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In 2011, a police officer spotted a woman on a busy street in Japan, and he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

He looked at a photo on his phone and then back at this woman and thought, yeah, that's definitely

her. He'd been tasked with finding this woman and bringing her back home. It was a pretty

basic task, but he'd managed to complete it way faster than he thought he would. The officer

rushed down the street, greeted the woman, and she confirmed that yes, she was the person he

was looking for. So he led her back to his car,

drove her back home, and that was that. However, what the officer could not have possibly imagined

was that locating this woman and taking her home was about to unravel 25 years of

unimaginable horrors and lead to one of the most bizarre cases Japanese investigators had ever seen.

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious,

delivered in story format, then you come to the right podcast because that's all we do,

and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.

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Okay, let's get. Mioca. Miyoko Sumida raced down the sidewalk in Amagasaki, Japan, trying to will her body to go faster.

Miyoko was 63 years old, and she couldn't remember the last time she had run, and her lungs were on fire,

and her legs felt heavy.

Even though it was a cool day out,

she could feel the heavy eyeliner and mascara she always wore

starting to run down her face.

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