The Kappa

0:00 Hey guys, it's Jason. I'm the host of the time will tell podcast here on anchor. I'm also one of your most loyal listeners. I would suspect as soon as they come out. I've got to listen and I'm often on the Facebook page saying, welcome rabbits. So I just wanted to say, thanks for this amazing podcast, the whole team is great. I love every one of you. You're amazing. And from down here, in Tijuana at the moment, keep up the good work. Have a great day. Located in the waterways across, Japan lies, a beast of incredible intelligence a cunning stealthy Predator. A being with one thing on its mind. One motivation.

1:00 One goal silently gliding through the water. It stalks the prey that has wandered dangerously close to the water's edge. It's victim is strong, a formidable Target, one that will struggle and fight to survive, which is exactly what this attacker. Prefers waiting watching savoring, the moment of this salt, the unsuspecting foolish subjects slides into the cool water and without warning it strikes. The prey is you and it wants what you have. You heard the Jeans, but believe them to be just that you saw the warning signs but chose to ignore the local superstitions.

1:47 And now here you are. Hopeless to the violent creature and has come for your most prized possession. And the only way to take it is to rip it from your guts. Watch your cornhole. You're in Kappa territory. Welcome back to infinite rabbit hole. Dad at a time. I had to keep muted.

2:31 You shouldn't have kept it muted. I had to cracking up that whole time. Oh, the Kappa. I'm curious kid, and we'll go, we'll start with you, do you know anything about the Kappa? I've heard of the Kappa, but I dont know anything about it. So you know nothing about it. Like, NADA, anything whatsoever. I now know that it's A Japanese thing that's about as far as that's about as much as I know about the Kappa now. Thanks Jake for bestowing that information upon me. Well strap in because it's going to get wild. What about you Geoffrey? I literally know what I'm looking at on Cryptid Wiki right now.

3:13 Oh, it's not curved away. Thrifted Wiki, get off that site. That's just the first link that came up. You know, well get off of it. Okay. Well That's what I know. So there you go. Okay. Jake. I'm assuming wants to tell you the story. Yeah, I do. I put a lot of work into this. If you guys ruin it by going to the only source of information. I'm giving you know, it's, it's not the only source. But so basically what had happened was, I we had family game night. I went up to my folks house and Fresno, and it was me and my brothers and their wives and Mom and Dad, and I brought my Xbox. And so we were playing the jack spot, Jack, Box TV thing.

3:53 So basically everyone logs into the system on their phones on the internet and you play a bunch of different games and stuff and you're just utilizing your phone as the controller. So everyone's got a phone all the time and so this is like a perfect game system. So they got all different types of trivia and things like that. And one of the trivias was about the Kappa and it was the first I'd heard about it and it was maybe it was actually on my birthday. So it was back in August and of August. And dude, I fell in love. I just, I couldn't not do an episode on this and I was like, gosh, I hope that there's more than just what was announced on on this game and sure enough, I look it up and it was hilarious and I was just like, okay, this is what I got to do. So I know that people are expecting me to throw out another Giants episode.

4:43 And I'm sorry, I'm not doing that today because I had to get this out of the way because I was like, even if this episode is only 30 minutes long, which I I doubt it will be but I just love the content and I really wanted to throw it out there. So what was the question? It was basically which one of these is is false or something like that. And it was I think it was FIB ejack chewy and it told what the Kappa Kappa is and what it does and what it removes from you. And then you were supposed to input your own lie as to what it might have been, but And guess the correct answer as to what it was. And I don't think anyone actually got it, but it was just like, you know, three sentences about it. It talked about, you know, and I was just like, I'll get into them, won't be.

5:36 So I'll secretive forever. But I was just like, just cracking up. I was like, this is hilarious. And everyone's like, what? And it just some wild just, you know, shot in the dark trivia that most people probably wouldn't. Not know. And I was just like, man, this is hilarious, but in this episode, we'll get into what it is. I've got broken up, like usual will get into the sidings and what it could be. And then the the pop culture section of it, this is only eight pages for you, Jeff plus, I need to jump out of here right when we're done, because I've got a friend's game night thing, too.

6:22 Jet off to with Whitney. But yeah, I mean if you guys are ready, I'll get started unless you have any questions that I will not answer until after the presentation. So do you cover pop culture at all? Yes, he's here for you. Yeah. Where were you five seconds ago? It was hired. I was, I was double checking my sources first for a pop culture reference. Now that being said, I didn't add everything. So if I don't cover it, Feel free to like, you know throw it out there Jeff and kid. Are you all ready to go? Are you ready to do the thing ready? Let's do it.

7:04 Oh, and then I wore the appropriate shirt for this. No be not an alien, sort of a thing, but you'll get the reference soon for those of you that liked our back and forth during one of the Skinwalker Ranch episodes. Yeah. This this will be for you. Yeah, pretty much. That's what sealed the deal for me. I'm just like, okay. Oh boy. All right, here we go. Fucking Jake. A lot of these words in Japanese. Like always, I kind of have it spelled out, phonetically in like, you know, parentheses for the more difficult ones, but I'm going to mispronounce it. And you know what? I'm not sorry because I don't speak Japanese. And the way I formulate words as American, who speaks English is not the same.

7:51 So, So I'm gonna mispronounce it so just buckle up. I'm going to do my best. All right, legends sponding from the e to e do area era. Yep, see already start. Now, you know, I do, you know area, Ed do Ito perfect Legend spawning from the Edo era. 1603 to 1867 sheds light on the Kappa, a water deity. That In the rivers of Japan and can either be a blessing or a curse to people that come across its path, although their appearance varies slightly from region to region, they're common traits.

8:33 Are that they're short, no more than five feet tall. Humanoid beings their scaly reptile like skin comes in the shades of yellow blue, or green, and have turtle shells on their backs. They have beaked mouths and webbed hands and feet. Making them exceptional swimmers lastly, they have magical powers. The source of this power comes from a small pool of water water called asara. That is contained in a bowl shape dent on top of their heads, surrounded by long, shaggy hair in a bowl cut, think of the hairstyle worn by medieval monks, the name Kappa translated to water. Child is just one of 80 different names given to these aquatic tricksters other names. Include Coco Co APA.

9:18 Go Appa Suitengu. Etc, kappas are extremely cunning. And while sometimes being rather generous to humans, like giving them the knowledge of how to reset broken bones or how to make medicinal salves. Bringing fresh bringing bringing families, fresh fish, and helping Farmers with crop irrigation. But these are instances are mostly restricted to circumstances when the Kappa owed. A debt to the individual more commonly the cap of viciously. Attacks, humans or plays cruel tricks on them. Legend has it that the more harmless side, the Kappa will imitate the sound of flatulence. Make offensive jokes, look up.

10:01 Women, a woman's kimono and other sometimes perverse, but not necessarily violent actions. However, their temperament is more often that of a vicious attacker that kidnaps in each children, drowns, livestock's drowns, livestock, and rivers sexually. Women and will kill adults and drink their blood. And unfortunately, for the women who were assaulted by these beings, they would sometimes become pregnant with human /, Kappa hybrids and would kill the children when they gave birth to them, due to the child's disgusting appearance, their attacks on people are usually associated with their incredible love for fighting their victims, and are Avid enthusiasts of sumo wrestling along with their Obsession for obtaining, the victims Cherie Kodama, which contains a huge Humans life force, their SRI Kodama translated small anus. Ball is a small green magical ball that is said to be in your anus kid.

