My 13 years old cat Smokey passed away Dec 26 2019 with heart problem after an operation and he took piece of my heart with him ,
He was so nice gentle indoor cat ,I got him when he was 5 weeks old .I took him to best vet and doctors possible but the lord want him so he spent the last Christmas with us and departed DEC 26.
Picture by steve ramsey- my cat Smokey 2019.
Some body in the house heard his voice , I also heard it but I didn’t want to say anything so not to scare the people in the house.
The reason is that I live in Okotoks ,Canada and it is winter time . I do not want to cremate my cat and put his ash in a jar i just dont believe in this method. So I securely put him in a small plastic bag/ vacuum bag after cleaning him and put his toys with him,. sage prayers, and inside small special box with salt and then plastic rap around and put him in a small freezer , empty extra freezer that I have in the basement , until I can bury him in my back yard at his favorite spot by the rose bush at the corner where he used to sit .
2 days after his voice was heard to me it is like goodbye, or his energy lingering in the house like residual hauntings, echo replaying it self .
Cats are interdimensional beings. Science already established that they can teleport and even sometimes come back to life; there’s no point going over that again. My Cat samira did same thing when she passed away march 12 1998 on my birth day, in BRUNEI .I did feel her jumping on my bed as she used to do and I did see her foot print walking on the bed , I wasn’t scared at all as I knew she came to say goodbye.I burred her in the back yard too back in Brunei .
Smokey is doing this his way nice and gentle sound and I am sure I will hear from him more as he will be in the freezer at the basement until 5 more months until I can dig his grave in the bag yard.
Why Would A Cat Haunt You?
While tossing this idea around, someone actually asked me: Why would a cat haunt you? They do seem to be solitary creatures, just fine being left alone. And yet, this actually doesn’t appear to be accurate – many sources online state that cats are indeed very social, and their labels of independent and solitary are mostly myths. Cats are just a bit different, that’s all. And, as with any animal, not all cats are alike. My cats love to play and stay beside me and ask me to play with them and come close and watch TV with me as they watch natural channel.
So the idea that, if possible, a cat would return from beyond the grave to lounge in their familiar surroundings, or visit their previous owners, isn’t so much different from the alleged ghosts of people. If you would do it, maybe your cats would, too.
There’s also the possibility of residual hauntings. These aren’t intelligent hauntings. Rather, they’re a hypothetical paranormal phenomena akin to environmental recordings. A kind of echo in time and space, where the actions and characteristics of a person or animal (or perhaps even a place in general) are repeated long after they’ve passed on. It’s believed that such residual hauntings may be the result of traumatic events or perhaps electrical anomalies.
Strange things, indeed.
Well, now that we’ve established why your cat (or really any pet) might return as a ghost, let’s check out a handful of the potential signs.
According to the scientist behind the study, E.B. Titchener, the reported feeling could be described as uncanny. It is “a state of unpleasant tension or stiffness at the nape of the neck, sometimes accompanied by a tingling, which gathers in volume and intensity until a movement which shall relieve it becomes inevitable.”
But what if something invisible is watching you? Something that by any normal human means should be impossible to detect? Can you sense that and, if so, what could your brain possibly make of it? Would you feel that same tension, that same tingling?
The answer, according to many, would be yes.
A feeling of being watched, or that there is a presence in the room, is often linked to the signs of a haunting, not just by the ghosts of cats. But there’s something to be said about feeling not just any old random presence, but a familiar one. A hairy one.
Stories from other people and readers.
The Phantom Meowing
Our next symptom of a feline haunting: unexplained noises and the feeling of an actual physical presence.
People have reported hearing their deceased cat’s footsteps, the sounds of them scratching walls or furniture, or playing in a litter box (possibly one that isn’t even there). Some have even experienced the occasional haunting meow.
Others will report feeling their cat on a bed or couch, the way you’d feel anything that jumps up or sits down on one while you’re also sitting on it.
Redditor parrott_ Several years ago, he and his girlfriend owned two cats. And they were perfectly normal cats, make no mistake. It was the third cat that bothered him – the one that didn’t really exist.
It started as a strange meowing in the hallway. They wrote this off as just one of their two cats playing around, big deal, even though they never saw the cats nearby when it happened. But then, he’d hear that same loud meowing, even with both cats right there with him on the couch. At that point, he knew they weren’t responsible.
This went on for a while, until one night the strangest thing happened. He’d been up late in bed reading, with his girlfriend sleeping next to him.
“I feel a cat jump on the bed and look from my book to see who it is. No cat. But there is… something. The best I can describe it is as distorted pixels. Its a small mass that looks like when they censor something on T.V.”
He watched, confused, as whatever it was moved across the bed. It approached his girlfriend’s hand, and “she immediately and quickly [drew] her hand back and turn[ed] over…like something had stepped on it.” The distorted cat would never appear again, but sometimes he’d hear that occasional meowing, or see the other cats staring at the empty hallway entrance.
In another case, Reddit user beemcnee with a random ghost cat that seemingly glitched into existence, only to disappear just as quickly. She had been asleep one morning when she felt a cat jump up onto her bed, then to her feet, and up to her stomach. It curled up and, thinking it was her Calico cat, she began to pet it.
But it wasn’t.
“I was thinking about how strangely sweet she was being. Until I noticed that it was not the calico Booboo, but instead an orange tabby!!! And then, in a blink of an eye, there was no cat at all.”
