For the last two weeks, my cat Tennyson has spent hours looking at the kitchen garbage can. No swishing tail, no crouching, nothing to indicate that anything is really there. He just watches it. Calmly.
I am getting paranoid.
This is not normal cat behavior - if there was some vermin, he’d make little mewing noises and try to get to the critters. I can think of no earthly reason for his fixation. Thus, there must be a supernatural force at work in my trashcan.
I’m not sure if it is malevolent or benevolent - on the one hand, the cat hasn’t chewed power cords or ravaged my bookshelves lately. On the other, my toilet has been running terribly and the tub is mildewing at a much faster rate.
I am at a loss. Should I call a shaman? Move? Try and make contact with the ghost in the can?
Your suggestions will be most appreciated.
Well, whatever you do, don’t get up and eat cold fried chicken in the middle of the night. :eek:
Definitely get a psychic, particularly one short in stature. Make sure she scares the wits out of you, because inevitably she’ll be able to get something done.
Oh, and don’t move from your current residence to a high-rise with mirrors on every wall. (Not because of the movie, but because it’s damn creepy.)
Scratch,
Actually, I think it may be the house itself, and not the can. Also, the entity probably just has a sick sense of humor - hmmmm.
I recall an incident sometime last year - I had just come home after seeing the theatrical re-release of the Exorcist (my first time seeing the movie), and my SO had a night shift. I was just getting ready to drift off when HORRIBLE SCRATCHING NOISES snapped me into an alert panic. Sure, it was probably just a racoon stuck in the chimney, but the timing was sick and wrong.
And my basement is exactly the one in Pet Semetary - I expect a zombie toddler to cut my achillies tendon every time I change a fuse.
