March NaBloPoMo: Strange(r)

The National Blog Posting Month website has named March the month to post Strange(r) stories, so I think I'll do that. It just so happens I have a great story to tell. This recently happened to a friend.

Duane stopped by on Sunday to drop something off. Duane is 30-something and still lives with his parents. He asked us if he told us about their cat. No, he hadn't.

Duane was working the night shift and when he pulled into their driveway he noticed their cat laying under their mailbox, dead. Duane stopped and checked. He told us he hunts enough and he knows dead, but apparently it had just happened.

He loaded the cat into a box he had in his car, drove the remaining 50 yards to the house, put the cat and box into the garage, and he went up to bed.

The next day he got the cat, box, some hay, and a shovel. He went up the hill, dug a three foot hole, layered it with hay, and buried the cat.

2 days pass.

Duane's dad runs into the house: "Duane! You've got to come out here and see this!"

Duane does. The cat is walking calmly out of the garage.

"It had hay on its back," he told us. "That's the part that really got me."

Duane's dad was freaked out. "You told me you buried that thing!" he said.

"I buried it three feet down!" Duane told him.

2 days after that, they finally found out that the neighbors apparently had a cat with almost identical markings. They didn't know that for two very strange and interesting days, though.

Duane said he even walked up to the grave to see for himself. He said if an animal had been digging there then he would have seriously been spooked, as it would have looked like the cat had dug itself out.

So, that's my most recent strange story. Since then I've been singing the Muppet Show version of The Cat Came Back.