Zombie cat: ‘Killed’ kitty claws out of grave five days after burial

THIS ‘miracle cat’ was hit by a car and buried. Five days later, he showed up at a neighbour’s house looking for food.

PET Sematary is real, it seems.

Bart the cat was hit by a car and buried. Five days later, he rose from the dead.

Bart’s owner, Ellis Hutson, said he found the cat two weeks ago in the middle of a Florida road, lifeless in a pool of blood.

The 52-year-old asked his friend to help bury Bart because he was so distraught.

“We were so close, I couldn’t stand to bury him,” Mr Hutson told ABC News in the US. “I put him on the shoulder of the road and went and got David. He dug a hole and covered up the cat with dirt. I witnessed him bury the cat.”

But five days later, Bart turned up in a neighbour’s yard with a broken jaw and ruptured eye.

“I open the door and my neighbour’s standing there with the cat in her hand,” Mr Hutson said. “She said, ‘Bart is not dead.’ I said, ‘That’s impossible. We buried Bart.’”

Post by Humane Society of Tampa Bay.

Neighbour Dusty Albritton said she was shocked to see Bart in her yard, looking for food.

“At first it blew me away”, Ms Albritton said. “All I knew was this cat was dead and ‘Pet Sematary’ is real,” she continued, referring to Stephen King’s famous horror novel.

It is not clear how the “zombie cat” escaped his muddy grave, but some reports claim he clawed his way out.

Mr Huston said his nearly two-year-old feline suffered head trauma, a broken jaw and a damaged eye which will never work again.

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay, which is caring for “Bart the Miracle Cat”, say they have never seen anything like it.

Post by Humane Society of Tampa Bay.

Bart had surgery on Tuesday night to remove his ruined eye and treat his jaw, and is now “resting comfortably” according to the society’s Facebook page.

Ms Albritton has set up a GoFundMe account to raise money to cover Bart’s medical expenses. More than $US3600 has been donated.

Originally published as Zombie cat: ‘Killed’ kitty claws out of grave five days after burial