You knew exactly how it was going to be received, that's the exact reason you didn't mention it. Of course you're going to be laughed at when you say your witnesses that can verify your ghost story claims are two cats. Unless you came into possession of two talking cats that is a silly claim to make.
When do cats need to speak to indicate something they experienced? They reacted to something they saw, they didn't need to speak of it. What is silly to claim that animals react to events in the world? Simply because it's about something you find incredulous? Yes, of course they need to be talking!
I don't believe you. What research did you do? It obviously wasn't very much because you're still not accepting that it could have been a trick of the mind which is far more likely. You're not being open minded at all, you're assuming ghosts. Again, why aren't you assuming a living cat that's only visible in dull light and turns invisible under full light? You ignored that question. I never said you were asleep or that it ran past you.
I accept all, it is you who doesn't. I believe one more than the other based on circumstances at the time. If this is a matter of semantics, then would "paranormal" be more comfortable for you and every other arrogant condescending user coming at me telling me what I know or don't know? Because a cat visible in dull light and invisible in full is on the same wave length.
And again, where did I say ghosts were impossible? That quote you have picked isn't me saying ghosts are impossible, that's not how logic works. If say "there are an even numbe of blades of grass in the world" are you expected to believe me until it's proven false? There could be an even number if blades of grass but there could also be an odd number. I'd need proof to believe any claim on that matter. Is something hot just because it hasn't been proven to be cold?
You're not having an honest discussion here at all.
It is exactly how logic works, you're simply attempting to weasel your way out for being accountable for your own argument. Possible and impossible are binary, there are no shades, and when you claim through implication all is impossible until you see evidence to give you reason to believe it is possible (which is precisely what you're saying in that paragraph), sorry, there is no weasel room.
You say you saw an orange cat inside a standing shower stall? Presumably, through the glass shower door? Sounds to me like a trick of light, reflecting or refracting in the glass door, that took the shape of a cat. That would explain why it disappeared as soon as you turned the full bathroom light on too.
It's entirely possible your cats saw the same thing and became spooked when they saw it "disappear".
Not through a glass door. It was a standing shower with a curtain pulled to the side. Whatever it was, it was a cat as real as you or I have ever seen. No more than 10 feet away.
But why ghosts? Why not some wizard fucking with you casting illusions? Why not a gremlin up to their usual hijinks? Maybe Loki is just screwing with you given he is the God of Mischief.
If you're going to believe a ghost is responsible than you can't rule this stuff out as well.
Or it could just be, ya know, house creaks, things expanding and/or settling, the lighting causing you to see things that aren't there, and other mundane explanations.
Could be anything, sure.
I don't know why people believe I'm so opposed to other options, the reason I attributed this to a ghost sighting is 1) this is a thread discussing hauntings so I thought it the best place to put it, and 2) my experience just so happened to align with what has traditionally been known about ghost sightings. If there were certain known criteria of illusions from fucking wizards and hijinks from gremlins up to their usual shit, then perhaps I'd be attributing it to that instead.
What do you consider more more likely: that a phenomenon that appears to share similar characteristics across the board stems from a singular core cause, or that all these similar experiences are caused by any number of crazy things such as gremlins and wizards that are all in on the same joke? In terms of the plausible or implausible, one is more likely than the other.
