Scary Story - What the cats saw.
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I manage a cafe, and I once had a part timer working for me. She was nice but a little on the odd side. She was obsessed with cats and had quite a few of them in her apartment. While they were generally your every day average cats, sometimes they would act strange.
Every once in a while, they would be in a room where seemingly nothing was; my employee would be home, of course, but nobody else was in the apartment when these events would happen. Anyway, the cats would start to freak out; their hair would stand on end and they’d stare intently at the ceiling or a corner. Their eyes would follow something my employee couldn’t see, and then suddenly they would all run off at the same exact time. Well, you know what they say—cats and dogs can see things that we can’t.
This alone was weird enough for most people to think that something was in their apartment, but not this girl. I don’t know if she was just that bold or what, but ghosts were the last thing on her mind.
One day, she was sleeping and one of her cats was sleeping next to her. She woke up when the cat started to physically become tense. Its hair puffed up, and then it rushed out of the room towards the front door. She thought it was strange but didn’t move a muscle until she heard what sounded like cats fighting. Yowling, tumbling, and other violent sounds filled the apartment. The thought of a burglar or some other malicious person entering her apartment came to mind, and she grew fearful. She went under her blankets and readied herself for a potential attack.
“Mraoraowwwwwww!” One of the cats cried out a final time and then the apartment was silent. She waited a few minutes, and when she didn’t hear anything else, she decided it was safe to go back to sleep. (Like I said, she was pretty bold.)
The next morning, she noticed that one of her cats seemed to be having trouble. It was almost dragging its back legs, and it seemed to be creeping around by its front legs. She immediately feared for the worst and brought the cat to the veterinarian.
“Has your cat always been like this?” the vet asked after looking at the x-rays.
“No, he was fine up until yesterday. He’d run around and play and everything…”
“Really?” The doctor’s expression fully conveyed the doubt in his voice. “Because that’s absolutely impossible. Your cat has no bones from the waist down.”
While this was a shock to everyone that knew the cat, it’s still alive and well today. He still pulls himself around by his front paws and has no sign of recovering, though.
What did the cat encounter that could have stolen half of its skeletal system? And whatever it is… What would happen if it decided to attack a human?
