Hi to you all,
It has been a while since i posted anything on this site just seem to be to busy to be able to sit down for five mins.
Last month (Dec 06) i was at home with my daughter she was then 11 months old , she was starting to get a bit cranky and tired so i decided to take her up for her afternoon nap and also to lay down with her on the bed until she was asleep then put her in the cot. It did not take to long before she was asleep about 5 mins. I was about to move her into her cot when i saw a black cat jump on to the bed only a couple of inches from my feet, the thing was it made no sound when jumping on the bed and there was no movement on the bed sheets... Now being a grown man i did the only thing possable that was to scream like a little girl and to kick out at the cat (which i am sorry for) the cat just got up jumped of the bed and walked on to the landing sat down started to clean itself and it just vanished whilst cleaning itself.
I have never owned a black cat , the house we live in is new property (9 yrs old) and we have lived in it from new.
We have a lot of paranormal things going on in the house which i have mentiond in previous posts.
I am not sure but i think i have read somewhere that cats that come in ghost form are there to protect you !!!
What do you think ???
P.S I woke my daughter up when i screamed lol

Whatever it was didn't appear in physical form (did not move the mattress or covers etc.) but in visual form, so it did not intend to harm you or your daughter.

Sounds like it was there because it was interested in you for whatever reason. Probably benign in intent.

A ghost cat is kinda cool, though, don't you think?

I think I'd put the frickin' house up for sale.

I had something similar happen to me on 6th Dec 06. I opened the door between my kitchen and downstairs toilet and a black labrador jumped up at me but stopped before it touched me. My mind just had time to ask "How did next doors dogs get in the house?" and then it disapeared.
We do not own a dog and as far as I know none have ever lived in the house (we are the second family to live in this house, before that it was marsh land). I spoke to the neighbours they have 5 dogs and none of them are black nor do they own a labrador. Although they did say that in their previous house they had a black labrador that died. I didn't tell them why I wanted to know. Nothing worse than a neighbour that thinks your nuts.
Maybe he got the wrong house.

Interesting, I'd say if you can afford it then move to another house, otherwise, you gotta learn how to live "ignoring" all of these paranormal things that take place in your house and just move on.

Are you serious?

A little bit drastic dont you think? Move house because you might (and i emphasize the word might) be sharing it with a ghost cat. I would say just live with it what harm can it do.

A black cat as a potential SP bio-culprit ™........hmmmmmm doesnt legend somehow figure cats mix with SP ?....(trying not to derail into SP fixation again SP naysayers)................B


yes, i counted too, 4 SPs in this little sentance I know I know......b









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BH

You bring up a very inetresting topic in paranormal investigations; The concept of an animal haunting.

While some claim to have wittnessed it, considering the number of animals in our world and how many meet with violate deaths (especially when in contact with humans and civilization) you'd think there would be more animal hauntings. But there aren't.

In the book "Ghost Tech" by Vince Wilson (no relation to Grant Wilson of TAPS) he puts forth a good theory. He says that ghosts and hauntings are, at least in part, due to the the memory (ie. the area somehow "remembering" the person was there) of the person being somehow recorded or held at a certain location. He believes the memory is an imprint of the identification of one's self.

Humans are one of the very few creatures in the world that know themselves when they see it. That is, if you look at a mirror, water or other reflective surface you know you're looking at yourself. Even babies show a recognition of themselves in a mirror. But most other animals don't. They may think it's another animal of thier own kind but they don't know they are looking at themselves. They have no sense of "self".

Wilson believes there are very few animal hauntings because most animals don't have that sense of "self". When there are animal hauntings he theorizes it's because the people around the area remember the animal, not the animal itself remembering it's self. Like someone remembering a cherished dog or cat, or a soldier on a horse. You're seeing the animal because the person who also died in that area remembers the animal.

It's a interesting theory.

Sorry but that was a little funny... LOL I know what it's like to be surprised like that though so I understand.



