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GraveYard Tales

318: The Kappa

GraveYard Tales

Adam Zero

Social Sciences, Comedy, History, Society & Culture, Science, Philosophy

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week we take a look at the Kappa! This legend is from Japan, but is it a cryptid? Is it a spirit? Or is it both? Have you heard about the Kappa?
 

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Sources

https://study.com/academy/lesson/japanese-kappa-overview-history-variations.html

https://yokai.com/kappa/

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kappabuchi-pool

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https://en.japantravel.com/iwate/kappa-monster-hunting-in-tono/14253

https://www.japan-experience.com/discover/tokyo/temple-shrines/sogen-ji-temple-kappa

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Uncanny Japan Podcast. May, 2, 2021

https://yokai.com

https://intojapanwaraku.com/culture/108037/

Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (100 Tales of the Strange and Uncanny)

“Tōno Monogatari” by Kunio Yanagita

https://www.tokyosmart.com/blogs/news/kappa-the-water-imp

https://www.bokksu.com/blogs/news/meet-the-kappa-japans-enigmatic-aquatic-yokai#:~:text=Meet%20the%20kappa%2C%20a%20water,of%20mischief%20and%20sporadic%20malice.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, Matt, I decided I'm going to write a book, and it's going to be about all of the things that I should have done throughout my life.

0:08.9

Really?

0:09.2

So, yeah, I'm going to call it my autobiography.

0:14.9

I like that.

0:16.3

I like that.

0:21.7

Okay, it's good.

0:27.8

Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the graveyard.

0:31.6

Thank you for joining us tonight.

0:33.6

My name is Adam.

0:34.8

And my name's Matt.

0:36.4

Now, pull up a tombstone or settle into your casket and get comfortable because this is Graveyard Tales.

0:50.9

All right, everybody, here we are again.

0:54.1

Matt, how you doing tonight, brother?

0:55.9

I'm all right, man. Good, good.

0:58.0

It's hot as, I don't know, blazes. I know. Here too, man. We finally hit that, uh, nearing triple digits.

1:07.1

We'll be, we'll be in triple digits in a day or two. It's like here, it's like I said today, I said, I'm tired of living in the rainforest.

1:16.7

I'm like, you know, my grass grows overnight because of all this rain.

1:21.6

And then it gets humid.

1:23.1

I mean, it's like I didn't know I was, I had moved to Vietnam.

1:28.4

I'm like, golly.

1:30.1

I know.

1:30.5

It is just muggy.

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