Get ready to dive into the spooky world of Japanese bathroom ghosts. Join hosts Gil and Joey as they uncover the chilling legends of Hanako-San, Kashima Reiko, Akaname, Aka-Manto, and Noppera-bō. From vengeful spirits to creepy creatures lurking in the stalls, this episode will send shivers down your spine. Plus, learn about the fascinating concept of shirikodama and its connection to Japanese folklore. Don't miss out on this bone-chilling episode of the Black Cat Report!
Chapters
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:03:04) Shintoism: The Way of the Gods
(00:07:55) Aka-Manto: Red Paper, Blue Paper
(00:12:26) Akaname: A Goblin-like Bathroom Cleaner
(00:15:25) Hanako-San: A Sad, Sometimes Evil Girl
(00:19:27) Kashima Reiko: aka Teke Teke
(00:29:09) Noppera-bō: No Face
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(00:00):
Over the past month, we've taught you how to eat.
Last week we made you afraid to eat.
So it really makes sense that this week we're going to make
you too scared to poo. I didn't see you there.
Something big is going on here, from hunting ghost to Bigfoot,
paranormal Ufo's, true crime, and more.
We won't just be spouting articles.
I was researching for your entertainment.
(00:22):
Beginning of the New World, The best clock you'll ever.
Fucking eat. True story.
It's basically like one day you walk outside and you see that
the ants are playing with match.This is the Black Cat Report.
See you on the other side. Hello everyone, and welcome to
episode 57 of The Black Cat Report.
My name is Gil and joining me onthis slide into the sewers of
(00:44):
Tokyo, The one and only and thisweek only other one, the man
whose name I just had legally changed from Joey Lee to Joey
Luigi. Joey.
Hi, Luigi is here. That was more like a Dracula.
I guess more than that was here.That was your Virginian accent
coming out? Good thing it'll pay me for
(01:05):
voices on this show. Wait, I thought that's what we
paid before. Well, unfortunately.
Well, we're about to go this week.
Does not have a gender neutral restroom, so that's Bay has to
sit this one out, but she will be with us next week.
Now, before we can begin today'sinvestigation, we've got to wait
in line at the gas station, thenask the attendant why the doors
(01:28):
are locked, then get scolded forhaving to pee, then buy the
cheapest candy bar they have so they'll finally give us the
sacred key, the one that always has the giant random object
attached to it. And that, my friends, is my long
metaphor for the little culturalbackground I'm about to give
you, to put these ghost stories into context.
It's always funny. It feels like you can beat them
(01:49):
with that little thing on the key, like knock somebody out.
It's always like this really long wooden thing.
I guess that doesn't get lost oryou don't flush it down the
toilet. I mean, that happens to me every
other week at my house, but you?Flush it down the toilet.
Mm HM yeah, that's why I just shit in buckets anymore, but
we'll get to that in this later in the episode.
But I know I'm glad that you mentioned that thing to beat
(02:11):
folks because after I've worked so hard and waited so long with
so much anticipation and I'm coming out of that restroom, I
just see the the hungry, the thirsty, that the angry people
that are also waiting in line toget that key.
And like, sometimes I give him alittle tap, you know, just a
jealousy tap. Don't be jealous.
Yeah, it's always funny to see what they're buying to, to go to
(02:32):
the bathroom. Like for me, I go in there and I
buy like M&M's or something likethat.
And most people, it's just like they're buying something random
as well. So usually candy bar.
You're right. Yeah, yeah, it's like, damn it,
don't they have that zebra gum here for $0.25?
Oh God, Remember Zebra Gum? It's the best tasting gum but
lasted like 5 seconds. But those tattoos though?
(02:57):
Well, yeah, with my with my super long metaphor out of the
way, let's go ahead and hop in now.
Shintoism or Shinto is an ancient and widely practiced
Japanese religion. When translated, Shinto means
the Way of the Gods. In essence, Shinto teachings and
beliefs don't have a singular practice, religious text or
(03:20):
founder. It's kind of more of a cultural
agreement that nobody's perfect.Humans are more or less
naturally good but can be influenced to do wrong, and that
the natural world and anything built from it by humans,
contains a spirit called Akami. They're an estimated of 80
million of these commie, each possessing their own unique
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powers, personalities, appearance, and way of
celebrating, showing respect, orwarding off.
So for Westerners who are used to thinking of religion as maybe
one God, or one main God with a bunch of less powerful gods or
some version of the Marvel Universe, try instead to picture
Shintoism as a spiritual ecosystem.
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Socially, Shintoism is is a way for everyone to acknowledge that
these spirits exist and to discuss their influence on our
lives. It's like, I don't know.
When you think about all the plants and the fungi and the
animals in a forest, we can all agree they're there and pretty
much use the same names, and we talk about them, but we don't
feel the need to kill each otherover which animals.
(04:27):
The coolest Obviously the panda.Yeah, well, and lying.
I mean, Joseph McCarthy would be, and the show's done.
Nope. I'm leaving.
Bye, panda. Sure.
Joseph McCarthy would be really pissed if you found out there's
that many commies out there. God damn it Joey.
(04:48):
Damn it, where's my drum roll? I cut off your access to drum
roll. Now with all that said, with 80
million spirits and a couple of 1000 years of talking about
them, some pretty fascinating beliefs have developed.
Like our souls being located in a small ball near the end of our
Anus, Shiri Komada, which roughly translates to Anus Ball
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or Anus Jewel, is believed to literally be a person's soul in
the form of a small little ball located at the very end of your
butt hole. Well, naturally for believers of
Shirikomada, this means things happening near butt are that
much more threatening, right? Like I would live in constant
fear, right you? Don't want to poop out your
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soul? Hell no.
Dysentery takes on a whole new meaning at that point.
Distant. Scary.
Oh, that. Also like that.
That little fact, like kind of like learning that which by the
way plays out in so much of likeJapanese media and culture when
you see it where it's like, why is that person reaching there in
that video game like Sakiro or in like anime or all sorts of
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things. A lot of times the the bad
entity will like grab the personfrom like literally from their
butt, like you can't see with the camera, but they're grabbing
them from behind and like pulling out their souls or like
doing shit to them. And I'm like, oh, that makes
sense now. But what also makes sense, or at
least what made me reconsider a judgment I had in my life, was
(06:14):
couture sweatpants, like the ones with the words like juicy
and like faith and innocent. They got a lot of souls there.
All those things on it. Now I realize that I've just
been seeing a bunch of Shinto monks walking around.
I had that completely wrong thiswhole damn time.
Like they got. Got a lot of souls.
Well but yeah so so with that kind of understood right that
(06:37):
there's there's literally millions and millions of gods
and obviously there's different levels of effect and different
levels of influence. Some are good, some are bad,
some are just you know with thatout of the way and understanding
where the souls that now we can get into it.
This brings us to the focus of our episode Japanese Bathroom
(06:58):
Ghosts. What?
This is fun. I might scare the poop out of me
or the soul out of me. Nope, you couldn't be too afraid
to poop. Damn it.
What are these bathroom ghosts gonna, like, put a clear.
What is it? They put clear cellophane on the
toilet seat. He's like, hey, got them.
(07:21):
Got that? Some of them wouldn't be able to
get into the restroom if they did that.
Can they? Ooh, that's true.
They can't. You're getting cellophane.
Yeah, you're getting new fears tonight, baby.
Alright, every week. Well, Joey, I'm a simple man.
I'm traveled. Yeah, I've seen and done many
(07:43):
things. And I'll tell you, the world is
not as scary as a lot of people claim it to be.
Just saying. Agree to disagree, but OK, yeah,
I just want to say with that said, I do live.
