00:00Did you know that in Japan, there's a legend about a woman who stands eight feet tall?
00:04One summer, a girl named Aiko went to visit her grandparents there.
00:08While playing near the forest behind their house, she heard a strange sound,
00:12a deep, broken voice calling,
00:14Pooh, Pooh, Pooh.
00:15Curious, Aiko looked around.
00:17That's when she saw her, a towering woman in white, wearing a wide-brimmed hat,
00:21standing still among the trees.
00:22Terrified, Aiko ran home.
00:24She told her grandparent.
00:25Her grandparents turned pale.
00:26Without a word, they locked the doors, shut the windows, and told Aiko to hide until her parents came.
00:32Night fell, and a soft knock came at the door.
00:35Aiko heard her grandmother's voice gently calling her name, asking her to open it.
00:39But the voice felt wrong, cold, slow, empty.
00:42The next morning, her parents arrived to a silent house.
00:45Aiko was gone.
00:46Only her favorite hairpin and a wide-brimmed hat remained.
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