Episode 79 – Bone-chilling Broadcast: Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女)
Dark Adaptation
06/24/24
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In our first installment of Bone-chilling Broadcasts, Brianna brings you back in time to Edo Japan to discuss the folklore and legend of Kuchisake-onna.
The oppressive heat of summer in Edo Japan had people longing for the night and the relief brought by the setting sun. In the cool darkness, people would gather and play Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai. This ritualistic parlour game had participants telling 100 ghostly tales with the intention of evoking a supernatural event. One of the ghostly tales told is about Kuchisake-onna (a.k.a. the Slit-mouthed Woman), the vengeful spirit of woman who prowls the streets and alleyways of Japan...
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MMM Case #10 - MISSING - Jared Shadeed
May 31, 2024
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Dark Adaptation's monthly segment, "Missing, Murdered, Mysterious", is designed to highlight unsolved cases of missing people, homicides, and mysterious deaths and focuses on BIPOC in North America. Today’s case focuses on a missing person named Jared Shadeed.
MMM Case #10:
In July 2023, Jared Shadeed was captured on surveillance footage leaving the Air BnB he was staying at in the Squire Park neighbourhood of Seattle, Washington. He had few belongings with him, leaving the rest of his luggage inside the share-rental. This is the last time Jared was seen.
A few weeks later, his SUV mysteriously appears in a Los Angeles neighbourhood, but there is still no sign of Jared. How did his vehicle end up 1,100 miles away? How has there been no trace of Jared's whereabouts or clues to the possible circumstances surrounding his disappearance?
His family has been desperately seeking answers for the past 10 months, but sadly, the disappearance of Jared Shadeed remains as perplexing today as it was in those early days...
If you have any information about the disappearance of Jared Shadeed, who was last seen on the surveillance footage of the Air BnB located in the 200 block of 16th Avenue in Seattle’s Squire Park neighbourhood on July 30, 2023, please contact the Seattle Police Department at (206) 625-5011.
Videos and photos related to Jared's case are available on our Instagram & website: @darkadaptationpodcast & www.darkadaptationpodcast.ca
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Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) is notorious. It’s only 4 square kilometers in size, but it’s a dangerous place for at-risk people. For decades, the streets have been used as a hunting ground for vulnerable women. For example, Robert Pickton, one of Canada’s most heinous criminals, walked these streets in search of victims.
Massive drug operations have headquartered in the derelict hotels of East Hastings, and when enslaved drug mules or sex workers don’t pay their debts, they meet fates as heinous as being thrown out of 5- or 6-storey windows.
The DTES is a complicated, convoluted world, and no match for the Vancouver Police Department (VPD), which has proven time and again it falls short of effectively handling the cases of marginalized women who meet their demise in its streets.
Additional Reading:
Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
The Tyee: Vancouver Now Owns the Balmoral and Regent, but Their Histories Still Haunt
Source Material:
Newspaper – The Province Editorial
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