My cat jumps at the wall

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SirChadwick

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Originally posted by: mharr7
Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Haha... I've come to expect these witty remarks here at ATOT. Gotta love em.

Seriously we've heard random voices from time to time in our house. So I was putting two and two together here.

Ghosts. Its the only explanation.

hehe...in all seriousness, ghosts don't exists. The voices are manifestations coming from your own head, making you think you are hearing things. The brain is a crazy thing. And it can do this with every one of your senses, including smell and sight.

Doesn't mean you're crazy, everyone has their own reasons why this happens, and why it doesn't happen to others. Brain is so complex we'll probably never understand why this happens.

But ghosts don't exist.

I believe in ghosts b/c I've seen them. My brain and eyes both play tricks on me I suppose... along w/ the other 8 people that went to 'ghost road' that night.

 

alkemyst

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My one cat Tora does this in door jambs. He will try to shoot to the top of the doorway...then runs like a bat out of hell across the house.
 

So

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Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Originally posted by: mharr7
Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Haha... I've come to expect these witty remarks here at ATOT. Gotta love em.

Seriously we've heard random voices from time to time in our house. So I was putting two and two together here.

Ghosts. Its the only explanation.

hehe...in all seriousness, ghosts don't exists. The voices are manifestations coming from your own head, making you think you are hearing things. The brain is a crazy thing. And it can do this with every one of your senses, including smell and sight.

Doesn't mean you're crazy, everyone has their own reasons why this happens, and why it doesn't happen to others. Brain is so complex we'll probably never understand why this happens.

But ghosts don't exist.

I believe in ghosts b/c I've seen them. My brain and eyes both play tricks on me I suppose... along w/ the other 8 people that went to 'ghost road' that night.

The brain plays crazy tricks on people, and people primed to see similar things, (surprise, surprise) see similar things.

There are no ghosts in your house, and you have a quirky cat.
 

mharr7

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Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Originally posted by: mharr7
Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Originally posted by: SirChadwick
Haha... I've come to expect these witty remarks here at ATOT. Gotta love em.

Seriously we've heard random voices from time to time in our house. So I was putting two and two together here.

Ghosts. Its the only explanation.

hehe...in all seriousness, ghosts don't exists. The voices are manifestations coming from your own head, making you think you are hearing things. The brain is a crazy thing. And it can do this with every one of your senses, including smell and sight.

Doesn't mean you're crazy, everyone has their own reasons why this happens, and why it doesn't happen to others. Brain is so complex we'll probably never understand why this happens.

But ghosts don't exist.

I believe in ghosts b/c I've seen them. My brain and eyes both play tricks on me I suppose... along w/ the other 8 people that went to 'ghost road' that night.

The brain plays crazy tricks on people, and people primed to see similar things, (surprise, surprise) see similar things.

There are no ghosts in your house, and you have a quirky cat.

^ What he said. If you want to see something enough, your brain will make you think you did.
 

shocksyde

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Originally posted by: So

The brain plays crazy tricks on people, and people primed to see similar things, (surprise, surprise) see similar things.

There are no ghosts in your house, and you have a quirky cat.

Sanity!
 

mharr7

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BTW I want to put it out there, if there was real proof, then that could change my opinion. I'm not trying to bash people, because I know how real these experiences can be to people. I simply won't believe in something I have seen no concrete proof, or actually experienced myself to change my opinion. I know I may come off like a jerk, but i'm not trying to be, just stating how I feel.
I try to approach these things with a scientific approach, much the same reason I'm not religious. I can't believe in stories passed down for thousands of years, with no proof to back them up.
I need to be careful saying this though, cause I don't want to start a debate...

I work with two people, that swear up and down all sorts of ghosts stories. Every one of them I've heard, IMO, they are manifestations in their brains. All of them have to do with dead family members that were really close to them, and it would make sense for them, in their mind, to come back and "visit."
Again, any type of solid proof, may help me at least accept there may be ghosts, spirits etc out there, but to this day, I've never seen anything.
 

Redfraggle

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Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
That's not normal behavior for a cat. I'd take the cat to a priest and have his demons exercised.

Then, once they're in excellent physical fitness, you could have them exorcised.

Thank you, that struck me really funny for some reason and made me laugh until I cried.

