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Welcome to the one hundred and fifty
first episode of the Supernatural Occurrence Studies podcast.

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Oh my god, so fucking paranormal. Oh it feels good to say

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that. My name is Jason Knight, host of this show, and with

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me as always is Oscar Specter I
nearly forgot my name, and producer extraordinaire

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the podcast co host. Wow,
we're back. This first official episode after

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a year doesn't feel official any crazy. I don't see a notary. She's

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in the closet right now. You
have a stenographer two for the counting in

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the minutes and ship. Uh yeah, So you know what's funny. We

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ended our seasons, ended our series, I think, uh say, we

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ended the show last year with a
fucked up story from Japan, and yeah

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we did, Yeah we did?
Right? Is this Sadala the Kobe Cannibal.

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Now we're restarting the show same almost
time of the year, right with

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another fuckier story from Japan. Wow. And I didn't really plan it that

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way. I just kind of thought
about it. I'm like, oh my

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god, yeah, it just came
up by way. Just Kis Mats if

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you will, coincidence or something,
yes, and strange it is a little

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strange, or you have something against
Japanese or that. I mean, I'm

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not going to focus on that part
of it. I don't think it's that

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at all. But also, you
know, you remember, have you seen

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Avengers like Endgame? Yes? Right, you know when people disappear Dans did

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the thing people have to people,
right, the snap people called the blip.

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We're gonna call twenty twenty two the
blip. Dude, it's the blip.

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It's nothing happened. We just came
back. We just weird. We

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we materialized, and we're just starting
back at normal. Like, okay,

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we were doing December again. That's
weird, wow, said, we just

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do December. Nothing happened. Okay, in eleven months, nothing happened.

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Moving on, right, let's move
on. Very strange, and we are

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face to face. I'm looking at
your lovely eyes, see each other.

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Finally we pick up our cues.
Yeah. Even you didn't even mentioned my

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haircut? What haircut? I haven't
long you know, the last time I

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cut it was probably around the last
time we recorded, No kidding, that's

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probably been it's been a year.
I like it a lot. He's got

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long, luscious linguini locks. Gueeny
locks. Yes, very thin, long

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straight hair. Yeah, I like
it all. The long hair thing looks

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good. Thank you. Yeah,
you got this perfect hairline going. See.

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I couldn't pull that off because my
hairlines fucked up. I don't think

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it's that fucked up. Thank you. Get you get to stay. Oh

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okay, good. We're gonna bounce
of ideas off of what are gonna do?

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Talk to yourself, you know,
run over here and then go over

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there. Yeah right, run around
the table, knock everything over because everything's

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so precarre. Everything is, yeah, exactly one got a two point earthquake.

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We'll shatter this. Oh yeah,
this is a very precarre two point

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on earthquake is nothing, by the
way. Yeah, walk heavy and everything's

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coming down. Think heavy when it
comes down. Yeah? Are we?

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Are we having more whiskey? Or
what are we done? I'm not I'm

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not that If you're not, I've
been drinking. Uh yeah, I'm gonna.

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I'm gonna have a little poor again. Okay, then I we'll join

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you. It's more e h Taylor, We're gonna open it right there.

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Oh how did that sound on this? Something amazing? That sound nice?

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Yeah, I can almost smile it
through the fucking headphones here? Do you

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know? I went to a bar
last weekend and what I just poured?

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I paid sixty bucks and you actually
paid this for that? Poor yep,

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because I love EH Taylor. They
had eh Taylor Like, oh fuck,

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I'm in an DH Taylor. Then
I got the bill like Jesus christ Man.

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Oh so you didn't know going in. I didn't, so you wouldn't

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have done it. Maybe probably not, Well, you don't want to be

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honest, probably not. All right, that's crazy. This is Milwaukee,

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right, Yeah, Milwaukee. Yeah, not the street folks in Chicago.

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He's talking about Waukey, Wisconsin.
Yeah, a great bar called Shaker's Cigar

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Bar. Don't go sixty dollars,
right, But it goes back to the

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early nineteen hundreds. Oh yes,
yes, al Capone was involved. It's

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built on top of the cemetery medal
haunk. Did they do haunted tours?

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Haunted sleepovers? I'll let them slide. Then the Jeffrey Dahmer used to go

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there, so they have a Dahmer
tour, which we took. The stool

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he used to sit in is still
at the bar. They keep it off

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to the side. No one's allowed
to sit in it. Very tons of

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history at this place. So yeah, wonderful bourbon selection, wonderful ghosts.

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The atmosphere is, like I said, from the early nineteen hundreds, right

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up my alley, fantastic sixty bucks
for my fucking poor must be so weird

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to be someone that's some at some
point in history when you met nothing,

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you sat in some stool in some
bars, right, and then it's now

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being showcase and no one can sit
on it because you were the last one

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to have done it. That's bizarre. It is very bizarre. Yeah,

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you know, even taking the Dummer
tour, it's kind of bizarre, must

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be. What is like being Beyonce
is like I'm sure everything she touches people

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immediately, like collecting for museums and
shit. Yeah yeah, eBay, so

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that should in eBay right waight right, she touched she spit on me.

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This is my skin. Cut the
skin. It's a terrifier too. I

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can see that in a metal Locolipse
doing that. I remember metal Oclipse because

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they're like diehard fans had to kill
each other waiting for the album. Yeah

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yeah, uh but yeah, no, it feels good to be back,

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have a fucked up story tonight.
Yeah, I know this one a lot

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of triggers. Definitely a warning.
Oh yeah, moarning galore, some nasty

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shit on this one. But hey, it's Christmas time and this is kind

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of what we do, right.
Put this in your stocking stuffer. Stuff

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it in your stocking. Isn't it
called stocking stuffer? It is? Okay,

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thank you, I had it right. Yeah, put this in your

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stocking, give it to your family. Enjoy, enjoy. I don't see

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this, but he did a giving
motion with his hands. Yeah, but

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kind of like disdainfully. I've noticed
my chairs and I'm sure it sounds like

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yeah, definitely keep demonstrating it.
These mics, man, I'm ready to

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go back on zoom. I don't
know who mics are, but oh yeah

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yeah, well even on zoom you
can still use the mic. Yeah you

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could, you could, but I
used a much dumber mic. And with

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zoom why because of zoom, I
guess it still captures pretty well. That's

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they make a whole business around it
now. It's just these things are so

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sensitive. Yeah, they pay sensitive. And I don't mean like you know,

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if you say one bad word,
they'll cry. I mean they can

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pick up anything. Yeah, so
some of the downfalls of the quirks of

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recording. Yeah, person, I'm
really worried what kind of sounds I'm gonna

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hear, Like, do I smack
my lips at all? I wonder I'm

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gonna know. I'm gonna find out. Hopefully this pop filter helps with that.

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Yeah. No, I'm sure it
does, but it helps with pop

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not Oh well, wet your lips
with some whiskey. Yes, So I

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can never heard a call to adventure
as much as that. Yeah. Uh.

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Not much has happened with me since
the last we did a little welcome

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back recording release. It's been pretty
slow well since I know, yeah,

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and I remember that we just did
our magic of editing. We just did

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our our apology introduction there. Yeah, they welcome back. That's what I

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call it, her welcome back right
release, right right right. So,

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and we don't have a lot to
talk about. But I did have something

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that's in the season. So every
year you may have known listeners, if

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any of you stuck around that are
over a year old, I do a

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white eleven Christmas party with my friends
in January because none of us are available

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in de summer and obviously this this
twenty twenty three, I mean in January

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a month. No, it's no
different. We have one already planned and

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I found I did find up great
gift is a theme gift, but before

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I even mentioned it, which I
may not mention it. I want to

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talk to you about the dark ass
theme that I had before the theme that

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I scrapped. I want to tell
you about theme I almost went with this.

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Okay, okay, So I'm gonna
start with a question, Jay,

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Yes, Jay, Yes? Did
you notice that I asked you a couple

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of days ago, five days ago
and text that, hey, is it

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okay if I send you some shipments? Yep? And what did I say?

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Right away? Sure? I did? All I said, is am

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I gonna get arrested? Right?
Said? That's it? You're like,

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no, it's going on gift Sunday. I didn't even ask you didn't even

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down, and I need you to
be down. And I remember you asked,

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like, am I gonna get arrested? I said like no, no,

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there's just things that can't ship in
Illinois. Yeah. I said,

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okay, right, okay, that's
a friend right there. I just gotta

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say yes and reliably saw I knew
who to ask. Now, honestly,

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I don't know if you noticed.
You didn't get any shipments for me?

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Right? No? Nothing? Okay? Good. I was gonna say,

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did you get something? No,
because I was going to say, give

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an eye roll. Well if it
was small, I didn't check the mailbox.

