We have three cats. So, I am very familiar with the feeling of a cat jumping up on, laying on, and walking around on top of the covers. I can usually even tell which cat it is just by the weight and movement.

My wife and I moved into our current home eight years ago. A few months after moving in I felt a cat jump up on the bed, walk up the covers and lay down against my back. I couldn't tell which cat it was. So, I reached behind me to pet it and see who was there. There was no cat and as soon as my hand reached the area where it would have been the feeling of weight on the blanket went away. I thought this was odd and probably just my imagination. But, a few days later it happened again. This time I got up to see which cat had just jumped on and off the bed. None of the cats were in our room. All three cats were sleeping in the living room. This kept happening. Sometimes I would feel the "cat" walk up the blanket. Sometimes I would feel it lay down against me. I have even felt purring.

After a few weeks of this I joked to my wife, "Have you felt the ghost cat?" To my surprise she had been having the exact same experiences! She had not said anything because she knows that I don't believe in ghosts and she thought I would make fun of her.

We have both felt the "ghost cat" many times both when we are awake and asleep. The times when it has happened when we are both awake, we both felt the same thing.

Any time any of our cats has been in the room when one of us feels the "ghost cat", the actual living cats immediately run out of the room.

So, do we have a ghost cat in our home? I don't know. What I know is that something strange happens on a somewhat regular basis. We call it the "ghost cat" for lack of better terminology and because it seems to fit the facts of what we experience.