Happy Hallowe'en!

[valis2]

And since it's that day, and because I've been overdosing on ghost shows on TV, I thought I'd ask the flist:

Have you had any sort of experience or encounter with ghosts? Tell me about it.

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[sylvadin.livejournal.com]

Ghosts? Sure. In fact, I've lived in a house that was haunted by...little mousie spirits.

Had a huge white cat once. He may have been about as bright as a night-light intelligence wise, but he definitely knew what to do whenever he saw a mouse scamper across the floor. (New house, country location, took a while to find and plug all the rodent entry points.) Problem was - the mice our cat did kill would then come back to haunt him. Hubbie and I would be sitting in the living room watching TV when our dumb wonderkitty would go stalking past our chairs, then pounce, and try to death-bite an invisible mouse; he'd get quite upset when he couldn't find the corpse beneath his paws. This went on for over two years.

Now, the weird part occurred after Hubbie and I installed the 'mousie condo'. We were at an arts-n-craft show and happened to find a wooden wall sculpture that looked like a little fairy apartment complex - a roof, windows, doors carved down the length of a tree branch. While Hubbie was hanging the sculpture on the wall, I jokingly said aloud: "Okay little micies. Sorry about Kitty evicting you to the spirit plane. Here's a lovely new condominium for you to occupy. Now, stop teasing the cat."

The theme-from-The-Twilight-Zone moments started happening several days later when our cat stopped stalking invisible mice through the living room - forever. Instead, we'd find him sitting in the foyer, staring up at the mousie condo, and making his 'I want *that* but I can't reach it' frustration growls. But it was the occasions when our witless wonderkitty would suddenly start pawing the wall like he was chasing something *climbing* up the wall towards the mousie condo...

The fact that that our other housecats AND dogs would sometimes watch an invisible *something* scamper across the floor and up the wall to the condo merely cemented that 'oooo-kay' feeling.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Well, wow! That reminds me of the joke about the cat who went to heaven and asked only for a nice warm pillow, and the mice who went to heaven and asked for roller skates. When God stopped by and asked the cat how she was doing, she said, "Great! And thanks for the meals on wheels!"

But still...that's pretty interesting!

[jen-deben.livejournal.com]

That's really awesome - I feel weirdly delighted by the fact that the mousies actually take over the condo.