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Oh no, I see. Okay. So my theme for this wildlife

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and that I scrapped was going to
be these shipments. Okay, so oh

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my god. Okay, Okay,
I don't remember the whole list, but

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I had a list of things that
you cannot ship in Illinois. There are

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things you can't buy because of the
laws of this state, Okay, but

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you can in other states like they
don't give a ship like Wisconsin, like

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Indiana, like like Michigan to The
two major ones that I was going to

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focus in on were e juices,
so for vaping, can you can no

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longer get those on the mail anymore? As of one Actually, that's probably

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why the flip exists. I'm gonna
just dying of frustration anyway. So I

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have to go to the store to
buy physically every single time. Now it's

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really annoying and more expensive. So
that was gonna be one and I had

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all these ideas for this thing,
where like I would separate all these little

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little gifts in these boxes, and
each box will have a note card that

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says something quippy, we're probably dark
about the thing itself and why it's kind

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of funny, kind of making fun
of the Illinois, but also say like

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smoke up Johnny kind of thing.
And then the last gift was gonna be

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the worst, the pure services stunts
or whatever the prench sort is. The

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main thing was going to be an
airsoft gun handgun. I don't mean like

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the toy, I mean the ones
that people used to go out and play

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as soldiers in the field. They
have to wear protective yes, they should

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be begun. They have a pressurized
container that you use, yeah, the

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seal two things, right, the
ones that use those. I was gonna

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get that and put it and take
it out of the original box, put

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in a nice thing and have it
loaded and have a and have a note

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card that says something like, I
don't remember the number. I looked it

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up, but I forgot what it
was. There was, for example,

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five hundred deaths in the city of
Chicago. Shootings. There was five hundred

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shootings this year in the city of
Chicago. Go do your part, and

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then they opened the box. It
ye start. I wasn to do that,

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and my friends typically know my sense
of humor, and we all have

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the sense of humor, so I
think it would have worked. But I

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scrapped this idea. So that's why
you didn't get any of it. So

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I'm not gonna get Okay, you're
not gonna get this in the mail.

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But I wanted to do it.
So what's the new theme? What are

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you going with? It's much simpler
than that. I think it's more wholesome,

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it's more fun. I went with
a home alone team. Oh yeah,

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it's nice. So the home alone
team is. I got the two.

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I got a pair of turtle doves
that are ornaments from the second movie.

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I got micromachine toys. I loved
micro machines. Micro machines. I

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got a set of micromachines. Still
find micro machines, Yes, I can.

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I actually want to target. They
have some. They still make my

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fake No, yeah they do,
Okay. Toy soldiers, those old green

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toy soldiers that Kevin mcawso used to
shoot. I got an airsoft gun handgun,

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but like a toy, like a
nerve type gun. The shoots really

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good though, I tried it out, and so you can shoot the soldiers

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with I got a VHS copy of
the nineteen ninety one movie Nice. And

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there's some other stuff relating to the
movie, like a map of his diagram

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of where all the traps are.
That is cool. Things like that.

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That is pretty. So basically get
home alone thing, that's nice. I

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like it. Yes, so I
went wholesome. I mean complete opposite ends

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of the spectrum on that one.
I'm still a weapon in it. I

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like what you settle the hunt.
But yeah, so thank you for sharing.

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It's awesome. You just reminded me
the whole sending me things and me

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not questioning. Yeah, I just
you know, for my friends. Yeah,

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I'll do it. Yeah whatever.
I had a po box guys po

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Box five. A friend of mine
has a very successful tattoo shop in Chicago.

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Uh tons of money, I mean
just money, hand over fist,

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right, And one day he called
me and uh, and it's been it

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had been quite a few years since
we spoke, and he called me out

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of blue. He's like, hey, how's it going. Yeah, everything's

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going good. Oh yeah, it's
good. Hey, could I send you

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a monkey. I'm like, what, He goes, I can't get a

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monkey sent to my house. It's
illegal in Illinois. Yeah, I send

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it to you. I'm like,
okay, I saw that on the list.

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Yeah, so I just said,
yeah, sure, I never got

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the monkey. You never got the
moked out. Yeah. Oh he backed

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out, but it was quite a
few thousand dollars and it couldn't be shipped

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to Illinois. So he's like,
wow, I'm gonna call it Jay,

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And Jay always says yes, yeah, you also can't send out tiger here

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apparently not. No. Uh so
that that's kind of what it reminded me

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of. Yeah, if I like
you, I'll do it whatever I need.

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Yeah, I smuggled drugs for people
accept monkeys, I mean, on

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the human Mule. It's true,
it's the truth. You know that Clintiest

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movie with a mule based on this
guy, our good old Jason Knight well

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jackass jack Ass over No with Johnny
Knoxville based on this guy. M So

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I should have probably said at the
top of the show that, you know,

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if you don't want to hear this
ban tourist intro, go to this

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fucking show. Notes. If you
remember that there. Wow, I forgot.

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Yeah, you know, like through
this hiatus we took. Ye,

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I'm watching a bunch of comments come
in on YouTube and people are so mean,

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like fucking long intros, get to
the point, blah blah blah.

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I'm like, asshole, there's a
timestamp right there. Oh yeah, we

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have for a timestamps. Go to
goddamn timestamp. You don't have to hear

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any of this, get right to
the topic. So yeah, I forgot

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to say. If you want to
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it'll be there. Yeah. Yeah, life still sucks, you know.

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Can't wait for the Florida trip.
I think I mentioned that in the

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last episode. We're going to Florida
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Man, That's cool. I just
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and then we can move on.
Yeah. I'm ready to sum this horrible

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story and give people nightmares for Christmas. That's my gift to our listeners is

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you know, my favorite gift you've
given me without you even without even knowing

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you've given it. Uh so far
at this point in the year is that

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there is, as far as I
know, no phone number, no fake

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ass phone number to give out.
Bro, there is no phone number anymore.

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You can't give out one. There
is none. Actually no, there

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isn't no, there isn't. Give
me this gift of not lying to the

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American public, well, the world
public, the public, I could say

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world. I mean we have listeners
all over yeah right yeah, yeah yeah,

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Germany listens to us. But like
website no, Chicago ghost podcast dot

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com. That's okay, they can
go there. I'll allow that. But

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we don't have a Patreon anymore for
now? Right on Twitter? Twitter?

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Uh eight, no, no,
no, we don't. Jay, I

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thought we were. I thought we
got hacked. Do I mean remember we

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did? Yeah? Exactly? So? Uh I do remember you remembered it

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had It's still active. It is
active, oh Man eight seven to two

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five, I got coal zero seven
six seven eight nine. Give us a

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call, leave us a voice,
smail. Let us know you're still out

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there real, Let us know you're
still out there, Oscar. Don't you

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want to know if listen it's not
real? Fine, send us an email,

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Send us an email, Chicago Ghost
Podcast stack, send us some ai

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art, which is all the new
things. Might not people do ai art?

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Ai art? You not look it
upd No, Oh, it's fucking

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fantastic. You could look up anything, anything, little brain and think of

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it'll make art out of that thing
you think, and AI would do it

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for you. I kind of like
that. Yeah, you know, they

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said, I've heard that if AI
gets to the point where it could replicate

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a human what was it, a
human signature? Hmm, it would be

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the end of the world. Oh
okay, yeah, I mean I'm embracing

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it more at this point. It's
been shitty everywhere. So yeah, I

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forgot the whole story behind the signature
thing. I'm not going to get into

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it here, but that's what I
heard. Yeah, I can be a

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topic, So it's I mean,
if they're doing beautiful art, it's only

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a matter of time before they could
replicate it. They're beautiful, just but

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they're making art, Okay, I
mean some of it is beautiful. I

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guess all right, do we do
we break anymore or do we just roll

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into it? We should probably?
Yeah, I mean we should take a

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break because I think, I mean, your your cataracts are acting. You

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probably need to take your medication or
pastardhone numbers. I don't know what the

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fuck are doing because you hate yourself. That's why this year I really did.

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All Right, we'll be right back, Welcome back to the show.

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Well, I can't believe I'm gonna
say this. I remember now, but

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the lights are turned down low,
the ceremonial candle is lit, and the

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Eh Taylor is flowing. Let's start
this show so again. Trigger warning,

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major trigger warning on this one.
Yes, this is nasty. I think

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this is worse even than the Kobe
cannibal we covered last season. This topic

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is probably the worst thing I've ever
researched. Many people believe that what we're

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gonna talk about tonight is the worst
murder ever committed, ever committed. The

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story of Junko Faruta, the agonizing
story of Junko Faruta, is a brain

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worm. Details about this case slither
their way into your brain at the most

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unexpected moments, and there they dig
deeper and deeper into your gray matter until

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it's impossible to forget this story.
Horrible mental images of what Junko went through

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creep their way into your dreams,
turning them into literal nightmares. And I

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had several nightmares while putting this story
together. Junko's story is a story that

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changes you the way you look at
the world, the way you look at

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people. What happened to Junko made
me question the existence of God, Like,

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if God exists, how could he
allow this to happen to someone.

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This story proves that humans are worse
than animals, and it shows just how

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empty and devoid of empathy and compassion
man could really be. Story might have

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made me question the existence of God, but it sure as hell solidified my

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belief in demons. Keep in mind, this is a real story. All

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of it's true. It's not an
urban legend or made up gore porn.

