The Spirit of Mr. Jeeves
A popular post on this blog is about ghost cats—it is located here.
One interesting story about a
ghost cat returning happened in St. Augustine, Florida, in the late 60s.
A chef who worked a second
shift started to notice a sizeable Himalayan cat that accompanied him as he
walked home. Someone in his apartment building evidently owned this cat, for he
always veered off around the corner when the chef reached his front door.
He befriended this cat and
noticed on its collar was the name “Mr. Jeeves” clearly printed.
The cat was friendly and
often rubbed against his legs but the chef found it odd Mr. Jeeves would not
let him pet him or pick him up.
After a month had passed and the
cat was still accompanying him home. When he went to pay his rent, he asked the
landlords if they knew who owned the large cat.
As he described the cat he
noticed the elderly couple clammed up and refused to talk about it.
Later, another tenant told
him that the landlords had a daughter named Helen. She
was killed seventeen years before while she crossed the busy street in front of the apartments. Her cat
was killed with her.
She mentioned she had also
seen the ghost cat over the years.
He now understood why the cat
never let him pick him up.
The chef tried to take a photograph of Mr. Jeeves but when the
prints came back, the cat was not in the photo. Mr. Jeeves had been in
the center of the frame when the chef snapped the picture.
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