- Joined
- Aug 20, 2015
- Messages
- 2,205
- Purraise
- 740
OK, I have been reading about cats having a 6th sense and how they are able to 'see' ghosts, spirits and/or apparitions and actually interact with them. Why am I awake at 5:30 in the morning Googling my butt off about this? Because about an 2 1/2 hours ago, I was awakened by my two cats growling fiercely at 'nothing' and I haven't been able to go back to sleep.
I was comfortably asleep and I heard growling. Not the typical occasional growls that my cats emit when play-fighting - these were loud, deep, gurgling, and dominating growls! And it wasn't just one of them - they were both growling! I got up and saw them both sitting side-by-side intently staring at the door. They were actually in more of a semi-hunched sitting position with their heads low and slightly forward, ears back and I could see right away that Keeker (my black DSH) had his hackles up along his back. Their eyes were dilated and, even though I walked into the room and spoke to them, neither took immediate notice of my presence and kept staring and growling at the door.
I live on the third floor of an apartment building and outside my door is a long corridor that has an elevator at the center and emergency exit doors at either end. My first thought was that there was a medical emergency in one of the other apartments, because that is the only reason anyone would be out in the hall at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Having been the victim of 'redirected aggression' in the past, I didn't want to spook the cats while they were in such an intense fixation, so I called out their names in a sharp, demanding voice to get their attention. They both turned, looked at me, looked back at the door and immediately turned and ran past me and went under the bed back in the bedroom.
I went to the door and listened intently to see if I could hear anything, but it was completely silent. What to do? What to do? Right? I went back to my bedroom and got my .38 out of my nightstand drawer (something I should have done before I came out the first time!). When I entered the bedroom, both cats were still under the bed and they were still growling --not as aggressively as they were, but steady, low growls.
Anyway, I went back to the door and listened again. Still, nothing. Incase there WAS someone in the hall, I knocked on the door and said, "I've called the police. Who's out there?". No response! I went to get my cell phone and could still hear faint growls coming from under the bed. I called the non-emergency police number and explained what had been going on and that I was armed and my door was securely locked.
Dispatch proceeded to tell me that they had gotten another call from my building and officers were already on their way. The police arrived at my door before I hung up! When I checked the peephole and saw and heard them, I re-locked my gun and unlocked my door to let them in and saw that my nextdoor neighbor was out in the hall. Oh goody! My neighbor said that she had called ... are you ready for this? Because her cat was freaking out and woke her up!
In the meantime, there were police doing a floor-to-floor search of the building (checked for open/broken windows, unlocked security doors, maintenance closet, laundry room, rec room and kitchen), and all around outside and found nothing amiss!
My neighbor said her cat was loudly growling and hissing at her door and she knew something was wrong. None of our cats have ever shown this type of behavior before. As we were talking, the man at the end of the hall (6 doors down) came out to see what was going on. After hearing the story, he said, "Wow! Peanut (his Chihuahua) woke me up a few minutes after 3:00. I thought she had to pee because she kept whining at the door."
OK, so now two cats and a dog woke their owners up at approximately the same time for 'no known reason'. Someone or some'thing' WAS in this building tonight and it wasn't friendly! The only conclusion I could come to was that it was some type of 'spirit'. The woman in the apartment right next to me passed away last week - could it have been her? Was it something else? Whatever it was... it is apparently gone because both my cats are up and about, playing and eating per usual! I think I'll be up for while!
Have any of your cats ever reacted to 'something' that 'wasn't there'? Do you believe cats (or dogs?) have a 6th sense and can detect things that humans can't?
I was comfortably asleep and I heard growling. Not the typical occasional growls that my cats emit when play-fighting - these were loud, deep, gurgling, and dominating growls! And it wasn't just one of them - they were both growling! I got up and saw them both sitting side-by-side intently staring at the door. They were actually in more of a semi-hunched sitting position with their heads low and slightly forward, ears back and I could see right away that Keeker (my black DSH) had his hackles up along his back. Their eyes were dilated and, even though I walked into the room and spoke to them, neither took immediate notice of my presence and kept staring and growling at the door.
I live on the third floor of an apartment building and outside my door is a long corridor that has an elevator at the center and emergency exit doors at either end. My first thought was that there was a medical emergency in one of the other apartments, because that is the only reason anyone would be out in the hall at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Having been the victim of 'redirected aggression' in the past, I didn't want to spook the cats while they were in such an intense fixation, so I called out their names in a sharp, demanding voice to get their attention. They both turned, looked at me, looked back at the door and immediately turned and ran past me and went under the bed back in the bedroom.
I went to the door and listened intently to see if I could hear anything, but it was completely silent. What to do? What to do? Right? I went back to my bedroom and got my .38 out of my nightstand drawer (something I should have done before I came out the first time!). When I entered the bedroom, both cats were still under the bed and they were still growling --not as aggressively as they were, but steady, low growls.
Anyway, I went back to the door and listened again. Still, nothing. Incase there WAS someone in the hall, I knocked on the door and said, "I've called the police. Who's out there?". No response! I went to get my cell phone and could still hear faint growls coming from under the bed. I called the non-emergency police number and explained what had been going on and that I was armed and my door was securely locked.
Dispatch proceeded to tell me that they had gotten another call from my building and officers were already on their way. The police arrived at my door before I hung up! When I checked the peephole and saw and heard them, I re-locked my gun and unlocked my door to let them in and saw that my nextdoor neighbor was out in the hall. Oh goody! My neighbor said that she had called ... are you ready for this? Because her cat was freaking out and woke her up!
In the meantime, there were police doing a floor-to-floor search of the building (checked for open/broken windows, unlocked security doors, maintenance closet, laundry room, rec room and kitchen), and all around outside and found nothing amiss!
My neighbor said her cat was loudly growling and hissing at her door and she knew something was wrong. None of our cats have ever shown this type of behavior before. As we were talking, the man at the end of the hall (6 doors down) came out to see what was going on. After hearing the story, he said, "Wow! Peanut (his Chihuahua) woke me up a few minutes after 3:00. I thought she had to pee because she kept whining at the door."
OK, so now two cats and a dog woke their owners up at approximately the same time for 'no known reason'. Someone or some'thing' WAS in this building tonight and it wasn't friendly! The only conclusion I could come to was that it was some type of 'spirit'. The woman in the apartment right next to me passed away last week - could it have been her? Was it something else? Whatever it was... it is apparently gone because both my cats are up and about, playing and eating per usual! I think I'll be up for while!
Have any of your cats ever reacted to 'something' that 'wasn't there'? Do you believe cats (or dogs?) have a 6th sense and can detect things that humans can't?
Last edited:
