Skeptoid #585: Relict Japanese Soldiers
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Brian Dunning
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🗓️ 22 August 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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How factual are the urban legends about Japanese soldiers in the Pacific who never heard the war ended?
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| 0:00.0 | Even though you might have first heard about it from Gilligan's Island, it's still a really |
| 0:07.9 | interesting idea that on islands scattered throughout the South Pacific, our Japanese soldiers |
| 0:13.9 | still living in the jungles, unaware or in denial that World War II has ended. |
| 0:19.6 | Was this purely a fictional invention, or did it actually happen? |
| 0:24.2 | If it did, who were they? |
| 0:26.3 | And what ultimately happened to these most stubborn warriors? |
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