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Sapporo, Japan Sister City Haunt · PNW Haunts & Homicides

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  As the first woman scanned the other from top to bottom, as you do, she noticed she was
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  wearing a white dress.
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  Probably a pretty odd choice of outfit for a nighttime stroll, but as she continued her
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  gaze down, she realized something even more strange.
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  The woman had no legs!
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  I was just picturing no feet, I don't know why.
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  No legs, no legs at all.
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  Oh, she was just a floating torso.
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  I was trying to do a spooky voice and it didn't come out.
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  That is...
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  Let me try again.
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  Okay.
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  I'll retry it.
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  Take two.
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  Okay.
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  Hello!
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  How is that?
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  That's spooky?
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  No.
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  It was kind of cartoony.
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  Okay, but we'll keep it anyway.
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  All right.
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  It was better than the first one.
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  It's debatable.
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  Oh, hello Cassie.
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  Hi, creepy people.
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  Or cartoon people.
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  Cartoon creepy people, creepy papers.
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  This is PNW Haunts and Homicides.
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  Yes, oh my god.
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  I almost forgot why we were here.
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  We're here.
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  We're here.
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  And it's almost Halloween bitches.
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  We're here.
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  All right.
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  All right.
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  In the words of the iconic Ashnikko pumpkin spice this pussy baby.
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  Oh happy Halloween.
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  I don't need a costume because I'm already a freak.
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  How long?
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  Let's do it.
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  Wowzers.
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  I'm wearing her shirt today.
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  I see that.
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  Did you notice mine?
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  Were you wearing that last time we reported?
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  I might have been.
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  I really like it.
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  You called out.
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  Yeah.
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  I think I've only worn this t-shirt twice.
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  I really like it.
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  I saved it for Halloween.
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  The spooky tarot card.
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  Yeah.
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  So if you're Patreon, you'll get to see her shirt later.
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  Well, today I'm going to do something I've never done before.
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  In honor of this special occasion.
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  I don't like the look on your face right now.
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  I'm really excited.
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  And I'm going to try really hard not to get overly excited.
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  Talk really fast, high pitched, mess everything up.
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  Okay.
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  So I'm going to try to tone it down even though I'm really excited on the inside of like jumping over
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  now.
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  Yeah, I don't appreciate your tone.
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  I'm going to scare Caitlyn.
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  But no, you're going to like this too.
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  I don't like this surprise.
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  So let's just say we're going on an adventure to a sister city.
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  Oh, my goodness.
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  I did it.
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  You did it.
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  Are you so proud?
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  I am.
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  I did it just for you.
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  I do not see that coming at all.
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  I didn't think so.
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  Yeah.
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  I was like, what's happening?
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  I had a stroke of genius the other day.
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  And I rolled with it.
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  So.
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  Okay.
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  I'm just going to try to get a little bit more excited.
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  We're going.
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  Can you guess?
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  Do you know all of the sister cities of Portland?
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  Not off the top of my head.
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  But I have you.
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  Root.
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  Guadalajara.
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  No.
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  Okay.
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  We're going to Sapporo, Japan.
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  Really?
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  Yes.
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  How excited are you?
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  So did you know that this is the longest sister city partnership for Portland?
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  I did not.
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  Yeah.
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  I didn't either until I read it on this website and I wrote it down.
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  I told everyone else.
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  It's kind of our thing.
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  Yeah.
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  It's pretty cool.
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  So I was thinking I wanted to do some super spooky vibes for Halloween.
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  And I was thinking about one of my favorite movies, The Ring, which is filmed right here in the PNW.
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  Yeah.
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  No, thank you.
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  You don't like it?
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  No.
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  And here's what's wild is I've actually seen The Ring.
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  Oh, it's when she's seen.
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  Yeah, it gave me nightmares forever.
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  I loved it.
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  It also made me not want to sleep with a TV in my room, but yeah.
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  You know, that's fine.
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  I lived.
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  That's how I fall asleep at night.
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  Oops.
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  You'll know why if I look real tired on the live tomorrow.
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  Oops.
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  Core memory unlock.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, did you know the original is a Japanese film called Ringoo?
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  You know, one and a were I heard that maybe think it was on DP.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  They've like mentioned.
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  I know they talked about it.
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  Yeah.