This is where I would agree withyou with three debilitating
fears, two of them bathroom related.
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The first Finding myself in a cold sweat with my eyes closed,
breathing like I'm practicing for childbirth in a public
restroom as my body unleashes its revenge for only eating Taco
Bell's new grilled cheese dipping Taco for four days
straight. Now, it's not the sacrifice I'm
afraid of. No, I'll gladly trade 30 minutes
(08:29):
of devastation for two minutes of slow braised shredded beef
bliss available for only just 379 at select locations.
No Joey. What I'm afraid of comes after
the cold sweat and blurred vision, after the violent
spiritual and financial cleansing.
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My fear is opening my eyes afterthe storm only to realize
there's no toilet paper. Yeah, and worse, someone was in
the restroom this whole time, standing outside my stall like
an exorcism tour. It's just listening to fucking
everything. I'm horrified, yeah.
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That is, that's disgusting. See, I knew we would agree.
Well, I was, yeah. Well, that brings me to my
second only fear. They start trying to talk to me.
Why I fucking hate when people try to talk to me in public
restrooms. Well, just picture that exact
(09:32):
situation as I now tell you about Akima Manto, the red Cape
also known as Akikami. Ayokami.
Red paper, Blue paper is large evil spirit who wears a blood
red Cape and is said to inhabit the last stall in school
(09:56):
bathrooms and public restrooms. Which sucks because that's
usually the wheelchair accessible one with the most
space. And you know when I'm Baja
blasting the T belt Bender out, I need my leg room.
I'm talking like half my pants on one shoe kicked off and my
legs all spread. You know, spread Eagle basically
that's. Disgusting.
(10:16):
That's why I don't need Taco Bell.
But we will. Well, anyways.
Legend says that just before you're cleansed, while you're
not paying attention, the toiletpaper will just suddenly
disappear. And at that moment, the exact
moment when you finish, a vague,echoing voice will begin
building louder, coming in from the walls.
(10:39):
Victims are then consumed by a dreadful or until finally a
voice becomes clear. You begin to make out the words.
It's Akima Manto offering you a choice.
Do you want the red paper or theblue paper?
The matrix of the the bathroom, Pretty much.
(11:06):
So, Joey, what's your choice? Well, I'm going to go with red
first. Let's try the red first.
Cuz I don't Red 90s going with red?
Well then he'll appear in your stall and proceed to unleash
enough torment, torture, and violence on you that it makes
the Hellraiser movies look like Sesame Street.
Oh God. So more than the actual I just
went through from the Taco Bell,then?
(11:27):
Yeah, basically. Yeah.
Well, let's. Let's try the blue, then let's
see where that that adventure goes.
It's a lot better. It's a lot better, I think.
I think you made the right choice.
Well, if you pick the blue, he'sgoing to still appear in your
stall, but this time it gives you a really firm hug.
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That might be worse. Actually, that might actually be
worse. You're right.
I mean, it does drain all the life out of you until there's
just a blue corpse left on the ground, but yeah.
I mean, just the hug by itself would just be weird while you're
on the toilet by a random stranger.
That's the that would be the worst.
Yeah. I don't.
Think I want a hug? Yeah, I kind of want to die
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after that. Well, I'm pretty sure you just
crapped your spirit out anyways after you crapped out all that
Taco Bell. So you lost your spirit by
eating the Taco Bell, and then you crapped it all the way out
after you released your body from that.
So I had to cleanse my soul station.
Damn it. Well yeah.
Well with that out of the way, now that we've got our choices
decided, our next one is a real cutie and maybe a distant, less
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depressed crust punk. Relative of the American Squank,
They are called the Aki Nanname,a poorly postured goblin about
the size of a 5 year old that they crawl long like a hunchback
lizard. Just climb up your walls and
across the ceiling you've got long greasy hair to match their
butt ass. Naked mold, green or dirty
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colored greasy skin covered in open sores.
Now the variations of this Dannyde Vito doppelganger says that
it's between that it has anywhere between 1:00 to 5:00
fingers and eyes. Probably because they don't rely
on them for very much. You see, Akiname have a very
special Gene Simmons style gift that they use for feeding.
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They have an incredibly long, highly maneuverable sticky
tongue that they use exclusivelyfor the insides of toilets, the
bathroom floors, and any surfacethat can find the most amount of
grime, mold, scum, and dirt. That's disgusting.
Just imagine a green Danny Defito crawling along your walls
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with a lizard tongue. Just yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that came in there licking. I mean, I guess if you want your
bathroom cleaned, it'll be a little easier.
That's what I'm saying, right. Well, yeah, but.
But the good news is is though, that they they tend to avoid
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humans and just kind of scurry away if they're caught snacking
in the middle of the night. So that's not, it's not the
worst thing and well, well, I personally can't see any
downsides to having one in my home.
If you do want to avoid getting them in yours, you just have to
keep your bathroom clean. That's it.
I mean, they'll clean your bathroom for you though, so kind
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of like 6 1/2 half dozen the other you like.
I guess it's a, it sounds like amyth to keep you to make your
bathroom clean. Yeah.
No, I mean, honestly, like straight up.
Like, I've been trying now to summon one of these little
buggers for like about a week. No luck.
Yeah, I have not been able to use my own bathroom for about a
(14:44):
week. I've.
I've just let it. I've just put everything in
there, everything into my into my hope and these little guys
coming in. And I got to tell you, man, I
don't think they've been imported here yet.
Think how scary it would be if you're just sitting on the
toilet and like you didn't see one and they trapped in the
toilet and you just feel this like tongue like swipe past your
butt and you're just like how weird would that's not you might
(15:08):
think it's a snake at first or something like that And you're
just like you look down, it's this like grimy, greasy.
And then you look down and you go, man, was that in the Taco
Bell? I ate just like, wait, can I get
your autograph? Is that Danny DeVito?
Yeah. Can I get your autograph?
Danny DeVito, Well, our next oneup is not quite as exciting and
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not kinda not quite as sunny in Philadelphia.
It's going to be found in the third stall of your local
elementary school's restroom, which I would not recommend
going into to investigate after hearing this.
And while she's usually more frightening or depressing than
fatal, all you have to do when you're ready to summon her is
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simply knock on the door three times and ask Are you Hanel
Kasan? That works?
You'll hear the voice of a scared little girl reply yes.
Upon opening the door. You'll see her very small child
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and torn up uniform, bruised andafraid.
Most encounters with Hanukkah sons goes to end up with the
witness feeling pity for her, explaining that upon seeing her
they were just completely overcome with the sinking
despair with loneliness or or feelings of being misunderstood.
Yeah, these feelings have led tomany of people just essentially
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assuming what her origin story is, and that includes everything
from a severe trauma or a death that was caused by violence or
suicide, or even being a casualty from one of the
bombings during World War 2. But with that said, she does
have a dark side, and an unluckyfew have been victims to it.
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You see, on occasion, after hearing her answer and opening
the door, she attacks quickly, grabbing you, then pulling you
down into the toilet. Oh my God, that's horrifying.
I know. Just imagine this is like a tiny
little girl like this, like pulls you in.
Yeah, she's the Harry Potter of the toilet.
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I know. Pulling you down, pulling you
down. Well on top of that, there is
1/3 option that as long as you don't check the username of who
submitted it to Wikipedia last night around 4:00 AM.
You'll also believe too. Which is that when you go to
open up the door, you'll find Chris Hansen and a Japanese
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schoolgirl outfit filming his new show to catch a Mythological
Predator, where he quickly grabshis next victim and water boards
them on live TV. Just.
