationship?

Some people wonder if cats can see ghosts or sense spirits.  Well, it is a fact that animals have higher, more acute senses than human beings.  They can certainly hear things before we can.  Folks claim that when their cats are staring into space or seem to be chasing "invisible" bugs around the house, they are actually seeing ghosts.

There have been stories of cat's hair standing on end when they are frightened of something that does not seem to be there.  Some people have reported that their cats have gone out of their way to avoid rooms and areas where they seem to be aware of "invisible" things.

Ancient Egyptian sculpture honoring the cat

History tells us that cats were considered sacred by the Egyptians.  The penalty for killing a cat was death.  The ancient Egyptian legend has it that the dead spirits feared cats. Therefore, they were considered guardians of the after world.  Many mummified cats have been found in tombs throughout Egypt.

A mummified cat, believed to be guardians of the after world to the Egyptians

I would otherwise have gone with the gut feeling that all of this was just legend or sheer nonsense, however...

One evening after dark I was sitting on my couch in the living room.  I glanced over toward the window for some reason and saw a shape or light  moving up and to the left across the living room front window which is to the south. It was shaped like a Nike swoosh standing on end with the top cut off. I not only looked out the window, but checked out side to see if there was anything there and there was nothing.  No cars were outside or across the street in the parking lot that may have made the light.  I call it a light because there is really no other way to describe it.  It was a light grey , transparent "thing". I thought it may have been a reflection of one of my 3 cats jumping on to the couch, but no cats were there and the reflection was moving the wrong direction for that.  My daughter and her boyfriend were also in the room, but they were not looking in the direction of the window to see it at the time.  My daughter said I had been reading too many ghost stories given that Halloween was near, that may have been believably true, however...

Living room window to the south where unexplained light or shape was seen moving from the lower right corner to the upper left then stopped at the middle.

About four days after Halloween I was sitting alone in my living room on the same spot on the couch.  Two of my cats were chasing each other all around, then went zooming up the stairs.  I heard them zooming back down the stairs then one came to a screeching halt at the bottom landing.  I looked over and just as I did, I saw the SAME shape moving in the same direction and manner across the window on the east side of the room.  Then a second later, I saw it again moving up the wall next to the window at the stair landing.  My cat was sitting there staring up at that same spot on the wall and window, so he saw it too!  It is probably what made him stop on the landing.  I jumped up and looked out across the street and on the side street...  no cars, nothing. I have never seen this before and I have not seen it since. Talk about creepy! 

Window on the east living room wall where second occurrence of the unexplained phenomenon was seen moving from the lower right corner of the window to the upper left then again stopped at the middle. It then repeated on the wall near the corner of the window and moved up across the light switch and stopped just above it.  The cat was sitting where the object appears just above the arm of the chair staring at the wall.

Most of the time poltergeist activity or apparitions are usually associated with a death at the place where they occur.  Well, what makes it even creepier is that my neighbor told me that an old man that lived next door to me died on the front steps of my house while delivering a plate of cookies to the people that lived here.  Creepier still, the front steps are just outside my living room on the south side of the house.  His house can been seen through the window where I saw the shape the second time, out the east window of my living room.  It was almost as if a spirit were attemping to enter the house through the windows and may have possibly succeeded the second time.

Like I mentioned before, I don't really believe in ghosts, but...   you have to admit this was just a little weird!

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