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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | The fructella Halloween hotels where you want to be, in the world of spooky tales, creepy jokes and a bewitching mystery. |
0:08.0 | In the haunted lobby, ghosts float with grace, with cackles and whispers they spookily chase. |
0:14.0 | There's just one day to go. It's all in your hands, so say. Alexa, open Halloween hotel to unwrap her plans. |
0:22.0 | Do check and enjoy us. We need a brainy helper here at the Halloween hotel only by fructella. |
0:30.0 | A sweet and deadly mystery. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. |
0:36.0 | We've talked a lot about poison candy on this podcast and a lot about mysterious letters. |
0:56.0 | We covered the Timothy O'Brien Pixie sticks mystery. We talked about razor blades, apples and New Jersey. |
1:04.0 | We've covered, again, people stalking people via the mail. Well, this has both of those things. |
1:10.0 | Today, we're talking about the Japanese mystery of the monster with 21 faces, which sounds as terrifying as it was back in the 70s and 80s. |
1:23.0 | So it all starts with Izaki Gliko, and I apologize if I mess up his name or any of the Japanese names in here. |
1:31.0 | He was the CEO of Gliko. It's a giant food company established in 1922 and based out of Osaka, Japan. |
1:39.0 | Gliko makes a ton of stuff, curry, baby formula, dental supplements, for example. |
1:43.0 | Today, though, it's best known for candy, and it's the exact type of Japanese candy you're thinking of. |
1:48.0 | It's a really cool, brightly colored, innovative design, fun packaging. In fact, it's most popular item. |
1:54.0 | You probably know Paki, very fun, very delicious. But Paki was not the same back in the 80s and 90s because it could have killed you. |
2:02.0 | So around 9 p.m. on March 18, 1984, the president of Gliko and the grandson of the company, Katsuhisa Izaki, came home from work and took a bath. |
2:12.0 | He had been president for around two years at the time and was either bathing with his children or having a bath, his children close by. |
2:19.0 | Hopefully, the latter, his kids were Yukiko, who was four years old, and it's Suro, who was 11 years old. |
2:25.0 | Little did he know, masked men broke into the condo next door where his 70-year-old mother Yoshi lived. |
2:31.0 | They tied her up with cut telephone wire and trash the place, taking only the key to Izaki's house from her. |
2:36.0 | Soon, Izaki heard strange sounds in another part of the house. As soon as these sounds registered, two armed hooded men burst into the bathroom and Izaki and his kids were panicked. |
2:45.0 | Izaki's wife, Mikio, and his other daughter, Mariko, who was seven at the time, were already tied up in the living room and the assailants cut the house phone lines and took Izaki and his kids into the main room. |
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