Oh my God dude. I knew he went somewhere, you
know, I was like, I had to look that up last night and check
(18:10):
some citations on some things onWikipedia, and apparently that's
where you went in 2008 after causing a bunch of people to
commit suicide. When I say that last week, we
don't use Wikipedia as a source,we do use it sometimes to find
out some things that are not in our our wheelhouse.
So hypothetically, allegedly, while we don't use it as our
(18:31):
source, we do make sure other people are using it as their
source. True, if we could make it
happen, every other podcast would use Wikipedia and we would
use fax. You just gotta believe in
yourself and the stuff you convince others to believe in
you. That's the real lesson today.
Yes, So we've had to choose which paper, Red or blue, right?
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We've had our bathrooms cleaned for us.
Yes, we have disgusting little Danny DeVito with Bed Source.
We've met a depressed little girl who gave us a huge swirly.
Now, our next spirit is sometimes considered to be
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probably the worst, probably themost threatening out of all of
them. Her next spirit is sometimes
referred to only by the sound you'll hear when she approaches.
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Kashima Raiko, aka Kashima Raikohas to be one of the most
horrifying of all the bathroom ghosts.
Not just because she'll kill you.
I mean, she might, but it's it'sthe visual.
And honestly, it's the visual ofwhat she does that really makes
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it so terrible. Picture this, it's it's it's
just a small elementary school girl, right?
With this, that's completely severed from the waist down,
leaving only a trail of blood smeared behind her as she crawls
slowly across the bathroom tile floor, pulling yourself.
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By the bloody bones of her fingertips, which, now that I
kind of think about it for a second, reminds me a lot of the
victims that I saw from the Tamale Lady in last week's
episode. Yep, that does sound like the
half of the body. Maybe she made it her way over
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to. Did she ever go to prison?
I have a lot of questions now. Is it?
Tamale lady. Not, yeah.
Maybe she's in being indicted. I don't know.
Maybe she's on trail. Maybe she didn't make it.
Maybe she too is in someone's stomach.
Anyways, legends say she was once a young schoolgirl who,
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when no one was looking, classmates pushed onto the
railroad tracks as a train was approaching, leaving her severed
and a half, but still alive and left crawling until she died.
Yeah, others claimed that she was brutally beaten in a school
restroom by a group of boys, which I'm assuming are the same
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group of boys from a few episodes back with Yoakum Kroll,
but that's different. Yeah, none of these.
None of them are. And afterwards she crawled out
of the restroom trying to seek help, right?
Well, after they had left, and after she started crawling, just
barely cleaning a life, she began combing through the
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streets. Is dragging herself along the
ground, which is how her fingersgot in that state the entire
time, screaming as loud as she could for help.
But no one responded, apparently.
Hours passed until finally she fell unconscious, lying on the
ground, halfway in the city street and halfway on the
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railroad tracks, ultimately losing everything from the waist
down by an oncoming train. Damn, did she like?
Make it, she like crawled all through the streets, then
crawled back. She like made a huge circle back
onto the trains. She didn't help through the
streets the second the second version.
Basically it started with her getting more or less like jumped
(22:32):
in a bathroom. She was just in a public
bathroom or like a school bathroom or something, and then
she eventually crawled out for help.
It probably honestly is a version where she did circle
around back to the tracks, though I don't know the amount
of variance I ran through this. Oh yeah, yeah.
I was like, that's horrifying. Just placement.
She's like, ah, not again. Why'd they only take my left
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leg? I'm going in circles.
Yeah, yeah, it's one my left arm.
I can't push anymore. I can't pull bitch.
Yeah, No. Well, that sucks.
Yeah, none of that is good. That's horrifying.
Yeah. I mean, it's just a fucked up
situation. The most fucked up thing too is
at least with the the the version where little kids or
classmates or whatever shoved her in front of the train, Her
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death was ruled as an accident and so the kids never fucking
got caught, you know, e.g. this this then transfers into the
motivation of what we're about to hear about here.
So you know, a little decapitated body crawling around
and popping up in stalls? Well, the belief is the best way
to protect you from the terror I'll soon describe.
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The best way to avoid seeing a decapitated little girl with the
echoes of the exposed bones on her fingertips just getting
louder and louder until she makes her way into your Taco
Bell stall sometime within the next 30 days is to never speak
or hear her name. Wait, did you really go to this
(23:57):
whole episode? Then ask and say her name.
A bunch of things. And let me hear this.
Yes, yes. Yes, I did do that.
Why would you do that to us, brother, Brother, do not worry
about this. We are in this together.
All right, you need every. You've done this before.
You need to stop doing this. No, no, this is not a repeat of
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the Skinwalker episode. It kind of feels like it just
literally did I I don't know. I've, I haven't had horrible
luck since you did that episode.But I you know, it depends I
guess, how you should get that the cat that looked like my cat
that I accidentally picked up and took inside until I actually
found my cat might have been a skin Walker.
Anyways, point is, man, we are TBell Bros for life.
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Oh my God, I hate Taco Bell. We are not T Bell Bros Soul
Brothers. All right, well, when she comes
to see you sometime in the next 30 days, she's going to ask you
between 1/2. I don't know, honestly, 5
questions. People disagree about which
questions and which answers, butI'm pretty sure I picked the
(25:05):
right one, so pay attention. Here they are.
OK, where are my legs, you say? On the machine Expressway.
She'll then ask who told you that you say Reiko Kashima or
(25:31):
where are my legs? You say Reiko Kashima.
Or if she asks, are you using your legs?
You reply I need to use them now.
If you don't respond, or even ifyou hesitate just a little bit,
she'll violently tear off your legs and use them as her own,
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apparently still not finding theright fit.
Damn, damn, like I'm always using my legs.
That's not. I mean, I guess when you're in
the bathroom, you're kind of using your legs, I guess.
I mean, you really are. So you're pretty much always
using your legs. Yeah, that would be.
Yeah. No.
So you have this crazy ass little girl that just, like pops
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in like well, crawl. Something about the visual of
like a tiny bloody bone little finger girl as I'm just like
again, just, you know, T bell blast in like out and like a
little girl's head just comes infrom the bottom of the stall.
And you know at that point, likethe lighting has changed in the
room every like you're you're surrounded by like an essence, A
(26:37):
vibe at that point. It's not just a regular old shit
fest. You know what I'm saying?
Like you are, you are fucking present.
You know, like you were there for that fucking moment.
There's something horrifying about a little girl just being,
like, just like, popping up and it's like, hell, no, yeah, you.
Just see your head popping underneath the toilet stall.
So you're just, like, looking up.
You're just like looking up at you screenshot that.
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So with that face with their mouth, the gasp just looking up
at you while you're trying to poop and you're trying to just
let this out and you're already embarrassed because like you
heard the door open, you know, and then there's there was
somebody next to you. And so you're just like kind of
waiting for it. You're kind of waiting like,
okay, let me just let this maybelet this guy go out of the
bathroom. He's done peeing from the
urinal. Just let them go because the
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Taco Bell probably wrecked. It has wrecked your stomach.
Yeah, I know. So you're just halfway through,
but they just like interrupt you.
So you're just waiting and then you just see a face?
Like as soon as the door closed,the lights shut off and you just
see this face, You look down to text again.
There's a. Face next to your feet and he's
like, what the fuck? Like I would not be able to
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mouth a certain word or name to her being like, do you use your
legs? I would be like, yes, I do use
my legs. That would be the only thing I
can say bonding with kicks at that point.
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's.
Like, please leave. Like, Jesus, girl.
But the good news is that if youdo somehow manage to answer
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correctly under the the the oppressive weight of the small
nuclear explosion taking place in your stomach and the
awkwardness of what you just saw, she'll just leave.
