Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

Cats are among the most powerful regarding ghostly resonance. Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Black Cat" recounts the horrifying death and reappearance of Pluto, a black and white cat. Settlers in early America feared black cats, associating them with witchcraft. A couple of years ago, my students and I had a strange encounter with a cat during a field trip to an allegedly haunted place on our campus: the basement of Old Rafuse Hall, an office building that once functioned as a dormitory.