11:04 You're the Kappa considers these life force contain he's and containing anus organs, a delicacy and feasts on them as soon as they're harvested other uses for your SRI Kodama are for tribute to the Sea dwelling dragon king who said to The Lord of All Things, aquatic as previously discussed killing for the shriek Adama, SRI Kodama is an effective way of obtaining it, but it isn't the only way the other less lethal harvesting method involved, hiding in toilets, which historically were located over rivers and waiting for the opportunity to rip it right out of your butthole. Other than savoring, the taste of your coveted but ball, folklore of these beings claim.

11:52 That cucumbers are their favorite meal. They also consumed eggplants. So before mented, soy beans and pumpkins and old. Tokyo, people used to keep their family members from coming to harm by putting cucumbers. In the river etched with the names of their in each with their individual names. Alternatively, sliced, cucumbers would be thrown into the water So the cap, it would be too preoccupied with eating the pieces and leave the humans alone while they bathed in the river. Also, it said that eating cucumbers before swimming. We protect you from the schemes of the Kappa, but others believe this would most assuredly cause an attack to happen. Besides the Cucumber bribery that people did.

12:33 Ginger Sesame and iron were utilized to keep it away. Next, we'll get into the cap has magical powers and how an individual could get the better of them. But for the meantime, what are your thoughts? Well, my initial thoughts, I guess at the end of that one was well if you're going to eat cucumbers and likes you covers and you smell like cucumbers, you may be getting your your taint tickled by like 1:30. And what was the what was the thing that was in your butthole Cherie Kodama? It's Shi, are I KO D Ama? And that's the source that's your life force shoved right up that cornhole sure we go Damo shriek Adama. Yeah.

13:25 Okay. Well so I was the part that was in Jack box is that they talked about that and then no one had heard about what the Kappa was. So now when got it but it was just like nice this is awesome. So yes I have heard of said Capo before I am familiar with it. Does I didn't I don't know too much about the Laura. I knew it went in your butthole for something. I didn't know what it was good. Good to know that I've learned something today. Thanks, Jake. That's nice. Also their Tendencies to sneak up the toilet. That is all so new to me. That's one right out of you man.

14:06 All right? Yeah, I could. Yeah. I mean, every time you take a deuce and you are here of getting your life, I can't you your soul ripped out of your but most people they're worried about rats or snakes coming up their toilets. No, no, no, no. Now we're worried about a Kappa coming after us. Yeah. The yeah, there was a spider that drop down from the ceiling straight in front of me, when I was, you know, taking a leak first thing in the morning. But I told I told Whitney I was like, I'm glad that it happened to me because I wasn't sitting directly underneath it. And this you would have jumped out of your skin. If this has happened to you and it was a big boy too is, you know, size. Like a nickel and just gonna go and get that that.

14:49 But now, to recode Amarillo, now that I know, you know, now that being said, my toilet isn't above a river, but that doesn't mean that utilizing its magical powers which we'll get into it. Can't, you know, find a way as we know from from Jurassic Park, life finds a way. And if this thing wants, once your life force, it's going to get it. There's actually really well, I was just gonna make a joke that there's a there's a theory out there that Jurassic Park is actually a documentary and and dinosaurs are real.

15:31 Including these but loving kappas. It's funny. I actually have a lot of thoughts about this. Honestly, I don't know if I should wait. I don't know because you said it might be short. So I don't know how much you have, but I guess I'll just kind of wait to give you all my thoughts, but there's a lot here Man. II figured the iron thing was gonna jump out at, you know, now really. Oh no, no, no. There's some diesel spirits and iron you are utilizing. Thing, utilizing iron to get rid of them and stuff. Like it's not something that you're just going to. I mean there's there's probably something there. I'm not picking up on but definitely with it's like I don't know. I found some pictures and stuff online while you were talking and I'm looking at like somewhat look like old Japanese writings. Oh while I'm while we're sitting here, I'm going to send you guys a video that I want you to have queued up because I'm Gonna talk about it for the the sources.

16:32 And we're gonna, we're going to break this thing down the same way. We all kind of looked at that picture on Ken's ours, but so to talk about the iron real quick, I mean do you get into whether or not this thing has any ties to the FAE? Know, I don't okay because cold iron is supposedly bleed to repeal or or harm, ferries, which is you don't like it too, too much. So I didn't know if there was a tie This. And those kind of well jeez certainly there could be and we'll get into the ties with other known Cryptids and stuff but I mean if they're all kind of based off the same things but this is more looking like, I mean the way that the Japanese people kind of go about the legend of the Kappa is it's more as if it's a real animal like a, you know, it's not just a legend. It's an actual thing that still occurs or still exists and things like that.

17:38 And then there's some that see it as a deity, you know, they actually like, you know, see it as like something to be worshipped and like feared and then There's other people that just see it as like you know the stories of the boogeyman, you know. And so it's just like you get a whole range of belief within this this being and you'll hear that as I'm as I'm reading it somewhat talk about it in the past tense and somewhat in the present tense because it's really like will get into the evidence of it. But there is a good case to be said that it could be more on the real side. And then the case to be said that it's not. So it's just like you know it's like anything, right? You could say the same thing with Bigfoot, there's your your reference but if Bigfoot's really that's not that's not the same at all.

18:27 As you as you were saying that though. I went through like, six different emotions as you were reading your paragraph there, and I went from dang. This thing looks really cool, too. I am absolutely utterly terrified of this thing to. This thing's an absolute joke. So some of the more aggressive drawings that I saved a bunch of bunch of images that will I'll go back and listen to it Jeff and I'll tell you, when you want you to insert those for, like all the people on the The Paranormal Network on the YouTube, but some of the more aggressive drawings have illustrations of the Kappa.

19:09 Doing what? Kappas do, two local women and I was like, all right, well, that's, you know, it's not great. It's like, you know, that the other yeah, that's terrifying in my head side of the Capitol where it like, you know, makes fart jokes and like, you know, says hey big nose and things like that. And then it's gonna like, you know, up Skirt you and then the other side of the Kappa which is like, you know, all rapey and and eaten kids and ripping buttholes out and all kinds of stuff. Like it's just getting at you. But I guess what I'm trying to think of what the the purpose of the boogeyman aspect of this would be because we're getting that. Okay, because I historically the boogeyman is there to instill fear into you, somebody to not do something. You know what, Rambis will talk about Krampus for a minute. Like when we cover Krampus?

