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I had an odd dream this morning. It was about blood. And unseen psychic vampires that have hunted a particular human with a specific blood type to survive, or maybe increase their genetic pool? It was unusual. Near the end of the dream, I wrote an email to David Paulides, the man behind the Missing 411 investigations, books and movies. I asked him if he’d noticed a commonality in the blood types of the people that have gone missing.  Then I woke up.

And I’d never even known the word, ‘hematology’ before the dream. 

Curious, isn’t it? We are a species that has multiple blood types. Some combinations can cause problems, fatal even, and a special blood type has been named ‘universal’ because it is able to be accepted by all, but that’s not true anymore thanks to a newly discovered blood type that can only donate to its own. Are we the only species on the planet that has multiple blood types? What’s the point of this adaptation? Is it evidence of us being hybrids of other species? Am I reading too much into all this? Afterall, sometimes a dream is just a dream.

Join me to learn something new about blood, rare blood diseases, forensic science, and maybe even some vampire facts and lore. I’ll also share the rarest blood type on Earth with you.

Show Sources and Materials:

Blood Facts from ThoughtCo: https://www.thoughtco.com/facts-about-blood-373355

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/559256/why-we-love-true-crime

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/vampires-europe-new-england-halloween-history

https://www.livescience.com/33528-why-blood-types-exist-compatible.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-people-have-differ/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-mystery-of-human-blood-types-86993838/

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/do-animals-have-different-blood-types.htm

https://www.historicmysteries.com/blood-types/

Ten facts about blood: https://youtu.be/FGFWImXRE08

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140715-why-do-we-have-blood-types (it also tells of the newly discovered Bombay blood type!) 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/15

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For the last year I’ve noticed repeating numbers. 4-4-4, 1-2-1-2, 2-2-2, and 555. They’ve driven me to the internet multiple times in search of the meaning behind the message. That’s how I first heard the term numerology. From the little I gleaned, it is a left-brained and right-brained science, marrying the spiritual with the scientific which is the backbone of Curious Cat! Ever since, I’ve sought a numerologist to teach all of us about this interesting subject. I’m grateful to have found the perfect guest to pepper with questions thanks to my podcast friend, Karen Rontowski! Here’s a little about Brian Kukan. 

Brian was a high school math teacher for 13 years before leaving the profession to pursue a more spiritually-focused lifestyle. 

Brian loves how numerology can help us learn more about ourselves and others and teach us how to improve our relationships with everyone.

Brian is also a Jikiden Reiki Teacher (shihankaku) offering classes and sessions in his healing room in Los Angeles and provides distant treatments for others around the globe. He is also a gigging bass player playing music all around Southern California.

 Listen to the full episode and learn about Numerology. At somewhere near the 15 minute mark I bully Brian into changing his shirt. So bear witness to THAT at the very least!

Made and offered in love. - J

Guest Links and Show Sources:

 Sign up for Brian’s Numerology class here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=14198614&template=class

 Brian’s website: www.LAreikiguy.com

Here’s the online FREE Numerology PDFs Brian mentioned: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupname?key=Balliett%2C%20L%2E%20Dow%2C%20Mrs%2E%2C%201847%2D

https://www.spiritofthescripture.com/id4455-numbers-and-the-book-of-revelation-and-zodiac.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology

https://www.amazon.com/Witchs-Book-Numbers-Enhance-Numerology/dp/1950253279

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If you listened to my bonus Halloween episode with a handful of ghost stories, then you’ll remember her. Molly Kasdan, or Miss Molly Knows on socials, is an intuitive psychic medium, a social media personality and a journalist! She also conducts intuitive workshops, daily reads and live broadcasts. Her talents range from tarot/oracle card readings, evidential mediumship, predictions, dowsing, pendulums, Ouija, paranormal investigating, spirit communications and mentorship. She recently added “Beauty and Spirit" to her resume because she generously shares all things beauty, fashion and self-care with her viewers! I’ve placed the link to her website in the show notes if you’d like to book a personal or group reading, or sign up for one of her workshops!

Curious Cat is lacing up their hiking boots this Spring. We will be exploring the rumor riddled Cascade Mountain Range, a land of fire and ice. From sasquatch to ufos to remote viewing to bottomless pits, to unexplained missing persons, if you have any supernatural experiences from CASCADIA, drop us an email at Curious(underscore)Cat(underscore) [email protected] and YOUR story might be featured on a future episode! Look for CASCADIA episodes on your regular Curious Cat feed this Spring. Original art by @norasunnamedphotos - Follow the artist on Instagram and buy their latest merchandise on Society6

Guest Link:
Find all of Miss Molly's social links, blogs, vlogs, or book a reading here! 

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Bothell Hell House is a case that any fan of Ghost Adventures knows. Travel Channel rolls it out once a year saying it was "debunked" by the GAC crew, somehow legitimizing the rest of the year's episodes. It is my opinion that they treated Keith Linder badly, that they willfully ignored evidence, evidence that in past episodes they'd used and stretched out to make an entire episode, and I was glad to give Mr. Linder a place to share his experience.

