Contest Share A Spooky Cat-related Anecdote To Win!

[nurseangel]

NOT AN ENTRY (dog related)

When I was in high school, my friend and I liked to do something now referred to as "Urban Exploring". The difference was: we weren't in an urban area; we explored old abandoned country homes.

I had relayed to him that another friend had told me a story about some people who kept their son in this sort of box thing as a punishment. He told me that the story wasn't true; the people (deceased) had been related to him, and the "box" was used because their son had a health problem. It was not any form of punishment. It was to help their son. He offered to show it to me. (It turned out to be a large box that was quite interesting, with lights inside, as I recall. Something that would provide warmth. Certainly not what my other friend had made it out to be.)

On the way to the house, he told me that his aunt said she had awoken in the middle of the night and saw a dog run down the hall and jump out of a second story window.

That story scared me a little. So you can imagine my surprise when we walked into the abandoned house to find a dog standing there growling at us. I ran out and started to hyperventilate. I was so frightened that I had an asthma attack. It took my friend some time to calm me down and take me back inside. He showed me a bag of dog food and water bowl. Someone was caring for a stray dog inside the house.

 

[Anne]

Not an entry just two experiences :

First Experience: A few nights after when Leo passed away in january 2019 and my last cat MC passed away in March 2019:
I lit my first cigarette and let out a huge puff and looked straight into the distance and looked to my left. All of a sudden i see the smoke accumulating together about 70 cm away from me, forming a medium thickness tail and body the size of Leo 6.5kg cat walking slowly towards my left towards the stairs which i am sitting on , as i am watching this smoke moving slowly towards me, i only see the start of the cats shoulder to its belly and tail forming , i am watching the tail curve in the air as it gets closer and it changes slowly into a bushy tail still walking towards me (like two cats blending together as one) , slowly walking, going up the stairs to my left as it reaches the second stair, then as it reaches the second stairs near my knees , i can see the two blended cats leo and Mc's head , defined ears and the fur at back of their neck and i was staring at it to my left side right next to me for a good 10 seconds then it slowly disappears and vanishes into darkness . This smoke aparition of two cats was clear outline.

Second Experience:
3 nights ago i went to print out a photo of Leo as i am trying to create a toy statue version of leo and mc with needle felting and i was trying to figure out Leos fur tone colours matching it to a specfic yellow and was having difficulties, my printer was working fine the day before and the yellow cartridge was refilled a few days before. When i was looking at the photo on the screen i was getting this weird feeling of sadness .So i clicked print, and then my printer is saying error telling me yellow cartrige needs to be refilled and to enter the code Y, i kept following all the error steps and the printer wouldnt work for 15 min, i changed yellow cartridge again, i ran all alignments etc kept pressing y,i kept looking at the photo on screen with this weird uncomfortable feeling then i realised the printer was tilted to its left. I have a feeling it was Leo as he was ill with a limping left leg he was put to sleep 4 months after , asking me why with the letter Y on the printer screen, and the printer being tilted to the left was saying something about his left leg.

A third one: 4 nights ago i was again sitting on back step having a smoke at night. Then out of the corner of my eye near the BBQ i see a paw and then leo coming around the BBQ and then he sits there like he used to tilting his head down to his left and then he disapeared. He was as clear as day, he wasnt an apparition, transparent or anything it was like he was physically there for that few seconds like in the photo of my profile he is the cat on the left.

Also at night in the back yard i sometimes see a black shadow moving past slowly in the corner of my eyes near the grass and porch. I think it is MC , when she was alive and in the backyard at night she was very hard to see as her fur looks black even though she is grey with the torch on and had this shadowy spot on the floor look to her if the light wasnt directly pointed to her. At night she would sit a few meters away from me and would wait for me to get up and go to her. So i think its her.

I noticed that when these apparitions or apearances of my cats happen is when my mind is blank and i am not thinking of anything at all and i am in a very calm relaxed frame of mind in that moment ( i dont smoke marijuana or do any drugs lol). Its like time has stopped for a few seconds or minutes , i dont hear surounding noises of street ,cars trees or birds, its just utter silence and calmness . Almost like i am meditating with my eyes open its hard to explain.

You should totally enter the contest with these! There's still time to divide this into three posts and submit one entry a day over the next 3 days!

