We're Not Alone

So I was lying in bed two nights ago, at what I thought was an early hour of the morning but since we go to bed at 930 it was really only 11pm. All of a sudden I started hearing things moving. I thought the sounds were coming from outside the house and I got scared. For the next half an hour I lay awake staring at our window looking to see if there was anything outside. After half an hour I heard quite a loud noise coming from the other side of the house. I woke up Olivia and said, 'something's here...we're not alone.' I got out of bed and woke up Oti but he had not heard anything. We checked the house and outside and he told me it was probably just an animal outside or something. So I went back to bed and about 10 minutes later I hear something loud coming from the attic, like thumping and banging noises. I turned to Olivia and she said she heard it too. I asked Oti and he said yes he heard it this time. So Oti and I went into our storage room and flash some lights up into the attic where there is an opening. We were both too afraid to go up and check it out so Oti called the neighbor, Paul, who came over with his dog, Kofi Annan. Paul put on one our headlamps and crawled into the attic and all of a sudden we heard a loud angry MEEEOOOWW!!! I looked up and there was a kitten sitting on one of the rafters looking down at me.  Oti and paul spent the next 40 minutes trying to catch the cat, meanwhile all hear is 'bang bang meow! meow!' as dust and concrete pieces fell down from the ceiling as the chase progressed above us. Finally the kitten was cornered and caught and released outside. Paul discovered it was his cat, and since then we've seen the cat running around next door.  Today we also discovered that there is a little fish living in our water tank outside. We named it Nyachula after Oti's mother.