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  So I was just like, hmm, things started cooking up there in the old Noggin and wrap.
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  Yes.
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  The old wrap.
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  So I went and searched up a Japanese sister city.
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  I actually found one which was super exciting.
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  On my first try.
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  I was just like, let's try Portland.
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  They might have a Japanese sister city and they totally did.
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  Sure do.
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  And it just so happens to be haunted as fuck.
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  Keeping with the PNW vibes.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Her face is so funny.
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  So before I scare the crap out of you, Caitlyn, I wanted to touch on some quick little historical
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  things.
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  I just couldn't help it.
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  We all know how that goes.
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  Okay.
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  Although they do celebrate Halloween in Japan, they don't see it as kind of the thinning of the
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  veil, quite like we do, you know, where souls can cross over and all that jazz.
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  They have another holiday for this.
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  It's in August actually.
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  It's called Obon.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I've heard of Obon.
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  I never have.
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  I've heard of Obon culture and it is.
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  I'm trying.
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  This is where I'm learning.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  No, I mean, I don't know very much about it, but it sounds really interesting.
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  Well, this is a time for them to honor ancestors with altars and offerings, visiting resting
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  places, performing traditional dances and using lanterns to guide ancestral souls.
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  Yeah.
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  I think it's really sweet.
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  It is super sweet.
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  Not totally unlike kind of the tradition of day of the day.
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  Yeah.
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  That's what it reminded me of.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I thought it was cool.
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  The lanterns too.
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  They like used the floating ones and release them.
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  Yeah.
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  It sounds really pretty.
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  So pretty.
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  So I just thought that was cool.
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  And I didn't want to visit Japan on Halloween without learning a bit, a little bit about their
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  culture.
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  So yeah.
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  And I wanted to give you a little buffer to prepare for what's to come.
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  Cool.
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  Great.
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  Alrighty.
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  I'm going to take you on a little ghost tour of Sapporo, if you will.
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  I won't.
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  No, I'm taking you with me.
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  I'm dragging you, kicking and screaming.
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  We'll be talking about quite a few places.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  So this text I used is translated from Japanese.
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  It's called Sapporo Ghost Map Guide.
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  I'm hoping there's no misinterpretations here.
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  I mean, I certainly didn't translate it.
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  Cause we'd be in big trouble.
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  So I'm sure they're professionals, but I wanted to give the little warning.
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  Just in case I say something wrong, you're like, that's not what happens in Sapporo.
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  Okay, Caitlyn, what do you think about when you picture a spooky haunted place?
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  Ghosts like like a haunted house with like spooky trees and fog and stuff like that?
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  Sure.
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  I try not to picture it.
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  I was just going to say that before you.
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  Well, what, what about a subway maintenance garage?
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  Yeah, that sounds like a good setting for haunted, spooky stuff.
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  Really, do you think?
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  Yeah.
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  It didn't sound super spooky to me, but I'm going to paint you a word picture.
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  Okay.
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  So it's dark.
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  It's damp.
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  That's literally what I thought of.
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  Was it gets a dark damp place?
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  Echo, echo, echo, walking through row after row of deserted trains.
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  Are we getting there?
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  I mean, yeah.
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  Also, I don't know why I think it's damn.
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  Does it rain a lot in Japan?
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  Um, different parts of Japan do kind of get a lot of rain.
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  I mean, probably not as much as like Portland or Seattle, but yeah.
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  Okay.
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  I don't know for sure if this maintenance garage is in fact damp, but that's what I'm
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  picturing in my head anyway back to the story.
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  There's going to be a lot of Japanese names.
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  I looked up the pronunciations, but you know how it goes.
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  So sure do in this particular subway garage between Jieitai Mae and Makomanai stations.
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  Excellent.
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  I did pretty good.
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  Okay.
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  Very good.
