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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:
Mamanyt · 14/02/2022 00:24

I'm rather disappointed! I was hoping for a ghost cat. I have two of them, Shadow and Spooky. My living cat plays with them frequently.

EmmaH2022 · 14/02/2022 00:11

@nightwakingmoon

That’s fantastic! How cute is that bunny. One of the best thread updates I’ve ever seen, OP.
Yes!

Imagine if she had hopped out as quietly as she came in...you would have always wondered and ended up with a ghost story!

Strawberry33 · 14/02/2022 00:07

An alien that has got stuck in your house or a ghost cat is the obvious one

KimikosNightmare · 14/02/2022 00:04

@WeirdlyKind

We're all wrong!

It was next door's bloody rabbit! Sitting watching Call the Midwife and the damn thing hopped out from behind the TV unit. Nearly gave me a bloody heart attack!

Oh he/ she is very pretty.
Adharvan · 13/02/2022 23:46

@Fl0w3ry

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.
@Fl0w3ry what kind of noise?! That gave me the major creeps as it reminds me of a strange experience I had in a previous house many moons ago that I'd all but forgotten about.

I was coming down the stairs and something exactly as you describe (minus any noise) darted from the wall at the bottom of the stars into the kitchen.

I put it down to tiredness at the time even though I wasn't sleep deprived as it was long before children Grin

billy1966 · 13/02/2022 23:40

Oh a rabbit. Much better than a rat.

billy1966 · 13/02/2022 23:38

Some rats can be huge.

A friend of mine living in the in an urban setting but right beside a park, keeps chickens.

She had a rat problem as they were coming for the chicken feed.

She filmed them as she had laid traps, as she wanted toncatch rather than kill.

A couple were huge.
I mean cat size.
Not a huge fat cat, but certainly a regular cat.

I would be nervous of them, being wild and large, and brazen too!

Mermaidwaves · 13/02/2022 23:27

I'm glad he went into yours! Imagine his poor owners thinking he was lost! Rabbits are nosy buggers, I can imagine mine sneaking into the neighbours house for a poke around Grin

Clawdy · 13/02/2022 23:23

Just seen it was a rabbit!!

Clawdy · 13/02/2022 23:22

Definitely a mouse.

MostIneptThatEverStepped · 13/02/2022 23:21

Do check all of the visible wiring in the living room as bunnies love to bite through cables!!

JayAlfredPrufrock · 13/02/2022 23:19

Phew

GeraneousGiraffe · 13/02/2022 23:16

This was brilliant Grin

WingingItSince1973 · 13/02/2022 23:16

@AtlasPine

What a difference a few scraps of generic material makes. A rabbit is totally different from a rat. Cute and sweet and pick-uppable rather than nasty and repulsive and disgusting. Funny isn’t it!

Very pleased it was a bunny.

Hey we have pet rats and I can assure you out of all the animals we have owned, rabbits included, our rats are the best! Loving and very very clever. Wouldn't want to meet a wild one though!
Cissyandflora · 13/02/2022 23:11

It’s a mouse

Anotherbrokenairer · 13/02/2022 23:03

I spent the whole thread getting anxious, winding myself up, looking around the living room waiting for a rat to run out at me. So glad it's a rabbit, I already have one of those skipping around the living room so feeling a lot calmer now 😂

ThisMammaCat · 13/02/2022 23:01

That is one weird looking ghost cat!

Joking aside, I've got a healthy respect for the biting capabilities of rabbits after watching one take a "nibble" of a cable years ago and poof, it was severed! Good job the bunny didn't do any nibbling behind your TV unit!

Great thread Grin

CounsellorTroi · 13/02/2022 23:01

Very lucky your terrier didn’t get the rabbit, OP!

Sugartitsorahilly · 13/02/2022 23:00

Rats

chillydownwiththefiregang · 13/02/2022 22:59

@Jellykat

Altogether now.. Theres a rat in my kitchen, what am i gonna do?
GrinGrinGrin
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WeirdlyKind · 13/02/2022 22:59

I'll absolutely take a rabbit over a rat any day!

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ImInStealthMode · 13/02/2022 22:58

Aah I was coming to vote for ghost cat but I see you the mystery has now been solved! What a cutie Smile

SwissCheeseRentedChildren · 13/02/2022 22:57

Ah, that’s brilliant 🤩, what a cutie! Best “ghost” thread ever!

Nillynally · 13/02/2022 22:57

Omg this is the best thread ever! I'm so happy 🤣

CoverYourselfInChocolateGlory · 13/02/2022 22:57

Awww, that's much nicer than a rat, OP Grin