20:05 Life's. Last year, for our Christmas special Krampus was there as this entity to instill fear into children to behave. Right? Same thing as our Santa Claus, you know, believe it or not, Santa Claus is considered a boogeyman type thing because it instills fear, you know, it's not going to come out kill you but you're not going. If you're just, if you don't behave, you don't get your gifts. Exactly. So right here is as I'm going to get a lump of coal instead, I'm curious as to what the purpose of this mythology, you know, the background is for it because you only thing I can think of is like, you know don't play on your phone while you're taking a poop and end up spending 30 minutes in there just you know it said that get in there and do what you got to do and get out. We'll get into it, briefly and that there. And if, if I remember, there's a source I'd like to talk about although I couldn't find the same information anywhere else with the Of that mythology dotnet website so I didn't add it in this but I'll briefly discuss it and say and this is well.

21:10 But there is a good reasoning that if this is in fact, just a local Legend Boogeyman type thing. Well, then, you know, once I throw it out there and I'll be a couple sentences you're like, oh that makes total sense. Hmm. Okay, so yeah, man, if you guys are ready, we'll get into magic powers and how to defeat them. Let's Do It Go. All right. Kappas are a force to be feared and respected, especially among individuals, that believe them to be a deity as far as their magical powers besides Incredible strength, intelligence and swimming ability. I have no idea but apparently they have them. I couldn't find any information at all.

21:52 As mentioned in the beginning of the most important weaknesses to remember is the saara on top of their heads, despite the ruthlessness of their attacks. They were said to have an extreme obsession with human politeness. And if a human were to perform a deep bow to them, as is Japanese, as is Japanese custom then in turn, they had bow back, spilling the water contained in the bowl. They would then be stuck in that bad. Sharon until the water from the river. They came from was placed back in its spot. If this action was performed by human, the Kappa would then serve the individual for all eternity.

22:35 Next, if you ripped off its arms, which is said to be fairly easy, then the Capo would impart its vast knowledge on you or do favors until you gave them back. the lacks the last weakness was, if it if it challenged, a human to sumo wrestling, the person could do their best to knock it over, spilling, the water in the saara and then with the same result, as the Bowing would occur, at least this used to be the way to go to defeat them until the kappas were said to have caught on to what humans were doing and started placing metal plates on top of their heads, when they left the safety of the river and maybe not strictly a weakness but you Repel them by farting in their faces. Do you talk about a particular cartoon that I'm thinking of I talked about a couple cartoons.

23:29 Okay. I'm thinking of 12. Yeah, so pop culture, you're jumping like way ahead. We're not even weren't page to right now, so I I don't know much about the Kappa. Yeah. I've heard about it in passing. Of course, you know, when you, when you research and you do the kind of things that, you know, I do, I'm surprised you knew about it, I was like, no way. Was anything about this New York? Oh, I know about that. I was like great. Yeah. So Jake kind of told me what this was a little while ago and I promise to keep his secret prying. He was like, like oh is it this? Is it that? Oh, it's this, isn't it?

24:10 Oh, it's this, he's just going to go and I was like, oh my gosh fine, he hates me. He's the one over there. There's some people, they're like, oh, weighing out their Christmas presents and other people are shaking their Christmas presents. He's Opening this thing up, he's like, oh, and then he's putting it back together and then taping it all up being like, I don't know why it looks like that. Like, athletes guys, awful, I think Jake's, don't think you told me exactly what it was. I think I actually you said something about water on top of the head and it being from Japan. I was like I said, the Kappa. You're like, I didn't think you knew what it was. Yeah. Anyways what from what I think I remember of this thing I don't I don't remember hearing anything about, you know, when it boughs and pours the water off and then it's kind of stuck there like a statue, I actually believe that.

25:02 I heard it dies that it was the way to kill it and that's why it doesn't go too far from its water source. Because if it does end up spilling the water out of its out of its head, it needs to get back to water very very quickly the only time that it actually comes anywhere you know it goes away from the water source. Some, which it calls us home is during rain storms, or I know that sometimes they actually do. You get into the snow aspect of it at all? No. Okay. I've also heard that. Sometimes they can, they can, you know, if in colder climates, they can pack snow into their head and move around while it's cold outside.

25:47 And as long as they're, it's not Like, they can't go inside houses or anything, because the snow will melt and then a fear of spilling their water that's in her head, you know, they don't really do that. But yeah. So I again, I don't know too much about this is pretty cool. This is exciting. Yes, pretty much a for a lot for my right up. It was very much like the most compatible sources I could went into the right up. There is a lot of, like, randos, like the History Channel. I'll talk about this for, in a little bit, but the History Channel did a little thing about them when they're talking about their Ancient Aliens. But they were like the guy said, he's like, oh yes. And then when they bow, the water spills out, and then they could very quickly died, and that was the only reference that I had heard or read doing, dude.

26:49 I got to page like 15 a Google. We're anyone had said anything like that and so I imagine. Okay. Well, if that was the case, then it would make sense that they would do something servitude wise for the person that put the water back in, so it kept them from dying. So that makes sense. But yeah, people all the websites, I saw all the links and everything, they're just like, oh yes, magical powers. And then listing the magical powers that are like incredible intelligence and swimming. And I was like, all right, well that's not Magic. Maybe for an amphibian, it would be magic at least intelligence, so if they have other magical powers?

27:30 Yeah, I don't know. But apparently they have the magical powers. So, so another thing I did while you were giving off your last spat of information, was I quickly did some research on the sometime just more information than you could come up with. Well, one of my When I do research right is to find secondary research. Find yes. I find what so trying to explain this, right? So instead of researching the cap itself, I quickly did a Google search on the the shirt.

28:11 I'm going to recode, I'm gonna hear this shriek Adamo, right to try to find any information, not necessarily to the Capo, but that may include the cap of trying to get some background. Background on this mythical ball inside your butthole and it seems to be something that strictly tied to the Kappa. It I put a little Link in the chat there. This is the link that I found while looking for this shurik Adama. And in this website here, I love the definition that gives because it's exactly what you said, right exist. It is what you think it is. It word for word here. I'm quoting.

28:51 This from gosh, I wish I can pronounce this website so I can Source right doing my best here. Hayaku mon got Terry.com opportunity. Oh yeah, we'll put in the description. Yeah, but the they Define it as the mythical ball said to contain a person's soul, which is located inside the anus. Pretty neat stuff. So, Good. I was just going to say on that link that you just shared down, there's like, you know, comments and stuff on the article going back to like 2012 and I just happened to stop on this one. Shout out to Zach Davison, March 16 2012. Now the challenge is to work.

29:42 Sheree Kodama into casual conversation Zack, we should have called you before we started this episode. Yeah, good stuff. Good, good stuff. But yeah, this was that's what that I have then I passed a sure Kodama. Yeah, that's something I like to do. When when I'm researching is to research specific things from the lore itself and see where the ties could be and see what other things that branches into. But it's this seems to be just from the 30 seconds. I did from research that is strictly tied to the Kappa. Yeah, pretty interesting stuff when I did that is when I I was able to find links between other Cryptids and stuff and sometimes that's that is a thing. You start to see these like parallels between Legends and everything and and it certainly has that and then the pop culture references are just through the roof. I mean there's a lot and there's a lot there that down but I do have a question though.

