Adventures with Alternate Dimensions
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Do other dimensions exist? And if so, do they occasionally crossover with our own? If these stories are to be believed, then yes, and the ending isn’t always pretty…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Kowabana, |
| 0:15.1 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. |
| 0:18.8 | Have you picked up the latest volume of Kowabana, Volume |
| 0:21.5 | 10 yet? If you haven't checked it out yet, do head over to Amazon to pick up your copy right now. |
| 0:27.0 | We've got creepy curses, human horrors, vengeful ghosts and much more on display, so don't |
| 0:32.9 | miss out. This week, we're delving into the strange and often bizarre incidents that occur when dimensions |
| 0:39.5 | merge. |
| 0:40.5 | Kisaragi Station is perhaps one of the most famous alternate dimension stories to ever come |
| 0:45.9 | out of the Japanese internet, but for our first story this week, we're taking a train |
| 0:50.7 | to another destination. |
| 0:52.2 | Where? |
| 0:53.2 | Well, it's certainly not somewhere you want to end up, and for a very good reason. |
| 0:59.2 | Find out why in Night Train to Another Dimension. |
| 1:09.9 | This is a strange and scary experience I had that I still can't forget. It must have been |
| 1:16.7 | about a year and a half ago now, when I was still working as an office lady. Day after day, |
| 1:23.2 | I was exhausted by all the desk work, and so I slept on the last train home until I reached |
| 1:28.7 | the final stop. There were even some days where it was so busy that I couldn't sit, |
| 1:34.1 | and so I slept standing. One day, I stayed behind late at work doing overtime, and then, as the |
| 1:41.4 | train finally approached the final stop, there were only a few people left on board. |
| 1:46.8 | I sat at the very end of the row, and leaned against the railing as I drifted into a shallow sleep. |
| 1:53.4 | When I suddenly woke up, the train was still going. I always woke up just before reaching |
| 1:59.3 | the final station, but I stared at myself in the window |
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