Like, that's it. She just straight up.
She's like, OK and just like a fucking.
Wow, it's just so uneventful. Afterwards, everything,
(28:33):
everything was the buildup, you know?
Yeah, it's a bad. Awkward though?
Yeah, that's so awkward. That's so awkward, though.
You're just sitting there after she leaves, and you're just
like, where do I go from here? It's just like you're in a
silent restroom and it's just like.
Yeah, it's like you're just like, but yeah, it's fucking
(28:56):
horrifying. I don't.
Know. Yeah, that's horrible.
This shit gets me, man. It gets me every time.
After all the frights and the farts, the last and final tale,
the last bathroom buddy for the evening was the inspiration for
the character No Face in the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Way.
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And upon finding out how terrifying encounters with them
are, became a bit of a research inspiration for me to take a
deep dive into a whole new worldof paranormal cases which will
soon make an episode about Now they are known as the Naparo Bo,
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and I think the best way to describe them is to read a
witness account first recorded in 1901 in a book called Guidan
Stories and Studies of Strange Things, which was researched and
written by a Greek American author, Luca Dardo Heron.
Totally fucking got that right. I like the proudness of that.
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I'm fucking ready for this. On a Casaca Rd. in Tokyo,
there's a slope called Kinokui Zaka, which means slope of the
Province of Ki. I do not know why is called the
slope of the province of Ki. On one side of the slope you see
an ancient Moat, deep and very wide, with high green banks
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rising up to some place in the gardens.
And on the other side, the otherside of the road, it extends the
long and lofty walls of an imperial palace.
Well before the era of St. Lamps and merchants pulling
their carts down the road, this neighborhood was very lonesome
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after dark. Belated pedestrians would go
miles out of their way rather than cross the Mount Ki Noki
Zaka alone after sunset, all because of the naparobo that
they knew walked there. The last man who saw the
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naparobo was an old merchant of the Kuwabashi Quarter who died
about 30 years ago. At the time of this writing,
this is the story as he told it.One night at a late hour, she
was hurrying up the Kinokui Zakawhen he saw a woman crouching by
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the Moat, all alone and weeping bitterly.
Fearing that she intended to drown herself, he stopped to
offer her any assistance or to console her.
She appeared to be a very slight, graceful person, well
dressed, and her hair was arranged like that of a young
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girl from a royal family Princess.
He yelled out as he was approaching her.
Princess, don't cry like that. Tell me, tell me what the
trouble is and if there's any way I can help.
I'd be glad to. He really meant what he said and
was always known to be a very kind man.
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But still she continued to weep,hiding her face from him with
one of her long sleeves near her.
Now, he said again. Princess Princes, Princess, as
gently as he could. Please, please just listen to
me. This is no place for young lady
at night. Please, please don't cry.
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I, I, I implore you, Just just tell me how I may be of some
kind of help to you. Slowly, she rose up, but turned
her back to him, continuing to moan and sob behind her sleeve.
He laid his hand lightly upon her shoulder and pleaded.
Princess. Princess.
Hey, Princess, listen to me. Just for one little moment,
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Princess. Hey, Princess.
Then that Princess turned aroundand dropped her sleeve before
she stroked her face with her other hand.
And that's when the man saw She had no eyes, no nose, and no
mouth. And so at this point, he began
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screaming before running away. Yeah, for sure.
Well, as he ran away up Kino Koizaca, he ran as fast as he
could through the pitch black emptiness around him.
On and on he ran, never daring to look back until at last he
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saw a Lantern so far away that it looked like the gleam of a
Firefly. And so he made his way for it.
He was the Lantern of a noodle merchant who had set his stand
down by the side of the road. But any light and any human
companionship was good after an experience like that.
Yeah, So he flung himself down at the feet of the noodle
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merchant, crying out for help. What?
What? What happened here?
What's what's the matter with you?
Anybody hurts you? No.
Nobody hurt me, only only scared.
You asked the peddler unsympathetically.
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Was it robbers? Not robbers, not robbers, gasped
the terrified man. I saw.
I saw a woman by the Moat and she showed me.
I can't tell you what she showedme.
Hey, hey, was it anything like this before?
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Swiping his hand down his face, leaving just skin smooth as an
egg just before the Lantern light went out.
Oh my God, that's freaking horrifying.
So yeah, that that shit would that shit would be horrifying.
Like seeing somebody with literally no face.
That's like completely smooth. Like there never was anything
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there, right? But what fucked with me the
most, what what messed with me and has made this?
Well, there's going to be a spinoff episode is basically the
old tales of the Naparabo from Japan.
They didn't stop, right? But when I'm saying they didn't
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stop, I mean I started finding earlier similar encounters
taking place in different corners of the world.
Like, I started finding cases ofencounters with very, very, very
similar entities all around the planet way the fuck.
Before the Internet, before the 1900s, before the first English
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book came out about it. This is a a global phenomenon
that has a bunch of different names.
And to this date, 90% of the time, most of the time that
people are posting these cases, they're they're never actually
like, concluded. They're never solved.
There's never a name put to it. It's just a weird experience
that people are like, Oh well, that's strange and then nobody
comments on it. It's just hard to comment on
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that because it's crazy. It's so, so weird.
Especially like, oh, he's like, oh, thank God, my my dire
situation's over. This person here and the noble,
the noble noodle merchant who's like just sitting there peddling
some noodles just like you want some want some noodles.
And then he turns and looks backat him, and then he's like, oh.
You have no face. Sweet.
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I'm no longer hungry. I'm out.
I wish, I wish there would have been some conclusion about him
running away. But I have a feeling that author
made, you know, he kind of made that executive decision when
like the old person at this point was telling the story and
he's like, and then I ran down the mountain and I ran into a
bunch of trees cuz it was dark and I fell into a river and then
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I unfell out of the river and then I fell into another river.
And then I went to my cousin's house, but he wasn't home.
And then it's just like 45 minutes of or like hours
actually of this dude just trying to get the fuck out of
there until eventually maybe. Could you imagine, like how
fucking pitch black that would be?
Like that type of, like horror. Yeah, you'd have like, no moon,
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no stars, no nothing. I guess that would be
horrifying. You're just kind of get running
madly through everything, you know?
Yeah, just like you just know there's a speck of light and the
last reference point you have ofthat fucking situation is near
where that speck of light would have been, and you're just
fucking hoping you're running inthe right direction.
But like, I don't know, she's fucking fascinating, that is.
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Yeah. Horrifying.
I wouldn't want to run into thatthing.
That's just that just sounds life changing.
Honestly, Yeah. And I mean I think 4 out of five
of these. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't run run into either. I'm I'm still crossing my
fingers for for the one that comes in and just cleans up your
bathroom for you. Yeah, that's the that's the one.
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I mean, the guy that's hugging you on the toilet, you know,
that's. Yeah.
And if you need, you need a hug.You know, sometimes that might
help. I mean, granted you die
afterwards, but yeah, does that just mean the hug was really
good? You turn into a Smurf because
you turn all blue. Wait, are the Are the Danny
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DeVito things like Blue? Oh, they're like a greenish
color or grayish color. Or they're just basically
little. Well, not little, but like
massive, dirty, arched back swamp Danny DeVito blizzards.
They're not. They have a few different skin
colors, but it's kind of hard totell because, like, their whole
thing is like grime and dirt. Yeah, it's like they might
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actually be born like, you know,printer paper white, for all we
know. But by the time people see him,
they're not really. What if that guy turns you into
them and it's like the connection between the two?
He like, he comes in, hugs you, and you're like, oh, this is
nice, and then he hugs you, you die and then you come back as
these little grimy, dirty thingsand you're all you want to do is
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clean the bathroom, You know, clean people's bathroom.
