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A Japanese village was recently the site of a massive monster hunt as hundreds of people descended upon the community in the hopes of catching a legendary cryptid known as the tsuchinoko. The sizeable search reportedly occurred on Friday in the town of Higashishirakawa, which holds an annual festival in celebration of the apocryphal snake-like creature. Said to sport a beer bottle-sized bulge at the center of its body as well as the ability to speak, the tsuchinoko became something of a sensation in Japan in the late 1980s following a series of alleged sightings of the oddity in various villages throughout the country. One such community is Higashishirakawa, where the tsuchinoko is purportedly still encountered by bewildered witnesses to this day.
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