Keith Linder is an IT professional, a genuinely nice guy, and was not someone that consumed paranormal stuff before finding a house to rent off of Craigs List. Curiously, when he phoned the utility company to add his name to the bill, the person on the other end of the line mentioned people had moved in and out of that house in quick succession over the last few years.

It was the first of May, and they'd yet to pop the cork on a bottle of wine before a child's laughter would invade their home. The rest unfolded like a nightmare.

Guest Links and Show Materials:
Buy the book!
Follow Keith Linder on Twitter here

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Take a deep breath with me. Breathe in fresh air down to your toes. Feel it swirl through your veins as it collects all that smoky, sticky energy that does not serve you. Now exhale. You may even cough for a few seconds afterwards.

2023 is teaching us to put ourselves first. Like the advisement we receive from airplane flight crews, it’s critically important we take a breath from the metaphorical oxygen mask first before we assist anyone else. That’s the lesson we have to learn, and master this year. Self-care comes first. 

I mention this, because I am STILL recovering from a flu I got in December. If I do too much, forget to drink water or rest when my body is screaming to stop, then the illness tries to come back. Even knowing this, I slip up. I forget myself. Take myself for granted. 

No angel embodies this better than Archangel Uriel. Haven’t heard of him? I hope after this episode you fall in love with this essential celestial being.

Uriel’s name

Well known to Russian Orthodox faithful, Uriel’s name translated to, “God is my flame.”

In the Gnostic book, the Secret Book of John, written by Zebadee’s son, and James’ brother, Uriel is said to be placed in charge of demons. He is the third angel named in the Testament of Solomon.  He is mentioned in the Second Book of Esdras, found in biblical apocrypha in which Ezra asks God a slew of questions and Uriel is sent by God to instruct him. 

In the Christian apocryphal gospels Uriel and his role differ depending on the source. In one, Uriel was critically important in the rescue of Jesus' cousin John the Baptist from the Massacre of the Innocents ordered by King Herod. He carries John and his mother Saint Elizabeth to join the Holy Family after their Flight into Egypt. Their reunion is depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks.

If you haven’t seen this da Vinci painting, do a web search. It will be familiar. Uriel is seated on the right, has auburn curls and wears a gray and coral tunic of sorts. When I meditate and ask for Uriel’s protection, I visualize him wearing brown robes. 

 Sources and Materials:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriel

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In early February, I had the joy of talking with The Corvid Corner from TikTok. If you listened, then like me, you might've been blown away about the intelligence, loyalty and cleverness of crows.

As I confessed in the opening minutes of that episode, I haven't always been a bird fan. In fact, I suffered my first panic attack inside an aviary at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. I attribute it to too much Alfred Hitchcock as a kid, and not enough Mary Poppins. During the episode, I meant to share some of my early experiences with crows and how my love has grown, but a virus hijacked my brain, so this episode is a necessary supplement to the conversation.

Soon after becoming a mother, my heart changed. I saw those winged creatures like my babies, as delightful parts of our community.

Show Sources and Materials:

https://www.amazon.com/Gifts-Crow-Perception-Emotion-Thought/dp/1439198748

https://www.uwb.edu/about/crows

The Funeral by Jennifer Hotes on WattPad - Read for FREE

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/uw-professor-learns-crows-dont-forget-a-face/

https://www.thoughtco.com/crows-are-more-intelligent-than-you-think-4156896

https://worldbirds.com/crow-symbolism/

https://www.angelicalbalance.com/spirituality/what-is-the-spiritual-meaning-of-seeing-crows/

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I had a plan for this week, but then received a divine intervention. Two angels came forward in my morning minutes. And if you know anything about me by now, it's that I listen when the angels tell me something.

Alright, so full disclosure, this episode had a second intervention. I was going to focus this episode on Archangel Metatron. As I was wrapping up the outline and gearing up to record, I was hit with a feeling that this should be a joint episode on the Archangel brothers, Metatron and Sandalphon. It’s a natural, so I spent another half-day adding deeper research about the second of those archangels. THEN I had a dream. And that my dear listener is where I have to begin this episode.

Sources and Materials:
https://kidadl.com/facts/archangel-sandalphon-facts-know-all-about-the-tall-angel-of-music

https://www.learnreligions.com/meet-archangel-sandalphon-124089

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/angels-and-demons/who-is-metatron.html - This article goes on to say that it is suspect that he is an angel. First, they say, because he was a human first. Second, they say, because he is attributed with qualities and actions only Jesus and God could have. Though, I have to push back and say that the most pure of heart Christians, the Ethiopian Christians, include the Book of Enoch in their Bible. I wonder if this is about their Jesus-narrative being usurped by Metatron/Enoch? That’s pure speculation on my part.

https://www.learnreligions.com/meet-archangel-metatron-124083

https://thesecretofthetarot.com/archangel-metatron/

https://www.alittlesparkofjoy.com/archangel-metatron/

https://www.learnreligions.com/how-to-recognize-archangel-sandalphon-124283

https://www.alittlesparkofjoy.com/archangel-sandalphon/

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This week I’m happy to have Scarlet Darkwood on the show. Like me, she is an author, in fact we had the same publishing house until Booktrope tragically went bankrupt. After they closed their doors, us authors mourned, regrouped, and many of us have remained connected through socials. Scarlet is one of those authors! But, she's also in perpetual pursuit of knowledge. I can't wait to learn more. Welcome to Curious Cat, Scarlet!

