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To ask for an explanation for wtf just happened? **MNHQ UPDATE: Mystery solved!**

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WeirdlyKind · 13/02/2022 19:59

I'm seriously creeped out and can't figure out a rational explanation so I'm hoping someone can!

Sitting in the kitchen, eating dinner when a black shape ran past my legs, close enough that I felt it pass. Figured it was my cat at first but when I stood up, she was sitting on the windowsill!

The dark shape ran into the living room where my partner is (he saw it too, because he shouted me!)

It apparently jumped on the sideboard and vanished in front of his eyes. There's nowhere it could go - the sideboard is solid oak on a solid stone wall.

The dog is now going mental at the sideboard like there's something there (if there is, we can't find it!)

I'm genuinely creeped out - anyone have a rational explanation? What the hell did we see?

OP posts:
ItsDisneyBitch · 13/02/2022 21:43

@MissAngorian you should read graveyard shift by Stephen King, I listened to it recently on audible and nearly cried. It made me feel sick.

5zeds · 13/02/2022 21:42

I’m voting rat too

MalbecandToast · 13/02/2022 21:41

Rats would be my worst nightmare Shock

Marimaur · 13/02/2022 21:41

Rat, 100%

HaggisBurger · 13/02/2022 21:39

@DickMabutt73962

Rat. Burn the house down NOW.
Brilliant! My reaction ….😬😬😬
MissAngorian · 13/02/2022 21:38

Ghost rat?

Fetchthevet · 13/02/2022 21:38

Another vote for rat.

twominutesmore · 13/02/2022 21:37

*bleeding

twominutesmore · 13/02/2022 21:37

This is the beginning of a lot of horror films. You should obviously gather your family and leave. But you will convince yourself you imagined it and be doomed. You'll be back on here tomorrow asking if spinning furniture and blending walls are normal.

ImprobablePuffin · 13/02/2022 21:36

@OnlyAFleshWound

In our old flat we once had a rat jump up onto the kitchen counter EnvySadAngry
From the floor?! Can rats really jump that high? 🐀
Fl0w3ry · 13/02/2022 21:35

My rational mind says a rat or squirrel.
However, I had a similar creepy experience once. I was stood in my living room and felt a cool breeze behind me and heard what sounded like a voice. I turned around and watched as a waist height black shape ran away from me making a weird noise. Was by far the creepiest thing that has ever happened to me.

TakeMeToKernow · 13/02/2022 21:31

Please have some kind of medal for immediately calling Mumsnet instead of Ghostbusters

TheNinny · 13/02/2022 21:29

I’ve also seen mice jump up walls a bit my moneys on that

Lovemydaxie · 13/02/2022 21:28

Look at the underside of the sideboard. We had a mouse clinging onto the base. Couldn't see it when we just looked under it.

TheNinny · 13/02/2022 21:28

Mouse, I had similar in my living room a few nights ago. A blurry shape darting across room. Also thought it looked bigger than mouse. I saw it looking at me under a chair. :o

Jetstream · 13/02/2022 21:28

A giant house spider?

PigeonLittle · 13/02/2022 21:27

Rat.

thenightsky · 13/02/2022 21:26

Squirrel. Bit bigger than a rat and can jump like a bastard.

KaptainKaveman · 13/02/2022 21:25

A ghost

LadyLolaRuben · 13/02/2022 21:24

Cover all bases - call pest control and a preiest

1forAll74 · 13/02/2022 21:23

probably be a rat, maybe the cat brought it in earlier,and cats and dogs always know if there is something hiding somewhere, even though you cant see anything yourself. My three cats have brought mice in several times, and they have disappeared from view, but the cats will sit and stare at some place, that they think the mouse is,, then they might go outside again, for ages, then two hours later,come in again, and sit and stare at the same place again, as they know the mouse is still in the house.. Dogs do this two, usually barking, instead of cat staring.

autumncrisp · 13/02/2022 21:22

Another vote for rat.

Lovemusic33 · 13/02/2022 21:22

It was the size of a cat….felt like a cat..

I’m guessing it was a cat 🤔

LemonSwan · 13/02/2022 21:21

As a fellow cat owner I would of said a stray rat. However jumping on a table/ sideboard.

No rats dont do that. They stay low and to the edges and will jump but not if theres a nearer crevasse down low.

CeratopsofthePharoahs · 13/02/2022 21:18

My old cat likes to come and haunt us. Every now and again we get these sulphurous smells that remind me of clearing up after her. Funnily enough, they often appear around my 7 year old son. He's very firm that it's the cat and not him farting at all.
Probably a rat op. Probably.