30:45 Does this thing? It walks on two legs, it's by pedo cracked. So so if you rip off, its arms, doesn't know how to utilize its feet. How is it going to do you a bunch of favors? If it doesn't have hands and arms to do favors? No, I didn't specify but it has a mouth so I could grab stuff. Okay. Okay. I guess you got me. There it is. I I guess I just felt that I needed to has magical powers. Dude, that's magic. It can still tickle your butthole. I'm sure. Give me that old mine, tickling buttholes. But the point is, is that all you got to do is find one and rip off its arms or knock it over.

31:31 Hopefully, it doesn't have a metal plate riveted into the top of its skull, and it'll be your slave forever. Just football tackle at you, you're golden. So the reason why I never really dove into the Kappa, One is because Was I I try to draw a clear line between what I believe could be a Cryptid, like technically exist and what is strictly mythology, right? And then there's that blur gray area where you have things, not going to give any examples specifically that could be tied to the Kappa, but like the Mothman, right? A lot of people say they've had sightings of the Mothman, right? But to think that there is a giant black flying humanoid creature.

32:17 With red glowing eyes flying around right here the Eastern. Yeah, there is that the Eastern us or throughout the Midwest is very hard for a lot of people to Blue to think of or to think. Right? Or believe, especially especially, when you think about it, there you go. Especially when you think of biology, right? It just doesn't work. So, Kappa, the Kappa is something that as far as I understand, I don't really know what, you know, the people in. Japan right. Japanese right? I don't know what people in Japan think of it. From what I understand. This is mythology. It's not technically meant to be a Cryptid as it is to be a figure of lore.

33:04 I'm going to blow your mind. Your brain is going to melt your shirt. Go down was going to fall right at your butt like app. Is going to snatch it up and beast on it. Well, joke's on you. I'll never pay. Again that's one way to do it like a like a, like a shield around it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that even the toilet attempt or the toilet attack version could still kill a person but I don't think because I mean you're pulling their soul from their body which I imagine isn't a good thing but I don't think that it's considered to be not as violent because it's not like they they get killed first And then it pulls it out, it pulls it out while you're alive, which depending on the length of the death, I mean, it could be worse, I guess.

33:57 Let's hope it's just like instant death and you don't even feel instant death, but how big is that? Treecko are is not the well, yeah, this Rico down. Also the size of the Fist going up in there and get it. You know, hope we don't instant death, don't steal anything. No, bigger than 5 feet tall. And I mean, if my wife who is like 51 52 if she pulled something out of my butt, I had no it I'd be like right? You just did something right, I'm sure Elvis do it too. You just took my life force. That's how that's how I was tied in case. You didn't know it. Was that, yes, the Kappa.

34:43 All righty. If you're ready, we're going to get into the few sightings Let's do it. Okay. Now clearly this is folklore or mythology, but that doesn't stop the existing the existence of sightings which are rare in these modern times but still do occur in some remote areas of Japan whether legitimate or fabricated. However, unlike ancient folklore in most places around the world, in Japan, it's not uncommon to see signs near rivers, warning of the Kappa. Our first sighting comes from Tsushima, a town and Nagasaki on August 1st. 1984 Rai you Sheree. Ozaki a squid, fisherman was walking home along appear at 11 p.m. while he was passing the Cuda River. He noticed a group of children playing in the Moonlight which was odd side note.

35:45 It was not uncommon to see people fishing at night, although sing children. Now, playing at night, especially in, or around a river would have been extremely odd. Because of drownings as he approached the children, he quickly realized that they had strange features and long spindly arms with legs, right? You called out to them and the children became startled and ran into the water. The next day, he returned to the same spot and found slimy teardrop. Shaped put footprints on the ground. They measured approximately. Similarly, 10 inches long and 5 inches wide, and we're spread two feet apart. He suspected that the prints belong to the Kappa soon. Onlookers, gathered around.

36:30 See what the fuss was about and quickly. The whole town was bustling with talk about the prince and of the Kappa. Being found at the river. Local police came to investigate and the forensic investigation team took samples for analysis of the liquid, and the results came back inconclusive Next one, Kappa remains. Hmm on May 30th 2014. An article came out on Daily Mail, .co.uk under Science, Tech titled are these, the bones of a water, demon remains of the mythological Kappa to go on, show in Japan, pictured in the Articles. What appears to be a mummified hand and a foot from a Kappa.

37:11 With a description of what a Kappa is in the circumstances around the mysterious items quoted from the article. Scientists have not managed to confirm the existence of the creature. Despite the fact that numerous Bones have been discovered that are said to belong to the Kappa, one set of mummified remains, which seemed which seemed to show a webbed hand is going on show, show for the first time in the Miaka no-show Shimizu Residence Inn. Miyazaki prefecture on the island of Kyushu. Whoo, The Remains were given to the.

37:54 I'm just going to call him the MS. Family, after a Kappa was shot on the riverbank and 1818. The foot measures around 3 inches and the arm 5 inches, but no experts have claimed, they are real, nor have stated, the bones are called, but no experts have claimed there. Real nor have stated the bones are cobbled together to look monstrous and there are no plans to have them examined either. so, if you guys look that up and I will as usual Hey buddy, bear with us while we take this quick break.

38:38 Have a link to that website in the under the description for the audio only versions. You'll get to see a picture of it and then also will include one here and they definitely look like, it looks like a mummified hand and a foot that probably doesn't belong to a person. And we'll talk more about it later on and I have some closing thoughts on it in my remarks but, you know, I'd like to hear you guys as But so next, I send you guys a link to a YouTube video from 2011, in which a group of Japanese locals are recording a tsunami striking. Land while standing on a balcony in this video, there appears to be some kind of Bing actually.

39:24 There's two of them, one of his in the very beginning and the second one happens kind of in the middle of the video, a being that climbs out of the water and up the side of a house and then disappears, obviously the It could be fake or mistaken identity, which a lot of the, the comments I've seen on this could be, but that's pretty much up to you to decide on that because information on the video is incredibly scarce. But I saw it. I was just like, huh? I got it it got a good solid. Huh? For me? And again, the link will be in the description. So anyone that's listening to this can just pull it up. But if you go onto YouTube and you look up Kappa tsunami, you'll more than likely find it right away. It's about a four and a half minute long video. Do you have a time stamp for when this supposed to, it's like a minute and a half in?

40:24 They slow it down a bunch of times. The rest of the video is literally like a slower version and a slower version in the slower version of it so you can get a real good. Look at it. You know I'm saying it's with his shitty camera though, right? Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say this video is kind of distorted. Hmm. What year was this? This video is from 2011. So I see something that seemed looks like it. Exits the water yet. Oh I see them right up inside the building and then disappears at the top, there's actually another one. If you look underneath the ATS one minute 36 seconds, it's Baker's green tree right there. Look underneath it and you'll see the same thing come out from Um, the bottom of the tree.

41:09 It's very, very brief, but it almost looks like a wave but then it comes up and it goes right up on the wall and then getting further into the video at one minute and 58 seconds. They start slowing it down and then you see this thing come out. So I'm okay. I'm going to make a connection here to something else. I don't know if it's the same tsunami, do you get into The tsunami itself at all. No you don't. I see it now. He's like two minutes 36 seconds, it just comes right. Out goes right onto that Red Roof top of the building. So it's interesting, right?