Ghost cats aren’t always so forward. Sometimes, it’s just that disembodied meowing, as Redditor shinkikker . She’d been sitting on the couch with her cat, Cleo, in an otherwise empty house when she heard a very distinct meow, one that reminded her of another cat, her childhood pet that had recently passed away.
“…Sunny’s meow was low and long, where Cleo’s meow is high-pitched and short, like a kitten. The meow I heard was exactly like Sunny’s. So I looked at Cleo, and we both were staying still on the couch. About 10 seconds later, I heard the meow again, and this time, I could distinguish where it was coming from: the basement, Sunny’s favorite place to hang out…”
Familiar (But Ghostly) Smells
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The following account may seem a bit crude, but it’s yet another sign that a ghost cat may be nearby: that of strange, and sometimes wicked, smells.
Two years ago, Reddit user Katweasel about her 16-year-old cat, who unfortunately had to be put to sleep earlier that week. A few days later, after walking over by the kitchen pantry, she was hit with the overwhelming odor of cat urine.
Now, this might not seem too odd. Not only could it have perhaps been a remnant of her deceased cat, but there were also two other cats in the house. However, those two cats were asleep in the bedroom at the time, and the door to the pantry had been open. The smell was far too intense and fresh, she explained, and focused on one specific area — the two middle shelves, where it was unlikely either of the living cats would reach. That, and absolutely nothing was wet. It didn’t make any sense.
She even went and brought one of her other kittens into the kitchen to see if she would react, but nothing happened. And then, just like that, the smell disappeared.
“For about an hour to [an] hour and a half i kept going back to try and figure it out. Then one time i went back and NOTHING. There was no trace of any smell. All day i was wondering.”
The smell never returned.
Many hauntings have involved phantom scents, be they of cologne or perfume, cigar smoke, or other smells associated with the individual who passed away. Perhaps the same can be said of cats and other animals.
Shadow Cats at the Corners of Your Eyes
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Many have claimed over the years to have experienced so-called Shadow People. These are strange, humanoid shadows that sometimes appear fully formed, other times undefined or blob-like.
However, they don’t always appear as human. They’re often simply described as supernatural entities in general, and have indeed been reported to appear in the shape of animals, including cats.
Sometimes, in fact, they just appear at a person’s feet, like in this situation:
“I’ll see cat shadows run around my feet which startle me because the cat I own now is black and I’m afraid of stepping on her, but I look up the stairs and she’s sitting at the top, just staring at me.”
Another, is that told by Redditor multicrazy1012. It was an experience that happened when he very young. He woke up one night and saw what he described as “a large 2 dimensional cat that had the outline of a house cat but was the size equivalent of a tiger.” The cat was a shadow, and had strange glowing eyes. A dream? Possibly, but the way he told it, the memory was just too vivid to be a dream.
Five years later, he’d witness other shadowy figures in that same room.
“I was again walking down the stairs from my bedroom and this time clearly and vividly saw a tall, featureless, 3d figure run from the bathroom to the guest bedroom nextdoor.”
That later account sounds much more like a traditional shadow person experience. But what, then, do we make of the large shadow
cat? Ghost Cat Apparitions
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As with any haunting, the most profound sign is outright visual manifestation. This, however, can happen in many stages and and take many forms. We’ve already seen a few of these above. Ghost orbs. Brief glimpses of cat-like shapes not of this world. The aforementioned shadows.
“…I had orbs thread around my path and rub against my ankles; my room would suddenly smell like kitty litter for a few minutes then it would go away; a recorder I left on at night captured cat meows and the sound of something playing with the recorder and scratching at the microphone…” –
Full body apparitions are something else. They can appear solid, as if the person or animal were standing in front of you clear as day. Or, they can seem transparent, a kind of ghostly projection.
An account shared by Reddit user CapMarvel91 . She had been over at her friend’s house when she happened to catch the specter of a cat standing in the hallway.
“I could tell that it wasn’t real, but I could see that it was white with black patches. It had colour, but it was transparent…It took two steps and disappeared in front of my eyes!”
Now, she’d never actually seen her friend’s cat before. She knew only that it had been hit by a car, and the family had buried it in their flower bed in the backyard. But, strangely enough, when she shared the experience with her friend and described how the cat looked, the description matched exactly that of her friend’s deceased cat.
Apparitions of full cats, which seem almost completely real, are also known to occur. In one instance, Redditor Drew-Pickles was walking through his girlfriend’s house when he happened to pass an open door leading to a bedroom. He gave the room a quick passing glance, and
He didn’t think that was anything unusual at first – they did own cats, after all – but stopped when he realized that they were all downstairs with his girlfriend, or “locked in the conservatory.” He turned around and looked back into the room, and there it was, completely empty. No cat to be found.
He hurried downstairs to tell his girlfriend what he saw.
“…she confirmed that the two kittens were with her and the rest were outside. I described the cat to her and she said that she knew what I had seen, it was her dead cat, Ginna. She then went and got a photo of him and lo and behold, it was the cat I had seen.”
Well, there you have it. Have you ever encountered a ghost pet, or experienced any of the strange signs listed above? Feel free to share your story with us please e mail me at drsteveramsey@gmail.com
I will prepare my cell phone hoping to have any picture or sound of my cat but I dont really care to prove it and make other people believe as it is my experience my pet and I know what I felt and heard, I go to the basement to the freezer daily and greet him ,pray for him to let him know that I still love him and I know he is around and I will berry him in the garden in his favorite spot soon.
I LOVE YOU SMOKEY.
Steve Ramsey, Okotoks – Calgary