Kevin O'Shea

Kevin O'Shea

@madformaple.bsky.social

Canuck 🇨🇦 living in Asia. Podcaster - host of Supernatural Japan Podcast 🎙️ 👺 - folklore, paranormal, travel, photography 🇯🇵 Currently based in 🇨🇳!

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Kevin O'Shea
@madformaple.bsky.social

Keeping Evil Away in Kyoto: Shoki the Guardian --- ⛩️💀 Some #supernatural #Japan fun for you leading up to #Halloween -- #Kyoto #paranormal #haunted #history

Kevin O'Shea
@madformaple.bsky.social

So it happens again. I'll have another stay in a Chinese hospital for a week. In Canada or even Japan the procedure would be same day, but here I'll be in for a week. I'm healthy. It's an injury getting repaired. At least now I know what to expect after my stay in March!

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Danny Robins
@dannyrobins.bsky.social

Is this the weirdest #Uncanny case ever? It’s not long until the #Uncanny Halloween Special, a brand new, full-length episode…but right now, what do we make of Bally’s experience? Have you ever come across a stranger story? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

Kevin O'Shea
@madformaple.bsky.social

Pictures don't do it justice but it's a bad pollution day. Mask up and be safe! N95 to keep all the nasty PM2.5 outta your lungs! 🫁 wish more people would take care of their health. Pollution masks are inportant! #health

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Phillip Jackson
@pjacksonmusic.bsky.social

Halloween Countdown Day 20!Japanese mythical cryptid, TENGU. Here's a blog from the pages of HIDDEN PATHS-Walking Historical Kyoto.Supernatural Japan podcast hosted by @madformaple.bsky.social Kevin O'Shea also has a new episode out today featuring the TENGU. www.hiddenpathskyoto.com/post/tengu-s...

hiddenpathskyoto.comTENGU Stories and the Well of Tarobo Tengu.The TENGU have been a part of Japanese legend and folktales for hundreds of years. These cryptid-like beings, Heavenly Sentinels of Shinto belief, have taken different forms over the years, from the beaked avian-type, or with monkey or human characteristics, to more recently and commonly recognised as red-faced and with long curved noses. They are considered a type of supernatural yokai or diety (kami/god). In some tales (especially within the realms of Buddhism) it has long been held that the