41:56 But what I'm thinking, Okay, so Geez I wish I could fact check this really quick. I could, but I'm going to go ahead and spit it out. Anyways, whether it sounds dumb or not maybe somebody else can quickly type in some stuff real quick. But when Unsolved Mysteries restarted I want to say it was either season one or season 2. There was an episode that they did on the tsunami in Japan in 20 some time in that area or sometime in that time frame. I wonder if this is the same one, because this tsunami afterwards, the whole area was extremely delighted.

42:41 Yeah. The one where it was all that goes for showing up because you helped, like, I like a million people or something. Yes. Like, 100,000 people curious, if this is tied into that all. I wonder if it's the same tsunami, because 2011, sounds right? Where did you say this hit? Whatever the video says, it's just super vague. I try to do a dive into sing like we're what the videos sources were but here at the very beginning, it just has a little brief thing and it says, taken from real footage strange creature found during the tsunami of 2011.

43:26 The I'm going to butcher this the tohoku earthquake Making tsunami in 2011, not ringing any bells. Yep, that's it. Okay, so I just found, I'm on March 11th of 2011, refinery29.com right here. Word-for-word the first paragraph says, Unsolved Mysteries is known for incorporating, a good ghost story now and then, and in volume 2 of Netflix's on solve Mysteries of the long-running series, we may have just found one of its most tragic and compelling ghost stories to date the episode and all of the paranormal sightings Take place on Northeastern Japan's tohoku region. It seems that for every story there is an attempt, an explanation on March 11th. 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. This is not me that follows shortly after devastated, the coast and nearly nearby Inland areas waves, reach the maximum blah, blah blah blah.

44:22 Okay. Movie about this in total about 20,000 lives, were reported lost. So that The tsunami that we're looking at. Right here is the exact same one. This is this is right here in the description of this YouTube video. It is from March. The this is from the tsunami from March 11, 2011, this is the same same exact tsunami as all the hauntings in the Unsolved, Mysteries episode So could it be a Kappa? Probably not? Could it be something could be? I personally don't think it's Kappa.

45:03 It just looks more like a white sheet to me some more know because it does look like it disappears or dissipates. The only thing, the only thing. Other than that, the only thing for me is like it's got a very specific movement to it, which if this were just a sheet it wouldn't I don't think wavy Soul specific. Yeah. Like it's on Very specific Direction, it's moving very specifically. It's not if this were your she could be gone like they wouldn't be climbing up a wall. Right place is I'm what my thought was? Maybe it was like a fire extinguisher that was caught in the in the wave or something. Some something that may have liked It not necessarily exploded but given off like some kind of poof of gases of some kind for just, you know what?

45:55 Because of the perspective of the camera, maybe the angle of the way that it's traveling with the wind, and maybe it's some kind of optical illusion as well. Because everything else is moving this way with the flood of water, so it might just be tricking the, you know, it certainly does look like it just stays there for a second. As it moves, whatever this black square, is, it looks like a garage door, but that's what I'm going to call it, right. A garage door. It's like the the white that the quote, unquote Kappa, or Spirit comes out of the water. And then as with the flow of water, the point of origin where it's tied to the water, still floats in front or to the other side of this garage door and then it dissipates in the air.

46:43 That's exactly what it looks like Jeff. It does look like a fire extinguisher or some sort something along those lines went off there. I mean, it could have been anything, who knows? I mean, just oh yeah. There's another one back there, too. They're going off all over the place in this. In this video. The yeah, there's another one over in the left and I don't know I'm talking like you guys can see my screen? Yeah I know there's one right there. There was one right in the beginning of the video. Underneath that first green tree that really big one. Sitting right there. You can see it basically. I think it like a minute and it looks like it just very quickly just Let me see if it comes up. No.

47:26 Do you watch it enough times? And it's definitely just the splashing of the wave or something, it just it's crashing, just right? And it's catching the air and it's just a spirit thing. So, so look like to this people's. Yeah, I don't think that it is. But that's unfortunately, I think the best evidence for it was the bones. Other. I'm just going to come out and say it and I'll just reiterate when it comes to the final thoughts. The fact that look, there's been some definitely some interesting stuff that have come out of that region.

48:07 Like monkeys soand fish that are supposed to have like, you know, Eternal powers and stuff like you eat them and you turn and you become stand mermaids. You can't die now and whatever, you know. And there's just like There's all kinds of stuff. So yeah, I think that they actually belong to something and I can not like a model or anything, but the fact that the person like refuses to let them be studied, definitely brings in some doubt. And then getting into this, this lore about the sidings, specifically for the Kappa, again, I'm going to tie it in this, very next section. I'm going to tie it into other things. But specifically for the Kappa, a lot of Link's saying that their sightings not a lot of links saying what the sightings are and even like that whole, you know, ryu's in the children, you know, in quotes plan in the river. And then they go into it and they seized a teardrop Footprints and then gets the authorities on it. Like, I don't Know exactly.

49:23 How to fact-check that from a completely different country and see like, oh let's pull up their public records to see, you know, and I'll just learn Japanese real quick and we'll find out if this is an actual real police report. So, unfortunately, with a lot of the things we don't, you know, and it's maybe a surprise that listeners. But we don't really, you know, if I'm pulling up a source from like You know, whatever sort of country that doesn't speak English. I'm not looking in their public records to make sure that this is an actual place report that actually happened versus just a story that someone put on a website. Unfortunately, we kind of just go with what we have. And in this case, for the Kappa, there may be local Legends if someone's listening to this and they are from Japan or live in Japan currently and they know of local Legends and they have sources, that's great.

50:15 Me it having sources that are translated It into English is not good, you know. So is definitely lens into that it is just mythology although it's hilarious mythology and I love it. I am not gonna sit here and like this is the hill, I'm dying on the cap exist, that's not me. But this is still hilarious and I had to do an episode on it. Like, even if it was a short episode, not all of our episodes have to be two and a half hours long. So, you know, give the listeners something to just kind of munch on for a little bit and then and dip out, but it's just like, I had to do an episode on it. Like I was thinking about doing a loved one frog monster. I was like, oh no, this is way better. Her Lovin Frogman you like this way better. So let's, let's talk about that for a second. Do you go into that at all?

51:06 Not that one specifically? No. All right, well, that has been something that's been tied to the Kappa, right? Any one of these amphibious or yeah, I go into some, some invidious. Things. But we'll just talk about the love and Frogman for a minute, right? Because we're not going to go too deep into it because eventually we will cover it because it is definitely a decent Cryptid. Well how about I read this section and then we get back into that and then all the other ones I'm going to bring up. Okay well those do that then fuck me. All right let's do that. Y'all ready for us to do that? My right there better be, but stuff in this Jake. Well now yes, what it could be and other Cryptids. And and here we go, we're going to get right into the boogeyman aspect.

52:00 A warning to children. It's possible that the whole legend of the Kappa was made up as some kind of Boogeyman to keep unwatched children for wondering too close to bodies of water. No doubt threats have been killed or kidnapped and eaten. By the Kappa would have prevented a great number of child drownings or the Kappa more served as a threat to naughty children. Eat your fish or the cap will rip your life force out of your butthole. The next time you try to poop one of the classics, Aliens, aliens, the History Channel did an episode on the Kappa for their Ancient Alien series.

