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🗓️ 4 July 2025
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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. |
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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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