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  report feeling uneasy in the empty trains. Yeah. Yeah, I bad. Some have even reported hearing voices
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  in one instance, a woman's voice was heard, but only four men were working that night,
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  and no way for anyone else to be in there with them without them knowing. No. No, yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah,
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  no. Yeah. Get Midwestern. Now, there had been occasions where people would
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  sadly jump onto the tracks and die by suicide. Yeah. I guess the spookiness and the voices got
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  so bad that the employees finally made a complaint to the city. And they actually had a Buddhist
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  priest come in and cleanse the garage. Oh geez. Yeah. This did help a little, but disembodied voices
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  can still be heard from time to time. Okay. So I said cleanse here because that's kind of what I
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  inferred from the text. If it's not something that a Buddhist priest would do, please forgive my
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  whiteness. There is only so many rabbit holes I can go down in one day. So yeah, for sure. I mean,
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  you could, I'm, you could interpret it as being like a cleanse or maybe offering a blessing. Yeah,
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  something. I don't know. I think those are not necessarily interchangeable, but sort of related.
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  Okay. I just went like what, what I thought about in my mind, someone clearing out a space or
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  making it more positive than it was. So yeah, something like that occurred. I think that makes sense.
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  Good. So next we're visiting a park that I could not find a pronunciation for. So I'm just going to
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  try my best and we're going to see how it goes. So this is Jidensha Park. I think that's a pretty good
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  pronunciation. Okay. I guess that I'm certainly no expert, but I try. Yeah. If anyone does speak Japanese
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  and wants to tell me how to pronounce this, feel free. Yeah. I won't be offended. Yeah. That's
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  so tough to when you can't find a pronunciation guide. Yeah. There was like nothing on this. Yeah.
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  You're like, I don't want to butcher it. But you know, it's just you're best. As she
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  it's such a pretty language too. So it is. Yeah. You're just stalling with all of the language talk here
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  because you don't want to get to what's in this park. No, I was really curious because I was wondering if
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  it was a park I like heard of. Oh, there's so many places in Japan that I want to go. No.
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  This probably isn't one of them though. I don't think it's like a very big well-known park. Okay.
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  During the day, this park is bustling with all of the park type people, you know, joggers,
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  stroller pushers, dog walkers, picnickers, frisbee throwers, you know, the type,
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  joggers. Ew. What are they doing? I'm more in line with the picnickers. Yeah.
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  Some wine and cheese. I'm just fresh off research about a jogger. So
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  right. Yeah. There's also plenty of housing around this park. So it's not secluded by any means.
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  That's unusual. Yeah. I mean, just for a place that's haunted. I think it's just like a neighborhood park.
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  Okay. But at night, things shift from a lively atmosphere to a deadly one.
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  It'll like it. Legend has it that one night a woman was walking through the park at midnight.
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  Now, I know what you're thinking. No, it's not Cinderella. This woman had both of her shoes
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  and clearly no fairy godmother there to protect her. Okay. Well, that was not at all where my head went.
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  Okay. So she comes across another woman walking in the park as the first woman scanned the other
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  from top to bottom as you do. She noticed she was wearing a white dress. Probably a pretty odd
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  choice of outfit for a nighttime stroll. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know about that. Unless it was summer,
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  maybe? I don't know. Well, in white for a park? I don't know. Okay. Sorry. It seems odd.
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  But as she continued her gaze down, she realized something even more strange.
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  The woman had no legs. I was just picturing no fee. I don't know why. No legs. No legs at all.
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  She was just a floating torso. Okay. With arms and a head in a white dress.
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  That's a real choice. That's the real fashion statement.
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  It's something. So super creepy. I don't like it.
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  So moving along in the ghost tour in the Higashi-Ku ward of Sapporo, there is a road that is said
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  to be a pathway between the mortal world and the spirit world. Okay. So just like tell my uber
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  driver like avoid that one. Yeah. Avoid that road. Don't go down that road. Okay. So you'd probably think
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  this is a deserted country road. Yeah. Included, isolated, also picturing damp.
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  But no, it's right in the midst of a residential neighborhood.
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  Oh. Okay. And I definitely don't understand street names or addresses in Japan. They do give
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  the location, but I don't know enough to relay this information to you without another crazy rabbit hole.
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  If you're curious, the link is in the paste bin in the show description.
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  All right. And I will say this because I told you Chris has been to Japan. I don't know that he's been,
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  he I think pretty much just went to Tokyo, but he said it was a very confusing city to get around.
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  I could see that. Yeah. And he had a really funny story about how they lost his brother on the subway.
