My Pet Ghost (original) (raw)

My “Pet” Ghost

As these two incidents happened in the same house and involve the same pet… an elderly but beloved tortoiseshell cat called Tinker, that had died a few months earlier.

The first incident was at night and appeared before my mother.

It was a calm night and my mother and father were in their armchairs, and watching the television. During the interval, my mother got up to get a drink of water, and so went into the kitchen.

Just as she was about to turn on the lights, she saw a black shadow on the kitchen bench. The eyes of this shadow appeared to be reflecting the background light, and had a luminous green tinge to it.

My mother thought she had caught one of our two other cats sneaking on the bench and hurriedly switched on the light… and found that there was nothing on the bench, nor had there been any cat there.

The other two cats were checked on and found to be fast asleep in front of the fireplace. My mother got the impression that the cat was Tinker.

The second incident involved me.

I was walking to the darkened kitchen and switched on the lights. At the same time, I saw what appeared to be a Tortoiseshell cat leaping out of a box of newspapers and landing on the floor. I even heard the cats’ feet hit the floor. The cat just vanished the moment it landed.

I recognised the Tortoiseshell cat as Tinker. The box of newspapers was her favourite spot for sleeping in when she was alive. She always leapt out of the box to greet my mother or me.

The kitchen was her favourite place to loiter in, as she was a gutbag when it came to food. J

As the family have now moved to a new house, we had to leave our welcome feline ghost behind.

Heaven knows what the new owners thought about their furry ghost. ;-))

Heather Lennox

Auckland

New Zealand