 

[Anne]

Tonight was a weirder one, i was talking to my mother in the kitchen, then all of a sudden in the garbage bin something shook the plastic bags and let out a big meow sound and then something dropped. Me and my mother stopped talking and looked at eachother as if to say what was that ? My mum then says " what the hell was that it sounded like a cat and i say yes it definatly sounded like a cat, i walked to the bin to check the bin and it was an egg shell that fell from the bin. We looked at eachother like *** cause there are no cats anymore since leo and mc had passed away. It sounded like a cat scavenging in the bin, then meowing really loud like it was hurt. An egg droping from the bin doesnt make a loud meow sound and doesnt shake the plastic bag vigoursly .

This would make for a great entry - would you like me to edit the post to add Entry at the top?

 

[Winchester]

ENTRY

This is not a scary story, more like a story about a ghost cat who loved his family.

Many, many moons ago we had a black cat whose name was Hydrox (like the cookie). He was my cat; he put up with everybody else, but he was my cat. He lived for 19 years and then died from breast cancer. He was operated on once and was doing well, but then the cancer came back. And, at that point, we knew we could do nothing else.

Hydrox is still here. I will often see him walking past in the hallway. When I'm lying in bed, turned toward the bedroom door, I'll see him out of the corner of my eye. He'll walk into the bedroom, go around to the foot of the bed and then he's gone. I'll be drying my hair in the bathroom and see him padding back the hallway to the bedroom. Early one morning, I awakened to the touch against my back where he flopped down to curl up next to me. When I reached down to see which cat it was, there was nothing there.

When I first told Rick that I had "seen" Hydrox, he laughed at me. And then, several months later, he told me that he had seen him, too. Same way I do, more like out of the corner of our eyes; if we look right at him, he's gone.

We know it's Hydrox. And I'll even say Hello to him. "Hi Pudder! How are you?" Of course he never responds.

We're not afraid. Hydrox was our Old Coot. He did his best to keep everybody in line. When Whisper had her kittens, he did whatever he could....to avoid them! And now? He's coming around just to keep an eye on things.

 

[Lari]

I have no spooky stories, but I'm enjoying reading all yours!

 

[HelloNingNing]

Not an entry but

I once woke up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and decided to check on my kitties. The lamp was in the corner of the livingroom and I didn't want to trip on things so I turned the flash on my phone and saw this.

It wad the spookiest yet funniest thing I've ever experienced HAHA.

 

[KarenKat]

Entry:

It was the wee hours of the morning, just before the sun rose. The twilight hour, when the barriers between the worlds is thinnest. The couple slept peacefully, unaware of the danger that would soon surround them ...

The woman awoke first, hearing a strange “scratch-scratch” on the blinds. She fitfully rolled over, ignoring the disturbance. The man slept on.

Soon, there was a noise in the corner, like a beast gnawing on the lamp wire. Again, the woman ignored it as it was too early in the morning.

Suddenly, a terrible scratching and scrambling sound came from directly behind them. Something terrible and hungry was clawing it’s way up the back of the headboard. The sounds came closer. Clumsy and violent sounds as something tore its way above their heads. The man awoke and threw himself forward, heart pounding and looking for the attacker.

Behind them, a slightly porky Tortie scrambled her way onto the headboard, eyes wide and belly rumbling.

It was time to feed the cats.

 

[Pinkbeam]

Entry:


... nope, no demons, just Tessa (one of my aunt’s two very fluffy Balinese cats), who is notorious for lying on your neck like a scarf and smothering—ahem, *cuddling* you while you sleep.

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Ohhhh, Tessa is so beautiful.

 

[Pinkbeam]

Well this isn't spooky at all, but is Halloween related. And it isn't a story, just a fact. So, it's okay if it doesn't count as an entry, I just wanna share it.

I paint my black cat's nails for Halloween.

 

[Leomc123]

This would make for a great entry - would you like me to edit the post to add Entry at the top?

No please dont add me as an entry, i dont have any more cats to win the food to eat, i just wanted to share my experience

 

[MrHandsomesMama]

ENTRY:

THE GHOST CAT, MEOW COME HERE

When I was younger I had a terrifying nightmare. I was Sharptooth, my favorite tomcat. I/Sharptooth could only see out of one eye (right) and everything was blurry and light sharp and painful to the working eye. I/Sharptooth try to back further into hiding as a scary shape approaches. The barrel I/Sharptooth am hiding behind is suddenly moved and something moves very fast into my vision... then pain and blackness. I, back in my own body, wake up crying and screaming.

