S2 Ep23: Pop's Cat
Astonishing Legends
Scott Philbrook
4.6 β’ 10K Ratings
ποΈ 23 June 2026
β±οΈ 34 minutes
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Summary
In tonight's dead letter, we head about as far from the Office as you can get β the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand β 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 β Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/diagram/13182/windy-wellington
Cook Strait β ToitΕ« 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 β Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/first-peoples-in-maori-tradition/page-6
Hutt Valley β Wellington places β Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/wellington-places/page-8
Capital city: Wellington since 1865 β Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/capital-city
Can Our Dead Pets Come Back to Visit Us? β Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.sheldrake.org/essays/can-our-dead-pets-come-back-to-visit-us
Kaitiaki β guardians β 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 β NIH / NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5329044/
Wellington Paranormal β Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Paranormal
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Astonishing Legends Network |
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| 0:16.5 | or any affiliated entities or guests. |
| 0:37.2 | Thank you. any affiliated entities or guests. When something unexplainable happens to you, it can make you feel isolated or alone. |
| 0:43.3 | But trust us, you're not. |
| 0:46.3 | For over a decade, you've been sending your strange stories to astonishing legends. |
| 0:51.3 | And now it's time for our fellow legenders to hear them too. |
| 0:55.8 | Join us weekly in Blanket Fortiana as we dig through your intriguing messages to the |
| 1:00.4 | astonishing Dead Letter Office. Tonight's episode, Pops Cat. |
| 1:15.9 | Well, tonight we are headed about as far from the dead letter office as we can get to the bottom of the world, the southern tip of New Zealand's North Island and the capital city there of Wellington. |
| 1:29.5 | Oh, I thought you had a story from Antarctica. Yes, not yet. Still waiting to hear from McMurdo. Oh, well, there's a lot of |
| 1:34.7 | interesting, yes, UAP news coming from the very bottom of the world. But we're talking about a very |
| 1:40.9 | lovely and charming and mystical place of New Zealand. |
| 1:46.3 | And this story is pretty interesting, Scott, because apparently Wellington is regularly cited as the world's windiest city by average wind speed. |
| 1:57.2 | And they call it affectionately windy wellie. |
| 2:00.3 | So the. |
| 2:00.8 | Ah, there we go. as uh as um they said on |
| 2:06.1 | the uh the simpsons about new york the windy apple which was a misnomer combining that in the uh the windy |
| 2:13.8 | city of chicago yes but that reason they call it windy Windy Welley, is because the Cook Strait funnels, Gale Force |
| 2:21.2 | wins straight through it, and those Gale Force gusts happen roughly half of the days of the year. |
| 2:27.3 | So the Cook Strait, that's obviously named for Captain Cook, I'm guessing. |
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