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  Yeah. Because those doors are not like when you get on the max here where like, oh, it feels like
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  somebody trying to like put their hand in between the door. Doesn't have a sense. Well, and it could
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  be totally different now. It probably is for safety, but back then, because this was, I mean,
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  dating Chris here a little bit. This was like 20 years ago. Oh, the doors are like, they just are like,
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  we're closing. Like they they run on schedule. So the doors be closed and bitch. Get out. Yes, move,
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  bitch. Get out the way. So yeah, the younger brother was the only one that got on the subway. And
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  everybody else just watched and horror as like their dad tried to like get on it. And then as it like
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  just rolled on by. Oh my god. Hopefully you didn't end up end up in the maintenance garage.
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  I don't think so, but they had to race to another subway station. And it was really confusing trying
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  to figure out like, okay, where does that train go and all this stuff? So I mean, I've met his brother.
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  Like he made it out, but it's okay. Okay. A word to the wise don't take navigating through
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  Japan lightly. Oh, no. Okay. One night. Can you guess what time? Midnight. It's midnight. Okay.
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  I was always midnight. I already had my second guest prepared and it was 3 a.m. It's always midnight in Japan.
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  Okay. A man was walking. Oh my god. A man was walking. No. Yeah. A man was walking down this road. Like he
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  had a thousand times before with no incident. I really don't know if it was exactly a thousand times,
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  but they said he knew the road roughly. Yeah, roughly. Give her take. I took some artistic liberties
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  here. Yeah. That's fair. This time though, he started to feel like it was hard to walk. Like something
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  was holding him back. No, perhaps tugging on the back of him. No, thank you. Then from behind,
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  he heard what sounded like a little girl say, "Will you play with me?" Hard pass.
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  When he turned around, he indeed saw that there was a little girl there and thought it was very
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  strange for her to be out so late. And as he was probably about to ask where her parents were,
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  she disappeared. Oh, okay. So then he didn't ask. He didn't get a chance to ask.
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  He was just like, there's a little girl and now there's not. Okay. Poof. I mean,
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  I'd prefer that she was not there and being creepy. So maybe that's okay. I mean, I'd prefer
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  that she was visible because she... Will you play with me? And then she's gone. Is she playing hide and
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  seek? Where did she go? Where did she hide? Is she going to pop out of the shower later? No.
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  Why would she do that? Just because everything comes and sneaks up on you when you're in the shower?
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  Yeah, I don't think so. No. People in their homes along this road are apparently not immune to
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  the spiritual and against either. A resident's door might slowly creak open to let disembodied
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  boots in to stomp around. I'd prefer that that they didn't. Why is it always just boots?
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  You know, like we've heard that a couple of times. I feel like before or high heels. Yeah. But it's
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  always like there's no one you can't see anyone walking in them, you know? Right. Those are your
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  choices though. You either wear those stilettos or you're wearing like steel-toed boots. Yeah.
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  These are your options. Or even something more sinister and reminiscent of our sex demon episode.
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  Okay. I'm listening. Residents have experienced waking up in the middle of the night,
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  Probsman night, to the feeling of something on top of them. No, no, I'm out. I'm out. Goodbye. I told you
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  it was reminiscent of the sex demon episode. I mean, you did say that, but opening their eyes to
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  see a ragged menacing samurai warrior. That's it's intense. That's very intense. And I have to say
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  it's very unsavory like behavior. Exactly. I think that's why it's so scary.
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  The next one sounds like a lovely place called Falls of Peace in the Teine ward.
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  Do I say that? Okay. Yeah. Okay. We just looked it up. Yeah.
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  It comes with a mountainous backdrop and all of the foliage, a picturesque waterfall could ask for.
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  That reminds me of like silver falls. Yeah. Yeah. It me too. It sounds really, really gorgeous.
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  But now I'm going to bring you right back down to Earth and shatter your soul with a trigger warning
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  for suicide. I know I briefly touched on it a bit in the beginning, but we're unfortunately
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  going to be talking about it a bit longer with this one. So, who is this place sort of reminds me
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  of Aokigahara, aka the suicide forest. I watched a document, well actually more than one
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  documentary about it. I was hard to watch. It's really tough. There's a really scary movie about it too.
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  Yeah, I haven't watched that. It's terrifying. Don't watch it. Yeah. I won't. It's really scary.