At my parents home were just about every family member has witnessed some sort of paranormal activity (VERY haunted house!)... I used to also get the feeling of a dog being around sometimes. There was one room especially in the second floor, where I would sometimes hear the sounds of a dog approaching behind me, I would quickly turn around and not see anything. One time I fell asleep while reading there, and while experiencing some SP I could hear a dog barking and running around the room, it kept standing up and placing its paws on me and I could hear it's breathing and feel as it nudged my face with its nose. This happened a couple of times as I was asleep and would wake up startled thinking a dog had gotten inside. (We've never had a dog in that house)

One day several years ago, there was a new neighbor who had this little cute dog, who would always go crazy as it passed our house when she took him out for a walk. It didn't bark at anyone if we were out there, it would just look up towards the second floor windows and keep barking, it would pull with all it's might to get away from it's owner and go towards our house. (No one was in the second floor many times this happend) Then one day as my brother was walking out of the house, as soon as he opened the front the door, in flew the little dog, and as fast as it could go it ran up the stairs and down the hallway as if it knew where it was going, completely ignored anyone it passed by. He pushed the half way closed door and ran in to this one room I mentioned, he started barking and would spin around and jump as if he was seeing something or someone there, he was basically going mad barking at this thing he saw... and no one was in the room! My brother who ran after it as well as my sister tried to pick him up, but he was so frantic they had a hard time grabbing hold of him, because the little dog kept getting away to go bark at the corner. When they walked out with him to look for the owner, the young girl was out in the street looking for her dog. They had been looking for him for a couple hours and didn't know how it had gotten out. That incident made us wonder even more just was was in that bedroom that made the dog so upset and determined to get in to see it. Who knows...

We also have since seen the cat on three other occasions around the house, the stairs , the landing and my youngest sons bedroom, i say we myself and my wife.
Straying away a little from the cat we have some poltergiest activity going on also at the moment, or a playful spirit.
My wfes father died on new years eve (throwing a party died of a heart attack just before midnight) and ever since 3 strange things have happened.
1/ We have a baby moniter for when my daughter sleeps upstairs so if she wakes we can hear her on the portable unit. I had some paperwork to complete at the kitchen table and do you think we could find the portable unit ? No we looked everywhere but we could not find it, so we switched the radio off and left the bedroom door open so we could here her if she woke, after an hour i stopped for a break and went to put the kettle on and asked my wife if she wanted a coffee, she came into the kitchen and asked me where i had found the monitor, i turned around and there on the table on top of the paperwork was the monitor sitting proud, to say i was gobsmaked was an understatment.

2/ On Tuesday this week in the afternoon i was peeling some spuds for tea when i noticed my daughter was very quiet in the lounge , i went in to check on her and she was fine playing with her baby doll that she got for xmas, after a couple of minutes i went back into the kitchen and there on top of the spud peelings sat the remote control for the television.
It was just the two of us in the house everyone else out at school, collage, and university. The remote was not missing at all, all i did was to say thankyou to David (wifes dead dad) and put it back into the lounge.

3/ The night before the funeral i was talking to my wife in bed about her dad and stuff with lights off and there was an almighty flash of light that and a ball of light that appeared over our heads and shot through the room and dissapeared. That was the longest cuddle i had that night for a very long time.
My wife has not seen her father for over 16yrs and has not spoken to him in all that time (not a very nice man) so she was not to upset that he had died. We did not go to the funeral which was on friday. The stress levels wer'nt that bad in the house. So was it the wifes dad decided to pay us a visit and have a bit of a laugh with us or just somthing new thats going on in our already paranormal house???????

I had a ghost cat at an apartment in Denver a few years ago. It used to jump up on the bed and curl up. I never saw it, just felt it. I believe it just wanted to cuddle up, and be around me. I was never scared of it. Thought it was kind of normal really. I never thought to talk about it until long after I moved away.

Hi Pip,

I remember your previous posts from a while ago Got no doubts that your house is active and I have to say the cat experience is rather impressive! Cats seem to be pretty common apparations to see, I myself have seen a cat spirit in my room before which walked past and vannished (I don't actually have any cats)

It doesn't sound like the cat was a negitive experience either.

It sounds like alot of people are seeing cat spirits. I, myself have a cat spirit residing in my apartment. I also have 2 other cats (alive) that sometimes go nuts and run around the place as if chasing and playing with a third cat.