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This really happened to a completely innocent
seventeen year old high school girl, who,

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in my opinion, was an incredibly
strong girl, a fucking survivor because

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she held on. Junko held on
for forty four days, enduring unbelievable torture,

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and, in a final act of
defiance a final fuck you to her

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captors, Junko beat them at a
game of majong despite not being able to

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walk, or eat, or breathe
or control her bowels. Now, if

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you want to see pictures of Junko
Faruta and these animals that killed her,

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be sure and go to the episode
show notes. I've let pictures there for

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you. Yeah, there's no crime
scene photos that they're just actual good pictures

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of junko. Right. Oh yeah, yeah you actually you really can't find

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crime scene photos of this case.
And that's probably a goddamn good thing.

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Yes, But if you're interested to
see what this, what this young woman

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look like, and what these fucking
animals look like, I left them in

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the show notes, some real like
crazy it's such a crazy, like be

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steal mindset that goes on here.
I don't even know how to describe it.

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You can't it. It defies yeah, you know, defies description logic

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because you know, you've heard of
you've heard of things like, for example,

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jaguars or other creature like cats.
Maybe especially cats is more relatable because

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also jaguars, that's hypocatea guess.
Cats are known to have, you know,

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torture their prey before they eat them, things like that, like a

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play, like a tortury play thing
that they do. It's a little bit

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of that that it feels like in
a very like like like a like a

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gut feeling kind of sense. It
feels like a little like that little brutal

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but like a cat playing with Like, it's not the cat's fault, right,

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not necessarily like an animal doesn't it's
torturing, yeah, the mouse,

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sure, but like it's like part
of them in a weird way. This

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feels like that it does, although
these guys are completely at fault. Oh

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no, no, yes, we're
conscious, we're aware. Yes, you're

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right, you're right. It's a
great analogy to all right. Now,

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the Junko Faruta case, the story
the murder takes place in Japan, and

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it's also called the Concrete in case
high School murder girl case Concrete in Case

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high School Murder girl case because ultimately
junk goes he was found in a fifty

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five gallon drum, encased in cement
and discarded in a landfill. The Japanese

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could be so literal. Yeah,
the translation could be weird too. Oh

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you think, like in maybe in
their dial you know, in the way

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they say it, it's probably much
more common and their descriptive, and then

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so when they translate it, it
just sounds like, oh, this is

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the way to break down this word. But for them that it's a one

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two word thing, and that makes
it flows probably better. I'm saying lost

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in translation maybe good point, good
point, that's probably what it is,

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because when I read that, I'm
like, wow, that's but also on

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our sound Texas Chainsaw massacre pretty long, just to give an example, Well,

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you're right, it does sound very
weird. That translates yea, yeah,

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not good concrete. It sounds like
someone's first time naming a case.

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Yeah right, a rookie name that
right, right, right, Okay.

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So everything we know about this agonizing
story of Junko Fruda comes from japan,

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Japanese news stories blogged mostly, and
not a lot of American sources to pull

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from it. All that, coupled
with the fact that a lot of the

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details about the case were kept from
the Japanese public because of the offenders' ages,

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makes finding cold hard facts about this
case incredibly difficult. In fact,

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we wouldn't even know who the pieces
of shit that murdered Junko are because they

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were under eighteen when they killed her, and because of their age, they

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were given special privileges in Japanese court. Their names and certain details withheld from

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the public to quote unquote protect the
underage offenders. We only know who these

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fuckers are because a Japanese reporter said
Fuck these guys. They don't deserve to

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be protected by nidity and amidity.
I can never say that after what they

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did. So then that's what he
say, is it? Fuck these guys,

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they don't deserve this protection. So
the reporter dug around, he discovered

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the offenders' names and released them to
the public. That's crazy. Yeah,

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So what I'm trying to say is
that I've done the best I can to

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gather enough credible information to tell this
story. But keep in mind, things

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change depending on what you read,
dates, people involved, duration of captivity.

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Was Junko held for forty days or
forty four days? Stuff like that.

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What doesn't change from source to source, however, are the descriptions of

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the mindless brutality and unimaginable torture rained
down onto an innocent high school girl by

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a group of devils, and even
worse, the staggering lack of any form

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of justice for Junko. Yeah.
Now here's what we know about Junko Faruta.

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She was born on January eighteenth,
nineteen seventy one, in Misado,

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Japan, Sadama Prefecture, about forty
four miles from downtown Tokyo. Junko lived

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at home with her mother, father, and two brothers, one older brother

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and one younger brother. Junko attended
Yashio Minami High School and had a part

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time job after school. She was
pretty with wavy shoulder length black hair,

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large dark almond shaped eyes, and
a pretty smile, and she had huge

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dimples. Junko liked to bake,
and she was known as a good girl.

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Pure is the word that kept popping
up, popping up when describing Junko

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in these articles. She didn't drink
or do drugs, she didn't cause any

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trouble, and she was really good
in school, smart, and she was

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popular. Everyone liked her and she
was close to her family. Yeah,

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at the time this all went down, Junko had a fairly serious boyfriend and

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when they were planning to take a
skiing trip together. Now, the common

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storyline says that ironically, it was
Junko's perceived purity and her good looks that

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caught the attention of a fellow classmate, a demonic fucker named Hiroshi Miyano.

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It said that eighteen year old Hiroshi
approached Junko on a number of occasions,

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trying to hook up with her,
but each time Junko politely, politely refused.

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After all, she already had a
boyfriend, and she was more interested

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in school and work and supporting her
family. So when Hiroshi would approach her,

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Junko was like, noah, man, I'm good now, this miano

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asshole. In all the reports I've
read, he's kind of this gangster character

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who walked around claiming to have close
connections to or actually was a member of

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the local Yakuza, the notorious Japanese
mafia. Needless to say, Yakuza or

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not. A guy like Hiroshi,
his attitude wasn't used to hearing the word

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no, especially from a woman's letting
it go it anyway exactly, it's a

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slight to his manhood. It's an
insult. Yeah, this guy, Now

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this you got to keep in mind, this supposed Yakuza connection. It's really

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important, as it's a repeated threat
by Hiroshi that if anyone said anything about

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what was happening to Junko, Horoshi
would stick the Yakuza on him. So

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everyone just kind of shut up and
let this horror unfold unheeded. Now,

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I did some research into this Yakuza
thing, and apparently it's a pretty big

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deal in Sadama prefecture where Junko was
from. I was able to find stories

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of Yakuza activity in Junko's neighborhood in
nineteen eighty eight when this case happened,

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all the way up to present time. So if Hiroshi wasn't really connected with

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the Yakuza, even if he said
he was, there's a good chance people

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would have looked the other way just
in case. Yeah, that's some sure,

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it happens a lot too, especially
like examples of of UH, you

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know from World War Two saying that
you know the reproach you for this,

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or like saying it and UH in
the mob heavy era of the of our

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components days, you don't have to
actually know UH an enforcer right from these

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mobsters. You just have to say
it to the right person, right,

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And that's enough about threats to ward
off any kind of police involvement or whatever,

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because a lot of people, like
you know, a lot of people

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would have called on the screams,
on the activity going on the obviousness of

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them, because these kids are not
like smart, they're kids. They're now

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they're young adults, right, They're
not just kids, I guess, but

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you know what I mean. So
they're pretty dumb about it, but like

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the one thing hanging, that one
thing that lets them be in this case,

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like it's the it's the it's a
criminal element. The fact that there

406
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:57.559
is a criminal element in in Tokyo
and Japan called the yakuza they can use

407
00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:03.480
on, they can use to like
had this time. It's just I'd think

408
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:07.960
that speaks to also a larger,
right, societal problem, Yeah it does.

409
00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:12.359
Yeah, yeah, and people were
afraid. Yeah, so it makes

410
00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:17.440
sense that maybe they wouldn't say anything
just in case. Yeah, because it

411
00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:19.920
was a real thing. It was
a real threat. So here, you

412
00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:25.680
know, quick recap. We have
this young, pretty vibrant, innocent,

413
00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:33.000
pure to use the word from the
article's girl Junco high school girl refusing the

414
00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:38.039
advances of an uber guy. Right, and this isn't going to sit well

415
00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:41.799
with him. Yeah. So on
November twenty fifth, nineteen eighty eight,

416
00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:47.880
at around eight thirty pm, seventeen
year old Junko was riding her bike.

417
00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:52.039
Most stories say through a park,
heading home from her part time job,

418
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.440
looking forward to having dinner with their
family. Now stories differ as to what

419
00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:00.319
Junco data is part time work.
I've read Sheho was a waitress and I've

420
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.680
also read that she worked at a
small plastics factory. Regardless, as she

421
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:08.880
was riding to the park, unbeknownst
to Junko, the scumbag Hiroshia Miano and

422
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:17.039
a friend, sixteen year old Nobajaro
Minado Nobajaro Minado, were out on the

423
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:22.880
prow, slithering around Misado looking for
women to rob and rape. Apparently,

424
00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:29.720
at just the ages of eighteen and
sixteen, these two were already seasoned criminals

425
00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:36.240
and rapists. Now normally er nothing
in the story is normal, right.