52:44 Season 10 episode 7 is very brief. Is maybe 20 minutes many researchers who look for evidence of aliens agree that the capital with its incredible intelligence and ability to speak despite having a beak could be extraterrestrial or interdimensional. Also, it's theorized that they could utilize the water as portals to come to Earth to feed on humans. Plus if you consider the whole, but whole thing is, certainly seems to parallel extraterrestrials with their Obsession for removing cow anuses and their organs look, you're looking for parallels, that's a great one right there, natural amphibians Japanese giant salamanders grow to an impressive, five feet long and can weigh as much as fifty.

53:29 Five pounds, you guys Google. It, they're actually pretty crazy looking have similar colored skin. Skin and reside in the same areas that as the Kappa is, said to exist, bodies of water. The salamanders have been observed, grabbing small, prey animals, and dragging them into the water. But are they big enough to snatch up a child or kill an adult? I don't think so, but still, it's a very impressive creature in definitely could be an origin for the legend of the Kappa. Other cryptozoological, Bings, or folklore, along with the alien idea. There's a great number of other fish and amphibian deities from the ancient world where the bangs were described as having fallen from the sky and immediately sought out bodies of water deities, such as the Nomo, for the dogon people, from Mali, the name Mo.

54:21 No mo translated to make one drink and they were Amphibious creatures with a humanoid upper toast torso and a fish-like tail. Also it should be noted that there seems to be a parallel between the legends of the nommo Kappa and mermaids. Or the Mesopotamian awareness deity with its fish. Like humanoid body. That taught mankind, writing Arts and Science though. The oh anise weren't hostile. And were instead said to be helpful beings. So were the Kappa sometimes other lure of amphibious humanoids that were said to be hostile to humans and kill children.

55:01 Were the Sigh Okoye from the Philippine mythology? The slavik vanilla. Body annoy and then the Nixie from German fairy tales and the Russian blatnick and many others with the similarities, across the world. We seem to get into the same realm of either being a popular fear of water passed, down Legends, or that there's a real element behind them. What do you guys think? I think that there is probably The I think there's always a real element behind old mythology. She's right. So maybe these beings are beings, like this may have existed at some point and that's kind of where the stems from. You know, who knows?

55:53 It's a weird creature though. The fact that he spilled the water out of its head and it's just stuck out. How would you evolve that way if evolution is what they say? Well usually they're talking about human evolution, not alien Evolution, not just evolution in general, like yeah, would evolve to a survive with such a A weakness. That's like us with our weaknesses of like bleeding to death, and stuff are no papers during skin cream, you just spill your head, you turn your head or how do these you know I'm saying. Like if you're not in the river and you dip your head over your screwed. If you're a fish and you come out of the water and you can't breathe and you screwed, you know.

56:35 But I agree with you evolution is fake anyway. I think that this is cool right nowhere, near real know where has it ever was But I do find some very interesting ties to American lore mythologies and Cryptids, right? So one is the Loveland frogmen to is the Bishopville. Lizard Man of scape scape scape Oar. That's right. I believe it's scape. Ore swamp in South Carolina so there's there are Our other Cryptids, right? I know it's just a big turtle, but like the Beast of Busco is another one.

57:26 I was going to mention that one. Just, it's just a giant turtle, right? Michael, what about Michelangelo of New York. Shut your face. Ha ha ha. I love it so, but maybe it's just like a fear of amphibians slimy gross skin. You know, eating bugs. I I think that this is a boogeyman thing and that's it. Right? And it does make sense. Like you said, there would be that aha moment. Yes. There was that. Aha moment because you know, you want to keep your kids away from the water. Do you not even think that it's possible that maybe there was like a large turtle that, you know, used to eat people back like a thousands of years ago that became mythology and turned into the story. Do I believe that there were creatures around? There are no longer Well, no, not not, even not even on just a sec just a big-ass dinosaur.

58:22 Big snap, I mean, do you honestly they're snapping turtles big megafauna snow. Listen, let me be honest with you. They're snapping turtles alive right now that could eat a child. Oh yeah. Absolutely 100% without some of those are there mean fuckers to? Yeah so just you know you go back 10,000 years right? We had big animals, there could have very well been some kind of turtle creature that just would snatch people up if you were fucking around and maybe they were Goofy to maybe they just maybe they were dumb right and Goofy or maybe the I don't know. You know what I'm saying? So like they have like they got this lure built up around them, you know, and over 10,000 years. It became this, this thing that we're talking about, you know, keep in mind, this folklore came from the Edo area era from, you know, I, that's what I said from between the 16 in the 1800's like 1603.

59:13 So this isn't like, this was a, you know, that that doesn't necessarily mean that. The that's just when they can go back and say like this is when this was, you know, started this folklore. But that doesn't mean that there wasn't some other shit that might have some small little thing, you know, similar to it. That goes back to free, the great scheme of it and stuff. Like, where did Sandhya come from? Originally the entire time, especially, when you started talking about its connection to mermaids, I actually opened up my mermaid document and I'm trying to sift Through my thing about the ningyou here this all I'm seeing some correlations here because all of this took place in the 80 period, the ningyou that whole story there, I'm definitely seeing some correlations here in the whole like mythology aspect of it. Like there's definitely something here stuff happened, right.

1:00:14 When was the time period? 6800 1867 as I just thought of something that goes way deep we go off on. Let's go. Hold on. Just just saying Google will get back to you there for a second but I agree with what he first said, right 1600s? That could just be written history. There could be something from way before, then before, with written history, that we don't just don't have access to prove. That there was any kind of Mythology, lure stories from that time period. Right? So this could be a lot older than that and that goes for a lot of other things. As for what kinds are was saying where it's tied into with, what the ninyo, right menu?

1:00:55 Oh yeah, you know, I mean, When you look at these Boogeyman type creatures or stories, there's ties everywhere everywhere. I mean there's a different region, different story, right. We talked about all these Boogie Men from all around the world, that will snatch a child and take them away and throw them in the pits of hell. I mean, literally 50% of the, the boogeyman lore from around the world involves just that. So and then, you know, it was a story of don't give in to Temptation, or If you eat the fish are going to live forever, right? Similar sort of idea.

1:01:35 So I still don't think like there was the Kappa itself I can see it evolving through time just you know like Jeff was saying that this could have been something like a some sort of megafauna or some sort. Right. I don't believe that there was anything bipedal because bipedalism Um is something that is very human. It's like in in the animal kingdom. Yeah. But he could have reared up, you know, right. I understand. But when you take when you take Cryptids out of out of the mix right name, any other animal that's strictly bipedal nothing?

