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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Belgian Mail Cats (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1800's, cats delivered the mail.


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0:00.0

Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?

0:05.0

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

0:07.0

Faffled by stories of previous lives.

0:10.0

Well so are we.

0:11.0

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena

0:17.0

and some horrific true crime cases.

0:20.0

Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

0:22.5

and join us every Tuesday,

0:24.6

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:26.9

And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

0:29.7

perplexed. Letter Cat Rear. I'm Jason Horton.

0:51.0

I'm Rebecca Lebe.

0:52.3

And this is Ghost Town.

0:53.7

Music I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Lebe. And this is Ghost Town.

1:17.1

Throughout our storied history, humans have used all types of creative ways to deliver mail.

1:22.6

Dog sleds in Alaska, the Pony Express, pigeons during wartime.

1:25.8

We have an episode about that if you would like to learn more.

1:29.4

And yes, there was even a time when some bright human beings decided to enlist cats to work their country's mail system. Yes,

1:36.7

I said cats. But did they? Or is it just an urban legend? We'll figure it out today on

1:44.0

Ghost Town with the story of

1:46.0

the heroic, albeit disorganized, perhaps, conspiratorial, Belgian male cats. It all began in

1:55.6

1868 when three cats were formally employed as Mousers at the Money Order Office in London.

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