426
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:41.759
Let's say, Let's say typically the
two would rape and release women, but

427
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.519
they would deviate from their mo o
with Junko, And we're not exactly sure

428
00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:51.160
why. Was it simply the boy's
time to escalate from serial robbers and rapists

429
00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:56.000
to kidnappers and murderers? Was there
something special about Junko that made them deviate

430
00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:01.000
from their norm Did Junko refuse Hiroshi's
advances one too many times? I can't

431
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:07.920
really say, But unfortunately, the
two maniacs saw ju Junko that night riding

432
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:14.799
her bike, and Hiroshi devised a
plan. On Hiroshi's orders, Knubaharu kicked

433
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:20.079
Junko off her bike and then quickly
fled the scene and like a hero swooping

434
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:24.039
in the save the day, Hiroshi
approached the frightened Junko and offered to escort

435
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:29.799
her home in case the attacker should
return. Now, remember, Junko knew

436
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:35.519
Hiroshi from high school. It wasn't
a positive experience knowing him, but in

437
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:43.240
her frightened state, she decided to
trust him. Fatal fatal mistake. Instead

438
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:47.160
of bringing Junko home to safety,
Hiroshi, the little shit, took Junko

439
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:52.559
to an abandoned warehouse where he raped
her and he threatened that the yakuza would

440
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.640
kill her and her family if she
said anything about what was going to happen

441
00:32:55.759 --> 00:33:00.720
or what was happening. Hiroshi violently
ran rape Junko right there in the warehouse.

442
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:04.960
Then he took her to a local
hotel where he raped her again,

443
00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:08.000
and he continued to threaten her that
if she told anyone about the rapes,

444
00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:14.000
the Yakuza would kill her and her
family, Junko and her family. After

445
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:19.559
raping her at the hotel, Hiroshi
contacted his friends Joe A Goa eighteen years

446
00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:23.359
old Nbaharro Manado, the one that
kicked Juko off a bike. Right and

447
00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:30.000
remember Nobaharo. He's just sixteen,
and he also contacted another jag off named

448
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:36.960
Yasushi Watanabi seventeen years old. Hiroshi
bragged to his friends about what he'd done

449
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:42.720
to Junko, and Joe A Goa
apparently told Hiroshi to keep hold of Junko

450
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:46.000
so they could all have a turn
with her. Joko was then brought to

451
00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:52.440
Nobaharro Manado's parents' house where she was
gang raped by the four boys. And

452
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:58.799
it's at this house on the second
floor with Nobaharro Manado's parents regularly inside their

453
00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:05.920
home that poor Junko's forty four days
of captivity, rape, torture, mutilation,

454
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:12.519
and eventually death took place. You
see, it's believed that Nobaharro's parents

455
00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:16.480
were fooled into believing Junko was their
son's girlfriend, and so they thought nothing

456
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:21.880
of Junko being in a house.
Other stories say that the parents were fully

457
00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:23.880
aware of what was happening to Junko. I mean, how could they not

458
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:28.760
be, for fox sakes their home, But they were simply too afraid of

459
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:35.800
their son's supposed Yakuza connections through Hiroshimiano
to say anything or do anything about the

460
00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:42.079
depravity happening inside their home. That
and according to a few sources, apparently

461
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:45.480
Nobaharro was beating the shit out of
his parents too, so they were afraid

462
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:51.239
to intervene and afraid to go to
the police for fear of Yakuza retaliation and

463
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:55.000
getting beat up by their own son. That makes it sound as if Nobaharu's

464
00:34:55.039 --> 00:35:00.119
parents were just as much a hostage
as Junko was. Maybe right, maybe,

465
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:04.760
yeah, I mean, maybe I
wore stas a sort of willful ignorance

466
00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:10.320
to you know, being asked frighten
as a neighbor would be about calling the

467
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:15.440
cops on the kids, right,
right, yep, fucked up, But

468
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:19.639
they're just about to see it and
hear it more, right, right,

469
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:22.920
and get beat for it, probably, yeah, yeah, beaten his own

470
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:28.599
parents. These are just gold star
people here. Now. Reports say that

471
00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:32.320
Nobuharu had a brother who also lived
in this house and who was also aware

472
00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:36.440
of what the boys were up to
with Junko, but this brother, too

473
00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:42.519
did nothing to stop the insanity.
Now, up to this point in the

474
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:47.599
story, Junko had been viciously beaten
continually threatened with her and her family's death

475
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:52.239
at the hands of the Yakuza,
and she was raped at least six times,

476
00:35:52.320 --> 00:36:00.360
and sadly, it's about to get
much much worse. When Junko didn't

477
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.519
return home from work on the evening
of November twenty fifth, nineteen eighty eight,

478
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:08.199
obviously, her parents got worried.
On the twenty seventh of November,

479
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:14.480
Junko's parents contacted the local police to
report their daughter missing and ask that a

480
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:19.679
search for Junko commence, to which
the police agreed. When word got out

481
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:22.840
that police were searching for Junko,
her captors forced her to call her parents

482
00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:27.480
and tell them that she was perfectly
fine, that she ran away to a

483
00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:30.159
friend's house, and that she was
thinking about coming home soon, so could

484
00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:37.719
they please call off the search.
Her captor said she'd better be convincing that

485
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.880
if her parents thought anything suspicious about
the phone call, the yakuzo would be

486
00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:45.320
sent over to the house to kill
her entire family. And apparently Juko was

487
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:52.199
convincing enough, because the police search
was soon called off. Now with no

488
00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:55.679
one looking for her, her parents
reasonably appeased that Junko had just run away

489
00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:00.920
but was safe, and Nubaharo's parents
held that Babe to fear or stupidity or

490
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:07.079
both the four devils had all the
time in the world to play with Junko.

491
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:14.440
Now understand, we don't know the
exact timeline of events. Junko was

492
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.679
held for so long and ultimately so
many people were involved with her torture that

493
00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:24.199
a breakdown of the sufferings she endured
day by day is impossible. All we

494
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:29.760
have to go on are the words
of her four main captors. And again

495
00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:35.840
that's Hiroshi Miano, the eighteen year
old supposed to Yakuza tough guy. There's

496
00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:39.159
sixteen year old Nobuharu Minado, that's
the one that kicked Junko off her bike,

497
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:44.159
and it's at his house where all
this goes down. There's eighteen year

498
00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:51.239
old Joe Agora and seventeen year old
Yasushi Watanabi Watanabi and so you know,

499
00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:58.559
it's believed that up to one hundred
people either knew about or participated in the

500
00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:04.440
rape, torture, mutilation, and
murder of Junko Feruda. One hundred people.

501
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.320
Yeah, yeah, there's no way
other people didn't know about it forty

502
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:13.800
days, at least forty to forty
four days. Court records say that at

503
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:19.440
one point a young girl visited the
house during Junko's imprisonment and the little bastard

504
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:24.159
doodled on Junko's face while she was
passed out from the abuse. I found

505
00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:28.559
this little piece of information in only
one source, so I'm not who knows

506
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:30.800
if it's true, but something about
it just chills me to the bone.

507
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:37.360
And it's also believed that during her
forty to forty four days of captivity,

508
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:44.400
Junko was raped up to five hundred
times five hundred, So let that sink

509
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:51.400
in. Yeah. Now, the
timeline of events that investigator investigators believe is

510
00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:57.559
fairly accurate is as follows, and
again trigger warning, this is bad stuff,

511
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.920
the worst we've covered to date.
And remember, up to one hundred

512
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:07.679
people are said to have either known, watched, or even took part in

513
00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:13.639
this nightmare. It's even said the
boys charged an entry fee, yeah on

514
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:16.559
that part, so people could watch
as Junko was slowly tortured to death,

515
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:22.639
and other stories say people paid an
entry fee to participate. The fuck is

516
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:28.800
going out in Japan, man,
So on No. Nineteen eighty eight,

517
00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:31.320
Junko was kicked off that bike,
taken to a warehouse, and raped.

518
00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:36.039
She was taken to a hotel where
she was raped again. Then she was

519
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:40.360
taken to Nobaharro Manado's house, gang
raped. Then she was forced to act

520
00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:45.679
like Nobaharro's girlfriend and made to call
her parents and say everything's okay. And

521
00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:50.239
holy shit, what's going through Junko's
mind at that point when she's forced to

522
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:53.960
make that call to her parents after
what she's been through and so close to

523
00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:59.920
help that right there would break someone
and all this is just the first couple

524
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:04.280
of days. Junko's got to go
through much worse. For over forty more

525
00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:10.480
days from there, up until around
December first, approximately nineteen eighty eight,

526
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:15.519
Junko was continually raped. Rape happens
nearly every day in this entire ordeal,

527
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:22.679
and many many times a day by
many many people. During this time,

528
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:28.320
Junco is starved and she's refused water. Instead, she was forced to eat

529
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:32.199
cockroaches and drink her own urine.
Now I had to look this up.

