Written Confession: The Mystery of the Severed Cat and the Rougarou
The following written confession was submitted via email:
In 2022 my wife was pregnant with my twin boys. Pregnancy with twins was quite hard on my wife so most nights she would pace around late at night to relieve some of her pains. The night that I am now referring to she was in bed with me and our dog started barking repeatedly towards our backyard which was out of the ordinary. My wife woke me up and said that she thought something was in our backyard. We both go to the kitchen window that the dog was barking at and when we look out towards the back left corner of our fence we both see this white form clear our 7 foot fence as if it was hopping over a puddle. When I asked my wife if she saw it she said yes. As I looked out in the backyard in a tired confusion I could see two white objects laying in the yard. It was very dark but there was enough ambient moonlight that I could see something.
Being half asleep I went out there unarmed and in my underwear and I find an all white cat that had been completely severed in half. It was cut just behind the front shoulder blade with laser like precision in a completely straight line. The front section of the cat was laying in a straight line even with the back section about 8 to 10 feet away. What seemed even stranger to me was the fact that there was not a single drop of blood nor tuft of hair anywhere between or around the two remains. As strange as this all sounds I just presumed it was a coyote, cleaned up the carcass and went back to sleep.
The next morning while driving my step-daughter to school we were about 1 mile from our house and we saw an extremely large coyote nonchalantly walking aside a very busy street in bright morning sun and school traffic. Both the stature and brazen behavior of the coyote caught my attention. After I dropped my daughter at school I went to work which was a restaurant about 4 miles from my house. When I walking up to open the restaurant to open up an employee from the yoga studio above my restaurant comes up to me with a really scared look on her face and tells me there’s a really big homeless man sleeping in front of the doors of our businesses. I live in a very small town so this is extremely uncommon. I approached him and tried to see if I could help and get him to find another place to rest and he was completely incoherent so eventually I had to call the police. The reason I’m bringing up my experience at the restaurant is because as I’m sitting with one of the officers after they resolved the incident I told him about the cat the night before and his eyes got really big and he said “That’s the Rougarou!” At the time I was not open to any kind of supernatural explanation so when he said that I giggled and dismissed him. He said, “No I’m serious I’ve responded to quite a few calls with very similar claims.”