Beware the Haunted Residences
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Seven tales of haunted Japanese buildings that will make you question whether your safe space really is all that safe or not.
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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, |
| 0:16.1 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. |
| 0:19.9 | The latest book in the Dei Khan series, Volume 3, is now out. |
| 0:24.6 | If you'd like to learn more about some of Japan's most haunted and dangerous spots, then |
| 0:29.6 | this is the book for you. |
| 0:30.6 | You can find all sorts of abandoned shrines, hospitals, parks, and even lesser-known places |
| 0:36.6 | you wouldn't even think could be haunted. |
| 0:39.7 | That's Desa Khan, the Most Haunted Locations in Japan, Volume 3. Out now. |
| 0:45.9 | This week, we're looking at tales of various haunted buildings, particularly homes. |
| 0:53.0 | Is your safe space really as safe as it seems? |
| 0:57.0 | First up, a house in the countryside seems to go through new residents like fresh underwear, |
| 1:03.0 | but why does nobody ever stay for too long? |
| 1:06.0 | Could there be something wrong with the land, or |
| 1:10.0 | find out in the house that rejected people? |
| 1:13.6 | We've since moved away from that area and no longer live there, and I don't know how long that house was there for. |
| 1:29.7 | It was already there when I started going to elementary school, and even as far back as my |
| 1:35.4 | earliest memories. We lived in quite the rural area, and I had to walk on the paths between the rice |
| 1:42.2 | fields to get to school. |
| 1:47.1 | This story is about a house that was on that route. |
| 1:50.9 | It wasn't like this was an old house, though. |
| 1:54.0 | It was rather new, with a western style. |
| 1:58.7 | There were no rumours surrounding it from the first to the fifth grade, |
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