530
00:40:32.679 --> 00:40:36.920
A person can get away with drinking
their own urine for a few days,

531
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:42.480
as our urine's about ninety five percent
water, but the other five percent consists

532
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:46.920
of harmful ways like nitrogen, potassium, calcium. So when you drink your

533
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:51.639
own pea, all the bad shit
your kidney attempts to get rid of winds

534
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:54.760
back up in your system and back
into your kidneys. Ultimately, forced to

535
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:59.519
drink urine for an extended period of
time, one could suffer symptoms brought on

536
00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:05.360
by to kidney failure or vomiting,
diarrhea, increased urination, terrible muscle cramps,

537
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:09.679
heart palpitations. As for eating cockroaches, not only is it fucking gross,

538
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:15.039
but roaches feed on anything, including
dead animals, rotten flesh, spoiled

539
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:20.559
food. When eating a roach,
there's a high risk of passing that roach's

540
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:27.280
contaminants to the human host. Not
good right. Junko is also forced to

541
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:34.280
participate in humiliating acts for her captor's
enjoyment, like being naked constantly and masturbating

542
00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:42.079
vigorously in front of them objects like
bottles and food skewers. Some food skewers

543
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:49.400
with chicken on them were forced into
her vagina and anus. Fireworks were inserted

544
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:54.199
into her anus and lit, the
explosions, causing severe damage to Junko's insides,

545
00:41:54.800 --> 00:42:00.920
specifically her rectum and lower digestive tract. Anything into the anis can lead

546
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:07.400
to a severe abdominal pain, rectal
blading, vomiting, fever are objects large

547
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:10.280
enough like a fucking bottle, can
rip through the anus and rect them again,

548
00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:16.400
causing severe pain, hemorrhaging, and
of course, terrible infection. A

549
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:24.000
hot light bulb wased inserted into Junco's
vagina and her abdomen punched until the light

550
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:30.119
bull broke. Insider. Foreign objects
inserted in the vagina like a fucking skewer

551
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:34.840
or a broken light bulb, can
perforate the vagina and enter the abdominal cavity,

552
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:39.679
again causing extreme pain and hemorrhaging,
and if not treated, putrid infection

553
00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:45.400
will result. This is what she
went through. It's believed that fireworks were

554
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:51.440
also set off in Junco's mouth and
ears, resulting in obvious extreme pain,

555
00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:54.840
as well as damaged or ruptured ear
drums, burns to her mouth and lips,

556
00:42:54.960 --> 00:43:00.679
damaged tongue, probably damaged teeth too, depending on the charge. Fireworks

557
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:05.719
set off in the mouth could also
cause temporary dizziness in the sense of vertigo.

558
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:14.199
All this within roughly the first ten
days of Junko's captivity. Fuck now

559
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:19.599
Beginning somewhere around the eleventh day,
the real beating started and Juko was beaten

560
00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:25.960
mercilessly Junko's lean schoolgirl body was hung
from a ceiling by her wrist and her

561
00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:31.280
body used as a punching bag,
her captors throwing full on hay balers straight

562
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:36.280
to her body. Again and again. They punched and kicked as she helplessly

563
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:40.760
hung from the ceiling, Unable to
defend herself or even attempt to block the

564
00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:45.159
onslaught, Junko had to hang there
and take it. Think about that a

565
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:49.960
second. Think about how hard it
is to breathe when your arms are above

566
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.519
your head supporting your weight, like
hanging from a monkey bar or from a

567
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:57.679
pull up bar. Just hanging there. It's hard to breathe when your arms

568
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.480
are supporting all your weight. Now
imagine someone or multiple someones in this case

569
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:05.719
throw that are bigger and stronger than
you, throwing these punches at you as

570
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:08.559
hard as they can in the gut
while your arms are above your head supporting

571
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:13.800
all your weight, and your defenseless
to stop it. I can't even imagine.

572
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:20.840
And considering how slight Junko was,
she likely suffered broken ribs internal organ

573
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:27.039
damage from these suspended beatings. Reports
say that blood started to flow from Junko's

574
00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:31.719
mouth uncontrollably while she was being used
as this punching bag. This would have

575
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:37.360
been caused by punctured organs, most
likely now from being suspended and beaten.

576
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:42.639
Junko was then stretched out on the
floor on her back, feet secured,

577
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:47.159
and her hands tied above her head. That's when heavy weightlifting dumbbells were dropped

578
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:52.519
on her stomach and chest. With
again no way to lessen the blow because

579
00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:54.800
she's fully restrained, she just had
to lay there and take it. She

580
00:44:54.840 --> 00:45:00.000
the fucking seventeen year old girl.
Junko's head was jump while her face was

581
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:06.559
held against the concrete floor. This
happened multiple times. At one point,

582
00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:09.800
her captors left her alone, figuring
she was too well beaten and weak to

583
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:15.559
try to escape. But that's exactly
what this incredibly strong woman tried to do.

584
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:20.880
Even after the extreme torture Junko had
gone through, she worked up the

585
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:23.679
strength and couraged to try to escape, to make it to the phone to

586
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:30.440
call the police, but she was
caught. Some stories report that Junko actually

587
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.920
connected to the police, but one
of her captors, likely Hiroshi, the

588
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:38.159
ringleader the yakuza guy, took the
phone from her and told the police that

589
00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:44.360
the call was a mistake and promptly
hung up The police never followed up his

590
00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:47.960
punishment for trying to call the police. Her captors burnt Junko all over her

591
00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:52.280
arms with lit cigarettes, then doused
her legs and feet with lighter fluid and

592
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:57.400
set her on fire, while another
bottle was shoved into her anus for good

593
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:02.119
measure. And don't forget Junko's continually
raped throughout all this by both people and

594
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:07.440
objects. By this point, it
was difficult, impossible really for Junko to

595
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:12.639
drink or eat anything because of the
damage to her stomach and internal organs.

596
00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:16.559
Her body was so damaged and simply
couldn't accept the little food and water she

597
00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:21.760
was given. When she was forced
to eat or drink, Junko had just

598
00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:25.320
vomited all back up, which angered
her captors, so they beat her some

599
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:32.719
morech this vicious cycle. Now,
by the twenty ish twentie Fish Day when

600
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:37.039
it came around, Junko was unable
to walk properly because her legs were so

601
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:43.840
badly beaten and burnt. She was
beaten repeatedly with bamboo sticks, golf clubs,

602
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:47.119
and iron rods. I'm talking full
on swings to this poor girl's already

603
00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:52.559
bangled body, she couldn't walk,
and still they're beaten the shit out of

604
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:59.039
her. Fucking pussies. More fireworks
were forced into her anis and lit cigarettes

605
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:02.400
lit in her vagina. Her clitter
was burnt with a lighter and the captors

606
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:07.679
laughed and laughed. Junko's hands and
fingers were smashed and mashed with weights.

607
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:13.320
Small pieces of wood were inserted under
her fingernails, and then the woods set

608
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:19.440
on fire. Fucking hell. And
at this point we're far into December,

609
00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:23.760
so it's cold outside around forty degrees
fahrenheit lower at night, and Juko was

610
00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:29.320
forced to sleep outside on the second
story porch with little to no clothing.

611
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:34.039
The boys would later say that Junko
smelled bad, that's why they made her

612
00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:37.039
sleep outside. Besides, Jinko was
in no shape to Junko was in no

613
00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:40.719
shape to run away or call for
help. Plus she had already learned what

614
00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:44.760
would happen if she tried to escape, so the boys didn't worry about her

615
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:50.000
being outside, So Junko just basically
laid there, naked, freezing, agonizing

616
00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:52.639
in pain, helpless to do anything
but wait for her next round of torture.

617
00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:59.119
At the hands of the sadists.
Junko was crammed into a freezer and

618
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:02.840
made to stay in there for hours
on end. And despite all of this,

619
00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:07.719
despite being broken beyond repair, Junko
still found the courage and strength to

620
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:13.360
live, and once again she attempted
an escape from her hell, but again

621
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:17.119
she was caught, and again her
legs were set on fire. Junko convulsed

622
00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:22.440
and passed out because of the pain
brought on by her burning flesh, flesh

623
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:27.320
that was already mangled at oozing puss
from her previous beatings or burnings. The

624
00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:30.000
boys thought she was faking her pass
out, so they set her on fire

625
00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:37.119
again. Unbelievably, Junko still held
on now. At some point during this

626
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:43.559
madness, a boy named kiochi Ihara
was bullied into raping Junko, and after

627
00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:45.880
the deed was complete, the kid
ran home and told his brother what was

628
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:53.239
happening back at Nobiharro Manado's parents' house, or Noble Maharo Nobu Minatto's house of

629
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:57.960
horrors, as I like to call
it. The brother told his parents,

630
00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:02.199
and the parents called the police,
and police went to Nobaharo's home to investigate,

631
00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:07.320
and unbelievably, his parents said that
no, there's no girl here,

632
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:10.480
and they invited the police into the
home to have a look around, and

633
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:15.840
satisfied with the offer, the police
decided not to enter the home. After

634
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:20.159
all, why would the guilty offer
to allow the police to enter the home

635
00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:22.559
and search the scene of the crime, right, so the police left.