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  You guys like good advice. I watched it alone. I'm pretty sure. Because I'm a lunatic. Yeah,
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  we're just kind of very different. Very. Okay. Apparently many, many people of all kinds come here
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  to tragically and their lives by jumping from the falls. There was also one instance where someone
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  doused themselves with gasoline and lit themselves on fire. Oh no. The self-emilation
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  deaths in some Asian cultures are just really, really rough. It is. It's a lot.
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  That's actually what the word they used to describe it in the article. Yeah. Yeah. Because I don't know.
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  Sometimes using that technical or scientific jargon, it feels a little better. You kind of
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  distance from what that, when you boil it down, what that is. I guess I kind of wanted to use it,
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  but I was like, they used it. I kind of like trying to write it my own way. So,
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  yeah, and not everybody knows what that is either. I think it's good to kind of explain it.
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  I'm not going to lie. I kind of like figured what it meant, but I also had to Google it just in case.
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  Well, it's not a commonly used word. I mean, if it was, that would be terrifying. Yeah.
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  It's not good. No one knows why people choose this place, whether it's the beautiful,
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  calming environment, or perhaps the land holds some residual energy from the past, affecting people
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  who are already vulnerable. Yeah. There is a monument at the falls for enslaved Koreans who
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  were forced to work in the mines. Yeah. I mean, kind of similar to the forest where people don't really
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  have one solid explanation, but could be anything could be anything. As you can imagine,
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  there was a lot of anger and despair associated with that time running water. I feel like it's also
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  a huge energy source, and it could be continuously stirring up these past memories. And on top of
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  all of that, you have these new people leaving their own anger and despair when they pass. That's
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  true. It's kind of like a cycle, I feel like. Yeah. Almost like a snowball as it's rolling downhill.
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  So as much as I do want to visit and see how pretty it is, it's kind of spooky. Yeah, that's really
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  intense. Sorry to bring everyone down on Halloween. This text also suggests that if you visit any of
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  these places, just sprinkle yourself with salt before going into your home. I'd say probably
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  before going into your car too, or maybe just doubt yourself with salt the whole time. Yeah, just
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  just in case. Wowzers. Yeah. I think probably you just can't really overdo it. Yeah.
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  They're afraid something might attach to you. So no, thank you. You can also use any of the other
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  various protective measures we've talked about. Like certain crystals. I can't think of the ones
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  off the top of my head. I think that like, termaline, right? Probably be good example.
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  Tourmaline, like, tourmaline, any of the protective things. Honestly, if you just have something that you
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  feel like is protective. And if you're curious, you can google it or we do talk about a couple of them
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  in the cleansing episode too, I think. So yeah, we do. You can use smoke too. Yeah. I mean, if something
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  does follow you home, definitely refer to the cleansing episode. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Okay, Caitlyn. I have one last special story just for you. Yay. You didn't think you'd get away without
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  talking about dolls today. Did you? What the? Surprise is just keep coming for Caitlyn on this.
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  Very special Halloween season. All right. Sorry. I'm going to be a little horse through the rest of
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  this episode as I insert my knees into my chest. Sapporo, Japan has its very own haunted doll.
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  In 1918, a boy named Eikichi Suzuki, like the car. Yeah. So I could pronounce that one without looking
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  it up. Yeah. I know. We got an easy one. Yeah. Gave his little sissy, Okiku, a doll is a gift.
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  Isn't that the cutest little name for the girl? I love it. Very sadly, though, Okiku passed away
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  at three years old from an illness. Oh, I know. Her family placed her favorite doll on an altar
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  in their home. They begin to notice something strange about the doll, though. Her hair was growing.
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  No, no, they even had the hair tested and it was human. No, which I know is definitely a thing they used
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  to do in doll making, but because they actually noticed that the hair was getting longer, the family
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  believed the doll housed the soul of their precious Okiku. Today, the doll lives in a temple shrine.
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  The monks taking care of her there confirmed the unusual hair growth.
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  Very uncomfortable. She's so uncomfortable.
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  She didn't do anything mean. Her hair was just growing. Okay. She just sat in there, being a doll.
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  Okay, but I'm a living person and I can barely get my hair to grow out. So now I'm just,
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  and now I'm angry. No, I'm just see this is what happens. You become sad and angry and confused.
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  I don't like it. Maybe you should go talk to her and ask her her secrets.
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  Now, I, you know, maybe I'll shoot her an email. Okay. No, yeah. Yeah. I'm sure she takes email in the temple.
