Welcome to Paranormal Nightshift, where we explore the eerie world of nightshifts and the inexplicable occurrences that happen when most are asleep. In this episode, we dive into the unique bond between humans and their furry friends, discovering how these companions can bring light to the darkest of times.
Join us as Karen shares her touching story of finding solace in her feline friend, Whiskers, after facing heartbreak and loss. Having struggled with the idea of adopting a cat, she takes the leap and forms an unbreakable connection with Whiskers, who becomes her steadfast companion. However, tragedy strikes when Whiskers falls seriously ill, and Karen is forced to make a heartbreaking decision.
Devastated and battling with depression, Karen finds herself in a desperate state, contemplating the unimaginable. In a remarkable twist of fate, she experiences a supernatural encounter with a cat that bears an uncanny resemblance to Whiskers, even though she’s sitting at his grave. This mysterious feline’s presence seems to be a lifeline, pulling her back from the brink of despair.
As Karen grapples with this inexplicable encounter, she discovers a single rose blooming on the barren rosebush planted atop Whiskers’ resting place. Could this be a sign from beyond, a message of comfort from her departed friend?
Join us as we explore the unexplained bond between humans and their beloved pets, and the potential for the supernatural to offer solace in the darkest hours. If you have your own paranormal story, we’d love to hear it at paranormalnightshift.com. Stay tuned for more tales of the unexplained on Paranormal Nightshift!
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The sun is going down, but
you’re clocking in.
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Here’s some things that only
night shift will understand.
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Welcome to paranormal night
shift, your home for all things
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that go bump in the night.
For some of us, our furry
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friends are more family than our
actual family, dog people and
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cat people.
It truly is a bond that is hard
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to explain to most people.
But can that bond you share be
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taken to the beyond?
Karen Wright said.
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I learned at a young age that I
couldn’t have kids.
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Never seemed to be a problem,
but the fact that he is my
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exhusband means that it was a
problem for someone.
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We got divorced and surely
enough he went and found someone
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else, and now they have a lovely
family.
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I didn’t think it bothered me
that much, but seeing pictures
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of them on Facebook just drove
me crazy.
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I knew I needed some sort of
companionship.
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All my friends were telling me
that I needed to go get a cat,
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but I didn’t want to be a crazy
cat lady.
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But I took their advice.
I went to the local shelter and
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I found this beautiful cat and I
took him home.
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Whiskers was his name, and that
hole that I felt in my soul was
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filled with joy.
It was somebody who needed me,
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well, something.
And we took care of each other.
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He gave me the companionship
that I needed and of course I
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fed and took care of them.
We went everywhere together,
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played with toys and all of a
sudden it just felt normal
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again.
I was always a homebody and
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whiskers made my house feel like
a home.
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But then he got sick, very sick,
very quickly.
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I took him to the vet and they
said unfortunately there’s
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nothing we can do.
I know it’s a cliche who rescued
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who, but he really did save me
from a very dark place and
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unfortunately now I was in a
position to where I had to make
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a decision for his wellbeing.
We put him down unfortunately,
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and it broke my heart.
I didn’t know what to do.
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I buried him in a small garden
in the backyard and I would find
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myself going out there and just
sitting by him reading books,
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just talking to him as if he was
still around.
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I know by now some of you guys
are telling me I should have
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just gotten another cat, but it
just wasn’t the same.
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I planted a rosebush on top
where we buried him, but the
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Bush would never actually plume
roses.
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That was until a couple months
ago.
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I openly will admit that I’ve
always suffered with depression,
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and after losing my husband and
whiskers, I fell into a very
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dark place.
I had made a decision that I
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didn’t want to be here anymore,
that I didn’t want to go on, Not
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because of the cat, just because
of everything.
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Nothing seemed to be going right
for me and I got in a very dark,
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dark place.
I was going to do it out there
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in the garden.
As I prepared myself to do the
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unthinkable, I started hearing
meowing coming from the tree
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line of my property.
It got louder and louder and it
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sounded just the way that
whiskers used to meow.
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And then a cat came out from the
tree line and it looked just
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like whiskers.
Same fur same loving and
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carrying eyes.
And that cat came and sit next
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to me and just stared at me.
Every time I tried to shoo it
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away it would it wouldn’t go
anywhere.
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It just sit there with me just
like whiskers used to.
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I swear it was the same cat but
I know it it couldn’t be because
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I was sitting on whiskers grave.
There’s no way it could be the
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same cat, but it was.
It looked just like my cat and
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somehow the cat knew what I was
going to do and it just sit
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there with me.
Just like whiskers would have
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rightfully shaken about the
whole conversation and
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everything that had been going
on in my head.
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I decided that I just needed to
go inside.
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I just needed to relax
something.
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Just nothing felt right.
I wasn’t in the right head space
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and I just needed to relax.
Depression is is horrible
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because you have manic moments
of that like I did the day
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before and then I woke up the
next morning feeling wonderful,
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mad at myself that I even
thought that way I guess.
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I guess it was all just crazy.
I walked outside to see if I
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could maybe find the cat again,
maybe I would invite this cat
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into my home and I walked next
to the Rose Bush that has never
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had flowers on it.
But right there on the Rose Bush
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for the first time since I lost
my cat there it was, the tiniest
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little rosebud.
I know it sounds foolish to
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think, but maybe it was whiskers
way of telling me that I am
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enough and that he is still with
me.
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That was months ago.
Never saw the cat again, but
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I’ve never been in that dark of
a place.
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I feel like somehow from beyond
the grave, the cat that saved me
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in my darkest hours saved me
again.
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If you have a paranormal story,
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paranormalnightshift.com.