He Hasn't Left

From: Anonymous
Story type: Ghost
Location: 315 3RD AVE SOUTH NASHVILLE
Source: Form Submission

about 15 years ago I was living in a two story house near downtown nashville. a cat we later named smokey got in the house I was living in and decided to stay. there was a chair in the living room if you sat in it smoky would jump in your lap. he would purr and purr very loudly. he would spend hours grooming himself but he always looked ratty.

about 6 months after he first appeared he was gone for 2 days and then he showed up very sick. he had been poisoned. he died under my bed.

one night 3 weeks later I had just got home and sat down in "his" chair when I felt something hit my lap. and heard a loud purr. this happened several times in the next 3 years. a boyfriend of mine mentioned seeing a cat sitting on our window ledge one afternoon and said he was grey and ragged looking. I keep in touch with connie who I used to live with and smokey is still around. she has seen him once herself.