That's dirty. But you want to avoid them
because you don't want to like, also murder them.
I guess. I don't know what.
They don't really do anything. Yeah, they they literally,
they're just like just run away.I mean, it seems like an honest,
honest day's work. A good life.
It's an. Honest living.
Yeah, yeah, I guess if Janet Avita needed a second career.
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Fingers crossed. Alright everybody, that's this
week's episode. Join us next week for something
we haven't announced yet. Bye.
Thanks for listening the Black Cat report in episode 57 on the
Japanese bathroom. I've never been more afraid to
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use the toilet since Candyman. Throw those bugs anyways, Like
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Cannibal Month. See you on the other side.
Over the past month, we've taught you how to eat.
Last week we made you afraid to eat.
So it really makes sense that this week we're going to make
you too scared to poo. I didn't see you there.
Something big is going on here, from hunting ghost to Bigfoot,
paranormal Ufo's, true crime, and more.
We won't just be spouting articles.
I was researching for your entertainment.
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Beginning of the New World, The best clock you'll ever.
Fucking eat. True story.
It's basically like one day you walk outside and you see that
the ants are playing with match.This is the Black Cat Report.
See you on the other side. Hello everyone, and welcome to
episode 57 of The Black Cat Report.
My name is Gil and joining me onthis slide into the sewers of
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Tokyo, The one and only and thisweek only other one, the man
whose name I just had legally changed from Joey Lee to Joey
Luigi. Joey.
Hi, Luigi is here. That was more like a Dracula.
I guess more than that was here.That was your Virginian accent
coming out? Good thing it'll pay me for
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voices on this show. Wait, I thought that's what we
paid before. Well, unfortunately.
Well, we're about to go this week.
Does not have a gender neutral restroom, so that's Bay has to
sit this one out, but she will be with us next week.
Now, before we can begin today'sinvestigation, we've got to wait
in line at the gas station, thenask the attendant why the doors
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are locked, then get scolded forhaving to pee, then buy the
cheapest candy bar they have so they'll finally give us the
sacred key, the one that always has the giant random object
attached to it. And that, my friends, is my long
metaphor for the little culturalbackground I'm about to give
you, to put these ghost stories into context.
It's always funny. It feels like you can beat them
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with that little thing on the key, like knock somebody out.
It's always like this really long wooden thing.
I guess that doesn't get lost oryou don't flush it down the
toilet. I mean, that happens to me every
other week at my house, but you?Flush it down the toilet.
Mm HM yeah, that's why I just shit in buckets anymore, but
we'll get to that in this later in the episode.
But I know I'm glad that you mentioned that thing to beat
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folks because after I've worked so hard and waited so long with
so much anticipation and I'm coming out of that restroom, I
just see the the hungry, the thirsty, that the angry people
that are also waiting in line toget that key.
And like, sometimes I give him alittle tap, you know, just a
jealousy tap. Don't be jealous.
Yeah, it's always funny to see what they're buying to, to go to
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the bathroom. Like for me, I go in there and I
buy like M&M's or something likethat.
And most people, it's just like they're buying something random
as well. So usually candy bar.
You're right. Yeah, yeah, it's like, damn it,
don't they have that zebra gum here for $0.25?
Oh God, Remember Zebra Gum? It's the best tasting gum but
lasted like 5 seconds. But those tattoos though?
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Well, yeah, with my with my super long metaphor out of the
way, let's go ahead and hop in now.
Shintoism or Shinto is an ancient and widely practiced
Japanese religion. When translated, Shinto means
the Way of the Gods. In essence, Shinto teachings and
beliefs don't have a singular practice, religious text or
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founder. It's kind of more of a cultural
agreement that nobody's perfect.Humans are more or less
naturally good but can be influenced to do wrong, and that
the natural world and anything built from it by humans,
contains a spirit called Akami. They're an estimated of 80
million of these commie, each possessing their own unique
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powers, personalities, appearance, and way of
celebrating, showing respect, orwarding off.
So for Westerners who are used to thinking of religion as maybe
one God, or one main God with a bunch of less powerful gods or
some version of the Marvel Universe, try instead to picture
Shintoism as a spiritual ecosystem.
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Socially, Shintoism is is a way for everyone to acknowledge that
these spirits exist and to discuss their influence on our
lives. It's like, I don't know.
When you think about all the plants and the fungi and the
animals in a forest, we can all agree they're there and pretty
much use the same names, and we talk about them, but we don't
feel the need to kill each otherover which animals.
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The coolest Obviously the panda.Yeah, well, and lying.
I mean, Joseph McCarthy would be, and the show's done.
Nope. I'm leaving.
Bye, panda. Sure.
Joseph McCarthy would be really pissed if you found out there's
that many commies out there. God damn it Joey.
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Damn it, where's my drum roll? I cut off your access to drum
roll. Now with all that said, with 80
million spirits and a couple of 1000 years of talking about
them, some pretty fascinating beliefs have developed.
Like our souls being located in a small ball near the end of our
Anus, Shiri Komada, which roughly translates to Anus Ball
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or Anus Jewel, is believed to literally be a person's soul in
the form of a small little ball located at the very end of your
butt hole. Well, naturally for believers of
Shirikomada, this means things happening near butt are that
much more threatening, right? Like I would live in constant
fear, right you? Don't want to poop out your
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soul? Hell no.
Dysentery takes on a whole new meaning at that point.
Distant. Scary.
Oh, that. Also like that.
That little fact, like kind of like learning that which by the
way plays out in so much of likeJapanese media and culture when
you see it where it's like, why is that person reaching there in
that video game like Sakiro or in like anime or all sorts of
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things. A lot of times the the bad
entity will like grab the personfrom like literally from their
butt, like you can't see with the camera, but they're grabbing
them from behind and like pulling out their souls or like
doing shit to them. And I'm like, oh, that makes
sense now. But what also makes sense, or at
least what made me reconsider a judgment I had in my life, was
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couture sweatpants, like the ones with the words like juicy
and like faith and innocent. They got a lot of souls there.
All those things on it. Now I realize that I've just
been seeing a bunch of Shinto monks walking around.
I had that completely wrong thiswhole damn time.
Like they got. Got a lot of souls.
Well but yeah so so with that kind of understood right that
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there's there's literally millions and millions of gods
and obviously there's different levels of effect and different
levels of influence. Some are good, some are bad,
some are just you know with thatout of the way and understanding
where the souls that now we can get into it.
This brings us to the focus of our episode Japanese Bathroom
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Ghosts. What?
This is fun. I might scare the poop out of me
or the soul out of me. Nope, you couldn't be too afraid
to poop. Damn it.
What are these bathroom ghosts gonna, like, put a clear.
What is it? They put clear cellophane on the
toilet seat. He's like, hey, got them.
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Got that? Some of them wouldn't be able to
get into the restroom if they did that.
Can they? Ooh, that's true.
They can't. You're getting cellophane.
Yeah, you're getting new fears tonight, baby.
Alright, every week. Well, Joey, I'm a simple man.
I'm traveled. Yeah, I've seen and done many
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things. And I'll tell you, the world is
not as scary as a lot of people claim it to be.
Just saying. Agree to disagree, but OK, yeah,
I just want to say with that said, I do live.
This is where I would agree withyou with three debilitating
fears, two of them bathroom related.
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The first Finding myself in a cold sweat with my eyes closed,
breathing like I'm practicing for childbirth in a public
restroom as my body unleashes its revenge for only eating Taco
Bell's new grilled cheese dipping Taco for four days
straight. Now, it's not the sacrifice I'm
afraid of. No, I'll gladly trade 30 minutes
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of devastation for two minutes of slow braised shredded beef
bliss available for only just 379 at select locations.
