India, Aug. 18 -- Residents in Inglewood, Los Angeles, claim that dozens of stray cats are haunting their streets at night, scratching at doors and behaving in ways that some describe as unsettling.

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According to a report by the New York Post, locals say the cats appear in large numbers, prowling the neighbourhood like a scene from a horror film.

"I would call it a cat, some type of zombie thing that's going on," Inglewood resident Dennis Gary told ABC 7, explaining he has counted more than a hundred cats roaming the area after dark.

Gary recalled one particularly unnerving encounter. "It was 1 o'clock in the morning, an...