OP: My cat does something like that, but I've heard squirrels in the walls attacking each other, so I know what she's after. If you are hearing weird things in the house, probably the cats are too. That's a little creepy really.
 

thomsbrain

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Your cat is perfectly normal. Lots of cats do that. Active imaginations.

You might want to get yourself checked out, though. ;)
 

Iron Woode

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my cat used to do that. She would sit at a wall in the basement and just stare at it for hours. I couldn't hear anything but I was curious and set up a tape recorder and put the record volume on max. I let it record for 20 mins. When I played it back I could hear scratching sounds and high pitched squeaking. Turned out to be mice caught in the wall trying to dig their way out.
 

xboxist

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My cat is broken. It doesn't meow at all. The only time it makes noise is when it sees a ghost, or some other thing on the ethereal plane that humans cannot see. When that happens, she goes apeshit and starts leaping off of walls and her eyes get all huge and she starts making this screech/battlecry type of sound.
 

JJ650

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I would say this is some what normal. Normal compared to mine I guess. She'll jump up the wall and run around the house like a raped ape (ape raping :confused:, now there's an image).

When my wife and I lived in an apartment there was one spot on the wall she would stare at and her tail would puff out. To this day I have no idea what on the wall freaked her out all the time.
She's a weird little shit. That's for sure.
 

Raduque

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Aug 22, 2004
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Originally posted by: mharr7
BTW I want to put it out there, if there was real proof, then that could change my opinion. I'm not trying to bash people, because I know how real these experiences can be to people. I simply won't believe in something I have seen no concrete proof, or actually experienced myself to change my opinion. I know I may come off like a jerk, but i'm not trying to be, just stating how I feel.
I try to approach these things with a scientific approach, much the same reason I'm not religious. I can't believe in stories passed down for thousands of years, with no proof to back them up.
I need to be careful saying this though, cause I don't want to start a debate...

I work with two people, that swear up and down all sorts of ghosts stories. Every one of them I've heard, IMO, they are manifestations in their brains. All of them have to do with dead family members that were really close to them, and it would make sense for them, in their mind, to come back and "visit."
Again, any type of solid proof, may help me at least accept there may be ghosts, spirits etc out there, but to this day, I've never seen anything.

I don't have the footage anymore (tapes got destroyed when a friend moved), but a few years ago, a group consisting of myself, my father, my friend and his wife went to a rural west virginia house and setup various recording equipment. My friend made this box from wood, sealed it good (watertight - it floats) with a plexiglass lid. It has two nightvision cameras in it, secured to the sides inside. It's about 4ft long, 3ft wide and 3ft high. We placed a pendant (with it's chain curled up underneath it) that the residents of the house say moved on it's own inside the box and set the box on the concrete floor of the kitchen. A single camera watched the outside of the box to make sure nobody tampered with it.

The footage from the cameras inside the boxshowed that the pendant slid till the chain was stretched out. It took about 45 minutes for the chain to become taught from the pendant's movement.

Now, I know this isn't going to convince you, but tell me - was this footage we had footage of the pendant staying still, and our brains were simply deceiving us into thinking it shows it moving? How about other people we showed it to who had no prior knowledge that the pendant moved?
 

So

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Originally posted by: Raduque
Originally posted by: mharr7
BTW I want to put it out there, if there was real proof, then that could change my opinion. I'm not trying to bash people, because I know how real these experiences can be to people. I simply won't believe in something I have seen no concrete proof, or actually experienced myself to change my opinion. I know I may come off like a jerk, but i'm not trying to be, just stating how I feel.
I try to approach these things with a scientific approach, much the same reason I'm not religious. I can't believe in stories passed down for thousands of years, with no proof to back them up.
I need to be careful saying this though, cause I don't want to start a debate...

I work with two people, that swear up and down all sorts of ghosts stories. Every one of them I've heard, IMO, they are manifestations in their brains. All of them have to do with dead family members that were really close to them, and it would make sense for them, in their mind, to come back and "visit."
Again, any type of solid proof, may help me at least accept there may be ghosts, spirits etc out there, but to this day, I've never seen anything.