No Joey. What I'm afraid of comes after
the cold sweat and blurred vision, after the violent
spiritual and financial cleansing.
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My fear is opening my eyes afterthe storm only to realize
there's no toilet paper. Yeah, and worse, someone was in
the restroom this whole time, standing outside my stall like
an exorcism tour. It's just listening to fucking
everything. I'm horrified, yeah.
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That is, that's disgusting. See, I knew we would agree.
Well, I was, yeah. Well, that brings me to my
second only fear. They start trying to talk to me.
Why I fucking hate when people try to talk to me in public
restrooms. Well, just picture that exact
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situation as I now tell you about Akima Manto, the red Cape
also known as Akikami. Ayokami.
Red paper, Blue paper is large evil spirit who wears a blood
red Cape and is said to inhabit the last stall in school
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bathrooms and public restrooms. Which sucks because that's
usually the wheelchair accessible one with the most
space. And you know when I'm Baja
blasting the T belt Bender out, I need my leg room.
I'm talking like half my pants on one shoe kicked off and my
legs all spread. You know, spread Eagle basically
that's. Disgusting.
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That's why I don't need Taco Bell.
But we will. Well, anyways.
Legend says that just before you're cleansed, while you're
not paying attention, the toiletpaper will just suddenly
disappear. And at that moment, the exact
moment when you finish, a vague,echoing voice will begin
building louder, coming in from the walls.
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Victims are then consumed by a dreadful or until finally a
voice becomes clear. You begin to make out the words.
It's Akima Manto offering you a choice.
Do you want the red paper or theblue paper?
The matrix of the the bathroom, Pretty much.
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So, Joey, what's your choice? Well, I'm going to go with red
first. Let's try the red first.
Cuz I don't Red 90s going with red?
Well then he'll appear in your stall and proceed to unleash
enough torment, torture, and violence on you that it makes
the Hellraiser movies look like Sesame Street.
Oh God. So more than the actual I just
went through from the Taco Bell,then?
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Yeah, basically. Yeah.
Well, let's. Let's try the blue, then let's
see where that that adventure goes.
It's a lot better. It's a lot better, I think.
I think you made the right choice.
Well, if you pick the blue, he'sgoing to still appear in your
stall, but this time it gives you a really firm hug.
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That might be worse. Actually, that might actually be
worse. You're right.
I mean, it does drain all the life out of you until there's
just a blue corpse left on the ground, but yeah.
I mean, just the hug by itself would just be weird while you're
on the toilet by a random stranger.
That's the that would be the worst.
Yeah. I don't.
Think I want a hug? Yeah, I kind of want to die
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after that. Well, I'm pretty sure you just
crapped your spirit out anyways after you crapped out all that
Taco Bell. So you lost your spirit by
eating the Taco Bell, and then you crapped it all the way out
after you released your body from that.
So I had to cleanse my soul station.
Damn it. Well yeah.
Well with that out of the way, now that we've got our choices
decided, our next one is a real cutie and maybe a distant, less
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depressed crust punk. Relative of the American Squank,
They are called the Aki Nanname,a poorly postured goblin about
the size of a 5 year old that they crawl long like a hunchback
lizard. Just climb up your walls and
across the ceiling you've got long greasy hair to match their
butt ass. Naked mold, green or dirty
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colored greasy skin covered in open sores.
Now the variations of this Dannyde Vito doppelganger says that
it's between that it has anywhere between 1:00 to 5:00
fingers and eyes. Probably because they don't rely
on them for very much. You see, Akiname have a very
special Gene Simmons style gift that they use for feeding.
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They have an incredibly long, highly maneuverable sticky
tongue that they use exclusivelyfor the insides of toilets, the
bathroom floors, and any surfacethat can find the most amount of
grime, mold, scum, and dirt. That's disgusting.
Just imagine a green Danny Defito crawling along your walls
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with a lizard tongue. Just yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that came in there licking. I mean, I guess if you want your
bathroom cleaned, it'll be a little easier.
That's what I'm saying, right. Well, yeah, but.
But the good news is is though, that they they tend to avoid
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humans and just kind of scurry away if they're caught snacking
in the middle of the night. So that's not, it's not the
worst thing and well, well, I personally can't see any
downsides to having one in my home.
If you do want to avoid getting them in yours, you just have to
keep your bathroom clean. That's it.
I mean, they'll clean your bathroom for you though, so kind
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of like 6 1/2 half dozen the other you like.
I guess it's a, it sounds like amyth to keep you to make your
bathroom clean. Yeah.
No, I mean, honestly, like straight up.
Like, I've been trying now to summon one of these little
buggers for like about a week. No luck.
Yeah, I have not been able to use my own bathroom for about a
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week. I've.
I've just let it. I've just put everything in
there, everything into my into my hope and these little guys
coming in. And I got to tell you, man, I
don't think they've been imported here yet.
Think how scary it would be if you're just sitting on the
toilet and like you didn't see one and they trapped in the
toilet and you just feel this like tongue like swipe past your
butt and you're just like how weird would that's not you might
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think it's a snake at first or something like that And you're
just like you look down, it's this like grimy, greasy.
And then you look down and you go, man, was that in the Taco
Bell? I ate just like, wait, can I get
your autograph? Is that Danny DeVito?
Yeah. Can I get your autograph?
Danny DeVito, Well, our next oneup is not quite as exciting and
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not kinda not quite as sunny in Philadelphia.
It's going to be found in the third stall of your local
elementary school's restroom, which I would not recommend
going into to investigate after hearing this.
And while she's usually more frightening or depressing than
fatal, all you have to do when you're ready to summon her is
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simply knock on the door three times and ask Are you Hanel
Kasan? That works?
You'll hear the voice of a scared little girl reply yes.
Upon opening the door. You'll see her very small child
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and torn up uniform, bruised andafraid.
Most encounters with Hanukkah sons goes to end up with the
witness feeling pity for her, explaining that upon seeing her
they were just completely overcome with the sinking
despair with loneliness or or feelings of being misunderstood.
Yeah, these feelings have led tomany of people just essentially
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assuming what her origin story is, and that includes everything
from a severe trauma or a death that was caused by violence or
suicide, or even being a casualty from one of the
bombings during World War 2. But with that said, she does
have a dark side, and an unluckyfew have been victims to it.
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You see, on occasion, after hearing her answer and opening
the door, she attacks quickly, grabbing you, then pulling you
down into the toilet. Oh my God, that's horrifying.
I know. Just imagine this is like a tiny
little girl like this, like pulls you in.
Yeah, she's the Harry Potter of the toilet.
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I know. Pulling you down, pulling you
down. Well on top of that, there is
1/3 option that as long as you don't check the username of who
submitted it to Wikipedia last night around 4:00 AM.
You'll also believe too. Which is that when you go to
open up the door, you'll find Chris Hansen and a Japanese
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schoolgirl outfit filming his new show to catch a Mythological
Predator, where he quickly grabshis next victim and water boards
them on live TV. Just.
Oh my God dude. I knew he went somewhere, you
know, I was like, I had to look that up last night and check
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some citations on some things onWikipedia, and apparently that's
where you went in 2008 after causing a bunch of people to
commit suicide. When I say that last week, we
don't use Wikipedia as a source,we do use it sometimes to find
out some things that are not in our our wheelhouse.
So hypothetically, allegedly, while we don't use it as our
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source, we do make sure other people are using it as their
source. True, if we could make it
happen, every other podcast would use Wikipedia and we would
use fax. You just gotta believe in
yourself and the stuff you convince others to believe in
you. That's the real lesson today.
