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An aquaintance of mine posted this on my other favourite message board. I am sure he won't mind me replicating it here. I thought it was a good story worthy of comment.
I've been thinking about telling this story for a while, but haven't got around to it. Nearly everyone has a 'ghost story' or something really strange that has happened to them. Members of this community are likely to be more sensitive to the 'paranorrmal' than most. I'd like to share my ghost story and hear your theories on and experiences with the other beings that we share this reality with.
Around 5 years ago, I was in my last year of highschool, studying hard, and at night I would sometimes go skateboarding around my suburb to clear my head before going to sleep. At the time, I was reading 'the famished road' by Ben Okri, in which the world is inhabited by a multitude of spiritual beings. I was really into the book and I was convinced that it was possible to see spirits if you approached with the right mindset. Now, I didn't go out looking for spirits - I'm sure I wasn't even thinking about it at the time. I'm sure I didn't make myself see what I saw.
As I reached the driveway of my house, I saw movement next to a van parked nextdoor. About 20 m away from me. It was the size of a human, but it was clearly a feline creature. It walked on it's back legs but moved like a cat. It had a tail, pointy ears, and cats eyes. It saw me and quickly slid behind the van. I saw it for no more than a second, and really only out of the corner of my eye. The way it looked at me was exactly like a cat does when it's startled - body frozen, eyes staring. I didn't really feel scared, just intrigued, but a bit wary. I went and had a look behind the van but there was nothing there.
I considered that it may not have been there at all - just a shadow that my brain had extrapolated into a cat person. But the more I thought about it, the more I was convinced I had seen something real and strange. I told my sister about it. She thought I was just being stupid.
Now, I wasn't totally convinced, until the next morning - when I found my cat dead.
I told this story to someone with probably the most accumulated knowledge of anyone I know, and he said his sister had had an experience in which she was driving through a suburban area and a creature exactly like the one I saw jumped onto her bonnet and stared at her throught the windscreen. She naturally panicked and swerved all over the road but the creature just sat on the front of her car. After a short time it jumped off and ran into some bushes.
So, anyone else seen any cat people around the suburbs?
An aquaintance of mine posted this on my other favourite message board. I am sure he won't mind me replicating it here. I thought it was a good story worthy of comment.
I've been thinking about telling this story for a while, but haven't got around to it. Nearly everyone has a 'ghost story' or something really strange that has happened to them. Members of this community are likely to be more sensitive to the 'paranorrmal' than most. I'd like to share my ghost story and hear your theories on and experiences with the other beings that we share this reality with.
Around 5 years ago, I was in my last year of highschool, studying hard, and at night I would sometimes go skateboarding around my suburb to clear my head before going to sleep. At the time, I was reading 'the famished road' by Ben Okri, in which the world is inhabited by a multitude of spiritual beings. I was really into the book and I was convinced that it was possible to see spirits if you approached with the right mindset. Now, I didn't go out looking for spirits - I'm sure I wasn't even thinking about it at the time. I'm sure I didn't make myself see what I saw.
As I reached the driveway of my house, I saw movement next to a van parked nextdoor. About 20 m away from me. It was the size of a human, but it was clearly a feline creature. It walked on it's back legs but moved like a cat. It had a tail, pointy ears, and cats eyes. It saw me and quickly slid behind the van. I saw it for no more than a second, and really only out of the corner of my eye. The way it looked at me was exactly like a cat does when it's startled - body frozen, eyes staring. I didn't really feel scared, just intrigued, but a bit wary. I went and had a look behind the van but there was nothing there.
I considered that it may not have been there at all - just a shadow that my brain had extrapolated into a cat person. But the more I thought about it, the more I was convinced I had seen something real and strange. I told my sister about it. She thought I was just being stupid.
Now, I wasn't totally convinced, until the next morning - when I found my cat dead.
I told this story to someone with probably the most accumulated knowledge of anyone I know, and he said his sister had had an experience in which she was driving through a suburban area and a creature exactly like the one I saw jumped onto her bonnet and stared at her throught the windscreen. She naturally panicked and swerved all over the road but the creature just sat on the front of her car. After a short time it jumped off and ran into some bushes.
So, anyone else seen any cat people around the suburbs?