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  Well, on that note, that is all I have for now, for Sapporo, Japan, Portland's Sister City.
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  That was so fun. I know. I really like learning more about Japan. I really want to go. Yeah.
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  Really, really, really want to go. We're going to take a pod trip to the sister city. Right?
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  Seriously, I wanted to go as an exchange student. So now we do right off. Yeah. So there you go.
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  Perfect. Well, shall we do some tarot to row? Let's do it. Okay.
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  Welcome to this episode of "Shuffle" with Cassie and Caitlyn.
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  Look at that. It's sort of shuffle.
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  So we are thinking of haunted ass Sepuro, Japan.
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  Haunted AF. Dolls and legless lady ghosts and I'm not. Do you want to play with me?
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  No. Okay. Spooky subway maintenance garages and sandwiches.
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  There were sandwiches. Subway. Oh, I was like, did we talk about sandwiches and I missed it? No.
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  We are going to cut the deck. I feel like you need to just touch it for a second. Give it your
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  scared vibes. Touch it. Touch it. She's so scared. Oh, look at it. Cut. You guys can see it. It cut and
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  this feels right. Okay. It's this one. What? It's the fool. I went silent because I'm,
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  I'm no longer surprised when this pops out at me. It happens all the time.
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  And yeah, so we're using my nightmare before Christmas deck and this is the fool with Jack
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  walking with his doggy zero. Yes. So cute. It's so cute. I mean, do we even need to read the
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  Oh, it's an uproar. Yeah. Do I say this? I think I already said it. I don't know. I know.
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  But your little spooky ghost crystal right there. That's yours. I know, but I got it. And then
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  with me in a minute, definitely was like, Oh, did it mean for me to get this? It's cute because
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  I'm in love with it. It's fine. You just need a daily reminder of me. I guess it was a birthday gift
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  that I bought for myself. But you're welcome. Anyway, the fool for Suburo Japan.
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  All right. So our keywords are innocence beginnings, trust, hope, opportunity.
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  And also Caitlin clearing her throat. That kind of sounds like a sister city, though.
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  Yeah. It kind of does. Yeah. Well, in innocence, I write away latch onto the little girl.
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  The first card in the major arcana, the fool begins your journey toward wisdom.
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  The fool represents innocent and faith. The naive confidence of youth shown as a young traveler.
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  Well, I won't read the rest of the description because honestly, it's not that far off. But
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  but young travel travel too is interesting because we talked about the subway.
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  Right. Well, unjust the fact that like for us, we're traveling to a two-digit fandom. Yeah.
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  Oh, cool. This is so funny. Okay. So this is one way that the fool is totally different for us in
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  this context. I don't know how you pronounce this name, but I'm going to take a shot. Okay. So there's a
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  tiny mini extra excerpt and it says a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, which
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  reminds me of the city on or the the part of the story where we talked about that road. And I said
• 32:58
  a thousand times he had been on that road. Well, in holding him back. Yeah. So that's a quote, a
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  tribute to Lao Zoo. Interesting. Oh, interesting. Okay.
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  Upright, when the fool appears in a reading, it usually means you're about to embark,
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  to embark on a new way of life. You're open to new experiences and to discovering what lies around
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  the bend. Yeah. Even if you're not sure about the path you've chosen, you have faith that everything
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  will turn out well. You probably feel out of sync with the rest of the world, but in a good way.
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  You hear the beat of a different drummer and you're ready to march to it. Yeah. Okay. In a reading
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  about money, the fool urges caution. You may be too trusting or you may be naive when it comes to
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  handling financial matters. And this card can also represent the first stage of a business or investment,
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  examine details carefully, pay attention to your intuition, not only logic.
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  So when we're planning our Japan trip from pod, you just got to like be careful and plan it out,
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  which we usually do. Yeah. I think the receipts. Yeah. Yeah. Be smart about it. Yeah. I think so.
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  If the reading is about your work, the fool can indicate starting a new job, project, or business venture,
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  beginning a course of study or going on a business trip. Okay.
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  It's a sign if I've ever seen one. I that's all I can take away from this.
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  Caitlin, I can't wait to go to Japan with you. I know.
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  You're looking forward to this new adventure or new direction and its possibilities. Well, hello.
