Petrified Cat

It’s been called Petrified Cat, Mummy Cat, and Ghost Cat.  However it is actually a desiccated cat that simply dried out over time.  It was caught in the wall of a local home during construction  in 1850.  Years later (1946) the body was found.   It is now proudly displayed in the T.T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum.

I'm not sure if this is the weirdest thing we've seen displayed in a museum or perhaps the "pregnant minie"  (http://tandtrv.blogspot.com/2011/11/south-and-civil-war.html). Both are pretty bizarre!

There are also stories that the cat now haunts the museum.  Supposedly you might feel the cat brush your leg, it may knock down small items as it walks around, or you might see it out of the corner of your eye.  Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) we didn’t see or feel the ghost.  Hey, maybe the reflection of the camera flash counts as an orb and that's the spirit of the cat floating over his body (or maybe not).