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What if the thing you left behind never stopped moving toward you? We pour pumpkin ales, crack a few ridiculous sponsor bits, and then step straight into two of the most unsettling Japanese ghost tales we know—told with care, humor, and zero caricature.
First, a samurai trades devotion for status and returns years later to a house swallowed by weeds and wind. The scene glows with a single candle, a familiar silhouette, and hair so black it seems to drink the light. Morning peels away the comfort. Regret turns literal as living strands tighten like rope. It’s a gothic gut-punch about the cost of convenience, the weight of promises, and how neglect can outlive us in ways that grasp back.
Then the fog rolls in and the tempo spikes. We follow three friends to a derelict rail crossing and meet Teke Teke, an urban legend with rules that cut deep. The scrape starts slow. It doesn’t stay slow. This isn’t a ghost you talk down with a charm; it’s consequences at elbow speed. We unpack why the story lands—precision of place, the banality of cruelty, and a monster whose physics make you run before you think. Along the way, we thread in yokai lore like the filth-licker, plus the everyday dread of hair that won’t leave your space, turning the ordinary into the uncanny.
We keep it warm between chills: boundaries around accents and culture, shoutouts to our community, and a few lines we live by—never whistle at night, fear is the parent of cruelty, choose love. If you’re here for folklore that respects its roots and storytelling that grips without gimmicks, you’ll feel right at home with us.
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Chapters

1. Cold Open In The Chicken Coop (00:00:00)

2. Meet The Hosts And Trickster Guide (00:00:37)

3. Boba Ad And Banter (00:01:23)

4. Pivot To Japan And Cowboy Culture (00:01:46)

5. Accents, Boundaries, And Pumpkin Ales (00:03:20)

6. Drunken Deer And Predator Tangent (00:05:15)

7. Sorsha’s Stout And Running Gags (00:06:30)

8. Health Update And Toast (00:07:16)

9. Setting Up Japanese Ghost Stories (00:07:25)

10. The Samurai And The Hair (00:10:10)

11. Sponsor Break: Cheese (00:18:41)

12. Hair, Benjo, And Language Mischief (00:19:31)

13. Odd Yokai: Eyes On The Belly (00:22:02)

14. Urban Legend Setup: Teke Teke (00:23:17)

15. Aftermath, Halloween Vibes, Shoutouts (00:31:12)

16. Closing Bits, Sake Plans, Sign-Off (00:36:20)

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