636
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:28.320
Had they just entered and searched even
a little bit, Juko would have been

637
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:32.280
found and rescued. But unfortunately that
didn't happen, and ultimately, when this

638
00:49:32.360 --> 00:49:36.960
whole case came out, the two
officers that went to the home but didn't

639
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:43.320
investigate were fired. It's good fuck
them. Around the thirtieth day of her

640
00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:47.440
captivity, Junko's eyelids were burned with
a lighter and hot wax was dripped onto

641
00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:52.679
her eyelids and face. Sewing needles
were shoved through her breasts, Some needles

642
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:57.360
left inside her breasts, and her
left nipple was mangled and ripped off with

643
00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:01.400
a pair of pliers. The scissors
were inserted into her vagina, causing more

644
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:08.239
massive bleeding. Junko's insides must be
completely mangled and non existent at this point,

645
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:14.039
and she had completely lost the ability
to control her bowels and bladder.

646
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:19.800
It would later be discovered that Junko's
brain had actually shrunken in size from the

647
00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:25.000
constant trauma to the head and being
in the constant state of fear. One

648
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:29.159
of the boys said that Junko was
so crippled at this point it took her

649
00:50:29.239 --> 00:50:32.000
over an hour to crawl down a
small set of stairs to go to a

650
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:37.280
lower level bathroom. Junko was so
badly damaged that the boys were growing tired

651
00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:43.480
of her and instead just thought her
disgusting and useless. No longer a fun

652
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:49.599
plaything now. On day forty New
Year's Day, Junko begged her captors to

653
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:52.920
kill her. Of course, they
wouldn't grant her that mercy. She spent

654
00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:58.079
New Year's Day alone, mutilated and
unable to get up from the floor.

655
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:04.079
On day forty four, Junko's final
day, she was forced to play a

656
00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:07.039
game of Majong, which, from
what I could gather, is kind of

657
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.079
like our American card game Rummy,
only as played with one hundred and forty

658
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:16.119
four tiles instead of cards. Her
smug captors challenged Dunko to the game of

659
00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:22.079
mahjong challenged her smug captors challenged Junko
to a game of Majong, and believe

660
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:27.800
it or not, she won her
final fuck you to her captors, and

661
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:31.679
of course this enraged her infantile tormentors, so they went on a rampage.

662
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:37.719
They beat Jugo with an iron barbell. They forced her to stand and beat

663
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:40.880
her feet with the stick. They
kicked her and punched her. They placed

664
00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:45.039
two short candles on her eyelids and
burnt her eyes with more hot wax.

665
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:50.719
They dropped weightlifting barbells onto her stomach. Junko was beaten so badly and so

666
00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:53.800
much puss was oozing from her burns
that they decided the only thing left to

667
00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:59.599
do was douse her arms, legs, face, and chest with lighter fluid,

668
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:04.639
and they set her on fire again. What's this the third or fourth

669
00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:08.440
time they set this poor girl on
fire? At least this final act of

670
00:52:08.519 --> 00:52:14.920
torture is said to have lasted for
over two agonizing hours, and later on

671
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:19.320
that forty fourth day, Junko Feruda
finally succumbed to her injuries and died.

672
00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:24.639
The animals could hurt her no more. About twenty four hours later, the

673
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:30.199
boys wrapped Junko's body in blankets and
stuffed her into a fifty five gallon steel

674
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:35.039
drum and filled the drum with concrete. The drum was then ditched on a

675
00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:38.599
tract of land in Codo, Tokyo. And in case you're wondering, I'm

676
00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:42.800
not exactly sure why they kept her
for a day before getting rid of the

677
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:46.960
body, but knowing these demons,
necrophilia is probably not off the table.

678
00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:52.360
That was never discussed to have happened
necrophilia. But again, if these guys

679
00:52:52.400 --> 00:53:00.760
could go this far, Two weeks
after Junko's murder, police arrested her Rosiano

680
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:06.280
and joe A Goura on a totally
different gang rape charge. During the course

681
00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:09.159
of the questioning, the police insinuated
that they knew about a murder the boys

682
00:53:09.199 --> 00:53:14.519
were involved in, though the cops
were not talking about Junko, but rather

683
00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:19.639
a completely different open investigation, the
disappearance of a local woman and her seven

684
00:53:19.719 --> 00:53:24.440
year old son. Now Hiroshimiano that
little bitch. He panicked thinking that the

685
00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:29.719
police got the information from Joagura,
who must have confessed to Junko's murder.

686
00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:36.119
So he Hiroshi told the police everything, including where they could find Junko's cement

687
00:53:36.199 --> 00:53:42.400
in case body. Within a few
days, Joagura, Nobaharu Minado, Yasushi

688
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:47.239
Watanabi, and Hiroshimiano were all in
custody. The police quickly located the fifty

689
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:52.960
five gallon drum containing Juko's body,
and she was only identified by fingerprint.

690
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:57.679
It's the only way they could identify
her. Now, in court, these

691
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:01.599
demons seed They were tried as adults, but instead of being charged with torturing

692
00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:06.199
and murdering this poor girl, which
could have likely led to the death penalty

693
00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:10.880
or at least life sentences, instead
the charges were reduced to committing bodily injury

694
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:16.480
that resulted in death. Therefore,
Hiroshimiano, the ring lader of this hellish

695
00:54:16.519 --> 00:54:21.519
circus, the Yakuza guy, was
sentenced to only twenty years in prison.

696
00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:27.679
Nobaharro Manado was originally sentenced to just
four to six years, but was re

697
00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:31.239
sentenced to a whopping five to nine
years on appeal, just five to nine

698
00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:36.440
years. No Baharro Manado's parents,
the owners of the house, were all

699
00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:39.559
this took place. They were never
charged, and neither was Nobiharro's brother.

700
00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:45.519
Now, Yasushi Watanabi was sentenced to
just five to seven years and Joe ah

701
00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:52.559
Gura only eight years in a juvenile
prison. Such incredibly lenient sentences for absolutely

702
00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:59.559
abhorrent crimes, but they were protected
by special provisions applied to individuals eighteen years

703
00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:04.280
and y younger in Japan's court system. Now in court, two other men

704
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:07.159
were proven to be involved in the
assaults because of physical evidence found on Junko's

705
00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:13.440
body, including semen and pubic hair. These men were Kuichi Ihara, the

706
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:19.239
one who was bullied into raping Junko, and someone named Tetsu Nakamura. The

707
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:23.880
judge in the case was quoted as
saying, quote, exceptionally grave and atrocious

708
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:29.880
violence had been inflicted upon the victim, Djunku Varuda had been murdered so brutally

709
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:34.800
at the young age of seventeen that
her soul must be wandering and torment end

710
00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:37.719
quote. It's kind of crazy for
a judge to say something like that,

711
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:44.320
but it's the culture, right,
the wandering ghost torment. Mm hmm.

712
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:45.960
Yeah. What do you think of
that guy, the guy that was bullied

713
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:50.519
into it? You believe that he
deserves a certain sentence or something. It

714
00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:53.199
must be weird, Yeah, I
mean he deserves something. I don't know.

715
00:55:53.199 --> 00:55:58.400
I think that's a tough one.
Man, that's a tough one.

716
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:00.800
Yeah. So it's so weird.
I mean, you know, unchecked aggression

717
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:09.159
as like putting it mildly, but
like there's this level of unchecked teenage id

718
00:56:10.280 --> 00:56:15.960
roaming around here. Oh man,
yeah, I mean correct, how were

719
00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:19.400
you as a teenager? Was?
How much of your actions? Do you

720
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:22.559
even control? How much? And
if it went unchecked helpful? I feel

721
00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:25.360
like, are we all like this? If we're like we let it to

722
00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:30.840
happen, and these guys just got
like a weird, rare window of opportunity

723
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:34.400
to do let it run, to
let it run, and a poor and

724
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.519
it's in person, it was in
the wake of it whatever. I hope

725
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:39.519
this level of depravity isn't in all
of us. I really do well.

726
00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:43.400
I mean, I mean there's a
certain sense of, like you believe that

727
00:56:43.519 --> 00:56:45.519
humans can't be this bad. They
can be also the complete opposite. They

728
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:49.800
can be that much good too.
It's just that not these guys, right

729
00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:52.360
yeah, right, Like you know, it's easy to read this story or

730
00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:57.079
hear this story. I mean,
in your case listeners listening into it and

731
00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:01.280
see nothing but the depravity that it
is and nothing hopeful and anything out there.