A day or two later my sister and I were walking along the road down by where the creek crosses under it. As we walk towards the house we hear a meow. My sister asks if I heard a kitty, and we look towards where the meow came from but don't see anything. Excited because we loved our cats we pick up our pace. As we pass where the weeds end we hear this time "Meow, come here." We stop, confused now and proceed slowly, again look in that direction. We now see a odd looking tabby cat on a round bale. Again we both clearly hear a "Meow, come here." The cat had appeared to have meowed while these words were spoken. I take a few steps towards the cat, confused by what was going on, I mean cats don't speak English! The cat didn't appear solid, but it's markings are clearly visible. Suddenly it dawns on me, I recognize this cat. My nightmare was me in Sharptooth's body watching his last moments my nightmare was real. His left eye is gone, and the tabby and white markings are Sharptooth's. I start to run away which causes my sister to run.

We try to tell Linda (bio-mother), she calls me a liar and says oh, you must be seeing the ghost of Precious (Her old cat). Even though my sister saw the same thing, I get punished for 'lying.'

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Sharptooth is not the only one I've seen after death. He's not the only one I've had visions within. I also seem to be very sensitive with sensing death or bad injury/sickness. I know people will probably think my story is crazy, perhaps it is... perhaps the abuse I suffered made me crazy. Just please be respectful.

I don’t think you are crazy, and I am very sorry for the pain you have suffered! I know where you are coming from, I have a background with being abused and also with feeling/seeing/knowing things I shouldn’t be able to feel/see/know. Us sensies gotta stick together!

 

[MrHandsomesMama]

ENTRY

This is something I'll bet many of you have experienced. When I'm in bed, I feel a cat jump onto the bed or walk across it. Sometimes it lands on my feet. The feeling is distinct, like no other. However, no cat is there, not even in the room. It happens when I'm wide awake, like watching TV or reading. It's not a dream.

I sometimes think it's my long-gone soulmate, Feather, but it could be any of the other 9 cats who have shared our lives over the past 46 years. I only know it's a cat and although I can't see it, it's definitely there.

I have had similar experiences as well, only with mine I determined it was no cat ghost following me everywhere. Very spooky!

 

[MrHandsomesMama]

ENTRY:
This was about four years ago, when I was still living with the rest of my family in a big, family house at the edge of some woods. All the other members of my family had gone out to some party or whatever and intended to spend the night at a nearby relative's house after. I didn't want to go because I'd decided it'd be more fun to video chat over skype with my girlfriend while the house was all mine and have my own little virtual sleepover with her.

So, we're getting comfy, I'm talking to her as I prepare a snack for our little movie-sleepover-skype date and then I notice my cat is very focused on one of the windows. I call her over and she doesn't respond, which isn't anything strange for her when she sees a lizard or insect, so I assumed there was a bug or something like that near the window. I decide to leave her be, let her get her hunting urges out. Later on, I'm watching the movie with my girlfriend and I hear knocking noises at the window. There'd been thefts in the area and I'm a rather petite girl myself, all alone for the next 18-ish hours. I. Freak. Out. I start whispering to my girlfriend that there is something at the window. But then I'm like "Wait, there's raccoons and skunks and all kinds of night life, maybe it's just one of those critters out there." so I haul my laptop with me, needing my girlfriend for emotional support, and go to check the window. I start pretty much a full search of the surroundings, going from window to window while my girlfriend is soothing me on the laptop, telling me that it wouldn't be the first time a raccoon had scared me.

When I've decided the surroundings are clear of any potential-robbers, I head back to the living room with my laptop still in my hands, still on video with my girlfriend, and I see my cat on the coffee table, looking at the ceiling. She starts meowing, and now that IS unusual for her, she normally can hardly get a meow out, it comes out as a squeak or a murrp or just her mouth silently opening and closing while her sides squeeze as if she's making a sound. I start trying to put the pieces together, and I come to a conclusion. "Oh, you know what, she probably was at that window, knocking it to get whatever bug there was, and it escaped and now she's upset." I say, and I begin to relax. I start laughing it off, my girlfriend starts laughing, too, we talk about how we're both so dumb for freaking out, and then my cat jumps onto the back rest of the couch. I start turning the laptop so my girlfriend can see my cat fussing, and that's when my girlfriend SCREAMS.

Like, not a joke scream or something like that, like an actual, frightened scream. She starts shouting that she saw a face in the doorway of one of the rooms as I turned the camera to show her my cat. I start shouting as well, telling her not to mess with me like that, and that it isn't funny. She swears up and down that she actually saw a face. We're both really scared and shaken, she tells me that I should stay in the center of the living room, as it was the only one with the lights turned on at that point. I call my family, freaking out, to ask if they could come back instead of staying with my relative. Luckily, one of my brothers was feeling ill and had wanted to return home anyway. My family returned after 45 minutes, my girlfriend stayed with me on the skype call the entire time, and once they were back, they told me I was crazy and things seemed... pretty normal after that. My cat settled down, she'd been pacing and looking around all over the place before they'd arrived, but once they were all home she seemed fine. A year later, I moved out, taking my cat with me, but I still think about that night from time to time to this day.

