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Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena
You know what? It MAY just be that animals (ESPECIALLY friggin cats!) are schitzy creatures or it may be they are more attuned to things like earth tremors or changes in barometric pressure indicating weather changes. I highly doubt they sense "ghosts". Sorry, its not nearly as mystical as you may want to believe.
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I think this is quite likely.
The point is that we mystify that which we don't understand. For what it's worth, I kind of like the mysticism. It makes things interesting. But by the same token I think it's silly to see some strange behavior on the part of animals and automatically make the HUGE leap to describe it by saying "it's the spirits of the dead!" Sort of like seeing an unexplained light in the sky (might be a reflection, an airplane, a bird, whatever) and automatically assuming that it's alien lifeforms from across the galaxy.
That's a heck of a leap in both cases. . .
Do I believe in "ghosts"? Sure, if one takes "ghost" to mean "something we don't understand". Not necessarily if one takes "ghost" to mean "spirit of the dead". That's a pretty extraordinary claim and such claims require extraordinary evidence.
FWIW cats have exceptional eyesight, smell and hearing - way beyond what we're capable of. They may have other sensory awarenesses we don't even know about too. So it's likely that when they act strangely, they're just perceiving something beyond our capabilities that's very real, but what it is. . . who knows? I imagine you might be able to partially test this with the right equipment though.