She returned nine months later, but she was more fragile and, in 1995, after an accident at Gulfstream Park led to surgery on a finger, she was spooked.
Though Isaac managed to locate the cat, his attempts to gain her trust were cut short when she was spooked by possums.
Nevertheless, once her winning number flashed on the board, an abrupt whoop went up from the crowd, and she was spooked sideways out of her exhaustion.
Klein, 57, a divorced mother of three who lives in a Phoenix exurb, told Ruelas that she bought a.40-caliber revolver 11 years ago after she was spooked by a rattling at her front door one night.
The Newtown, Conn., school killer may have suffered from the tormenting voices characteristic of schizophrenia; it's possible that he killed his mother after she was spooked by his strange behavior and tried to institutionalize him.
There, at the age of 20, she was spooked by a run-in with boys and beer, an encounter that robbed her of the confidence to explore the world beyond her village.
She said she was spooked.
Perhaps she, too, is spooked by the shadiness that clings to her profession.
Rose, for her part, is spooked by what she has experienced and refuses to admit that anything miraculous has happened.
Katy is spooked by the house, especially when she finds a stuffed cat on the sofa.
"But clearly the market is spooked at the moment".