732
00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:07.079
But you can also you know,
you girlso ring up bring up a

733
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:10.880
fine story. That has the complete
opposite reaction to that and be also true

734
00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:15.199
right, because we're capable of both
right as mankind, and these guys just

735
00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:21.159
feel like a lot of unchecked anger, a lot of like teenage ed nonsense,

736
00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:27.199
like run amuck. It feels so
visceral that they themselves don't even know

737
00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:30.440
what they're doing. It's like they're
just trying things out. It's like they

738
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:34.920
just see they're not seeing a person. You know how a child can be

739
00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:37.920
an actual child here, not like
a young adult. An actual child can

740
00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:44.480
be devastatingly brutal in what they say, what they do because they don't know

741
00:57:44.519 --> 00:57:46.760
what they're doing. They don't know
what is or what isn't wrong. These

742
00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:50.280
guys know what they're not. These
guys know. I'm not saying they don't,

743
00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:52.199
but I'm saying, just like a
kid, dude does that, can

744
00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:58.000
do that, it's capable of having
no discernible whatever between right and wrong.

745
00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:01.119
It seems like this is like an
extreme version of that. With their upbringing

746
00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:06.599
and whatever's going on that it's like
it is one hundred percent that I'm not

747
00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:10.320
saying it's not their fault, but
it seems just such a powerhouse of an

748
00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:19.719
example of like some sort of non
aware consciousness going on. It's like it

749
00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:24.440
just seems so unnecessarily over the top, so extra, so extra, so

750
00:58:24.599 --> 00:58:30.639
extra, nothing compares to no emotion
whatsoever involved. Well, the only emotion

751
00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:35.199
you get here is what you're feeling
listening to his details, to Jay's details

752
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:38.920
here. That's all the emotions you
can bring in, and that's all anything

753
00:58:39.039 --> 00:58:43.000
is in that story. This story
has nothing like that. There's no emotion

754
00:58:43.079 --> 00:58:45.079
in the story. Like, we
don't know. We can imagine a lot

755
00:58:45.079 --> 00:58:49.840
of things, Like if the parents
and the younger brother were hostage in that

756
00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:53.360
situation, then I would say I
don't think they deserve anything, But like

757
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:58.199
I don't know, Like would you
fight to the death as a younger brother

758
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.800
or the father gets beaten to stay
in one place and tell the police to

759
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:06.199
get out of the you know whatever, would you fight with everything you can

760
00:59:06.320 --> 00:59:07.639
to try to get the word out. I don't know. We'd like to

761
00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:09.960
say yes, right, we would
like to say yes, but we're not

762
00:59:10.039 --> 00:59:14.320
in this We're not in those situations. It's just such a weird mind fuck.

763
00:59:14.400 --> 00:59:19.119
It's like pure evil and the side
casts of evil that are like joined

764
00:59:19.400 --> 00:59:22.000
or forced to join in with them, and it's like a weird societal thing

765
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:27.239
that's obviously aside from the junk to
Yeah, it's true, there's a lot

766
00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:30.880
of repression in society, right,
you know we talk oh generally speaking,

767
00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:32.239
Yeah, yeah, talking about a
lot of that with is he Sagawa.

768
00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:38.719
Yeah, it's it's there's no explanation
here. There's there's not no, no,

769
00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:44.239
there really isn't. It's like aliens
can see as an example to kill

770
00:59:44.320 --> 00:59:46.880
us, all right or not to
show themselves right, and we have examples

771
00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:50.719
here too. It's nothing, i
mean, nothing to do with the fact

772
00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:53.599
that it's this particular culture. But
it can happen anywhere. It has happened

773
00:59:53.639 --> 00:59:57.719
here. We have the most serial
killers in in any other country and among

774
00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:01.679
other problems. But like you know, it's just insane. It's just insane.

775
01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:06.760
It's insane to think about it.
You can't wrap your mind around it

776
01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:09.000
because you'd have to think of how
you were at that age and then somehow

777
01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:14.840
find the weird, find a touchtone
where you could have gotten that far.

778
01:00:14.880 --> 01:00:16.239
I'm not even saying with another person. It could be with an animal,

779
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:20.679
could be with yourself, it could
be with what you say, not what

780
01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:22.400
you do. Right, it could
be non violent, but you can all

781
01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:25.079
have that example. But it's hard
to touch back. And the older you

782
01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:28.880
are, the more for a part
you are from it. Hard to relate,

783
01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:32.119
yeah, hard to relate absolutely.
And another thing there's you know,

784
01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:36.599
there's a lot of inspiration. This
story has inspired a lot of things in

785
01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:45.199
Japan with their with their artists particularly, there is a manga called seventeen Its

786
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:50.519
meaning seventeen years Old is a manga
with the story by Seiji Fuji and art

787
01:00:50.559 --> 01:00:54.519
by Yoji Yoji Kamata, published in
two thousand and four. It depicts the

788
01:00:54.639 --> 01:00:59.599
kidnapping and rape of a girl based
on the murder of Junko. Now obviously

789
01:00:59.599 --> 01:01:04.079
it doesn't have her name, but
it's strictly based on that. And there

790
01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:07.400
is a movie called Concrete as you
can imagine from two thousand and four,

791
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:12.079
independently produced Japanese film based on the
murder case. I've never seen it,

792
01:01:12.199 --> 01:01:15.280
but never seen it either. And
there are others that are not indirect,

793
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:21.320
even more like subtle than those two
examples. I remember. Takashi Mika has

794
01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:23.880
done a few, oh yeah,
a couple of things that like you do,

795
01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:27.840
some of your descriptors. They torture
people in his movies that way,

796
01:01:28.079 --> 01:01:30.599
and some of them are like,
are meant to be like an honorific on

797
01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:35.400
this horrible case, because that's one. On one hand, it's art he's

798
01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:39.400
making, and he's touching back on
something that his audience to Japanese people would

799
01:01:39.480 --> 01:01:43.400
understand. You know what I mean, that's what he's doing. He's inciting

800
01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.719
a viscerol's reaction with his scenes.
So if you know this story and you

801
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:50.880
watch them, you know, you
can see how artists can take the story

802
01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:53.760
into their own interest. Keep it
also, keep it not fresh, but

803
01:01:55.119 --> 01:02:00.039
keep it in the in the zeitgeyself
like not to be forgotten, exactly,

804
01:02:00.199 --> 01:02:02.960
keep it, keep it there,
don't forget, never forget, right,

805
01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:08.159
never forget kind of like that,
yeah now. At Junko's funeral, which

806
01:02:08.280 --> 01:02:13.639
was held on April second, nineteen
ninety eight, one of her classmates said

807
01:02:13.679 --> 01:02:17.920
in a memorial address, this is
a quote, June Chen, welcome back.

808
01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:22.800
I've never dreamed that we would see
you again in this way. You

809
01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:27.719
must have been in so much pain, so much suffering. The happy now

810
01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:32.400
Happy is a traditional Japanese coat worn
during festivals. The happy we made you

811
01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:36.920
for school festival looked really good on
you. We will never forget you.

812
01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:42.159
I have heard the headmaster has presented
you with the graduation certificate. So we

813
01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:46.199
graduated together, all of us.
June Chen. There's no more pain,

814
01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:53.440
no more suffering. Please rest in
peace. End quote. And so listeners,

815
01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:57.679
you're aware. I left a link
to Junko's funeral in the show notes.

816
01:02:58.320 --> 01:03:00.960
It's in Japanese, but you really
don't need you really need it to

817
01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:06.440
be in English. The images speak
for themselves in their own universal language,

818
01:03:06.559 --> 01:03:09.840
that of heartbreak and loss. In
the video, you'll also see photos of

819
01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:17.880
Junko as a whole, yeah,
regular Junko, as well as the outside

820
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:22.239
of the home where all this shit
took place. It's pretty interesting, so

821
01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:27.840
I'll even link there. You could
check that out now today if you could

822
01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:30.599
believe it. All four of these
assholes that tortured and rape jun Go to

823
01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:36.800
death are out of prison and on
the streets. Hiroshi Miano, now going

824
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:40.599
by the surname Yokoyama, was arrested
on a number of occasions after his release

825
01:03:40.679 --> 01:03:45.599
from prison in two thousand and nine. Charges include fraud and attempted murder,

826
01:03:46.159 --> 01:03:52.719
and he's also done additional time in
prison. Horoshi is chronically unemployed, yet

827
01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:55.960
he always seems to have money and
fancy cars and nice clothes, so maybe

828
01:03:57.000 --> 01:04:00.840
his connections to the Yakuza were real
after all, and the other three animals

829
01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:06.039
can't really find much on him.
I know that Joe Agra was released from

830
01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:13.199
prison in nineteen ninety nine and is
now known as Joe Kamasaku. Apparently he

831
01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:16.800
got married and lived a pretty normal
life until he suspected his wife was cheating

832
01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:21.760
on him. Agra found the man
supposedly nailing his wife, kidnapped him,

833
01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:27.039
and beat him to a bloody pulp. All the while he's saying, I've

834
01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:30.119
done this before, I could get
away with killing you. I've done this

