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Podcast: You Can’t Make This Up
Episode: Tsunami Spirits: Unsolved Mysteries
Description: Nearly ten years ago, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded devastated the northeastern coast of Japan. It generated a tsunami that at its peak reached 131 feet high. Close to twenty-thousand lives were lost. Twenty-five hundred more remain missing. Then, in one of the worst-hit cities, people began to experience strange phenomena. Taxi drivers spoke of “ghost passengers.” Some even talked of being possessed by lost spirits. A local Buddhist monk claims the tragedy enabled the people to “see what’s not supposed to be seen.”"Tsunami Spirits" is the fourth episode of Unsolved Mysteries, Volume 2. In this epis...