"When I was seven years old, something happened that I still think about today. It was in Astana, Kazakhstan - back then it was called Akmola. After school, I would walk home with my stepbrother, his two friends, and my best friend. It was a quick 10-minute walk, and we usually stopped by her apartment on the way. One rainy day, she invited us in to wait out the rain."
"She went to change her clothes. Four of us barely fit on the small couch. I was minding my own business, talking to my friends, when I noticed it: Her Siamese cat was staring at me. I tried to avoid eye contact because it was kind of intimidating. Every time I checked, she was still locked on me. I glanced behind me, thinking maybe she was watching something else, but no...there was a wall."
At seven, the narrator experienced a disturbing encounter when a Siamese cat intensely stared, circled, and suddenly leapt toward the face, prompting panic and flight. Friends dismissed the episode as a strange cat moment, but the narrator remained unsettled and questioned why the cat reacted only to them. Years later, at fourteen, the narrator visited a best friend during Christmas and noticed the friend's elderly grandmother appeared uneasy and fearful around them. The friend left the narrator alone in the room with the grandmother, creating a tense situation and echoing earlier unexplained reactions.
Read at Psychology Today
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