The Hexcat of Tumbling Run

Strange Familiars

Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In 1911 a family outside of Pottsville, Pennsylvania felt they were cursed by a witch who set a strange black cat upon them. The cat could grow gigantic in size, was unable to be killed with normal bullets, and brought all manner of bad luck in its wake. Years later, members of the family insisted the hexcat was still haunting them.

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0:00.0	Asserting that her father, Hal Thomas, age 61 years, residing in the Tumbling Run Valley, died as the result of a hex placed upon the family, Miss Mary Isabella Thomas of the Tumbling Run Valley recited a long list of peculiar circumstances which she endeavored to show proved that a spell had been cast upon the family.
0:24.5	They had the power to silence pistols which were brought for protection,
0:27.5	and cows have pined away and died as a result of the spell,
0:31.0	which commenced when a big black cat was brought to the Thomas farm.
0:35.9	The family assert that they saw it grow to four feet in height and then resume its natural size.
0:38.8	They are afraid of it and are afraid to kill it.
0:48.4	They claim that our eyes would just be a slight different. They are.
0:49.7	We talked to see things of our world.
1:13.6	I'm going to be. told you she came to her a lot of work The The The
1:30.3	The Definitely have the card in.
1:55.7	Welcome to Strange Familiar's.
1:57.9	How are you doing tonight, Allison?
1:59.4	Doing well.
2:01.3	On tonight's show,
2:03.5	I'm going to be talking about
2:04.8	the hex cat of tumbling run,
2:07.6	which is the most famous
2:09.6	hex cat
2:10.5	of Pennsylvania,
2:12.5	but not the only.
2:15.3	Before we get into that,
2:16.4	I want to thank our patrons.
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