I don't have the footage anymore (tapes got destroyed when a friend moved), but a few years ago, a group consisting of myself, my father, my friend and his wife went to a rural west virginia house and setup various recording equipment. My friend made this box from wood, sealed it good (watertight - it floats) with a plexiglass lid. It has two nightvision cameras in it, secured to the sides inside. It's about 4ft long, 3ft wide and 3ft high. We placed a pendant (with it's chain curled up underneath it) that the residents of the house say moved on it's own inside the box and set the box on the concrete floor of the kitchen. A single camera watched the outside of the box to make sure nobody tampered with it.

The footage from the cameras inside the boxshowed that the pendant slid till the chain was stretched out. It took about 45 minutes for the chain to become taught from the pendant's movement.

Now, I know this isn't going to convince you, but tell me - was this footage we had footage of the pendant staying still, and our brains were simply deceiving us into thinking it shows it moving? How about other people we showed it to who had no prior knowledge that the pendant moved?

It could be the case. Did you have a scale or mark lines next to the pendant?
 

Omegachi

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Originally posted by: Raduque
Originally posted by: mharr7
BTW I want to put it out there, if there was real proof, then that could change my opinion. I'm not trying to bash people, because I know how real these experiences can be to people. I simply won't believe in something I have seen no concrete proof, or actually experienced myself to change my opinion. I know I may come off like a jerk, but i'm not trying to be, just stating how I feel.
I try to approach these things with a scientific approach, much the same reason I'm not religious. I can't believe in stories passed down for thousands of years, with no proof to back them up.
I need to be careful saying this though, cause I don't want to start a debate...

I work with two people, that swear up and down all sorts of ghosts stories. Every one of them I've heard, IMO, they are manifestations in their brains. All of them have to do with dead family members that were really close to them, and it would make sense for them, in their mind, to come back and "visit."
Again, any type of solid proof, may help me at least accept there may be ghosts, spirits etc out there, but to this day, I've never seen anything.

I don't have the footage anymore (tapes got destroyed when a friend moved), but a few years ago, a group consisting of myself, my father, my friend and his wife went to a rural west virginia house and setup various recording equipment. My friend made this box from wood, sealed it good (watertight - it floats) with a plexiglass lid. It has two nightvision cameras in it, secured to the sides inside. It's about 4ft long, 3ft wide and 3ft high. We placed a pendant (with it's chain curled up underneath it) that the residents of the house say moved on it's own inside the box and set the box on the concrete floor of the kitchen. A single camera watched the outside of the box to make sure nobody tampered with it.

The footage from the cameras inside the boxshowed that the pendant slid till the chain was stretched out. It took about 45 minutes for the chain to become taught from the pendant's movement.

Now, I know this isn't going to convince you, but tell me - was this footage we had footage of the pendant staying still, and our brains were simply deceiving us into thinking it shows it moving? How about other people we showed it to who had no prior knowledge that the pendant moved?

find the footage. no footage (or any type of physical proof) = made up story
 

Omegachi

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Originally posted by: SirChadwick

I believe in ghosts b/c I've seen them. My brain and eyes both play tricks on me I suppose... along w/ the other 8 people that went to 'ghost road' that night.

what did you see? where is your proof?

 

dbk

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Originally posted by: Iron Woode
my cat used to do that. She would sit at a wall in the basement and just stare at it for hours. I couldn't hear anything but I was curious and set up a tape recorder and put the record volume on max. I let it record for 20 mins. When I played it back I could hear scratching sounds and high pitched squeaking. Turned out to be mice caught in the wall trying to dig their way out.

This seems to be the most logical/plausible explanation.

girl screaming @ 3am :laugh: - what's wrong with you?
 

Raduque

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Aug 22, 2004
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Originally posted by: Omegachi

find the footage. no footage (or any type of physical proof) = made up story

I don't have the footage. The box disappeared the last time my friend moved. He lost $5000 in camera gear in the same box, too.

So, I'm not sure what you mean. What would a scale or lines have to do with it?
 

RedRooster

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Ours will meow as though he's possessed by a demon, just sit in a corner and meow at the wall. Our house is brand new, so I'm hoping there's no mice in the walls. But the sounds he makes are creepy, and then just tears through the house for a minute and then goes to sleep.
Maybe its hemmeroids, seems to do it after doing the business.
Cats are fun!