Japanese Urban Legends
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
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4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A popup ad gone wrong. A fatal taxi ride. A host of vengeful ghosts. Present-day Japan has so many creepy-cool urban legends to offer, we just had to give you a round up before Halloween. We’ll teach you how to survive an encounter with these spirits—and how to scare your friends next time you find yourselves together on a dark and stormy night.
Myths discussed: The Red Room Curse, Aka Manto (Red Cape), The Fatal Fare, Kuchisake-onna (The Slit-Mouthed Woman), Teke Teke, and Kashima Reiko/Kamen Shinin Ma.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast Episode 19, Japanese Urban Legends. |
| 0:04.3 | It's a spooky one, y'all. |
| 0:05.3 | It's super spooky because I love Halloween. |
| 0:07.8 | I love the entire month of October. |
| 0:09.4 | It's my birthday month. |
| 0:10.4 | Hey. |
| 0:11.4 | We totally are psyched to bring you guys some spooky urban legends this month. |
| 0:17.4 | That's the theme for the month, spooky stuff. |
| 0:19.9 | Spooky, spooky. |
| 0:20.6 | And you guys, |
| 0:21.6 | you know, you might want to check out your feeds next Wednesday. Just saying. |
| 0:26.3 | We're normally a bi-weekly podcast, but, you know, the October ghouls and goblins and witches |
| 0:31.2 | and wizards and tooth fairies might have a special surprise. Before we get going, we would love |
| 0:35.5 | to just shout out some of our new patrons. We have had so many patrons join this last couple of weeks, and we're so happy about it. |
| 0:42.1 | So thank you so much to Catherine McLean, Stephen McElitis, Carolyn Hoover, Phil Fresh, which |
| 0:47.8 | I don't know if that's a real name, but it's pretty badass. Kimmo Harvline, Jenny Sweeney, Eli McKenna, and a super special extra thanks to our new supporting |
| 0:56.2 | producer. That's the top tier of our Patreon, Leanne Davis. So if you want to join the ranks of |
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| 1:06.2 | Click that link in the show notes or find us at patreon.com slash spirits podcast. We're so close to our next |
| 1:11.7 | goal and we are so appreciative for your support. Thank you guys again for interacting with us on |
| 1:16.9 | Twitter, Facebook. You guys know how much I love liking and responding to your tweets. It's my |
| 1:22.7 | favorite thing in the world. Especially this month. We are, we are so, so on theme for this October. |
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