Do you think your pet can see ghosts?

Question

I think mine can. I was in the shower in my old apartment. When I pulled back the curtain my rott/pit mix had her head tucked between the tub and the toilet facing the wall. I asked her what was wrong, she just looked at me then put her head back down facing the wall. Now mind you my dog does not act this way. She is the perfect guard dog.

I wrapped a towel around me and wasn't sure what to think. She got up with hackles raised all the way down her back. She didn't like whatever was in the hallway outside the bathroom. We both ran down the hall and jumped on my bed in my room. She stared at my bedroom door and growled with her hair still raised. I called everyone I knew just to have someone on the phone with me.

My ex boss--whom we all considered a dirty old man--used to always make borderline comments to all the women that worked there. He died a few weeks prior to this incident. That was the first thing that came to my mind when Lucy started acting this way.

Answer 1

I never had a pet...but I know for sure that animals have senses that humans don't...humans used to be able to see the natural phenomena around us...but after centuries...we have became way too civilized for such things...the laws of physics and the scientific  proofs have overpowered our minds completely disposing our thoughts about such supernatural things...we've also lost our ability to be ESP or EVP unless we were born in a different way...since animals have not developed the kind of intellect for physics and science, they are able to sense more than we can...like the time a dog barked at me but kept it's distance....because she sensed something unusual about me.....

Answer 2

well I don't own a pet, sorry, but if I did I don't know if it can see ghosts.

Answer 3

Yes, pets see things.

I had a dog (ridgeback/bloodhound) who was absolutely horrified of a room in my home. This room was cold, musty and just eerie. The door would pop open, strange noises came out of there.

My dog would sit staring at the door (which we had strung shut) ridge raised and growling we would undue the door and go in, after fighting through the dog to find nothing. Our dog would take off whimpering hiding his head under his tail, he did not want us in that room.

Once I tried to coax him into the room by placing jerky on the bed, I forced him in there, he jumped up on the bed instantaneously relieved himself and ran yipping out of the room.

He never ever went in the hall again.

After that we would notice his ridge raise then he'd scurry off to hide, then we notice sounds or coldness.

Answer 4

Yes, I certainly do believe they, like children, are especially psychically sensitive.

& I agree with you that it's beyond boring at this point how closed-minded some people can be...UNhealthy skeptics, I call them (among other things).

Answer 5

Yes, My pet also saw a ghost at the same time I did.  I know because she growled and then followed it to a closet door.  She then scratched and whined at that door for several minutes.

Answer 6

They definitely can!!! One of mine growled barked and jumped back several times in a apt. I lived in. We both moved out! I wish I had paid attention lots of times when they seemed like they were seeing ghosts.

Also..people know how to astral travel these days. It could be one of them. I'm pretty sure they were coming to my house. They weren't nice people. If only I could go back and change things..I would have paid more attention to the way my dogs acted.

Answer 7

Hmmmm I wonder can my HAMSTER see ghost?  I think it's too smart.

Answer 8

Yes, I do believe animals may see things we don't normally see. A dog I once had, was barking at me quite aggressively, she even made me feel nervous as if she was going to bite me, my friend in the room said there was something hovering around me and we did a form of a prayer to send it away and my dog immediately stop barking at me. She acted like nothing ever happened after that. It was quite an experience.

Answer 9

2 of my 3 cats absolutely see "things" and I can always tell when they do.  They'll stare at the same spot on the wall in the hallway and at the basement door (which is on the same wall) and start acting really strange, almost frightened.  They'll shake and their eyes will get huge but I can't distract them.  One nite they were doing it and a friend got a recorder and went to the hallway where the cats were staring and recorded while asking questions.  He got some pretty freaky stuff--it sounded like a really deep mean voice, couldn't make out any words tho.

Answer 10

They probably can, it's the only reason why they keep looking around all the time staring into space then act crazy for no reason. Or it could be something else that only there eyes can see, we will never know for sure.

Answer 11

I have often heard that cats are very, very attune to the paranormal.  If I ever sense something wrong in my home, I move to a room where the cats are - partly to be less lonely, but it somehow feels safer.  

Animals just have a different sense of reality than humans - it seems like to me that they could sense the paranormal.

Answer 12

Animals are not limited by our belief systems. In other words, they don't challenge what they see. Of course they see spirits, ghosts, angels, etc...