Hey as a born witch i have had weird thing's with animal's all my life......I think the cat and other thing's that are going on in the house could be from your daughter,It's not really that weird girl's tend to bring spirit's more then boy's do for some reason....What i was wondering was, you said stuff has happen in the house for a long time, did it happen before the baby was born.?

It if were me, I would 'smudge' the house with sage. In my years of experience, I have learned not to tolerate any kind of entity. If you have paranormal activity that causes you to 'fear' constantly, it is not a good sign. If you can't ignore the activity any longer then it's time to remove the 'entity' from the home. You need to claim your property back and kick out the squatters.

Yes the activity in the house is now running into it's fourth year, we were seeing quite a lot of shadows concentrated around the stairs, landing and my sons bedroom and they started to get a bit spooky, but we have now asked them to leave us alone because my son (10yrs old) was starting to get spooked and one particular shadow (the same one or not, i don't know) was standing in the doorway of his bedroom just looking at him and then dissapearing.
I know it's hard to belive that a ten year old not to spooked out with it all, but he has grown up with the things happening and we have been open with him from the start and told him what we think is going on and now he has a calm head on his shoulders and calmly tells us if he has seen anything.
Since asking the shadows to leave us in peace i have only seen one of these which was begining of Dec 06.
But the lights and the balls of light still appear on a regular basis keeping us on our toes.

Hi, i know where you are comming from, when things started to happen around the house thats the first thing i wanted to do. But now i have a unique oppotunity to try and understand and to look into with whats going on. We are not activley asking the spirits, ghosts, demons, elementals, shadow people call them what you will, to come into our house, we are learning to live with whats going on and we have quite a comprehensive diary with sightings, smells that seem alien to our house.
As far as i can tell whatever is going on the visitors are not there to harm us in anyway. I'm not a fruit cake i'm just a regular guy with a great family doing normal family things.

That was my first suggestion and it's not only about the ghost can, he said ->
So why live in an uncomfortable house, if he can afford getting another one -in case he is annoyed by all there paranormal things-


Well, that is my other suggestion, obviously, and I do believe it's the optimal one, unless the man finds it hard to live peacefully under these conditions.

Who said it was uncomftable i did not say that. The house feels bright and is very homely.
Why do people assume that if your house has paranormal activity going on that it will be dark, damp, cold and have a negative energy to it.
That only happens in the movies
If any of my family siad to me "Dad we don't like this anymore, please do something about it" i would do it an instant.
It not as though things are happening everyday sometimes you can go a couple of months where things are quiet.
And i hope there are others out there that agree with me...

I agree here: just because a house is active does not mean it's negative. Only a fraction of paranormal activity can be classed as harmful. For the most part, because we don't understand it, we fear it. But it's not inherently negative to begin with.

Take poltergeist activity, which includes objects being moved around. It's only a small percentage of objects that are 'thrown at' someone, with the majority of incidents being just what Pip described above - items being moved around unseen.

Lights flash, orbs are seen, smells are smelled. That's not frightening in of itself. It's puzzling that we don't understand what is going on. That's all.

I couldn't agree more with loonboy

Would you have been as scared if the cat had been white or brown? It doesn't sound as if you felt anything negative, it just caught you off guard is all. My grandmother had a duck that haunted the yard. She saw this duck a lot. There seems to be nothing to worry about. nothing negative anyway. Just b/c its a spirit doesn't make it evil, or wrong-negative. imo.

I think it would be cool to live in a house that's haunted by animals, especially cats. And strangely enough, I have a black cat (he is alive, though!) whose name is Pip (also the name of the OP). So I was a little creeped out by this topic, until I saw that it was a ghost cat, and not a dead body cat. If that makes any sense AT ALL!

MEEEOOOWWW

Ghost pets wouldn't shed or puke on the carpet. I'm in.

^They also don't need a cat box, or need to be walked, or make any smells, or need to be fed, or boarded at the vet when you go on vacation, or run away. Almost all the advantages of having a pet, without any of the disadvantages. Where do I get one?


