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264 – Kuchisake-onna, the Woman With the Slit Mouth
Welcome to my 13 Nights of Halloween, during which I will torment you with terrible tales Tonight’s freakish bit of folklore is “Kuchisake-onna” or “The Woman With the Slit Mouth,” a ghost legend from Japan that goes back many hundreds of years but which became a frightening urban phenomenon in the 20th Century in Japan.
This malevolent spirit is the ghost of a vain woman who asks you an unanswerable question, then punishes you however you answer. The real question is, is there any way to escape her?
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