Tarot, the occult, the Rosicrucian Order, you are such an intriguing person, Scarlet! Tell us about yourself!

Show Materials, Resources and Links:

Scarlet’s YouTube Channel with fascinating content!

Scarlet’s website where you can book a tarot reading, sign up to receive her blog, and more!

Information on the Rosicrucian Order 

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If you listened to my interview with comedian and tarot reader, Karen Rontowski, then you have at least a cursory knowledge of Edgar Cayce – who was also known as the Sleeping Prophet and father of holistic medicine. I learned about him on an episode of the Art Bell tapes and ordered, There is a River by Thomas Sugrue, his only authorized biography, and immediately began to read it.

Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on March 18th, 1877, in his youth, after studying the Bible for days on end, Edgar Cayce says an angel appeared to him and said that if he slept, he could learn anything. He told his mother about the strange encounter, but no one else. Then as a pupil in the local schoolhouse, Edgar struggled to learn his lessons. When his uncle served a short stint as the teacher, he reported Edgar’s father, Leslie, what a bad student his nephew was. Angry and ashamed, Leslie hit the boy after he failed to learn his spelling lessons. Edgar then recalled the angelic visitor’s words. He asked his father to let him rest for a few minutes and the boy did so, sleeping on the spelling book. When he woke, he had his father test him and they were both shocked when Edgar had a photographic memory of the entire reader’s contents.

Show Sources and Materials:
Edgar Cayce’s Death: https://www.crystalinks.com/cayce.html

Great video about Edgar Cayce’s early life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoPvYGtNHlU

Edgar Cayce and reincarnation: https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/reincarnation/

https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/his-readings/ 

https://kirkpatrick.substack.com/p/10-strange-and-unusual-edgar-cayce

https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/ancient-mysteries/seven-prophecies-yet-to-come/

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/edgar-cayce-tales-from-the-sleeping-prophet/

https://mysteriumacademy.com/atlantis-edgar-cayce/

https://www.edgarcayce.org/about-us/blog/blog-posts/edgar-cayce-on-demonic-possession/

https://healthcareinamerica.us/edgar-cayces-nine-easy-steps-to-a-long-life-b8653c339ca4

https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/dreams/

https://www.psychicsdirectory.com/articles/was-reincarnation-r

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Full disclosure - I haven’t always loved crows. It wasn’t that many years ago when I walked into an aviary at Woodland Park Zoo and had a panic attack. Being shut into a confined space with birds flitting here and there called to mind Alfred Hitchcock’s classic, The Birds. I had to step outside and collect myself on a stone bench. 

Later though, when I became a mother, I saw birds through the eyes of my children. We set up fairy houses in the yard and watched for hummingbirds. My first trip to Alaska sealed the deal. Yeah, we have bald eagles in Seattle. They sometimes circle in the skies overhead, but that’s NOTHING compared to what Homer, Alaska had in store. They linger on the spit feet away, perched three across on a driftwood log beside our firepit. They were glorious. It was after that trip that I began to take note of all our neighborhood birds. 

During a stretch of brittle winter weather, a duo of crows looked at me through the patio doors. They were hungry. I began to feed them and they cawed in thanks. They would hang back on the gate and watch as I brewed my morning coffee. They knew after feeding my cats and dog, I’d sprinkle something nutritious in the yard for them. They knew I was a crow lover, but, and maybe it was the bird dog growling behind me, they never fully trusted me. No matter. I was head over heels in love with crows. Soon two became three. Three became four. The word had gotten out that I had a soft spot for these remarkable, beautiful creatures. 

It was around that time when I heard an interview on NPR of two UW researchers that were studying crows. They told the story of a woman who fed them for years and the crows, in turn, left her tiny treasures, like a I LIKE IKE pin. I wanted my crows to bring me something, too, so I upped the quality of my offerings. 

My love affair with crows continues to this day.

I found a kindred spirit on TikTok, The Corvid Corner. She not only feeds crows, she rescues them, and goes so far as to make her own suet cakes for these glorious birds.

Bear with my scratchy voice as I struggled with the flu during this interesting conversation with my new friend across the pond. We talk candidly about the birds that have stolen our hearts.

Please give her a follow on TikTok and watch her incredible, uplifting, and often informative videos there.

Here's one article about UW professors studying crows!

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