And to Pip: Down Kitty!

I myself don't take kindly to any unauthorized "entities" in my home . In your case, you have a baby so I'd take it that much further with the heightened security. Being that I'm a decentive of very indigenous people I would take any "cat ghost" as a bad omen, or negative entity ESPECIALLY a black one appearing where you rest and were sleeping all vulnerable - I personally find that to be a suspect action for anyone, alive or dead.

Anyway, if you're okay with it, that's one thing, but I highly reccomend you keep it away from your child at all costs until you know more. I've read some other things about your house on here and frankly sir, I think your house is ALL jacked up. You need a spiritual cleansing (however those work) or to relocate very soon!

For better advice I would search for some of the Native Americans that use this site. I believe I've heard some of them mention these type of creatures before. Some of the names for it vary by tribe each have a different name for them but they're the same thing. Maybe somebody can research it for him...I'm supposed to be working. Lol.

You guys are so cheap. And funny.



Sorry, but just because you have a baby, does not make your entity a threat. A black cat is a lucky omen usually, not an unlucky one.
I read into your postings that the entity is benign and that the cat ghost is there for your benefit.

Plus I don't understand what 'a decentive of a very indigenous people' really means....

LMAO!! Me neither, I'm at work supposedly multi-tasking, too many windows open, too many things at once. I meant "decendant of a very indigenous people" meaning decendant of very earthy, naturistic, tribal folk. Meaning my beleifs are probably somewhat affected by my culture and upbringing.

..always glad to eduacate the community at an opportune moment.

Thank you, I'm obliged.

However I'm still nonplussed. I still consider black cats (living or dead) as a lucky portent. Unless they're packing a gun and demanding my wallet.

My sisters described a similar experience at my Grandmother's house, having both witnessed a cat at the same moment that should not have been there. They inspected the house and found no cat except the one that was supposed to be there (solid white and hard to miss), and no strange cats appeared in the house later. They were both adults at the time, and neither has ever told me a story about seeing anything else paranormal in nature. They never liked that house, it had a back room that was particularly odd, always cold. I don't believe in much without having a little doubt, but I believe they saw what they said they saw. I think I'd be unnerved (to say the least) knowing that thing was around my child, though I doubt it could do any harm...

My daughter "inherited" a black cat from my mother (she adopted it, but it only liked my daughter, lol). That cat adored my daughter (it would sit on the back of the sofa and "groom" my daughter's hair....if she tried to move, she would grab her head with claws out just enough to warn. hehe). Anyway, she moved in with her friend in town (we lived out in the country and she hated it out there), took her cat with her, but they didn't like cats. So the cat came back out to our house. She promptly disappeared (we figured she was trying to head back into town about 15 miles away, but never made it....bad coyote problems). Not too long after that, the parents of her friend felt bad and got her a little black kitten, but asked that she keep it in her room. One day they yelled at Mandy to come get her cat out of their bedroom. She was confused and opened her bedroom door, there was her cat right where he was supposed to be. She and the parents looked in their room, no cat. They swore up and down that they saw the cat come out of the closet and go under the bed. After that Mandy saw, Spooky quite a few times. Apparently a pets love doesn't die.

I think it's comforting that pets come back to their owners in spirit form. It's very reassuring.

My mom once heard my old dog, Rudy, bark, in the back yard. She'd been gone about a month or so.

She was a good dog.

If it did happen, it wasn't an evil black cat, that's for sure, an evil one 'd gut your kid and bite it's throat open. Maybe a protector of some sorts ? And why did it AGAIN had to have been a black cat ?? I've owned a black cat for ages and I miss her still everyday... Just in case she'd read this: "Felix, 'k zien je noh olsan heirn !"... Just in case.

EDIT:

Seeing as you're from the UK and close to the sea at that, next time you see the cat, tell her that she has to go OVER the channel, her name is Felix, and tell her to buy a new GPS system. I'm from the coastal province of Belgium and that beast must've entered her location wrong. Thanks !

And yet another EDIT:

Some of the older members might have remembered my posting "The cat came back... or did it ?" that I've posted some two years ago...