1:02:18 Right? And if you look at the the pictures and the paintings of these Kappa, yes, they do seem to be bending over. At time to pick something up. Like, I remember one painting was particular about pulling a limb out of the river was one thing, but for the most part, they're standing up right there there by people. I just don't see that. It's bipedalism isn't something that is reptilian or amphibious until you get into cryptozoology. When you talk about reptilians or aliens such as the reptilians or where or when you get into like the scape ore swamp monster of Bishopville South Carolina or the Loveland frogmen. Then you start getting it by P lism bipedalism. Now, this is where the, we can go down the tangent of the Aquatic ape Theory as to why humans are bipedal, right? Did because we're made the swing this, you did. We come from water, right, right. We did.

1:03:26 Each, which is the tied to the Kappa. So but there are a lot of different pygmy people from around the world as well. Could this be a pygmy human, right? A small human not a Bigfoot but the but the other way a lot of people forget that cryptozoology and myth all mythological beings, don't only go up in size. They also go down in size and they're all lat. Lot of reports of smaller, bipedal Apes, almost just as much as there are big ones. We just don't hear about them very much because they're in Vietnam, like the via, the Vietnamese stone stone, man.

1:04:11 There's just as many stories of these things. Being eight, nine feet, tall, 12 feet tall, as they are being two feet. All right? So you have to remember that, could this be a pygmy ape? That just happened to be around water more, like, more than more than not, right? There's there's some stuff, but as the Kappa, as known as the Kappa like what the Kappa is, No, I don't believe it. We're weaving, you finish the thing. You're always already out here just absolutely in it and stuff. This is what we believed in that last thing you ended that paragraph with what do you guys believe? I said, what do you think you guys you're acting just your wiling out and I appreciate it but I appreciate you went on now in Lawrence Schatz from the masses good because down here rabbit know your rabbit.

1:05:13 Yeah do it. Oh yeah. I mean, you pretty much basically laid out what I was going to say, not not in this form, obviously, I don't think that it exists. But wait, there's something that attaches to this lure that may have existed. It could have just been a megafauna like you said, giant snapping turtle back in the day. Maybe it was some inner earth beings that had some armor that they weren't able to understand so they were like they did some kind of shell or something like that. I don't know. You know it would maybe wasn't a because a breathing apparatus. I don't know. Maybe it was an ancient aliens or some shit. but whatever it was The Lure of it goes back further than the 1600s and then the 1600s thing is interesting, because that's when people talk about mud flood, when they like the world's history could have been reset and all the knowledge could have been Rewritten and distributed and, you know, so does Laura only going back that far and its current state could just be because of of that just like a lot of other things that point to that time frame is like a Reset.

1:06:19 I'm I'm glad that you said it. I was actually very surprised that no one had any comments on like water type portals or extraterrestrials or interdimensional. And I'm just like, all right, well, wasted episode or Earth beings could have been extraterrestrials could have been inner Dimension, who knows? Right. But, you know, again, 10,000 years ago could have been you're not going to know what these are right, though. Humans in that era, warrant. You wouldn't recognize a backpack with oxygen and a face, you know, respirator thing on. So you could breathe the atmosphere, you would be like oh that's a beak turtle man. That's a also like reptilian and some form because he has some weird suit on that's like scaly and you know rubbery or some shit you know.

1:07:07 So maybe that's. Where is Ian? Yeah that's interesting. Is a time-traveling, scuba diver. It's Cooper from, or from the inner earth or an underwater, maybe he's an underwater intelligent, summation, Japanese did that to other people, the way that they designed their armor and stuff. It was all psychological warfare and stuff, because people think the demons were coming after them. Like, it was, they're doing it to other people. Anyways, it's kind of like my final thoughts on the whole thing, honestly. But, you know, you asked so that's pretty much it. Pop culture. There we go. I have a couple thoughts on this too but yeah, this is the last section.

1:07:52 Okay, / Foxhole sure. The cap has been portrayed in many and I mean, many different cartoons in Japan, but what can you expect from a local Legend? I mean, it makes sense to me. But if you're like me and don't regularly partake in Japanese entertainment, Aunt, here are a few characters, you'll probably recognize their at least based on the Kappa artistically. Then he Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Not only look like the traditional drawings of the Kappa, but in the third live-action movie, The Turtles. Go to Japan to rescue April O'Neil and are mistaken for kappas by the locals in 2006. The animated Hellboy film, Hellboy sort of Swords, the Kappa is featured as a foe that must be too. Seated in an alternate universe in video games, the new Nintendo GameCube 's Animal Crossing featured, a character named captain that provides transportation to the player and Mario due to the humanoid Turtle, like appearance of the kappas.

1:08:57 There's an argument to be made that, the Koopa troopas are based off the legend, although that one may be a far stretch Final Fantasy 6. There's an imp. There is an impact. That a character transforms into that, definitely is a Kappa unlike the Koopa Troopers and like the Koopa troopas. And Mario this being complete with a duckbill mouth and asara atop its head Pokemon. I might get these names wrong because Ludicolo come on guy although not entirely similar design wise, lotad Lombre and Ludicolo are based off the Kappa.

1:09:39 These are just a few examples in there, tons, more, especially in film and animation. Good thing, these examples were just based off the capita design-wise since seeing a Kappa. Do what kappas do to April O'Neill or Mario would have probably ruined our childhoods? Oh boy. Do you think that's why King Koopas? I was going out from our. Oh maybe maybe he wants that. I'm sure we could maybe that's what the star is. I don't intend.

1:10:23 Oh, it's all in Japanese, man. It's definitely the Koopas. The Cooper's are definitely that because it's Japanese to man and yeah I know hurdles as well with the goofiness, you know, and like other Japanese but this wasn't necessarily like exclusively. Like it's like I really like that, you know, you don't know, but this is a perfect example of what I was talking about in the last segment, right? We're like, you know, in today's culture. This is what we see. We see. But we see new Ninja Turtles and the cartoons in the Japanese culture, right? Of this thing, you know, go back to the 1600s it was a totally different perspective on it. Go back to 10,000 BC was a totally different perspective on it. So like that's just kind of where we're at right now. So it's the evolution of the perspective of this ancient creature that must have been around at some point in some way.

1:11:13 Yeah, if you go back to one of our earlier episodes, Jake, I think this was during your break, man, at we did a, we did an episode on mythology in Pokemon. And yeah, we had covered the tie with Ludicolo and it's evolutionary line with the Kappa. I mean, we, we talked about it. Briefly, obviously, you haven't listened to it? Yeah, well, believe it or not. Good episode. My family is a Pokemon family. We do play except for my wife, she's lying but I still love her but it is for me it's a way that I can still talk to my children with something that I understand from my childhood.

1:12:01 So I do partake, I enjoy it all. That was ruined for me. I wanted to get into all that stuff and I almost did And I got some like, special pack of cards of like gosh. Now I think they were like, think they're like Yu-Gi-Oh cards when I was actually just first getting into whole thing but I got it at the fair. It was like a random like for cards. No one of them was actually incredibly rare and I had no clue what I was looking at. And one of the guys at school, Instantly that it was, he's like, well, this is a crappy car.

