The Samurai Skull

Strange Familiars

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Terry shares stories of a samurai ghost, ghosts and poltergeist-like activity in a theatre, and more.

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0:00.0	And he went down into a little obscure cave and came back out with the human skull.
0:08.4	Somehow the skull ended up in my room.
0:12.3	And I woke up to my top bunk violently shaking up and down.
0:18.7	And I shook my head to try to figure out what was going on. And I looked.
0:25.1	And as I looked, there was what appeared to me to be a samurai warrior standing about halfway
0:34.3	out of my body. He was about from waist up placed about my stomach area
0:41.1	and he had his hand on my chest had his left hand on my chest pushing up and down and his right hand
0:50.2	he was pointing his finger directly at my face.
1:30.3	They claim that our eyes would just be a slight different from what they are. He talked to see him. The The The I'm I'm I'm
1:45.0	The Welcome to Strange Familiers.
2:06.5	How you doing tonight, Alison?
2:08.0	I'm doing well.
2:09.4	Happy to hear it.
2:11.4	On tonight's show, I'm going to be talking with Terry,
2:13.4	who has the story of a samurai ghost,
2:16.2	some ghosts in a theater, and more. But before we get to Terry,
2:21.3	I want to mention again, kaya.life, that's our charity that we're supporting at Pine Ridge Reservation.
2:27.3	It's the people who acted as our guides there. It's also a charity that is right there on the reservation.
2:33.9	kaya.life, k-I-a-a-lif.
2:37.3	If you can afford to give, please do.
2:39.9	Like I said, their residents are doing their work right there on a reservation.
2:43.7	Once again, it's kya.coma.
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