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Dec 2022
19m 26s

301-Japanese Folklore: After Sundown

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod
About this episode

The story of a family and the monsters that hunt them. The twist? These are monsters that they might know better than they realize.

The creature is snow snake! It's a snake that lives in the snow, and if you're thinking, "that's ridiculous, snakes are cold blooded!" Well, while you were thinking about that it bit you and you died. Congrats.

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Links!

Reuter's fact-check on Snow Snakes (2021): https://myths.link/snowsnakesreuters

Snopes on Snow Snakes (2014): https://myths.link/snowsnakessnopes

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