Weird Stuff My Family's Experienced

The Angry Cat Faces

This is probably my earliest weird memory. I think I was five. It was back when my sister and I shared a room and had our beds on the far wall, opposite the wall with the tall dresser and the red digital clock. (By the way, red clocks always look evil, right? It's not just me?)

I've always been an insomniac. It's somehow related to my sensory processing disorder, but I don't know how and I've never felt the urge to look it up. Anyways, this particular night we had a power out. I'd been looking right at the clock when the power went out. Immediately afterwards, I saw these weird, almost ghostly cat faces. They were like outlines. They were red. Most of them looked angry, but some of them... I guess I'd say they looked...eager? They started reaching out towards my sister and I and I could see their claws.

I started screaming. As soon as my mom came in with a flashlight, they vanished.

I've never been able to work out what I saw. Was it just because I'd been looking directly at a light source when the power went out? Was there actually something there? Something that wanted to hurt my sister and I? I don't know and I doubt I ever will. I still don't like power outs, but I've never seen the cat faces again.