February 6, 2009
A Disappearing Kitten
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David Lee - Suburbs of Dallas, Texas - August 2000
It was back in the late summer of 2000. I had just relocated from my
hometown to a nearby city after accepting a new job. Strange occurrences
began to happen. They seemed minor at first and easily explained, but as
time passed these events became more noticeable. At first I would notice
little things such as my toilet seat being let down after I had made a point
of leaving it up. I would turn off my air conditioning before work, and when
I came home it was running full blast. Bedroom doors I knew I had left open
would be closed upon my return. My six-year-old daughter and I were the only
two people staying there and no other person had a key. I started to make a
point of leaving things in certain positions each morning prior to taking
her to the sitter's and my going to work. Daily, we would find things
different than we had left them. On several occasions a television would
turn on for no specific reason. I thought that the apartment complex
maintenance staff may have been entering my unit, or maybe the prior
resident still had a key. But This had not been the case, and even after my
locks had been changed (as they were before I had moved in) these events
still took place.
Annoying as these events were, what happened next was more unsettling. I had
adopted a kitten when we had moved in. We got up one morning and the kitten
was gone. I had just fed it the night before and could not figure how it had
slipped out. I found a window screen clawed open where the kitten must have
slipped out, but I remember closing that window prior to going to bed that
night and seeing the kitten still in my apartment after I closed the window.
After a few days we did find the kitten, however a week later it had
disappeared once again, this time with no evidence where it had gone.
A few days later my girlfriend was visiting town and was babysitting my
daughter at the unit. I received a phone call around lunch time with her in
a panic. They had been playing in my daughter's room when she went to the
kitchen for a drink of water. As she closed the fridge she heard a man's
voice greet her. Afraid, she ran into my daughter's room and could hear the
fridge's door slam shut. I had never told her of the odd events we had been
experiencing, so I was worried there may be an intruder. I rushed home (I
worked five minutes away) and found the internal dead bolt locked, with no
forced entry into the apartment visible. After this we had a blessing done
and the problems there disappeared. However, these events would bring back
many memories from childhood I had long forgotten. Over the next few years I
would continue to experience strange events such as these, no matter where
we lived.