1:12:46 He's helped me to set up my deck in quotes, right? And so I he gave me a bunch of cards and then took that one, he's like, you don't need this one. You need these, these are your attacking cards easier, whatever. He was just kind of explaining it. And then he took that card, he sold it for like, a couple Grand. And I was just like and then he told me about it, he was like, he's like, I can't believe that you just let me do that to you. And he was so smug about it and it was like, nope, and it just ruined everything for me. And I Die. That's my that's my Nemesis to this day. I would have been upset too. Like I was just like seriously that much of a scumbag, you know, it's like it's what has been used to play Magic and I told him the same thing was get back into magic, so we can just collect all the rare cards.

1:13:30 Yeah, I'm just like, I think it was something like it was a, it was a really like, I don't know what all the terminology is, but it was like a misprint and then there was something else. Wrong with it and I'll call whatever, you know. But it was just like it just ruined all of that for me, and I'm just like, nope. I'm just going to do more aggressive sports like paintball, you know? Yeah, I did. I did paintball and Pokemon, so yeah there. Yeah. And there's time in life for both, like, for both, just not card games for me, but which is funny too because, right?

1:14:11 After this, I'm going to be probably playing card games. It's so, yeah, but they're not tcg's or that's just that's different. So how do you want to do this? You want me to throw out my final thoughts or you guys want to throw years out first? Jeff is already gone. It seems like a cancer. What are your final thoughts? I think I'm convinced that this is an alien Tyson to see. I really like this reptilian aspect that you brought onto this and what sold me was the bipedal thing, 100%. because you're right bipedalism is not necessarily an amphibious thing, it's reptilian so Yeah, I do. I lean more towards the alien thing. Now you guys convinced me, I think that's really cool. Well, to really like the idea that Koopa troopas are capitis that I think is cool.

1:15:06 I think they're based on the cap. I don't know if there was a stretch, I'm just like, there's a speaking of that. Did you guys do the Mario movie trailer? Yeah, looks like the animation. Looks fantastic. Is it? Another live-action version? Like that one from like the no, no it's anatomy. And let's knock it off and it was that I didn't. I didn't mean to derail the conversation. Sorry, I love the live action. Mario, you're one of the only people. There was only one person on there that I actually was like, okay I'm okay with that casting. I hated that cast for the animated movie. Yeah, are studded lineups.

1:15:54 It's got like Chris Pratt and yeah dude voices. Jack Black was the only one there. I like Jack Black whose chequebook playing Bowser? Oh, that's cool. I didn't. I didn't recognize that. That's, that's fun. That's just like trailer. But I think the movie looks fun. Anyways, y'all are go ahead, Jake. Alright, final thoughts. Considering the evidence of the bones being shown around Japan. But without them being officially studied or tested for known DNA, Hard to say whether this is legit or just Another Monkey.

1:16:34 Sewn to a fish with magic powers. I get that. There's a certain level of respect that should go along with sacred artifacts but a refusal to allow scientific study is a breeding ground for doubtful viewers or frauds to parade around their modern day snake oil. Currently, I don't believe the Kappa does or has ever existed. At least not the same being with the same. I'm features attributes or appetite and given current Medical Science. We know that there isn't a Lifeforce containing organ in our butts. So there's that unless we're also being lied to about that perhaps it was based off for the Japanese giant salamander or it's just a mixture of another Nations superstitions. Because there's all those parallels with all the other, I don't want to say Cryptids because it's not necessarily that but the folklore and mythology and stuff in in order to not just going based off my thoughts oh I remember that thing I was going to talk about but just to just kind of toy around with it.

1:17:41 I don't want to beat a dead horse. I could do every single episode. I kind of, you know, we all seem to have our same opinions but I think it has a lot to do with this writing out of apple and why people and like all those areas and stuff seem to have very similar Cryptid stories or folklore rather. Sorry, I keep saying Cryptid, but folklore mythology and maybe trade routes and stuff you pick up stuff over time, okay. So the other thing that reasoning or what it could be. Now, this is something I couldn't find anywhere else except for that. Mythical dotnet or whatever that first website is that Jeff pulled up. So leech, babies.

1:18:21 There was a theory that this wasn't necessarily a case of a boogeyman type thing, but it was still to deter children from going near the river. And that was because that in these small communities in Japan in the earlier years, there was a lot of poverty and the what went along with this poverty was either a pretty sad, but a Large number of people that either couldn't take care of their children when they gave birth to them. Or they were so malnourished that the babies came out, still stillbirth, right, stillborn and they would throw them whether alive or dead into the rivers to carry them off and be Spilled Out into the oceans.

1:19:16 So maybe this was a whole thing of keeping children from having to witness Things like that. Like, people throwing their live infants into the river to just get rid of them or, or disposing of dead bodies. Now, that being said, she's Siri, that being said, I looked up Leach babies to see, you know, what's the facts behind this? I looked up infanticide in early, Japan, I looked up a bunch of different things to see. You know, what's the fact Behind this. And from what I saw, I couldn't really find any sources. I'm not saying that they're not there, but it was, it was just that one source where I could find that information.

1:20:01 So I didn't include that plus. It's like, man, that's really sad. So we know that historically that was the case for other civilizations. So I can't see why it wouldn't be the case for the Japanese, or at least an Asian culture in general, but That was also included in that so highlighting all the different sources of what it could be. Although obviously the reason why it's on my right up is because I couldn't go back and find any more information on that. So it's like, is this actually legit? Or is this just something that's made up in this article? I don't know. You know, be out the leech babies like eech babies very but honestly, for me, I am more along. the lines of this was a boogeyman or this was like a, you know, Just keep your kids from your accidentally drowning themselves by falling into the, you know, lakes and rivers and stuff by telling him something to eat them.

1:21:04 Shoot. I did it with my younger brother kept like I had a bunch of, we had a bunch of fruit trees and the back of our house and in the backyard and he would go over there and you rip off all the green like nectarines and peaches and stuff and play with them and so I told him there's a plant back there that could eat him and he didn't mess with him, you know. And so it was perfect so yeah, whatever you got to do, you know if it works it works if yeah. Well, this was fun until delete babies. Yep. Anyway shot. I just had a kid so that congratulations. I know how's that going, horrible. Anyways, any more thoughts. Lady and gentlemen.

1:21:49 Nope. I think I'm, I'm good. I'm glad I saved that for the very end because I knew it was going to crush, everyone's heart. Yeah, a reality. Dude, straight my world better. Thank you. Cool deal. Well, well just give yourself a boost picture. A Kappa. Rip in that Shri Kodama right out of Mario, know what you need to do. I don't know if you guys went over but I'm gonna definitely post this when this episode comes out. I sent a picture to the chat on messenger. Check that out. In, I'm talking artistic talent tree here is through the roof. Is it the guy?

1:22:36 Yeah. The cap is face. That is that is meant through our, that's me right there that belongs on the mantle. Yeah, I couldn't find any sources of that, but I saw this picture and that picture that picture was painted in like 1901, and I was like legit, bro? That's that's that's good enough source for me right there. I have it actually added into this Have gentler than they're. All right, let's go ahead and and close this thing out. As always all the websites or resources articles and video will be linked under the description of the audio version of the show. Please, if you haven't already, join us on. The Infant Rabbit Hole Facebook group, check out the website and find a rabbit hole.com where you can search are categorized episodes access.

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