Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits »

Dusty Rainbolt is product reviewer for Catnip, former product editor for Whole Cat Journal, and the author of Kittens for Dummies.

A mezmerizing collection of strange and unexplainable encounters between human and feline.

Acknowledgements     xiii
Introduction     xv
Didn't You Just Leave Me?: Why Ghost Cats Exist     1
What Is a Ghost?     1
Types of Hauntings     3
Do You Know If Your Home Is Haunted by Your Cat?     4
From Deity to Devil: The Supernatural Lore of the Cat     7
Seafaring Felines     9
Noah's Cat     11
Psychic Cats     12
Sacred Cats     16
Black Cats, Good Cats     19
Look Who's Really in League with the Devil     21
Strange Footprints in the Night: Eerie Encounters with Feline Phantoms     25
White Cat in the Closet     26
The Withered Roses     28
The Tigger Beat     31
The Headless Cat     34
Scamper's Specter     36
Yellow Eyes     38
Cat in the Rafters     40
The Demon Cat of the Nation's Capitol     43
The Guardian Angel     45
The Newborn Kitten     48
A Cat Named Miracle     51
Ziggy's Invisible Friend     53
Phantom at the Vet's Home     56
The Spirit of the House     58
A Little Game of Cat and Dog     60
Cat in the Attic     63
The Scarlett Sightings     65
Cat in the Basement     67
Apartment for Rent: Ghost Pets Welcome     70
The Hurricane Cat     72
The Phantom Invasion     75
Smokey and Toni     79
Fear Not, My Friend: Comforting Encounters with Beloved Companions     83
The Mouth that Roared     84
Kochka's Return     86
Poor Little Punkin     89
A Little Bit of Love     93
A Scratch from the Past     95
Spooky's Little Screen     97
Dyna-Light     99
Snorkel's Escort     100
Prissi and Gaiety     102
Omar's Light     104
Sooz's Shadow     107
Little Joe's Portrait     108
Making an Impression     111
Mouse's Cat     114
Stormy and Loki's Mischief     116
Fluffy's Guide     119
Mikey's Message     121
The Return of Summer Solstice     123
Grungy's Greeting     126
Silver's Stereo     128
One Last Good-bye: Bedtime Visitations     133
Cinders      134
T and E.T     135
Harrison     136
The Mystery Kitty     138
Sapphire     139
Cupcake     141
Nashua     142
Who Was that Cat?     143
Junior Ray     143
Casper     145
A Room with an Unusual View: Hotels with Cats Spirits     147
Morris the Cat     147
The Alley Cat Apparition     151
Catnip and the Faust Hotel     154
Mamma Kitty     156
The Four-Footed Spirits at Thayer's     158
The Phantom Litter Box     160
But We Don't Have a Cat at the Stephen Daniels House     162
The Mile-High Ghost Cat     164
Hotels with Rumors of Cat Spirits     165
Public Phantoms: Out and About with Feline Specters     169
In a Blu Mood at the Cat Hospital     169
Tom Cat's Last Battle at Fort McAllister     172
The Antiques Store's Pitiful Little Cat     175
The Literary Ghost Cat     177
Stonehenge's Poor Puss     179
The Railroad Station Cat from Mars     181
The Magnolia Mound Plantation Mystery Cat     183
The Unsinkable Cat at the Molly Brown House Museum     184
Locations that May Have Ghost Cats     185
Selected Works Cited     193
About the Author     199