The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories
From Kuebiko, the ancient Japanese scarecrow god said to know everything in the world, to harvest rituals, rice-field spirits and the one-eyed Dorotabō rising from the mud, scarecrows have long occupied a strange place between the practical and the supernatural. We also visit Nagoro, where hundreds of life-sized scarecrows now outnumber the living, before turning to reported encounters involving scarecrows that appear to move, watch, multiply overnight and, in one modern case, vanish from a field altogether.
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Research Links:
https://kojiki.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shinmei/kuebiko/
https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=9009
https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=9973
https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=9970
https://yokai.jp/en/yokai/dorotabo
https://www.japan.travel/en/japans-local-treasures/nagoro-scarecrow-village-tokushima-2024/
https://miyoshi-city.jp/2022/07/15960/
https://miyoshi-city.jp/2022/08/15981/
https://miyoshi-city.jp/2022/08/16008/
Production:
Researched, written and produced by Sarah Powell and Roger Hinchliffe. Hosted by Sarah Powell and Tobie Jones. Stories are sourced from historical records, folklore collections, newspaper archives, contemporary accounts and listener submissions. Sources and acknowledgements are provided where appropriate.
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Sarah and Tobie xx
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