"Visitor at the Window" by Richard F. Yates

Last night, though my wife and I saw nothing, our cats suddenly focused all their attention on the window. I immediately suspected that THEY were seeing something that WE could not, so I grabbed my phone and fired off a series of images!

THIS ghostly apparition, completely invisible at the time the photo was taken (as was the mysterious lettering/graffiti in the upper-right-hand corner of the image) caused a cold dread to bloom in our hearts when we spotted it in our viewfinder---although the cats didn't seem to mind the creature's presence.

Was it a ghost? A multi-dimensional energy being? Old man Englehart in a costume that was somehow invisible to us but clearly apparent to cats and digital cameras? (That would explain the strangely painted van full of teenagers and one large talking dog that was parked across the street from our house most of last night...)

Whatever the apparition was, it must have left fairly quickly---or the cats became bored with it---because the felines went back to scratching the couch, tracking litter all over the house, and licking themselves within minutes. We'll chalk this one up to the "WHO KNOWS?" file and call it good...

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)