I think my house is haunted

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Doors open by themselves, strange shadows on the wall, stuff falling off of tables and shelves when no one is in the room.

Maybe the ghost came in with our cat, because none of this used to happen before we got her.....

[Renew Deal]

1. How long have you had the cat?

Might be time to find her a new owner.

Where did she come from? Maybe her previous owner came with her?

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2. Maybe your cat is actually a poltergeist?

Maybe all cats are poltergeists? Ever think about that? Eerie.

[HopeHoops]

4. One of my college room-mates had a cat named Pywacket (sp?) named after a familiar.

She lived up to the name. Evil little thing.

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5. Supposedly when you dream about cats, they signify spirits . . .

But sometimes a cat is just a kitteh.

[HopeHoops]

6. This one was never a kitteh - just a terror.

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19. Pyewacket. The witch's (Kim Novak) cat in 'Bell, Book, and Candle'.

Great movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell,_Book_and_Candle_%28film%29#Cast

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20. More on Pyewacket:

Pyewacket was one of the familiar spirits of a witch detected by the "witchfinder general" Matthew Hopkins in March 1644 in the town of Maningtree, Essex, UK. Hopkins claimed that he spied on the witches as they held their meeting close by his house, and heard them mention the name of a local woman. She was arrested and deprived of sleep for four nights, at the end of which she confessed and named her familiars, describing their forms.

They were Holt, Jarmara, Vinegar Tom, Sacke and Sugar, Newes, Ilemauzer, Pyewacket, Pecke in the Crowne, and Griezzel Greedigutt. Hopkins says he and nine other witnesses saw the first five of these, which appeared in the forms described by the witch. Only the first of these was a cat; the next two were dogs, and the others were a black rabbit and a polecat. It's not clear what sort of animal Pyewacket was. As for the meanings, Hopkins says only that they were such that "no mortall could invent." The incident is described in Hopkins's pamphlet "The Discovery of Witches" (1647).[original research?]

[HopeHoops]

22. I only have one familiar...

On Edit: He was a lot younger then. He still has his old blue collar. He sports a black leather dog collar with spiked studs in it now.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

11. Oh crap, first we had PoultryGeists and now Catgeists

will it ever end!?!

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15. PoultryGeists, lol

Did you or do you play WoW? Anyway, PoultryGeists is pretty funny I don't think it will ever end because they are just too damn cute.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

17. I haven't played but I have thought of giving it a try

[HopeHoops]

3. Well SORRY! I thought you LIKED all that shit.

[denbot]

7. Your cat is just gas-lighting you..

Cough up the tuna fish or else..

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18. Best answer

I probably should have mentioned that the shadows seem to have tails, and the doors are far more likely to open and close when she's out of dry food.

The fact that sometimes the bed get lumpy even after I've made it neatly, and then lumpy quilt on the bed seems to be breathing (and snoring) is pretty creepy, though.

[dimbear]

8. There's a legend that when Europe panicked and got rid of all its cats, the resulting

rat infestation brought on the Black Plague.

Prolly partly true, too.

Nice kitty.

[susanr516]

9. We went through something like that

for about 5 years. Windows opening, door knobs rattling, stuff on counters knocked over, light fixtures falling, light bulbs exploding, hearing footsteps and other odd noises in empty rooms. The ghost even followed us when we moved to a different city. When we moved again (within the same city) the ghost didn't come with us. Really strange. I'm not religious and I don't think there's an afterlife, but I have no other explanation for what we experienced.

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14. Did you have a young child in the family at the time?

I have read that this sort of phenomena can result with a child around the age of five. I don't know what to attribute it to, I just read about it.

[susanr516]

21. Yes

My daughter was about 2 years old when everything started. Several people have told me that it was a poltergeist that attached itself to her in some way. It was a very playful spirit--it would rap around in one bedroom until I went in there to see what was up, then it would start making noises in the other bedroom. Some nights, when I was really tired, I'd play for a few minutes, and then say out loud, "I'm not playing any more." It would bump around one or twice, but if I didn't go look, the noises would stop. I always thought it acted like a child, more playing tricks than doing anything scary or evil. The most dangerous thing it ever did was to open my daughter's bedroom window on the second floor.

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23. You are so casual about it

I guess once you decided it wasn't malevolent, you relaxed? Very interesting, thank you for sharing your story.

[MrScorpio]

10. "GEEETTTTT OOOUUUTTTTT!!!!!!" nt

[emilyg]

12. Ask the ghost what it wants.

[frogmarch]

13. One summer afternoon years ago,

my younger sister and I were visiting our older sister at her house. We were talking and laughing in the living room, when all of a sudden, we saw one of the kitchen cupboard doors open and a loaf of bread fall out onto the counter. My younger sister said, jokingly, “Oooo, a ghost!” and we all laughed. Then the cupboard door shut again.

We never did figure out exactly how it happened, but we thought that probably the loaf of bread had been sitting unevenly on top of something in the cupboard and fell off whatever it was and hit the inside of the cupboard door, forcing the door to open wide enough to accommodate it, and that the cupboard itself was probably crooked, leaning slightly inward at the top, which caused the door to shut again after the bread fell out.

Or else my sister’s cat was possessed.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

16. Try contacting the ghost with an Ouija board.