Wow, what a story Dave A. I know it's been a long time, but I am sorry about your parent's.

Your mom had to have been so young!! And your cat too. I know how important your animal can be. I have some weird thing's happen to me as well. To make a long story short, I was laying in bed one night, this happen in Mid-2005. I was laying there, and for some reason I sat straight up in bed, looked over and seen a shadow on my bedroom door. Full figure, looked like a man. I flew right back down under my cover's((LOL))...got as close to my husband as possible and after about 5 minute's of listening to really strange noises, I peaked up from under my cover's and seen this thing flying around the room (a shadow), just all over the place. My alarm clock was very bright. This thing was flying(Moving) so quickly that I could not keep my eye on it. I finally got the courage to pull the cover's down more and watched this shadow move all around my room , but there was nothing that could have possibly been casting this shadow, especially like this. My heart is racing sooooo fast at this time. At first I was thinking there was a robber in my home. Oh no, that was not the case. This was the weirdest thing I had EVER seen. Right before the shadow disapeared,I seen the figure of the man one last time and then nothing. Everything stopped, and I couldn't sleep for the next 3 hour's. Horrible night!!
This might be a stupid question,but any idea what that might have been??
I haven't seen or experienced anything else like that, since that night.