Do we have ESP, or do you?

When I was a young man I experienced some forms of clairvoyant experience, if that's what you want to call it. The first of which was while I was living at my cousins home in Monkton, VT and I was working at a place called Simmons Precision in Vergennes. Before that time I had lived at home with my parents along with a newly acquired pet cat. The cat was young and playful and my parents enjoy the company of it especially after I had moved out. My parents were sleeping on the foldaway living room couch, I can't remember why, but they would pull it out every night and close it up in the morning.


My cousin's house was a big white two story house that looked like most New England farm houses. It was a nice place, but cold in the winter. I had a double bed in my room, bureau, a little portable TV and that was about it. If it was a particular cold evening, I wouldn't stay up too late out in the living room, rather I would go to my room, hop into bed and cover up with a big old quilt. I watched TV for a while and then doze off. When I woke up, usually about 5 AM, I would make a mad dash to the bathroom and get the hot water running before becoming too cold. Up north in the winter it is dark most of the time, especially early in the morning and there wasn't that much light in my room, even with my light on.

On this one morning when I went rushing to the bathroom to get ready for work, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a cat run behind the bathroom door, I looked, but of course there was no cat because my cousin didn't have a cat. So I thought I was seeing things and finished cleaning up and went off to work. Later that day, I'd called my folks to find out how they were doing and my father told me how upset they were. When they had gotten out of bed (the folding couch) that morning they had closed up the couch like they usually do. After about an hour they began to look for their cat and couldn't find it. They were heartbroken to discover that the kitten had been in the couch when it was folded up and had not survived! So how was it that I had seen a cat run behind the bathroom door when I had gotten ready for work that day and there was no cat in that house?