This must be all bollocks
Because I'm a rational, intelligent man with as broad an education as you can get and I KNOW there can be no such thing as ghosts.

But a lot of years ago we bought an old farmhouse. The farm had long since gone and the house was actually a listed building in the middle of suburbs. We moved in together with our cat.

If you're not familiar with cat behaviour let me tell you that when a cat encounters another cat that it isn't familiar with it arches it's back, fluffs it's tail up, flattens it's ears, bares it's teeth and sticks as close to walls as it possibly can.

The first time our cat got to the top of the stairs in our new house this is precisely what she did. Just at the top of the stairs, nowhere else in the house.

We'd taken a couple of weeks off to move in and over the first week we watched the cat

Cat behaviour primer lesson 2. When a cat gets to know another cat, and decides it poses no threat, it will either ignore it or play. Cat play behaviour includes running about with tail raised, rolling and play-fighting.

Within a week of moving in to the house our cat was play fighting with an invisible, imaginary cat at the top of the stairs, but ONLY at the top of the stairs. She seemed to miss her imaginary friend in other parts of the house.

Cats can't read, and are unable to assimilate logical, coherent explanations for natural phenomena. Obviously I have no reason to believe in ghosts but the cat did.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 22:04, 3 replies)

Your cat is probably a mong

( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Sat 15 Sep 2012, 13:15, closed)

Or an old cat repeatedly pissed at the top of the stairs
You watch, one day you'll put your foot right through where all the floorboards are rotted.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 16 Sep 2012, 20:44, closed)

one of my cats
does the 'cat behaviour 2' thing all the time on his own.

the other doesnt, because he's far too fat to move.
(magictorch, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 14:51, closed)