835
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:34.239
before I could get away with killing
you. Aga caught another seven year sentence

836
01:04:34.280 --> 01:04:38.719
for this subduction and beating. And
believe it or not, I read that

837
01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:42.920
Joe Agra wound up having a daughter, and I hope, I hope he

838
01:04:43.039 --> 01:04:48.239
sees Junko every time he looks into
his daughter's eyes. Nubaharro Manado, who

839
01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:53.079
now goes by the first name Shinji, got out of prison and wound up

840
01:04:53.079 --> 01:04:56.840
beaten and stabbing a guy in the
neck, and he committed other crimes and

841
01:04:56.920 --> 01:04:59.440
little else is known about him today. But he is out there, he's

842
01:04:59.480 --> 01:05:04.519
free, he's walking around. As
far as Yesushi wanted to Nabi, he

843
01:05:04.639 --> 01:05:08.800
seems to be the only one that
got out of prison after a pitifully short

844
01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:14.000
sentence. They all receive pitifully short
sentences. Actually, but Yasushi seems to

845
01:05:14.039 --> 01:05:15.960
be the only one of the four
that stayed down the straight and narrow and

846
01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:21.559
he hasn't reoffended as far as we
know. But you literally cannot find anything

847
01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:25.239
on this guy, like where he
is, what he's up to. He

848
01:05:25.360 --> 01:05:27.840
dropped off the map, dropped off
the map, and also this text.

849
01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:31.079
In the eighties, no, not
much cultural full print and internet especially,

850
01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:35.079
so yeah, maybe never logged onto
MySpace. Well these guys got out of

851
01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:39.159
prison in the nineties. Yeah,
well no, yeah, yeah, yeah,

852
01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:41.840
but I say, good, fuck
this guy. Let history forget his

853
01:05:41.920 --> 01:05:45.000
ass, forget all their asses.
Yeah, I'm sure that's what he wanted

854
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:49.199
now. Sadly, the shaming of
Junko didn't stop with her torture and murder.

855
01:05:49.960 --> 01:05:56.280
Shortly after Junko was laid to rest, Nubaharu Minado's mother spit on Junko's

856
01:05:56.320 --> 01:06:00.280
grave and she vandalized it because she
blamed Junko for ruining her son's life.

857
01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:06.719
Can you believe that shit? No
fucking forgot that part. Nobaharromanado's parents were

858
01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:11.480
ordered to sell their house and hand
over four hundred and twenty five thousand in

859
01:06:11.599 --> 01:06:17.119
Japanese yen two Junko's parents as compensation
for their son's involvement in Junko's torture,

860
01:06:17.239 --> 01:06:21.679
rape, and murder, but instead
the money was given to three of Junko's

861
01:06:21.719 --> 01:06:26.480
killers upon their release from prison.
With this money, it said, the

862
01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:30.960
boys took lavish vacations and bought themselves
all sorts of nice shit. Not a

863
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:35.320
penny went to Junko Feruda's parents.
Not that money would have stopped their anguish

864
01:06:35.440 --> 01:06:41.559
or brought their daughter back of it
exactly, just another slap in Junko's face

865
01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:46.599
and her family's face. Yeah,
and that, listeners, is the horrifying

866
01:06:46.719 --> 01:06:51.159
case of Junko Feruda. If you
want to follow the story deeper, A

867
01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:55.440
number of books have been written about
this case. There's a movie called Concrete

868
01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:59.800
that Oscar mentioned that's based on this
crime. There's been a lot of maga

869
01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:04.039
based on this murder case of Junko
Furuda, but probably the most notorious manga

870
01:07:04.559 --> 01:07:12.840
is called and I'm Gonna Fuck this
Up Shouin and daire you can, or

871
01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:18.440
High School Girl in Concrete by walta
Uziga. Okay, walta Uziga, which

872
01:07:18.480 --> 01:07:23.199
is a pen name, and it's
a pen name that's strikingly familiar to it

873
01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:29.440
familiar to a Japanese phrase that translates
to the maggots gush fourth. So that

874
01:07:29.480 --> 01:07:33.360
should hopefully get an idea. Yeah, about this guy's style and his mindset.

875
01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:39.480
Yeah, so apparently he's incredibly popular, but this stuff is nasty that

876
01:07:39.599 --> 01:07:45.199
he draws. It's a style called
guru which focuses on extreme gore and mutilation,

877
01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:49.400
and most consider his High School Girl
in Concrete manga his most brutal work.

878
01:07:50.000 --> 01:07:55.360
And I've seen excerpts from this manga
and it's disgusting. Yeah, there's

879
01:07:55.400 --> 01:07:59.599
definitely not I have not a few
of his, but I have a few.

880
01:07:59.760 --> 01:08:04.440
Yeah. Likewise, there's an anime
called seventeen Psai based on very loosely

881
01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:08.519
on it. They changed the ending
probably to be more hopeful because it's pretty

882
01:08:08.519 --> 01:08:12.679
horrible. But there is a short
lived anime you can watch as well that

883
01:08:12.760 --> 01:08:18.199
does very similar Oh, okay,
Yeah, I wasn't sure. I was

884
01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:21.600
going to cover this one. What
would you say, is like the detail

885
01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:26.239
that hurts you. It feels like
more visceral to you. I think some

886
01:08:26.319 --> 01:08:31.680
of the most visceral stuff for me
is the suspended beatings and the beatings where

887
01:08:31.760 --> 01:08:35.479
she's secured on her back, legs
outstretched, arms stretch above her head.

888
01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:40.920
These guys, I mean, she's
such a slight has such a slight frame.

889
01:08:41.399 --> 01:08:46.279
Yeah, a seventeen year old girl
not being able to do anything to

890
01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:49.640
stop those blows or try to protect
yourself from the bill, just taking it.

891
01:08:50.479 --> 01:08:54.439
I can't even imagine what that's like. Yeah, well, none of

892
01:08:54.439 --> 01:08:58.000
this, I can't imagine nothing.
Yeah, never experienced this kind of thing.

893
01:08:58.079 --> 01:09:00.199
Usually that or the jumping on her
head when he faces against concrete.

894
01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:05.079
I mean, what what do you
think they're not right? The light bulb

895
01:09:05.079 --> 01:09:10.119
over me? Hits I say,
so that the light bulb when they something

896
01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:13.640
about it, and then it's just
something really better. I I don't know

897
01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:16.159
a lot of parts of the story
is like that for me. You know,

898
01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:23.000
the real this is not positive by
any means, but a small positive,

899
01:09:23.239 --> 01:09:26.399
weird thing about this movie as far
as like how legendarily it is.

900
01:09:26.439 --> 01:09:29.159
I mean, this happened, and
it's happened in the eighties and we're talking

901
01:09:29.199 --> 01:09:31.920
about it in twenty twenty two.
So there's something to be said there about

902
01:09:31.960 --> 01:09:36.199
that brutality, the very specific nature
of what's going on. But more importantly

903
01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:43.079
is that the one we remember isn't
the killer so much is Junko Faruta.

904
01:09:43.399 --> 01:09:49.279
Her name is the prominent thing that
makes everyone remember what happened. Unlike most

905
01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:55.079
nightty cases of the world out there
regarding murderers, even one off or spree

906
01:09:55.159 --> 01:09:59.800
killer, serial killers especially, we
remember the murderers and not in this case,

907
01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:02.600
though, it's the victim that is
prominent. And there's something to be

908
01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:06.720
said that her legend lives on in
that sense because she's the victim here and

909
01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:14.680
she is the reason why it has
stayed on for thirty years. A great

910
01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:17.520
point, What a great point.
Yeah, you're right. I researched this

911
01:10:17.600 --> 01:10:23.000
ship for the show all the time. I couldn't tell you one of Richard

912
01:10:23.079 --> 01:10:27.680
Speck's murder victims I've covered that I
don't remember. It's terrible to say,

913
01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:30.960
Bundy can't tell you a single one, dah, I'd have to look it

914
01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:33.960
up. You know. Gacy I
remember because he was close to home and

915
01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:38.359
blah blah blah. But you're you're
absolutely right, and it's a shame we

916
01:10:38.399 --> 01:10:44.399
don't remember the victims, right,
you know. Good point, Thank god

917
01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:46.640
we remember in this one. Yeah, because this is probably the worst one

918
01:10:46.680 --> 01:10:53.279
we've done. Yeah, for me, it is what a way to come

919
01:10:53.359 --> 01:10:58.600
back. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure it's going

920
01:10:58.640 --> 01:11:01.079
to release before Christmas after Oh right, okay, well Merry Christmas, Happy

921
01:11:01.079 --> 01:11:06.239
New Year, Happy Chinese New Year, happy before that. I thank you

922
01:11:06.359 --> 01:11:10.840
for listening. Any final thoughts,
No, that was it. How did

923
01:11:10.880 --> 01:11:38.880
I usually sign off? Oscar?
Take us home? That's right, Yeah,

924
01:11:41.880 --> 01:11:43.159
take us home, that's right.