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2. Villager’s Bane: Kesagake


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TW: Child and infant death, death of a pregnant woman

In the first of many bear-centric episodes, we're heading to Japan to explore a string of violent attacks that plagued the rural settlement of Sankebetsu during the winter of 1915. For five days, an Ussuri brown bear terrorized villagers in an incident that still stands as the worst bear attack in Japanese history. Was Kesagake a monster or just misunderstood?

Sources: Kesagake Sources

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GeographicBy Alexis Flores