Yes, So we've had to choose which paper, Red or blue, right?
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We've had our bathrooms cleaned for us.
Yes, we have disgusting little Danny DeVito with Bed Source.
We've met a depressed little girl who gave us a huge swirly.
Now, our next spirit is sometimes considered to be
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probably the worst, probably themost threatening out of all of
them. Her next spirit is sometimes
referred to only by the sound you'll hear when she approaches.
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Kashima Raiko, aka Kashima Raikohas to be one of the most
horrifying of all the bathroom ghosts.
Not just because she'll kill you.
I mean, she might, but it's it'sthe visual.
And honestly, it's the visual ofwhat she does that really makes
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it so terrible. Picture this, it's it's it's
just a small elementary school girl, right?
With this, that's completely severed from the waist down,
leaving only a trail of blood smeared behind her as she crawls
slowly across the bathroom tile floor, pulling yourself.
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By the bloody bones of her fingertips, which, now that I
kind of think about it for a second, reminds me a lot of the
victims that I saw from the Tamale Lady in last week's
episode. Yep, that does sound like the
half of the body. Maybe she made it her way over
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to. Did she ever go to prison?
I have a lot of questions now. Is it?
Tamale lady. Not, yeah.
Maybe she's in being indicted. I don't know.
Maybe she's on trail. Maybe she didn't make it.
Maybe she too is in someone's stomach.
Anyways, legends say she was once a young schoolgirl who,
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when no one was looking, classmates pushed onto the
railroad tracks as a train was approaching, leaving her severed
and a half, but still alive and left crawling until she died.
Yeah, others claimed that she was brutally beaten in a school
restroom by a group of boys, which I'm assuming are the same
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group of boys from a few episodes back with Yoakum Kroll,
but that's different. Yeah, none of these.
None of them are. And afterwards she crawled out
of the restroom trying to seek help, right?
Well, after they had left, and after she started crawling, just
barely cleaning a life, she began combing through the
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streets. Is dragging herself along the
ground, which is how her fingersgot in that state the entire
time, screaming as loud as she could for help.
But no one responded, apparently.
Hours passed until finally she fell unconscious, lying on the
ground, halfway in the city street and halfway on the
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railroad tracks, ultimately losing everything from the waist
down by an oncoming train. Damn, did she like?
Make it, she like crawled all through the streets, then
crawled back. She like made a huge circle back
onto the trains. She didn't help through the
streets the second the second version.
Basically it started with her getting more or less like jumped
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in a bathroom. She was just in a public
bathroom or like a school bathroom or something, and then
she eventually crawled out for help.
It probably honestly is a version where she did circle
around back to the tracks, though I don't know the amount
of variance I ran through this. Oh yeah, yeah.
I was like, that's horrifying. Just placement.
She's like, ah, not again. Why'd they only take my left
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leg? I'm going in circles.
Yeah, yeah, it's one my left arm.
I can't push anymore. I can't pull bitch.
Yeah, No. Well, that sucks.
Yeah, none of that is good. That's horrifying.
Yeah. I mean, it's just a fucked up
situation. The most fucked up thing too is
at least with the the the version where little kids or
classmates or whatever shoved her in front of the train, Her
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death was ruled as an accident and so the kids never fucking
got caught, you know, e.g. this this then transfers into the
motivation of what we're about to hear about here.
So you know, a little decapitated body crawling around
and popping up in stalls? Well, the belief is the best way
to protect you from the terror I'll soon describe.
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The best way to avoid seeing a decapitated little girl with the
echoes of the exposed bones on her fingertips just getting
louder and louder until she makes her way into your Taco
Bell stall sometime within the next 30 days is to never speak
or hear her name. Wait, did you really go to this
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whole episode? Then ask and say her name.
A bunch of things. And let me hear this.
Yes, yes. Yes, I did do that.
Why would you do that to us, brother, Brother, do not worry
about this. We are in this together.
All right, you need every. You've done this before.
You need to stop doing this. No, no, this is not a repeat of
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the Skinwalker episode. It kind of feels like it just
literally did I I don't know. I've, I haven't had horrible
luck since you did that episode.But I you know, it depends I
guess, how you should get that the cat that looked like my cat
that I accidentally picked up and took inside until I actually
found my cat might have been a skin Walker.
Anyways, point is, man, we are TBell Bros for life.
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Oh my God, I hate Taco Bell. We are not T Bell Bros Soul
Brothers. All right, well, when she comes
to see you sometime in the next 30 days, she's going to ask you
between 1/2. I don't know, honestly, 5
questions. People disagree about which
questions and which answers, butI'm pretty sure I picked the
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right one, so pay attention. Here they are.
OK, where are my legs, you say? On the machine Expressway.
She'll then ask who told you that you say Reiko Kashima or
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where are my legs? You say Reiko Kashima.
Or if she asks, are you using your legs?
You reply I need to use them now.
If you don't respond, or even ifyou hesitate just a little bit,
she'll violently tear off your legs and use them as her own,
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apparently still not finding theright fit.
Damn, damn, like I'm always using my legs.
That's not. I mean, I guess when you're in
the bathroom, you're kind of using your legs, I guess.
I mean, you really are. So you're pretty much always
using your legs. Yeah, that would be.
Yeah. No.
So you have this crazy ass little girl that just, like pops
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in like well, crawl. Something about the visual of
like a tiny bloody bone little finger girl as I'm just like
again, just, you know, T bell blast in like out and like a
little girl's head just comes infrom the bottom of the stall.
And you know at that point, likethe lighting has changed in the
room every like you're you're surrounded by like an essence, A
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vibe at that point. It's not just a regular old shit
fest. You know what I'm saying?
Like you are, you are fucking present.
You know, like you were there for that fucking moment.
There's something horrifying about a little girl just being,
like, just like, popping up and it's like, hell, no, yeah, you.
Just see your head popping underneath the toilet stall.
So you're just, like, looking up.
You're just like looking up at you screenshot that.
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So with that face with their mouth, the gasp just looking up
at you while you're trying to poop and you're trying to just
let this out and you're already embarrassed because like you
heard the door open, you know, and then there's there was
somebody next to you. And so you're just like kind of
waiting for it. You're kind of waiting like,
okay, let me just let this maybelet this guy go out of the
bathroom. He's done peeing from the
urinal. Just let them go because the
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Taco Bell probably wrecked. It has wrecked your stomach.
Yeah, I know. So you're just halfway through,
but they just like interrupt you.
So you're just waiting and then you just see a face?
Like as soon as the door closed,the lights shut off and you just
see this face, You look down to text again.
There's a. Face next to your feet and he's
like, what the fuck? Like I would not be able to
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mouth a certain word or name to her being like, do you use your
legs? I would be like, yes, I do use
my legs. That would be the only thing I
can say bonding with kicks at that point.
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's.
Like, please leave. Like, Jesus, girl.
But the good news is that if youdo somehow manage to answer
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correctly under the the the oppressive weight of the small
nuclear explosion taking place in your stomach and the
awkwardness of what you just saw, she'll just leave.
Like, that's it. She just straight up.
She's like, OK and just like a fucking.
Wow, it's just so uneventful. Afterwards, everything,
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everything was the buildup, you know?
Yeah, it's a bad. Awkward though?
Yeah, that's so awkward. That's so awkward, though.
You're just sitting there after she leaves, and you're just
like, where do I go from here? It's just like you're in a
silent restroom and it's just like.
Yeah, it's like you're just like, but yeah, it's fucking
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horrifying. I don't.
Know. Yeah, that's horrible.
This shit gets me, man. It gets me every time.
