S2 Ep23: Pop's Cat

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In tonight's dead letter, we head about as far from the Office
as you can get — the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand —
for a story from Billy, a working artist who'd call himself a
cautious skeptic. His wife was deep into a spiritualist church
and her own psychic abilities, and he mostly kept his distance
from all of it. Then something started visiting their bed at
night, something that felt exactly like a cat walking up the
covers, even though their actual cat was nowhere near the room.
Weeks later, a message about it came back to the family through
his wife that no one was expecting.

Windy Wellington — Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand:
https://teara.govt.nz/en/diagram/13182/windy-wellington

Cook Strait — Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand:
https://www.linz.govt.nz/our-work/new-zealand-geographic-board/place-name-stories/place-names-cooks-voyages/cook-strait

Kupe — Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand:
https://teara.govt.nz/en/first-peoples-in-maori-tradition/page-6

Hutt Valley — Wellington places — Te Ara Encyclopedia of New
Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/wellington-places/page-8

Capital city: Wellington since 1865 — Te Ara Encyclopedia of
New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/capital-city

Can Our Dead Pets Come Back to Visit Us? — Rupert Sheldrake:
https://www.sheldrake.org/essays/can-our-dead-pets-come-back-to-visit-us

Kaitiaki — guardians — Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand:
https://teara.govt.nz/en/kaitiakitanga-guardianship-and-conservation/page-4

Sleep Paralysis, the "Bedroom Intruder," and the Sensed
Presence — NIH / NCBI:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5329044/

Wellington Paranormal — Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Paranormal

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