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  Embrace the opportunity with an open mind. You have a lot to learn. Yes, we do. A lot of Japanese
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  things I want to learn. All of them. Throw me right down that rabbit hole.
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  In a reading about love, this card often means beginning a romance or moving into a new stage
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  in an existing relationship. A new relationship may feel faded as if you've met your soulmate.
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  Enjoy this period of joy, openness and excitement. Oh, there's another extra. I love the extra.
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  The quest for meaning always takes us into the unknown. That's from I think this is actually a
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  tarot like companion book. It's called the pilgrims companion. Oh, cool. I like that.
• 35:57
  The quest for meaning always takes us into the unknown. I like it. Yeah. I think that's fitting.
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  That's kind of interesting too. It reminds me of the falls and the suicide forest, like the quest for
• 36:17
  meaning. Yeah. Leave you on to the unknown. Is that what it is? Yeah, the quest for meaning always
• 36:24
  takes us into the unknown. We don't know. We don't know what the fuck is happening. I couldn't agree more.
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  Oh, my goodness. I really like that. I like when my fool pops out. He makes me smile.
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  And I have one thing to say about this case and about this reading and if you can't see it
• 36:48
  here in the video fully, I'll go ahead and just... It's a little sign that says "Eq" will probably post
• 36:55
  a photo for people who have to aren't on Patreon. But did you notice that has a little spider too?
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  I was actually pretty surprised and proud of you that you bought something with a spider on it.
• 37:06
  Also the tablecloth has webs and... Yeah, and that is actually something that came in our little
• 37:15
  goody basket from Dave and Paul. Is it? Oh, thank you, Dave and Paul. Love you. We love the
• 37:24
  little snacks. Oh, my goodness. We really did. We've got the TikTok to prove it. Also, I got us
• 37:31
  matching hers and hers little headstones. So cute. Mine, you know, true to my nature says "keep out."
• 37:41
  Mine says "gone at last." Which is, you know, probably pretty on too. Yeah. And then
• 37:51
  we got a crystal grid there. We're just like pointing
• 37:57
  not audibly at all, but... Yeah, that's not a new bed, oily. That is a crystal grid.
• 38:04
  Yeah, cloth. Crystal grid? Great cloth. That sounds good to me.
• 38:10
  Yeah, and we're actually going to be sharing some... Well, we'll just see. I'm going to get creative.
• 38:19
  I went to a very cool crystal shop that's here kind of in the extended local area.
• 38:27
  And I... Yeah, it was a really, really cool place. She has more than crystals, but
• 38:34
  that's obviously the highlight for me. So... Yes. Shiny racks. Yeah.
• 38:39
  So... Why do time? I think that's all of the things. Yeah. As usual, if you notice something about
• 38:48
  the card or description that related to something we didn't notice, because our brains are just...
• 38:56
  much. You know how they are. Yeah. But let us know. Comment. DM. Maybe... Email. Maybe... DM you back.
• 39:04
  All right, well, I'm going to suggest that we ring the bell.
• 39:12
  Oh, man. Where's my... Ring for wine? Oh, there it is.
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  Because we are also going to do a second recording today. And I'm going to get my revenge
• 39:25
  on Cassie. So... Yay! I'm going to finish off. Have a creepy ass Halloween! See you next Tuesday!
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  I can't believe I shouldn't be with me. Say see you next Tuesday. See you next Tuesday.
• 39:42
  Thank you. Unless you're molley snoring, go get out of here. Bye guys.
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• 39:56
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• 40:02
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• 40:12
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  Bitchin.
• 40:57
  *coughs*
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  ♪ ♪
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  ♪ ♪
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  Alrighty, so ...
• 41:33
  Alrighty.
• 41:34
  Did you hear that when I said it?
• 41:37
  What?
• 41:38
  Like my voice got all creak like crackly like already.
• 41:41
  Okay.
• 41:42
  Shk.
• 41:43
  Alrighty.
• 41:44
  [Clears throat]
• 41:46
  I just cleared my throat.
• 41:47
  Cassie is possessed as shoo.
• 41:51
  I can't say already.
• 41:53
  Maybe I should just say something else.
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  Fuck.
• 41:55
  [Cassie laughs]
• 41:56
  Fuckin' alright.
• 41:57
  I'm ...
• 41:58
  You're good.