Adventures with Grandpa Kiichi
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Seven strange adventures with bizarre, cursed, and haunted items from a small pawn shop in the countryside of old Japan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Koobana, |
| 0:16.2 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. |
| 0:19.7 | If you're looking for more to listen to once you're done with this episode, I've been |
| 0:23.7 | recording various audiobooks that you can now find on our Patreon, Fourth Wall Store, |
| 0:29.1 | and various audiobook outlets, including Spotify. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm adding more all the time, so if you need another hit of Japanese horror, |
| 0:36.8 | head over to patreon.com |
| 0:39.2 | slash Tara A Devlin, the Koabana Fourth Wall Shop, or your favourite online store to pick |
| 0:45.6 | some up right now. |
| 0:47.7 | This week, we're exploring the adventures of Grandpa Kichi, a bunch of stories that were |
| 0:53.4 | shared online in 2006 and 7, that revolve around |
| 0:57.5 | the original poster's grandfather, Kichi. |
| 1:00.8 | These stories aren't a series in the strictest sense of the word, but rather, stand-alone |
| 1:07.0 | stories that all take place in and around the pawn shop that Kichi's father used |
| 1:12.1 | to run. |
| 1:13.4 | They involve weird objects, weird customers, and all sorts of strange hauntings, curses, |
| 1:19.6 | and other strange phenomena. |
| 1:22.2 | There are sadly too many to fit in this one episode, however, so we'll be finishing |
| 1:26.7 | up the last of them in the |
| 1:28.0 | next episode as well. But first up, our introduction to Grandpa Kichi and the famous |
| 1:34.5 | pawn shop. When he's just an elementary school student, Kichi finds a strange item in the family's |
| 1:41.3 | storehouse, a bamboo flute. |
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