Throwback: The Cats of Ulthar

Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages

Stories Podcast

Stories For Kids, Fiction, Kids & Family

4.3 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Today we're doing a throwback episode to one of our favorites from the early days of Stories Podcast. When the cats in Ulthar begin to go missing, everyone KNOWS the creepy Old Cotters are responsible, but no one can prove it. How will the townspeople save their precious feline family members? Find out in this (not-too-spooky) adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story! Check out Stories RPG our new show where we play games like Starsworn with all your Max Goodname friends, and Gigacity Guardians featuring the brilliant firefly! https://link.chtbl.com/gigacity Draw us a picture of what you think any of the characters in this story look like, and then tag us in it on instagram @storiespodcast! We'd love to see your artwork and share it on our feed!! If you would like to support Stories Podcast, you can subscribe and give us a five star review on iTunes, check out our merch at storiespodcast.com/shop, follow us on Instagram @storiespodcast, or just tell your friends about us! Check out our new YouTube channel at youtube.com/storiespodcast. If you've ever wanted to read along with our stories, now you can! These read-along versions of our stories are great for early readers trying to improve their skills or even adults learning English for the first time. Check it out.

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:02.0	Welcome to Story's Podcast.
0:04.0	I'm your host Amanda Weldon.
0:06.0	Today's story is a throwback episode.
0:09.0	Tune in to hear one of our classic stories from the archive
0:12.0	that you might have missed the first time around.
0:14.7	We have stories podcast merch available at stories podcast.com slash shop.
0:20.1	We're also on cameo for all of your personalized video message needs and don't
0:24.3	forget to follow us on Instagram at stories podcast. If you send us a drawing of your
0:28.8	favorite scene or character we'll share it on our feed. Now here's a word from our sponsors.
0:35.0	Thanks, enjoy the episode.
0:39.0	The Cats of Olthar.
0:42.0	I grew up in a little village called Olthar,
0:47.0	where things were pretty normal for the most part.
0:49.0	There was a baker and a blacksmith, a tinker and a tailor, a cobbler and a cooper, and a. a
0:53.3	baker and a blacksmith, a tinker, a cobbler and a cooper, and, like all little villages,
0:57.0	we even had a creepy old house.
1:00.6	Some creepy old houses are tall and dark, looming on hills like vultures waiting to pick clean the bones of a village.
1:08.0	Others are rooted rock, old and mossy and faded like headstones in a forgotten graveyard.
1:15.0	In Othar, our creepy old house was a sagging cottage, fronted by a yard gone wild with weeds. It was tucked deep under gnarled old oak trees, so that it was
1:27.5	always in the dark, night or day, and forever smelled like fungus and
1:32.8	stagnant water and things better left hidden away.
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