Holy caca that would have me calling 911 right then and praying I wasn’t about to be horribly murdered

 

[MrHandsomesMama]

Entry:
Perhaps not spooky but very weird and still unexplained.

When I was about 12 I had brought home a strat cat who we found out was pregnant, and while we were slowly intoducing her to our other cat we kept her in a spare bedroom at night so they wouldn't fight.

One morning I went into the spare room to feed her and she wasn’t there. My mom and I searched and both swore neither of us had let her out, but searched the rest of the house anyway. No sign of her.

We open the locked door to the garage so we can get in the car and go to school/work and she’s sitting on top of the car.

Never figured out how with only two people in the house, neither sleepwalkers, the cat could get from one locked and totally separate room to another locked room without assistance.

 

[nurseangel]

I'm enjoying reading everyone's stories and looking at pictures!

C'mon folks, submit your scary stories!

Great prizes in the drawing!

Don't force me tell the story I am afraid to talk about!

 

[Leomc123]

Mrhandsomeman your experience sounds really creepy. Its a shame the skype doesnt have a recording function to replay that point to see what your girlfriend saw.

 

[Leomc123]

nurseangel tell your story !

 

[Yurei]

ENTRY:

THE GHOST CAT, MEOW COME HERE

When I was younger I had a terrifying nightmare. I was Sharptooth, my favorite tomcat. I/Sharptooth could only see out of one eye (right) and everything was blurry and light sharp and painful to the working eye. I/Sharptooth try to back further into hiding as a scary shape approaches. The barrel I/Sharptooth am hiding behind is suddenly moved and something moves very fast into my vision... then pain and blackness. I, back in my own body, wake up crying and screaming.

A day or two later my sister and I were walking along the road down by where the creek crosses under it. As we walk towards the house we hear a meow. My sister asks if I heard a kitty, and we look towards where the meow came from but don't see anything. Excited because we loved our cats we pick up our pace. As we pass where the weeds end we hear this time "Meow, come here." We stop, confused now and proceed slowly, again look in that direction. We now see a odd looking tabby cat on a round bale. Again we both clearly hear a "Meow, come here." The cat had appeared to have meowed while these words were spoken. I take a few steps towards the cat, confused by what was going on, I mean cats don't speak English! The cat didn't appear solid, but it's markings are clearly visible. Suddenly it dawns on me, I recognize this cat. My nightmare was me in Sharptooth's body watching his last moments my nightmare was real. His left eye is gone, and the tabby and white markings are Sharptooth's. I start to run away which causes my sister to run.

We try to tell Linda (bio-mother), she calls me a liar and says oh, you must be seeing the ghost of Precious (Her old cat). Even though my sister saw the same thing, I get punished for 'lying.'

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Sharptooth is not the only one I've seen after death. He's not the only one I've had visions within. I also seem to be very sensitive with sensing death or bad injury/sickness. I know people will probably think my story is crazy, perhaps it is... perhaps the abuse I suffered made me crazy. Just please be respectful.

 

[Yurei]

You're not at all crazy and don't ever doubt yr openness to connect with other creatures/planes of existence. Troubling/emotional periods can cause some ppl to become more sensitive (while others become desensitized obv) so I don't doubt your kitty offered a peek into one of his troubling times to say he understands, but also to tell you he's with you. He also showed you your gift! I truly believe animals can be empathic and I think there is cause to believe all are to some degree since they often try to comfort us when upset. I often feel sudden causeless emotions for no apparent reason and I'll notice that someone in my immediate vicinity seems to exhibit some form of telltale sign that the emotion is theirs. But that's just symptoms of being empathic. Explore yr gift, see if you can invite yr kitty to show you more. A delightful story - now you've inspired me to post one!

 

[golondrina]

ENTRY
Spooky may not be the right word but undoubtedly difficult to explain.

On the 24th november last year I spent many moments remembering my beloved cat Cucumella who crossed the bridge exactly a year before. I went to bed thinking about her and the way she used to sleep stretched out against my chest. Sometime during the night I was awaken by a soft paw patting my face and for a moment I thought I was dreaming. But the warmth and purring were so real that my heart started beating against my chest as I stretched my arm to the night table lamp. When the light came on it was not Cucumella I was holding in my arma but Sombra, my five years old gentle cat.

The extraordinary thing about this is that Sombra normally sleeps against my legs between my knees and my ankles and she had never before that night slept stretched out against my chest and has not done it since.