Welcome to What The Heck's Creature Feature! These episodes release on Saturdays and look at folklore and cryptids from around the world! The same academic style is applied to these episodes, but they look at history and eyewitness reports before describing the creature of the week! A lot of the time, theories are a bit more scarce than the main episodes, but the content is still just as interesting.

This week we're looking at the Akkorokamui. This monster was once a giant spider, but was pulled into the ocean to protect the people of a village. Since then, a terrifying creature has protected the Uchihira Bay in the Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. When the sky and sea turn a specific colour, the people of the bay refuse to go out to sea, which isn't good for a fisherman. What happened to the giant spider? What is the Akkorokamui now? Why are the sea and sky involved? Listen in to find out!

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References:-

“Akkorokamui | Yokai.Com.” Yokai.Com | The Illustrated Database of Japanese Folklore, https://yokai.com/akkorokamui/. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024. 

Didymus, John Thomas. “Akkorokamui.” Fairy Tales and Myths, 7 Dec. 2023, https://www.fairytalesandmyths.com/akkorokamui/. 

Wainio, Wade. “Call of the Cryptid - Akkorokamui, Giant Octopus of Japan/Thailand.” 1428 Elm, 1428 Elm, 30 July 2018, https://1428elm.com/2018/07/30/akkorokamui-giant-octopus-of-japan/. 

 

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