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Today we test the believability of Japanese yokai.

Music Welcome to Believing the Bazaar.

We're diving to the unknown and the unusual.

And tell you whether or not we find it believable.

Yes, here we are.

We're back again.

I feel like it hasn't been that long, but it's been a minute since we've done something in Japan.

I've been home this week.

So this week has been off in every way possible.

So it hasn't felt longer or shorter.

It just felt different.

Getting work done that you want to get done from 7.30 in the morning to 9 hits differently.

Yeah, that was my summer.

Yeah, it's true.

That's true. It was a good time.

But anyway, so you don't know what a yokai is?

I, I'm shocked by that, actually.

I saw it listed in Wikipedia when I was very diligently searching the Ure for the

Suicide Forest episode.

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