When my son was very young I heard him laughing and talking in the kitchen. When I peeked in I saw my son and our dog looking at one corner in the kitchen. Then I saw the dog sit, beg, lay down and roll over as if on command. Then my son spotted me and said, "Mama, my friend is saying Hi to you. Aren't you going to say hi?" And I asked, "Where is he?" Whereupon my son pointed to that same corner and asked if I could see him. Of course I couldn't. But I knew that they could.

Answer 13

I think animals can definitely see and sense things we can't.  

There are two ghosts living in my house, but I haven't bothered to evict them because they're never a problem.  

Right after we bought our house, my husband was out of town, so I spent the first night here alone.  I was getting ready for bed and I heard music playing.  I thought maybe I had left a radio on, so I went and checked, but that wasn't the case.  I thought maybe the neighbors were having a loud party, so I went outside to check, but once I was outside I couldn't hear any music at all.  When I went back in, I could hear it again.  

I also smelled a very strong men's cologne.  There was no explanation for that.  I was home alone, there was no cologne of any kind in the house, and the smell hadn't been there before.  

The next night, a friend came over to stay with me.  I didn't mention the music or the cologne because I didn't want to scare her, but she had the same experience I did.  She asked me where the music was coming from and mentioned the unexplainable smell of cologne.  

My husband and I, as well as several of our friends, have heard a female's voice when there was no explanation for it.  Some of our friends are skeptic non-believers, but oddly enough, they knew they were hearing a ghost and weren't afraid.

We recently adopted two cats from a shelter and I know they've seen our ghosts.  They will often stare very intently at something I can't see.  Their behavior is always followed by music or the scent of cologne.

I wouldn't worry too much about getting snarky comments from  non-believers.  There are always going to be narrow-minded people in this world.  Many of them just haven't had these experiences, or they did have an experience, but were too afraid to call it what it was.  When I get comments like that from people, I reply with my favorite line from the movie City of Angels, which is, "Some things are true whether you believe in them or not."

Answer 14

No I have the sensible sort of pets that don't believe in all that supernatural stuff.

Since your pet can't tell you that they're seeing a 'ghost' I don't know why you would assume that is what they are perceiving. I think the average dog is far more interested in a scent of rats or prowlers or strange cats than some imaginary toilet spirit.

It you run down the hall and jump on your bed acting nuts of course the dog is going to do the same thing, you are the leader of the pack and she likes to conform to what you expect of her.

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There's a big difference between thinking that your dog can detect a physical change in a person, like having cancer or being distressed and seeing ghosts.

Animals often have a superior sense of smell, sight hearing etc to humans and can detect real things that we cannot, there is nothing paranormal about that.

Answer 15

Animals have a more keen sence of things in other realms. It does not mean that they can see ghost, maybe just sence the energy a little more than we can.

Answer 16

Yes they can....Ive had my cat for 21 years now, she is my little pal, and i know her pretty well....and ive always observed her, when something strange is happening around me, and its quite interesting to watch her reactions...mostly she picks up on activity before i do,  or before something actually happens.....

One night i dont know what happened or what she saw or felt, but she stood there staring at nothing, her hair raised, when i went to go to her, she hissed at me, and wouldnt even let me go near her..it shocked me, cause she never hissed at me before, she stood there for about an hour, I thought she was going to have a heart attack, she stiffened up, and all, i could feel something as in some sort of energy in the room, but thats all i could pick up that night....and every time i moved near her she hissed at me, freaking me out...lol

And last year there was a big story on Oscar the cat that lives in a nursing home, and every time a person is a couple of hours away from death, he will sit on their beds..But only if the person is going to die...The doctors say he is better at observing their patients than the doctors...and he is never wrong.....

Answer 17

Yes both of my cats do. What's really strange is that I'm very psychic and normally can sense presences.

But anyway, apparently they both see 'something' I'm not aware of in the room. Sometimes in the living room, BR, or kitchen, either one feline or BOTH of them at once will just look at something across the room, or up at the ceiling in a corner.

I talk to them trying to get their attention--yet their little beautiful eyes are fixed on whatever it is they are seeing and won't look at me.

So then I turn my head, look at them, then back at the corner or wherever, and see NOTHING! Perhaps I'm expecting there to be a fly or cobweb/yet it's just an empty space.

They have never seemed scared so far, which is a good thing, lol!--just really curious w/out a blink