After all the frights and the farts, the last and final tale,
the last bathroom buddy for the evening was the inspiration for
the character No Face in the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Way.
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And upon finding out how terrifying encounters with them
are, became a bit of a research inspiration for me to take a
deep dive into a whole new worldof paranormal cases which will
soon make an episode about Now they are known as the Naparo Bo,
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and I think the best way to describe them is to read a
witness account first recorded in 1901 in a book called Guidan
Stories and Studies of Strange Things, which was researched and
written by a Greek American author, Luca Dardo Heron.
Totally fucking got that right. I like the proudness of that.
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I'm fucking ready for this. On a Casaca Rd. in Tokyo,
there's a slope called Kinokui Zaka, which means slope of the
Province of Ki. I do not know why is called the
slope of the province of Ki. On one side of the slope you see
an ancient Moat, deep and very wide, with high green banks
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rising up to some place in the gardens.
And on the other side, the otherside of the road, it extends the
long and lofty walls of an imperial palace.
Well before the era of St. Lamps and merchants pulling
their carts down the road, this neighborhood was very lonesome
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after dark. Belated pedestrians would go
miles out of their way rather than cross the Mount Ki Noki
Zaka alone after sunset, all because of the naparobo that
they knew walked there. The last man who saw the
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naparobo was an old merchant of the Kuwabashi Quarter who died
about 30 years ago. At the time of this writing,
this is the story as he told it.One night at a late hour, she
was hurrying up the Kinokui Zakawhen he saw a woman crouching by
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the Moat, all alone and weeping bitterly.
Fearing that she intended to drown herself, he stopped to
offer her any assistance or to console her.
She appeared to be a very slight, graceful person, well
dressed, and her hair was arranged like that of a young
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girl from a royal family Princess.
He yelled out as he was approaching her.
Princess, don't cry like that. Tell me, tell me what the
trouble is and if there's any way I can help.
I'd be glad to. He really meant what he said and
was always known to be a very kind man.
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But still she continued to weep,hiding her face from him with
one of her long sleeves near her.
Now, he said again. Princess Princes, Princess, as
gently as he could. Please, please just listen to
me. This is no place for young lady
at night. Please, please don't cry.
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I, I, I implore you, Just just tell me how I may be of some
kind of help to you. Slowly, she rose up, but turned
her back to him, continuing to moan and sob behind her sleeve.
He laid his hand lightly upon her shoulder and pleaded.
Princess. Princess.
Hey, Princess, listen to me. Just for one little moment,
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Princess. Hey, Princess.
Then that Princess turned aroundand dropped her sleeve before
she stroked her face with her other hand.
And that's when the man saw She had no eyes, no nose, and no
mouth. And so at this point, he began
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screaming before running away. Yeah, for sure.
Well, as he ran away up Kino Koizaca, he ran as fast as he
could through the pitch black emptiness around him.
On and on he ran, never daring to look back until at last he
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saw a Lantern so far away that it looked like the gleam of a
Firefly. And so he made his way for it.
He was the Lantern of a noodle merchant who had set his stand
down by the side of the road. But any light and any human
companionship was good after an experience like that.
Yeah, So he flung himself down at the feet of the noodle
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merchant, crying out for help. What?
What? What happened here?
What's what's the matter with you?
Anybody hurts you? No.
Nobody hurt me, only only scared.
You asked the peddler unsympathetically.
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Was it robbers? Not robbers, not robbers, gasped
the terrified man. I saw.
I saw a woman by the Moat and she showed me.
I can't tell you what she showedme.
Hey, hey, was it anything like this before?
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Swiping his hand down his face, leaving just skin smooth as an
egg just before the Lantern light went out.
Oh my God, that's freaking horrifying.
So yeah, that that shit would that shit would be horrifying.
Like seeing somebody with literally no face.
That's like completely smooth. Like there never was anything
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there, right? But what fucked with me the
most, what what messed with me and has made this?
Well, there's going to be a spinoff episode is basically the
old tales of the Naparabo from Japan.
They didn't stop, right? But when I'm saying they didn't
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stop, I mean I started finding earlier similar encounters
taking place in different corners of the world.
Like, I started finding cases ofencounters with very, very, very
similar entities all around the planet way the fuck.
Before the Internet, before the 1900s, before the first English
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book came out about it. This is a a global phenomenon
that has a bunch of different names.
And to this date, 90% of the time, most of the time that
people are posting these cases, they're they're never actually
like, concluded. They're never solved.
There's never a name put to it. It's just a weird experience
that people are like, Oh well, that's strange and then nobody
comments on it. It's just hard to comment on
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that because it's crazy. It's so, so weird.
Especially like, oh, he's like, oh, thank God, my my dire
situation's over. This person here and the noble,
the noble noodle merchant who's like just sitting there peddling
some noodles just like you want some want some noodles.
And then he turns and looks backat him, and then he's like, oh.
You have no face. Sweet.
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I'm no longer hungry. I'm out.
I wish, I wish there would have been some conclusion about him
running away. But I have a feeling that author
made, you know, he kind of made that executive decision when
like the old person at this point was telling the story and
he's like, and then I ran down the mountain and I ran into a
bunch of trees cuz it was dark and I fell into a river and then
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I unfell out of the river and then I fell into another river.
And then I went to my cousin's house, but he wasn't home.
And then it's just like 45 minutes of or like hours
actually of this dude just trying to get the fuck out of
there until eventually maybe. Could you imagine, like how
fucking pitch black that would be?
Like that type of, like horror. Yeah, you'd have like, no moon,
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no stars, no nothing. I guess that would be
horrifying. You're just kind of get running
madly through everything, you know?
Yeah, just like you just know there's a speck of light and the
last reference point you have ofthat fucking situation is near
where that speck of light would have been, and you're just
fucking hoping you're running inthe right direction.
But like, I don't know, she's fucking fascinating, that is.
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Yeah. Horrifying.
I wouldn't want to run into thatthing.
That's just that just sounds life changing.
Honestly, Yeah. And I mean I think 4 out of five
of these. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't run run into either. I'm I'm still crossing my
fingers for for the one that comes in and just cleans up your
bathroom for you. Yeah, that's the that's the one.
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I mean, the guy that's hugging you on the toilet, you know,
that's. Yeah.
And if you need, you need a hug.You know, sometimes that might
help. I mean, granted you die
afterwards, but yeah, does that just mean the hug was really
good? You turn into a Smurf because
you turn all blue. Wait, are the Are the Danny
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DeVito things like Blue? Oh, they're like a greenish
color or grayish color. Or they're just basically
little. Well, not little, but like
massive, dirty, arched back swamp Danny DeVito blizzards.
They're not. They have a few different skin
colors, but it's kind of hard totell because, like, their whole
thing is like grime and dirt. Yeah, it's like they might
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actually be born like, you know,printer paper white, for all we
know. But by the time people see him,
they're not really. What if that guy turns you into
them and it's like the connection between the two?
He like, he comes in, hugs you, and you're like, oh, this is
nice, and then he hugs you, you die and then you come back as
these little grimy, dirty thingsand you're all you want to do is
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clean the bathroom, You know, clean people's bathroom.
That's dirty. But you want to avoid them
because you don't want to like, also murder them.
I guess. I don't know what.
They don't really do anything. Yeah, they they literally,
they're just like just run away.I mean, it seems like an honest,
honest day's work. A good life.
It's an. Honest living.
Yeah, yeah, I guess if Janet Avita needed a second career.
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Fingers crossed. Alright everybody, that's this
week's episode. Join us next week for something
we haven't announced yet. Bye.
Thanks for listening the Black Cat report in episode 57 on the
Japanese bathroom. I've never been more afraid to
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